| Artist: Mary Ann Leff Title: Cityscape Size: 48" x 36"
Medium: Acrylic Presentation: Gallery Wrapped Canvas
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Artist Information
| Website: | www.leff-art.com
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| | Biography: | Born and raised in Pittsburgh, PA, I attended art classes as a child and a teenager at the Carnegie Museum and then attended Carnegie-Mellon University. I moved to California after graduation, drawn by the ocean, the color and the light. I have been painting, drawing and working in mixed media ever since. In 2000 I began making monoprints, becoming enthralled with the magic of multi-drop printing.
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I am an abstract painter who has felt compelled to make marks all my life. My primary love affair has been with color. Being able to surround myself with it, explore it and indulge in it, gives me an almost visceral sense of pleasure. I work spontaneously and intuitively, and love creating rich, evocative surfaces. I see the surface as a place of meeting--where the painter and the viewer meet, where what is below can only be felt and hinted at, and where the conscious and the unconscious meet. This past year's work has reflected transitions in my life, and, after two trips--first to Laguna Beach and then to Bali (much to my own surprise), I began painting the ocean. The title of that series, "Lost at Sea," captures the sense I have sometimes had this year. But focusing on the horizon as I do in these paintings, I trust in my process and know something is emerging. |
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| | Exhibitions: | EXHIBITS Bay Model, "Seasons of Water," Sausalito, CA 2011 201 California Street, Mary Ann Leff: Abstract Paintings, curated by William Torphy, San Francisco, CA 2011 Sebastopol Center for the Arts Juried Annual, juried by Chester Arnold, Coordinators' Prize, Sebastopol, CA, 2010 Merced County Arts Council, 3rd Annual California Centered: Printmaking, juried by Jamie Brzezinski, Merced, CA, 2009 Kellog University Art Gallery, Ink and Clay, juried by Carolyn Peter, Cal State Poly University, Pomona, CA, 2009 Art Foundry Gallery, The Subject is Color, Sacramento, CA, 2008 ProArts Juried Annual, 2008, juried by Laura Hoptman, senior curator, New Museum, NY, Oakland, CA, 2008 ProArts Gallery, East Bay Open Studios, Oakland, CA, 2002 through 2008 525 MARKET STREET, Two Person Show, curated by William Torphy, San Francisco, CA, 2007 Berkeley Art Center, Members' Show, Berkeley, CA, 2007 Market Street Gallery, Impressive Impressions: A Juried Exhibit of Bay Area Printmaking, San Francisco. CA, 2006 CFA Gallery, Adjectives of Art--Printmaking Show, San Anselmo, CA, 2006 Mad River Post Spring Show, curated by William Torphy, San Francisco, CA, 2006 Berkeley Art Center, Members' Show, Berkeley, CA , 2004 Berkeley Art Center National Juried Show, Works on Paper, juried by Deborah Klochko, Tim Taylor, Valerie Wade, Jurors' Prize, Berkeley, CA, 1994 Kingpitcher Gallery, Group shows, gallery artist, Pittsburgh, PA, 1973-1980 University of California, Berkeley, Art and Movement, Berkeley, CA, 1978 Dirosha Pira Gallery, Group shows, gallery artist, , Palm Springs, CA, 1976-1978 Womanspace Gallery, Group show, Berkeley, CA, 1976 Sergio O'Cadiz Gallery, Group show, Costa Mesa CA, 1972 Velar Gallery, Carnegie-Mellon University, Three Woman Show, Pittsburgh, PA 1971 |
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| | Awards: | AWARDS Coordinators' Prize, Sebastopol Center for the Arts Juried Annual, 2010 Jurors' Prize, Berkeley Art Center 1994 PUBLICATIONS AMERICAN ART COLLECTOR: JURIED COMPETITION OF NEW WORK, Alcove Books, Berkeley, CA 2009, 2010 MULTICULTURAL ENCOUNTERS, Cover Art, Japanese Edition, University of Tokyo Press, Tokyo, 2004 |
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| | Education: | B.F.A. Carnegie Mellon University |
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