In Leslie Wayne’s exhibition The Unintended Blues, large-scale paintings may a first read as photographs. Melting icebergs in the Arctic Circle, the island of Manhattan, harbor construction projects, and coastlines around the U.S.

a painting of an aerial view of Manhattan and its rivers
a painting of an aerial view of a shoreline with a river running inland
installation view of a paintings of an aerial shoreline landscape
a painting of an aerial view of an iceberg
a painting of an aerial view of an iceberg
a painting of an aerial view of a shoreline
a painting of an aerial view of an industrial building site
a detail of a painting of an iceberg
Leslie Wayne’s ‘The Unintended Blues’ Contemplates Rising Seas and Vulnerable Shorelines