LU-MRRL Lecture Series: Surrealism and Feminine Rebellion

Within the visual language of surrealism and its close cousin, magical realism, female artists are empowered to create their own narratives and play by their own rules, subverting the norms and defying the constructs of the societies they inhabit in their day-to-day lives. Colleen Francis Smith, artist and assistant professor of studio art at LU, will describe her own painting practice, addressing feminine agency and rebellion, grounded in the lineage of female surrealist painters including Leonora Carrington and Dorothea Tanning.