LESLIE BOSTROM

Visual arts exhibition by Leslie Bostrom featuring: MIXED MESSAGES AND OTHER CONFUSIONS. Titles include BLUE MONICA; REPENTENT BILL; HOLDING IT UP, IN, TOGETHER; TRYING AND FLYING; YUP SHE'S A BRAINY GAL; ONSLAUGHT; TWIN TOWERS OF EXPRESSIONISM; MIXED MESSAGES; and OH NO.
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Rhode Island artist Leslie Bostrom considers herself an opportunist and a pragmatist as a painter and printmaker. She borrows liberally from art history, contemporary theory, mass media, and cartoons. Bostrom has taken the idea of a socially constructed body out of context in order to literally construct bodies.

Employing the cartoon-like "bighead" look and often conflating the body in the head, Bostrom mixes up features of anatomy, codes of gender, and other identity markers to literally "construct" absurd characters. She intends these pieces to be anti-nudes – a repudiation of ideal form. Into these head/ bodies Bostrom draws and paints personalities, gender politics , and sexualities.

Leslie Bostrom will present an exhibition of large-scale paintings, and a tableau of related drawings all having to do with the politics, and foibles of "the gendered life". Recent solo exhibitions include New Work at Brenda Taylor Gallery in NY, and Paintings at CSPS in Cedar Rapids, IA. Group exhibitions include Tackling Meaning: The Curator’s Playbook at Red Chair Gallery in Kansas City, MO, Big Impressions at Main Gallery in University of Rhode Island, South Kingston, RI, and Cleavage: an exhibition on the breast, at Johnson Gallery , University of New Mexico Museums in Albuquerque, NM.

Some publications related to this event:
LESLIE BOSTROM: MIXED MESSAGES & OTHER CONFUSIONS - 2000
November, 2000. - 2000