University & Museum Lectures
Queer and Trans Abstractions in Contemporary Art - University of Wisconsin-Madison - March 9, 2023
Dragging Away: Queer Abstraction in Contemporary Art - Clemson University - September 29, 2022
Dragging, Flaming, Glitching: Queer Abstraction and the work of Linda Besemer - for Linda Besemer: StrokeRollFoldSheetSlabGlitch - Kleefeld Contemporary Art Museum, California State University, Long Beach - May 18, 2022
Queer Abstraction: Dragging Difficult Histories - for A Question of Emphasis: Louise Fishman Drawing - Krannert Art Museum, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign - January 27, 2022 - view recording
Conversations with Artists
Sheila Pepe in Conversation with Lex Lancaster - artist talk series to accompany the exhibition Transatlantic Bridges: Corrado Cagli, 1938-1948 - Center for Italian Modern Art, NYC - November 7, 2023
Queer Abstraction lecture and talk with artist Ester Fleckner as part of their exhibition Slow Tools at Kunstverein Freiburg - October 14, 2023
Liz Collins & Lex Morgan Lancaster in Conversation - Luis de Jesus Los Angeles - July 28, 2022 - view recording
Book launch for Dragging Away and Conversation with Sarah Cowan, author of Howardena Pindell: Reclaiming Abstraction (Yale) - P&T Knitwear Bookstore, NYC - February 16, 2023
Conferences
Sessions Organized
Abstraction and the Everyday (Co-Chair with Sarah Cowan), College Art Association Conference, New York City, February 2023
New Materialisms in Contemporary Art (Chair), College Art Association Conference, New York City, February 2017
Recent Papers
“Feeling Abstract: Queer Form and the Problem of Visibility,” invited panelist: Experience-Informed Scholarship: Theorizing the Affective Dimensions of Four Social Justice Research Projects, Southeastern Women's Studies Association Conference, March 2022. Chair: Lisa Johnson
“Flaming Color: The Genderqueer Capacities of Color-as-Matter,” invited panelist: No Body, This Body: Marking Flesh, Figuration, Abstraction in Trans Art History, College Art Association Conference, February 2019. Chair: Eliza Steinbock
“Hard Edges, Queer Feminist Edging: Ulrike Müller’s Abstractions," SECAC Conference, October, 2018. Chairs: Travis English; Jennifer Kruglinski