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Field of Vision: Works on Paper by Leslie Sobel

When

Friday September 2, 2016: 9:00am to Thursday October 13, 2016: 9:00pm

Where

Downtown Library: Multi-Purpose Room Exhibit

Description

Leslie Sobel's work focuses on the environment and the ways people change, understand and interact with it. Her exhibit of paintings, encaustic and mixed media on paper, include about twenty large works of abstracted nature and wilderness scenes.

Nature, particularly wilderness speaks to Leslie. Spending a lot time outdoors often means spending time staring at the sky, day dreaming or watching a storm come barreling down or a beautiful evening. Unsurprisingly those skies become a big part of her paintings. Even when working representationally she aims to work atmospherically and gesturally, filling her field of vision with color and shape.

These pieces are mostly sky and ground, seen from the ground or from above, abstracted, intensely colored – dreamscapes. The pieces in this exhibition are all works on paper, using encaustic and other media. She likes working on paper for its intimacy and immediacy - qualities that mesh well with the emotions that this subject matter often evokes for her.

Leslie received her BFA from the University of Michigan School of Art in 1983. She worked in computer graphics for many years and did Master’s degree work in Interdisciplinary Technology at Eastern Michigan University. She did a month long wilderness based residency sponsored by Colorado Art Ranch and the Aldo Leopold Wilderness Research Institute at Canyons of the Ancients National Monument in SW Colorado in 2013. She is an avid hiker whose connection with the outdoors is crucial to her work.