Lynn Hershman Leeson saw it coming

Some art is ahead of its time, until it suddenly isn’t. Once the world catches up, what once felt radical and outlandish can seem obvious to the point of banality. It is a strange sort of vindication that ultimately awaits every visionary, a perverse tribute time pays to imagination. The restless oeuvre of Lynn Hershman Leeson might be a case in point. Ever since she came to the Bay Area as a young painter in the early 1960s, the American new media artist has used each new technology to explore