Scalehouse Voices Presents: Leslie Hickey

In this talk, artist Leslie Hickey will give a short reading from her recently published book, The Most Strange Telephone, and Other Memories, and describe her book-making process.

The Most Strange Telephone, and Other Memories is a collection of 50 telephone-related memories solicited by artist and editor Leslie Hickey early in the pandemic. Each memory is paired with either a found photograph or an image from Hickey’s sizable archive.

About Leslie Hickey:

Leslie Hickey is a visual artist, focused primarily on photography. She works in years-long series, gradually accumulating images over time that form a universe unto themselves; a universe composed of objects, chance encounters, and questions. She recently published an image and text book, The Most Strange Telephone, and Other Memories, a 160-page softcover book pairing 50 solicited telephone memories from family, friends, and artists with photographs from her archive. “It’s about time,” a two-person exhibition featuring work from the book, will be installed at PPSTMM [pronounced pastime] from November 3 – December 15, 2024 in Portland.

Hickey has exhibited in the US as well as Italy, Germany, and Russia. This year, she is a member of the 2024/2025 Outer Voice Alliance, a collective of Oregon time-based artists. Beyond her primary art practice, she co-founded an experimental exhibition space, Rubus Discolor Project (2019 – 2023) that hosted occasional artist-led shows in a hundred-year-old house. For the closing show at RDP, she curated Chicxulub, featuring photographic interpretations of the end of the world. Images were printed on thin paper and wheat pasted to the walls where they will remain until the house is demolished at an unknown future date.