LESLIE MURRAY paints intimate scenes and moments from imagined worlds using oil paint on wood panels. She is a painter of light and diaphanous spaces that range from small to quite large and contain playful—even whimsical—characters, participants, and observers finely rendered to float, stand, drop, or stack with a purpose: to delight us with what is both familiar and fantastic. Murray renders the indefinable and defines the speculative. She employs pattern, a sophisticated palette, fearless miniaturization, gorgeous surfaces and polite nods to the painter's toolbox that captivate viewers with intersecting plots and improbabilities.

Murray lives in Brooklyn, New York and received her BFA from the Maine College of Art in 2008. She has been awarded fellowships at the MacDowell Colony and twice at the Fine Arts Work Center in Provincetown. She has exhibited at the Institute of Contemporary Art in Portland, Maine, Michael Rosenthal Gallery in San Francisco, California, Schoolhouse Gallery, Provincetown, Massachusetts and elsewhere.