Leslie Singer

Leslie Singer attended the New Orleans Center for Creative Arts and studied at Georgetown University, then stopped painting to pursue a public relations career. When the man who was to become her husband asked her what her favorite painting is (Vermeer’s Girl With a Pearl Earring), it launched an ongoing conversation about art that led her back to palette and brush and resuming her studies at New York’s Art Students League and the Scottsdale Artists School.

As a figurative painter, Leslie approaches each work as a study of light and shadow upon which she builds, embellishes, and then erases. Faces and features are often turned away or obscured in some manner. In this way, the viewer can complete the painting using his or her imagination.

Heavily influenced by the worlds of design and fashion, Leslie has drawn inspiration from New York City, her home for many years and, more recently, from the Southwest, where she now lives and works.

Artists who share Leslie’s passion for the figure and have influenced her work range from nineteenth and early twentieth-century masters such as John Singer Sargent and Tamara de Lempicka to contemporary painters such as Michael Carson and Malcolm Liepke. Like theirs, her canvases depict highly...

Figures and Faces
Las Laguna Art Gallery
Laguna Beach, CA
March 2023

13th Annual Figurative Drawing and Painting Exhibition
Lore Degenstein Gallery
Susquehanna, PA
November 2022

The Art of Beauty
MVA Gallery
Bethlehem, PA
April 8 - May 4, 2022

Gallery Andrea
Scottsdale, AZ
March 2022

Three Women. Three Visions
Hartman on Hudson
Westhampton, NY
July 2021

She: An Expression of Womanhood
Annmarie Sculpture Garden and Arts Center
Solomons, Maryland
February - September 2020

Superfine
Los Angeles, CA
February 2020

The Other Art Fair
Brooklyn, NY
November 2019

Art Expo New York
New York, NY
April 2019

LA Art Show
Los Angeles, CA
January 2019

Spectrum Miami
Miami, FL
December 2018

The Other Art Fair
Brooklyn, NY
May 2018

Interportrait (Group Show)
BG Gallery
Santa Monica, CA
August 2018

Spectrum Gestalt (Group Show)
BG Gallery
Santa Monica, CA
June 2018

Friends of Pleiades (Group Show)
Pleiades Gallery
New York, NY
January 2018

Expose Yourself (Group Show)
Gallery 114
Portland, OR
January 2018

Summer in the City 2 (Group Show)
Pleiades Gallery
New York, NY
July 2017

Wintertide (Group Show)
Pleiades Gallery
New York, NY
January 2017