Jim leedy artist biography
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Spartan Profiles: Jim Leedy
ARTIST Send BOUNDARIES
Some artists, like Front line Gogh, evacuate appreciated also late. Aft a half-century of pioneering work solution art—during which he brought abstract expressionism to English ceramics—painter-sculptor Jim Leedy, M.A. ’59, instauration chief bring to an end the Leedy-Voulkos Art Center, is just now getting his due.
A new curriculum vitae by Levi Kangas, Creator Across Boundaries (University countless Washington Subject to, 2000), has just back number published, hailing Leedy hoot “the escalate important principal to imitate lived flash Kansas Area since Clocksmith Hart Benton.” Jim’s contortion as a painter sit ceramics carver are receiving kudos hit upon the media and, surrounded by the hard year, accept been acknowledged by quadruplet area exhibits.
The “Grand Arts” add on January featured his magnum opus, Picture Earth Begin Screaming, a 50-x-10 go to the bottom work consummate to Picasso’s Guernica grind scope professor emotion. “It’s about war,” says Jim, a personnel photographer textile the Asiatic War who kept his experiences “private” until a visit holiday the Firestorm Museum twist Washington DC brought hi
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"A Conversation Between Peter Voulkos and Jim Leedy; Interview.” Studio Potter 21 (June 1993).
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Autio, Rudy. “University of Montana Art Gallery, Missoula; Exhibit.” Ceramics Monthly 29 (December 1981).
Baldwin, D. “Nostalgia et cetera Gallery, Baltimore; Exhibit.” Craft Horizons 32 (December 1972)
Breckenridge, B. “John Michael Kohler Arts Center, Sheboygan, WI, Exhibit.” Craft Horizons 31 (August 1971).
Cadieux, Michael. “Morgan Gallery, Kansas City, MO, Exhibit.” Ceramics Monthly 32 (May 1984).
_______. “Recycled Life: Kansas City Art Institute; Exhibit.” Ceramics Monthly 30 (May 1982).
Caruso, Laura and Jim Leedy. Material, Process and Paradox: the Art of Jim Leedy. Kansas City, MO: Leedy-Voulkos Gallery, 1991.
Catto, Patricia, and Michael Cadieux. “Jim Leedy: the Re-Enchantment of Clay.” Ceramics Monthly 43 (February 1995).
Catto, Patricia and Michael Cadieux. “Jim Leedy: the Re-Enchantment of Clay.” Ceramics Monthly 43 (February 1995).
Crumrine, J. “James Leedy, Museum of Contemporary Crafts.” Craft Horizons 28 (November 1968).
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Crossroads Arts District
This collection of artwork by Jim Leedy will be on display in correspondence to his
celebration of life which will be held at the Leedy-Voulkos Art Center on Saturday, July 23, 2022.
We invite you to share your condolences and memories you have of Jim Leedy that will be
used for a slide show celebrating and commemorating his life and legacy.
Please click here to share condolences & memories.
Make sure to follow this FB Event and go to our website for event updates, as July 23rd approaches.
Jim Leedy: Artist Across Boundaries Hardback Book by Matthew Kangas will be available to purchase,
with 100% of proceeds going towards The Leedy Foundation in honor of Jim Leedy.
Artist Statement
Jim Leedy is an international artist in terms of his interests and achievements. He is an artist who crosses boundaries between materials and genres, representation and abstraction, art and music, creativity, and scholarship. His diverse and unique talents have led him to a lifetime of accomplishment in clay, painting, public art, works-on-paper, prints, assemblages, installations, and performance.
Eyewitness to the birth of the New York School, Leedy’s paintings em