Untitled, 2019
Long Lake Estates
Lesley Vance (1977) is an American artist based in Los Angeles, California.
Vance is an abstract painter who brings the allusion of physical reality to her improvised forms, many of which have their history in her early interest in still-life painting. Working wet-on-wet in concentrated bursts of activity, the artist follows her intuition and allows form and color to develop their own individual trajectories. Nothing is predetermined. She is known for her mastery of nuance and contrast, and her interest in color.
Her paintings are sometimes interpreted as displaying a sensual energy: “The erotic in a painting like Untitled (2019) is overt, not coy. A furious, folded yellow enfolds an equally potent, very phallic green shape, but the painting begs the question: how can abstraction attain this level of eroticism?”
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