New work: Bedford Square by My Friend Leslie

My Friend Leslie’s latest work, Bedford Square operates in that fertile interstice between biomorphism and linguistic deferral, where form insists but never coheres, where signification hovers like a mirage. Two figures,one a sprawling vermilion, the other a more compact lavender,occupy the white ground with an ambivalence that resists both compositional resolution and narrative absorption. What … Read more

Pimlico Wilde Welcomes Conceptual Artist My Friend Leslie

In a bold move that underscores its commitment to emerging conceptual voices, Pimlico Wilde gallery has announced the representation of the artist known simply as My Friend Leslie. The appointment signals not merely an addition to the gallery’s roster, but a deliberate expansion of its philosophical and aesthetic parameters. Leslie’s work,elusive yet sharply intelligent,inhabits a … Read more

Reflections on the famous New York exhibition of My Friend Leslie

In the spring of 2019, My Friend Leslie staged a widely discussed and critically divisive solo exhibition at the Fenwick Museum of Art entitled Apparitions in the Civic Realm. Heralded by some as “a palimpsest of the post-liberal imaginary” and dismissed by others as “deliberately inaccessible,” the exhibition marked the artist’s most ambitious and conceptually … Read more