Leslie C Kerby
Containment CN U20G1, 2014
Monoprint collage (linocut and intaglio)
17 x 15.5"
Value: $1800
From a body of work referencing the shipping container industry and its role in the global supply chain.
*This piece is included in the Opening Night Collection.
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. Her work is in the permanent collections at Columbia University, New York; Arkansas State University, Arkansas; Copelouzos Art Museum, Athens Greece. 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, Virginia Center for Creative Arts as a Fellow in Virginia and Auvillar, France and the School of Visual Arts, New York. Her work has also appeared at art fairs, Verge, Spring Break and AQUA Miami. She has been reviewed in hyperallergic.com and Two Coats of Paint. 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. She is a member of the Creative Council at BRIC Arts | Media, and a member of the Executive Board at Norte Maar for Collaborative Projects in the Arts.
