Biography

Wendy Leigh Curtis was born a Georgia Peach in the city of Atlanta of which she remembers little, save for the taste of boiled peanuts and sweet tea. Family winds blew her from Florida to Ohio, where she decided at a young age she wanted to be an artist. She has spent the the last ten years in New York City as a Jane of all trades, working to balance art, community, learning, and teaching.

Artist Statement
"Art is something to hold onto, a kind of root that runs deep." -Romare Bearden

"The things we now esteem fixed, shall, one by one, detach themselves, like ripe fruit, from our experience, and fall." -Ralph Waldo Emerson

"Love is reciprocity and so is art." -Jeanette Winterson

Littering my studio space with dried flowers, fruits, found objects, and recyclables, I have sought to investigate how things fall or change from a seemingly fixed state into something else altogether. I am interested in the relation between all stages of life passing, which is not the same as life ending. I have always gravitated towards figurative elements, which is reflected in the organic textures and modeling seen throughout my work. Some works are created with a particular social commentary in mind while others are personal meditations for me. Regardless of my motivation for making art, I hope that these works create a space for interaction with the viewer.