Judith Leckrone Lee - Visual Narratives

Artist:  Judith Leckrone Lee
Title:   Four Palm Trees, Welton, AZ, 2021
Size:   Approx.11 x 14"
Print Type:  Archival pigment print
Price: $300

ABOUT THE WORK

(This piece is one of four from Judith that is currently being exhibited in the PCNW gallery as part of our 27th juried exhibition, Visual Narratives. On view until December 14, 2025.)

This image is from the series "SW X SW."

Every spring, I visit my father in the outskirts of Yuma, Arizona at the intersection of Arizona, California and Mexico - the most southwest corner of the southwest; a Bermuda Triangle where anything of interest and beauty seems to have vanished. Once native Sonoran desert, it’s been traumatized by corporate agriculture, military installations, RV lots, manufactured home subdivisions, indigenous and immigrant poverty, climate impacts and abandonment. The desert native landscape written off as ugly or dead and bulldozed into service or gussied up with imported tropical palm trees. Can there be justice for this landscape?

ABOUT THE ARTIST

Judith Leckrone Lee

Exhibitions

2025Visual Narratives, 27thPhotographic Center NW Juried Photography Exhibition, Mary Virginia Swanson, Juror

2024South Seattle Love, The Seattle Light Room, Seattle, WA, Jenny Hansen Das, Juror

Through a Train Window: A Transcontinental Love Affair, solo exhibit, The Seattle Light Room, Seattle, WA

Environmental Challenges and Paradises, Decagon Gallery, Brooklyn, NY, Juried

2023South Seattle Love, The Seattle Light Room, Seattle, WA, Jenny Hansen Das, Juror

2022Black, White and All the Grays Between, Rhode Island Center for Photographic Arts, Providence, RI., Eric Kunsman, Juror.

2021 Shoreline Arts Festival Art Exhibit, ShoreLake Arts, Shoreline, WA, Norman E. Riley, Juror and Freelance Photograher

Artworks Northwest Biennial Exhibit, Umpqua Valley Arts Association, Roseburg, Oregon. Grace Kook-Anderson, Juror, Curator of Northwest Art, Portland Art Museum

2020  Framed: Landscape and Architecture, Black Box Gallery, Portland, OR.  Todd Johnson, Juror

2019  Annual Chase the Light Selectionfor displayat 12th Ave Starbucks, Seattle, WA

Black and White: 2019, Black Box Gallery, Portland OR. Todd Johnson, Juror

Washington State Juried Art Competition, Collective Visions Gallery, Bremerton, WA.  Gary Faigin, Juror and Artistic Director, Gage Academy of Art

2017  Botanical, solo exhibit, Tin Umbrella Café, Seattle, WA

2016  UW Photography Certificate Program Student Exhibit, Stretch and Staple Gallery, Seattle WA

1985Naked, Boulder Center for Visual Arts, Boulder, CO, Juried

Arizona Photographers, Northlight Gallery, Tempe, AZ, Juried

Seven Tucson Photographers, Union Gallery, University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ

1984  Four Views: Tucson Photographers, Dinnerware Cooperative Artists    Gallery, Tucson, AZ. 

Gender Construction, Handwerker Gallery, Ithaca College, Ithaca, NY , Juried 

1983Portraits/Nudes: Judith Leckrone, Catacomb Gallery, University of Arizona

Heat People/New Work, Cadence Studio, Tucson, AZ

1982Lightsong Gallery, University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ

1980Pima College Art Association Annual Exhibition, Student Union Gallery, Tucson, AZ

1979Self-Portraits: The Artist as a Woman, Leon County Public Library, Tallahassee, FL 

Publications and Featured Work

• Stratus: Journal of Arts & Writing. Summer 2016, University of Washington Continuum College 

• Gender Construction: A Visual Inquiry into Gender and Photographic Representation.  

• Mazagine’s Notebook. Vol. 8, Pima Community College, Tucson, 1980

• Sun Dog, Poetry Arts Co-op, Florida State University, 1980

• Sun Dog, Poetry Arts Co-op, Florida State University, 1979

Collections

• Center for Creative Photography, Tucson, AZ. 

Education 

• Photographic Center Northwest Certificate Program, February 2018 to Present

• UW Certificate Program in Photography, Spring 2016 and Winter 2016

• M.A. Urban and Environmental Planning, University of Virginia, 1987

• B.A. General Studies with Emphasis in Fine Arts and Humanities, University of Arizona, 1983 

Relevant Employment

• Assistant Archivist, Center for Creative Photography, Tucson, AZ, 1984

• Photographer, Arizona Daily Wildcat, 1983-1984

• Teaching Assistant, Pima Community College Department of Art, 1980

• Camera Technician and Offset Printer, Executive Office Supply, Tallahassee, FL, 1978-79