I am a native of San Diego and have been working as a visual artist and art professor since I received my MFA from UC San Diego in 1981. While there, I discovered the common DNA between cinema and painting, and learned to talk about film as painting and painting as film.
As a studio artist, my influences and inspirations are globally intertwined with my Southern Californian upbringing. Imagery is adapted from references in popular culture but specifically from film and television. I connect eras of film history with memories and am transfixed by its eclectic and random nature.
I maintain a studio at my home in San Diego, travel when possible, photograph everything and paint often.
I am interested in the transition and translation from real life action, to film, to television, to digital photography, to drawing and then to painting; electronic media moving in a de-evolutionary pattern into the traditional medium of oil paint.
– Leslie Nemour
Curriculum Vitae
Selected Solo Exhibitions
2022
On the Cusp, Kruglak Gallery, MiraCosta College, Oceanside, CA
2020
The Flip Side, Prism Gallery, Osaka, Japan
2018
Lessons From the Dark, Alexander Gallery, Clackamas College, Oregon City
2017
Otherwise, Art Produce Gallery, San Diego, CA
2014
Betwixt, Not An Exit Gallery @ Bread and Salt, San Diego, CA
2013
Myth of the West, West End Gallery, San Diego International Airport, Terminal 2, one-year exhibition of the series “Love Lessons”
2010
L7, Sushi Performing and Visual Arts, San Diego, CA
2009
Variety Show, Northview Gallery, Portland Community College. OR
2008
RUTV, Hyde Gallery, Grossmont College, El Cajon, CA
2006
Sincerely, Kruglak Gallery, MiraCosta College, Oceanside, CA
In Care Of, Harwood Art Center, Albuquerque, NM
2005
Television Portraits, Crossing Tracks Gallery, San Diego, CA
2000
Vestidos, Northview Gallery, Portland Community College Art Gallery, OR
Heads & Tales, Cal State University San Marcos, San Marcos, CA
Out of the Corner of My Eye: Painting Between the Pages, Galeria Senecu, San Yselta School District, El Paso, TX
1999
Heads & Tales, Hyde Gallery, Grossmont College, El Cajon, CA