Lines of discovery
The unseen, made visible
Scratchboard turns close observation into luminous mark-making. Botanical structures, spinal forms, waves, and imagined celestial spaces emerge through precise lines cut into darkness.
View works on paperArtist · Educator · Community builder
AnnettePerone Leiber
Seven decades of color, texture, observation, and invention—from luminous landscapes to abstractions of the unseen.
The collection
Works across a lifetime
Paintings, works on paper, and sculpture—sixty-six pieces gathered into one immersive view. Select any work to see it in detail.
Color reveals what the eye sees. Texture remembers what it felt.
Form beyond the frame
Art in three dimensions
Wood and mixed media carry the artist's language into space—layered, tactile compositions shaped by music, water, moonlight, and the terrain of the American West.
View sculptureCurator's selection
Top Picks
Six distinctive works spanning oil, watercolor, mixed media, and scratchboard.
About Annette
A life in art
Annette Perone Leiber has built a celebrated practice around close observation, material curiosity, and an enduring belief in art's power to illuminate.
An award-winning artist from Addison, Illinois, her work moves freely among painting, printmaking, collage, scratchboard, and sculpture. Natural forms, landscapes, memory, and microscopic structures become starting points for expressive experiments in color, texture, and line.
Her contribution extends well beyond the studio. As founder of the Addison Center for the Arts, she helped create a place for artists to exhibit, learn, and gather—strengthening the creative life of her community while earning more than 200 awards across her career.
200+Awards and honors
66Works in this collection
ACAFounder, Addison Center for the Arts
Selected exhibitions
Works in the world
Retrospective
Solo exhibition · Addison Center for the Arts · October–November 2024
Intrinsic
Solo presentation of 75 works · Elmhurst Art Museum · 2015
A creative legacy
Painting, works on paper, sculpture, education, and community arts leadership in Addison, Illinois.