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I was born and raised in the San
Fernando Valley, California, and grew up on a gravel road, running barefoot
and free between neighbor's homes. I attended a Christian Science church
every Sunday and Disneyland once a year. I remember thinking as a small child
that Sees candy was a religious destination and God looked like a tube of
toothpaste. Later museums replaced Sees candy and I found order in the universe
through art.
I am drawn to religious art, admire Thomas Hart Benton's line
and color, adore the muralist of the Mexican Revolution and can`t get the
images of Disney from
my 1960s childhood out of my visual vocabulary.
I have found that the work I have done to earn a living has
impacted me more than anything I learned in college. From museum model-making
to digital painting
for the special effects industry; they have both shaped and condensed my
hands on skills and sharpened my eye.The highlights have been working on
dioramas
for the California Academy of Sciences, being part of an all girl team
to make a giant baseball mitt for the Giants stadium and digitally painting
on Star
Wars, Episode 2 and 3. My best freelance opportunity to date has come from
my experience working with the San Francisco musical group, The Residents, over the last 15 years. This has been the perfect combination of work and
art, an
opportunity to combine my vision with the narrative visuals of The Residents'
myth-making.
For me, making drawings, paintings and sculpture is a simple
and direct process of giving emotions form. This compulsion, along with my
over-active
imagination
that perceives peril around every corner, drives my image making. |
Exhibitions
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2005
“Personal Stories” (two-person show), La Casa Del Libro, San Francisco, California
2004
“Odd Couples” (two-person show), Boomerang Gallery,
Petaluma, California
“Spaceholders” (group
show), Space 743, San Francisco, California
“New Tales to Tell” (group show), San Luis Obispo
Art Center, San Luis Obispo, California
7th Annual Group Show, La luz de Jesus, Los Angeles, California
2003
“Faces of Leigh,” Convivant Gallery,
Tampa, Florida
“Figures of Invention” (group show), The Work Space, New York, New York
2001
“Parts of a Whole” (group show), Space 743, San Francisco, California
2000
“Figures of Invention” (group show), Forman Gallery,
Anderson Center for the Arts,
Oneonta, New York
1998
“Labyrinth: A Day of the Dead Exhibition” (group show), Yerba Beuna
Center for the Arts,
San Francisco, California
“Paintings” (two-person show), Lucinda Carmichael
Gallery, San Francisco, California
1997
“California Small Works” (group show), California
Museum of Art,
Luther Burbank Center for the Arts, Santa Rosa, California
“Leaving Myopia” (two-person show), Space 743, San Francisco, California
1995
“The Book Show” (two-person show), Space
743, San Francisco, California
1994
“Sculpture” (group show), Bucheon Gallery, San
Francisco, California
1993
“Sculpture,” The Clay Studio Gallery, San
Francisco, California
1992
“Chain Reaction” (group show), San Francisco
Art’s Commission Gallery,
San Francisco, California
1991
“Sculpture,” The Clay Studio Gallery, San
Francisco, California
1990
“Introductions” (group show), Michael Himovitz
Gallery, Sacramento, California
1989
(untitled group show), Open Studios/SF, San Francisco, California
1988
“Sculpture,” The Clay Studio Gallery, San
Francisco, California
1987
“Installations” (two-person show), Video Free
America, San Francisco, California
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