LYNN & LORRAINE: TATYANA FAZLALIZADEH x LE’ANDRA LESEUR
Proximity Sessions: Tatyana Fazlalizadeh x Le’Andra LeSeur
Lynn & Lorraine, Accord, NY
June 2026
Proximity Sessions is an evolving residency format initiated by Tatyana Fazlalizadeh. An experimental framework for artists and writers to gather, think, and work in sustained proximity. Hosted at Lynn & Lorraine, located in Accord, NY, the series centers cross-disciplinary exchange, research-driven practice, and site-responsive inquiry.
This inaugural session featuring Fazlalizadeh and Le’Andra LeSeur unfolds in collaboration with the Tulsa Artist Fellowship and joins Upstate Art Weekend (Thursday, June 25 – Monday, June 29, 2026).
ABOUT LYNN & LORRAINE
Lynn & Lorraine is an experimental outpost initiated by Tatyana Fazlalizadeh. An evolving site for artists and writers to live, think, and create based in Accord, New York.
ABOUT THE ARTISTS
Tatyana Fazlalizadeh (she/her) is a Brooklyn-based multidisciplinary artist whose work spans painting, public art, and multimedia installation. Born in Oklahoma City to a Black mother and Iranian father, her art centers Black feminist praxis, using image-making as a tool for protest, affirmation, and possibility. In her studio, she creates evocative portraits with oil paint and graphite, while her public art—most notably the globally acclaimed Stop Telling Women to Smile series—explores how race and gender shape experiences in physical spaces through community-centered, site-specific installations. Tatyana has lectured at prominent institutions such as the Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture and the Metropolitan Museum of Art. Her work has been featured in The New York Times, NPR, The New Yorker, and Time, with work featured in exhibitions at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art and Brooklyn Museum. In 2025, she joins the Tulsa Artist Fellowship.
Le’Andra LeSeur (b. 1989 in Bronx, NY) is a multidisciplinary artist whose work encompasses a range of media, including video, installation, photography, painting, and performance. Her body of work, a celebration of Blackness, queerness, and femininity, seeks to dismantle systems of power and achieve transcendence and liberation through perseverance. Through the insertion of her body and voice into her work, LeSeur provides her audience with an opportunity to contemplate themes such as identity, family, Black grief and joy, the experience of invisibility, and what it means to take up space as a queer Black woman—a rejection of the stereotypes which attempt to push these identities to the margins. The artist has received several notable awards, including the Tulsa Artist Fellowship (2024-2026), Leslie-Lohman Museum Artists Fellowship (2019), the Time-Based Medium Prize, and the Juried Grand Prize at Artprize 10 (2018). LeSeur has appeared in conversation with Marilyn Minter at the Brooklyn Museum, presented by the Tory Burch Foundation, and has lectured at The New School, NY, NY, and the University of the Arts, Philadelphia, PA, among others. Her work has been shown in solo and group exhibitions at MFA Boston, Boston, MA; Swivel Gallery, NY, NY; The Shed, New York, NY; Marlborough, New York, NY; Atlanta Contemporary, Atlanta, GA; A.I.R. Gallery, Brooklyn, NY; Assembly Room, New York, NY; Microscope Gallery, Brooklyn, NY; Arnika Dawkins, Atlanta, GA; and others. Residencies include Pioneer Works, iLab at The University of the Arts, Visual Studies Workshop, ArcAthens, NARS Foundation, Marble House Project, and MASS MoCA.