Lesley Kushner

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About

Statement

These sculptures, paintings, and collages have been created in dialogue with each other…and at times when I have reached an impasse in one media, another media opens the door again. All the media have increasingly merged.. painted heads on canvas or wood panel have morphed into sculptural heads which, with the addition of paint on their surfaces, have then become 3-D paintings. Photographic images of the paintings and sculptures are subsequently incorporated into collages.

Over many years, the images in all these pieces were built up and reworked in accreting layers of colors and textures until they crystallized and cohered.

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Exhibitions  
2016 Recent Work, Prince Street Gallery, New York, NY
2015 Open Studio Tour, AGAST, Brooklyn, NY
2010 Prince Street at 40, Prince Street Gallery, New York, NY
2003-09 Open Studio Tours, AGAST, Brooklyn, NY
2002 Recent Work, Ceres Project Room, New York, NY
1999 Ceres at 15, Ceres Gallery, New York, NY
1999 Works by Deaf Women, Ceres Galley, New York, NY
1998 The Autumn Forum, Ceres Gallery, New York, NY
1996 Four Who Dared, Prince Street Gallery, New York, NY
1995 Deaf Artists of America: Recent Work, Switzer Gallery, National Technical
Institute for the Deaf, Rochester, NY
1994 Strictly Confidential, Phoenix Gallery, New York, NY
1993 Paintings- A Solo Exhibition, Prince Street Gallery, New York, NY
1992 New Members, Prince Street Gallery, New York, NY
1991 Women View Women, YWCA Gallery, Brooklyn, NY
1989 Small Works Invitational, Bowery Gallery, New York, NY
1988 Artists 88, Ten Worlds Gallery, New York, NY
1987 Three Painters, University Press Books at the New School, New York, NY
1987 Collaborations: Visual Artists Exchange, Ceres Gallery, New York, NY
1987 Ninth Annual Young Artists’ Exhibition, Provincetown Art Association and Museum,
Provincetown, MA
Related Experience  
2002 Co-Chair, Fifth National Juried Exhibition, Ceres Gallery, New York, NY
1998-2002 Member of Ceres Gallery, New York, NY
2001 Curator, Seeing Through Deaf Eyes, Prince Street and Blue Mountain Galleries, New York, NY
1999 Curator, Works by Deaf Women, Ceres Gallery, New York, NY,
1988 Cummington Art Colony, Cummington, MA,
1990-1998 Member of Prince Street Gallery
? dates Paintings on commission at Frame House Gallery, Lake Charles, LA,
Education  
1984 Parsons School of Design, New York, NY, M.F.A. in Painting
1978-1980 Art Student’s League, New York, NY, Studied with Isaac Soyer
1976 Newcomb College, New Orleans, LA, B.A. in Art History

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