Joins us for an opening reception to celebrate visual artist Leslie Wayne and her exhibit The Unintended Blues, the new art installation at LMCC’s Arts Center at Governors Island.

Be among the first to see these breathtaking murals, before the exhibit opens to the general public. The evening will include remarks from the artist and LMCC’s CEO Moe Yousuf. Refreshments and light snacks will be served.

Thursday, July 23 | 5-7pm | Upper Gallery, LMCC’s Arts Center at Governors Island
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The Unintended Blues, documents rising sea levels through aerial landscape paintings of vulnerable US shorelines and melting icebergs in the Arctic Circle. Additional multi-media pieces engage viewers with issues around present day climate science. In these works, Wayne captures the beauty of our natural environment and renders with graphic clarity one of our greatest existential threats.

Leslie Wayne is an artist whose work lies at the intersection of abstraction and representation. While she’s most known for her highly dimensional abstract paintings based on geology, her recent aerial landscapes conjure up deep questions about the American landscape, its mythologies and the environment. Wayne has exhibited nationally and internationally, and her work is in numerous public collections. She has received awards from the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation, Joan Mitchell Foundation, Francis J. Greenburger Foundation, Pollock Krasner Foundation, NYSCA, and NYFA, among others. She is represented by Jack Shainman Gallery.

The Unintended Blues will be on view at the Arts Center at Governors Island, July 24 – September 27. Free and accessible to all: Fridays – Sundays, 12-5pm. Additional information at here.