Background
Leigh was born and grew up in New York City. Her mother was a mathematician.
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Abby Leigh
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Leigh was born and grew up in New York City. Her mother was a mathematician. She attended Brandeis University where she majored in Theater Studies before attending Guildhall School of Music and Drama.
She worked briefly as an actress, touring with the National Company of Butterflies are Free, and making numerous commercials.
She began to take drawing lessons at the Art Students League in New York, where her teacher, Will Barnet, encouraged her to become a painter.
Career
Her work is held in public collections internationally, including the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the Guggenheim Museum and the Whitney Museum. She is represented by the Betty Cunningham Gallery in New New York ″Abby Leigh"s recent paintings and ink drawings (2005-2007), brought together under the title "The Eye is the First Circle," cast Yayoi Kusama"s obsessive infinity nets over the visionary abstraction of Arthur Dove….”Landscape for the Profoundly Myopic” …might well herald myopia as a condition to be cultivated by 21st-century artist-visionaries." --Art in America "What is perhaps most remarkable about the drawings in My Personal Atlas is the balance between the lyrically private and the analytic.
The unfolding biomorphic flow of these drawings inevitably evokes the introspective surrealism of an artist like Arshile Gorky…"—The Brooklyn Rail "The results resemble…pregnant Robert Ryman canvases that delicately balance the scientific and the artistic”—Artnews.
