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Article: Leslie Wayne at Jack Shainman.(review of exhibitions)(Review)
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- Art in America
- Article date:
- May 1, 1999
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"Breaking and Entering," Leslie Wayne's recent exhibition, included an astounding number of mesmerizing pictures. The artist exploits the physical malleability of oil paint to striking effect. Her unorthodox palette --ranging from matte olive to metallic green, bright orange to meaty red and ocher to light brown--is equally dazzling. It reminds one of the unusual and occasionally disturbing color schemes of Braque, in his late phase, and de Stall, two painters who likewise explored the materiality of the oil medium.
Wayne's small, abstract, mostly vertical pictures of 1997 and 1998 were split into two groups. The first consisted of works in which dense layers of ...