For it’s 3rd annual open house weekend, Waypoint:Marfa will host Fresquez-Meisner-Wilkes, and exhibition of new work by Charles Fresquez, Ben Meisner, and Leslie Wilkes. The Exhibition will open Saturday, October 11th from 6-10p.m., and will remain open for the weekend from 12 - 5 p.m. Fresquez-Meisner-Wilkes will close on Sunday December 14th, 2008.

Currently residing in Marfa, Leslie Wilkes received a BA from the University of Texas and an MFA from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. She has had solo exhibitions in New York, Los Angeles, San Francisco, Chicago, Austin and Marfa. She attended Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture and was the recipient of the Milton and Sally Avery fellowship at the MacDowell Colony. Her most recent works consist of meticulously painted gouaches inspired by quilting patterns. These paintings use both color and line to challenge the eye’s sense of perception.

Ben Meisner is an artist based in Albuquerque, New Mexico. He is an alumnus of the School of the Art Institute of Chicago and was an E.B. Stoeckel Fellow in the Norfolk program at Yale University. His recent work is comprised of graphite drawings and oil paintings in which each line and curve is crafted and perfected until a static visual statement has been formed. The oil paintings build on an approach developed in earlier drawings, taking advantage of the viscous and transparent qualities of oil paint to create heavily built surfaces and subtle optical color mixtures.

Charles Fresquesz is another artist based in Albaquerque, NM. For Fresquez. Meisner.Wilkes, Fresquez will be presenting is muti-acrylic-panell paintings for which he is best known. In these works, color and light have a tangential relationship to the eye uncommon in most painting. These works employ a technique whereby Fresques uses paint on the edges of the material rather than on the sureface, thus creating works that deal with the actual phonomena of reflected light itself. Fresquez has exhibited extensively thoughout New Mexico, including the University of New Mexico Art Museum, and a solo show at the Richard Levy Gallery in Albuquerque.

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