The Purity of Imagination and Color Included in WHIM Exhibition at the Manifest Gallery

Posted July 9, 2025

Leslie Adams' oil on linen, The Purity of Imagination and Color, has been juried into WHIM at the Manifest Gallery in Cincinnati, Ohio. WHIM is an exhibition of painting and sculpture about play, impulse, the fantastic, the fanciful, the mercurial, and the flighty. Adams' self-portrait, first exhibited in the artist's solo exhibtion Leslie Adams Drawn from LIfe at the Toledo Museum of Art, was selected for WHIM out of 413 works submitted by 132 artists representing 29 states and 4 countries, including Canada, Japan, Scotland, and the United States. Through a blind jury process, 12 works by 8 artists from 7 states were chosen for presentation in the Drawing Room Gallery at Manifest Gallery and published in the Manifest Exhibition Annual. WHIM will be on view during a Special Preview Event on July 10 (Ticketed 7-9 pm) with a Public Opening Reception on Friday, July 11 (6-9 pm). The exhibtion runs through August 8.