Lessette
Visual Artist
Lessette is an artist working in Drawing, based in Kinston, North Carolina. Known for Music.
I’m Lessette Kornegay — a multidisciplinary artist, painter, jeweler, vocalist and songwriter from Kinston, NC. known as Lessette. *I find inspiration in the mundane:* rust on an old truck that reveals faces, colors hidden in a turkey bone, resillience in an old house.
Education
School of Art and Design, East Carolina University
2004 – 2007BFA in Painting and Drawing with a minor in Art History
My painting "God's Mountain" was excepted in the Annual Staff Exhibition
Lenoir Community College Visual Arts Program, in Kinston, NC.
1982 – 1983Coursework in Drawing and Painting - no degree
I won 1st Place in their annual drawing competition
Exhibitions
CCA Annual Juried Exhibition
Arts Council of Kinston, Kinston, NC.
Group exhibition2020CCA Annual Juried Exhibition
Arts Council of Kinston, Kinston, NC.
Group exhibition2016CCA Annual Juried Exhibition
Arts Council of Kinston, Kinston, NC.
Group exhibition2015Celebrating Local Artists Exhibition
Arts Council of Kinston, Kinston, NC.
Solo exhibition2015Wabi-Sabi Art Exhibition
Overland Gallery
Group exhibition2015CCA Annual Juried Exhibition
Arts Council of Kinston, Kinston, NC.
Group exhibition2013African American Life in Eastern NC Exhibit
Junie Hardison Faulkner Gallery, JoynerLibrary, Greenville, NC.
Group exhibition2009Senior Exhibition
East Carolina University School of Art and Design
Solo exhibition2007Annual Faculty and Student Show
School of Art and Design, East Carolina University, Greenville, NC
Group exhibition2006CCA Annual Juried Exhibition
Arts Council of Kinston, Kinston, NC.
Group exhibition2006CCA Annual Juried Exhibition
Arts Council of Kinston, Kinston, NC.
Group exhibition2001WITN-TV Eastern NC High School Students Juried Art Show
Wilson Community College, Wilson, NC
Group exhibition2018
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