Leeza Meksin
Big Bounce
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.
Events
October 24, 2014
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.
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 31, 2014
The Brandeis Hoot