CoPA Presents Lois Bielefeld
Tuesday, January 13 | Transfer Pizzeria Café 101 W. Mitchell Street
5:30 | Schmooze and Photo Feedback
6:30 | Announcements
6:40 | Feature presentation: Lois Bielefeld
Lois Bielefeld
Join us for an intimate look inside Bielefeld’s creative process—the part that doesn’t come with a tutorial. Where do ideas come from? What leads an artist down certain creative paths? How does a project take shape, evolve, and come together over months or years?
Bielefeld will share how they develop long-term photographic projects, exploring the “rules,” processes, and approaches that guide different bodies of work. Through examining multiple series—from conceptual studies to intricate photographic tableaux—they’ll reveal the messy, experimental, and deeply intentional work of building a sustained artistic practice. Hear Lois speak candidly about the creative questions that drive them, the systems they create to answer those questions, and how intuition and research work together in the studio.
Lois Bielefeld is a queer series-based artist working in photography, audio, video, and performance. Their work continually asks what links routine and ritual to the formation of identity, personhood, and meaning-making. Currently based in Milwaukee, Bielefeld holds a graduate degree from the California Institute of the Arts and their work is held in permanent collections at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, the Leslie-Lohman Museum of Gay and Lesbian Art, the Milwaukee Art Museum, and the Museum of Wisconsin Art, among others. They have exhibited at The International Center of Photography, The National Portrait Gallery, de Young Museum, and The Museum of Contemporary Photography, and are represented by Portrait Society Gallery in Milwaukee.
Photos copyright © Lois Bielefeld
Schmooze and Photo Reviews
Beginning at 5:30, and going until the meeting starts at 6:30, we will continue to host photo reviews in small groups. Anyone who wishes to participate is encouraged to bring three to five photos to share and discuss. Tablets or laptops are best but prints work too. Join when you arrive, the earlier the better, and enjoy some food and drink at the same time!
