leigh salgado
Her signature style, hand-cut paper transformed into painting, Harkens back to the Mexican medium of papel picado.
Leigh Salgado is a nationally exhibiting artist based in Los Angeles. Her undergraduate studies were in Painting, Sculpture, and Graphic Arts at UCLA. Her Master’s Degree is in Clinical Art Therapy from Loyola Marymount University. After practicing art therapy professionally for several years, she renewed her fine art studies at the Santa Monica College of Design, Art & Architecture.
Her signature style, hand-cut paper transformed into painting, was first executed in 1996. Harkening back to the Mexican medium of papel picado, it has led to numerous solo shows: LAUNCH L.A. Gallery; MOAH (the Museum of Art & History, Lancaster, CA); LAX airport Tom Bradley International Terminal, Patricia Correia Gallery at Bergamot Station.
Salgado has also exhibited at the Oceanside Museum of Art, the Vincent Price Art Museum, Brand Library & Art Center, Leo Castelli Gallery at Brenau University GA, ART MRKT San Francisco, the Wignall Museum, the Miami Project art fair, the Beacon Arts Building, and Kansas City’s Greenlease Gallery among many other venues.