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    Hershmanlandia: The Art and Films of Lynn Hershman Leeson

     
    Upper Level Galleries
    September 05, 2005 — January 29, 2006
    Hershmanlandia, the exhibition, is a space both real and virtual. It is a landscape populated by the multiple female personas and agents that have embodied Lynn Hershman Leeson’s key concepts and concerns for over three decades, including Roberta Breitmore (1972–79) and her multiples, CybeRoberta (1995–98), Tillie the Telerobotic Doll (1995–98), Lorna (1979–82), and others. In order to better demonstrate Hershman Leeson’s central themes Hershmanlandia presented these key personas and artworks in a series of feedback loops, earlier works reflecting on later incarnations, elaborations or mutations, thus making visible for the viewer Hershman Leeson’s sustained focus on several interrelated themes, including the construction of identity in relation to vision, spectacle and spectatorship, interactivity, the relationship between bodies and machines, and the shifting ideas of the real and the virtual.
    ARTISTS
    Lynn Hershman Leeson
    CREDITS

    Curated by Robin Held, Guest Curator

    Major support for this exhibition has been provided by the Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts; the Office of Arts and Cultural Affairs, City of Seattle; the Paul G. Allen Family Foundation; and donors to the Henry Art Gallery Contemporary Art Fund. In-kind support is provided by Grand Hyatt Seattle, Hess Collection Winery, Pyramid Breweries, Hogue Cellars, The Stranger and KEXP90.3 FM. Special thanks to Donald M. Hess and the Hess Collection.