Leslie Lewis Sigler: Familiar

From the gallery:

“Leslie Lewis Sigler is an oil painter who explores the human condition through contemporary portraits of silver family heirlooms.This is Leslie’s debut exhibition in Texas, where she was born and raised. The series—appropriately entitled Familiar—includes paintings of various silver heirlooms that reflect a deep rooted connection to the area. Leslie explores these familial objects as families of objects—individual silver heirlooms that are related to one another in a single collection and, collectively, to the individual families that put them into domestic practice and social circulation. She is interested in the histories and lifespans of these objects, their ability to reflect our own personal life stories and family histories, and the way they continue to connect us to one another in time and space. By composing individual portraits of silver heirlooms, Leslie explores the character evident in their inherent design and ever-changing patina. In her paintings, each singular object’s form, condition, and character transform an otherwise functional object into something rich with history and artistic beauty, with the power to reflect our own life stories and family histories in the process.”