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Kristin Leachman is a contemporary artist living and working in Los Angeles, California. Born in Washington, D.C., Leachman spent her early years in rural Virginia. Her work is noted for repositioning abstraction, figuration and geometry, painting seamless connections between the subliminal and sublime.〔http://kristinleachman.com/info/〕 Leachman studied at the Rhode Island School of Design where she received her BFA in Painting. She went on to study at The American Film Institute in Hollywood, receiving her MFA in Production Design and being awarded the Franklin J. Schaffner Fellowship. Leachman designed "Senzeni Na?" (“What Have We Done?”), nominated for the “Best Short Subject” Academy Award. After several years of working on studio productions in Hollywood, Leachman returned to painting. Leachman’s work is widely represented in museums and private collections including, among others, The San Diego Museum of Art, The National Museum of Women in the Arts, and the Collection of the National Gallery of Art. Her work was recently acquired by the U.S. Department of State for the U.S. Embassy in Kabul, Afghanistan. Leachman is included in the Smithsonian Archives of American Art. 〔http://www.sdmart.org/collections/artists/2035〕〔http://clara.nmwa.org/index.php?g=entity_detail_print&entity_id=14985〕 Los Angeles Times art critic Christopher Knight writes, 〔http://www.latimes.com/entertainment/la-bio-christopher-knight-staff.html〕 "Leachman intensifies a sense of intimacy that is at once sensual and contemplative, stitching together the body and mind in ways our culture usually keeps split. … Like the universe glimpsed in a grain of sand, her work plays with scale in marvelous ways." 〔http://kristinleachman.com/around-the-galleries/〕〔http://articles.latimes.com/2005/apr/15/entertainment/et-galleries15/2〕 More info about Kristin and her works can be viewed at: http://kristinleachman.com/ ==References== 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Kristin Leachman」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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