Leslie Laskey Estate American, 1921-2021
Leslie Laskey’s works can be journeys of exploration for familiars, who enjoy traveling in landscapes of discovered relationships. But however familiar these works may become over time, freshness is revealed as one breathes, as the work stimulates and returns our awareness, like a piece of music one never tires listening to. Their tuned and harmonious complexity ensures that these pieces are never merely decorative. Nothing in them is overblown or done merely for effect. Their freedom and honesty ground them for blossoming wherever they are. Laskey’s media of choice is ever changing, and characteristic of his work. In this new oeuvre, he incorporates collage, oil paint, acrylic, and crayon. It is this variety of media and style, which adds to the engaging quality of his work and its subsequent effect on viewers.
Leslie Laskey served in a combat unit in Europe and was among the troops that landed on Omaha Beach, early on D-Day, 1944. He studied at Indiana University and at the Institute of Design in Chicago (now the Illinois Institute of Technology) with founder and American Bauhaus pioneer Lászlò Moholy-Nagy. Currently, he divides his time between St. Louis and Manistee, Michigan and is a Professor Emeritus of Architecture at the Sam Fox School of Design & Visual Arts at Washington University in St. Louis.
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Prints | Bruno David Projects
February 7 - March 30, 2024Group exhibition in the the Bruno David Projects room of works on paper by Buzz Spector, Yvette Drury Dubinsky, Kiki Smith, Alex Katz, Paul Cadmus, Leonardo Cremonini, Eduardo Chillida, Pablo...Read more -
Paperwork
June 23 - August 18, 2023"Paperwork", an exhibition curated by J. Hughes, is a group show of contemporary and mid-century prints and drawings. Featured artists include Buchta, Bunny Burson, Paul Cadmus, Eduardo Chillida, Leonardo Cremonini, Yvette Drury Dubinsky, Kalven Duncan, Anthony Gross, Leslie Laskey, Sarah Anne Loving, Henri Matisse, and Buzz Spector.Read more -
Visual Dialogue
June 23 - August 18, 2023What happens when abstraction and figuration meet and converse? Curated by Bruno David, “Visual Dialogue” is a group exhibition that showcases the interplay of abstraction and figuration in contemporary art. The exhibition features eight artists who have different approaches to creating and expressing their visions. Quinn Antonio Briceño, Leslie Laskey, Heather Bennett, Chris Kahler, Tom Reed, Damon Freed, William Conger, and Douglass Freed explore the possibilities and limitations of painting and photography as a medium and challenge the viewers to engage with their works on multiple levels.Read more