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ABOUT LEYLISMR.

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Biography

Leylis Victoria Burnette (Leylis MR. after her maiden last names) was born in Ica city, Peru in 1986. She received her bachelor in art education specializing in Visual Arts from the Sérvulo Gutiérrez Art School from Peru in 2006. She concludes her studies with honorable mentions for her academic accomplishments winning the gold medal for graduating first in her class. She also earned a degree in Tourism industry allowing her to expand her knowledge of the importance of history as legacy left by our ancestors for the future.

 

Burnette artworks have been exhibited in her country Peru and abroad such as The United States, Germany, Bolivia, Colombia, and Mexico, including shows at the Brazilian Embassy in Peru, Ministry of Cultural Affairs in Peru, Institut Für Alles Mögliche in Germany, Latino Art Museum in California US, Agua Fuerte Art Gallery in Mexico, and IX International Art Biennale SUBA Colombia, Coca-Cola Company Headquarters in Atlanta GA, The Hambidge Center Art Auction in Atlanta GA, among others. Her works has been also featured in contemporary poetry and a compilation of female artists artworks selection publications.

 

Her passion for art wasn’t just limited it to painting, she also could embrace different artistic disciplines such as music, theater, poetry, and traditional Peruvian folkloric dance that enrich her art productions as inspiration in a complex philosophical interpretation, representation, and projection of her world.

 

Leylis Burnette currently resides in Atlanta, Georgia since 2016, where she continues her incessant effort as an artist and as an art educator, sharing her love for the arts with young children and future generations about the importance of art in their life as a source of knowledge, a medium of self-expression, discovery of their own voice and cultural identity.

My works depict a mixture of all human feelings about love, fears, fragility, faith, hope... An endless list of sensations to be tasted in a blink. 

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My art represents the interior of humanity in its own way. It gets materialized through the human body's shape and folklore allegories immersed in elements of dance and poetry.

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It intends to reveal the beauty and core of human interior placed on a timeline of our society and its peculiarities. Viewers experience a revival of what we as humans tend to acknowledge, restrain, ignore, or love. Wherever life can’t reach, is where my art is... The human soul.

Artist Statement

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