Published on the occasion of Lesley Vance's first solo museum exhibition, always circled whirling, Columbus Museum of Art, April 21 - September 3, 2023. For this exhibition, the Columbus Museum of Art offered up its celebrated collection of American modernist painting as a point of departure for Vance's work. For many years, Vance has found fellow travelers in artists like Charles Demuth, Arthur Dove, Marsden Hartley, and Georgia O’Keeffe. With 27 paintings, a few directly inspired by works in CMA’s collection, Vance reveals the affinities between her work and theirs. The echoes of these familiar modernist works rebound in this exhibition, transformed into something new, unstable, and strangely beguiling.
Text by Tyler Cann and a conversation between Lesley Vance and Richard Aldrich.
Designed by Purtill Family Business.
Hardcover, 111 pages, English, 2023
