Leeza Meksin is a New York-based interdisciplinary artist working in painting, installation, and public. Born in the former Soviet Union, she immigrated to the United States in 1989. Leeza has created site-specific installations for The Utah Museum of Contemporary Art in Salt Lake City , The Kitchen in New York City, BRIC Media Arts in Brooklyn, Brandeis University , the former Donnell branch of the New York Public Library, and in a National Endowment for the Arts funded project in New Haven, CT for Artspace.  She is the recipient of the Rema Hort Mann Emerging Artist grant and in 2013 co-founded Ortega y Gasset Projects, an artist-run gallery and curatorial collective in Brooklyn.  Leeza received a MFA from The Yale School of Art, a BFA from The School of the Art Institute of Chicago and a BA&MA in Comparative Literature from The University of Chicago.  She teaches at Columbia University’s School of the Arts. Brian met up with Leeza at her current show at Miller Contemporary and talked about her well travelled youth, her love of fabric and the many ingredients that inform her work.