Simone Leigh

Simone Leigh
Born 1968 (age 46–47)
Chicago, Illinois
Nationality American
Alma mater Earlham College
Awards Creative Capital Grantee, Lower Manhattan Cultural Council's Michael Richards Award, Joan Mitchell Foundation Grant, Artist-in-Residence The Studio Museum in Harlem, NYFA Fellowship, Art Matters Foundation Grant

Simone Leigh (born 1968) is an American contemporary artist.[1][2] Leigh works in sculpture, video, and installation. Her influences include African art, ethnography and feminism. Her sculptures mix surreal juxtapositions of ceramics with found objects.[3] Her motifs include cowrie shells, roses, plantains, urns, and toilet bowl plungers; these forms, both molded and handcrafted, are often assembled, stacked, or hung in groups.[4]

Leigh has exhibited at The Kitchen; Tilton Gallery; Contemporary Art Museum in Houston; SculptureCenter, NY; Kunsthalle Wien in Vienna; L’Appartement22 in Rabbat, Morocco; the Andy Warhol Museum in Pittsburgh; and the AVA Gallery in Cape Town, South Africa. In 2011 she exhibited Breakdown (2011), a video made in collaboration with Liz Magic Laser and opera singer Alicia Hall Moran in "Evidence of Accumulation Artists" at The Studio Museum in Harlem.[5] Her 2012 exhibition at The Kitchen was well received, with positive reviews in Art:21,[6] Artnet.com,[4] and Ebony.[3]

References

  1. ↑ "Official CV" (PDF). Tilton Gallery. Retrieved 2 February 2014.
  2. ↑ Kemi, Ilesanmi. "An Interview with Simone Leigh". Art21. Retrieved 2 February 2014.
  3. ↑ 3.0 3.1 Cross, Una-Kariim A. "What She Says: The Surrealist Art of Simone Leigh". Ebony. Retrieved 2 February 2014.
  4. ↑ 4.0 4.1 Kley, Elizabeth. "MOUTHING OFF". Artnet.com. Retrieved 2 February 2014.
  5. ↑ "Evidence of Accumulation Artists in Residence 2010-11: Simone Leigh, Kamau Amu Patton, Paul Mpagi Sepuya". Studio Museum Harlem. Retrieved 2 February 2014.
  6. ↑ Caruth, Nicole J. "Gastro-Vision | Simone Leigh and the Fruits of Her Labor". Art:21. Retrieved 2 February 2014.