VICTORIA, BC • CANADA

lessLIE

Country/Region: Northwest Coast (view other artists)

Tribe: Coast Salish

Born in 1973 in Duncan, BC, lessLIE's "colonized, Catholic, Canadian name" is Leslie Robert Sam. His "decolonized artist's name" is lessLIE. Picasso once said that "art is a lie that tells the truth." lessLIE is living this perspective in the spirit of trickster traditions. lessLIE has a Bachelor of Arts degree in First Nations Studies from Malaspina University-College. While working on this undergraduate degree, lessLIE began to study Coast Salish art in 1995. lessLIE is currently working on a Master of Arts degree in Interdisciplinary Studies with a focus on Coast Salish art at the University of Victoria.

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Artwork by lessLIE

Twelve Salmon 2012	We've (Print) 2011	Untitled (Record) 2011	Spindle wHOLE 2011

danSING Salmon 2011	Humans, Frogs, Salmon, wHOLE: (pART) 2011	Stars [print] 2011	New Visions 2011

See Form 2011	Seeing Suttles Salish 2011	We've 2011	Feeding Hummingbirds [Print] 2011

4 Salmon 2011	YOURS (Print) circa 2011	wASH 2010	centRED 2010

Feeding Hummingbirds 2010	Gathering Salmon 2010	Singing Visions 2010	lIFe 2010

lIFe [print] 2010	beLIEve in equality 2010	SERPENTS 2010	Patron 2010

Wealth 2009	Four Salmon 2009	Con Text 2009	Middle Point [print] 2009

Salmon and Water [print] 2009	Brothers Who Fell from the Sky [print] 2008	ARTiculating Vision 2008	Becoming Negative 2008

cuneiFORM-LINE [print] 2008	Eight Salmon 2008	Perpetual Hummingbirds 2008	yOURS 2008

Thunderbird [print] 2008	Salmon Circle 2008	Birth of the C-Form 2007	Cowichan River Salmon 2007

Moon [print] 2007	Guardian Spirit Vision [print] 2007	Salish Community 2007	Two Seagulls 2007

Seagulls 2007	Pro Creation [print] 2007	Salish Bracelet [print] 2007	Salish Sound Waves [print] 2007

Two Salmon (print) 2007	Pro Creation 2007	Defining Each Other (print) 2007	Trans Parent 2007

Crescent Moon (print) 2007	Sun of Hummingbirds 2006	Perpetuation 2006	sacRED songs (print) 2006

Double-Headed Serpent [print] 2006	Common Vision 2006	Crescent Moon 2006	Vision 2006

Moon 2006	sacRED vision 2006	spawning salmon cycle [print] 2006	Untitled I 2006

Words of Wealth (print) 2006	Paddle of Heron design 2006	Wolves in Moon 2006	Global Vision 2005

Quwut Sun 2005	Salmon Hab It At (diptych) 2005	Quwut Sun 2005	Hummingbirds 2005

Four Salmon 2005	Protecting Posterity [print] 2005	Spawning Salmon [print] 2005	Salmon Eggs [print -exclusive to Alcheringa] 2005

Salmon Weir 2005	Salmon Vision 2005	Moon with Wolves 2004	Thunderbird and Killerwhale 2004

Stars 2011 sold	yOURS and tHEIRS (drums) 2011 sold	eMOTION 2010 sold	YOUnity 2010 sold

Drum - "Pan-Indianism, Cultural Distinction" 2010 sold	Salmon and Water 2008 sold	beLIEve in equality 2008 sold	cuneiFORM-LINE 2008 sold

Frog Transform-Line 2008 sold	Middle Point 2008 sold	Thunderbird 2008 sold	Double-Headed Serpent [painting] 2007 sold

Four Serpents 2007 sold	Near B.C. Logo 2007 sold	sEAGLES 2007 sold	Guardian Spirit Vision [painting] 2007 sold

fOUR salmon 2007 sold	Brothers Who Fell from the Sky 2007 sold	Ladybug and The Flood 2007 sold	sacRED salmon 2006 sold

Defining Each Other 2006 sold	Ravens, Sun 2006 sold	fOUR salmon, yOUR salmon 2006 sold	Two Salmon 2006 sold

Double-Headed Serpent 2006 sold	Eagle Salmon Transformation 2006 sold	Four Salmon Two Frogs 2006 sold	Frog HABITat 2006 sold

HeART 2006 sold	sacRED songs 2006 sold	Salish Sound Waves 2006 sold	spawning gROUND 2006 sold

spawning salmon cycle [painting] 2006 sold	Thunderbird Paddle 2006 sold	Untitled II 2006 sold	Double-headed Serpent 2005 sold

Frog Flower 2005 sold	Bracelet deSIGN 2005 sold	dEATh 2005 sold	Words of Wealth 2005 sold

Thunderbird [painting] 2005 sold	Two Salmon 2005 sold	Hummingbirds 2005 sold	Eight Salmon 2005 sold

Serpents 2005 sold	Frog Flower 2005 sold	I's 2005 sold	Protecting Posterity [painting] 2005 sold

sacRED circle 2005 sold	Salmon Eggs [painting] 2005 sold	Spawning Salmon [painting] 2005 sold	Spindle World 2005 sold

QuwutSUN [painting] 2005 sold	Salish Symbiosis [painting] 2005 sold	Double Headed Serpent [painting] 2004 sold	Salmon Weir [painting] 2004 sold

Song of Salmon People [painting] 2004 sold	'Salish Bracelet' [painting] 2004 sold	Owl [painting] 2004 sold	Double Headed Serpent [painting] 2004 sold

Spawning Salmon [painting] 2004 sold	Moon With Wolves [painting] 2004 sold	Salmon Vision [painting] 2004 sold	Thunderbird and Killerwhale 2004 sold

Guardian Spirit (sold out) 2003 sold	Salmon (sold out) 2003 sold