A women-owned Point Loma studio in Barracks 19 at Liberty Station, Artist Leslie Pierce Studio / And Something Different Gallery shows contemporary oil, acrylic, and encaustic work plus adult painting classes at 2690 Historic Decatur Road. The artist's Code Defied series — figurative work layered with printer-banding abstractions, coding systems, and fragmentation — has shown at Liberty Station's own Martha Pace Swift Gallery through a self-pitched, self-curated exhibit that generated Community Grant support for the Together Liberty resident collaborative project. Skill-building oil and acrylic painting classes run alongside Encaustic hot-wax mixed-media workshops, from drop-in single sessions up through multi-week intensives structured for adult beginners through experienced collectors. The boutique-sized class format — small groups, individual attention, Exchange-for-Equal-Value barter available — distinguishes the studio from higher-volume Liberty Station creative drop-ins such as The Hot Spot Studios Liberty Station Pottery Painting, which runs a walk-in ceramics model. The most elaborate commissions are large-scale Code Defied paintings for commercial spaces, where the artist uses archival materials and multi-media components including Video Art and 3D elements installed alongside the primary canvas — hand-signed originals sized to anchor lobby walls rather than drop into a First Friday browse-through tour.