Abby Leigh is an American artist whose work has been described as
recalling Yayoi Kusama and the "visionary abstraction of Arthur Dove".
Her work is held in public collections internationally, including the
Metropolitan Museum of Art, the Guggenheim Museum and the Whitney
Museum. She is represented by the Betty Cunningham Gallery in New
York.Leigh was born and grew up in New York City. Her mother was a
mathematician. She attended Brandeis University where she majored in
Theater Studies before attending Guildhall School of Music and Drama.
She worked briefly as an actress, touring with the National Company of
Butterflies are Free, and making numerous commercials. She began to
take drawing lessons at the Art Students League in New York, where her
teacher, Will Barnet, encouraged her to become a painter.Leigh's early
career flourished in Europe, where she showed extensively in France
and Italy, as well as Denmark and Belgium, beginning with her exhibit
at the Chapelle de Pénitants Blancs in Vence, France. In the decade
following this first solo exhibition in France, Leigh's work was shown
in solo exhibitions in Europe thirteen more times, and her career in
New York began with a series of solo exhibitions at the Maxwell
Davidson Gallery. When Leigh's first solo exhibition with the Betty
Cunningham Gallery opened on January , , the concentration of her
career shifted to America, where her solo exhibitions have been
concentrated in recent years.
recalling Yayoi Kusama and the "visionary abstraction of Arthur Dove".
Her work is held in public collections internationally, including the
Metropolitan Museum of Art, the Guggenheim Museum and the Whitney
Museum. She is represented by the Betty Cunningham Gallery in New
York.Leigh was born and grew up in New York City. Her mother was a
mathematician. She attended Brandeis University where she majored in
Theater Studies before attending Guildhall School of Music and Drama.
She worked briefly as an actress, touring with the National Company of
Butterflies are Free, and making numerous commercials. She began to
take drawing lessons at the Art Students League in New York, where her
teacher, Will Barnet, encouraged her to become a painter.Leigh's early
career flourished in Europe, where she showed extensively in France
and Italy, as well as Denmark and Belgium, beginning with her exhibit
at the Chapelle de Pénitants Blancs in Vence, France. In the decade
following this first solo exhibition in France, Leigh's work was shown
in solo exhibitions in Europe thirteen more times, and her career in
New York began with a series of solo exhibitions at the Maxwell
Davidson Gallery. When Leigh's first solo exhibition with the Betty
Cunningham Gallery opened on January , , the concentration of her
career shifted to America, where her solo exhibitions have been
concentrated in recent years.
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