Leigh Blanchard
ARTIST
Blanchard’s work explores perception and invites viewers to reconsider what a photograph can look like. Drawing from the paintings of her grandmother, artist Jean Schenider Johnson, she uses a camera, scanner, and scissors to reinterpret the original paintings, creating an intergenerational dialogue that celebrates familial creativity and artistic expression.
Leigh Blanchard is a Brooklyn-based artist working in photography and mixed media. Her work explores the mechanics of perception while incorporating processes of image making that aren’t traditionally deemed photographic including collage, scanography, and sewing. The abstract images that result from her process encourage the viewer to rethink their preconceived notions of what a photograph should look like.
In the featured works, Blanchard examines themes of family and creativity through work inspired by her grandmother, artist Jean Schneider Johnson’s, paintings. Using a camera, scanner, and a pair of scissors, she cuts, collages, and manipulates images of the original paintings in an improvisational and fluid process that expands the boundaries of the photographic medium. The resulting work reflects an emotional dialogue across generations, honoring inherited creative traits and artistic expression. Born in Chicago, Blanchard earned her photography degree from the Parsons School of Design and has exhibited her work in NYC, Chicago, and Berlin.
