Leslie Kerby

Containment JO U22P1, 2014
Monotype with chine collé (printed w vinyl relief blocks with printed Japanese paper additions)
17 x 15 1/2"

Value: $1,850.00

Shipping: $225.00 (this piece is framed in whitewashed maple museum quality archival w UV plexiglass)

Unique. Series references the shipping container industry, the global economy and container re-use for housing/ markets. Titles reference international shipping code (country of origin/container type).

Artist bio:

Leslie Kerby is an interdisciplinary artist based in New York City. She works in a variety of media to create thematically interlinked bodies of work. She focuses on issues related to how we lead our lives personally, as individuals. And, to how our personal lives are variably connected to, and changed by, the broader networks and communities within which we live and interact. Motivated by social constructs that are at moments of change, Kerby has created art activating conversations around the shipping container and medical industries, has examined cemeteries as social networks and in a new series, inequality.

Her work is in the permanent collections at Columbia University (School of Social Work), New York and Bradbury Art Museum, Arkansas State University, Arkansas. Kerby has received commissions from Norte Maar for Collaborative Projects in the Arts, BRIC Arts | Media and Visual Arts Center of New Jersey and awarded residencies at the American Academy in Rome, The Virginia Center for Creative Arts (VCCA), Virginia and Auvillar, France and School of Visual Arts, New York. Her work has also appeared at art fairs, Verge, Spring Break and AQUA Miami and has been reviewed in hyperallergic.com and Two Coats of Paint. In 2015, several of Kerby's prints appeared in the movie Meadowland with Olivia Wilde, Luke Wilson and Elisabeth Moss. In addition to making and exhibiting her work, Kerby also acts as a guest curator with a number of New York art venues and institutions such as Project: ARTspace.