Leslie Nemour

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.