Staff & Volunteers Exhibition

GINA LEON was born in Johannesburg, South Africa and raised in Canada and now residing in Los Angeles, California, where she works as an actress, visual artist, muralist, and arts educator.

Her early inspiration was drawn from her grandfather - abstract painter, sculptor, and architect, Monty Sack. Her mother, a goldsmith and potter, shaped Gina’s interest in ornamental and geometric design, decorative motifs and weathered textures. Inspired by landscapes, weathered surfaces, her painting is a process of layering elements in which abstract and more literal landscapes are conceived.
Her PAINTING and MURAL work for local businesses is varied: from abstract and impressionist landscapes, images inspired by the masters, to figurative work, city scapes and snippets of historical Vancouver, and more recently social justice pieces (as a studio assistant to Judith F. Baca at SPARC in LA).
Gina studied Theatre and Art History at the University of Toronto, Visual Art at the College of Art and Design in Sydney, Australia, and Acting at the New School for Drama in NYC. Her paintings and murals have been showcased in Vancouver, New York City (The William Bennett Gallery and The Rockefeller Center), and Los Angeles.