LESLIE D. WAYNE (BORN 1953). $$$$$ Gallery Artist. Modernist Abstract. From the Steep, 1993, 8" x 6" x 2" oil impasto painting on wood panel, initialled/dated/titled on the verso: From the Steep, LDW 1993. Provenance: Jack Shainman Gallery, New York. Label on the verso. Unframed. Biography from Askart as submitted August 2004, from the artist, whose studio is in New York City. Born in Germany in 1953, Wayne's family moved back to Los Angeles 4 years later. She showed an early interest in drawing and from age 7 on took regular lessons, some private, some later with adult life-drawing classes. When she was 13, her family moved to Newport Beach, where she graduated from high school. She did her undergraduate studies from 1970-72 in fine arts at the University of California at Santa Barbara, at the College of Creative Studies. This was an experimental division devoted exclusively to the creative arts where she was able to cast a wider net in the areas of painting and printmaking. During that time she developed a correspondence with the French photographer Jacques Henri Lartigue, and made her first trip to New York City to meet him at one of his openings. Having studied French in high school, she was inspired further to see Paris by this meeting and took her Junior year off to live there. She lived for the first three months at the Alliance Francaise where she studied French, and eventually got an apartment near the Luxumbourg Gardens where she found herself daily with a pad and set of watercolors. Besides a few classes at various private ateliers she was basically on her own with only a few transient friends who she had met at the Alliance. One friend turned amorous and led her to move to Israel where they lived together from 1975-1980. While there, her painting took various turns, from still-life and portraits to focusing primarily on landscape and views of the old city in Jerusalem. She was on my way to thinking about abstraction, though not deliberately and certainly not conceptually. When the relationship ended, she returned to southern California, intent on getting back to school and finishing her undergraduate studies. During this time she worked exclusively on plein-aire landscape painting in the Laguna Hills, and two years later transferred to Parsons School of Design in New York City where she finished with a BFA in Sculpture in 1984. This move, and her shift into sculpture provided her with an opportunity to leave the all too familiar, and explore the language of abstraction. A year after graduating Parsons, she opened a small commercial gallery with two partners in the Hells Kitchen area of New York City called 50 West. They had a wide-ranging program of contemporary art and were receiving critical attention. But all of them being artists, they eventually decided to close the gallery so that they could pursue their own careers. Life, such as it is in the city, and a lack of space and equipment to make sculpture, led her to return to painting, but with a renewed sense of purpose and direction. Her work, while grounded in the language of landscape, was beginning to take form. She was now painting minimal geometric abstraction with reference to spacial relationships in the real world. She was looking for galleries to show my work and applying for grants. In 1985 she received a Pollock-Krasner grant, an Artists Space Exhibition grant, and an artist's grant from Change, Inc. She had her first solo show in New York city at 55 Mercer Gallery in 1990, an artist-run and owned cooperative. This experience led her to radically re-think about her work and what she wanted to communicate with it. Her work took a radical turn, from minimal abstraction to thick, impasto, overtly landscape-referenced abstraction, which was the foundation for the work she is still developing today. Her second solo show at 55 Mercer included small paintings and was an astounding success, both critically and financially, and the work that launched her career. In 1991, she received a fellowship to the artists colony, Yaddo, and that fall was picked up by the Jack Shainman Gallery where she is still represented today. While painting remains her primary focus, she has created work in other mediums. In 2002-2003 she published two silkscreen prints with Durham Press in Pennsylvania and in 2003 exhibited a group of large-scale photographs based on painting, landscape and the notion of representation. She received a Buhl Foundation award in abstract photography for this work and is developing new ideas for her next body of photographs. EDUCATION: 1984 BFA (Honors), Sculpture. Parsons School of Design, New York City 1971-1973 University of California Santa Barbara, College of Creative Studies, Painting SOLO EXHIBITIONS: 2004 - University Gallery, University of Florida, Gainesville; Crossley Gallery, Ringling School of Art and Design, Sarasota, FL. "The Object of Time; Charting a Decade 2003 - Solomon Projects, Atlanta, GA. "Analogues of Reality: Sight and Fantasy" 2002 - Samuel Dorsky Museum of Art, New Paltz, NY. "Love In The Afternoon" Shainman Gallery, New York City. "Two Years in the World" 2001 - Galerie Bugdahn und Kaimer, Dusseldorf, Germany. "Breaking and Entering" 2000 - Solomon Projects, Atlanta, GA . "Under My Skin" Jack Shainman Gallery, New York City. "Re-entering" 1999 - Haines Gallery, San Francisco, CA. "insides out" Galerie Doris Wullkopf, Darmstadt, Germany 1998 - LA Louver, Venice, CA. "Folding Time"Jack Shainman Gallery, New York City. "Breaking and Entering" Byron Cohen Gallery, Kansas City, MO 1996 - Jack Shainman Gallery, New York City Galerie Bugdahn und Kaimer, Dusseldorf, Germany Galeria Leyendecker, Santa Cruz de Tenerife, Spain 1994 - Jack Shainman Gallery, New York City Galerie Bugdahn und Kaimer GMBH, Dusseldorf, Germany 1993 - Jack Shainman Gallery, New York City 1992 - 55 Mercer Gallery, New York City 1990 - 55 Mercer Gallery, New York City 1979 - Jerusalem Theater Gallery, Jerusalem, Israel CATALOGUES: - The Object of Time; Charting a Decade, University Gallery, University of Florida, Gainesville; Crossley Gallery, Ringling School of Art and Design, Sarasota, FL. Essay by Amy Dickerson. - Don Porcaro and Leslie Wayne, Samuel Dorsky Museum of Art, New Paltz, NY. 2002. Essay by Nadine Wasserman. - Leslie Wayne, Jack Shainman Gallery, NYC, and Solomon Projects, Atlanta, GA., 2000. Essay by Robert Mahoney. - Theories of the Decorative: Abstraction and Ornament in Contemporary Painting, Inverleith House, Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh, Scotland; Edward A. Ulrich Museum, Wichita, KS., 1997. Essay by David Moos. - The Resonance of Paint, Dunedin Fine Art Center, Dunedin, FL, 1997. - Uneasy Surface: Points of Turbulence in Contemporary Art, Fine Arts Center Galleries, University of Rhode Island, Kingston, RI, 1996. - 44th Biennial Exhibition of Contemporary American Painting: Painting Outside Painting, The Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington DC, 1995. Essay by Barry Schwabsky. - Transatlantica: The America-Europa Non-Representiva, Museo Alejandro Otero, Caracas, Venezuela, 1995. - Art At the Edge: Tampering - Artists and Abstraction Today, The High Museum of Art, Atlanta, GA, 1995. Essay by Susan Krane. - Neun Ausstellungen und Sechs Editionen, Sommer 1992 bis Sommer 1994, Galerie Bugdahn und Kaimer, Dusseldorf, Germany, 1994. - Art From New York, Higashi Hiroshima Museum, Hiroshima, Japan, 1993. - Irony and Ecstacy, Salama Caro Gallery, London, England, 1993. - Kinder! macht Neues!, Galerie Rolf Ricke, Koln, Germany, 1992. - Women's Invitational Project Number One, Spartanburg Day School, Wofford College, Converse College, Spartanburg, NC, 1985. - Women in America, Laguna Art Museum, Laguna Beach, CA, 1974. GRANTS AND AWARDS: 2004 - Buhl Foundation Award 1994 - Adolph and Esther Gottlieb Foundation, Artists Grant 1993 - Hillwood Art Museum/New York State Council on the Arts, Projects Residency Grant 1992 - Yaddo, Artist's Residency Fellowship 1990 - Artist's Space, Exhibition Grant 1985 - Pollock-Krasner Foundation, Artist's Grant - Artist's Space, Exhibition Grant - Change, Inc., Artist's Grant OTHER EXPERIENCE: 2004 - Visiting Artist, University of Florida, Gainesville, FL - Visiting Artist, Ringling School of Art and Design, Sarasota, FL 2003 - Visiting Artist, Georgia State University, Atlanta, GA 2002 - Visiting Artist, Parsons School of Design, New York, NY 1999 - Visiting Artist, Philadelphia College of Art, University of Fine Art, Philadelphia, PA - Visiting Artist, Birmingham Museum of Art, Birmingham, AL - Visiting Artist, Princeton University, Princeton, NJ - Visiting Artist, Pratt Institute, Brooklyn, NY 1997 - Visiting Artist, Wichita State University - Panelist: "Theories of the Decorative," Edwin A. Ulrich Museum, Wichita, KS 1996 - Visiting Artist, Empire State College, New York, NY - Visiting Artist, University of La Laguna, Tenerife, Spain 1995 - Visiting Artist, School of the Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, IL - Panelist: Corcoran Biennial Exhibition, American University, Washington DC 1992 - Curator, Paintings, Trenkmann Gallery, New York, NY - Curator, Large Drawing, 450 Broadway Gallery, New York, NY 1985 - Curator, Interpretations of the Southwest, 50 West Gallery, New York, NY - Curator, Art Workers' Art, New York Institute of Technology, New York, NY SELECTED PUBLIC COLLECTIONS: Birmingham Museum of Art, Birmingham, AL British Airways, JFK, New York The Capitol Group, Los Angeles, CA Colleczion Thyssen Bornemisza, Madrid, Spain Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, DC Fondation Cartier pour l'art Contemporain, Paris, France Johnson County Community College, Kansas City, MO King and Spalding, New York City La Coleccion Jumex, Mexico City, Mexico Museum of Contemporary Art, Miami, FL The Progressive Corporation, Cleveland, OH Saks Fifth Avenue Corporation Scott Memorial Study Collection, Bryn Mawr College, PA

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