Leslie Shows
Carbon Freeze
August 26 – September 23, 2006
Opening Friday, September 8, 6-9pm
The Jack Hanley Gallery, Los Angeles is pleased to present a solo exhibition, titled Carbon Freeze, of new work by San Francisco artist Leslie Shows.
Using pigment, collage, salt, rust and ink, Shows’ work wavers between abstraction and photorealism. She creates landscape painting within the context of geological time, the flow and transformation of matter, and the relationship between cultural and geological processes. Elements that make up the human body, piles of fingernails and pools of humours, are scattered across a landscape, while swirls of pigment are reincorporated into glacial rock flows.
Leslie Shows's work will be exhibited in the 2006 California Biennial at the Orange County Museum of Art, Newport Beach. Leslie has had solo shows at the ODC Gallery and Jack Hanley Gallery in San Francisco, and has exhibited in group shows at San Francisco State University and Adobe Books in San Francisco, and Jack Hanley Gallery in Los Angeles. She is the recipient of the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art 2006 SECA award, and the Headlands Center for the Arts 2006-07 Tournesol award.
Shows completed her BFA at the San Francisco Art Institute, and recently received an MFA from the California College of the Arts in San Francisco.