Leisel is currently based in The San Francisco Bay Area, but raised in New Orleans. Much of her new work is influenced by the contradictions found in a typical southern Louisiana landscape-the raw beauty, the natural sound, and the stillness juxtaposed with the noisy reminders of complicated humanness. Weaving back and forth between hyper and calm, all of the work comes from being in a perpetual search for consciousness and understanding. Leisel’s work spans a diverse range of media that includes video, audio, still photography, instillation, sculpture, and text.

She studied at the Welch School of Art & Design, Atlanta, GA and later obtained her M.A. from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago.