Alfred Leslie: One Hundred Characters in Search of a Reader

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Sep 8 2018 - Jan 26 2019

In yet another career transformation, Leslie began using computer illustration tools to make digital paintings in the mid-2000s. Examples from an as yet to be completed series entitled One Hundred Characters in Search of a Reader, the featured works are imaginary portraits of literary characters. Drawn from an eclectic and international range of novels, plays, and screenplays, these depictions of fictional protagonists teem with vibrant colors, telling details, and an intoxicating mix of styles and effects. They represent the range of Leslie’s painterly skills and imaginative powers, as well as the ways his lifelong love of reading has inspired him.

Credit: Exhibition overview from museum website.         

  • Painting
  • American
  • Contemporary
  • Alfred Leslie

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