Forum 93

Leidy Churchman (b. 1979, Villanova, PA) paints an expansive range of images, from landscapes, animals, advertisements, and scientific diagrams to nature photography, online videos, and Tibetan Buddhist symbols. These diverse subjects emerge in Churchman’s paintings through the artist’s ongoing Dharma practice, which encourages ideas, forms, relationships, and feelings to surface through acts of close looking. This approach reflects Churchman’s belief that painting can be a practice of exploration—both of consciousness and of the limits of what is “paintable.” In their unfolding work, Churchman also draws directly from art history, engaging its discourses and modes of representation from one canvas to the next. Presenting new paintings by Churchman in dialogue with selections from Carnegie Museum of Art’s collection, the exhibition will invite visitors into the artist’s ongoing exchanges with the many languages of modernism past and present.

Leidy Churchman is organized by Cynthia Stucki, assistant curator.