Los Angeles-based American artist Lesley Vance has garnered critical acclaim for pushing the limits of representation in her signature abstract still life paintings. Her works are in prestigious institutional collections including the Museum of Modern Art, New York, the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, the Whitney Museum of American Art, New York and the Los Angeles County Museum of Art.

Conveying fluidity and depth through skillful light and shadow experimentation as well as strategically layered brushstrokes in a striking palette, Vance was influenced by the Spanish Cubist painter Juan Gris. [2] In particular, both Untitled and Gris’s The Table (1914) feature invented and improvised forms that build an a...