Leslie V Carlson

April 2018

Cotton duck, acrylics and mountain dirt.

58” x 71”

April 2018

59” x 66”

Cotton duck, oil pastel.

Work involved hiking to site of boulders with unusual textures, then doing frottage or rubbing with oil pastels.

2016 Acrylic on canvas. 30" x 40".

References Suzuki, "Zen Mind, Beginners Mind" story.

2016 Desert sand, acrylic.

36" x 37"

2016 Desert sand, acrylic.

21" x 61"

2017

cotton duck with desert sand and acrylic

13"x48"

2015  cotton duck canvas, acrylic paint and desert soil.

36"x72"

2015 Giclee print and acrylic paint on cotton canvas.

24"x60"

2016 Acrylic and desert dirt on cotton duck

17"x32"

2017 Photo altered

2017 photo altered.

Acrylics on clothesline, 24" by 48"

These three sculptures of California show the cumulative water storage changes from NASA Grace satellite in 2002, 2008, and 2014 as calculated by satellite data. The data shows subtle changes in the earth's gravity, which is affected by the weight of the aquifers.

2015 Canvas collage and acrylic.

36"x36"

2015 acrylic on canvas

30"x48"

2015 cotton duck canvas, acrylic paint, mountain dirt.

48"x52"

6' x 9' canvas. Acrylic, dirt, ocotillo branch. 

2015

2015  Acrylic, sand, leaves on plywood.

24"x24" each

Oil on canvas, 30" x 40"

2016 Oil on Canvas. 24" x 24"

1990 Oil on canvas 30"x40"

2016 Oil on canvas, 30" x 40"

2016 Acrylic on canvas.

24" x 18"

2016 Acrylic on canvas. 24" x 24"