Born in New York, Carolanne grew up competing in gymnastics and continued her passion into her teens. After making it through the painful training at the pre-Olympic level, she found her real interest was in the human body. She focused on taking photographs and painting after she left her athletic career for good. Ms. Leslie received a full scholarship to the German School of Photography and also had training in the Fine Arts Department at Adelphi University. She has worked as a re-toucher for many years and is an illustrative photography in the book cover industry. Her series titled The Corruption of Flesh uses digital photography, illustration and painting too. Her work has been shown in many galleries in New york including the Sous Les Etoiles Gallery.
“Difficult experiences can ravage us, destroy us or force us to build a thick shell that we clamber around in like a turtle…or these difficult experience can inspire us on an inward journey, one in which we strip away the hardened exterior and find peace and new wisdom in living in the moment. Either way,” the artist says, “a transformation occurs in us on a daily basis: cells die and cells are born; new memories are added and old memories dissipate.”
Website
http://carolanneleslie.com/
Represented by Sous Les Etoiles Gallery
http://www.souslesetoilesgallery.net/index.asp
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