ARTIST STATEMENT
I create collages, layering, traditional art, materials, and processes with up-cycled materials, product packaging, deconstructed artwork, and appropriated images and text, balancing areas of structure and flow, destruction, and rebuilding.
I also create ephemeral, environmental art with chalk, paint, natural forms, and repurposed items. Images in my work include plants, insects, metaphysical symbols, pop culture references, architectural and figurative elements. Materials, processes, images and text converge on the surface, analogous to the images, symbols and text we decode daily. Through visual storytelling, I hope viewers engage with my work and bring their own stories to the process of connecting with my images.
The UPC label on my work is the number 46137 my name in numeric form upside down and identifier acknowledging the prevalence of commodification and a visible watermark to protect my artwork.
ABOUT THE ARTIST
Leigh is a sustainable artist, writer and educator residing in Pittsburgh PA. Through drawings, storytelling, symbols, textured surfaces, and text her practice transforms images, everyday materials, and narrative rooted in themes of identity, social justice, feminism, memory, and self expression. Her work has been exhibited regionally and nationally. As an artist educator she has facilitated learning experiences in schools, museums and community education for over 30 years. Areas of interest include imagination and creativity, symbolic development, and cognition and art. Leigh is committed to honoring art and aesthetic education as integral to learning, self empowerment, social justice, and community.
© Leigh Roche