Leslie Andelin has been immersed in the arts since she stole her first brush at age three. After earning her BFA at UC Santa Cruz she moved to Florence to study at Studio Art International, where the works of Michelangelo and Manzu reawakened her passion for sculpture. Her graduate work at the San Francisco Art Institute led to an MFA in painting, a critically acclaimed series of city- and naturescapes, gallery representation, and the glamorous coffee-table book Oils, a lush retrospective of her paintings to date.

While Leslie’s paintings and sculptures explore the patterns and repetitions of nature, cities, landscapes, and abstractions, her true subjects have always been light and emotion. Both her representational work, which often guides viewers toward a specific emotion, and her abstract work, which strives to elicit emotions directly, are first and foremost about states of mind.

Leslie’s work has appeared widely, including at the Florence Biennale; Limner Gallery in New York; George Krevsky Fine Art, the Meridian Gallery, the SF Convention & Visitors Center, and SOMArts Gallery in San Francisco; Lite Rail Gallery in Sacramento; the Triton Art Museum in Silicon Valley; the Museum of Arts Downtown in Los Angeles; and the Shedd Aquarium in Chicago. Her paintings and sculptures are featured in private collections and corporate venues across Europe, Japan, and the United States and have been loaned through the SF MOMA Artists Gallery.

Born in Los Angeles in 1963, Leslie lives and works in San Francisco.

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RESUME

EDUCATION
1992 MFA, San Francisco Art Institute, San Francisco, CA
1986 Studio Art Center International, Florence, Italy
1986 BFA University of CA at Santa Cruz, Santa Cruz, CA

SOLO EXHIBITS
2015 Paintings by Leslie Andelin, Di Pietro de Todd, San Francisco, CA
2003 Book Launch, Drivers Door Inc., Emeryville, CA
2006-2012 Range Restaurant, San Francisco, CA
2004-2008 K&L Bistro, Sebastopol, CA
2001 H20, Above and Below, Meridian Gallery, San Francisco, CA
1996 Introductions, George Krevsky Fine Art, San Francisco, CA
1994 The Wasteland, San Francisco, CA
1993 Law offices of Frank Liedman, San Francisco, CA
1991 San Francisco Art Institute, Diego Rivera Gallery, San Francisco, CA
1990 Accesses: Stairways, Diego Rivera Gallery, SFAI, San Francisco, CA
1990 Lite Rail Gallery, Sacramento, CA
1986 Mill Valley Public Library, Mill Valley, CA

SELECTED EXHIBITIONS
2015-2005 Open Studios: ArtSpan, Workspace, San Francisco, CA
2015-2005 Art Launch, ArtSpan, SOMArts, San Francisco, CA
2011-2009 SF Convention & Visitors Center, San Francisco, CA
2009-2006 Visual Aids Auction, SOMArts, San Francisco, CA
2006 H. Frank, Sonoma, CA
2003 Limner Gallery, Juried Show, New York
2004 Limner Gallery, Juried Show, New York
2002 Annual Auction, Shedd Aquarium, Chicago, IL
1998 Group Exhibition, Triton Museum of Art, Santa Clara, CA
1998 Museum of Arts Downtown, Los Angeles, CA
1999 George Krevsky Fine Art, San Francisco, CA
1998 George Krevsky Fine Art, San Francisco, CA
1997 George Krevsky Fine Art, San Francisco, CA
1996 George Krevsky Fine Art, San Francisco, CA
1992 San Francisco Art Institute’s MFA Thesis Exhibition: Snakes, Herbst Pavilion, Fort Mason, San Francisco, CA
1991 San Francisco Art Institute, Walter McBean Gallery, San Francisco, CA
1991 Matrix International ’91, Lite Rail Gallery, Sacramento, CA
1990 San Francisco Art Institute, Walter McBean Gallery, San Francisco, CA
1989 Third Annual Emeryville Art Exhibition, Emeryville, CA
1988 Second Annual Emeryville Art Exhibition, Emeryville, CA
1998 ProArts Exhibition, Oakland, CA
1987 Fuji Studio, Studio Arts Center International, Florence, Italy
1986 BFA Exhibition, Baskin Art Center, University of California, Santa Cruz, CA

PUBLICATION/PRESS
2001 Cox, Jeff. Print A Story. The Press Democrat. December 16, 2001
1998 Contemporary Bay Area Artists: Through April 25 George Krevsky Fine Art. San Francisco: SF Bay Guardian. April 15, 1998.

CORPORATE COLLECTIONS
LensCrafters Corporate Headquarters, Tokyo, Japan