Sherry Leedy: Sight-Line, 2021

Sherry Leedy Sight-Line

SHERRY LEEDY CONTEMPORARY ART

SHERRY LEEDY CONTEMPORARY ART 2004 Baltimore Ave. Kansas City, MO 64108 816.221.2626 sherryleedy.com Cover image, Double Take Catalog design, Allison King Photo credit, E.G. Schempf

Sherry Leedy Sight-Line September 3 - October 23, 2021

Sight-Line

Sherry Leedy’s, Sight-Line, is made up of drawings in soft pastel, many large-scale, all based on direct observation. Leedy’s continued interest in visual perception, slow looking and response, results in compositions of intensity, balance and beauty. Her subject matter is a cast of unlikely objects – lemons and perfume bottles, blue and green antique glass, mirrors and glass funnels, artist postcards and crystal balls – all activated by light. They appear together on stage, in familiar but unknown performances. Certain objects are cast, time and again, playing new roles in a new drawing, while others in the troupe wait off stage.

There is a power in these artifacts of the recent past, in their human familiarity and strangeness, and in the way that Leedy draws them into existence, mark by mark of pastel, soft as butter.

The drawings, however, do not tell a well-known narrative even though they are composed of recognizable and named objects. Rather than individual still life objects having symbolic significance, it is the composition as a whole that holds the meaning. It is the adding up of visual elements that creates the story. The weight of objects, the transparency and reflectivity of light and color, the movement of line and shape, activate Leedy’s still-life compositions, bringing them to life, and taking the willing viewer on an unexpected journey.

Sherry Leedy’s work is found in the permanent collections of the Nerman Museum of Contemporary Art, Overland Park, Kansas; the Daum Museum of Contemporary Art, Sedalia, MO; the Los Angeles County Museum, CA: Emprise Bank, Wichita, KS; First National Bank, Columbia, MO; AT&T, KC, MO; Sprint Corporation, Leawood, KS among others.

Lasso

Soft pastel on paper 46.5” x 34”

Picasso’s Butterflies Soft pastel on paper 46.5” x 31”

Balancing Act

Soft pastel on paper 25.5” x 31.5”

July Lilies

Soft pastel on paper 44.5” x 34”

Double Take

Soft pastel on paper 34” x 43.75”

The Blue Meander Soft pastel on paper 45” x 34.25”

Rappaports

Soft pastel on paper 33” x 42.5”

Center Stage

Soft pastel on paper 33” x 41.5”

Razzle Dazzle

Soft pastel on paper 34” x 43.75”

A Month of Sunday’s Soft pastel on paper 41” x 28.5”

Belladonna Blues Soft pastel on paper 34” x 23.5”

(Searching for) Safe Harbor Soft pastel on paper 26” x 34”

Oh, What a Day

Soft pastel on paper 26” x 34”

Corral

Soft pastel on paper 25.25” x 34”

The Far Away

Soft pastel on paper 43.5” x 34”

Matriarch

Soft pastel on paper 32” x 24”

The Offerings

Soft pastel on paper 34.25” x 34”

American Beauty

Soft pastel on paper 34” x 26”

Light and Color

Soft pastel on paper 25.25” x 28”

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