Teri Tynes talks to painter Alfred Leslie about his recent exhibition The Lives of Some Women at Janet Borden Gallery, New York.

Tynes writes: "The images of women in 'The Lives of Some Women' similarly reflect… unnatural realism, pictures where light sources are unjustified. Beyond this approach, the images reflect on the layering, semi-erasures and collage-making properties of digital image making. He compared his practice of using multiple parts of an image to the sculptor Rodin's practice of reconfiguring his inventory of body parts. 'Once I created an eye I liked, a small alteration was all that was needed to use it again. Memory is basic to the reality of digital files – alter it and reuse it – musical notation through pixels. Pixel scores are what I think these pictures are and what I call them.' "