Wallworks Artist Interview with Leslie Shows

Leslie Shows
b. 1977, Juneau, Alaska. (Lives and works in San Francisco)
Constructed through paint and mixed media collage, Leslie Shows work forefronts the geological underpinnings of land formations while turning to the imaginary to visualize the energetic waves, both scientific and metaphysical, that hover around large masses of land and its contiguous relationship with the sky and bodies of water. Recent solo exhibitions were held at Jack Hanley Gallery, New York and ODC Gallery, San Francisco. Group exhibitions include, Artists of Invention: A Century of CCA, Oakland Museum of California, and A Mind Meld is a Terrible Thing to Waste, Jack Hanley Gallery, San Francisco. She also participated in the 2006 California Biennial at the Orange County Museum of Art, Newport Beach and was a 2006 recipient of the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art SECA Award.

Visit YBCA to learn more about the Wallworks exhibition. http://www.ybca.org/tickets/production/view.aspx?id=9234

YBCA presents Wallworks the highly anticipated curatorial debut of Betti-Sue Hertz, YBCAs newly appointed Director of Visual Arts. For the exhibition, YBCA commissions local, regional and international artists to use the literal aspects of YBCAs architectural space, built in 1993 by acclaimed architect Fumihiko Maki, as a starting point to create new large-scale works directly on the walls of both its galleries and its public spaces.

Wallworks artists crisscross between the visual and tactile qualities of the material that they use, and their interface with an audience conceived in the manner of a skeptic. Drawing the vast encyclopedia of signs inwards, their visualizations are subjective readings of spatial contingencies, as if groping around in the dark for glimmers of what is to come next.

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[mollyunsinkable]

Dig. oooo, would need so much time to experience this. intense beautiful. background music not needed. love watching the team. and why are these people doing your art? i don't get that. who are they? great scene of no brush, pour. Am writing your name down. I hope you go work with children; they would feel you.

[ybcavideo]

@mollyunsinkable Leslie was working with a team of assistants at YBCA for the Wallworks installation. Each artist in the exhibition had a team of assistants to help create large, elaborate, room-scale installations over an intense span of weeks—an open studio period during which the public could visit the artists as they made their artwork.

[wherethetrainssleep]

I love this



[kaltk653]

Leslie, I watched this video because I like your T-shirt best by far among the artist-made T-shirts currently available at SFMOMA for their 75th anniversary celebration. Side note: I find flags intriguing, too.