Simone Leigh
Workspace 2007-2008
Leigh’s work has been exhibited nationally, including solo shows at Rush Arts Gallery Project Space and Momenta Art gallery. She has participated in group exhibitions at venues including Exit Art, The Fine Art Work Center, Rotunda Gallery and Longwood Art Gallery @ Hostos. Her sculpture and video work will be included in The Future As Disruption at The Kitchen, New York, NY and B Sides: House Music Culture and Contemporary Art at ALJIRA, Newark, NJ. She has received residencies and other opportunities at Hunter College, The Robert Blackburn Printmaking Workshop, Henry Street Settlement, Greenwich House Pottery and Watershed Center for the Ceramic Arts. Her work is featured in the current issue of Small Axe: A Carribean Journal of Criticism. Her work has been written about in The New York Times, The New Yorker, Trace Magazine, Artnet, NY 1 News, The New York Blade, and Flavorpill.
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chandelier, 2005
dimensions variable
Porcelain, glass, sea salt, beeswax and wire
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Giuliani Time (fetish object with work boot scarification), 2006
dimensions variable
Terracotta, toilet plungers, mica, graphite and wire
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BROOCH # 2
colored porcelain, terracotta, lab apparatus, steel, platinum luster
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MONARCH
plastic, zipper and t-pins
