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Studio:
Eugene, OR Tel: 530.559.6500
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Leah Wilson is an artist and avid whitewater kayaker whose work has been seen in gallery and museum venues since 1994. Her paintings have been exhibited recently at Guardino Gallery in Portland, OR and Downtown Initiative for the Visual Arts in Eugene, Oregon, Julie Baker Fine Art and featured at the Wild and Scenic Environmental Film Festival in Nevada City, California, and Los Medanos College Art Gallery in Pittsburg, California. Her work is in the collections of eBay, Inc., Adobe Systems, Inc., Namco Inc., as well as other corporate and private collections, and her photography has been featured in Common Ground magazine.
Ms. Wilson’s paintings are the result of the progression of her relationship with the places in which she has lived. They are slow explorations charting the creation of a personal sense of place, becoming intimately acquainted with the patterns in the landscapes and their subtle features, changes and cycles. Ms. Wilson received her M.F.A. in 2003 from the San Francisco Art Institute in San Francisco, California and received her B.F.A. in painting and drawing from the Art Institute of Southern California in Laguna Beach, California in 1995 where she was the recipient of the institute’s merit scholarship. She was born in Newport Beach, California in 1973 and currently resides in Eugene, Oregon.
When Leah is not making art she is out exploring rivers far and near. She has been addicted to running rivers since age 13 when her dad took her rafting on the Kern River near Bakersfield, California for her junior high school graduation. Since 1992 she has guided and taught whitewater kayaking on many rivers nationally and internationally. |
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Born |
Newport Beach, CA |
Education |
M.F.A., San Francisco Art Institute B.F.A., Art Institite of Southern California |
Solo & Two Person Exhibitions |
2010 Guardino Gallery, Portland, OR (Two Person)
2009 Downtown Initiative for the Visual Arts, Eugene, OR (Solo)
2006 Los Medanos College, Pittsburg, CA (Two Person) Wild & Scenic Environmental Film Festival, New Moon, Nevada City, CA (Solo)
2005 560 E. Broad Street Gallery, Nevada City, CA (Solo)
2002 Howard Rice, San Francisco, CA (Solo)
2000 University of California, Hastings College of the Law, San Francisco, CA (Solo) |
Selected Group Exhibitions |
2008 Wild & Scenic Environmental Film Festival, Broad Street Bistro and Gallery, Nevada City, CA
2005 Fly Trap Gallery, Sacramento, CA
2004 Julie Baker Fine Art, Grass Valley, CA Oakland Art Gallery, Oakland, CA Lotus Art Studio, Lotus, CA Julie Baker Fine Art, Grass Valley, CA Headlands Center for the Arts, Project Space East/West, Sausalito, CA
2003 Fort Mason, Herbst Pavilion, San Francisco, CA
2002 Diego Rivera Gallery, San Francisco, CA Studio Z, San Francisco, CA CBS MarketWatch, San Francisco, CA Sunnyside Conservatory, San Francisco, CA
2001 701 Chestnut, San Francisco, CA Cafe Roma, Davis, CA San Francisco Art Institute, San Francisco, CA Justice League, San Francisco, CA Grand Central Art Center, Santa Ana, CA Reynolds Gallery, Laguna Beach, CA Long Beach Arts, Long Beach, CA Reynolds Gallery, Laguna Beach, CA
1997 Hello Artichoke Gallery, Santa Monica, CA Reynolds Gallery, Laguna Beach, CA Long Beach Arts, Long Beach, CA Laguna Art Museum, Laguna Beach, CA Huntington Beach Art Center, Huntington Beach, CA Artegeo, Orange, CA |
Collections |
Adobe Systems, Inc., Frankfurt, Germany Adobe Systems, Inc., San Jose, CA eBay, Inc., San Jose, CA Namco Hometek, Inc., Santa Clara, CA Hinshaw & Culbertson, LLP, San Francisco, CA David Brooks, Ph.D., Lincoln, NE Kenneth Ebanks, Esq., San Francisco, CA Phil and Georgie Layzer, San Francisco, CA |
Bibliography |
2009
2001 |
Awards |
1994 Art Institute of Southern California, Merit Scholarship |
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