Leeza Meksin: Oracle for Brutalist Architecture — Paintings & Drawings

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Two abstract drawings on a white background. Left is terracotta colored with column-like shapes. Right is pink colored with a blue border and blue accents with similar column-like shapes.
Chorus (2022), oil stick and dry pigment on blotting paper, 12" x 15" (left) and Center of My Eye (2022), oil stick and dry pigment on blotting paper, 10" x 12" (right). images / provided
Abstract painting of three human figures in a row and bowls full of multicolored food in a row on a counter.
Rose was Always Above the Abyss (2022), oil, oil stick, acrylic, and paper pulp on canvas, 11 3/4" x 14 1/4" x 1 3/4". image / provided
Abstract painting on textured paper with red, grey, green, blue, and purple paint.
Finger Lakes (Closer to the Seen) (2022), oil, oil stick, acrylic, and paper pulp on canvas, 11 3/4" x 14 1/4" x 1 3/4". image / provided
Chorus (2022), oil stick and dry pigment on blotting paper, 12" x 15" (left) and Center of My Eye (2022), oil stick and dry pigment on blotting paper, 10" x 12" (right). images / provided Rose was Always Above the Abyss (2022), oil, oil stick, acrylic, and paper pulp on canvas, 11 3/4" x 14 1/4" x 1 3/4". image / provided Finger Lakes (Closer to the Seen) (2022), oil, oil stick, acrylic, and paper pulp on canvas, 11 3/4" x 14 1/4" x 1 3/4". image / provided

Solo show of work by Leeza Meksin, Assistant Professor and Director of Graduate Studies in Creative Visual Arts in the Cornell Art Department. 

Artist Bio

Leeza Meksin is an interdisciplinary artist working in painting, installation, textiles, public art, and multiples. She has created site-specific installations for The deCordova Sculpture Park and Museum, The Brooklyn Academy of Music, National Academy of Design, Columbia University Lenfest Center for the Arts, Utah Museum of Contemporary Art, The Kitchen, BRIC Media Arts, Regina Rex, and Brandeis University. In 2013 she cofounded Ortega y Gasset Projects (OyG), an artist-run gallery and curatorial collective in Brooklyn, which she continues to codirect. In 2021 Meksin received the NYFA/NYSCA Fellowship in Interdisciplinary Work; in 2015 she received the emerging artist grant from the Rema Hort Mann Foundation, and in 2019 was awarded an artist residency at The Chinati Foundation in Marfa, Texas. 

Her work has been featured in Bomb, The New York Times, Hyperallergic, Chicago Tribune, and The Village Voice, among other publications. Prior to arriving at Cornell, Meksin taught in the visual arts program at Columbia University School of the Arts (2015–21), where for three years she was the Director of the Graduate program and the head of the New Genres concentration. Meksin received a joint B.A./M.A. in comparative literature from University of Chicago; a B.F.A. from School of the Art Institute of Chicago, and an M.F.A. from Yale University School of Art.

 

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