Biography

Annesta Le is a multimedia artist living and working in Brooklyn, NY. Le left the University of Texas where she was studying computer science and, following intensive work with a Jungian psychoanalyst and a life-altering visit to the Brazilian rainforest, she shifted from occasional drawing and painting at home to a rigorous studio practice. As the daughter of Vietnamese immigrants, the work of positioning herself vis a vis society and finding ways to translate her inner life is an ongoing process reflected in her work in ways that are—like any human subject—constantly undergoing change. Her work can be divided into two very different but parallel (and occasionally overlapping) practices: sculpting in illuminated neon and drawing in marker. Le’s neon sculptures are not fabricated. The artist creates the shapes herself through an intensively intuitive process that imbues the minimalist works with a bodily and psychic presence. Her drawings are similarly psychological in both production and content. As a daily practice that involves little to no preconceived images, the small, bright, drawings of forms reminiscent of vegetable life and female anatomy, operate as sort of automatic writing. She is the recipient of a grant from the Peter S. Reed Foundation and both her practice and her person have been the subject of numerous pieces of writing.

Exhibitions
Works
  • Tinged Stream
    Tinged Stream
  • Beacon
    Beacon
  • Cool White I
    Cool White I
  • Cool White II
    Cool White II
  • Cool White III
    Cool White III
  • Cool White IV
    Cool White IV
  • Soft White
    Soft White
  • Sunrise
    Sunrise
  • Swoosh
    Swoosh
  • Torch
    Torch
  • Untitled
    Untitled
  • Warm White
    Warm White
  • Caress
    Caress
  • Clear Blue
    Clear Blue
  • den lilla
    den lilla
  • Fling
    Fling
  • Float Fall
    Float Fall
  • Revealed 1
    Revealed 1
  • Revealed 2
    Revealed 2
  • Body II
    Body II
  • Coral Wave
    Coral Wave
  • Exposed Form No.1
    Exposed Form No.1
  • Exposed Form No.2
    Exposed Form No.2
  • Exposed Form No.4
    Exposed Form No.4
  • Exposed Form No.5
    Exposed Form No.5
  • Exposed Form. No.3
    Exposed Form. No.3
  • Feely
    Feely
  • Shimmy
    Shimmy
  • Transmission
    Transmission
  • Untitled
    Untitled
  • Untitled
    Untitled
  • Untitled
    Untitled
  • Untitled (Cool White)
    Untitled (Cool White)
  • Vibrations
    Vibrations
  • Wiggle
    Wiggle
  • Flowing
    Flowing
  • Fluid Forms I
    Fluid Forms I
  • Fluid Forms II
    Fluid Forms II
  • Fluid Forms III
    Fluid Forms III
  • Fluid Forms IV
    Fluid Forms IV
  • Labyrinth
    Labyrinth
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