LE SLIE W U Etern al La n d sc a pe
Sunday Morning, oil on canvas, 48” x 48”
LE S L IE W U Eternal Landscape Oil on c anvas A pri l 2 - 30, 2020
The paintings of Leslie Wu are gleaned from memory, experience, and observation, reflecting a deep inquiry into how landscape effects our psyche. Wu has lived in the Northwest for 14 years and in this body of work she focuses on her relationship to the power of its beauty. With a subtle and contemplative touch inspired by 19th century German Romantic landscape painter Casper David Friedrich, Wu awakens the light and atmosphere of the Northwest and creates meaningful connections, seen and unseen, to the infinite power and timelessness of the natural realm.
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Temples of Northern Light oil on canvas 40” x 60”
Manzanita Coastline oil on canvas 48” x 60”
Magical Mystery Tour oil on canvas 48” x 60”
Elemental Dance oil on canvas 24” x 36”
Being oil on canvas 18” x 36”
Delightful Disruption oil on canvas 18” x 36”
Fisher Pond, Meditation oil on canvas 48” x 48”
Glacial Interplay oil on canvas 24” x 48”
March Morning oil on canvas 18” x 18”
Nautical Dawn oil on canvas 30” x 30”
LE SLIE WU The paintings of Leslie Wu are gleaned from memory, experience, and observation reflecting a deep inquiry into how landscape effects our psyche. The work is influenced by the subtle landscape paintings of the 19th century “Luminists” who focused on the effects of light and atmosphere within a composition. Wu’s paintings are a visual autobiography, one that recalls generations of her central New York family that embraced the beauty of the land they farmed, and more recently informed by her surroundings in the Pacific Northwest. Leslie Wu received her BFA from the Rochester Institute of Technology. Since that time, she has worked as an art director & in 1983 launched her career in painting. She has had one person and group exhibitions throughout the United States and her work is held in numerous private and public collections including the Rockford Museum, IL, the Memorial Art Gallery of the University of Rochester, NY, Harborview Medical Center, and the King County Public Art Collection, Seattle, WA. Born: Syracuse, NY EDUCATION 1977
BFA Rochester Institute of Technology, Rochester, NY
SELECTED SOLO & TWO PERSON EXHIBITIONS 2020 Patricia Rovzar Gallery, Eternal Landscape, Seattle, WA 2019 Anne Loucks Gallery, A Moment in Time, Glencoe, IL 2019 Edgewood Orchard Gallery, Summer’s Haze, Fish Creek, WI 2017 Anne Loucks Gallery, Still Shores, Glencoe, IL Vashon Center for the Arts, Summer Waters, Vashon, WA 2016 Edgewood Orchard Gallery, Summer Days, Fish Creek, WI 2015 Anne Loucks Gallery, Of Town and Country, Glencoe, IL 2014 Edgewood Orchard Gallery, Rock, Water, Trees, Fish Creek, WI 2013 Edgewood Orchard Gallery, Light Over Water, WI 2012 Anne Loucks Gallery, Between Memory and Anticipation, Glencoe, IL Vashon Allied Arts, Summer Light, Vashon, WA 2011 Edgewood Orchard Gallery, Belonging, WI 2010 Anne Loucks Gallery, Homing, Glencoe, IL 2008 Anne Loucks Gallery, Two Views, Glencoe, IL 2007 Edgewood Orchard Gallery, Shorelines; Between Two Worlds, Fish Creek, WI 2005 Edgewood Orchard Gallery, Still Surface, Fish Creek, WI 1998 Memorial Art Museum of the University of Rochester, Bijou, Bon Bon & Beau, Rochester, NY 1991 Main Street Gallery, Nantucket, MA 1990 Main Street Gallery, Nantucket, MA 1987 Main Street Gallery, Nantucket, MA 1986 Main Street Gallery, Nantucket, MA Nan Miller Gallery, Pittsford, NY 1984 Gallery Oboussier, Nantucket, MA SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS 2020 2019 2018 2017 2016 2014 2013
Zolla/Lieberman Gallery, Self Portrait, Chicago, IL Patricia Rovzar Gallery, Celebrate Art, Seattle, WA Patricia Rovzar Gallery, Celebrate Art, Seattle, WA Bainbridge Island Museum of Arts, Revering Nature, Bainbridge Island, WA Vashon Center for The Arts, Revering Nature, Vashon, WA Tacoma Art Museum, Go West Gala, Art Auction, Tacoma, WA Mitchell Gallery of St. Johns College, Less is More, Annapolis, MD Vashon Allied Arts, Masters in Miniature, Vashon, WA
Oregon State University, Ways into the Region, Corvallis, OR Zola Lieberman Gallery, Re;visions, Chicago, IL Looking; To Be Looked At, Zolla/Lieberman Gallery, Chicago, IL Zolla/Lieberman Gallery, Summer Love, Chicago, IL ARC Gallery, Chicago, IL Soho Arts South, Palm Beach, FL Itoya Gallery, New World Exhibit, Tokyo, Japan Memorial Art Gallery, Rochester, NY Ward Gallery, Rochester, NY Philadelphia Art Fair, Philadelphia, PA Bevier Gallery, Rochester Institute of Technology, Rochester, NY Gallery Oboussier, Nantucket, MA
2011 2008 2006 2004 1999 1992 1988 1987 1986 1985
PRIVATE COLLECTIONS Gabriele Pfeiffer, Fort Meyers, FL Deborah Butterfield and John Buck, Bozeman, M Mark Murphy, President/CEO Green Bay Packers, Green Bay, WI Jim and Diane Stewart, Highland Park, IL Francis and June Spiezer, Northbrooke, IL Elise Walgreen, Bannockburn, IL PUBLIC COLLECTIONS Harborview Medical Center, King County Public Art Collection, Seattle, WA Oregon State University, OR Makoto Kobyashi, Keihin Hotel, Tokyo, Japan Hyatt Hotel, Rochester, NY Rockford Art Museum, Rockford, IL Memorial Art Gallery, Univesity of Rochester, NY PUBLICATIONS 2011 The Butterfly Tree, Peachtree Publishers, Atlanta, GA 2003 Communication Arts Magazine (images) 1999 Chicago Board of Trade, Covers (images) 1998 Step by Step, MAG exhibit details the creative process Leslie Wu’s nod to Degas by Deborah Fineblum Raub, Pg. 3C 1995 The Artist’s Magazine, October, Page 72. LECTURES and EVENTS 017 2 2016 2013 2011 2008 1998 1994
Artist Talk, Bainbridge Museum of Art, Bainbridge Island, WA Artist Talk, Vashon Center for the Arts, Vashon, WA Artist Talk, Edgewood Orchard Gallery, WI Artist Talk, Edgewood Orchard Gallery, WI Artist Talk, Edgewood Orchard Gallery, WI Artist Talk, Edgewood Orchard Gallery, WI Lecture at the Memorial Art Gallery, University of Rochester, NY Guest Panelist for the American Institute of Graphic Arts “Turning Points”, Eisenhart Auditorium, Museum & Science Center, NY
The mountains of the Olympic Peninsula with their high reaching stone have an ever changing conversation with the water. It’s this ancient conversation that I’m interested in expressing on canvas. At the heart of each mountain is an infinite submerged world of dream. I believe that the landscape is alive, and that it’s a presence. It is the shape of the landscape and the form of the mountains that intrigue me. I’m constantly inspired by John O’Donoghue’s words “It makes a difference when you wake up in the morning whether you believe you are emerging into landscape that is as much, if not more, alive as you are. And if you go towards it with an open heart and a real watchful reverence you will be amazed at what it will reveal to you.”
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