A Familiar Portrait of Labor and Love  /  Leslie Barlow

A Familiar Portrait of Labor and Love / Leslie Barlow

Presented by The Gallery at Le Méridien Chambers

“This new series of paintings feels like I’m working at the edge of myself––painting into the future what knowledge I wish I had in the past, barely able to keep up with the churning of my mind and the layers of stories I increasingly hold. I hope to find home in visual explorations that challenge superficially-simple narratives and change our perceptions of family normalcy; I find that our visual culture born in white supremacy leaves little room for complex representations that are neither/both, non-binary. And so I am in the pursuit of creating a new language, one that is both improvised and rooted in history. The juxtaposition and collision of different story-telling mediums (photography, quilting, painting…) become a merging of narratives, experiences, culture, and identities. What results is not the desire to simply have dialogue, but to manifest the power of images. Created are a visual palette of experiences that are familiar to me and so many others, experiences that have not been traditionally apart of the lexicon
of painting––which gives both viewers and I space for growth, empowerment, understanding and love.” – Leslie Barlow

At the opening, vibes from DJ Kirkabee and complimentary wine.


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