Les LeVeque

Born - Cortez, CO

Les LeVeque is an artist who works with digital and analog electronic technology. His projects include single and multi-channel videos and video/computer-based installations. His projects have been exhibited and screened internationally. His work is also represented by Kerry Schuss Gallery in New York City.

"In the work of Les LeVeque we encounter insights born — not only the formal strategies deployed, (condensation, expansion, reversal, mirroring...) — but of the ecstatic destruction of the reified "realities" of the consciousness industries, the purveyors of the spectacle. They remind us — and even now we are in need of that reminder — that these "realities," presented as eternal, are in fact shallow pliable, not fixed. They are subject to investigation; they may be reconfigured as games in which we are in control, where the terrors and seductions to which they subject us in their unilateral discourse may be altered according to our will, for our pleasure and amusement, for our provocation, for increasing our understanding of the machines of consciousness that process us. They are important viewing, and they are considerable achievements. They remind us that the insights and efforts of a single individual can be deployed via computational means to wreak havoc with the massively and expensively constructed tissue of lies that envelope us. And just as important: they are smart and they are fun."

— Keith Sandborn, January 15th, 2010

Artist Collection List

Title Year Runtime Collection
2 Spellbound 1999 7 minutes 30 seconds Single Titles
4 Vertigo 2000 9 minutes Single Titles
a little girl dreams of a new pluralism meanwhile the old war continues 2009 1 hour 34 minutes Single Titles
A Song from the Cultural Revolution 1998 5 minutes Single Titles
as the waves play along with an invisible spine (the workers die) 2010 10 minutes 40 seconds Single Titles
automatism and (-)(+) feedback 2013 3 minutes 29 seconds Single Titles
Backwards Birth of a Nation 2000 13 minutes 7 seconds Single Titles
Communists Like Us 2010 3 minutes 30 seconds Single Titles
Encoded Facial Gesture #1 1997 2 minutes Single Titles
flight 1998 7 minutes Single Titles
Les LeVeque Videoworks: Volume 1 2000 16 minutes 52 seconds Single Artist Compilations
Les LeVeque Videoworks: Volume 2 2000 29 minutes 30 seconds Single Artist Compilations
Les LeVeque Videoworks: Volume 3 2012 32 minutes 33 seconds Compilations, Single Artist Compilations
Nine Hamlet RGB 2015 5 minutes 52 seconds Single Titles
Reconstructed Recitation: Exercise 6 2013 5 minutes 32 seconds Single Titles
Reconstruction Trilogy: Les LeVeque 2004 37 minutes Single Artist Compilations
Red Green Blue Gone with the Wind 2001 11 minutes 45 seconds Single Titles
SPRING 2012 4 minutes 56 seconds Single Titles
Stutter the Searchers 2001 12 minutes 15 seconds Single Titles
the free space of the commodity 1995 2 minutes 52 seconds Single Titles
Traders Leaving the Exchange, A Guard and the Street V.1 2011 15 minutes Single Titles
white and fifteen movies starring Charlton Heston 2010 15 minutes 15 seconds Single Titles
Workers Leaving the Factory - Ten Days that Shook the World 2011 13 minutes Single Titles