Leslie Parke

"My paintings are immersive fields of color and light that engage deeper issues about the nature of reality and the trustworthiness of our perceptions". 

Leslie Parke’s paintings and photography challenge our perceptions of the visual world. Themes of light, transparency, and reflection are explored through everyday objects – shrink-wrapped cargo, discarded cans, a tangle of threads – creating a tension between what is real and what is perceived. An artist from upstate New York, Parke is a recipient of the Esther and Adolph Gottlieb Grant for Individual Support, the Lila Wallace-Reader’s Digest grant as artist-in-residence at the Claude Monet Foundation in Giverny, France, and the George Sugarman Foundation Grant, among others. Her exhibits include the Williams College Museum of Art, Williamstown, Massachusettes; The Bennington Museum, Bennington, Vermont; the Museum of the Southwest, Midland, Texas; the Fernbank Museum, Atlanta, Georgia; the Milwaukee Art Museum, Wisconsin; and the Museo de Arte Moderno, Buenos Aires, Argentina. She currently exhibits in Boston, MA, Milwaukee, WI, and Houston, TX. Parke has a BA and MA from Bennington College. Her work is in numerous corporate and private collections.