LESLIE ALLEN
STUDIO 300A
www.lesleep.com
Represented by Donna Seager Gallery www.donnaseagergallery.com
Print Publisher: www.artbrokersinc.com
Leslie Allen is a painter's painter. She approaches the canvas without preconceived notions and allows the process to guide her through the painting. She “takes the plunge” literally, and immerses herself in the development of the painting as it occurs, responding to every mark with a keenly developed improvisational style. Allen relishes the pure color and movement of oil paint on the surface and has worked out her own visual language through years of experimentation and exploration. Allen's paintings are sophisticated, showing a keen sense of color, gesture and division of space. Though you would have to relate her work to Abstract Expressionist paintings of the forties and fifties in their reliance and trust in process, Allen’s work is more lyrical than the New York school – less concerned with “not being beautiful”. Her color sense and gestural style might relate more to Joan Mitchell, but with an understanding of the structure and “bones” of a painting that relates more to Bay Area abstractionists such as Frank Lobdell or Richard Diebenkorn. Allen's paintngs invite you to travel through them and explore the sensations that arise from allowing yourself to experience the work.
~Donna Seager
I particularly love making quirky cartoons, moody landscapes, expressive figures, and large juicy abstract oil paintings, with each revealing something about relationships, weather, attitudes, or simply textures and the nature of paint. Making art is just a way to gather in the world around me, draw on my own history, use the language of the materials, and concoct fiction that just might resonate with others. In recent years I have been working in collaboration with Barry Peterson, my partner in Studio 300A Art + Architect, also featured on www.icbartists.com and www.deliberate-design.net
~Leslie Allen
BIOGRAPHY
Selected Exhibitions:
2008 "Taking the Plunge" One-person Exhibition, Donna Seager Gallery, San Rafael, CA
2008 "Secrets" Group Exhibition, Artisans Gallery, San Rafael, CA
2007 Projekt30.com November 2007 Juried On-line Exhibition
2007 "Variations on a Hue," Artisans Gallery, San Rafael CA – Group Exhibition
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 – 2-Person Exhibition
2004 "Dichotomies" Eclexion, Mill Valley CA – Solo Exhibition
2004 Shoe Envy, Mill ValleyCA – Solo Exhibition
2003 Jessica Hall Associates, Larkspur CA – Group Exhibition
2002 "Abstractly" O'Hanlon Center for the Arts, Mill Valley CA – Juried Group Exhibition
2002 Sausalito Bay Model, SausalitoArtists Association, Sausalito – CA Group Exhibition
2001 Mill Valley Library, Mill Valley CA – Solo Exhibition
1999 Mill Valley City Hall, Mill Valley,CA – 2-Person Exhibition
1995 College of Marin, Kentfield, CA – Juried Group Exhibition
1990 Civic Plaza, Taos, NM – Juried Group Exhibition
1986 Indian Valley College, Novato CA – 3-Person Exhibition
1986 Stackhouse Gallery, San Francisco CA – Solo Exhibition
1982 Rogers & Wells, San Diego CA – Solo Exhibition
1979 Federal Courthouse, San Diego CA – Solo Exhibition
1975 Federal Courthouse, San Diego CA – Group Exhibition
1975 Mission Hills Yoga Institute, San Diego CA – Solo Exhibition
1987-2008 ICB Annual Winter Open Studios, Industrial Center Building, Sausalito CA
1998-2007 Marin Arts Council Annual Open Studios, Marin County, 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
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 CA, NM and France
1995-2008 Various workshops-most recent Crown Point Press, San Francisco, CA
Affiliations
ICB Artists Association, Board Member
Sausalito Arts Commission (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 Experience
2008 Artisans Gallery, San Rafael CA - "Secrets" Exhibit
2007 Artisans Gallery, San Rafael CA - "Monochromatic" Exhibit
2003 Sausalito Arts Commission, 2003 Sausalito CA - Annual Juried Exhibit
1998 Artisans Gallery, San Rafael CA - New Member Selection 1998
Publications
Knight Letter, Lewis Carroll Society of North America (Illustrations 1993-1998)
Like it Matters: Artists for Better Images, Encinitas CA (Essays/Illustrations 1992)
Teaching & Panel Discussions
2007 Panelist "Studio 333 Artist Talk Series" Sausalito CA
Ongoing private studio instruction in painting and transfer print techniques
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