Presence & Absence: The Paradox of Disability in Portraiture
October 22nd at 4pm in 221 (Gifford Room) Kroeber Hall

Join us for a talk by Riva Lehrer, an acclaimed portrait artist and winner of the 2017 Society for Disability Studies Presidential Award (http://rivalehrerart.com).

Presence and Absence explores the reasons that portraits of the disabled body have been absent from art museums all over the world. With the exception of the unexpected, and problematic, locations where the crip body does persist in the story of the painted human form. Lehrer discusses her own work in portraiture as part of this millenia-old, complicated game of hide-and-seek.

Riva Lehrer is an artist, writer and curator whose work focuses on issues of physical identity and the socially challenged body. She is best known for representations of people with impairments, and those whose sexuality or gender identity have long been stigmatized.

The event's wheelchair accessible and free. CART transcription and ASL interpretation can be provided with advance request to Karen Nakamura (knak@berkeley.edu.) Please refrain from wearing scented products.