College of Arts and Sciences

"If you realize that, in her soft way, she’s constructing a world without men, of female harmony, there’s something pretty revolutionary in there as well.”

Libby Otto, professor in the Department of Global Gender and Sexuality Studies and director of the UB Humanities Institute, discusses a new exhibition of French painter Marie Laurecin’s work in The New York Times.

The exhibition is the first major solo Laurencin exhibition in the United States in three decades, and the first exhibition of her work to highlight the obvious: Laurencin’s art is unavoidably queer, and noticeably lacking in men.