Leah Devora

LEAH DEVORA’S ART
ON THE SET OF “Six Feet Under”

You may have seen Leah Devora’s striking and alluring art on TV … hanging on the sets of HBO's hit series,“Entourage,” as well as “E.R.,” “Without A Trace,” “West Wing,” and “Six Feet Under” – or maybe at the Arc Light Theater on Sunset Boulevard, where she had an exhibition of stars and celebrities on the walls between the movie theaters.

Her art is bold, exciting and beautiful. “I get inspired by every day life situations that I encounter and living in what was the original Old Hollywood neighborhood of the 1920s.”

Leah works in mixed media, on canvas, on paper, mounted on wood, combining images of photography – manipulated and digitally painted on a computer, as well as with traditional oil and acrylic paints.

“My biggest strength is the ability to visualize something from beginning to completion conceptually and then create my painting with a very honest vision. I’m a colorist and I really understand how to use color in my work as well as composition.”

When Leah moved to Los Angeles five years ago, she was fascinated by all the freeways and especially shopping carts – appearing, disappearing, reappearing … From Silver Lake to Beverly Hills, shopping carts are scattered on front lawns, hanging out in groups, taking a rest on the front yard or even waiting at the bus stop. They are an indigenous part of the L.A. landscape. She integrates these images with those of the Golden Age of Hollywood.

“Some of my work comprises of imagery that I call the “Ghosts” of Los Angeles. Whether it be the abandoned shopping carts left on the sidewalks of Los Feliz or photos of silent film starlets, the energy of these displaced figurines haunt the neighborhoods of Hollywood of a past somewhat forgotten. The Ghosts that lie beneath the Hills, they walk amongst us.”
“My landscapes are paintings that are the personification of these motifs, some of them I combine with the silhouettes of Old Hollywood movie stars and freeways. I create the artwork using graphic design and oil painting techniques. I use paints, photography and paint digitally with an oil painting program on the computer. I then print them on canvas and paint over them with oils then varnish them. There aren’t actual photos in the artwork.”

Leah was born in Miami, Florida and grew up in the South, living in Atlanta then moving on to New York, Chicago and San Francisco before coming to Los Angeles. “The urban landscape has been a central part of my life. Every city owns its own personality and aesthetic. The lush green hills and red clay dirt of Atlanta inspired my earthy connections to the landscape, while the raw, gritty and rather honest landscape of New York inspired my moody and weighty artwork. Chicago spawned a dark, turbulent and expressionistic environmentally influenced body of work, while San Francisco nurtured a very thoughtful and conceptually-based landscape.”

New gallery located in the trendy art walk section of Chinatown,
Downtown Los Angeles – located at 935 Chung King Road.
Private gallery visits by appointment only at this time –
Call to schedule: 323.445.6781

Most recently, she sold several pieces at ART EXPO in Las Vegas at the Mandalay Bay Hotel.

UPCOMING SHOWS INCLUDE:
-- Beverly Hills Affaire in the Garden – October 18 & 19
-- Rancho Mirage Art Affaire – November 15 & 16
-- Miami Beach / The Artist Fair (Sherborne Hotel) – December 4 to December 7

Leah’s work can also be found at Grey McGear Modern
at Bergamot Station in Santa Monica, CA., as well as represented
by Art Pic 2000 where her art is rented out and sold to TV and film sets.

PREVIOUS EXHIBITS:
Drawing Center, New York
Artforum Gallery, New York
Foster Goldstrom Gallery, New York


Leah is available to do commissioned custom sizes and other custom work

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Leah Devora Contemporary Abstractions – www.leahdevora.net
Hollywood Spirits, Time Capsules & More – www.leahdevora.com
Ongoing Online Exhibits: http://artisan-direct.org/artists/devora_leah/
http://www.rsfaa.com/index.php/all-artists/view/33

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Private studio visits available upon request


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EDUCATION:
1995-1997 Pratt Institute, New York, MFA- Painting 1986-1988 School of the Art Institute of Chicago, BFA- Fiber/Sculpture 1984-1986 University of Maryland, College Park- Textile Science
SELECTED SOLO & GROUP EXHIBITIONS:
2007-2008 Royal Street Galleries, Aspen, CO 2006 Group Show, Grey McGear Modern, Los Angeles, CA 2005 Crafting The LA Experience, Folk and Craft Museum, Los Angeles Time Capsules, Grey McGear Modern, Los Angeles, CA 2004 Vintage Spirits, BGH Gallery, Santa Monica, CA Landscapes, Grey McGear Modern, Los Angeles, CA 2003 Pieces City Art, Gallery, San Francisco, CA 2002 Melt Art Explosion, San Francisco, CA 2000 Mermaid Right Bank Gallery, Williamsburg, Brooklyn 1999 Small Works Artsforum Gallery, New York 1998 Spatial Relations, Work on file at The Drawing Center, New York Pieces, Artsforum Gallery, New York 1997 Schafler Gallery, “Interior Space”, New York Tuscany, Steuben West, Prått Institute- New York 1996 Series of Three, Art Students League, New York 1993 Interrupted, Gallery 254, Atlanta, GA 1992 Silence, Gallery 254, Atlanta, GA RetroScapes, Heritage Museum, Atlanta, GA

PRIVATE COLLECTORS:
David Bowie
Judy Fishman Estate
Hyman and Marian Rosenkranz
Steve and Rachel Isaben
Beth Lenhoff
Elena Gonzales
Shawn McCann
Michael Mendelson
Johanna Ray
Jacob Miller
Marian Farmani
Glenn Van Houten
Thomas Bittner
Sheldon Fisk

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CORPORATE COLLECTORS: CitiBank
Wachovia
Merrill Lynch
Lehman Brothers

SELECTED BIBLIOGRAPHY
(Articles, Publications, Reviews, etc.)

-- “Going Global,” Hour Magazine, October, 2005 pg 29
-- “LA Spirit Shines Bright in Australia,” Chicago Free Press, Rochelle Riley, The Way We Live, Cover, May 23, 2004
-- “LAndscape,” New York Times – Art In Review, Holland Cotter, Pg. B-41, January 9, 2004
-- “A Georgia Peach Takes Manhattan,”Atlanta Free Press, Frank Provenzano, The Way We Live, Cover, January 8, 2004
-- “Carts Add Up To Art” Leah Devora’s newest project is to cover a Boston house with Pennies, Chicago Free Press, David Lyman, Into-Front Page, September 24, 2003
-- “Shopping Cart Art,” Joy Hakanson Colby, Artist News, Nov 27, 2002, Feature Page / Cover
-- “Restoring Charm to a Degenerate Park”, Lynne Ames, New York Times, Arts and Entertainment, July22, 2002, page 8
-- “Ghetto,” Susan Walker, Toronto Star, May 5, 2001
-- ”Into her own,” Joy Colby, Dallas News, Feature Page March 9, 2001
-- “Driving Cart Art home,” Mary Thomas, Pittsburgh Post Gazette Weekend Mag, June 2, 2000
-- “Silent Spirits touring show gets high marks at Harvard,” Joy Hakanson Colby, Detroit News, Apr 12, 2000
-- “Eyesore or Art,” John Beardsley, Harvard Design Magazine, Cambridge, MA, Winter /Spring 1999
-- 'A Brush with Greatness and Critics, Atlanta sees one woman's art as a two block eyesore,' Jon Hall, Boston Globe, September 7, 1998
-- Feature 'Atlanta’s Leah Devora Project wins temporary reprieve', Todd Nissen, Reuters, September 24, 1998
-- 'Artist makes loud statement but Miami not listening' by Carrie Hedges, USA Today, September 21, 1998
-- 'Atlanta’s Art Controversy' aired August 27, 1998, National Public Radio, Morning Edition
-- 'Spatial Relations”, art for the people,' Essence Magazine, May 1997 issue
-- 'Depth of the Artist ', Time Magazine, Aug 25, 1997
-- 'What's Doing in Atlanta,' New York Times, May 26
-- 'A World Gone Mad,' Los Angeles Times (Life and Style), May 5, cover /p. E6

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