Leslie Parke
SELECTED SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2016 Particle/Wave: Photographs by Leslie Parke, Bennington Museum, Bennington, Vermont
Particle/Wave Photographs, Soprafina Gallery, Boston, Massachusettes
2015 Everything is Real, Gremillion & Co., Fine Arts, Houston, Texas
Soprafina Gallery, Boston, Massachusettes
2014 Southern Vermont Art Center, Manchester, Vermont
2013 Cross MacKenzie Gallery, Washington, DC
2011 What Remains, Gremillion & Co., Fine Arts, Houston, Texas
Figure Paintings of Leslie Parke, The Feick Art Gallery, Green Mountain College, Poultney, Vermont
2010 Gibsone Jessop Gallery, Toronto, Ontario
Gremillion &Co. Fine Arts, Inc. Dallas, Texas
2009 Southern Vermont Art Center, Manchester, Vermont
2008 Leslie Parke: Regional Artist Series, Bennington Museum, Bennington, Vermont
2007 David Zapf Gallery, San Diego, California
2006 Gibsone Jessop Gallery, Toronto, Ontario
2005 Southern Vermont Art Center, Manchester, Vermont
2004 David Barnett Gallery, Milwaukee, Wisconsin
2003 Gibsone Jessop Gallery, Toronto, Ontario
Hopper House, West Nyack, New York
2002 Gremillion & Co. Fine Arts, Inc., Houston, Texas
2001 Longstreth and Goldberg, Naples, Florida
2000 Natural Histories, Southern Vermont Art Center, Mancester, Vermont
David Barnett Gallery, Milwaukee, Wisconsin
The Weight of Pearls: The Still Life Paintings of Leslie Parke, Usdan Gallery, Bennington College, Bennington, Vermont
Bennett Galleries, Knoxville, Tennessee
1999 Desire and Discipline: The Boxing Paintings of Leslie Parke San Diego,Hall of Champions Sports
Museum, San Diego, California
Roberge Gallery, Palm Desert, California
1998 Eclectic Vision: Leslie Parke, Museum of the Southwest, Midland, Texas
1995 Galerie in Filmhaus Saarbrucken, Landeshauptstadt Saarbrucken der Oberburgemeister
(Civic Arts Center), invitation by the City of Saarbrucken for solo exhibition.
1992 Galerie Etienne de Causans, Paris, France
1988 Leslie Parke: The Giotto Series, Williams College Museum of Art, Williamstown, Massachusetts
1982 Inside Track, collaboration with composer Henry Brant,The Holland Festival, Amsterdam and The Hague, Netherlands,
SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2015 Real/Abstract, North Main Gallery, Salem, New York
2014 Mohawk Regional, Albany Institute of History and Art, Albany, New York
2013 Contemporary Trompe L’Oeil , John F. Peto Studio Museum, Island Heights, New Jersey
NYFA MARK Artists, Islip Art Museum, East Islip, New York
2012 Assemblages, Gremillion and Company, Fine Arts, Inc., Dallas, Texas
2011 Mark X: Troy Artists, Martin Mullen Art Gallery at SUNY Oneonta, New York
2010 Lombard Fine Arts, Orlando, Florida
2008 Galerie Aqui Siam Ben, A.I.R. Vallauris, Vallauris, France
2003 Second Women’s Conference Exhibition, Walsh Gallery, Seton Hall University, South Orange, New Jersey
Leslie Parke Selected Group Exhibitions, continued
2002 Figurative Works, Armory Art Center, West Palm Beach, Florida
Burpee Museum of Natural History, Rockford, Illinois
Virtue, College of Visual Arts Gallery, College of Visual Arts, St. Paul, Minnesota
1996 Frequencies of Nature, Tallahassee Museum of History and Natural Science, Tallahassee, Florida
1995 Frequencies of Nature, Fernbank Museum of Natural History, Atlanta, Georgia
New American Talent, Laguna Gloria Art Museum, Austin, Texas
Predatory Vision, Richard F. Brush Art Gallery, St. Lawrence University, Canton, New York
1993 Visual Voices: The Female, University of West Florida, Pensacola, Florida
States of the Art, AI.R. Gallery, New York, New York, curator, Lowery Sims
Form,Shape and Vision, Schick Art Gallery, Skidmore College, Saratoga Springs, New York
Contemporary Works: Small Format, Cité Universitaire, Paris, France
1992 Contemporary Artists for Global Peace, Casa Argentina en Jerusalem, Jerusalem, Israel
America 500:The Contemporary Discovery and Rediscovery of America, Compton-Goethals Gallery, City College of New York, New York, traveling exhibition
1991 Sensibilities Galerie Moderne et Contemporaine, Paris, France
1990 Recent Trends in Works of Art on Paper, Museo de Arte Moderno, Buenos Aires, Argentina
1985 Milwaukee Art Museum, Milwaukee, Wisconsin
1984 Hyde Collection, Glens Falls, New York
Haswell's Mill 1784 - Papermaker's Palette, Bennington Museum, Bennington, Vermont,
SELECTED AWARDS AND GRANTS
2014 Marijo Dougherty and Norman Bauman Award
2011 Esther and Adolph Gottlieb Individual Support Grant
2010 New York Foundation for the Arts MARK Program Fellowship
2009 Lower Adirondack Regional Arts Council Arts Initiative Award
2008 A.I.R. Vallauris, two-month residency in Vallauris, France
2005 George Sugarman Foundation Grant
2002 Armory Art Center Award, West Palm Beach, Florida
1994 Lila Wallace-Reader's Digest Foundation International Artist, a program of
Arts International, five-month residency in Giverny, France
Itzhak Sankowsky Award, Main Line Art Center, Color Now exhibition
1993 Selected Artist, New American Paintings, Mid-Atlantic Edition, Open Studio Press
Honor Award, Interfaith Forum on Religion, Art and Architecture Visual Arts
Award Program, for the Giotto Series
1974-76 1974-76 Fellowship, Bennington College Master of Fine Arts Program
SELECTED BIBLIOGRAPHY
Landi, Ann, Leslie Parke Paintings, catalog, Shushan, New York, Quince Press, 2010
Kotzin, Miriam N. Interview with Leslie Parke, Per Contra E-zine, Fall, http://www.percontra.net/20visualarts.htm, 2010.
Hayward , Gordon, Art and the Gardener: Fine Painting as Inspiration for Garden Design, Gibbs Smith, Lake City.2008
Anderson,Linda, Living inside a Painting, Fifty-one Percent, National Public Radio, January, 1999.
EDUCATION
1976 – MA Bennington College, Bennington, Vermont
1974 – BA Bennington College, Bennington, Vermont
1973 -The Whitney Museum Independent Study Program, New York, New York