Lesley Vance has been the subject of solo and two-person exhibitions at Columbus Museum of Art, Ohio (2023) FLAG Art Foundation, New York (2012) Bowdoin College Museum of Art, Bowdoin, Maine (2012) and Huntington Library, Art Museum, and Botanical Gardens, San Marino, California (with Ricky Swallow, 2012). This process speaks to the mind’s capacity to subsequently make sense of sudden events, as well as the ways in which memories-products of the present as much the past-are molded from moment to moment.
Gestures that occur quickly, without premeditation, are patiently given the opportunity to solidify as complete ideas. She transforms improvised marks into pictorial bodies with discernible weight, creating images that conjure both surrealist and abstract expressionist forbears. Her abstractions are filled with light and shadow complex spatial arrangements the familiar, if ultimately mysterious, presence of physical objects (she has cited sculpture and ceramics as important influences) and most of all, the material reality of paint itself. 1977, Milwaukee), each painting becomes a means to discover an invented image that, in the end, has the presence of fact.
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