La.dy.like Art | She/Her/They
la·dy·like /ˈlādēˌlīk/ adjective 🚺 1. appropriate for or typical of a subversive female-identifying machineLa.dy.like Co-Founders
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Co-Founder | Creative Director
Bio: Andrea’s hybridized practice examines the symbolic order of femininity and its relationship to contemporary gender ideologies through experimental video, painting and mixed media.
She has exhibited her work nationally and internationally and her paintings were selected to appear in New American Paintings West Issue, No. 156, in 2022. Andrea received her BFA from Northern Arizona University and her MFA from Colorado State University.
Andrea is currently College Board certified advanced placement art instructor for a college preparatory high school in the Twin Cities, and a MFA candidate Mentor at the Minneapolis College of Art and Design.
Website: www.mercurialstudio.com
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Co-founder | Artist outreach
Bio: Spencer Legendre-Gillespie’s practice explores intimate, discarded, and symbolically charged materials to break down and interrogate gendered social constructs that condition our behavior. She has exhibited her work nationally – including a solo exhibition in the ArtLab Gallery at Florida Gulf Coast University in Fort Myers, FL.
In addition to being a practicing artist, Spencer was previously an instructor of record at Colorado State University and currently works as an Upper School art instructor for Saint Paul Academy. Spencer received her BA from Florida Gulf Coast University in 2017, and her MFA from Colorado State University in 2021.
Website: www.spencerlegendregillespie.com
La.dy.like
Experimental Art Project 2023
purpose
The 2023 La.dy.like Project intends to collaborate with and give a platform to female, femme, and queer-identifying artists and creatives in the Twin Cities and beyond. These collaborations aim to engage a broader audience for their work and expand the conversation around the role of female, femme, and queer identity within the Twin Cities arts community. La.dy.like’s experimental art project was launched in July 2022 by St. Paul interdisciplinary artists and educators: Andrea Bagdon (she/her) and Spencer Gillespie (she/they) as a means to interrogate their relationship to femininity and to be an inclusive discovery for all femme identifying persons.
Why is this project important to us?
The making and experiences of art have been historically gendered. This affects the evaluation of what female, femme, and queer-identifying artists create and how much access and value can is assigned to their work.
La.dy.like’s mission
The principle goal of the 2023 La.dy.like program is to bypass gendered gatekeeping by designing and implementing concrete opportunities for female, femme, and queer-identifying artists to showcase their work and engage an audience.
Ladylike’s mission is to continue to examine and question aesthetic theory and its attitude toward gender by engaging in community-centered artistic dialog. This is achieved by creating conversational outlets and modeling inclusive communities through exhibitions, curatorial opportunities, educational workshops, and social gatherings.
“This activity is made possible by the voters of Minnesota through a grant from the Metropolitan Regional Arts Council, thanks to a legislative appropriation from the arts and cultural heritage fund.”
