Matthew Leslie Visual Art

Showing Untitled (The Centipede God) at the Torrance Art Museum’s NOMAD IV at Del Amo Crossing.
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Currently on view in Fullerton through the end of May (just the artwork, I won’t be standing there the whole time), Untitled (“But the dream did not please the god.”), 2024, Acrylic on embossed velvet, 39.5” x 64”.
NOMAD III at Del Amo Crossing, organized by the Torrance Art Museum, August, 2024. Showing Untitled (“Soul Killer”), 2024, Acrylic on embossed velvet, 39.5” x 64”. The first of the larger scale flags.
Untitled (“Never Used the Same Door Twice”), 2023, Acrylic on embossed velvet, 35” x 43” at the Deines Cultural Center, Russell, KS.
It is somewhat difficult to capture the flag works in still images. They benefit from being seen from different angles, and it isn’t obvious from the stills that they are meant to hang like flags.
Untitled (“Then you will see the Deercat…”), 2024, Acrylic on velvet, 35″ x 44″
Last year I made quite a few preparatory drawings for the trepanned flags. Nearly all were on black paper. This image shows a few of the 9″ x 12″ drawings. Many others were 12″ x 18″ or larger. Most were made with oil pastel pencil, with many incorporating colored pencil.
Untitled (“The Most Dangerous Road in the World”) on exhibit in 2023 at the Fullerton Museum.

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