RESUMÉ

 

SELECTED SOLO EXHIBITIONS

2020
Sudden Light, Soprafina Gallery, Boston, Massachusettes 

2019
Continuous Flow, Gremillion and Company, Fine Arts, Inc., Houston, Texas 

2018
Soprafina Gallery, Boston, Massachusettes
Martin-Mullen Art Gallery, SUNY Oneonta, Oneonta, New York

2017
Cross MacKenzie Gallery, Washington, DC

2016
Particle/Wave: Photographs by Leslie Parke, Bennington Museum, Bennington, Vermont
Particle/Wave Photographs, Soprafina Gallery, Boston, Massachusetts

2015
Everything is Real, Gremillion & Co., Fine Arts, Houston, Texas
Soprafina Gallery, Boston, Massachusetts

2014
Southern Vermont Art Center, Manchester, Vermont

2013
Cross MacKenzie Gallery, Washington, DC

2011
What Remains, Gremillion & Co., Fine Arts, Houston, Texas
The Feick Art Gallery, Green Mountain College, Poultney, Vermont

2010
Gibsone Jessop Gallery, Toronto, Ontario
Gremillion &Co. Fine Arts, Inc. Dallas, Texas

2008
Leslie Parke: Regional Artist Series, Bennington Museum, Bennington, Vermont 

2007
David Zapf Gallery, San Diego, California

2006
Gibsone Jessop Gallery, Toronto, Ontario

2004
David Barnett Gallery, Milwaukee, Wisconsin

2003
Gibsone Jessop Gallery, Toronto, Ontario
Hopper House, West Nyack, New York 

2002
Gremillion & Co. Fine Arts, Inc., Houston, Texas 

2001
Longstreth and Goldberg, Naples, Florida

2000
David Barnett Gallery, Milwaukee, Wisconsin
The Weight of Pearls: The Still Life Paintings of Leslie Parke, Usdan Gallery, Bennington College, Bennington, Vermont
Bennett Galleries, Knoxville, Tennessee

1999
Desire and Discipline: The Boxing Paintings of Leslie Parke San Diego, Hall of Champions Sports Museum, San Diego, California
Roberge Gallery, Palm Desert, California

1998
Eclectic Vision: Leslie Parke, Museum of the Southwest, Midland, Texas

1995
Galerie in Filmhaus Saarbrucken, Landeshauptstadt Saarbrucken der Oberburgemeister (Civic Arts Center), invitation by the City of Saarbrucken for solo exhibition. 

1992
Galerie Etienne de Causans, Paris, France

1988
Leslie Parke: The Giotto Series, Williams College Museum of Art, Williamstown, Massachusetts

1982
Inside Track, collaboration with composer Henry Brant, The Holland Festival, Amsterdam and The Hague, Netherlands        

SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS

2020

Clear Vision, curated by John Cino, MOCA - LI, Patchough, New York
On the Edge and Off the Grid, Quidley & Co., Naples, Florida
Liminal: Amanda Church, Paula De Luccia, Beth Kaminstein, Lauren Olitski & Leslie Parke, Sanger Gallery, Key West, Florida

2019
Borderlands: Artists from the VT/NY Line, Freik Art Center, Green Mountain College, Poultney, Vermont

2018
JoAnn Axford, Jeri Eisenberg and Leslie Parke, The Laffer Gallery, Schuylerville, New York

2017
Photographs by Leslie Parke and Ceramics by Beth Kaminstein, Cross MacKenzie Gallery, Washington, DC

2015
Real/Abstract, North Main Gallery, Salem, New York

2013
Contemporary Trompe L’Oeil John F. Peto Studio Museum, Island Heights, New Jersey 
NYFA MARK Artists, Islip Art Museum, East Islip, New York 

2012
Assemblages, Gremillion and Company, Fine Arts, Inc., Dallas, Texas

2011
Mark X: Troy Artists, Martin Mullen Art Gallery at SUNY Oneonta, New York

2008
Galerie Aqui Siam Ben, A.I.R. Vallauris, Vallauris, France

2003
Walsh Gallery, Seton Hall University, South Orange, New Jersey

2002
Figurative Works, Armory Art Center, West Palm Beach, Florida 
Burpee Museum of Natural History, Rockford, Illinois
Virtue,College of Visual Arts Gallery, College of Visual Arts, St. Paul, Minnesota

1996
Frequencies of Nature, Tallahassee Museum of History and Natural Science,  Tallahassee, Florida

1995
Frequencies of Nature, Fernbank Museum of Natural History, Atlanta, Georgia 
New American Talent, Laguna Gloria Art Museum, Austin, Texas
Predatory Vision, Richard F. Brush Art Gallery, St. Lawrence University, Canton, New York

1993
Visual Voices: The Female, University of West Florida, Pensacola, Florida 
States of the Art, AI.R. Gallery, New York, New York, curator, Lowery Sims
Form, Shape and Vision, Schick Art Gallery, Skidmore College, Saratoga Springs, New York
Contemporary Works: Small Format, Cité Universitaire, Paris, France

1992
Contemporary Artists for Global Peace, Casa Argentina en Jerusalem, Jerusalem, Israel
America 500: The Contemporary Discovery and Rediscovery of America, Compton-Goethals Gallery, City College of New York, New York, traveling exhibition 

1991
Sensibilities Galerie Moderne et Contemporaine, Paris, France 

1990
Recent Trends in Works of Art on Paper, Museo de Arte Moderno, Buenos Aires, Argentina

1985
Milwaukee Art Museum, Milwaukee, Wisconsin

1984
Hyde Collection, Glens Falls, New York
Haswell's Mill 1784 - Papermaker's Palette, Bennington Museum, Bennington, Vermont,

SELECTED AWARDS AND GRANTS

2016
A.I.R. Vallauris, residency in Vallauris, France

2014
Marijo Dougherty and Norman Bauman Award

2011
Esther and Adolph Gottlieb Individual Support Grant

2010
New York Foundation for the Arts MARK Program Fellowship

2009
Lower Adirondack Regional Arts Council Arts Initiative Award

2008
A.I.R. Vallauris, two-month residency in Vallauris, France

2005
George Sugarman Foundation Grant

2002
Armory Art Center Award, West Palm Beach, Florida

1994
Lila Wallace-Reader's Digest Foundation International Artist, a program of Arts International, five-month residency in Giverny, France
Itzhak Sankowsky Award, Main Line Art Center, Color Now exhibition

1993
Selected Artist, New American Paintings, Mid-Atlantic Edition, Open Studio Press
Honor Award, Interfaith Forum on Religion, Art and Architecture Visual Arts Award Program, for the Giotto Series

1974-76
Fellowship, Bennington College Master of Fine Arts Program

FILM AND VIDEO

Documentaries:

 1993       Soundperson, assistant camera, archival material from Watch Me Now (see below) used in Fallen Champ: The Untold Story of Mike Tyson, a Barbara Kopple documentary.

1984       Associate producer, soundperson, assistant camera, Expectations, a Michael Marton documentary on the unemployed steelworkers of east Los Angeles who banded together to feed 40,000 unemployed people in the area. (Produced by Suddeuche Rundfunk –SDR—Stuttgart, Germany and the Labor Institute of Public Affairs (LIPA). Aired on PBS and SDR.

 Soundperson, America Works, a LIPA television series on issues that effect workers. Episode on taxes. (PBS broadcast.)

 1983       Soundperson, assistant camera, America Works, two episodes, one on prescription drug legislation in Pennsylvania, the other on food banks in California. (National television, rebroadcast on PBS.)

 1982       Soundperson, assistant camera, Watch Me Now, a Michael Marton documentary about young boxers at Cus d'Amato's gym in the Catskills fighting their way to the top.  One of the boxers featured is fifteen-year-old Mike Tyson. (PBS and SDR.)

 1984       Script, soundperson, assistant camera, American Trap, a Michael Marton documentary about two young trappers trying to survive. (SDR and WMHT, Schenectady, NY.)

 1980     Soundperson, assistant camera, research, The Unsettled Ashes, a Michael Marton documentary on Oscar Pinkus, a holocaust survivor who returns to Germany to testify against his Nazi tormentor. (WMHT)

 Soundperson and assistant camera, On the Nature of Music, a Michael Marton documentary on the innovative spatial composer Henry Brant.

 Soundperson and assistant camera, Marylou at Saratoga, a Michael Marton documentary on wealthy socialite Mrs. Cornelius Vanderbilt Whitney. (WMHT)

 1978       Soundperson, assistant camera, " . . . in daylight and cool white", a Michael Marton      documentary on artist Dan Flavin.

 Research and development, What One Man Can Do, a Norbert Bunge documentary on Upton Sinclair.

EDUCATION

1976 – MA
Bennington College, Bennington, Vermont

1974 – BA
Bennington College, Bennington, Vermont 

1973
The Whitney Museum Independent Study Program, New York, New York