ABOUT
As an installation artist with a technology background, my interest in how internet influenced information impacts our lives has been a primary theme at the heart of my studio practice since 2004. The relevancy of this focus has become more acute as we watch and experience the literal dismantling of meaning, truth and fact as the internet has become a ubiquitous source of global information.
As the impact of this phenomenon becomes more consequential, my work has taken on a new sense of urgency pushing me to address the challenge in ways that capture this moment in time and its existential influence on our individualism, culture, and socio-political norms.
This is achieved through the daily exploration of internet data (text & images) describing global events and bearing witness to the decomposition of fact, truth and meaning as each topic loses its original context at the deepest meta levels.
The work develops as a formal re-materialization of this data in large installations/assemblages using traditional medium and can be considered a conduit for a metaphorical and sign-posting endeavor that interprets and documents the individual subjectivity at play while searching for information that fits personal or preferred narratives.
Leslie lives and works in the footills of the south western Berkshire Mountains just over the border of Columbia County in the Hudson Valley region of New York.
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EDUCATION
2006 MFA Montclair State University, Montclair, NJ
1976 BFA Hartford Art School, Hartford, CT
TEACHING EXPERIENCE
2019-2020 Artist Mentor, The Koestler Trust;
London UK;Art mentorship for
incarcerated and recently released
artists
2011-2012 SUNY @ Columbia Greene Campus,
Hudson NY
2006-2010 Parsons School of Design, NYC, NY 2005-2006 Montclair State University, Montclair, NJ
ARTISTS RESIDENCIES
2022-2023 Global Artists Residency, School of Visual Arts, New York, NY
2004 Summer Residency, School of Visual Arts, New York, NY
EXHIBITS
2024 NYFA Benefit Invitational (New York Foundation for the Arts) NYC, NY
2024 META, SUNY CGCC, Foundation Gallery, Hudson, NY
2023 Group Exhibition, HOLIDAY, LABspace, Hillsdale, NY
2023 Group Exhibition, Guild of Berkshire Artists, Pittsfield, MA
2023 Group Exhibition, Sandisfield Art Center, Sandisfield, MA
2023 Yonder Crush; Group Exhibition; Satchel Projects;
Chelsea NYC, NY
2022 Finding A Memory; Group Exhibition, Piano Craft Gallery; Boston, MA
2022 MOSAIC; Two-person exhibit; Guild of Berkshire Artists; Pittsfield, MA
2021 FREE; Group Exhibition, Outlander Gallery; Jersey City, NJ
2021 Group Show; Mize Gallery, St. Petersburg, Florida
2020 NYFA Benefit Invitational (New York Foundation for the Arts) NYC, NY
2012 Queens Art X, What If Artists Remade US Economy, Queens, NY
2011 Faculty Exhibition, SUNY Columbia Greene Campus, Hudson, New York
2010 InFUSION Project Space, Memorial Sloan Kettering, Brooklyn, NY, “of nutshells and nuance”, site specific installation
2010 Koussevitsky Gallery; Berkshire Community College, Pittsfield, MA “of saint and syn” site specific installation and artist talk
2010 Splice; Group Exhibition, Distillery Projects; Jersey City, NJ
2009 Brooklyn Art:Work, Group Exhibition, BRIC Rotunda Gallery, Brooklyn, NY
2008 In/formation, Group Exhibition, BRIC Rotunda Gallery, Brooklyn, NY
2008 Trellis; Group Exhibition, Rupert Ravens Contemporary, Newark, NJ
2008 A Passion for Pixels; Group Exhibition, Islip Art Museum, East Islip, NY
2008 Hand Drawn, Group Exhibition, Storefront Artists Project, Pittsfield, MA
2007 Information Anxiety, site specific installation, The Daniel Arts Center, Bard College at Simon’s Rock, Great Barrington, MA
2007 Ephemera, Group Exhibition, Lascano Gallery, Gt. Barrington, MA
2006 Triskadekamaniacal, Group Exhibition, Axis Gallery, Chelsea, New York
2006 Gender, Group Exhibition, Haddad Lascano Gallery, Great Barrington, MA
2005 Obsession, Group Exhibition, Haddad Lascano Gallery, Great Barrington, MA
2004 Metro Show, Group Exhibition, City Without Walls, Newark, NJ
2004 National Fall Open, Group Exhibition, Southern Vermont Art Center, Manchester, VT