Photo Credit: Carolina Porras Monroy
Leslie Fandrich is an interdisciplinary artist who makes fabric sculptures and photo collages that are absurd juxtapositions of colorful forms that hang together in puzzle-like compositions. Using clothing and various second-hand fabrics, Leslie sews tongues, hands and abstract shapes that are both familiar and strange, erotic and grotesque. The work occupies a space between comfort and discomfort, exploring how we may make new wholes from old parts. Connecting to the traditions of collage, sculpture, painting and photography, their studio practice is also deeply informed by feminist art history.
Leslie’s work has been included in solo, two person and group shows across the New York and Boston areas, including Material Alchemy at Woodstock Artist Association and Museum, Slant Rhyme in the Kniznick Gallery at Brandeis University, and Strings Attached at the Garrison Art Center. She has been awarded fellowships to attend residencies at Saltonstall, The Studios at MASS MoCA, and the Chautauqua School of Art. Leslie teaches Visual Culture in the Department of Art and Design at Montclair State University and has taught and mentored graduate students in the low-residency program at Massachusetts College of Art and Design. Leslie received a Master of Fine Arts from the Massachusetts College of Art and Design in Boston, MA, and a Bachelor of Fine Arts from the Alberta University of the Arts (formerly Alberta College of Art and Design) in Calgary, AB, Canada. Her studio is located in Newburgh, New York.