NetWorks Rhode Island and the Chazan Collection Exhibition, WaterFire Arts Center (2024) Bio:
Leslie Bostrom received her BA from the University of Maine, Orono, and her BFA in Painting
from the Rhode Island School of Design. Between undergraduate and graduate school, she
worked as a master printer in San Francisco, specializing in intaglio.
Bostrom has taught drawing, painting, and printmaking at Brown University for 33 years.
She has exhibited her work in solo shows in New York, Boston, San Francisco, Chicago, St. Paul,
Philadelphia, Seoul, South Korea, and Sydney AUS, and has been represented in group
exhibitions nationally and internationally. Her work has been reviewed in the New York Times
and the New Yorker. Her most recent solo show was at the Main Gallery at University of Rhode
Island, where she exhibited large paintings that were “combination” images on stretched
canvas and sheets of plywood. Bostrom is interested in the interaction of words and images in
painting and for most of her career she has been making works that engage political topics such
as environmental degradation, human migration, feminism, and LGBQT issues.
Bostrom has lectured about her work in over 30 universities and museums, most recently at
Nanjing University in Nanjing, China.
Original NetWorks Catalogue Bio:
Leslie Bostrom, born in 1951, received a BA from the University of Maine and an MFA in painting from the Rhode Island School of Design. She is an associate professor of art at Brown University.
Source: NetWorks 2009-2010 Catalogue
Oil and acrylic, 90 x 108 in.
Credits:
Video: Richard Goulis
Producer: Joseph A. Chazan M.D.
Additional Information:
Artist’s Website: lesliebostrom.com
Highlighting the work of selected artists who have played vital roles in shaping the contemporary visual arts community in Rhode Island. This collection of brief video portraits provides a window into the lives, practices, and cultural contributions of professional artists.
