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Welcome
Leslie Bender is a talented and acclaimed artist from New Paltz, NY. In addition
to her personal work, Bender creates murals, portraits and theater backdrops on
commission. Use the navigation below to learn about Leslie Bender, her
work, and her artistic services.
Artist
Statement
Some of my work for the last 30 years has involved commissioned portraiture,
theatre backdrops, public and private murals, and educational programs - both
classroom teaching and project leadership of group works. But the main body of
my work - paintings, drawings and sketches - has concerned situations and ideas
that are supercharged with life energy and have drawn me like a magnet from the
day I first picked up a palette knife. These include the edge of the ocean,
social interactions, the symphony orchestra, the symbolic power and grace of
horses, and the many implications of allegory, dream and myth. In each, I invest
my passions, my intuition and whatever knowledge and experience I have gained to
fulfill the purpose of the artist in any society -- i.e. to interpret our
individual and communal life experience and to reach towards surpassing
universal or spiritual truths. |