Baudelaire

Big Red

Conversation

Point of Departure

Smoky Iris

Ciruela y Oro

La Perla

Blue and Yellow

Underwater Garden

La Madrugada

Bouquet with Devil

Wild Garden

Watermelon Garden

Mexican Bouquet

Cascata e Presencia

Black Rock

Thunderstorm

Calakmul

Becán

Tikal

Mayan Temple

Palenque

56 Pigeons book

56 Pigeons detail

Bug Book

Big Sur book

Rajasthan Sketchbook

Mexico book

GREAT APES PORTFOLIO 2003
5 charcoal drawings on paper
each 24x24"

"These powerful paintings have nothing to do with representation but with the force of color and the pigment itself. It is a relief to know that in these times painting can still offer us surprises."
GABRIEL HORNER GARCIA, director
El MUSEO de la CIUDAD, SANTIAGO QUERETARO, Mexico

"These highly sexual yet contemplative paintings represent an opening into Leigh Hyams' ripe maturity as a 'painter's painter.' They constitute a quest into what Rilke speaks of as a 'purely, earthly, deeply earthly, blissfully earthy consciousness.' "
ANNE TRUEBLOOD BRODZKY, director
MERIDIAN GALLERY, San Francisco, California

"The artist leads us into her world, a world that is ambiguous, futuristic. Sometimes Hyams calls that world simply 'strange.' What is strange? Do we mean nearly recognizable yet deviant enough to unsettle us? If yes, she first seduces us into color so magical that we lose control and feel off-guard."
THERES ROHAN, curator
MERIDIAN GALLERY, San Francisco, California

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See more of Leigh's books here.

Photography by Lulu Torbet, Mauricio de la Vega, Diane Goldstein, Jim Wallace, Susan Plum.

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