Past
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Sledgehammer Paintings
Journal Gallery, New York 29 Apr - 12 May 2022 Since 2016 Abby Leigh has devised her own lexicon of deep dents, sharp holes, blunt scuffs, and incised scrawls. Against a structure of DIBOND® —a very hard composite of polyethylene sandwiched between aluminum sheets— Leigh wields sledgehammers, ice picks, screwdrivers, and an array of nameless tools with weird ends which... Read more -
Sledgehammer Paintings
Johannes Vogt, New York 20 Sep - 3 Nov 2018 Johannes Vogt Gallery is pleased to inaugurate its new exhibition space at 958 Madison Avenue with a solo show by New York based artist Abby Leigh. For her first show with the gallery Leigh is presenting her most recent body of work on Dibond, Sledgehammer Paintings. Powerful and lyrical at... Read more -
Pause
Jack Barrett Gallery, New York 1 - 25 Apr 2015 Jack Barrett Gallery is pleased to announce Pause, new works on paper by Abby Leigh. The show opens April 1st from 6:00pm to 8:00pm. On April 9th, 315 Gallery will be hosting a conversation about the work between Abby Leigh and Carter Foster, the Stephen and Ames Curator of Drawings... Read more -
Abby Leigh: Works 2011 - 2013
Meridian Gallery, San Francisco, CA 11 Jan - 8 Mar 2014 Abby Leigh’s new painting Lipstick hides its visceral qualities behind a layer of refinement. A restless experimenter with process and materials, Leigh never lets them take over, preferring to temper them with a strong sense of compositional purpose. Ultimately, qualities as basic (but crucial) as the way paint sits on... Read more -
One Evening
Dieu Donné Papermill, New York 1 - 31 Jul 2012 Selected lines of poetry from W.H. Auden’s poem As I Walked Out One Evening, inspired Abby Leigh to create the imagery for One Evening. Randy Hemminghaus developed and proofed the nine Solarplate intaglios from the images. e plates were editioned by Kristen Cavagnet at the Brodsky Center for Innovative Editions.... Read more -
The Sleeper's Eye
Betty Cuningham Gallery, New York 15 Oct - 14 Nov 2009 On view in this exhibition are twelve paintings and sixteen works on paper. The paintings, approximately 50 x 50 inches, have emerging central forms. Their surface colors reverberate and the equilibrium shifts forward and backward. According to Leigh, the paintings call to mind Cezanne’s description of what the experience of... Read more -
The Eye is The First Circle
Betty Cuningham Gallery, New York 3 May - 2 Jun 2007 On May 3rd, 2007, Betty Cuningham Gallery will open its second show for Abby Leigh. Leigh will be presenting a new body of work titled: The Eye is the First Circle. The exhibition includes a selection of drawings and nine paintings. The title for this exhibition is taken from Ralph... Read more -
Systems
Betty Cunningham Gallery, New York 1 - 31 May 2005 Systems propose sets of interconnected things, organized in accordance with logical orders designed to promote coherent knowledge both of the whole and of parts. Yet however much we may depend on our carefully plotted systems to guide us in our cognitive structuring of the world, the systemization of knowledge is... Read more -
Naturlig Mangfoldighed II
Midtsønderjyllands Museum 3 Apr - 31 May 2002 Read more -
Naturale Plurale
Accademia dei Georgofili, Firenze 27 Nov - 21 Dec 2001 Read more
