Leslie Brack's paintings based on female tabloid celebrities examine the thin line between glamour and vulgarity while exposing stereotypes perpetuated by the celebrity machine.

Brack combines color schemes borrowed from fashion magazines with texts such as Actress Girlfriend, Sometime Actress, or Sitcom Blonde.These headlines, suspended from their sources, appear as part insult, part sexual innuendo.

As Brack explains, "The overall effect of this work is similar to seeing NYPD Blue's Sharon Lawrence on Emmy night. Sharon wore a shimmery floor-length Chanel gown straight from today's top magazines. Unfortunately, what looked so great in yesterday's Vogue looks embarrassingly vulgar and yet incongruous on this afternoon's L.A. red carpet." The discomfort that lies behind American celebrity culture informs this body of work.

Leslie Brack received an MFA from The School of the Art Institute of Chicago, and a BA at Evergreen State College, WA. Following her exhibition at Momenta, Brack has participated in numerous exhibitions including (two-person show) PS122, NYC, Encyclopedia 1999, Turner & Runyon Gallery, Dallas, TX, and solo exhibitions at Yearsley Spring Gallery, Philadelphia, PA, Hofstra University, NY, and a project room at Galerie Jousse Seguin in Paris, France.