From 1996 thru 2012, multimedia artist
Elizabeth Lennard found inspiration in Gertrude Stein for works in media
ranging from large format altered gelatin silver prints, digital pigment
prints, light boxes, household objects, live performances, including a video-
opera at the MC93 Theater at Bobigny, and creations of Stein’s short plays. In
2011 she completed a documentary film on the Stein Collection, broadcast on the
European cultural ARTE channel and shown at the Grand Palais in Paris during
the French leg of the “Stein Collection” show currently at the Metropolitan
Museum of Art. The following is a selection of this work in view of an
exhibition.
Grab from video of Stein’s
play
Objects Lie on a Table performed at Filles du
Calvaire Gallery
Single Objects, digital pigment inkjet prints on blotting paper
A Rose is a Rose, 32” x 41 inches
This is her flour, 41” x 30 inches
The
blue teacup, 32” x 41 inches
screen shot of
performance video :“Objects Lie on a Table”
Cabbage is Green, 32” x 41 inches
Asphodels are not
red, 2 images 41” x 30 inches
“For the Country Entirely” at MC93 Bobigny,
“looking for Asphodels” Coralie Seyrig & Geoffrey Carey
Large format altered silver gelatin photographs:
Searching for asphodels 45” x 49”
What is the difference ... 45 x 49 inches
Dogs are good for photography... 43” x 48 inches
Screen shot of
video :Objects Lie on a Table, Filles
du calvaire Gallery
It weighs more than a feather… 43 x 48 inches
Bonne Annee 45” x 49”
Objects
have been recognized 12” x 55”
“Counting Her Dresses” 41” x 30”
Coralie Seyrig in Counting her dresses, Filles du Calvaire Gallery
Light boxes
A doorway is a photograph, 20 x 24 inches
Lucy Church Amiably, 24 x 20 inches
Maman, Baby, Belley, 24 x 20 inches
Objects Lie on a table, 20 x 24 inches
Embroidered tablecloths and napkins
« Objects Lie on a table » 2006, 40” x
40”inches
Live performance/happening
of the Stein play “Short Sentences”: « be an actor in a Stein play for
more than 100 characters” at the Grand Palais in Paris Jan.15 2012 during the Steins
Collect exhibition)
ELIZABETH
LENNARD
Born in New York City, currently lives and
works in Paris, France.
SELECTED
SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2011 Jelly Molds, Stairways and a few other things, Gallery Pixi,
Paris, France
Portugal ’75, Pente10 Gallery,
Lisbon, Portugal
2008 India, Dinter Fine Art, New York NY
Paris-New York, le Coin des Arts,
Paris, France
2007 Berkeley Girls, Frank Pictures Gallery, Bergamot Station, Los
Angeles CA
Berkeley Girls, video 3 min., Dinter
Fine Art, Project room, New York NY
2005-6 Past Present, Marie Victoire Poliakoff Pixi Gallery, Paris,
France
2004 India, Marie Victoire Poliakoff Pixi Gallery, Paris, France
2002 Objects Lie… FNAC Montparnasse, Mois de la Photo, Paris, France
Objects lie on a table & Botanical
Gardens, Filles du Calvaire Gallery, Brussels, Belgium
2000 Botanical Gardens & Objects Lie On a Table, Filles du
Calvaire Gallery, Brussels,
Belgium
Paris Sign’s, Marie Victoire
Poliakoff-Pixi Gallery, November, Paris, France
1999 Botanical Gardens, Marie Victoire Poliakoff-Pixi Gallery,
Paris, France
1996 A list: Homage to Gertrude Stein and the French Landscape,
Filles du Calvaire
Gallery,
Paris, France
1995 New York, New York, M. 20 Gallery, Hamburg, Germany
1992 Van Melle Gallery, Paris, France
1989 Viviane Esders Gallery, Paris, France
1986 Thackerey & Robertson Gallery, San Francisco CA
1981 Kunsthalle, Ingolstadt, Germany
1980 Bernd Lange-Irschl Gallery, Munich, Germany
1979 Painted New York, Centre Georges Pompidou, Museum of Modern
Art, Paris, France
Thackerey & Robertson Gallery, San
Francisco CA
SELECTED
GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2011 Arkhaiologia, Centre PasquArt, Biel/Bienne, Switzerland
Summer Salt, curated by Ingrid
Dinter, The Proposition Gallery, New York NY
Group show, Galerie Placido, Paris,
France
2010 Versailles photographed 1850-2010, Château de Versailles,
Paris, France
Consider the Oyster, curated by
Ingrid Dinter, James Graham & Sons, New York NY
2008-9 How to Cook a Wolf, Dinter Fine Art, New York NY
2008 Des Jeunes gens modernes, Galerie du Jour Agnes B. Paris, Hong
Kong, China
Transparencies, l’Imagerie, Lannion,
France
2007 Common Objects, Dinter Fine Art, New York NY
2006 Art Paris, Marie Victoire Poliakoff-Pixi Gallery, Grand Palais,
Paris, France
2005 La Légèreté, Pixi Gallery, Paris, France
2003 Paris Photo, Filles du Calvaire Gallery, Atelier Franck Bordas,
Paris, France
2001 Prime Choice, Marie Victoire Poliakoff-Pixi Gallery, Paris,
France
2000 Art Paris, Marie Victoire Poliakoff-Pixi Gallery, Carrousel du
Louvre, Paris
Paris Photo, Filles du Calvaire
Gallery, Carrousel du Louvre, Paris, France
«Histoires naturelles», Museum of
Natural History, Paris, France
Le Dessin Autrement, l’imagerie,
Lannion, France
1999 FIAC, Filles du Calvaire Gallery, Paris, France
Paris Photo, Filles du Calvaire
Gallery, Carrousel du Louvre, Paris, France
Art Brussels, Filles du Calvaire
Gallery ; Art Paris, Gallery Pixi, September
1998 100th Anniversary of New York City, New York Public Library,
New York NY
Recycling Art History, Pittsburg
Center for the Arts, Pittsburg PA
ARCO 98, Madrid; Art
Brussels, Gallery les Filles du Calvaire
1997 Paris Photo, Filles du Calvaire Gallery, Carrousel du Louvre,
Paris, France
1996 Photographers and the snap cardigan, Agnes b, Centre Georges
Pompidou, Paris,
France
1994 La Ville, Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris, France
1992 Découvertes 92, Gallery Van Melle, Grand Palais, Paris, France
La Photographie en Miettes II,
Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris, France
1985 Monuments en quête d’auteur, CNMH, Hôtel de Sully, Paris,
France
1984 Images et Imaginaires d'Architecture, Centre Georges Pompidou,
Paris, France
Subject, Object or Pretext? DRAC Aquitaine,
France
1981 Hand Painted Photographs, De Sasset Museum, Santa Clara CA
The Self-Portrait, Centre Georges
Pompidou, Paris, France
1978 Thousand Eyes, Moderna Museet, Stockholm, Sweden
CROSS-DISCIPLINARY
PERFORMANCES & VIDEO OBJECTS
2012 Battle Scenes of Louis François Lejeune, 15 min, Chateau de
Versailles, Mirage
Illimité currently in the exhibition
Napoleon’s Wars, Louis François Lejeune General &
Painter
2012 & 2006 Short Sentences by Gertrude Stein. Adaptation: Elizabeth Lennard & Danielle
Mémoire, directed by Elizabeth
Lennard. Performance, Halles de
Schaerbeek, Brussels,
and the Grand Palais, Paris, January 15,
2012
2009 Pour faire une cordelière, video performance in collaboration
with Danielle Mémoire
for
“le Nouveau Festival”, Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris, November 21; Institut
Franco-Portugais, Lisbon, Portugal,
October 25, 2010
2006 Poetry and Painting, happening in the Girodet Exhibition,
Louvre Museum, Paris;
adaptation and creation by Elizabeth
Lennard, texts by Chateaubriand, Klossowski, Racine;
with Geoffrey Carey, Anne Priol &
Christophe Ferveur, October 7
The Revolt of Cairo, video room,
with Guy Cogeval, commissioned by the Museum of Fine
Arts, Montreal, Quebec, Canada, for the
Girodet Exhibition
2002 Accents in Alsace -- video opera & For the Country Entirely,
by Gertrude Stein,
music by Marc Olivier Dupin. Adapted by Elizabeth Lennard &
Danielle Mémoire, directed
by Elizabeth Lennard, Musica Festival,
Strasbourg, France, October 3; MC93 Bobigny,
France, October 8-23
2001 15 Days in the American Wilderness, multimedia performance
adapted from Alexis de
Tocqueville with Geoffrey Carey, (English
version) Museum of American Art at Giverny,
Terra Foundation, July 15, Maison
Française, Columbia University, New York City, -
September 13 Co-Sponsored by the Florence
Gould Foundation
2000 For the Country Entirely, Bonne Année, Ladies Voices, Curtain Raiser
multimedia performance from Gertrude Stein
in French and English with Geoffrey Carey,
Coralie Seyrig & Dominic Gould,
adapted by Elizabeth Lennard & Danielle Mémoire,
directed by Elizabeth Lennard, Filles du
Calvaire Gallery, Paris; Museum of American Art,
Giverny Terra
Foundation
1998 Counting her dresses, He Said It, Objects Lie On A Table, Every
Afternoon, If I told
him, a completed portrait of Picasso,
by Gertrude Stein, multimedia performance with
Geoffrey Carey & Coralie Seyrig,
adaptation by Elizabeth Lennard & Danielle Mémoire,
directed by Elizabeth Lennard, Filles du Calvaire Gallery, Paris,
France
1996 A List by Gertrude Stein, multimedia performance by Elizabeth
Lennard with Laura
Benson, Dominic Gould, Coralie Seyrig,
Geoffrey Carey, at the Filles du Calvaire Gallery,
Paris, France
1995 Plis d'Excellence, Post Office Museum, Paris, 5 part-video
installation, on James Lee
Byars, Estelle Cabannes, Michel Butor, Dominique
Briffaut & Pisani/Charlemagne, Design:
Denis Colomb
FILMOGRAPHY
2011 The Stein Family, the making of Modern Art, 54 minutes,
produced by Artline Films,
broadcast on Arte,
Nov. 12, shown at the Grand Palais Oct –Jan 2012, 30em ARTFIFA
2009 Wittgenstein’s Colours, 14 min, with Danielle Mémoire and
Louise Corrado
2009 Casa Bronfman, 38 min., co-directed by Ermanno Corrado, FIFA
Montréal, 2010, ADFF
Tribeca Cinemas,
New York, 2010
2004 Serge Poliakoff at close range, 52 minutes, Artline Films,
broadcast on France 5,
shown at ARTFIFA Montréal, Maillol Museum, Paris, Kunsthalle der
hypo-kulturstiftung,
Munich, Germany
1998 Edith Wharton, the Sense of Harmony, 52 min., "un siècle
d'écrivains" France 3,
Maison Française,
Columbia University, New York ; France Amériques, Paris, France
1985 Tokyo Melody, a film about Ryuichi Sakamoto, 16mm color, 62
min.
Produced by the National Audiovisual Institute and
Yoroshita Music Inc. Shown at the
following film
festivals: Rotterdam ; London ; New Directors /New Films MOMA New
York; Edinburgh,
Locarno, Tokyo, Sidney ... Broadcast on FRANCE 3, NHK
1981 Meeting with Gisele Freund, 16mm, 14mn. Also produced by
Elizabeth Lennard & the
Centre Pompidou;
broadcast on Canal Planète
OTHER
2010 l’affiche N°53, poetry poster in collaboration with Danielle
Mémoire, published by
Editions Bleu du
Ciel and limited edition print of the same
