Leslie Thornton

MIT List Visual Arts Center, Cambridge

MIT List Visual Arts Center

<div>Photo of a black and white video projection and three chairs. Projection features a still of two children that appear to fall away from one another.</div>

<div>Books, postcards, letters, and photos from the Thornton family archives are arranged on a grey<br>vitrine.</div>

<div>Two screens are displayed in a gallery space. The right screen shows an oval image of an elderly<br>woman on a background of black with white wavy lines. The left screen is of abstracted trees.</div>

<div>A screen in a gallery with three square seats shows a black and white video of ants and surrounding ground.</div>

<div>Two circular images of La Brea Tar Pits on a black ground: dark bubbling close-up, and a kaleidoscopic refraction.</div>

<div>An oval image of an elderly woman with light skin tone holding hands to chest overlaid on a<br>background of black with white wavy lines.</div>

<div>A gallery space with three square seats shows a white 3-d grid matrix on the screen.</div>

<div>From left to right, a television set picturing a woman in black and white, a monitor featuring a young girl with lipstick smeared over her lips, and a projector and projection screen with black and white bedsheets.</div>

<div>A dark gray gallery wall reads “Leslie Thornton: Begin, Again, Again” with surrounding displays.</div>

<div>Three televisions are on display in a gallery space on display podiums. They are all playing videos of black and white shapes.</div>

<div>Black and white photo of video projection and three chairs. Projection features two children in a cluttered room with a desk and computer.</div>

<div>A gallery at the MIT List Visual Arts Center includes two television sets, a bench, a vitrine, and a<br>projection by Leslie Thornton.</div>

<div>A vitrine and a video projection on view at the MIT List Visual Arts Center. The projection on the right reads “August 6, 1945, 8:15 AM Dad observes the bomb drop on Hiroshima.”</div>

<div>Two televisions are displayed next to each other. The left displays a purple lightbulb shape and the right shows an image Nazi dictator Adolf Hitler raising his fist.</div>

Leslie ThorntonLeslie Thornton: Begin Again, AgainMIT List Visual Arts Center, Cambridge

Exhibition Images

Leslie ThorntonLeslie Thornton: Begin Again, Again
MIT List Visual Arts Center, Cambridge