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What Is Your Fantasy?

Leigh Craven, Manlius NY

Leigh Craven artwork

What Is Your Fantasy? is a series of 22 polyester print lithographs . The adhesive bound "board book" structure is covered in Japanese silk with décor of an etching and silkscreened title. Created in 2006 in an edition of eight.

"Our relationships are complex. What we project to the outside world may not be the reality of our inside world. But each of us exposes clues about our life and our relationships with the look of an eye, the expression of our mouth, our body language. We expose each of ourselves in ways we may not have realized. And simultaneously, we clothe ourselves in deceptive guises as means of protection. Portraiture opens the door to the sitter's personal space. It provides insight to the subjects' character, their identity."


Leigh Craven has a BFA in printmaking from Cornell University and a MFA in printmaking from the Rhode Island School of Design, and studies bookbinding with Peter Verheyen. She has taught at LeMoyne College in Syracuse, New York, is currently teaching in the Department of Art at Bridgewater State College in Massachusetts, and has been a visiting professor at various other institutions. Her work has been exhibited widely in group and solo exhibitions earning her numerous honors and awards.