Leslie Raymond

Statement:

Leslie Raymond does not use recipes. All of her efforts are experiments.
She approaches a selection of disparate ingredients with the spirit of a
pioneer and an inventor. She is an artist without limitations of medium.
Those extracategorical spaces are her territory, bringing together
material and data--and often other artists--from far reaches and allowing
a culture of relationships to grow. She creates art this way, and she
generates grand spectacles this way. Leslie Raymond is, herself, one of
these experiments, with a line of Russian Jewish heritage in one
direction, and Chinese Taoist off in another. Her father is an architect;
her mother is a potter. Where these strands come together is where Leslie
Raymond begins, experimenting with process, texture, taste, and
presentation.
In addition to her professional artwork, Leslie Raymond teaches classes in
new genres at the School of Art and Design at the University of Michigan,
and works part-time in the Ann Arbor People's Food Co-op kitchen.