Leigh Wells

lebt und arbeitet in Sausalito, Kalifornien

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Visage 08
2024, mixed media and graphite on vintage paper, 10.5 x 8.5 in. (26.7 x 21.6 cm)

Leigh Wells

lebt und arbeitet in Sausalito, Kalifornien

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Leigh Wells in ihrem Atelier

Visage 11 2024
Mixed media und Graphit auf Vintage Papier 26,7 x 21,6 cm

Visage 10 2024
Mixed media und Graphit auf Vintage Papier 26,7 x 21,6 cm 

Visage 09 2024
Mixed media und Graphit auf Vintage Papier 26,7 x 21,6 cm 

Visage 08 2024
Mixed media und Graphit auf Vintage Papier 26,7 x 21,6 cm 

Untitled 2023
Collage und Papier bemalt auf Vintage Buchkarton 31,4 x 23,2 cm 

Untitled 2023
Collage und Papier bemalt auf Vintage Buchkarton 31,4 x 23,2 cm 

Overconfidence 2022
Collage, Mixed media und Prismacolor auf gefundenem Papier 37,1 x 29,8 cm 

Meant to Be 2022
Collage, Mixed media und Prismacolor auf gefundenem Papier 37,1 x 29,8 cm

Another Long Pause 2022
Collage, Mixed media und Prismacolor auf gefundenem Papier 37,1 x 29,1 cm 

Mind Reader 10 2019
Collage, Acryl, Graphit, Mixed media auf Papier 76 x 56 cm

Mind Reader 04 2019
Collage, Acryl, Graphit, Mixed media auf Papier 76 x 56 cm

Deception 03 2011 Collage Mixed media auf Papier 76 x 56 cm

Mind Reader 07 2019
Collage, Acryl, Graphit, und Mixed media auf Papier, 76 x 56 cm

Pareja 03 2023
Collage und Mixed media auf Vintage Papier, 37,1 x 29,5 cm

Pareja 04 2023 
Collage und Mixed media auf Vintage Papier, 37,1 x 29,5 cm

Pareja 07 2023
Collage und Mixed media auf Vintage Papier, 37,1 x 29,5 cm

Pareja 08 2023
Collage und Mixed media auf Vintage Papier, 37,1 x 29,5 cm

This Unease 2022
Collage, Mixed media und Prismacolor auf gefundenem Papier, 37,1 x 29,8 cm

Untitled 2022
Collage und Mixed media auf Vintage Papier, 25,4 x 20,3 cm

Untitled 2024
Collage auf Vintage Papier, 25,4 x 20,3 cm

Untitled (red) 2023
Collage und Mixed media auf Vintage Papier, 27 x 21,9 cm

Untitled (red) 2023
Collage und Mixed media auf Vintage Papier, 27 x 21,9 cm

Untitled (red) 2023
Collage und Mixed media auf Vintage Papier, 27 x 21,9 cm

Untitled (red) 2023 
Collage und Mixed media auf Vintage Papier, 27 x 21,9 cm

Untitled 2022
Collage auf Vintage Buchkarton, 30,5 x 21 cm

Untitled 2022
Collage und Mixed media auf Vintage Papier, 25,4 x 20,3 cm

Untitled 2024
Collage auf Vintage Papier, 25,4 x 20,3 cm

Curriculum Vitae

1988 BFA, Design, Summa Cum Laude, University of San Francisco, San Francisco, CA  
1998-2021 Studio Art Studies at Parsons/New School, New York, 

Crown Point Press, San Francisco Art Institute and NYC Crit Club

Grants and awards

2022 Pollock Krasner Foundation Grant Recipient SFMOMA SECA Award Nominee
2021 Anonymous Was a Woman Award Nominee
2020 Minnesota Street Studios, San Francisco, Artist member (2018-2020)

Solo Exhibitions

2025 Upcoming, Van der Grinten Gallery, Cologne, Germany
2022 Tensile Strength, The Fourth Wall, Oakland, CA
2019 Jack Fischer Gallery, San Francisco, CA 
2012 Remains, Gregory Lind Gallery, San Francisco, CA 
2011 Deception, Ampersand International Arts, San Francisco, CA
2008 New Drawings, Gallery 16, San Francisco, CA

Group Exhibitions (selected)

2024 Limen, Tappan Collective, Los Angeles, CA
2023 The Schuh Show, Van der Grinten Gallerie, Cologne, Germany
True North, diRosa Center for Contemporary Art, Napa, CA
2020 Mind Reader, Markel Fine Arts Viewing Room, New York, NY
2019 Portrait, The Jones Institute, San Francisco, CA 
Still Yet Forward, Ampersand International Arts, San Francisco, CA
2018 No Rhyme or Reason, Jack Fischer Gallery, San Francisco, CA
Paper Cuts: Large-Scale Collage, Palo Alto Art Center, Palo Alto, CA
2016 Fog a Mirror, CES Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
Cutting Edge: New Works in Collage, 2731 Prospect, Cleveland, OH
2015 Variations on Abstraction 2010-2015, Transmission Gallery, Oakland, CA
2014 Mountain, PDX Contemporary Art, Portland, OR
The Age of Collage, Gallery Feinkunst Krüger, Hamburg, Germany
Feature, Berkeley Art Center, Berkeley, CA
2013 The Age of Collage, Gestalten Space, Berlin, Germany
col-la-ge, mini | galerie, Amsterdam, Netherlands
In Spite Of, The Holland Project, Reno, NV
Summer Group Show, Gregory Lind Gallery, San Francisco, CA
Range, PDX Contemporary Art, Portland, OR
2012 Decade, Gregory Lind Gallery, San Francisco, CA
Ninth Annual Benefit Auction, The Drawing Center, New York, NY
2011 Tensile Strength, ZieherSmith, New York, NY
Building Context, Guerrero Gallery, San Francisco, CA
2008 These Are the People in Your Neighborhood, Gallery 16, San Francisco, CA
2022 Pritikin, Renny. “Leigh Wells at The Fourth Wall”, Squarecylinder, September 22, 2022
Taylor, Mark. “Tensile Strength: Leigh Wells”, SF/Arts, September 3, 2022
2021 “Reviewing the Book Review”, New York Times Book Review, February 16, 2021
2020 “To Philosophize Is to Learn How to Die”, New York Times Opinion Pages, April 11, 2020
2019 “It’s Not Just a Chemical Imbalance”, New York Times Opinion Pages, July 27, 2019
2016 “What Do We Know?”, New York Times Opinion Pages, December 31, 2016
“I Am a Dangerous Professor", New York Times Opinion Pages, November 30, 2016 
“What is the Use of Regret?”, New York Times Opinion Pages, November 12, 2016
“Why Do Anything?”, New York Times Opinion Pages, September 17, 2016
2015 Seligman, Craig. “Fitted to the Occasion,” Elle Decor, March 2015. pp 138-141
2013 The Age of Collage: Contemporary Collage in Modern Art, Berlin: Gestalten, 2013. pp 114-117
Danza, Emmie. "Leigh Wells", The Drawing Center, The Bottom Line, August 5, 2013
Grattan, Nikki, "Leigh Wells", In The Make, March 2013
Gallagher, James. "Cut-Up Nostalgia." UnFLOP Paper 4. Fall/Winter 2012-2013
2012 Baker, Kenneth. “Leigh Wells: Remains.” San Francisco Chronicle, April 4, 2012
2011 Baker, Kenneth. “Don't Miss,” San Francisco Chronicle, November 6, 2011
Baker, Kenneth. “Collage, culture and mulching at Guerrero Gallery,” SF Chronicle, August 27, 2011
2008 Untitled (Robert Frost), 2008. Harper’s Magazine. September 2008. p 93
Chevron Corporate Collection, San Francisco, CA
Norwegian Cruise Lines
Salvatore Ferragamo Collection, Milan, Italy
Cosmopolitan Hotel, Las Vegas, NV
Palace Hotel, San Francisco, CA
Superba Hollywood, Los Angeles, CA