Leeza Meksin

Big Bounce

October 24 - December 16, 2014

Leeza Meksin

Brooklyn-based artist Leeza Meksin will present a site-specific installation and a display of 3-dimensional paintings. Using spandex as her primary material, she explores its expressive, elastic and mutable application to rigid architectural structures. Meksin's interest in the relationship between buildings, bodies and paintings drives her work, with the spandex acting as a membrane that willfully exposes what it might conceal.

For the outdoor component of her site-specific installation, Meksin will dress the exterior of the WSRC building in a spandex piece that stretches across our 32-foot tall building. Viewable from South Street and the Brandeis train station, the WSRC gets a new look and makes a bold and colorful statement.

Leeza Meksin: Big Bounce Leeza Meksin: "Big Bounce" installation at the WSRC

Leeza Meksin: Big Bounce"Big Bounce," Installation view

Events

Opening Reception

October 24, 2014

Art and Observation: A Medical Humanities Tour

November 4, 2014

Curator Susan Metrican and Brandeis student Damiana Andonova will lead an arts-based medical humanities intervention and engage viewers in critically examining the role of art as text, and of art’s peculiar way of informing the science of medical practice.

Flattened Hierarchies and In Between-ness

November 14, 2014

A discussion between artists Leeza Meksin, Jehanne-Marie Gavarini and Sheila Pepe on feminist art practices, craft, public art, performance, otherness and fetish.

Selected Press

October 28, 2014

The Justice

November 11, 2014

The Justice

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