Discipline: Visual Art – painting

Leslie Wilkes

Discipline: Visual Art – painting
Region: Marfa, TX
MacDowell Fellowships: 1999
More: www.lesliewilkes.com/index.html
Leslie Wilkes is an American abstract artist who specializes in highly geometrical, kaleidoscopic gouache works. Based in the bright, psychedelic imagery of the 1960s, Wilkes’s work cycles through innumerable compositions to find the ones that elicit a response of recognition from her audience. Born in Monroe, GA Wilkes received her B.A. from the University of Texas and her M.F.A. from the School at the Art Institute of Chicago. She has had solo exhibitions in New York, San Francisco, Santa Fe, Chicago, Austin, and Marfa, Texas. Her most recent group exhibition was called “12 Abstractions” at the Barry Whistler Gallery in Dallas, Texas. Wilkes has been a visiting artist at the Ox-Bow School in Michigan and the California College of Arts.

Studios

Cheney

Leslie Wilkes worked in the Cheney studio.

Cheney Studio was given to MacDowell by Mrs. Benjamin P. Cheney and Mrs. Karl Kauffman. Like Barnard Studio, Cheney is a low, broadly massed bungalow. Sited on a steep westward slope, its porches are supported on wooden posts and fieldstone with lattices. Although it still retains its appealing character, the original design of the shingled building…

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