Leslie Wayne in her Studio, 2020

A virtual studio visit and a short view into the development and thinking behind Leslie Wayne’s work.

Global Art Source has been closely following Leslie Wayne’s career for the past 20 years. This well established American artist was represented in Global Art Source’s debut exhibition “Cross Culture” in April 2001.

Earlier this year Leslie Wayne was asked to make a video in her studio, discussing her work in the context of an artist who has had a deep influence on her.

Leslie Wayne is an artist whose work intersects painting, sculpture, abstraction, and representation to create a hybrid that encourages a reexamination of our perceptions. Her highly dimensional paintings are not only pictures of things, but objects in and of themselves and hover in that space between between illusion and verisimilitude.

 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). Her work is in numerous public collections, including the Birmingham Museum of Art, the Davis Museum, the Portland Museum of Art, the Miami Museum of Contemporary Art, The Smithsonian Museum Cooper Hewitt Library, the Yale Beineke Library, le Fondation Cartier pour l’art Contemporain, La Coleccion Jumex, and La Collezione Maramotti, among others. She lives and works in New York City.