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| Leslie Pearson |
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Leslie Pearson is an artist based in Wilmington, North Carolina. A Missouri native, Pearson earned a Bachelor’s degree in fine art from Southeast Missouri State University (1998) and was heavily involved in community arts programming as the Assistant Director of the Arts Council of Southeast Missouri and co-curator of Gallery 100 and the Lorimier Gallery in Cape Girardeau, Missouri. In 2000 she earned a Master’s degree in Museum Studies at the University of Newcastle in England and completed an internship at the Northern Gallery for Contemporary Art in Sunderland.
Upon returning to the States, Pearson freelanced as an Arts and Entertainment journalist for the Augusta Chronicle, a daily newspaper in Augusta, Georgia. For the last two years she taught art at Fayetteville Christian School in Fayetteville, NC. She now works from her studio at Acme Artists Studios in Wilmington, NC.
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| About the Artist |
Pearson's work represents a wide range of subject matter and style. Working primarily in oil and acrylic paint, she explores various avenues of interest including realism, texture, words and non-objective imagery which she uses as a parallax for ideas, patterns, and emotions.
Check out Leslie's blog at: www.lesliepearson.blogspot.com |
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Caged
2007 Acrylic and epoxy resin on canvas over p 121.9cm x 61cm |
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Taming the Shrew
2007 Acrylic and epoxy resin on canvas over p 45.7cm x 248.9cm |
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At Rest
2007 Acrylic and epoxy resin on canvas over p 66cm x 195.6cm |
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Hanging By A Thread
2007 Acrylic and ink on canvas over panel 78.7cm x 40.6cm |
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Searching For An Olive Branch #1
2007 Plexiglas, vinyl letters, hand-made rub- 40.6cm x 50.8cm |
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Song Bird 1
2007 Altered hymnal, acrylic paint, ink, and 33cm x 43.2cm |
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Conversation 1
2007 Three-color screenprint on canvas 91.4cm x 61cm |
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Nest
2007 Oil on canvas 81.3cm x 71.1cm |
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Bird Blocks
2007 Acrylic paint, wax, ink, epoxy resin, sc 8.9cm x 63.5cm |
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Prayer Flag
2007 Two-color screenprint on hand-stitched v 22.9cm x 20.3cm |
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| Education and biography |
2003 Certificate, Photojournalism and Public Affairs,
Defense Information School – Fort Meade, Maryland
2001 MA, Museum Studies, University of Newcastle – Newcastle, England
1998 Missouri/London Study Abroad Program, Imperial College – London, England
1998 BA, Fine Art, Southeast Missouri State University – Cape Girardeau, MO
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| Future shows |
Dec. - Jan. 2007-08 Bottega Gallery (group), Wilmington, NC
Dec. - March 2007-08 Throckmorton Library (solo), Fort Bragg, NC
Jan. - March 2008 Gallery 208 (solo) – Fayetteville, NC
Feb. - March 2008 Cape Fear Artists Studios, Inc. (solo) – Fayetteville, NC
Jan. - Feb. 2008 Campbell House Gallery (solo) – Southern Pines, NC
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Website: www.lesliekpearson.com |
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