Leslie Laskey at Bruno David Gallery November 12, 2010

In the Front Room, the gallery presents an installation titled “Portraits: Artists and Friends” by Leslie Laskey. These small, mixed-media works on paper are from a series that Leslie Laskey started in 2008. The portraits are of Giacometti, Matisse, Gertrude Stein, Alice B. Toklas, Louis XIV, Picasso and other artists, writers and friends.

Leslie Laskey is Professor Emeritus of Architecture at Washington University in St. Louis. He studied at the Institute of Design in Chicago (now the Illinois Institute of Technology) with founder and American Bauhaus pioneer Lászlò Moholy-Nagy and Indiana University. He currently divides his time between St. Louis and Manistee, Michigan. The Laskey Fund named after Leslie Laskey, is an endowment fund at Washington University in St. Louis and provides funding source for the Laskey Award.

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