![Three paintings of screaming young women are installed on the far wall of a room with 3 walls. There is a pink painting in the center, a yellow painting on the right, and a blue painting on the left. On the back wall behind the paintings there is a repeated stencil painted in pink of silhouettes of the Beatles playing their instruments.](https://bfafinearts.sva.edu/wp-content/uploads/Leonardis_Aynsley_Beatlemania-Studio-Installation_2021_7-Aynsley-Leonardis-970x800.jpg)
Aynsley Leonardis, Beatlemania, 2021. Installation view.
In both process and product I aim to defend, uplift, and glorify obsession, hysteria, love, and teenage girls.
![A young woman is painted screaming and weeping. Her head is tilted toward the viewer’s lower right side. Her left hand is pushing against the left side of her face. Her eyes are closed and her eyebrows are knitted together. Her mouth is open. Her hair is in a low ponytail. The background is a flat medium blue.](https://bfafinearts.sva.edu/wp-content/uploads/Leonardis_Aynsley_Beatlemania-II_2021_5-Aynsley-Leonardis-663x800.jpg)
Aynsley Leonardis, Beatlemania II, 2021. Oil on canvas. 24 x 30 inches.
![A young woman is painted screaming, with her hands pressed against either side of her face. Her eyes and mouth are open and she is facing toward the viewer’s left. Her face is painted in mostly cool tones with some yellow and pink. She has short hair. The background is a flat bubblegum pink.](https://bfafinearts.sva.edu/wp-content/uploads/Leonardis_Aynsley_Beatlemania_2021_4-Aynsley-Leonardis-670x800.jpg)
Aynsley Leonardis, Beatlemania, 2021. Oil on canvas. 24 x 30 inches.
![A young woman is painted screaming. Her head is tilted up and toward the viewer’s left. Her eyes are closed and her mouth is open wide. Her hair is long with bangs. Her hands are clasped at her chest. The background is a flat yellow.](https://bfafinearts.sva.edu/wp-content/uploads/Leonardis_Aynsley_Beatlemania-III_2021_6-Aynsley-Leonardis-652x800.jpg)
Aynsley Leonardis, Beatlemania III, 2021. Oil on canvas. 24 x 30 inches.
![A chainmaille coif displayed on a white plastic mannequin head. The coif is adorned with pinback buttons of various sizes and colors. In this photo the right side of the coif is visible.](https://bfafinearts.sva.edu/wp-content/uploads/Leonardis_Aynsley_Now-I-Know-How-Joan-of-Arc-Felt_2021_2-Aynsley-Leonardis-630x800.jpg)
Aynsley Leonardis, I Know How Joan of Arc Felt, 2021. Aluminum jup rings and pinback buttons. 16.5 x 7 x 12 inches.
![A chainmaille coif displayed on a white plastic mannequin head. The coif is adorned with pinback buttons of various sizes and colors. In this photo the left side of the coif is visible.](https://bfafinearts.sva.edu/wp-content/uploads/Leonardis_Aynsley_Now-I-Know-How-Joan-of-Arc-Felt_2021_3-Aynsley-Leonardis-680x800.jpg)
Aynsley Leonardis, I Know How Joan of Arc Felt, 2021. Aluminum jup rings and pinback buttons. 16.5 x 7 x 12 inches.
![ET, the character from the 1982 film, is crudely painted in a red bikini on a yellow and white striped lawn chair. They are looking over a pair of sunglasses and drinking out of a glass with an umbrella. Next to them is a small table, on it, a copy of Playboy magazine and sunblock labelled “SPF whatever”. There is a fence and a pool with pool noodles and a flamingo floatie in the background.](https://bfafinearts.sva.edu/wp-content/uploads/Leonardis_Aynsley_I-Was-A-Teenage-Extraterrestrial_2021_1-Aynsley-Leonardis-640x800.jpg)
Aynsley Leonardis, I Was A Teenage Extraterrestrial, 2021. Oil on canvas.
24 x 30 inches.
![10 framed images of different collections. There are images of collections of Star Wars, Kylo Ren, Twilight, Andy Warhol, My Chemical Romance shirts and action figures, Doom Patrol comics, ET, Sesame Street, and Phantom of the Paradise. All images are four by 6 inches photographed on a disposable 35 millimeter film camera.](https://bfafinearts.sva.edu/wp-content/uploads/Leonardis_Aynsley_Hoard_2021_8-Aynsley-Leonardis-1113x800.jpg)
Aynsley Leonardis, Hoard, 2021. 35mm photographs and assorted frames. Dimensions variable.
![10 framed images of different collections photographed from a tight left angle. There are images of collections of Star Wars, Kylo Ren, Twilight, Andy Warhol, My Chemical Romance shirts and action figures, Doom Patrol comics, ET, Sesame Street, and Phantom of the Paradise. All images are four by 6 inches photographed on a disposable 35 millimeter film camera.](https://bfafinearts.sva.edu/wp-content/uploads/Leonardis_Aynsley_Hoard_2021_9-Aynsley-Leonardis-1200x800.jpg)
Aynsley Leonardis, Hoard (detail), 2021.
![Detail of artwork titled Hoard by Aynsley Leonardis.](https://bfafinearts.sva.edu/wp-content/uploads/Leonardis_Aynsley_Hoard-Detail_2021_10-Aynsley-Leonardis-1200x796.jpg)
Aynsley Leonardis, Hoard (detail), 2021.