Riva Lehrer

Tales From The Crip: "The Paper Mirror: Drawing Alison Bechdel"

Movies post by Caitlin Wood on October 25, 2012 - 9:56am; tagged Alison Bechdel, art, Bechdel Test, bill shannon, Charissa King-O’Brien, disability, dykes to watch out for, Fun Home, neil marcus, nomy lamm, obsessive compulsive disorder, queer, Riva Lehrer, Tales from the crip, The Paper Mirror.

Alison Bechdel Renowned visual artist and educator Riva Lehrer has teamed up with brilliant cartoonist and graphic memoirist, Alison Bechdel in the new short film, “The Paper Mirror: Drawing Alison Bechdel.”

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Sm{art}: Riva Lehrer's body of art

Art and Design post by Kjerstin Johnson on June 10, 2010 - 4:15pm; tagged female artists, person with disabilities, queer artists, Riva Lehrer.
a vertical painting. The top square features Lehrer from the shoulders up. She wears glasses and has a braid. She has a determined look. At the bottom of the painting is her feet. She is wearing orange tube socks and black orthopedic shoes. Between these two sections is a black space that seems to be eclipsing her torso.
I first heard Riva Lehrer's name when I spoke with Ann Fox and Jessica Cooley about curating shows dealing with art and disability. Actually seeing her work though, was inspiring. A Chicago-based painter whose work speaks to identity and disability through her beautifully rendered portraits, and I don't think I can put it better than Art Critical does when they describe her style as "crisply observed realism mixed with fantastically contrived settings."
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