“I paint to express what I feel—emotionally, physically, and intuitively. It’s my way of expanding how I experience the world and of making sense of it. I’m drawn to the challenge of giving form to something intangible—an atmosphere, a memory, a fleeting feeling—through color, gesture, and light...”
Leslie Marcus
b. Havre de Grace, MD
Currently lives and works in New York City
RESIDENCIES
2025/2024/2023 La Porte Peinte Artists Centre, Noyers sur Serein, France
SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2026 Solo Exhibition (upcoming), La Porte Peinte Gallery, Noyers sur Serein, France
2025 Solo Exhibition (virtual), Walter Wickiser Gallery, New York, NY
2024 Recent Works, Artsy Viewing Room, Walter Wickiser Gallery, New York, NY
2023 Works on Paper, Artsy Viewing Room, Walter Wickiser Gallery, New York, NY
2023 Recent Works, Artsy Viewing Room, Walter Wickiser Gallery, New York, NY
SELECT GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2024 Deep Within, Edward Hopper House Museum & Study Center, Nyack, NY
2024 The Mother The Father, Equity Gallery, New York NY
2024 Equity Gallery Juried Invitational, Equity Gallery, New York, NY
2024 Gallery Artists Part XXI Exhibition, Walter Wickiser Gallery, New York, NY
2023 Combined Media, Assemblage, The Phyllis Harriman Mason Gallery, New York, NY
2022 Bowery Gallery National Competition, Curator: Lance Esplund, Bowery Gallery, New York, NY
2022 Combined Media, Assemblage, The Phyllis Harriman Mason Gallery, New York, NY
2022 Combined Media, Assemblage virtual exhibition, The Art Students League of New York, New York, NY
2021 Primavera, ChaShaMa, One Brooklyn Bridge Park, Brooklyn, NY
2020 Merit Scholarship Award Winners Exhibition, The Phyllis Harriman Mason Gallery, New York, NY
2019 New York Studio School Alumni Invitational, Curator: David Humphries; The New York Studio School, New York, NY
2019 Brooklyn 4, Brooklyn/Beauty/Fashion/Labo (BBFL), Tokyo, JAPAN
2019 Abstraction, The Phyllis Harriman Mason Gallery, New York, NY
2018 Group show, OSSAM Gallery, Brooklyn, NY
2018 7 Artists on 7th Street, Brooklyn/Beauty/Fashion/Labo (BBFL), Brooklyn, NY
AWARDS
2025 Special Recognition - Mixed Media & Painting, The Phyllis Harriman Mason Gallery, New York, NY
2019 Merit Scholarship – Abstract Category (Elizabeth A. Clarke Scholarship), Jurors: Adrian Dannatt, Abby Leigh;
The Art Students League, New York, NY
2019-2020 Special Recognition, multiple awards, The Phyllis Harriman Mason Gallery, New York, NY
PRESENTATION/ARTIST TALK
2025 La Porte Peinte, Noyers sur Serein, France
2024 La Porte Peinte, Noyers sur Serein, France
BIBLIOGRAPHY
“2019 Alumni Invitational.” New York Studio School of Drawing, Painting and Sculpture. October 2019.
LINEA the Artist’s Voice, online journal of the Art Students League of New York
https://www.asllinea.org/event-categories/members-exhibitions/page/2/
PUBLIC VIEW
2024 The Sturgeon Moon, Huso Restaurant, New York, NY
COLLECTIONS
Works held in private collections in New York, Virginia, Maryland, California and Washington
EDUCATION
1977 Bachelor of Fine Arts in Drawing and Painting, Philadelphia College of Art
1976-1977 New York Studio School of Drawing, Painting and Sculpture
1975 Union of Independent Colleges of Art – selective artist program at the Delaware Water Gap
AFFILIATIONS
Artists Equity, joined 2021
The Art Students League of NY, joined 2018
© 2023 by Leslie Marcus