Leslie Shows

Leslie Shows is a Los Angeles-based artist whose mixed media paintings explore materiality, abstraction, and representations of nature. She works with acrylic and oil paints, glass, metal, collage and assemblage, casting and relief. Leslie grew up in Juneau, Alaska and has taught in the visual arts for 14 years at the pre-college, undergraduate, and graduate levels.

Her work has been exhibited at institutions like the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, the Scottsdale Museum of Contemporary Art, the Berkeley Art Museum, and the Anchorage Museum. Her recent public commissions include a 35-ft glass artwork for the San Francisco Central Subway, and she is currently working on her 12th solo exhibition.

For more information visit Leslie's website here. 

Leslie will be teaching Abstract Painting, Mixed Media & Collage, and Landscape Painting at Middle School Camp and Abstract Painting, Visual Composition, and Painting at High School Camp.