Leslie Laskey Estate American, 1921-2021

Works
  • Leslie Laskey Estate, Untitled, 2005
    Untitled, 2005
  • Leslie Laskey Estate, VINCENT, 2010
    VINCENT, 2010
  • Leslie Laskey Estate, Untitled 100, 2011
    Untitled 100, 2011
  • Leslie Laskey Estate, Lonci's Envelope, 2011
    Lonci's Envelope, 2011
  • Leslie Laskey Estate, Living Room, 2012
    Living Room, 2012
  • Leslie Laskey Estate, Monarch Window (Dali), 2012
    Monarch Window (Dali), 2012
  • Leslie Laskey Estate, Window Shadow, 2012
    Window Shadow, 2012
  • Leslie Laskey Estate, The Plan Window, 2013
    The Plan Window, 2013
  • Leslie Laskey Estate, The Window in the Eye, 2013
    The Window in the Eye, 2013
  • Leslie Laskey Estate, 1938 (Window), 2013
    1938 (Window), 2013
  • Leslie Laskey Estate, Storm Window, 2013
    Storm Window, 2013
  • Leslie Laskey Estate, Majore Embro, 2014
    Majore Embro, 2014
  • Leslie Laskey Estate, Sketch, 2014
    Sketch, 2014
  • Leslie Laskey Estate, Fates, 2015
    Fates, 2015
  • Leslie Laskey Estate, Eclipse 8, 2017
    Eclipse 8, 2017
  • Leslie Laskey Estate, Untitled, 2017
    Untitled, 2017
  • Leslie Laskey Estate, Transplant II, 2018
    Transplant II, 2018
  • Leslie Laskey Estate, Insignia, 2018
    Insignia, 2018
  • Leslie Laskey Estate, Dissection, 2018
    Dissection, 2018
  • Leslie Laskey Estate, Amaryllis Land 32, 2019
    Amaryllis Land 32, 2019
  • Leslie Laskey Estate, Amaryllis Land 2, 2019
    Amaryllis Land 2, 2019
  • Leslie Laskey Estate, Amaryllis Land 9, 2019
    Amaryllis Land 9, 2019
  • Leslie Laskey Estate, Amaryllis Land 23, 2019
    Amaryllis Land 23, 2019
  • Leslie Laskey Estate, Amaryllis Land 10, 2019
    Amaryllis Land 10, 2019
  • Leslie Laskey Estate, Untitled, 2020
    Untitled, 2020
Overview

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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