Kerry Lessard "Formica"

Kerry Lessard is a painter living and working in Brooklyn. She is originally from Manchester, New Hampshire. Through painting, she seeks to interrogate the roots of violence within white suburban communities, attending to the often mundane ways in which children, particularly boys, are socialized into relations of domination and brutality.

“My work is an excavation of the violence at the core of America's rapid postwar suburbanization. I aim to tease apart the tensions between the suburb as an enduring symbol of safety and stability, a leafy ideal to attain, and the logic of exclusion it encodes — a political project underpinned by racial dispossession and the subordination of women.” - Kerry Lessard