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Leigh Anne Lester: No Necessary Time Axis on Evolutionary Novelties

Past exhibition
March 27 - May 25, 2019 San Antonio
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Leigh Anne Lester Adjacent Impression 1.1, 2019 Hand cut drafting film, graphite, color pencil, acrylic paint, wood, plexi-glass, magnets 26 x 43 x 7" 66 x 109.2 x 17.7 cm (dimensions variable)
Leigh Anne Lester
Adjacent Impression 1.1, 2019
Hand cut drafting film, graphite, color pencil, acrylic paint, wood, plexi-glass, magnets
26 x 43 x 7"
66 x 109.2 x 17.7 cm
(dimensions variable)

Ruiz-Healy Art is pleased to present No Necessary Time Axis on Evolutionary Novelties, a solo exhibition of new works by Leigh Anne Lester. The exhibition will open to the public with a reception on Wednesday, March 27, 2019, from 6:00 – 8:00 PM. The show is accompanied by a catalogue featuring an essay by Hills Snyder.

 

Long interested in how the natural world evolves and changes, Lester creates a body of work that encompasses an intergenerational microscopic and macroscopic view of abstracted information. “The work in the show is a recurring visual vocabulary. If the viewer follows those clues they will find information resurfacing in different pieces throughout this exhibit. A very slow-motioned animation of generational manifestations” explains Lester.

 

Patricia Ruiz-Healy states, “I have admired the work of Lester for a while. Her personal interpretation of genetic modification pair with a masterful draftsmanship and the incorporation of other medium has brought to the long-established botanical drawings tradition a 21st C. aesthetic.”

 

Her drawings are layers of semi-transparent drafting film with a historical botanical drawn on each layer. The transparency of the drafting film allows the line of each botanical to optically blend with the next layer. Elements of each of the plants mix and tangle their visual attributes intermingling disparate species of flora. Floating cells are layered with graphite drawings of separate distorted offspring plants with their color drained, implying a cellular, morphological struggle for resolution.

 

Lester’s work has been exhibited throughout the United States. Her solo exhibitions include McNay Art Museum, San Antonio, TX; Lawndale Art Center, Houston, TX; Artpace, San Antonio, TX; Institute of Texan Cultures, San Antonio, TX; Southwest School of Art, San Antonio, TX; and the International Museum of Surgical Science, Chicago, IL. She is the recipient of prestigious awards including the 2011 Hunting Prize and the Artist Foundation of San Antonio in 2007. In 2015, she was selected to participate in the Berlin Residency Program by Blue Star Contemporary Art Museum in partnership with Künstlerhaus Bethanien, Berlin, Germany. Lester’s artworks are in the permanent collections of the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts, McNay Art Museum and the University of Texas at San Antonio, among other institutions.

 

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Works
  • Leigh Anne Lester Adjacent Impression 1.1, 2019 Hand cut drafting film, graphite, color pencil, acrylic paint, wood, plexi-glass, magnets 26 x 43 x 7" 66 x 109.2 x 17.7 cm (dimensions variable)
    Leigh Anne Lester
    Adjacent Impression 1.1, 2019
    Hand cut drafting film, graphite, color pencil, acrylic paint, wood, plexi-glass, magnets
    26 x 43 x 7"
    66 x 109.2 x 17.7 cm
    (dimensions variable)
  • Leigh Anne Lester Adjacent Impression 1.2, 2019 Hand cut drafting film, graphite, color pencil, acrylic paint, wood, plexi-glass, magnets 26 x 42 x 15 in 66 x 106.7 x 38.1 cm (dimensions variable)
    Leigh Anne Lester
    Adjacent Impression 1.2, 2019
    Hand cut drafting film, graphite, color pencil, acrylic paint, wood, plexi-glass, magnets
    26 x 42 x 15 in
    66 x 106.7 x 38.1 cm
    (dimensions variable)
  • Leigh Anne Lester Blind Trajectory, 2018-19 Graphite on paper, acrylic paint, drafting film, and linen tape 64 x 57.5 x 6" 162.6 x 146.1 x 15.2 cm
    Leigh Anne Lester
    Blind Trajectory, 2018-19
    Graphite on paper, acrylic paint, drafting film, and linen tape
    64 x 57.5 x 6"
    162.6 x 146.1 x 15.2 cm
  • Leigh Anne Lester Cellular Riot, 2018 Graphite, color pencil, hand cut drafting film, and acrylic paint on drafting film 36 x 17 x 4" 91.4 x 43.2 x 10.2 cm
    Leigh Anne Lester
    Cellular Riot, 2018
    Graphite, color pencil, hand cut drafting film, and acrylic paint on drafting film
    36 x 17 x 4"
    91.4 x 43.2 x 10.2 cm
  • Leigh Anne Lester Obscured Impression #2, 2019 Color pencil, acrylic paint, hand cut drafting film 10.8 x 8.8 x 25" 27.3 x 22.2 x 63.5 cm
    Leigh Anne Lester
    Obscured Impression #2, 2019
    Color pencil, acrylic paint, hand cut drafting film
    10.8 x 8.8 x 25"
    27.3 x 22.2 x 63.5 cm
  • Leigh Anne Lester cellsmakeshadows #17, 2016 Plexi-glass on wood, enamel spray paint 12 x 12 x 3" 30.4 x 30.4 x 7.6 cm
    Leigh Anne Lester
    cellsmakeshadows #17, 2016
    Plexi-glass on wood, enamel spray paint
    12 x 12 x 3"
    30.4 x 30.4 x 7.6 cm
Installation Views
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Publications
  • Leigh Anne Lester: No Necessary Time Axis on Evolutionary Novelties

    Leigh Anne Lester: No Necessary Time Axis on Evolutionary Novelties

    Essay by Hills Snyder | Ruiz-Healy Art 2019
    Hardback 42 pages
    Publisher: Ruiz-Healy Art
    ISBN: 978-1-71-525067-6
    Dimensions: 6×9 in, 15×23 cm
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