The 2022-23 exhibition schedule at the Weitman Gallery begins with “(un)fixed Positions,” a new selection of work from Margaret LeJeune. In this show LeJeune presents selections from five projects that span a range of media and subject matter. In one project, for example, LeJeune shows a series of “lumen prints,” photographs on unfixed silver gelatin paper that present specimens from a wildflower meadow alongside the Maine coast. The lumen prints will fade over the course of the exhibition and refer to the ebbing of collective memories of a space that will eventually be lost to rising seas.
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(un)fixed Positions: Margaret LeJeune
About Margaret LeJeune
Margaret LeJeune is an image-maker, curator, and educator from Rochester, New York (USA). She received an MFA from Visual Studies Workshop. Working predominantly with photographic-based mediums, LeJeune explores our precarious relationship to the natural world. Her work has been widely exhibited at institutions including The Griffin Museum of Photography (USA), The Center for Fine Art Photography (USA), ARC Gallery (USA), Circe Gallery Cape Town (South Africa), Science Cabin (South Korea), and Umbrella Arts (USA). LeJeune has been invited to create work at several residency programs which foster collaboration between the arts and sciences including the Global Nomadic Art Project - The Ephemeral River (England), University of Notre Dame Environmental Research Center (USA), and Santa Fe Art Institute Changing Climate Residency. She has been awarded a Puffin Fellowship, The Sally A. Williams Artist Grant, and a Bradley University Research Excellence ‘New Directions’ Grant for her interdisciplinary project Growing Light. Her works have recently been published in Evolving The Forest from art.earth press (UK) and Becoming-Feral from Objet-a Creative Studio (UK). LeJeune is an Associate Professor of Photography at Bradley University in Peoria, Illinois.