Leslie Barlow

vision of a soft sun

9.30–11.5.2022

Leslie Barlow shares new oil paintings on panel and paper that explore a kind of freedom, play, and joy among and between (or in spite of) heaviness and chaos. An acknowledgement of friends and loved ones in this particular cosmic moment, the works become gentle markings of relationships and experiences that feel both familiar and radical. Barlow sees this work as a necessary renewal of the spirit, a reclaiming of space, leisure, and slow process when everything surrounding urges to speed up and return to some sense of “normal” that was never normal in the first place. 

Snowbirds and nebula, 2022
oil, pastel, acrylic on panel
60 x 40 inches
my cuz, considering the sky, 2022
oil, fabric, acrylic on panel
36 x 48 inches
my father, honeymoon waters, 2022
oil and acrylic on panel
48 x 48 inches
We skate to escape, sis, 2022
oil, fabric, acrylic on panel
60 x 48 inches
Amber on high at Dream Lake, 2022
oil, acrylic, fabric on canvas
80 x 75 inches
Untitled (joy scape 4), 2022
oil, pastel, arcylic, quilt on paper
27.5 x 22 inches (paper), 25.5 x 20 inches (image)
Untitled (joy scape 2), 2022
oil, acrylic, quilt on paper
29.5 x 22 inches (paper), 26 x 21 inches (image)
Untitled (joy scape 3), 2022
oil, acrylic, quilt on paper
29.5 x 19.5 inches (paper), 27.25 x 17 inches (image)
Untitled (joy scape 1), 2022
oil, acrylic, quilt on paper
27.5 x 19.5 inches (paper), 24.25 x 18 inches (image)
vision of a soft sun, 2022, installation view
vision of a soft sun, 2022, installation view
vision of a soft sun, 2022, installation view