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Jim Leedy
Untitled Slab with Colored Tears (#891)

1989

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Jim Leedy Untitled Slab with Colored Tears (#891) Raku-Fired Stoneware 1989 Approx. 20 in in diameter COA provided Comes with original papers Ref.: #891 Ref.: 924802-1010 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 emerge from Abstract Impressionism, with a sense of materiality, surface, structure, and veiled figuration. With a graduate study of Asian art history at Columbia University, he created a hybrid of Abstract Expressionism and Oriental pottery which is central to his oeuvre in clay. Chinese tripod bronzes and Japanese folk pottery were reinterpreted with an informal American twist that established him as an early leader in the American Clay Revolution. ​Never satisfied with the status quo, his career has been a lifetime of exploration and chance-taking that has occasionally put him on the outside of major art movements, while often anticipating them. He continues to break ground in processes, materials, and subject matter that is unique to his times and personal life. "I try to forget everything I have learned, and attempt to flow with nature."
  • Creator:
    Jim Leedy (1930 - 2022, American)
  • Creation Year:
    1989
  • Dimensions:
    Height: 2.5 in (6.35 cm)Diameter: 20 in (50.8 cm)
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  • Gallery Location:
    Kansas City, MO
  • Reference Number:
    Seller: 924802-10101stDibs: LU608310828842
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