Leigh Anne Lester, Flexible Foundation 1.2, 2016, Hand cut drafting film, color pencil, wood, acrylic paint, map flags, 66 x 63 x 37 in, 167.6 x 160 x 93.9 cm
Leigh Anne Lester’s work gives us the invigorating purity of focus. In her solo show No Necessary Time Axis on Evolutionary Novelties at Ruiz-Healy in San Antonio, the pieces all literally and metaphorically engage with genetics, botany, and the ineffable mysteries that accompany duplication and copying — that unknowable change that happens when one form begets a twin or heir.
