Women in the Arts: Marietta Patricia Leis

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Date/Time
Date(s) - 02/07/2019
6:30 pm
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Location
Francis McCray Gallery of Contemporary Art
1000 W. College Avenue - Silver City, NM


Edwina and Charles Milner Women in the Arts Lecture & Exhibit
Marietta Patricia Leis

6:30 pm | Lecture Parotti Hall
7:30 pm | Solo Exhibition “Engrained” Opening  McCray Gallery

FREE event. Open to the public.

ABOUT THE ARTIST

“My work encompasses multiple media, including paintings, drawings, sculpture, and installation. There is always an element of the sensory in my art—a texture, a color, a deep space—something to engage the senses of the viewer. The intention of the work is to contemplate boundaries, edges, and limits.  My abstract color fields run the risk of invisibility, but silence, patience, and deep listening is fundamental to the satisfaction of the viewer.” —Marietta Patricia Leis

Marietta Patricia Leis was born in Newark, New Jersey USA. She has worked as a professional artist for 30+ years. She has lived in New York, Los Angeles, Perugia (Italy) and now lives and works in New Mexico. She is a painter whose work has evolved from very complex abstractions to reductive color fields inspired by my Eastern Studies and nature. She has participated in Artist Residencies both in the US and abroad.

Leis has shown her work abroad in Thailand, China, Portugal and England as well as in the US in museums and galleries et al. Private and public collections hold her work. She earned her MFA from the University of New Mexico.

Co-Sponsors
Western Institute for Lifelong Learning (WILL)WNMU Office of Cultural Affairs

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