leslie koptcho

Leslie Koptcho is a Professor at Louisiana State University where she teaches Printmaking, Papermaking, and Arts-of-the-Book. She holds a BFA from Temple University in the Tyler School of Art and an MFA from Cranbrook Academy of Art.

Koptcho is deeply inspired by the complexities and visual contradictions found in the natural world. Her prints range from richly textured, large-scale intaglios to those employing digital technology and microscopy in combination with traditional printmaking processes.

Her prints focus on metaphors for personal identity and boundaries—some fragile—that separate the outer world of appearance from the inner one of private, psychic complexity. By looking closely at her environs, she endeavors to strike chords of empathy for all living things, and to hint modestly at mysteries that are hidden in plain view.

Koptcho's artwork is included in 39 permanent collections worldwide including Bibliotheque National de France, Department of Prints & Photographs, Paris, France; Brooklyn Museum; Fogg Art Museum; Library of Congress, Artists' Books Collection; Marion Koogler McNay Museum; Mino Washi Museum, Director’s Collection, Mino, Japan; New Orleans Museum of Art; The New York Public Library, Spencer Collection; Printmaking Museum of Duoro, Alijo, Portugal; Queensland University of Technology Art Museum, Brisbane, AUSTRALIA; and the Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco/Legion of Honor Museum, The Reva and David Logan Collection of Illustrated Books.

Artist Member since 2019

Master of FINE Art, CRANBROOK ACADEMY OF ART

Bachelor of Fine Art, TEMPLE UNIVERSITY, TYLER SCHOOL OF ART

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