Leigh Palmer

Artist Bio

 

Leigh Palmer received a BFA in painting from the Rhode Island School of Design in 1966. He has had several solo shows in NYC, Nantucket MA and HudsonNY; he has also had solos in CambridgeMA, WoodstockNY and Woodbury and Kent CT, and is currently represented by Carrie Haddad Gallery in HudsonNY. He is in the permanent collection of the National Museum of American Art and numerous corporate and private collections. He lives and works in the Hudson RiverValley.
 
EDUCATION
1968-69 BostonUniversity, Graduate Film Studies
1962-66 R.I.S.D. ProvidenceRI, B.F.A. Painting, 1966
 
EXHIBITIONS
2008                 Bachelier-Cardonsky Gallery, Kent CT
                        Four Starr Gallery, Stonington CT                           
2007                 Carrie Haddad Gallery, HudsonNY
2005                 Bachelier-Cardonsky Gallery, Kent CT
2004                 Segalas Gallery, BernardsvilleNJ
2003, 04            Bachelier-Cardonsky, Gallery Kent CT
2000, 01, 03      Carrie Haddad Gallery, HudsonNY
1999                 Barbara Singer Fine Art, CambridgeMA
1999, 98            Carrie Haddad Gallery, HudsonNY
199                   The Main Street Gallery, Nantucket MA
1996                 Randall Tuttle Fine Arts, Woodbury CT
1995                 James Cox Gallery, WoodstockNY
1992, 90,  88, 87Sherry French Gallery,   New YorkNY
1985, 84, 83      The Main Street Gallery, Nantucket MA
 
SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2005                “Pulp”, Carrie Haddad Gallery, Hudson NY                                    
“Landscapes”, Haddad Lascano Gallery, Great Barrington MA                             
2004                 "On Paper", Carrie Haddad Gallery, Hudson NY
"Landscapes", Haddad-Lascano Gallery, Great Barrington MA
2003                 "Hudson River Art at Rhinebeck" in the Historic WildersteinMansion, RhinebeckNY
2002                 "Works on Paper", Carrie Haddad Gallery, Hudson NY
 "Hot Wax", Cummings Art Center, Connecticut College, New London, CT
 "The Luminous Landscape", Museum of the Hudson Highlands, Cornwall-on-Hudson NY and Albert Shahinian Gallery, Poughkeepsie NY
2001                 "Juried Show", Columbia County Council on the Arts, Hudson NY
"Landscapes", The Gallery at R&F, Kingston NY
2000                 "Dealer's Choice", Bridgewater/Lustberg&Blumenfeld, New York NY
1999                 "Encaustic Works '99", Watermark/Cargo Gallery Kingston NY and The Gallery at R&F, Kingston NY
"Turning of the Century", Bridgewater/Lustberg & Blumenfeld Gallery New York NY
"Locations", Kendall Art and Design, Hudson NY
"Four Old Friends", The New Gallery, Nantucket MA
"Summer Group Show", Munson Gallery, Chatham MA
1997                 "Landscapes", Columbia Memorial Gallery, HudsonNY
1996                 "Inaugural", Carrie Haddad Gallery, HudsonNY
1995                 "Group Show", Gwenda Jay Gallery, Chicago IL
"Four Painters", Gallery of Contemporary Art, Hudson NY
"Invitationl", Tivoli Artists' Co-op, Tivoli NY
1994                 "Winter Group Show", James Cox Gallery, WoodstockNY
1993                 "Landscapes", Warren Street Gallery, HudsonNY
1992-93             "The New Whitney Dissenters", Sherry French Gallery, New YorkNY.
Traveled to museums in AK, IL and MA
1991                 "Group Show", GwendaJayGallery, ChicagoIL
1990-92             "Illumination and Radiance: Epiphanies in Contemporary Painting", Sherry French Gallery, New YorkNY. Traveled to museums in MI, OK, CA, TX and WA
1990                 Chicago International Art Exposition, Navy Pier, ChicagoIL
1988                 "An Evening and a Day with Contemporary Art", The Bayly Art Museum, Charlottesville VA
Chicago Internationl Art Exposition, Navy Pier, Chicago IL
"Focus on Art: 1988", NCJW of Essex County, NJ
"The Collectors' Show", Arkansas Art Center, Little Rock AK
1987-89             "Frivolity and Mortality: The Tradition of Vanitas in Contemporary Painting", Sherry French Gallery, New York. Traveled to museums in NJ, TN, IN, AZ, CA, NY and UT
1987                 "Modern American Realism: The Sara Roby Foundation Collection", National Museum of American Art, Smithsonian Institute, Washington DC (catalog illus. page 114)
Basel Art Fair, Basel, Switzerland
"Night Light, Night Life", Sherry French Gallery, New York
"In the Country", Bronx Museum of Art, Bronx NY
1986                 "Nature Morte: The Museum Examines Still Life", So. Alleghenies Museum, Loretto PA
"Timeless Tables", Art Complex Museum, Duxbury MA
"Still Life: Life That Is Still", Sherry French Gallery, New York
"Group Show", Miller Gallery, Cincinatti OH
"Food Show", Nabisco Brands Gallery, East Hanover NJ
1984                 "Selections from The Sara Roby Foundation Collection", Nantucket Historical Society, Nantucket MA
1983                 "Annual Juried Show", ArtComplexMuseum, Duxbury MA
Award:
1995                 MacDowell Colony, PeterboroughNH, Residency Fellowship
 
SELECTED PUBLIC AND CORPORATE COLLECTIONS
NationalMuseum of American Art, Washington DC
Sprint Corporation, Kansas CityMO
US State Department
Bank of New York
Hallmark Cards, Inc., Kansas CityMO
The New School for Social Research, New YorkNY
The Gund Collection, Cambridge MA
American Bank and Trust Co., ChattanoogaTN
Ernst and Whinney, New York NY
DutchessCommunity College Library

 

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Bluff
1998

Streak
2007

Kingdom
2005-7

Incident
2007

Domain
2007

Orchard
2007

After Leonardo
2006

Lake

Opening No. 11
2010

Opening No.14
2010
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