Leslie Wayne
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Leslie Wayne
Dislocation, 2003Screenprint
Chartham Natural Translucent38 x 26 inches
(96.52 x 66.04 cm)Edition of 42Durham Press is pleased to announce the publication of two new screenprints by Leslie Wayne, entitled Design for Life and Dislocation. Both works are printed on uniquely semitransparent Chartham Natural...Durham Press is pleased to announce the publication of two new screenprints by Leslie Wayne, entitled Design for Life and Dislocation. Both works are printed on uniquely semitransparent Chartham Natural Translucent paper in an edition of 42, measuring 38 x 26 inches.
Both Design for Life and Dislocation were built by isolating the elements that make up Wayne’s paintings. In a complete reversal of process, these visual building blocks have been plucked from their original context, broken down, ‘dislocated’ and digitally photographed in order to reinvent themselves into two-dimension, mimicking her painting’s process through a kind of spontaneous bricolage.
Discreet layers of these fractal-like elements were color separated by hand from the photographs, and then collaged one on top of the other, sometimes completely concealing areas of the first layer. This gives the final image depth and clarity, each element hand drawn and delineated like a decal. These layers of colorful separations sit on top of a soft white background drawn from the combined shapes of the original elements. Wayne deliberately chose transparent inks and printed on vellum to give the picture an otherworldly luminosity not traditionally seen in screen prints.
Design for Life and Dislocation, as well as other works by Leslie Wayne, are available directly through Durham Press. For more information, please contact us at sales@durhampress.com.
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BiographyB. 1953, Landstuhl, Germany
Leslie Wayne was born in Germany and grew up in Los Angeles. Following two years at the University of California, Santa Barbara, a year in Paris and five years in Israel, she moved to New York in 1982 and transferred to Parsons School of Design where she earned her BFA in Sculpture with Honors. Largely informed by her identification with the light, colors and tactile sensibilities of the West Coast, Wayne’s work intersects painting, sculpture, abstraction, and representation to create a direct and intimate experience of the world around her. Wayne has exhibited widely throughout the United States and abroad and has received grants from the New York Foundation for the Arts (2018, 2006), the John Simon Guggenheim Foundation (2017), the Joan Mitchell Foundation (2012), the Buhl Foundation (2004), the Adolph and Esther Gottlieb Foundation (1994), and the Pollock-Krasner Foundation (1985).
Wayne has been represented by Jack Shainman Gallery since 1989 and lives and works in New York City.