Leslie Vansen has spent a lifetime studying the line. To breathe life and meaning into her brushstrokes, she meticulously molds her paintings through layers of acrylic musculature, each curve and twist representing the passage of time, a movement, or an experience. “Every procedural tactile step taken in the construction of the painting is made insistently visible,” Vansen says, “recording the ‘work’ that has made the existence of the finished painting possible.” The Topography of Line, Vansen’s first major solo museum exhibition in more than a decade, invites you to meander the multitudinous paths of making embedded in her paintings.

On view at MOWA | DTN, the museum's satellite gallery located inside Saint Kate-The Arts Hotel.