Representative work by Ellen Lesperance
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Ellen Lesperance

b. 1971, Minneapolis, Minnesota · Based in Portland, Oregon

  • MFA, Mason Gross School of the Arts, Rutgers University (1999)
  • BFA, University of Washington (1995)
  • Gouache on Paper
  • Textile Notation

Ellen Lesperance translates the knitwear patterns worn by women activists at historical peace camps and direct-action protests into meticulous gouache-on-paper grid paintings. Her work preserves the visual culture of feminist resistance and anti-nuclear mobilization as playable, reproducible scores.

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