Join contemporary realist painters Leeah Joo and Cindy Rizza as they discuss their processes, inspirations, and work on view in our exhibition, tenera.

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Left: Leeah Joo, Pojagi Midnight Seki | Right: Cindy Rizza, Incubator

About Leeah Joo

Leeah Joo is a Korean-American painter based in Connecticut. Born in 1971 in Seoul, Leeah was raised by a sculptor father and an illustrator mother. At age ten, her family moved to Indianapolis, where she spent her youth. She studied painting and art history at Indiana University in Bloomington and received her MFA in painting from Yale School of Art. Her paintings have been exhibited widely in the U.S. and South Korea and recognized with awards from Pollock Krasner,  George Sugarman Foundation and Connecticut Commission on Arts. Since 1996, she has taught and served as visiting artist/critic for over 25 institutions including the Kansas City Art Institute, Maryland Institute College of Art, Hartford Art School and Fairfield University. She lives and paints in Middlebury and teaches at Southern CT State University in New Haven. 

About Cindy Rizza

Native to Maine, Cindy Rizza is a classically trained, representational oil painter with her BFA from the New Hampshire Institute of Art. Her iconic representations of familiar domestic subjects summon conflicting feelings of comfort and loneliness, hope and foreboding, and of life and loss. She is a recipient of numerous awards, including the Vermont Studio Center Artist Grant, Second Prize at the 9th Annual Lore Degenstein National Figurative Drawing and Painting Competition at Susquehanna University in Selinsgrove, PA and most recently the Best of Show Prize at the Wausau Museum of Contemporary Art Annual Juried National Exhibition, in Wausau, WI. Her work is collected internationally. Cindy lives and works in Southern New Hampshire.