BIO
Lia Pileggi was raised in New York and received her BFA in photography from the University of Colorado. After working in the industry for a decade and feeling burnt out, she did a 180 and made the move from photography to ceramics in her art practice. The move from a medium that is often calculated, clean, dust-free and rigid, to a medium that was all about dirt, mess and experimentation was cathartic and freeing. After 5 years of making sculptural and functional ceramics Pileggi was diagnosed with two autoimmune diseases that began to deteriorate her body, making ceramics more difficult. At this point she pivoted again, this time to painting, where she currently remains.
While generating her work mostly in the shadows, painting for both self-therapy and the pure joy of creating, Lia is now ready to start peeking outwards from the studio and trying to get her work into the world. Her hope is that bringing awareness and visibility to chronic pain and invisible diseases, she might help others who struggle with similar afflictions.
While generating her work mostly in the shadows, painting for both self-therapy and the pure joy of creating, Lia is now ready to start peeking outwards from the studio and trying to get her work into the world. Her hope is that bringing awareness and visibility to chronic pain and invisible diseases, she might help others who struggle with similar afflictions.