Gleah Powers

In her mid-teens, Gleah began classical art training with Paul Coze, a French painter, public art sculptor and muralist, anthropologist, and French authority on Native Americans. She became his apprentice and worked for him intermittently for ten years. In her early 20s, she studied sculpture and pa...

In her mid-teens, Gleah began classical art training with Paul Coze, a French painter, public art sculptor and muralist, anthropologist, and French authority on Native Americans. She became his apprentice and worked for him intermittently for ten years. In her early 20s, she studied sculpture and painting at Arizona State University and traveled to Mexico to attend art school at the University of the Americas. When she returned to the states, she continued her art studies at California Institute of the Arts.

Her first solo show was at the Myrna Loy Art Center in Helena, Montana. Her work has been exhibited at the Holter Museum in Helena, Newport Harbor Art Museum, Laguna Art Museum, Orange County Center for Contemporary Art, The Women’s Building in Los Angeles, Antioch University Los Angeles, Highways Performing Arts Theatre in Santa Monica, and Los Angeles City Hall.

In addition to Paul Coze, her early influences were Chagall, Kandinsky, De Kooning, O’Keefe, Picasso and Tamayo.

Gleah works in acrylic and oil paint, charcoal, pastel, collage and mixed media.