ARTIST BIO

Kristin Leachman’s paintings are noted for repositioning abstraction, figuration and geometry, making seamless connections between the subliminal and sublime. Her current project, Fifty Forests, explores both pattern and symbolism in the growth formations of trees throughout America’s fifty states. Born in Washington, D.C. in 1966, Leachman spent her early years in Virginia and now lives in Los Angeles, California. She earned a BFA in Painting from the Rhode Island School of Design in Providence, Rhode Island in 1988 and an MFA in Production Design from the American Film Institute in Los Angeles in 1991. Leachman designed Senzeni Na? (What Have We Done?), Academy Award nominee for Best Live Action Short Film in 1990. Her paintings have been presented in one-person exhibitions at the National Museum of Women in the Arts, Washington, D.C. (2008) and Laguna Art Museum, Laguna Beach, California (2016) and Longleaf Lines currently on view at the Georgia Museum of Art in Athens, Georgia (2022-2023). Her work is in the collection at the National Gallery of Art, Laguna Art Museum, Georgia Museum of Art and an oral history interview with Leachman is included in the Smithsonian Archives of American Art in Washington, D.C.