BIO
Leslie Grollman has called home Baltimore, where she earned a BA in Theatre from UMBC in 1972; New York City; Albuquerque; Portland OR; Edinburgh, where she earned an MSc Creative Writing Poetry with Distinction from the University of Edinburgh in 2020; Berlin, where she is living an inspired life as a visual artist.
ARTIST STATEMENT
To make a mark. To make a mark. Make the mark thicker. Shade the mark. Dot the mark. The mark as dot, as water. Palette the mark, sweet-n-sour it, pluck its feathers, alive it, arrive it, metaphor it, feral it, frustrate it, amplify its opposite. Take it against the grain. Gesso half of it just enough to shadow. Let it whisper.
Take the brush, sweep the arm so the shape of the brush gives the paper something to take a stand on, higher or lower; then destroy that.
To pen the infinity of color: Possibilities limited only by my willingness to participate in the ridiculousness of limits. Express. Discover. Dig
deeper. Listen to the work – the work is the muse. Slash assumptions. Surprise in the questions, the endlessness of curiosity.
Photo by AJ Black