Jackie Leishman

Leishman grew up in Georgia, moving to the Los Angeles area after completing her Masters of Fine Arts degree from the Academy of Art in San Francisco. Originally trained as a photographer, she now works in collage.  Using both traditional and non-traditional materials, including fragments of old projects, Leishman explores the dichotomies she witnesses. It is the push and pull between two ideas that intrigues her most, the animating tensions between destruction and creation, expansion and contraction, explosion and implosion — and religion and science.

Collage fits the exploration and expression of these ideas. In collage the artist divides and connects. She takes fragments and places them, brings them into new relationships, to make something whole. She states, “Starting from what I already had in my studio, I gather fragments of old projects and give them new life. In bringing these elements of my studio together, I witness and partake in the ideas: Creation from destruction. Creation from chaos. Creation from the elements.”

She has shown her work nationally, won awards, and taught fine art at universities in Utah and California. Her work is beloved by designers such as Leanne Ford. She recently exhibited in Downtown LA an...

B.A. University of Georgia
Athens, GA

M.F.A., Academy of Art University
San Francisco, CA

SELECTED SOLO SHOWS

Heaving Into Mountains, Granary Art Center, Ephraim, UT
If We Ever Wake at All, Writ & Vision, Provo, UT
Yosemite, Sullivan Vineyards, St. Helena, CA
Transitions & Repetitions, Finch Lane Gallery, Salt Lake City, UT
Transitions & Repetitions, Gallery OneTen, Provo, UT
Transitions & Repetitions, Mondavi Vineyards, Napa, CA
Process/ing, Provo Art Center, Provo, UT
Process/ing, 913 Alabama, San Francisco, CA

SELECTED GROUP AND JURIED SHOWS

2020
Inside Out, Claremont Museum of Art, Claremont, CA
Contemporary Collage, Face Guts, Los Angeles, CA
Art Box, Mary Paxon Gallery, Norwalk, CA
​The Better Part, Museum of Biblical Art, Dallas, TX

2019
On the Rocks, Susan Eley Fine Art, New York, NY
Where They Want To Go, NAID Art Center, Richmond, CA

2018
The Other Art Fair, Majestic Hotel, Los Angeles, CA
NextGen, Venice, CA

2017
Claremont Art Showcase, Alexander Hughes Center, Claremont, CA
Three Ways to Make it Through the Day, Angel City Brewery,
Los Angeles, CA
The Diptychs, Writ & Vision, Provo, UT
The Blues, The Saguaro, Palm Springs, CA

2015
The Fourth Artist, Culver City, CA

Residencies

Prairieside Outpost, Matfield Green, KS 2020
Pressworks, Claremont, CA 2018
Ande...