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[LYNN HERSHMAN LEESON]
In the mid-1970s, maybe a little earlier,
I had done a sculptural painting of a man.

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And a collector went to a gallery
and bought the work.

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I wanted to meet him,
but the gallery didn't want me to meet him

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because "Lynn" could be either male or female.

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Somehow he found out I was female

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and he returned the work because he said
that women weren't good investments--

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women artists didn't make a good investment.

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He was wrong.
[LAUGHS]

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I did start out doing painting and drawing

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and then moved into sculpture.

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Then sculpture with sound.

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[RECORDING] ...trying to remember who we are.

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Video,

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film,

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artificial intelligence.

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Then computer-based work.

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I do work that confronts
where we are in society.