| Leslie Harris, Miami 1974 BFA Fine Art Photography, USF, Florida 1974-75 Graduate School, Fine Art Photography, USF 1970-75 Exhibited in various graduate student and undergrad exhibitions 1972 Turnberry Arts Festival First Place award, Ceramics 1972 Winter Park Art Show, 3rd Place, ceramics 1973 Exhibited "Various Small Tampa Houses" collection work at Tampa Bay Civic Center 1974 Feature article about and photos published in "Petersen's Photographic" magazine 1974 Collection of 5 photos of Florida placed in Senator Stone's collection. 1975 Collection of 10 Landscapes purchased for Southeast Banks Collection. 1970-74 Exhibited regularl at "Grove House", Miami and at Several galleries in Tampa Florida. 1976 Exhibited in group show "Professional Women Artists of Florida", LOWE Museum 1979-85 Photographed for well known artists, in NewYork Such as Red Grooms, Jacques Lipschitz,Frank Stella and others. Commisioned by galleries and museums as Metropolitan Museum of Art, Odyssia Marlbrough, Droll Kolbert , Salander O'Reilly and many others 1986 Moved to Miami, opened a studio and exhibited in a two person show on Las Olas Blvd. 1989 Featured in showcase article of "Ten Top Florida Photographers" in South Florida Magazine 1990 Participated In "Picture South Florida" with ASMP Work was shown at Miami Museum of Art 1986-07Various Covers and sprieadsfor Magazines such as "OMNI" Magaizine, "Baby Times" "Nuestra Gente", "Bride", "New Miami Magazine" "CREATE" Magazine and many others 1987-07Photographed of numerous national and inter- national companies for magaizine covers, ads and editorial speads. Billboards, POP for Entenmanns, Sears, Kraft Foods, Knorr Foods, Thomas English Muffins, Seafood Packaging, Boboli, Snuggles, Royal Caribbean Cruise Lines, Celebrity, SA Peck , Kays/Sterling Jewelers, Tampico, Goya Foods, Aurafin Jewelry and many, many other wonderful clients. 2007 Returned to Fine Art Heritage. Exhibited 8x10 series "Prodigy" at Onessimo Gallery, W Palm Beach 2007 Exhibited print at New York AIPAD showat Michael Shapiro Gallery, San Francisco 2007 Exhibited in group "Emerging Artists" at Oneessimo Fine Arts Gallery, W Palm Beach, FL 2008 November, Group Exhibition, Black and White Land- scapes, Michael Joseph Gallery, Ft Lauderdale 2009 New Orleans Photo Alliance juried exhibition "Desire" showing large, "Mail Order Bride", and "Favorite Colors", lifesize. Juror, Mayumi Lake Chicago Art Institute. 2009 February, Rayko Plastic Camera group show 2009 May, Nominee "People" category, "Sympathetic Man" International Color Awards, Master's Cup 2009 "Contemplating The Event" In the slideshow at NOPA, New Orleans, "Forever Hold your Peace" exhibit. Juror: Sylvia Plachy 2009 Daniel Azoulay exhibition, "Don" 2009 IPC Photocontest, juror: Barbara O'Keef, Coral Springs Art Museum, "Flowers, Greece" 2009 3 honorable mentions in the IPA Lucie Awards FACTOID: Leslie was the very first woman photgrapher admitted into the South Florida chapter of ASMP. She was also the first person to be accepted upon first review of her portfolio. Several women photographers thanked her for paving the way! Her work is in the UNICEF Collection and Dade Heritage Trust and in various private collections. UNICEF is using "Mail Order Bride" currently to promote awareness of early child marriage, trafficking and abuse. SILVER GELATIN LANDSCAPES Glorious, billowing clouds, strange lights in the surreal black and white series, provide a glimpse into a dreamlike state of vision. It allows the viewer to revel in the simple beauty of nature itself. These are archivally, handprinted 16x20 to 18x24, gelatin silver. Other works, in “Miami Another Reality” are shot 8x10 format and printed life size, provide glimpses into other lives left in what appears to be another time. And probably are. These are slices of lives many don’t always and some never want to see. Lives on and outside the fringes of society. The prints, 72”x 58” are so large, that we become drawn in closely. Then, we can see the actual threads, the lines of humanity that bind us all. For some it may be a little too close and unsettling. The wealth of experience drawn from 20 years of shooting mainly large format for national and international clients has given me great knowledge and experience. These tools allow me to speak, fluently, my first language of vision. |