Leeza Doreian
Teaching Artist
Staff Member since 2009
By Marilyn Wong
Leeza Doreian is an Oakland based artist whose work explores time, attention, pattern, and conservation. Returning to individual items of discarded clothing as source material, her Paintings invert the process of mass-production, recasting what may otherwise be overlooked as banal into singular poetic experience. With a focus on systems and webs of connection, her work addresses the relationship between visual language, materiality, intimacy, and empathy. A fundamental concern is the ways we, as humans, understand and impact the world around us. Leeza received her MFA from the University of Texas at Austin. Her work has appeared in group and solo exhibitions in numerous galleries and museums, including: Artist Space, PS1, John Michael Kohler Arts Center, Root Division, The Lab, Fine Arts Gallery at San Francisco State and the Barbara Walters Gallery at Sarah Lawrence College. She is a Teaching Artist at Creativity Explored, and recently co-founded the art cooperative Mending Collective.
You can view Leeza's website here: www.leezadoreian.com
“I can’t envision a group of people with whom I would rather spend my days, or work I would rather do. It is beautiful and humbling to be here.”
