I have been invited along with my collaborator Lianne Arnold to give a talk about our recent installation, Closing Ceremony to students and professors at the Accademia di Belle Arti di Firenze on January 19, 2024 at 2:30pm. We have been invited by Professor Anna Luppi and the new Dean of the Academia, Professor Gaia Bindi as a part of Professor Luppi's conference "Farewell Ceremonies"
Our collaborative video has been recognized as an experimental film in the Florence Indie Film Festival. Collaborators: Lianne Arnold (video) and Elisheba Ittoop (sound).
Curated by Leslie Kerby and Michelle Weinberg for Project: ARTspace.
Open to the public:
Wednesday, June 7 - Friday, August 4, 2023
Opening reception
Wednesday, June 7, 6-8 pm
Artist Talk with Lonnie Potter
Wednesday, June 21, 6-8 pm
Project: ARTspace is pleased to present a solo exhibition of works by New York City-based artist Ai Kijima. Kijima creates meticulously quilted works from textiles gathered from her travels and experiences in the world. She was born and raised in Japan, and from an early age was fascinated with textiles. Her immersive works fuse the vocabularies of Kimonos, kasuri and katazome indigo, childrens' illustrated bedding and folkloric and vintage fabrics from Europe, India, Africa and Turkey where she lived for five years. Of the pop-inflected works using textiles marketed to children, Kijima states " I love the bold, eye-popping imagery of the characters, pop icons and patterns. In my mind they hold a special historical importance within our throw-away society. I want to rescue them before they disappear. To me they are cultural artifacts of our time that are worth saving." Mystic's Riddles features some of the largest works Kijima has created in her studio lately, many incorporating octagonal pieces.
A conversation in the gallery between Kijima and artist/writer Lonnie Potter is scheduled for Wednesday, June 21, 6-8pm.
He writes: The works in Ai Kijima’s new show Mystic’s Riddles are best understood as sculpted paintings. In each she stitches together segments from a wide range of source textiles—children’s cartoony bedsheets pulled from Goodwill shelves, Uzbek ikats found in Turkish bazaars, strips of Japanese kimonos or Indian silk sarees—somehow managing to reverently preserve phrases from the stories these fabrics told, while collaging them to tell new stories of her own.
Many thanks to the Virginia Center for Creative Arts (VCCA) for their support of this installation that will take place July 10-18, 2023 at a Chapel in Auvillar, France along the Garonne River and one of the pilgrimage routes to Santiago de Compostela. The installation considers cemeteries as their own social network and takes a view to trends in memorialization now that many physical cemeteries worldwide are at capacity. A collaborative project with video designer Lianne Arnold, the installation includes mobiles created with basswood, vellum and string representing actual monuments and symbols from East coast cemeteries and a 20 minute video projection that involves drawings, photographs, animations, sound and mapped projections. The concepts, research-driven, have been compiled in a booklet written by Paul D'Agostino and translated into French by Morgan Cini. This is an on-going project that will be updated with each new siting.
Follow our project on instagram @lesliekerby, @liannearnold
Works by the artists assembled for "Cuts A Figure" are involved in the construction of objects/images that refer to, adhere to otherwise modify a body. Mulling over and immersing themselves in material and craft, the conjure the figure from ground. Invited by Michelle Weinburg. @availablespace #upstateart #sharonsprings #artistinitiative
Opening event: June 17, 1-5pm | Sharon Springs is 1 hr west of Albany and about a half hr northeast of Cooperstown, NY.
You can find us on Instagram at:
Sharon Horvath @horvath.sharon
On the occasion of our 10th year of CounterPointe, Norte Maar is pleased to honor long standing board member Leslie Kerby!
Leslie has been instrumental in the strategic development and sustainability of Norte Maar. We honor her as a valued board member, a vocal supporter of the arts in general, and as an accomplished interdisciplinary artist whose own work focuses on issues related to how we lead our lives as individuals.
Join us for an intimate post-performance gathering, a toast, and Persian-inspired eats celebrating Leslie Kerby's 10 years of service to Norte Maar!
Sat, Mar 25 at 8:45pm Bijan's 81 Hoyt Str, Brooklyn
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INTRODUCING FLAT FILES
Featuring Margrethe Aanestad, Elisa Bertaglia, Leslie Kerby, David Syre, Dov Talpaz, Sasha Vinci, and Alice Yang
SARAHCROWN New York
373 Broadway
New York, NY 10013
www.sarahcrown.com
February 7 – ongoing, 2023
SARAHCROWN is pleased to announce the launch of our first Flat Files program: a curated selection of works on paper by SARAHCROWN artists. The program is introduced by an online and on-site exhibition, on view between February 7 – 21, 2023. The works can be purchased online or in-person at the gallery. Three of my artworks are included on the site.
Traditionally, the term “Flat File” refers to two-dimensional and unframed artworks that can be stored in flat file cabinet drawers, mostly on paper. These works can be drawings, paintings, collages, watercolors, prints, and photographs, while also including smaller scale works on panels or boards. Our own Flat Files contain a diverse range of artists and works from our portfolio, and gather different mediums, approaches, materials, and techniques together to present a coherent, stylized, and an economically accessible option.
The program aims to promote smaller scale works, and give voice to artists who produce two-dimensional works as a significant part of their artistic practice.
In 2022 I submitted my collaborative video project to a variety of Film Festivals in the US and abroad. We are honored to have been nominated for Semi-final status in the following Festivals
Dubai Independent Film Festival, Chicago Filmmaker Awards, Vancouver Movie Awards, Rotterdam Independent Film Festival, Brussels World Film Festival. Collaborators - Lianne Arnold (video designer), Elisheba Ittoop (sound designer). A link to the video is available at the video link on the website.
FROSCH&CO is pleased to present Paper Power, featuring artists Yvette Cohen, Elise Engler, Leslie Kerby, Eva Lake, Magnolia Laurie, Vicki Sher, and Jeanne Verdoux.
Paper is small. Delicate. Fleeting. It is our notepads full of miscellany and marginalia. The to-do lists we hang on the fridge. Yet paper is also the letters we preserve, the journals we pass down, and the books we cherish. It is the substrate on which much of our memories survive, revealed to us in pen strokes, creases, and smudge marks. Featuring large drawings by all women artists, Paper Power engages paper as an archive of women’s embodied experiences and their claim to space.
Leslie Kerby’s drawings critically examine the American healthcare system, capturing the societal and political problematics of the industry in intimate, charged moments between doctors and patients. Her figures encounter one another in liminal spaces teeming with fungi and flora, implying both decay and the potential for healing and regrowth.
Frosch & Co. 37 E Broadway, NYC Open Wednesday - Sunday noon to 6pm and by appointment.
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Featured on Artsy.net Women Artists to Watch, January 28, 2023
I am pleased to have 125 mono prints in this edition of BAU - Container of Contemporary Cu
Artist Angelica Bergamini invited artists from New York and Europe to participate in this edition that includes 67 artists in total. The project is on view in September 2022 at Paola Raffo Arte Contemporanea in Pietrasanta, Italy.
#contemporaryculturecontainer
#pietrasanta
Additional venues:
Presented in Milan at Palazzo Reale, Piazza Duomo 14, Sala Conference, 3º piano, February, 2023
In the Archives at
Mart Roverto
Paola Raffo Gallery
Many thanks to artist Meg Hitchcock who conducted this wide ranging interview about me and my work and how I came to art making.
The interview can be found at this link.
The two person exhibition Shuffling Liminal Episodes with art by Leslie Kerby and Michelle Weinberg has been reconfigured and installed at ArtPort Kingston, Kingston, NY. The installation will be on view through during the Upstate Art Weekend, now in its second year The installation will also be available throughout the summer into fall 2022.
#shufflingliminalepisodes
#mwpinkblue
#availablespace
#lesliekerby
#upstateartweekend
#upstateart
#kingstonny
#artgalleryupstate
#paintingsonvellum
#drawingsonpaper
@artportkingston
My work will be featured at the Yard Columbus Circle this summer into fall with Sara Crown NY.
Lazy, Hazy, Crazy Days of Summer opens June 8 - September 24, 2022.
The Yard at Columbus Circle 33 West 60th Street, Manhattan.
With artists Elisa Bertaglia, Gabriele Grones, Leslie Kerby, Gina Occhiogrosso, David Syre, Dov Talpaz, Osaretin Ugiabe and Sarah Vinci. Curated by #sarahcrown_ny.
Curated by Sally Beautie Twin, Parade of the Species includes an Art Show, Parade and other art making activities and events on Governor's Island over four weekends May 21 - June 12, 2022.
Schedule below.
Artists include: Amanita Muscaria, Jemila MacEwan, Suzanne Kiggins, Anna Gardner,
Aliene de Souza Howell, Sally Jerome, Greg Corbina, Kerry da Sliva Cox, Leslie Kerby, Robert Zott Julia Adler, Sarah Coote, Marta Lee, Nick Jussen, Ronit Levin Delgado Rojaas, Isobel Joy Robinson, Jeffrey Morabito, Neil Constantine, Chihiro Ito, Melinda Keifer and others.
Brooklyn Utopias: Along The Canal
April 10 Opening Reception, 4-6pm
April 9 Opening Reception Arts Gowanus Coffey Park Banners, 12-5pm
Arts Gowanus and the Old Stone House & Washington
Park have invited artists to consider what “Utopia” would look
like for communities bordering the Gowanus Canal.
Curated by Katherine Gressel and Arts Gowanus
Visit Friday - Sunday, noon - 4 pm
336 Third Street (bet 3rd & 4th Sts). Brooklyn
By Subway--F (4th Ave) R (Union St) B63 Bus
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https://www.cbsnews.com/newyork/video/art-project-reimagines-life-along-gowanus-canal/#x
https://www.brooklynpaper.com/arts-gowanus-brooklyn-utopias-opens/
https://patch.com/new-york/parkslope/artists-imagine-utopia-along-gowanus-canal-new-exhibition
April 6 - June 17 Shuffling Liminal Episodes Opening Reception Tuesday, April 12, 5-9pm
Like a stack of snapshots, Leslie Kerby and Michelle Weinberg’s works on paper and vellum individually alight on various settings, some specific, some imagined.
Project: ARTspace 99 Madison Avenue, 8t
New York, NY 10016
Visit Monday - Friday 11am - 5pm
Masks at your discretion.
UPCOMING:
The artists will be in the gallery on the following days:
May 20 from 6:30-7:30 pm Artists Talk: A conversation with Heidi Norton, Leslie Kerby and Michelle Weinberg
May 4 from 4-6pm Tea with the Artists
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Art Spiel Blog https://artspiel.org/shuffling-liminal-episodes-at-project-artspace https://westbeth.org/michelle-
April 6 - May 6 Artists Draw Their Studios Opening Reception Wednesday, April 6, 6-8pm Works by more than 40 artists invited by Michelle Weinberg Hewitt Gallery,
Marymount Manhattan College. 221 East 71st St. New York City.
With Kelly Rae Adams, Fanny Allie, Octavio Campos, Francis Cape, Karlos Carcamo, Hallie Cohen, Annette Cords, Chris Costan, Anne Devine, Janet Gloeas, Terri Hackett, Kylie Heidenheimer, Juan Hinojosa, Carter Hodgkin, Jayne Holsinger, Sharon Horvath, Christine Ravena Hughes, Will Hutnick, Julia Jacquett Leslie Kerby, Kristin Lamb, Kakyoung Lee, Joan Linder, Nancy Lorenz, Judy Mannarino, Margo Margolis, JoAnne McFarland, Maureen McQuillian, Eva Melas, Portia Munson, Anne Muntges, Liza Phillips, Leslie Jane Roberts, Lydia Rubio, Claudia Sbrissa, Kristen Schiele, Polly Schindler, Beth Shipley, Jeanne Silverthorne, Karen Snouffer, Maryann Strandell, Rachel Urkowitz, Josette Urso, Odalis Valdivieso, Michelle Weinberg, Eleanor White, Etty Yaniv.
Masks and ID may be required.
@nycmarymount @mwpinkblue @available_space
@lesliekerby
I am excited to be among the cohort for Session I for the 2022 Artists-in-Residence at the Lower Manhattan Cultural Center's Art Center.
The 2022 Arts Center Residency offers short-term, project based residencies to artists and creative practitioners whose work is concerned with the broader themes of equity and sustainability.
#LMCCArtsCenter
#Governors Island
#artsresidency
This new exhibition will feature 12 my paintings on vellum from the series Happy Place created in the winter of 2021. The series has become a powerful statement about community.
HOME SWEET
Leslie Kerby, Julia Kuhl, Heather Morgan, Patricia Satterlee, Jeanne Verdoux
Opening Thursday, December 9, 6-8
December 9, 2021 - January 16, 2022
Location : 34 East Broadway, New York
Hours:
Wednesday - Sunday | 12 - 6pm
or by appointment appointment@froschportmann.com
Face masks encouraged
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Honored to have been selected as a semi-finalist for The World Contained II as an Experimental Short out of 500 entries from 55 countries. This collaboration with designer Lianne Arnold and sound designer Elisheba Ittoop, explores the world of shipping containers, their use in our global supply chain and their re-use for a variety of market applications. (see Video link on website to view).
The Woodstock Byrdcliffe Guild is proud to present Artists Draw their Studios, opening October 9 and on view through November 21, 2021 at the Kleinert/James Center for the Arts. Invited by artist Michelle Weinberg and inspired by her practice of periodically drawing her own studio, approximately 50 artists will contribute drawings of their workplaces in a unique project that exposes the diverse ways that artists perceive their own creative work and lives.
Participating artists include Kelli Rae Adams, Sally Apfelbaum, Sam Bornstein, Jenny Brillhart, Francis Cape, Karlos Carcamo, Susan Carr, Dimitry Chamy, Amanda Church, Hallie Cohen, Karen Combs, Elisabeth Condon, Chris Costan, Melanie Daniel, Anne Devine, Nereida Garcia Ferraz, Janet Goleas, Theresa Hackett, Kylie Heidenheimer, Carter Hodgkin, Sharon Horvath, Christine Hughes, Will Hutnick, Bethanie Irons, Julia Jacquette, Leslie Kerby, Kirstin Lamb, Nancy Lorenz, Judy Mannarino, Margo Margolis, Maureen McQuillan, Kathleen McShane, Anne Muntges, Laura Newman, Anne Peabody, Liza Phillips, Nora Riggs, Leslie Roberts, Lydia Rubio, Donna Ruff, Bonnie Rychlak, Shuli Sade, Kristen Schiele, Jeanne Silverthorne, Karen Snouffer, Sara Stites, Mary Ann Strandell, Natasha Sweeten, Christina Tenaglia, Sarah Trigg, Rachel Urkowitz, Josette Urso, Kristiina Uusitalo, Michelle Weinberg, Etty Yaniv.
Exhibition on view October 9 – November 21, 2021
Kleinert/James Center for the Arts
36 Tinker Street, Woodstock, NY
Gallery hours: Friday – Monday, 12 noon – 5 pm
Link full press release:
The Mod House of Ellenville is pleased to introduce our inaugural art show "Hanging at Home" with opening events the weekend of September 17th - 19th, 2021, and the art on display by invitation until October 31st. Curated by Julie McKim, a veteran New York art world mover with experience at The Whitney, Performa, The Kitchen, and Kunsthalle Galapagos, the show features artists Leslie Kerby, Grayson Cox, Natalie Capannelli, Juan Hinojosa, and Erik Hougen.
Press
https://upstater.com/mod-
house-midcentury-lodge- speakeasy-in-ellenville/
Back to Nature, 2021, Monoprint with chine collé, 30 x 40 inches has been included in the online exhibition "the one who best understands the significance of light"
Pleased to have two drawings included in Vasari21's annual drawing round-up
Art Spiel blog is hosting my latest community project on their blog. You can access the full project at this link. https://artspiel.org/leslie-ke
The Washhouse One Year Later at Equity Gallery, New York City
Opens March 31 - April 4, 2021
When painting the Washhouse series, Melanie Vote was searching for the untold stories of what might have occurred there, reckoning with a troubled North American past, masked behind a seemingly banal 100 year-old structure. In the spirit of The Washhouse, initially an outbuilding used by people to launder garments, we are asking artists to create a work on paper and hang it on a clothesline at Equity Gallery, to produce and make visible their deepest concerns and literally bring them to light.
This is the New Silk Road, 2021, inkjet on silk organza, thread and japanese paper with fiber, 14 x 12 in.
Interview with filmmaker Natasha Maidoff for Artist Planet about my work and life as an artist.
Access the interview at these links
Watch (YouTube): bit.ly/ArtistPlanet3
Listen (Spotify): bit.ly/ArtistPlanet
See more of this work and the work of 50 other artists at this link.
36 Female Artists Address Gun Issues and our culture of violence in the USA. What does American value? Life or Liberty? This exhibition is a "locked and loaded" conversation through art that addresses our culture of violence and gun issues in the United States--particularly how it affects women, children, and marginalized peoples.
Curated by Karen M. Gutfreund, the exhibition is being hosted by three galleries in Syracuse, New York: ArtRage Gallery, Community Folk Art Center and Point of Contact Gallery.
Press release
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Virtual Exhibit
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http://dailyorange.com/2021/02/syracuse-resident-curates-art-exhibit-to-address-gun-violence-racism/
TV Interview: https://www.localsyr.
Artist Talk
Pleased to have my submission to The Monuments Contest (part 2) featured here.
Odetta Digital part of the SHIM Network has organized an online exhibition Pandemic Proof that will be viewable on Artsy.net beginning September 24 through November 15, 2020. Featuring work by over 50 artists.
https://www.artsy.net/show/
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The publication which can be purchased on Amazon.com, includes 3 out of 10 of my paintings chronicaling the first 100 days of the current administration.
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https://progressive.org/dispatches/art-activism-in-age-of-trump-bader-201001/
Brooklyn-based artist Christina Massey initiated a project to bring artists together to collaborate on artworks and at the same time support the Post Office during the pandemic. The result is over 700 artworks and counting that are now being exhibited in a series of traveling exhibitions.
Opening September 24 at 5pm through - November 15, 2020 at the Ely Center for Contemporary Arts (https://elycenter.org) in New Haven, CT. Gallery hours: Sundays 1-4pm & Thursdays 5-8pm and by appointment.
This is my collaboration with artist Laura Karetzky.
Zoom virtual opening: Thursday, October 8, 2020 @6:30pm
City-wide open studios Weekend October 17 & 18, 2020
July 17 - September 17, 2020
Curated by Hugo Bastidas and Elizabeth Demaray
"In describing Leslie Kerby’s Please Stand By, a work in which the artist depicts sixteen television sets in a grid-like format, Bastidas writes, “In both form and content, Leslie Kerby’s Please Stand By reflects the great pause we are enduring. The work consists of a repeated still of a TV screen showing conflicting and disjointed information/misinformation. This work reminds us that as we carelessly or carefully sift through information, it remains nearly the same every day. The captions are about our daily routines, which are noticeably amplified due to the self-confinement we endure for safety. Kerby’s reductive visualization of our complex state makes our condition even more painfully apparent; we’ve lost our illusion of independence and realized our strength in numbers and dependence upon each other.”
Re/Location July 17- September 17, 2020
is a group exhibition that reflects the cathartic essence of the current moment. Connections have either fissured or strengthened while the new and other remain suspended in the present. The process of change appears as an alluring, unknown chasm while we remain in the middle of an ongoing motion that is conflicting, complex and unresolved.
Re/Location features new artworks by July Ancel, Ilona Anderson, LaThoriel Badenhausen, Jessica Baker, Serena Bocchino, Michele Brody, Hedwig Brouckaert, Pauline Chernichaw, Muddyum Choudhury, Vivien Collins, Ernest Concepcion, Annette Cords, Francine Demeulenaere, Cora Jane Glasser, Marietta Hoferer, Susan Kaprov, Leslie Kerby, Pavel Kraus, Michael Kukla, Sally Lelong, Katsura Okada, Miguel Olivera, Kara Rooney, Ethan Shoshan, Jaime Steiger, J. Wren Supak, and Nola Zirin.
This exhibition presents works of collage, drawing, installation, painting, performance, printmaking, sculpture, textile and video.
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"Sea Change" organized by @odettagallery in collaboration with the SHIM Art Network on Artsy.com Opens June 15, 2020. This is Containment SY U22H0, 2016 Monotype collage with relief block printing and intaglio chine collé.
#artkeepsgoing
Artists Equity Association (nyartistsequity.org) presents Equity and Justice an online exhibition and donation drive to support #blacklivesmatter. June 12 - June 19, 2020. All proceeds from the sales of artwork will be donated to Just Leadership's (jlusa.org) #2MillionVoices.
"More than 2 million people are currently incarcerated in the United States. #2MillionVoices is Just Leadership USA's national project dedicated to elevating the expertise and stories of the human beings currently incarcerated in our jails and prisons."
I am raising funds through ArtFare in Support of the ACLU and George Floyd Family.
This is Critical Mass IV, 2019 Relief monotype with vinyl and woodblocks. See this and other work at https://www.artfare.com/
Pleased to be invited to participate in Art Spiel's interviews with artists on coping during COVID-19. The interview can be accessed at https://artspiel.org/artists-on-coping-leslie-kerby/
Many thanks to Ground Floor Gallery for organizing Deep Blue See, an online group exhibition selling prints to benefit Prevent Child Abuse America. 10% of sales from this show benefit their partner organization, Prevent Child Abuse America, and $100 from each $200 "Blue Print" for Prevention sale will go towards the organization as well.
Me & You and Everyone We Suspect I, 2009, monoprint with paper litho transfer, 22 x 30 inches appears in the flat file show as part of the exhibition First, Second and Third Person January 19 - February 16, 2020.
https://www.pierogi2000.com/
Containment ZW U22V2, 2018, Monoprint collage with linocut and intaglio, 17 x 15.5 in appears in HOME at Kentler International Drawing Space January 12- February 9, 2020
HOLIDAY exhibition at LABspace
December 8 - January 26, 2020
Hillsdale, New York
https://www.facebook.com/labspaceart/
DRAWING at SITE Gallery Brooklyn
December 13 - January 18, 2020
https://www.sitebrooklyn.com/drawing-exhibition-page
In October-November, 2019 I was a Visiting Artist at the American Academy in Rome. It was an opportunity to do research and sketch ideas about public space for a future series.
The Clarinet Player, 2001, linocut (3/5) appeared in an article about a collector's home in the June/July issue of Luxe Magazine, Southeast edition.
June 29 - July 21, 2019
NETWORKS AND SYSTEMS - Leslie Kerby and Lianne Arnold Collaborations
One Brooklyn Bridge Park
360 Furman Street | Brooklyn, NY 11201
Open hours -
Wednesdays 3-8pm
Thursdays - Saturdays 12-7pm
Sundays 12-4pm
Receptions -
Wednesday, July 10 5-8pm
Thursday, July 18 5-7pm
Networks and Systems presents three projects developed by Leslie Kerby and Lianne Arnold through video, sculpture and installation. Closing Ceremony, an installation that will be in-progress for the duration of the exhibition will present a positive reflection on the community life of the cemetery and offer new ways in which we may consider memorializing loved ones as physical memorial parks and cemeteries are increasingly less availble. The World Contained sculpture and video animation The World Contained II uses the container shipping industry as a a force in our global economy as well as their re-use for housing and a variety of other market applications. The third project, The Laying On of Hands reflects upon the systems, networks and players that comprise our healthcare systems.
Support for the space is provided by @chashama #spacetopresent
For more great events visit www.chashama.org
As Above, So Below
Gowanus Dredgers Boathouse
Address: 165 Second Street, Brooklyn
Opening Reception - Saturday, May 11, 1 - 5 pm
Gallery Hours: Saturdays, 1 - 5 pm or by appointment
(email sashachav@gmail.com for appointment)
Open Mother's Day, Saturday, May 12th 1 - 5 pm
Curator: Sasha Chavchavadze
Artists: Monique Allain, Diane Bertolo, Jeri Coppola, Phyllis Ewen, Donna Maria de Creeft, Leslie Kerby, Mikael Levin, Nancy Manter, JoAnne McFarland, Jennifer Marshall, Andrew Mockler, Tammy Pittman.
https://www.artpoetica.org/new-page
My piece for Among Friends/Entre Amigos, May 3-12, Clemente Soto Velez Cultural & Educational Center 107 Suffolk Street @theclemente Organized by Alexandra Rutsch Brock, Beth Dary, Patricia Fabricant, this is a fundraiser for the Lower East Side Girls Club.
May 3-5 and May 8-12, 2019, 12-7pm
Inspired by the Robert Rauschenberg artwork "Hiccups", Among Friends reflects and responds to the strength and illumination we find through art, friendship and community.
Salon Zurcher Gallery
33 Bleeker Street, New York, NY
Dance with Me
A celebratory exhibition curated by gallery artist Kyle Staver
Opening May 11, 2019 from 6 - 8 PM
May 10 - June 15, 2019
https://www.artland.com/exhibitions/dance-with-me-888167
Jane South
Julie Evans
Kyle Staver
Julie Heffernan
Janice Nowinski
Helen O’Leary
Sharon Horvath
Ruth Marten
Staver Klitgaard
Sarah Walker
Katherine Bradford
Barbara Takenaga
Susanna Coffey
Leslie Kerby
Anne Harris
Jenny Lynn McNutt
Lisa Corinne Davis
Elisabeth Condon
Jennifer Coates
June Leaf
Benefit Exhibition for Visual Aids
February 22-24, 2019
Bortolami Gallery
39 Walker Street, Tribeca, New York City
Feb 22 6-8pm
Feb 23 10am-6pm
Feb 24 12pm-4pm
Born out of a collaboration between Brooklyn-based Centotto and Bologna-based Officina 15, Ondate / Waves is an iterative, itinerant sequence of traveling exhibitions of postcard-sized artworks and messages addressing, in various ways, the theme of migration.
The first showing will be at Officina 15, located in the Castiglione dei Pepoli area of Bologna, with an opening on 26 January 2019.
I had the great pleasure of working within the community of Auvillar, France for the month of October, 2018 as a Fellow with the Virginia Center For
Creative Arts. I spent the time developing a community project that resulted in a book of photographs and drawings and worked with layered collages and clay to react to the history of the place and the environment— creating new stories and "artifacts"
Exhibiting works from the Containment series in "Out of Many" with Julie McKim Projects/SHIM in Aqua Room 227, Miami Florida December 5-9. 2018
VIP Preview December 5, 3-10 pm
Out of Many
Curated by Julie McKim
Inspired by Joseph Beuys’s idea of “social sculpture”, Out of Many brings together seven distinct artists to distribute their specific ideas and intentions into the world through the far-reaching forum of an art fair.
Post-war German artist Joseph Beuys created the term “social sculpture” to encompass his belief that both art and human creativity have the potential to transform society and enact social and political change. He conceived of his “multiples” as a way to distribute these intentions and ideas to a much larger audience.
Interview with Etty Yaniv @ Art Spiel
Containment
Mitzi and Warren Eisenberg Gallery
June 1–September 9, 2018
Containment features artwork from a group of artists who examine the shipping containers and ships that move goods, people, and power across the oceans. The containerized shipping industry is central to international commerce and largely responsible for our increasingly globalized economy. The artists featured include David Packer, who has created a ceramic version of a shipping container, and Linda Ganjian whose sculptural installation reimagines a container-ship accident. Also included are Erin Diebboll and Gabby Miller, who have both been artists-in-residence on container ships and have created art in response to their firsthand experiences—Diebboll’s meticulous drawings illustrate the contents of shipping containers, and Miller used the ship’s engine oil as her medium for a series of paintings.
Additionally, a site-specific installation by Leslie Kerby in Marité & Joe Robinson Strolling Gallery I, explores the movement of shipping containers and incorporates sculpture, mixed media works on paper, and video animation.
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Hyperallergic
https://hyperallergic.com/450336/oh-what-a-world-what-a-world-containment-visual-arts-center-of-new-jersey/
Art Spiel
http://artspiel.org/nj-visual-arts-center-global-angst/
An extensive interview "The Slyly Activist Art of Leslie Kerby" with Ann Landi of Vasari 21 about my practice and recent solo exhibition The Laying On of Hands at Project: ARTspace.
It was an honor to have The World Contained II video animation featured in Art Connects New York's benefit presentation CIVITAS: Art Connects New York 2018 Spring Benefit at Paula Cooper Gallery, New York City. Honoring For Freedoms, the benfit celebrates the organization's partnership with the Robert Fulton Houses in Chelsea. Monday, June 4, 2018
Exhibition on view: Charles Gaines, through June 23, 2018
The World Contained II is a collaboration between Leslie Kerby, Lianne Arnold (design) and Elisheba Ittoop (sound design).
Solo Exhibition
Leslie Kerby: The Laying On of Hands
May 15 - June 15, 2018
Opening Reception: May 16, 7-9 pm
Artists Talk: June 9, 3pm
Project ARTspace
99 Madison Avenue, 8th Floor
New York, NY 10016
Exhibiting works on paper and a video animation created in collaboration with designer Lianne Arnold. Catalog essay by Paul D'Agostino, Ph.D.
“In The Laying On of Hands, one of Leslie Kerby’s most polyphonic bodies of work to date, the artist turns her critical eye towards one of the most politically charged, ideologically divisive, societally expansive and, at the very same time, most deeply intimate issues of our time in the United States: our healthcare system. By tapping into a broad range of her artistic skills and techniques — drawing, painting, printmaking and mixed media collage, among others Kerby has crafted one of her most fully realized, conceptually seamless bodies of work to date.”
— Modified excerpt from “Manual Realizations,” Paul D’Agostino’s essay for the exhibition catalogue
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After Vasari http://https://aftervasari.wordpress.com/2018/05/23/manual-realizations/
Project ARTspace's inaugural show in its new location
99 Madison Avenue 8th Floor Manhattan
March 6 - March 26, 2018
Opening Receoption
March 6, 7-9pm
Screening of The World Contained II animation
BRIC Radio interview with journalist Alexis Madrigal
BRIC Arts|Media
647 Fulton Street, Brooklyn, NY
January 8-17, 2018 and January 22 & January 29, 2018
Open Mondays 10am-6pm
Tues-Fri 10am-6pm (break from 2-3pm)
Sat & Sun 10am-6pm
The artists will be present:
Fri, January 12, 4-6pm & Sat January 13, 1-3pm
The World Contained II video animation, is a collaboration between visual artist Leslie Kerby designer Lianne Arnold and sound designer Elisheba Ittoop, presented in BRIC’s Garage Door Video Series.
The animation is part of a work on paper and sculpture series using shipping containers and their re-use as a construct. A now ubiquitous element of global trade, containers are increasingly repurposed as shelters and used in new community applications. The animation references this dynamic. The schedule follows:
In addition, BRIC Radio has recorded a conversation between Leslie Kerby and independent journalist Alexis Madrigal about this project and his related research for the 8-part podcast Containers—“it looks at how global trade really works and the people who do the labor of moving stuff.”
https://soundcloud.com/bricradio/leslie-kerby-the-world-contained-ii
Inward/Outward: Responding to the Built Environment
Garvey | Simon
547 West 27th Street, New York, NY
January 4th - February 10th, 2018
Curated by Joseph Gross
Opening Reception: January 4th, 6-8pm
Press:
Art Daily
http://artdaily.com/news/101497/Garvey-Simon-opens-a-group-exhibition-curated-by-Joseph-A--Gross#.WlYQPGVOmEd
ONE YEAR OF RESISTANCE
The Untitled Space
45 Lispenard Street Unit 1W, New York, NY
January 16 - February 4, 2018
Curated by Indira Cesarine
Opening Reception: January 16, 6-9pm
Press:
https://www.widewalls.ch/one-year-of-resistance-untitled-space/
http://observer.com/2018/01/the-5-gallery-shows-to-see-in-new-york-this-january/
https://www.vogue.com/article/untitled-space-gallery-nasty-women-one-year-after-trump
http://www.cnn.com/style/article/trump-one-year-art-action-day/index.html
https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/2018/jan/17/one-year-of-resistance-exhibit-anti-trump-art
http://www.nydailynews.com/entertainment/theater-arts/trump-america-reflected-year-resistance-art-show-article-1.3762596
https://www.metro.us/news/local-news/new-york/new-york-gallery-commemorates-one-year-resistance
https://artefuse.com/2018/01/04/one-year-of-resistance-at-untitled-space-gallery-125300/
http://bedfordandbowery.com/2018/01/art-this-week-marking-a-year-of-resistance-and-more/
http://www.blouinartinfo.com/news/story/2797284/one-year-of-resistance-at-the-untitled-space-new-york
https://www.timeout.com/newyork/news/an-inspiring-resistance-themed-art-show-opens-in-nyc-next-week-011018
Introductions 2018
Trestle Gallery
850 Third Avenue, Brooklyn, NY
January 19 - February 28, 2018
Curated by Enrico Gomez
Opening Reception Friday, January 19th, 7-9pm
Being Well: In Search of Utopia?
Old Stone House
336 Third Street (bet 4th & 5th Avenues) Park Slope Brooklyn
Open Fridays 3-6pm or by appointment 718-768-3195
EXTENDED through January 7, 2018
Curated by Katherine Gressel
Featuring artists:
Zoey Hart
Leslie Kerby
Anthony Heinz May
Carolyn Monastra
Shana Moulton
Carmen Paplia
Shervone Neckles
Jenna Spevack
Tafftoo Tan
Jody Wood
Being Well: In Search of Utopia? is a group exhibition exploring artists’ role in defining and facilitating community health and wellness. At a time of anxiety over the future of healthcare, the environment, and a population increasingly divided, individual and collective healing are at the forefront of many conversations
I collaborated with printer Bryan Summer and Master Printer Justin Sanz from the Robert Blackburn Printmaking Workshop on this three color photo lithograph with a 16 piece chine colle. Edition of 5 Titled: Please Stand By.
Print featured in this announcement
http://us12.campaign-archive1.com/?u=1e7c90506c4e06f6503c74a46&id=d332e1a809&e=e138c63a52