Alicia Leeke

Contemporary American Painter

Alicia Leeke, a native South Carolinian, started her artistic studies at Columbia College. During her sophomore year she vacationed in Paris and visited the Louvre, where she fell in love with the French Impressionists. She also visited her most inspiring spot in France, Montmartre.

Her travels to paint landscapes during plein-air painting sessions led her to produce a body of beautiful abstract paintings inspired by nature’s ever-changing scenery.

More recently, she is inspired by photographers Susan Kae Grant of Texas and John E. Powell of Columbia, SC to produce a body of work combining conceptual art, photography and digital mixed media.

Leeke compares a series of art in a body of work to that of multiple product lines in sales. This means she has a paintings produced in a series over time including: abstract textural landscapes, impressionistic landscapes, French cityscapes, digital mixed media cityscapes, vibrant abstracts and an abstract body of work based on phytoplankton.

Leeke was awarded a grant by the Charleston Scientific and Cultural Education Fund to produce a traveling exhibition in 2016 entitled: View from Under the Microscope: Science-based Learning Through Art. The e...

B.A. University of South Carolina

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CURRENT / PAST EXHIBITIONS


Mitchell Hill Group Show
Charleston, SC
April 2023

ArtFields
Juried Exhibition
Lake City, SC
April 2023 and 2018

Bortolami Gallery
Group Exhibition
New York, New York
January 2021

Charleston City Gallery
Group Exhibition
Charleston, SC
July 2020, 2021, 2023

Bortolami Gallery
Group Exhibition
New York, New York
January 2020

City Art
Wide Open Spaces
Alicia Leeke Solo Exhibition
Columbia, SC
October 2019

Piccolo Spoleto
Group Exhibition
Charleston, SC
May-June 2009-2019

Gallery 524
Group Exhibition
New York, NY
January 2018

Mitchell Hill
The Lighter Side Exhibition
Alicia Leeke and Tom Potocki
Charleston, SC
September 2016

Sikkema Jenkins Co.
Group Exhibition
New York, NY
January 2016

Cheim & Read Gallery
Group Exhibition
New York, NY
January 2015

CRG Gallery
Group Exhibition
New York, NY
January 2011

Newark School of the Arts
Let It Snow Exhibition
Newark, NJ
January, 2011

Hampton Fine Art Gallery
Juried Exhibition
Greensboro, GA
April 2011

Atlanta Arts Festival
Juried Exhibition
Atlanta, GA
September, 2011

McKissick Museum
Group Exhibition
Columbia, SC
August 2010

New York One-of-a-Kind Show
Juried Exhib...