LESLIE ALLEN
STUDIO 300A Art + Architecture
415.332.1023
www.studio300A.com
Represented by Donna Seager Gallery www.donnaseagergallery.com
Print Publisher: www.artbrokersinc.com
Leslie Allen was born in the New Mexico desert and grew up along the Rio Grande, where families and neighborhoods were tight-knit, honored traditions were passed down, and the most meaningful things were made by hand. Leslie moved to California as a late teenager and fell hard for the Bay area abstract expressionists, whose works she set about studying with great purpose. Today Leslie is described as a painter's painter who approaches each canvas without preconceived notions and allows the process to guide her through to rich, sophisticated surfaces of color, gesture and space divisions. Clearly influenced by California painters Richard Diebenkorn and Frank Lobdell, Leslie's lyrical sense and gestural marks also relate her work to the New York abstractionists, especially the paintings of Joan Mitchell. Leslie studied painting in San Diego, New Mexico, San Francisco and Paris, and her paintings are held in many private and public collections.
BIOGRAPHY
Solo Exhibitions
2010 "For Paint's Sake" Donna Seager Gallery, San Rafael, CA
2008 "Taking the Plunge" Donna Seager Gallery, San Rafael, CA
2001 Mill Valley Library, Mill Valley CA
2004 "Dichotomies" Eclexion, Mill Valley CA
2004 Shoe Envy, Mill Valley CA
1986 Stackhouse Gallery, San Francisco CA
1982 Rogers & Wells, San Diego CA
1979 Federal Courthouse, San Diego CA
1975 Mission Hills Yoga Institute, San Diego CA
Juried and Group Exhibitions
2009 "De-Construct," Gallery 111, Sausalito CA
2008 Secrets" Group Exhibition, Artisans Gallery, San Rafael CA
2008 "Does Size Matter," Gallery 111, Sausalito CA
2007 Projekt30.com November 2007 Juried On-line Exhibition
2007 "Variations on a Hue," Artisans Gallery, San Rafael CA
2006 Projekt30.com December 2006 Juried On-line Exhibition
2006 Projekt30.com July 2006 Juried On-line Exhibition
2006 "Ebb & Flow" Sausalito Arts Commission Juried Group Exhibition, Sausalito CA
2005 "Under the Influence" First Presbyterian Church, Sausalito CA
2003 Jessica Hall Associates, Larkspur CA
2002 "Abstractly" O'Hanlon Center for the Arts, Mill Valley CA
2002 Sausalito Bay Model, Sausalito Artists Association, Sausalito CA
1999 Mill Valley City Hall, Mill Valley CA
1995 College of Marin, Kentfield CA
1990 Civic Plaza, Taos NM
1986 Indian Valley College, Novato CA
1975 Federal Courthouse, San Diego CA
Corporate Patrons
Alliance Capital Management, San Francisco CA
Boeger Winery Inc., Placerville CA
Doral Park Avenue Hotel, New York NY
Espire Communication, Tulsa OK
Phillip Burton Federal Building, San Francisco CA
Federal Home Loan Bank, San Francisco CA
Hansen Bridgett, San Francisco CA
Inn at Spanish Bay, Pebble Beach CA
Law Offices of J. Frank George APC, San Rafael CA
Murphy Pearson Bradley & Feeny, San Francisco CA
Numerous Commissions and Private Collections
Education
1989-92 Academy of Art, San Francisco CA, Fine Art
1982-89 College of Marin, Kentfield CA, Fine Art
1978-80 UCSD San Diego CA, Graphic Arts
1982-94 Painting Mentors and other Private Teachers in California, New Mexico and France
1995-10 Residencies and workshops, most recently Crown Point Press, San Francisco, CA
Affiliations
Studio 300A Art + Architecture, Partner
ICB Artists Association, Board Member / Treasurer
Sausalito Arts Commission (former chair 2004-07)
Sausalito Arts Commission Public Art Advisory Group Member
Marin Arts Council Member
Headlands Center for the Arts Member
El Paso Artists Association Member
Juror & Curatorial
2009 Mill Valley Fall Arts Festival, Mill Valley, CA
2008 "Secrets," Artisans Gallery, San Rafael CA
2007 "Monochromatic," Artisans Gallery, San Rafael CA
2006 "Ebb & Flow" Sausalito Arts Commission, Bay Model Visitor Center, Sausalito CA
2003 Annual Juried Exhibit, Sausalito Arts Commission, Sausalito, CA
1998 New Member Selection, Artisans Gallery, San Rafael CA
Publications & Other
Not for Construction, ICB Artists Association, Sausalito, CA (2009-2010)
Knight Letter, Lewis Carroll Society of North America (Illustrations 1993-1998)
Like it Matters: Artists for Better Images, Encinitas CA (Essays/Illustrations 1992)
Panelist "Studio 333 Artist Talk Series" Sausalito CA
Ongoing private studio instruction and critique in painting and printmaking
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