ABOUT And Something Different Studio Gallery
Our Mission is to provide a wonderful, creative space for all art lovers to spend time and have a fantastic experience.
Located in Arts District Liberty Station in Point Loma,, we offer contemporary art for home and commercial spaces, as well as exciting community events.
Are you looking for DIY, creative, fun things to do in San Diego? We offer inspiring Adult Painting & Drawing Classes and Encaustic Workshops.
Find us upstairs on the Second Floor of Barracks 19, in Studio 202. We want you to have a great time and to learn about Art. Start your new collection of art today or add to your existing collections. All are welcome!
Looking for some DIY creative fun things to do in San Diego? We offer inspiring Adult Painting & Drawing Classes and Encaustic Workshops.
About Artist Leslie Pierce
Leslie Pierce is a multidisciplinary contemporary artist, known for art that focuses on people in environments juxtaposed with coding systems, technology, and social fragmentation. Her a-ha moment came while she was printing a reference image, as her printer was running out of ink. The print portrayed skipping vertical banding of color, showing abstract figuration in a new way. Pierce began painting vertical lines in oil paint to generate value, form, space, time, and place. Form and value seem to be ironed out in space, while simultaneously standing up, suspended in time. These concepts are contrasted in luscious palettes of ice cream colors that flourish in slice-of-life scenes.
Pierce also works in Video Art as an extension of paintings. She is inspired by Pop Surrealist artists as well as artists of the past, including Monet, Manet, and Pieter Brueghel, the Elder.
Leslie Pierce is honored to have one of her pieces in the permanent collection of The Harry Ransom Center at The University of Texas at Austin and has been awarded multiple Special Projects grants in Austin and San Diego to expand her work.
She holds two art degrees: a B.F.A. from The University of Texas at Austin and an Associate degree in Video Game Art from A.C.C.
While living in Austin, she organized and curated group art exhibits, taught Painting and Drawing for the Austin Museum of Art’s Art School at Laguna Gloria, and founded and hosted a popular all-male model Life Drawing and Painting group for the Austin Visual Arts Association.
Leslie moved to San Diego in 2014 and paints and teaches at her studio gallery in Arts District Liberty Station. She continues to work on series involving present events, adding new paintings and multi-media components, including Video Art and 3D.
She served on the Board of Directors of the San Diego Museum of Art Artist Guild as Lead of the Exhibitions Committee. Leslie organized and spearheaded the project from the initial exhibition proposal and concept to the fruition of “The Art of Now- Pushing Boundaries” exhibition, which was a blockbuster exhibit, juried and curated by Max Presneill of The Torrance Art Museum. The exhibition took place in June 2026 at Union Hall Gallery in San Diego. See the 72 artists and learn more about “The Art of Now” exhibition HERE.
Exhibition history and Bibliography, here. Artist Statement CV