Lea Basile-Lazarus is an intuitive abstract printmaker and papermaker who has been an artist and educator for most of her life. Lea’s passion for printmaking grew in undergraduate school, at The College of New Jersey. She received her MFA with a concentration in Printmaking from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. For 25 years she was an art educator in the northern suburbs of Chicago, IL. Throughout her teaching career she was involved in social justice and social-emotional curriculum. Lea has been a recipient of a teacher Fulbright to Japan and spent three weeks in Africa visiting Ghanaian schools and villages, in both cases studying their culture and educational system.
Lea is a professional artist creating contemporary prints and paper pulp paintings. Her art is a colorful web where solid shapes and varied lines interact to keep the viewer engaged in a playful myriad of palpable textures and moods. Lea’s artwork is often a reaction to the world around her. The frenetic mark elements are the conversations, the emotions, and the words that are not meant to be heard. Following her move to the Northwest, the “sacred role of trees” has recently inspired her artwork.
Lea currently lives in Gig Harbor, WA. She is active in the Gig Harbor art community, president of the Gig Harbor Open Studio Tour, a Gig Harbor Arts Commissioner, and is involved in the Peninsula Art League.
Lea has participated in a 3 person show at the Robert C. Williams Museum of Papermaking in Atlanta, GA, a one person show at Evanston Art Center, Evanston, IL, Jeffrey Moose Gallery, Bainbridge, WA, and Mavi Contemporary Gallery, Gig Harbor, WA. She has participated in local shows through the Peninsula Art League where she has won several awards. Lea’s paper pulp paintings are created annually at Hook Pottery Paper in La Porte, Indiana. Lea is represented by Jeffrey Moose Gallery, Bainbridge, WA, and Ebbtide Gallery, Gig Harbor, WA.
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