On the Outdoor Screen / Lena Wolff and Hope Meng: Art for Democracy

October 1–November 6, 2024

Beginning one month prior to Election Day 2024, BAMPFA presents Bay Area artist Lena Wolff’s clarion call to civic engagement on our Outdoor Screen. Wolff made these voting posters in collaboration with the multidisciplinary designer Hope Meng. Initially launched in 2017, Wolff’s iconic poster series encourages viewers to make their voices heard at the ballot box in support of urgent and timely issues: reproductive freedom, gun reform, trans rights, environmental justice, and democracy at large.

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Digital poster by Lena Wolff and Hope Meng. Courtesy the artist.
Digital poster by Lena Wolff and Hope Meng. Courtesy the artist.
Digital poster by Lena Wolff and Hope Meng. Courtesy the artist.

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On the Outdoor Screen / Lena Wolff and Hope Meng: Art for Democracy

October 1–November 6, 2024

About the Artists

Lena Wolff is a visual artist, craftswoman, and activist for democracy who has lived and worked in the Bay Area since the early 1990s. In recent years, she has generated several self-initiated public art projects to contribute to dialogue and civic engagement, including a widespread anti-hate poster campaign and a public art initiative to boost voter participation that expanded across the country in 2020. Her work was seen on BAMPFA’s Outdoor Screen leading up to the 2020 and 2022 elections, and it will return this election season as a complement to Kathryn Andrews’s Outdoor Screen project Victoria Woodhull, Belva Ann Lockwood, Abigail Scott Duniway [ . . . ] (2020–ongoing), which addresses gender disparity in US presidential elections.

Hope Meng is a visual artist whose primary discipline is the letterform. Her work in textiles and digital art explores the outskirts of automatic reading and the boundaries of legibility. Hope lives and works in San Francisco, CA.

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