Leslie Wayne “Free Experience”
Jack Shainman Gallery (524 W 24th St)
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Leslie Wayne manipulates the medium of painting by approaching oil paint as a sculptural material, often times scraping, folding, cutting, and building up the surfaces. Her work takes on three-dimensional forms with layers, varying textures, and colors. The tactile quality of her work evokes the experience of geology and natural phenomena. “My relationship to landscape is really rooted in memory, in the light, colors and geography of the West,” she said in an interview published in Figure/Ground Communication in 2013. She continues, “So here, in the middle of midtown Manhattan, I approach the subject more as an opportunity to depict visual manifestations of physical forces: compression, subduction, morphogenesis, rather than pictures of nature in the traditional sense. And many of the paintings are shaped in ways that accentuate movement and instability.”
Wayne was born in Germany in 1953, and grew up in California. She currently lives and works in New York. Wayne studied painting at the University of California, Santa Barbara from 1971 to 1973, and she received a BFA in sculpture at The Parsons School of Design. She was awarded a Guggenheim Fellowship (2017), the Joan Mitchell Foundation Artist Grant (2012), the New York Foundation for the Arts Fellowship in Painting (2006), the Adolph and Esther Gottlieb Foundation Artists Grant (1994), and the Pollock-Krasner Foundation Artist¹s Grant (1985).
In 2011 the Halsey Institute of Contemporary Art in South Carolina organized a solo survey of Wayne’s work, curated by Mark Sloan and accompanied by a catalogue. It traveled to the Visual Arts Center of Richmond, Virginia, and the Joseloff Gallery, University of Hartford, Connecticut.
Wayne’s work is included in various public collections such as the Birmingham Museum of Art, Alabama, the Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, DC, the Portland Museum of Art, Oregon, the Miami Museum of Contemporary Art, Florida, the Neuberger Museum of Art, New York, La Coleccion Jumex, Mexico, and le Fondation Cartier pour l’art Contemporain, France. Several of these works from the le Fondation Cartier pour l’art Contemporain, France were on view at Exposition D’Automne at the Institut Culturel Bernard Magrez, Château Labottière, Bordeaux, France, September 12, 2015 – March 6, 2016.
Jack Shainman Gallery has represented Leslie Wayne since 1993. Solo exhibitions at the gallery include: Rags (2014), One Big Love (2010), Trouble in Paradise (2007), Re-Entering (2000), and Breaking and Entering (1998). Her next solo exhibition with Jack Shainman Gallery opens in September 2017.
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Schedule
from September 07, 2017 to October 21, 2017
Opening Reception on 2017-09-07 from 18:00 to 20:00