Zolla / Lieberman Gallery is pleased to present the latest portrait from Riva Lehrer's ongoing exploration of cultural depictions of disability, Portrait of Rosemarie Garland-Thomson.

Join us for coffee and light refreshments on Saturday, October 22nd from 1 - 4:30pm. The artist will be present to discuss the portrait and read excerpts from her critically-acclaimed memoir, Golem Girl.

Please RSVP for the event to info@zollalieberman.com

About Riva Lehrer

Riva Lehrer is an artist, writer, and curator whose work focuses on issues of physical identity and the socially challenged body. She is best known for representations of people with impairments, and those whose sexuality or gender identity have long been stigmatized. A longtime faculty member of the School of the Art Institute of Chicago, Riva Lehrer is currently an instructor in medical humanities at Northwestern University.

About Rosemarie Garland-Thomson

Rosemarie Garland-Thomson is a disability justice and culture thought leader, bioethicist, teacher, and humanities scholar. Her 2016 editorial, Becoming Disabled, was the inaugural article in the ongoing weekly series in the New York Times about disability by people living with disabilities.

She is a professor of English and bioethics at Emory University, where she teaches disability studies, bioethics, American literature and culture, and feminist theory. Her work develops the field of critical disability studies in the health humanities to bring forward disability access, inclusion, and identity to a broad range of institutions and communities.

She is co-editor of About Us: Essays from the New York Times about Disability by People with Disabilities (forthcoming) and the author of Staring: How We Look and several other books. Her current project is Embracing Our Humanity: A Bioethics of Disability and Health.

Image: RIVA LEHRER - Portrait of Rosemarie Garland-Thomson, 2022, acrylic on panel, 48 x 24 in.