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Leslie Smith III is an oil painter best known for his abstractions painted on shaped canvases. He engages in an expressionist-based practice, activating his canvases with bold color, gestural brushstrokes, and narratives that insinuate discord. Inspired by personal narrative and day-to-day
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interpersonal relationships, his paintings concentrate on employing abstraction to communicate the poetics of the human experience.
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in 2009. He is currently an associate professor of
Drawing and Painting at the
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Leslie Smith III's paintings explore trauma through abstraction at MMoCA
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Interview with
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summer fellowship and an Al Held
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