Cary Leibowitz

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Cary Leibowitz
Born1963 (age 5859)
Nationality American
MovementAbject Art

Cary Leibowitz, also sometimes known as Candy Ass [1] (born 1963), is an American visual artist. Leibowitz's work can be found in the permanent collection of the Chase Manhattan Bank, [2] the Hirshhorn Museum, [2] The Jewish Museum, [3] and the Peter and Eileen Norton Collection. [4] Leibowitz's work will be the subject of a career survey at the Contemporary Jewish Museum, San Francisco in January 2017.

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