Janet Borden, Inc. opens an exhibition of works by Alfred Leslie
(Artdaily.org)

Janet Borden, Inc. is presenting an important exhibition Alfred Leslie: Hoboken Stripes, by acclaimed painter and filmmaker Alfred Leslie. The exhibition opened Thursday, 5 September and continues through 18 October. This is an amazing opportunity to see the handwork and the mastery of the medium by one of the great artists of the 20th and 21st centuries. Lelie`s importance as an artist in multiple mediums would be difficult to overestimate. Although these striped paintings adhere to a geometric format, they display the virtuosity of paint handling and touch that have been hallmarks of Leslie`s abstract and figurative works for a half century. Controlled but impassioned, the stripes are indeed hand-made, rather than taped or the machine-made marks that predominate now. These are active canvases—the lines are animated and compelling. The original Hoboken Oval was an oil painting on masonite panels,