Artist Bio

Leah Alexander is an American artist whose paintings explore themes of community and curation with color and light. A boomerang artist who’s back at the easel after a corporate career, Leah spent her formative years painting on the path to attending Washington University in St. Louis for an art degree. She was lured into a double major in accounting and Spanish, but graduated with a painting minor.

Following university, her life took her down an adventurous and varied path, including bartending in Buenos Aires, auditing for Deloitte, studying food anthropology at NYU, working as a hotel concierge in NYC, and eventually landing at Industrious, a coworking company where she grew her corporate career for the next 10 years. During this time she traveled and learned extensively, gaining tremendous appreciation for the connections we make along the way.

With gratitude towards her corporate learnings, Leah left that world in 2024 to pursue a creative life. She now resides in Paris, where she is focused on painting and other artistic endeavors, including art retreats and curation. Her paintings are often described as exuding color and life, and having a nostalgic quality that resonates with her collectors.

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Artist Statement

In my pursuit of a connected and creative life, I use painting to explore interiors, architecture, and objects that are simple in utility but rich in aesthetic impact: a cerulean garden hose against a bright white wall, the evening sun shining through a glass dessert plate, lavender shadows on orange fruit. 

My subject matter is rooted in my desire to collect and curate. My instinct to bring the right things together - be it a still life arrangement, a dinner order for the table, or a community of people - guides what I paint. Food is particularly important to me, as it’s so central to our identities and how we gather.

By embracing visible brushstrokes and letting underpainting shine through, I render liveliness and joy in the canvas’ stillness. I view the painting process as a string of micro decisions that result in a cohesive piece through the magic of trusting myself.

Within my work, you’ll find my life. As an American living abroad and a curious traveler and learner, art is my portal into new experiences. In French, a memory is a “souvenir,” and I’m drawn to those souvenirs we take with us from traveling and living, tangible and more ephemeral.

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