Cottage Gallery Hours

No longer on view. The cottage gallery portion of the exhibition closed November 13, 2022.

Riva Lehrer,
Coloring Book, 2011

Acrylic, dimensional collage and mixed media on Amate paper
Collection of Larry A. Gerber

Dolls contain images of organs removed from my body during surgery.

Riva Lehrer,
William Shannon, 1997

Mixed media on paper
Private collection, Chicago

William Shannon is a dancer, skateboarder, choreographer, and video artist, an early pioneer in subverting assumptions about contemporary dance. Shannon resides in Pittsburgh, PA.

Riva Lehrer,
The Risk Pictures: Lennard Davis, 2016

Mixed media and collage on paper
Collection of Larry A. Gerber

Lennard Davis is a Distinguished Professor of English at the University of Illinois at Chicago. Davis explores the political, literary, and ethical controversies of disability in numerous books and venues such as Enforcing Normalcy: Disability, Deafness and the Body; The End of Normal: Identity in a Bicultural Era; and memories including My Sense of Silence: Memoir of a Childhood with Deafness. He is CODA: Child of a Deaf Adult.

Risk Activity: Davis added all handwritten text in the background (except for CODA). He lives in Chicago and NYC.

Riva Lehrer,
Eli Clare, 1997

Acrylic on panel
Collection of Larry A. Gerber

Eli Clare, poet and essayist, is one of the most influential artists and theorists working in Disability Culture. His many books include Brilliant Imperfection: Grappling with Cure (2017) and Exile and Pride: Disability, Queerness and Liberation (1999). Clare is based in Burlington, VT.

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