Analogues of Reality: Sight and Fantasy

March 21 to April 26, 2003
Opening reception: Friday, March 21, 2003, 6 to 8 pm


Solomon Projects is pleased to present Analogues of Reality: Sight and Fantasy, a series of photographs by acclaimed New York artist, Leslie Wayne. This exhibition premieres Ms. Wayne's first body of work in photography.

In this exhibition, Wayne explores an innovative approach to viewing her abstract paintings -- through the camera lens. She photographs her small abstract paintings from an intriguing perspective (across the surface of the painting,) creating a close-up examination of the materiality and expressive qualities of paint. The photographs are printed large (30 x 40 inches) thus allowing the viewer to take a macroscopic look at the layers of detail and color on the surfaces of Wayne's paintings. The results of this skewed perspective are images that resemble otherworldly topographies. By taking a look at her work in a new and unusual way, Wayne hopes the viewer will, "question their associative response, thus opening the door to fantasy."

Leslie Wayne received her BFA from Parsons School of Design in New York. Her paintings have been exhibited nationally and internationally including solo exhibitions in New York, San Francisco, Germany and Spain, as well as being featured in numerous group exhibitions and catalogues. In 1995, her work was included in the 44th Biennial Exhibition of Contempo ?rary American Painting: Painting Outside Painting at the Corcoran Gallery of Art in Washington, DC, curated by Terri Sultan. In that same year, Wayne's paintings were in the exhibition Art at the Edge: Tampering-Artists and Abstraction Today at the High Museum in Atlanta curated by Susan Krane. Her paintings are in the permanent collections of Fondation Cartier, Paris, France, Coleccion Thyssen-Bornemisza, Madrid, Spain, Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, DC, and The Birmingham Museum of Art, Birmingham, Alabama.