LESLIE COHEN JEFFREYS
My first exposure to art was through my mother, Shirley Skloff Shapiro, a portrait painter. Those early visits to the Philadelphia Art Museum for my birthdays filled me with images of Miro, Picasso, Klee, Kandinsky, and Arp. I grew up between the art museum and the ocean. My early designs and abstract paintings were hard-edged. More recent works have overflowed the boundaries, pooled and evaporated paint, focused on the tides of northwestern France, where I lived for a time in college. I begin working in my studio with themes of...more
