Leemour Pelli

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Leemour Pelli
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Leemour Pelli in New York City
Born1964 (age 59–60)
New York City, United States
EducationHunter College, MA in art history
Alma materSchool of Visual Arts, New York City, BFA in painting
Known forFigurative and Abstract Paintings, Sculpture, Prints
Website https://www.leemourpelli.com/

Leemour Pelli is an American artist living and working in New York City. She is primarily a painter and she also makes sculpture, works on paper, installation, prints, and photography. [1] [2] [3]

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Biography

Leemour Pelli was born in 1964 in New York City. Pelli received a Bachelor of Fine Arts degree in Painting from the School of Visual Arts in New York and she earned a master's degree in art history from Hunter College. [4] [5] Pelli also studied at the Ecole Nationale Superieure des Beaux Arts, the Academie Charpentiere in Paris, Cornell University, and the Bezalel Academy of Art in Jerusalem. [4]

Work

Pelli's work resembles medical imagery and x-rays [6] in the way she depicts anatomy [7] and the organs of the body, including the heart, rib cages, and lungs by seeing through the figure itself. [8] Distorted human figures appear with enlarged ribcages and hearts, overlapping lungs, and other anatomical organs such as intestines. [9] According to curator Robin Reisenfeld, Pelli's works use "anatomical and skeletal parts as a means to give physical presence to intangible emotional states and allude to the porous border between inner and outer states of reality." [10]

Lisa Turvey writes in her Artforum review of Pelli's 2008 exhibition at Daneyal Mahmoud Gallery, which included paintings and sculpture, that Pelli's work is a "rumination on the life force as pitted against the certainties of bone and death." [6] Her figures are shown in heightened states of emotion, solitude, love and connection through saturated color and gesture of the brushwork. [11] [12] Turvey continues “she uses an ontological bait and switch of representing skeletons, parts and whole, as animate entities trying to commune with one another. This manifests itself in...'transferlike smudges'." [6]

Poetry and literature are a source of inspiration for Pelli's work. [13] She has cited the writing and ideas of Robert Frost, [14] Samuel Beckett, [15] Ted Hughes' Crow poems, [6] and others [8] as being influences on her work. [13] Pelli develops personas and narratives from these writers' work and her titles are often references this. [13]

Pelli's use of washes and transparent layered color are juxtaposed with dense marks. [16] Barry Schwabsky writes in a review of her work in The New York Times in 2000 "The color is soft and diaphanous in feeling, and yet the paint has been laid on thickly in blunt horizontal strokes. These color fields manage to be both atmospheric and obdurate at once." [16]

Pelli's work is the public collection of the Flint Institute of Art in Flint, Michigan. [17]

Solo and two-person exhibitions

Solo and two-person exhibitions: [9]

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  2. ↑ Bischoff, Dan (10 March 2000). "Corpus of Work in South Orange: Leemour Pelli, Never the Same After That". The Star-Ledger.
  3. ↑ "To Do Thy Will With A Perfect Heart I, II, and III". Heart of Flesh Magazine. December 2019.
  4. 1 2 3 4 5 Gibson, David (December 2006). "Leemour Pelli". Annina Nosei Gallery Catalogue: 5–6.
  5. ↑ Gibson, David (2005). "Beautiful Dreamer". Spaces: 13, 31.
  6. 1 2 3 4 5 Turvey, Lisa (April 2008). "Lisa Turvey on Leemour Pelli". www.artforum.com. Retrieved 2021-03-25.
  7. ↑ "Sick Love • Digicult | Digital Art, Design and Culture". Digicult | Digital Art, Design and Culture. Retrieved 2021-06-22.
  8. 1 2 "Catalogue for "The Heart," a virtual exhibition of 45 artists by the Art Therapy Institute of North Carolina" (PDF). Art Therapy Institute of North Carolina. Retrieved March 25, 2021.
  9. 1 2 "Leemour Pelli". Artspace. Retrieved 2021-04-29.
  10. ↑ Reisenfeld, Robin (2007). Anatomical Attitudes. New York: Heskin Contemporary.
  11. ↑ Bosco, Leia (April 2005). "Curiosities: Central Florida Sensation". Orlando Leisure. p. 112.
  12. 1 2 3 4 "Gay City: Leemour Pelli | Easyreeder". easyreeder.com. Retrieved 2021-05-07.
  13. 1 2 3 4 Mini-documentary on New York Artist Leemour Pelli, University of Central Florida , retrieved 2021-04-07
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  15. ↑ Kostabi, Mark (July 2000). "Artist's Pick: Mark Kostabi on Leemour Pelli". Shout. Vol. 4, no. 47.
  16. 1 2 Schwabsky, Barry (2000-03-26). "ART REVIEW; When Color Illuminates the Artists' Statements". The New York Times. ISSN   0362-4331 . Retrieved 2021-03-25.
  17. ↑ "Untitled (Couple III) | Flint Institute of Arts". flintarts.org.
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