Leslie Parke
American
Leslie Parke is a contemporary American painter whose work explores the interplay between abstraction and representation. Her paintings often feature complex layers of color and gesture, creating surfaces that vibrate with an energetic field reflecting and refracting light. Parke's themes include light, transparency, and reflection, often using everyday objects such as shrink-wrapped cargo and colorful threads to create tension between what is real and what is perceived. She began her career influenced by New York's postwar art movements and has spent a lifetime reconciling the parallel universes of representation and abstraction. Parke received her BA and MA from Bennington College and is a recipient of several grants, including the Esther and Adolph Gottlieb Grant and the Lila Wallace-Reader’s Digest grant as an artist-in-residence at the Claude Monet Foundation in Giverny, France. She currently resides in Cambridge, New York.
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