In her work, Ellen Lesperance (b. 1971, Minneapolis, MN) pays tribute to direct action campaigns and feminist activism. Lesperance's paintings are based on knit garments worn by women involved in protests, sit-ins, demonstrations, and instances of civil disobedience. Pattern, shape, and symmetry emerge in the artist's highly detailed compositions, which merge abstraction and figuration to speak to participation and protest as essential and personal acts. In her layering of archival research and imaginative interpretation, Lesperance presents the potential of past events within a political lineage that may inspire future action through translated and coded symbols.