Author Description

"Leslie Smith III's carefully constructed paintings reveal his understanding of the challenges surrounding contemporary painting. Just as his shaped canvases tilt and seem off-balance, his paintings teeter between painterly abstraction and personal narrative. His work disrupts a viewer's ability to receive a concrete reality, but in doing so reveals a subtler truth. Smith's work resides in a space that contemporary viewers can relate to by creating self-reflective paintings that make us acutely aware of our own experiences." --p. 8, introduction.