Leah DeVun: Resemblance
Leah DeVun: Resemblance
September 3, 2024 – March 14, 2025
2024-2025 Lebowitz Artist-in-Residence Exhibition
The Center for Women in the Arts at Douglass proudly announces that award-winning photographer, scholar, and Rutgers Professor, Leah DeVun has been named the 2024-2025 Lebowitz Artist-in-Residence at Rutgers University. DeVun’s exhibition, Leah DeVun: Resemblance will be on view from September 3 – March 14 in the Mary H. Dana Women Artists Series Galleries, Douglass Library. A reception and artist’s lecture will be held on October 23 from 5:00-6:30pm at Douglass Library. All are welcome but RSVP and public parking registration is required.
Through photographs of her trans partner and their son, DeVun’s work offers a window into queer life challenging public discourse that often centers on anti-LGBTQ pain and violence. The series invites viewers to reflect on the concept of resemblance and its ties to family. Her work has received critical acclaim, including being a finalist for the Aperture Portfolio Prize and featured in the Alone Together: Critical Mass 2023 Top 50 exhibition at the Colorado Photographic Arts Center.
During her residency, DeVun will engage with students, present public programming, and lead this year’s Gender & Arts Learning Community– Imaging Queer and Trans Lives– in collaboration with artist and RU graduate, Em Gallagher. Learning Community students will participate in an exhibition the final weeks of the spring semester. The exhibitions will be accompanied by an online catalogue in summer of 2025.
VENUE: MARY H. DANA WOMEN ARTISTS SERIES GALLERIES
Mabel Smith Douglass Library, 8 Chapel Drive, New Brunswick, NJ 08901
Free and open to the public: Monday-Thursday 9am-8pm; Friday 9am-6pm; subject to libraries’ operating schedule For more exhibition information, parking, and to RSVP, please email: nicole.ianuzelli@rutgers.edu.
The Center for Women in the Arts at Douglass provides experiential arts offerings to students at Rutgers’ Douglass Residential College that advance the work and ideas of exceptional women and gender diverse artists and arts professionals through exhibitions, year-long campus residencies, and other arts opportunities. Funding provided by Juliette Mittendorf Hill Fine Arts Endowment, the Estelle Lebowitz & Ann Beneduce Lebowitz Memorial Fund, and the Mary H. Dana Fund.
The Mary H. Dana Women Artists Series and the Lebowitz Artist-in-Residence are presented in partnership with Rutgers University Libraries and the Art & Design Department, Mason Gross School of the Arts.
