In her brief but impactful career, Chicago artist Christina Ramberg ruptured representations of gender. Whether in early works featuring the ahistorical, often abstracted female body or in her eventual depictions of a more disregulated, deconstructed body, willfully ungendered or regendered, Ramberg questioned and dissected the gender conventions that defined both her time and ours.
In this exploration, artist and author Riva Lehrer discusses Ramberg’s artistic production through the lenses of disability activism, gender queerness, monster theory, and the creative process, focusing on works from Christina Ramberg: A Retrospective.
Speaker, Riva Lehrer is an artist, writer, and curator who focuses on the socially challenged body. She is best known for representations of people whose physical embodiment, sexuality, or gender identity have long been stigmatized.
Artist and author Riva Lehrer examines the work of Chicago artist Christina Ramberg, whose short but powerful career challenged gender conventions. Lehrer discusses Ramberg’s abstracted depictions of the female body and her later, more deconstructed, ungendered or regendered figures through the lenses of disability activism, gender queerness, and monster theory. The talk focuses on Ramberg’s contributions to the discourse on gender and embodiment, as seen in Christina Ramberg: A Retrospective.
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