Leslie, the Collab Auntie

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Video + Installation Artist | Bi/Queer | they/he | Public Transit Geek | Subversive | Assistant Professor, Cal State San Marcos | Tongva Land | lesliefoster.art

A bronze sculpture by Simone Leigh towers in a gallery with aging brick and plaster columns with a concrete ceiling. The sculpture is a large, abstracted bust of an eyeless Black woman. Two braids descend (one left, one right) from her head and behind her shoulders.
A closeup of a dark, black bronze sculpture by Thomas J Price of a young Black woman’s face in profile. Her hair, including a scrunchy and baby hairs are rendered skillfully. She looks pensively to her left.
A photo taking from stairs slightly above people moving through the crowded platform of the newly opened Wilshire/Fairfax subway station in Los Angeles. To the right of the frame, a train is arriving into the station.
A little beauty to counter the awful news about the VRA. The image shows the sun beginning to set over the snow-covered San Gabriel mountains in LA county. Pine trees rise above the snow on the mountains and down into a small ravine. Clouds stretch above the vista, revealing a powder blue sky above.
A zine sitting in my own hand. The cover of the zine reads “CSU spent $17 mil on Open AI. Divest Now!”
A snowy mountain trail with clear blue sky, a few clouds, and pines filling the middle and background
Poster from an upcoming art show at the TSA LA gallery. The horizontal poster is broken into five smaller rectangles. In the top left is a painting with tan and light pink hues that looks somewhat cellular. In the top right is a still from an experimental film featuring a Black woman’s face staring into the lens as hands reach out of the darkness behind her to clutch her face, shoulders, and chest. The image is overlayed with text that reads, “Exhibition: Other Ways of Seeing/Being. Opening: Feb 14 7-10pm.” The bottom left has a horizontal black and white photograph of a pile of rubble in the foreground with houses, cars, and Palm trees in the background. It is overlayed with text reading, “Location 1206 Maple Ave, suite 523, LA, CA 90015.” The bottom right is divided into two horizontal rectangles. The top contains a piece text that reads, “Colonialism is not a thinking machine nor a body endowed with reasoning faculties. It is violence in its natural state and it will only yield when confronted with greater violence.” The bottom rectangle contains an image of a sculpture comprised of a terra cotta column whose base is covered in dirt and plants. An upside down glass water jug filled with translucent liquid is wedged into the top of the column. Two small fluorescent panels illuminate the sculpture from the other side.
A concept illustration of a planned Sepulveda pass automated white and yellow LA Metro heavy rail train pulling up to a subway platform.
Marian Webster word of the year for Leslie is Sultry
Marian Webster word of the year for Leslie is Sultry
A cast iron skillet sits on a white stove and is filled with thick potato rounds, chicken stock, and various herbs
A black and white self portrait of the artist Joe Harjo entitled “Let Us Pray.” Joe leans forward in prayer, two long skinny brains on either side of his head descending down to his white shirt and past the frame. The hair in the top of his head is parted to reveal a cross.
The book cover for the book We Refuse: A Forceful History of Black Resistance by Kellie Carter Jackson. The cover is illustrated with a Black femme standing in grass wearing a white dress. She has locks piled on top of her head and carries a rifle pointed down.
Leslie sits at table with a drink halfway to their lips, slightly smiling. They are wearing a black top with a cowl that is dive around their neck and a black chest harness.
Sun setting over the hilly campus of Cal State San Marcos in Southern California.
A tall gallery space with three vertical 12 foot tall projection screens hanging from floor to ceiling. The middle screen doesn’t hang as far down and has a gentle curve to the bottom. Black and white stop motion films of Black queer figures are projected onto the screens, which are brown in color and are grown from hemp and algae. The work is the first completely triptych of the art piece Black Cathedral.
A view outside of a window of a row of houses punctuated with palm trees. The sky above is dark gray accented with a growing plume of light orange smoke, which casts everything in an eerie light.
Spotify wrapped top songs: 1) Champagne Shit by Janelle Monáe 2) Float by Janelle Monáe, Seun Kuti, Egypt 80 3) The Kids by B.o.B., Janelle Monáe 4) Blood in the Water by J.Pollock, GoldFord 5) Intifada on the Dance Floor by Bashar Murad
Baldk and white and slightly angled picture of a Black person with a goatee and mustache stands on a die walk, with cars and electric poles fading in the background behind them. They have a few visible piercings and look into the distance contemplatively. They wear a bowler hat, narrow, rectangular-framed glasses, a black vest and shirt with a grey-striped tie with a Merovingian knot, jeans, and a pea coat. Their hands are tucked into the coat.
Black backpacker with pack, and trekking poles faces away from camera, walking down a Yosemite trail lined with brown grass and red ground cover. A stand of trees to the left and a large lake to the right. A mountain rises at the edge of the image, framing the lake.
Bald Black person with glasses in a an asymmetrical black sweater over a blue button-up and bow tie and wearing jeans (yellow 3d glasses tucked visibly into left pocket) holding a mic and speaking at an art event (in front of a metal truss, cart, and large black storage container, which is off to the right)
Black person with trimmed salt and pepper goatee, several ear piercings, and glasses wearing a black jacket with brass buttons, a scarf, and a black t-shirt that reads “men have made a lot of bad art.” Person stands in a hallway with beams of light shining from the outside between square columns.
Black person with glasses, a dark jacket with brass buttons and a fuzzy interior lining, and a black mask sits in a train, their hand resting on their chest, a thin gold ring on their forefinger.
An angry child stands in a hallway under the caption “he thought desire came without inherent suffering! he MAD!!!”