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Artist Exhibitions:
Group of Featured Artists:
February 2006
MonkDogz.com online gallery,
New York, NY, USA
2002: Women’s Exhibition
The College of Santa Fe, Santa
Fe, NM, USA
2001: Juried Group Student
Exhibition
The Fine Arts Gallery
The College of Santa Fe, Santa
Fe, New Mexico, USA
1997: Non-juried Group ...
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Artist Galleries:
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Artist Reviews:
Featured Artist: Ecclectica,
“Women on Women”,
www.ecclectica.ca/issues/2006/1
/:April 2006
Brandon University Journal,
Brandon, Manitoba, Canada
January/February 2005:
Featured Artist for
Empowerment4women.org online
feminist magazine.
January 2003: Release of book
containing photo of sculpture
mention in body of text, as
well as a and ...
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Collections:
Peterson & Soderlund, New
Mexico, USA
Robson, Manitoba, Canada
Lee & Ross, Nova Scotia,
Canada
Graham & Manson, Manitoba,
Canada...
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Commissions:
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Artist Statement for Leona Graham
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Leona was born in Indiana, USA, and raised in Nova Scotia, Canada. Her educational credits include, a Bachelor of Arts with a concentration in Psychology & English (1995), a Diploma in Interactive Multimedia Design (1996) and a Bachelor of Arts with a major in Studio Arts (2003). Relocating a number times in her twenties eventually led to her residence in New Mexico, where she immersed herself in the studio arts. Although she is best known for her painting and graphic design work, she discovered the joy of sculpture and printmaking during her education in Santa Fe. This was evident when a sculpture was published in "ReGeneration: Telling Stories from Our Twenties", edited by Jennifer Karlin and Amelia Borofsky. She has just recently returned to Canada where she hopes to continue her career in fine art and design.
Leona's artwork speaks to the problem of continued injustice, and physical, mental, and emotional constraint. These aspects of self and community cannot be examined separately. Nor can they be examined in complete objectivity. She does not deal with these issues in an obvious manner. Rather she expresses the resultant psychological and emotional states in an often figurative and surrealist form. The pieces often have very generic titles offering the observer the opportunity to experience the art with less preconceived intent from the artist. Leona is more concerned with the observer having a personal, prolific experience, whatever that may be.
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