Leslie Laskey’s latest series Amaryllis Land is an experimentation
of form, color, and medium that seeks to discover how the same object
can make many individual statements. The flowers he draws, and paints
are not just that; Leslie compares the movement of the petals to
dancers on a stage, a stage he crafts through geometric shapes
carefully laid out in naturalistic shades of oil paint. Some paintings
feature a single flower, large and central, paying close attention to
the beauty of the individual form, while his larger collages make use
of ripped paper layered together to mimic the formation of petals. The
arrangement of each element works together to create a story or a
feeling that the flowers are talking amongst themselves within their
frames. With an expansive background in design, Leslie will often
start his process by identifying a problem to solve or question to
answer. In this series he asks, “How many ways can I describe the
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