Leah Yerpe

Leah Yerpe is an American artist most well-known for her, primarily black-and-white, drawings of people. Yerpe's drawings often include figures that appear to be falling or tumbling down the page. She currently lives and works in Brooklyn, NY.

Early life Yerpe was born and raised in Cattaraugus County, NY. She grew up around farms in western New York. The subjects of her early drawings were often drawn from the natural world she experienced in her youth.

For her graduate studies, Yerpe attended the Pratt Institute in Brooklyn, NY. She earned her M.F.A. in Painting and Drawing in 2009.

Work Yerpe's drawings are often sized to human scale. Her drawings regularly take hundreds of hours to complete, refining details as fine as individual hairs. Daniel Maidman of HuffPost has described Yerpe as "an artist of this extraordinarily rare type" and her work as "ultracrisp, high contrast, supercool."

2014 Constellations, Purdue University, West Lafayette, IN Stellify, Dillon Gallery, New York City

2013 Stellify, The Gallery at Le Poisson Rouge, New York City

2012 Infinitum, Dacia Gallery, New York City

2011 Illumination, Dacia Gallery, New York City

2010 Lost in Space, Weeks Gallery, Olean, NY

2009 Leah Yerpe: Thesis Exhibition, Pratt Studios Gallery, Brooklyn, NY

2004 Images in Black and White, Jamestown Community College, Olean, NY

Group exhibitions

2017 Summer Cool, Anna Zorina Gallery, New York City Upbeat, Anna Zorina Gallery, New York City

2016 Summer Hours, Anna Zorina Gallery, New York City A Fine Line: Masterwork Drawings, Paul Mahder Gallery, Healdsburg, CA Art on Paper, art fair, New York City Winter Tales, Anna Zorina Gallery, New York City