
Studio 16
My work speaks to a landscape where its components and their relationships to each other are re-imagined through notions of architecture, still life and sculpture. Solidly informed by the work in the field where shallow water systems held me gaze, these interpretations also reflect the visual calisthenics that I engage to appreciate nuance. These explorations have occurred across painting, print, drawing and sculpture media which increasingly influence each other especially through intuitive shaping-making, line, echo and a notion of communication across communication across the composition.
Leni Paquet-Morante (1962) is a multidisciplinary artist refencing shallow water systems for interpretive work in the studio. Motivated by process driven imagery in paint, sculpture and printmaking projects, her abstractions reconfigure familiar landscape elements, extracted then arranged in a manner that speaks to the architecture of memory and reams. Born in Canda, Leni is a Hamilton, New Jersy based artist. Recent recognition includes a New Jersey State Council on the Arts Finalist Grant for Painting in 2024; residencies at Wheaton Glass Studio in 2025; Vermont Studio Center Residency for Painting in 2024; Peter’s Valley Visiting Artist Residency for Printmaking in 2023. Solo exhibitions include Extract/Abstract: Landscape and the Architecture of memory at Princeton University Art Museum’s Bainbridge Gallery, 2025. She earned a BFA in painting from Mason Gross School of Art in 1912 and studied bronze casting techniques at the Johnson Atelier Technical Institute of Sculpture from 1984-1985.
www.lenimorante.com
Photo: Roshni Khatri