Leslie Wayne

My work explores the ways a painting, which is not only a picture of something, but an object in and of itself, can imply all the functions, desires and associations we have for those objects in real life by transporting you through its artifice. I use both trompe l’oeil and sculpture to create paintings of the objects around me, as if they were bearing witness to my life – book shelves and closets, ladders, and windows, work tables and cabinets – offering up a mirror of myself and of the moment and times in which we are living. The personal is political.