EventsThe New Social Environment#1175

Allison Janae Hamilton: Celestine

Featuring Hamilton and Le'Andra LeSeur

Friday, February 28, 2025 1 p.m. Eastern / 10 a.m. Pacific

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Artist Allison Janae Hamilton joins Rail contributor Le'Andra LeSeur for a conversation.

Allison Janae Hamilton

A photo of Allison Janae Hamilton on The Brooklyn Rail's New Social Environment

Allison Janae Hamilton draws on her upbringing in the rural American South, weaving themes of environmental justice, folklore, and mythology into sculpture, photography, painting, and film. Hamilton has exhibited her work at the Museum of Modern Art; the Studio Museum in Harlem, MoMA PS1 in New York and the Smithsonian National Portrait Gallery in Washington, D.C. Hamilton's work is in numerous collections including the Studio Museum in Harlem, New York; The Menil Collection, Houston; the Nasher Museum of Art, Durham. Hamilton received her PhD in American Studies from New York University and her MFA in Visual Arts from Columbia University. She lives and works in New York, NY.

Le’Andra LeSeur

A photo of Le’Andra LeSeur on The Brooklyn Rail's New Social Environment
Le’Andra LeSeur is an artist whose work delves into the celebration of Blackness, queerness, and femininity. Through her work, LeSeur seeks to dismantle systems of power and provide her audience with an opportunity to contemplate themes such as identity, grief, and how the experience of invisibility and debility exist within the frameworks of our day-to-day lives. LeSeur has received several notable awards including the Tulsa Artist Fellowship (2024-2026) and the Leslie-Lohman Museum Artists Fellowship (2019), among others. Her work has been shown in solo and group exhibitions at LMCC, NY; The Shed, NY; Atlanta Contemporary; A.I.R. Gallery, Brooklyn, and others. Her work is in the collection at the Whitney Museum of American Art.

We’d like to thank The Marion Boulton Kippy Stroud Foundation and Teiger Foundation for making these conversations possible, and for their support of our growing archive 🌈✨

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