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| Simone Leigh |
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Simone Leigh is an artist living and working in Brooklyn. Leigh was born in Chicago, Il to Jamaican parents.
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Brooch #2
2008 porcelain, lab apparataus, steel, terracotta, platinum luster approx. width 38" , height 38" depth 14" |
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MONARCH
2008 plastic, zipper, t-pins |
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slipcover
2008 porcelain, plastic slipcover, steel, wire |
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wedgewood bucket
2008 colored porcelain, plastic |
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Mirror
2007 colored porcelain, beeswax, found object, steel |
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Queen Bee
2008 terracotta, TV antennae, gold luster, epoxy, wire |
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Installation view Rush Arts Gallery Gallery Project Space
February - March 2008 |
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Shown in image (left to right)
Uhura, video TRT 51 minutes, MONARCH and Queen Bee |
fetish object with vinyl formations
2007 terracotta, record albums, graphite |
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"if you want fo'lick old woman pot. You scratch him back."
2007 terracotta, maijolica glaze, wire (view from below) variable |
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"If you want fo' lick old woman pot. You scratch him back."
(The masculine pronoun is always used for female. Use flattery and you will succeed.)
This is a Jamaican proverb recorded be Zora Neale Hurston in her anthropological journal "Tell My Horse" written in 1938 |
pitch
2006 terrcotta, graphite, platinum luster |
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chandelier
2005 porcelain, glass, beeswax, wire variable |
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fetish object with work boot scarification
2006 toliet plungers, terracotta, mica, graphite |
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DETAIL of chandelier
2005 porcelain, glass, sea salt, bees wax |
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zombie version of a form I return to often in my work. |
head
2007 terracotta, porcelain, graphite paint |
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Evangelica, installation at Exit Art
2006 terrcotta, graphite, wire, glaze variable |
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Evangelica, installation at Exit Art
2006 terrcotta, graphite, wire, glaze variable |
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inlaid (DETAIL)
2007 clay and glass variable |
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stoneware with inlaid porcelain |
white teeth (for Ota Benga)
2005 porcelain, glass, steel, wire |
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white teeth (for Ota Benga) SIDE VIEW
porcelain, glass, steel |
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| 教育程度与个人自传 |
SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2008
Rush Arts Gallery Project Space, New York, NY
2005
Momenta Art Gallery, Brooklyn, NY
TWO PERSON SHOWS
2007
Done by the Forces of Nature, City of College of New York,
New York, NY curated by Roberto Visani
2001
Rush Arts Gallery, New York, NY, curated by Lea K. Green
SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2008
Ethnographies of the Future, Rotunda Gallery, Brooklyn, NY curated by Sara Reisman
2007
Material Culture, Longwood Art Gallery @ Hostos, Bronx, NY, curated by Juanita Lonzos
Red Badge of Courage, Newark Council for the Arts, Newark, NY, curated by Omar Lopez-Chahoud
Visual Jury, Fine Art Work Center, Provincetown, MA
Defensive Mechanisms (part of INTERSECTIONS) Henry Street Settlement, Abrons Art Center,
New York, NY curated by Martin Dust
2006
Wild Girls, EXIT ART, curated by Jodi Hanel, , Sarah Ryhanen, and Juana Gallo.
Henry Street Settlement, Abrons Art Center, New York, NY, AIR exhibition
Brooklyn Divas, Corridor Gallery, Brooklyn, New York
Figures of Thinking: Convergences in Contemporary Cultures,, curated by Vicky Clark and Sandhini Poddar, various venues including The Chicago Cultural Center, Chicago, IL, Richard E. Peeler Art Center, De Pauw University, Greencastle, IN Western Gallery, Western Washington University, Bellingham, WA, The Mc Dounough Museum of Art, Youngstown, OH, Tufts University Gallery, Medford MA and the Joel and Lila Harnett Museum of Art, Univeristy of Richmond, Richmond, VA, (with catalog)
2005
“From the Studio: Wish You Were Here…” curated by Franklin Sirmans, Co-dependent: Artists, Artist/Curators, & Curators Select Artists @ The Living Room, Miami, FL
Remnants and Relics: Reinterpretations in African American Art, Jamaica Center for Arts and Learning, Queens, NY (with catalog) curated by Heng-Gil Han
The Cathedral of St. John the Divine and LeRoy Neiman Gallery, Columbia University, New York, NY, curated by Bruce W. Ferguson and Milena Honigsberg
James E Lewis Museum of Art, Morgan State University, Baltimore, MD)
Watershed Kiln Gods, Gallery 1448, Baltimore, MD) (with catalog)
2004
Art Downtown: Connecting Collections, for the Deutsche Bank, New York, NY
Steuben Gallery, Pratt Institute, Brooklyn, NY
Baltimore Clayworks, Baltimore MD
2003
Skylight gallery, Bedford Styvesant Restoration Corporation, Brooklyn, NY and
The Nathan Cummings Foundation, New York, NY
2002
The Center for African American Art and NOEL gallery, Charlotte, North Carolina
2001
SMIRK, Women, Art and Humor, Firehouse Gallery, Hempstead, NY, curated by Debra Wacks
(with catalog)
EDUCATION 1990 BA in Art, Earlham College, Richmond IN
RESIDENCIES/INTERNSHIPS/GRANTS
2008- Artist in Residence, Hunter College in Ceramics Area
2007-08 Artist in Residence, School of Visual Arts Computer Art MFA program
2007-08 Lower Manhattan Cultural Council Workspace grant
2007 Astraea Foundation Visual Arts grant
2007 Robert Blackburn Printmaking Workshop, Elizabeth Foundation For The Arts
2006 Artist In Residence, Henry Street Settlement, New York, NY
2005 Wheeler Foundation grant
2004 Artist in Residence, Greenwich House Pottery, New York, NY
2001 Kiln God fellowship, Watershed Center for the Ceramic Arts, Watershed, ME
2000 Haystack Mountain School of Crafts, Deer Isle, ME
SELECTED BIBLIOGRAPHY
SUPERNATURE, Small Axe, A Journal of Carribean Cultural Criticism,
Issue 28, February, 2008
The Artist’s Kitchen, Recycled and Curated, The New York Times, by Penelope Green, June 14, 2007
SIMONE LEIGH, REBEL SOUL, TRACE Magazine, Issue #66, Yolanda Sangweni, October 2006,
The Thinkers, ANGLE, A Journal of Arts and Culture, Issue 29, 2006
By Douglas Max Utter
"Wild Girls," Flavorpill, issue 327, September 12, 2006, link to review
"Women Gone Wild, The Next Generation of Provocative Female Artists," New York Blade, Rafael Risemberg,
July 31, 2006
New York 1 News interview with Stephanie Simon at Wild Girls exhibit aired on June 23, 2006
Heyoka Magazine (online), Volume 4, May 2006
They Called Her Hottentot: The Art, Science and Fiction of Sarah Baartman, anthology edited by Deborah Willis-Kennedy and Carla Williams, February 2006
“Goings On About Town: Art,” The New Yorker, January 17, 2005
“Dateline Brooklyn” ARTnet Magazine, Stephen Maine, (2005)
“In the Realm of the senses: Lisa DiLillo and Simone Leigh,” Flavorpill, issue 241, January 6, 2005
“Brooklyn Artist Who Prefers To Show Others’ Work” The New York Times, Penelope Green, 2.8, 2004
“Freedom of Exclusion: The Rise of the Female Spirit in Contemporary Art” L.P Streifeld, NYArts Magazine, December 2001
“Some Laughing Matters, Women’s Art exhibit: More than funny, girl” Steve Parks, Newsday, 3/30/2001
“Bawdy Burlesque, Raucous Ribaldry” Deborah Frizzell, NYArts Magazine, April 2001
CONFERENCES/PANELS/SYMPOSIA
2007
Supernatural, artist talk at Fine Art Work Center, Provincetown, Mass
Mining History, Contmporary Art, The African American Museum in Philadelphia and the Tyler School of Art, moderated by Sophie Sanders
2005
Unparalleled salon, with Carrie Yamaoka, curated by Martha Southgate, Stacey D’Erasmo and Bliss Broyard,
2001
Symposium for the creation of the David Driskell Center on Africa and The Americas, panel on the Art of the African Diaspora, University of Maryland, College Park, moderated by Carla Peterson Women’s Caucus for Art Conference, Chicago, Il, “Body Language: Image and Art”, moderated by Marianne Woods
2000
“Slave Markets, Lynched Bodies and Hottentot Vessels: The Black Female Body in 19th. and 20th Century Art”, Feminist Art and Art History Conference, Barnard College, New York, NY, moderated by Adrienne Childs
"The Disconnect Between women’s studies and Art and Art history” National Womens Studies Association Conference, Simmons College, Boston, Mass, , moderated by Mary Jo Aagerstoun and Mary Ross Taylor
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| 未来的展览 |
The Future As Disruption, The Kitchen, New York, NY, curated by Rashida Bumbray and Matthew Lyons
B-Sides, ALIJIRA, Newark, NJ, curated by Edwin Ramoran |
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