About

Phoebe Legere is a multi-disciplinary artist who works in oils, ink, experimental media, resin, egg tempera, and sound. Legere transgresses the distinction between abstraction and representation/ male and female/spectacle and solitude/child and adult/sound and vision/science and spirituality.

Legere’s works inspire conversations about women’s issues, diversity, inclusiveness, cultural equity, Native American issues, the environment, and the volatility of consciousness.

Legere studied music at Juilliard and art at Vassar College.  Legere holds degrees in art, performance art, and a master’s degree in film scoring. “My education came from rubbing shoulders with creative geniuses.”

Phoebe’s painting teacher Larry Rivers introduced Legere to New York painters Robert Rauschenberg, Jasper Johns, Dennis Oppenheim, Louise Bourgeois, and Donald Judd. Legere had formative friendships with Keith Haring, Jean-Michel Basquiat, David Bowie, Allen Ginsberg, Peter Beard, Hunter Thompson, Terry Southern, Ethyl Eichelberger, Jack Smith, and Andy Warhol.

 Legere lives in Maine and Manhattan. Legere is internationally recognized as a painter, sound artist, multi-instrumentalist, and inventor. She is represented by galleries in multiple cities in the US and has exhibited regularly in various venues throughout the US, EU, and Brazil, and has received prestigious art awards in the US and Germany. Her pieces are owned by collectors and museums worldwide.

 Legere has had a life filled with experiences – from opening for David Bowie on his Sound & Vision tour (1991) to her groundbreaking work in multi-disciplinary experimental art.

  Legere’s life experiences, her appetite for truth and beauty, and her extraordinary friendships with the most creative personalities of our time are heated in the alembic of her art practice.