Kira Leigh
Boston, MA
About the Artist
Kira Leigh is a 24 year old MassArt Alumni who graduated in May 2011 with a BFA in Art Education. She currently lives in Boston with her cat Rolly and her partner Jon, making surrealist work (painting, photography, drawing, digital…) that grows organically like a rambling story.
Her work contains elements of gaming and popular culture, and touches upon identity, the self, the body, feminism, co-morbidity and gender.
Using a free association technique known as automatic drawing (and painting), Kira transforms her mediums of choice into psychological self portraits, much like how th…
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Kira Leigh is a 24 year old MassArt Alumni who graduated in May 2011 with a BFA in Art Education. She currently lives in Boston with her cat Rolly and her partner Jon, making surrealist work (painting, photography, drawing, digital…) that grows organically like a rambling story.
Her work contains elements of gaming and popular culture, and touches upon identity, the self, the body, feminism, co-morbidity and gender.
Using a free association technique known as automatic drawing (and painting), Kira transforms her mediums of choice into psychological self portraits, much like how therapists use word association, only visually.
Artist’s Work
Selected Exhibitions
- Alternative Cafe: Socio Network
Seaside, California, 2012 - Yes.Oui.Si Space: The Salon
Boston, Massachusetts, 2012 - Quarks Gallery: Intimate Monsters: Solo Show
Paris, France, 2012 - Yes.Oui.Si Space: The Salon
Boston, Massachusetts, 2011
Press and Accolades
- Juxtapoz Online: Kira Leigh's Erotic Grotesque
April 11th 2012 - Walking with the Beast: Intimate Monsters Review
May 9th 2012 - the New England Journal of Aesthetic Research: Salon Feature/Review
March 9th 2012
Education
- the Massachusetts College of Art and Design, Art Education
Boston, Massachusetts,2011
