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Los Angeles-based artist Leslie Shows opens a large solo exhibition, curated by Hesse McGraw, this Saturday at the San Francisco Art Institute's Walter and McBean Galleries.
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Ceci Moss, Art in America interviewed Leslie Shows on her show on Walter and McBean Galleries
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The San Francisco Museum of Modern Art (SFMOMA) will hold its biennial Art Auction at the museum on April 6, 2011.
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If you've boarded a train at the Castro Muni station since mid-July, or spent time near the intersection of Market and 16th Streets, you may have noticed the large text panels and billboard installations currently on view and wondered what you were looking at.
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Landscape painting does not garner a lot of excitement these days, but the work of California-based Leslie Shows keeps viewers’ eyes and minds engaged. Her large-scale paintings—which also veer into sculptural forms
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The third and final installment of the Asian Art Museum’s Proximities series of contemporary art exhibitions addresses Asia’s central role in networks
Read MoreThe San Francisco Museum of Modern Art (SFMOMA) will hold its biennial Art Auction at the museum on April 6, 2011.
Read MoreIf you've boarded a train at the Castro Muni station since mid-July, or spent time near the intersection of Market and 16th Streets, you may have noticed the large text panels and billboard installations currently on view and wondered what you were looking at.
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HuffPost Arts' Haiku Reviews are biweekly features where we invite critics to review exhibitions and performances in short form.
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Leslie Shows received an MFA from the California College of the Arts in San Francisco, and a BFA from the San Francisco Art Institute in San Francisco. Leslie Shows’ work has been exhibited at the Orange County Museum of Art, Newport Beach, CA; San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, CA; Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, San Francisco, CA; the Oakland Museum of California; the Salina Art Center, Salina, KS; the Nelson Gallery at the University of California, Davis; and the Asian Art Museum, San Francisco, CA. She has been the recipient of an Artadia Award (2009), SFMOMA SECA Award (2006), and Tournesol Award (2006) from the Headlands Center for the Arts. Shows’ work was included in the 8th Mercosul Biennial, Porto Alegre, Brazil (2011). She completed a residency at the Bemis Center for the Arts in Omaha, NE (2011) and an Artadia New York Residency (2012). Shows’ most recent solo exhibitions include Surfacing at Scottsdale Museum of Contemporary Art, AZ (2014) and the Clive Painting Exhibition at Walter and McBean Gallery at the San Francisco Art Institute (2015). She is represented by the Haines Gallery in San Francisco.
For additional information about this artist, visit Mutual Art
