Preview: Lynn Hershman Leeson in Season 9 of Art21 "Art in the Twenty-First Century" (2018)

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

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

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

because "Lynn" could be either male or female.

Somehow he found out I was female

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

women artists didn't make a good investment.

He was wrong.
[LAUGHS]

I did start out doing painting and drawing

and then moved into sculpture.

Then sculpture with sound.

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

Video,

film,

artificial intelligence.

Then computer-based work.

I do work that confronts
where we are in society.