Jeffrey Leder

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My Story, well at least part of it…
Small pencil sketches in notebook, a language of lines within predetermined space, they just seem to tumble out, stream of consciousness. From a few chosen sketches, enlarge them to drawings, Spaces within lines to be filled with color,
oil pastels on thick watercolor paper. Which colors will work in a given space, experiment, solve the puzzle – time stands still, absorbed in the moment.
From chosen drawings to a few paintings, four by six feet, acrylic on canvas. Size, shapes, colors change from sticks of color on paper to paint on large canvas. Need to adapt, improvise, try not to replicate.
The more I consider why I create art, the more I realize it’s about pleasure, the pleasure of coming close to solving and creating something beyond myself, beyond what I imagined. If my work touches people in a particular way, then that’s a bonus, but not one I necessarily want to control, my work is basically to experience the pleasure of creation.

RESUME

website: www.jldrawings.com

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E X H I B I T I O N S

2007
The Space Gallery, LIC, One Person Exhibition (June)
Paintings and Drawings

2005
The Willis Building, LIC, Open Studios (May)
Paintings and Drawings

2004
The Willis Building, LIC, Open Studios (May)
Paintings and Drawings

2000
902 Gallery NYC, One Person Exhibition (Oct)
Drawings

1992
Joaquin Mercado Gallery, San Juan, PR, One Person Exhibition (Feb)
Paintings and Drawings

1988
Joaquin Mercado Gallery, San Juan, PR, Inaugural
Six Person Exhibition (Sept)
Drawings

1976
West Broadway Gallery, NYC, One Person Exhibition (Oct)
Drawings

1975
Rundistijl Museum, Copenhagen, SOHO Artists
Group Exhibition (Nov)
Drawings

1974
West Broadway Gallery, NYC, One Person Exhibition (Dec)
Drawings

1973
Santiago Gallery, San Juan, PR, One Person Exhibition (Sept)
Paintings and Drawings

1972
Colibri Gallery, San Juan, PR, Primavera
Three Person Exhibition (May), With Domingo Lopez, Joaquin Mercado
Curated by Luigi Marozinni
Drawings

1970
New Jersey State Museum, Trenton, NJ, Recent Acquisitions
Group Exhibit (Oct), Curated by Theodoros Stamos
Drawings

1969
Ponce Museum of Art, PR, Three Person Exhibition (May)
With Olga Dueñas and Roberto Rodriguez
Paintings and Sculpture

1968
Ateneo Puertoriqueno, San Juan, PR, One Person Exhibition (June)
Paintings and Drawings
University of Puerto Rico Pavillion, Rio Piedras, PR, One Person Exhibition (Dec)
Sculpture and Paintings

1967
University of Puerto Rico Museum, Rio Piedras, PR,
Marzo (Nov), Group Exhibition, Curated by Felix Bonilla
Paintings and Drawings

E D U C A T I O N
University of Michigan
Pratt Institute
University of Puerto Rico

C O L L E C T I O N S
Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Boston, Mass
University of Puerto Rico, Rio Piedras, PR
Reuters Corporation, New York, NY
Ateneo Puertoriqueno, San Juan, PR
University of Massachusetts, Boston, Mass