leslie a. brown
Bio:
Leslie A. Brown was born in New Kensington, Pennsylvania a small, mill town on the Allegheny River. Her earliest influence and inspiration came from her Grandfather, Lester. He encouraged her painting and drawing and love of music at a young age and long before home schooling was popular they toured New York to Florida taking in the landscapes, libraries, galleries, tourist novelties and all that 1963 could offer, during her 6th grade year. This is perhaps where her love of landscape, portraiture and still life and a connectedness to people outside
of family began.
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Ms. Brown is a graduate with University Honors of both Carnegie Mellon University and the University of New Mexico in painting and printmaking. During her masters work she received a fellowship to study printmaking at the distinguished Tamarind Institute of Printmaking in Albuquerque, New Mexico. Her career has spanned 40 years as an artist and educator and her exhibition record is extensive. Works are featured in prominent private, corporate and museum collections throughout the United States and Europe. Ms. Brown is a Professor at
Riverside City College in Riverside, Ca. and the Gallery Director of The Quad Gallery. During her tenure as director, The Quad Gallery has exhibited internationally renowned artists and has become one of the most respected college galleries in the Southern California region.
She resides in the beautiful De Luz area of Temecula, California with her husband, Christopher, and Scooter, Wyatt and Bullitt, their three dogs.
EDUCATION
1983 MA University Honors, University of New Mexico, Albuquerque, NM
1980 BFA University Honors, Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, PA
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INVITATIONAL and JURIED EXHIBITIONS
2020 September, Annual National Works on Paper, Brand Art Center, Glendale CA
2020 July, OCCCA 40th Anniversary Invitational, OCCCA, Santa Ana CA
2020 April, Go figure! Shockboxx Gallery, Redondo Beach CA
2019 December Women by Women, Sola Gallery, Los Angeles CA
2019 July Old Broads, Born to be Wild, Middleridge Gallery, Idyllwild CA
2019 June, Therefore I Am, OCCCA, Santa Ana, CA
2018 July, Old Broads, It’s About Time The Quad Gallery Riverside CA
2018 February, Embodiment, Norco College Gallery, Norco CA
2018 February, Music for your Eyes, OCCCA, Santa Ana, CA
2018 February, Red Hot And Wicked, Studio C Gallery, Santa Fe Art Colony, Los Angeles CA
2018 April, Air, Wind, Earth, LA Printmakers, Muckenthaler Center, Fullerton CA
2017 October, Words on the Wind II, T. Elliott Gallery, Riverside CA
2017 September, Words on the Wind, Bunnygunner, A solo show, Claremont Ca
2017 January, Impressive Women, Fallbrook Library, Fallbrook CA
2017 Old Broads III, Soho Gallery, Pomona CA
2016 September, Faculty Exhibition Riverside City College, Riverside CA
2016 August, Old Broads Still Kickin’, Chaffey Museum of Art, Ontario CA
2015 December, Vanities, Museum of Art and History, Lancaster, CA
2015 November, 2015 October, Love Wins, Peace Rises, The Whole Nine Gallery, Culver City CA
2015 October, Love Wins Peace Rises, The Whole Nine Gallery, Chelsea NY
2015 September, Fashionistas Fight Back, Orange County Center for Contemporary Art, Santa Ana CA
2011-16 September, Ink and Clay 39/40/41/42, Cal Poly Pomona, Pomona CA.
2015 July, Beverly Hills Art Show, Beverly Hills CA
2015 June, Luna’s Secrets, Taylors Gallery, Joshua Tree CA, Solo Exhibition
2015 January, Figuratively Speaking, Chaffey Museum of Art, Ontario CA
2015 March, Old Broads, Pipeline Gallery, Chinatown, Los Angeles CA
2014 July, City of Brea Art Gallery, Push-Pull, Los Angeles Printmaking Society, Brea CA
2014 April, Ontario Museum of Art and History Invitational, Ontario CA
2014 June, Transferring Ink III, Fallbrook Center Art Center
2013 October Sense and Sensibility Invitational, Mount San Antonio College, Walnut CA
2013 November, Anniversary Exhibition, T Elliot Gallery, Riverside CA
2013 October Electron Salon, Los Angeles Center for Digital Art, Los Angeles CA
2013 October, Compass, Orange County Center for Contemporary Art. Santa Ana, CA
2013 April Women Artist’s of the Permanent Collection, Riverside Art Museum, Riverside CA
2012 September The Contemporary Figure, Past Presence MOAH, (Museum of Art and History) Lancaster, CA
2012 August The Live Drawing Show, Cuttress, Main Street Gallery, Pomona CA
2012 August 8 x 10 Chaffey Museum of Art, Ontario CA.
2012 January Gothic Orange County Center for Contemporary Art, Santa Ana, CA
2011 April Mission Federal Artwalk San Diego CA
2011 November The Forgotten Goddess, Large Scale Works, Rico Adair Gallery, North Hollywood, CA
2010 June, Permanent Collection Exhibition, Riverside Art Museum Riverside, CA
2010 April, Most Wanted, Blue Core Gallery, Pomona CA
2009-13 February, All You Can Eat, Annual Bunnygunner Gallery, Pomona, CA
2010 February, Community, dA Center for the Arts, Pomona CA
2010 January, The New Traditionalists, featured artist, dA Center for the Arts, Pomona CA
2009 May, Los Angeles Printmaking Society, New Members Showcase, Old Town Gallery Tustin, CA
2008 September, Identity The Craft and Folk Art Museum, Museum Row, Los Angeles CA
2009 March, Back in the Day, DBA 256, featured artist, Pomona CA
2008-13 August, Bunnygunner Anniversary Invitational. Bunny Gunner Gallery, Pomona, CA
2009-13 February, All You Can Eat, Annual Bunny Gunner Gallery, Pomona, CA
2008 June, Consciously Dreaming, Leslie A Brown /Denise Kraemer, Bunnygunner Gallery, Pomona CA
2008 March, Naked Truth, DBA256, Pomona CA
2007 Feb Printing in the I.E, Division 9 Gallery Riverside, Ca
2007 Women in Print Making, La Sierra University. Riverside CA
2007 The Solar Plate, Redlands Art Center, Redlands Ca
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SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2017 October, Words on the Wind II, T. Elliott Gallery, Riverside CA
2017 September, Words on the Wind, Bunnygunner, A solo show, Claremont Ca
2015 June,Taylor Gallery, Joshua Tree Ca
2010 T Elliot Studios, Riverside CA
2008 April Emergence… through fire and water Riverside Community College, Riverside, CA
2007 Echoes of the Feminine Ethos Mount San Jacinto College, Mount San Jacinto, CA
2005 Summer Artist in Residence Exhibition, Corona Heritage Foundation, Corona, CA
2003 Madonna’s and Odalisque’s Riverside Art Museum, Riverside CA
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PUBLICATIONS & CATALOGUES
Women by Women, Sola Gallery Publication
Brand 48 Works on Paper 2020, Brand Library Publication
Speaking Through Sediment, Cover Art
Gothic, Orange County Center for the Arts, 2012
Sense and Sensibility, Mount San Antonio College 2012
The Press Enterprise, April 16, 2008 April 24, 2008, March 15, 2008
February 2007, February 2006, March 2005, July 2004, Oct 2000
I.E. Weekly March 2013,March 2012, March 2011,January 2011,Nov 2010, April 14,2008
The Inland Chronicle, February 2007
Viewpoints, March 2005
The Painted Monkey, May 2004
Daniel Smith Catalog, cover art summer 2003
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AWARDS AND ASSOCIATIONS
Los Angeles Printmaking Society, Los Angeles Ca
Corona Heritage Association, Artist in Residence, Board of Directors
Women Artists of the West
Insight Editions, Inc. - Fine Art Publishers
National Endowment Funding - Artist in Residence
Dorland Mountain Arts Colony, Temecula, CA
The University of New Mexico, Tamarind Printmaking Institute, Graduate Student Artist
John L. Porter Award, proficiency in painting - Carnegie Mellon University
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MUSEUM, CORPORATE and PRIVATE COLLECTIONS
Marriot International
Marriott Resorts International
Kaiser Permanente
Wells Fargo Corporation
Vivant Corporation, Dr. James Fulton
Daniel Smith Corporation
John Cogley, CEO Daniel Smith Corporation
Riverside Art Museum, Riverside CA
PAS Corporation, Riverside CA
Andi Campognone, AC Projects, Pomona CA, Executive Director MOAH
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PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE
2005–Present Gallery Director Riverside City College, The Quad Art Gallery
1998–Present Adjunct Faculty Riverside City College, Riverside, CA Figure Drawing, Figure Painting, Drawing, Painting, 2D & 3D Design, Art Appreciation
1997–05 Adjunct Faculty Mount, San Jacinto College, SJC & MVC, CA Drawing, Figure drawing, 2D Design
2004–06 Adjunct Faculty Rancho Santiago College, Santa Ana, CA, Art Appreciation
2005 Adjunct Faculty, Citrus College, Glendale, CA, Figure Drawing
2005 Adjunct Faculty, Cypress College, Cypress, CA, Art Appreciation
2000–03 Adjunct Faculty, California Baptist University, Riverside, CA, 2D Design
2002–09 Corona Heritage Foundation, Artist in Residence, Atelier Teaching
2004–05 Visiting Artist, The Webb Schools, Claremont, CA, Printmaking
2005 Visiting Artist, Lecturer Rancho Santiago College
2004 California Art Educators Association, Masters Class, Figure Drawing Instructor
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EDUCATOR ACCOMPLISHMENTS:
RCC
Glenn Hunt Outstanding Associate Faculty Service Award 2013
Awarded Faculty Advisor of the Year, Riverside Community College, Moreno Valley Campus, 2001
Created and directed first student Art Club of Riverside Community College, 2000-01
Moreno Valley Campus, faculty advisor Fall 2000- 2001
Muse Magazine RCC - contributor, Spring 2001
Norco Art Club - faculty advisor, Spring 2000
MSJC
Awarded Outstanding Faculty Member MSJC by Associated Student Body, 2000
Curriculum development for MSJC, Figure Drawing
Flight Magazine MSJC - Student Art Coordinator, 1998-2000
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CNUSD Mentor Program
Outreach program to encourage student performance and goals of higher education through portfolio development, critique and studio experience. 2004 - 2009
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Riverside Arts Council
Authored and awarded grants for children’s printmaking workshops. 2001-02