Leslie Park has spent decades exploring the artistic possibilities between the worlds of representation and abstraction. Light, transparency, & reflection are themes that dominate her work. Her paintings of everyday objects such as plastic water bottles and her more abstract compositions of lines & colored thread both play with the viewer's ability to perceive pattern & meaning in a visually dense field. Her explorations of shape, light & the relationship between abstraction & perception all developed following the influence of the great American postwar painters. Parke received her BA and MA from Bennington College. She is a recipient of the Esther and Adolph Gottlieb Grant, the Lila Wallace- Reader's Digest grant as artist-in-residence at the Claude Monet Foundation in Giverny, France and & the George Sugarman Foundation Grant, among others.