about
Leslie Gomez-Gonzalez (they/she b. 1998, New York, NY) is an interdisciplinary artist and educator. Their practice exists as a preoccupation with the maintenance of daily routines, and the reimagining of ritualistic practices for bodily care.
They engage repetitive gestures, tasks, and forms, including collecting, recording, and transcribing. These are often held by or responded to by vessels or containers which embody the role of bearers of collective memory. Leslie also embraces and enables the distortion inherent in the process of memorization and in remembering; recognizing the complexities of simultaneous accumulating histories, ultimately nurturing the potential these provide to create new narratives for one’s existence inside of a body.
Through their relationship with clay, they find the infinite capacity to be in understanding and to be forgiving, to be alive, living, and in love; to being and becoming with and through others; over and over again;
> They are guided by intuition,
dreams,
alleged psychosomatics,
and regularly yearning
>while remain grounded in care,
eating in loving company,
relief in monotony’s absurdity,
and meditative movement
Leslie holds a BFA in Studio Art, and a minor in Art History from Florida International University (2020). She has since participated in several artist residencies including the Finca Morada Artist-in-Residence program in North Miami, FL, The Orange Door Residency Program in Princeton, NJ, and the Chautauqua Visual Arts Residency in Chautauqua, NY. They are one of three co-founders of Comedor Azul, alongside Amaris Cruz-Guerrero and Joaquín Stacey-Calle. Since 2022, Leslie has created and facilitated clay-centered and ceramic workshops which are grounded in the co-creation of intentionality and radical slowness amidst learning spaces.