Lea Colie Wight
I did my exhibit of choice on Lea Colie Wight. I went to see her work in Main Street Gallery but she is also my friends mother so I got a first hand walk thru with the artist. She is a local artist from Manasquan who specializes in fine art oil paintings.
She grew up in Philadelphia and now resides in Manasquan, NJ. She got her BFA from the Minneapolis College of Art and Design..Her work is exhibited in Main Street Gallery in Manasquan which she also owns. She has also been in several galleries in the US.
She studied at Incamminati in Philadelphia with Nelson Shanks as a student and now years later teachers there as well. I chose Mrs. Wight because this month in particular she needs recognition on her great acomplishments. She was featured on the cover of American Artist Magazine on the November 2009 issue.
Lea does still lives which are always intricate and detailed with extremely refined highlights which I think make her works pop and seem so realistic while keeping their painterly feeling.
Lea works mainly at home doing her still lives of objects around her house.
Her works of portraits usually come from Incamminati and including paintings as well as drawings.
AN interesting personal connection to the work. It would have been good to exploit it further in an actual walk through of the exhibition and talked about specific works, and about her motivations and subjects as a painter. You also need to examine the structures of the art world in which she works, very different from that of Seven Days.
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