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KELLY LESLIE
![]() | ![]() This series of digital drawings utilizes the embroidery machine as a method of drawing/printmaking. It consists of nine separate prints based on 3D rotations of each of the letters in the word “surrender”. These vessels of grid-like wire frames struggle in their function to contain and communicate. The vessels suggest the futility of the human struggle to control and hold on to things. Yet the gold threads glisten with an elusive promise of the release in surrendering. | ![]() 25" x 35" Digital Collage |
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![]() 11"x17" Digital Collage | ![]() Archival Digital Print 32"x32" This series of prints examines structures of lace-making as a means of exploring the individual and the whole —a connection of how typographic forms are created in order to convey meaning. | ![]() Archival Digital Print 32"x32" This series of prints examines structures of lace-making as a means of exploring the individual and the whole—a connection of how typographic forms are created in order to convey meaning. |
![]() Archival Digital Print 12"x15" | ![]() Letterpress and Silkscreen accordion fold with hardcover 5"x5" artist proof 2010 | ![]() Letterpress and Silkscreen accordion fold with hardcover 5"x5" artist proof 2010 |
![]() Letterpress and Silkscreen accordion fold with hardcover 5"x5" artist proof 2010 | ![]() 28"x 40" Archival Digital Print 2014 | ![]() 40"x 32" Archival Digital Print 2013 |
![]() 32"x 32" Archival Digital Print 2013 | ![]() 24"x 32" Archival Digital Print 2013 | ![]() Charcoal Drawing 29x23 inches 2011 In this series of drawings, man-made wildlife contextualized in natural environments seem to suggest the hubris of our ambition to remake nature in an idealized fashion. But these creatures never quite live up to the utopian visions of their maker, resulting in forms that appear as overly wrought relics of regret. |
![]() Charcoal Drawing 48x36 inches 2010 In this series of drawings, man-made wildlife contextualized in natural environments seem to suggest the hubris of our ambition to remake nature in an idealized fashion. But these creatures never quite live up to the utopian visions of their maker, resulting in forms that appear as overly wrought relics of regret. | ![]() Charcoal Drawing 29x23 inches 2012 In this series of drawings, man-made wildlife contextualized in natural environments seem to suggest the hubris of our ambition to remake nature in an idealized fashion. But these creatures never quite live up to the utopian visions of their maker, resulting in forms that appear as overly wrought relics of regret. |
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