Leslie Fry
Sculptor
My work has been exhibited in solo and group exhibitions in museums and galleries throughout the United States and abroad, including the Herbert F. Johnson Museum at Cornell University in Ithaca, New York; the Tampa Museum of Art in Florida; the Neuberger Museum in Purchase, New York; Kunsthaus in Hamburg, Germany; Centre des Arts Visuels in Montreal; Couvent des Cordeliers in Paris; and Exit Art and Artists Space in New York City. In addition, I have received numerous public commissions. My degrees are from the University of Vermont (B.A., 1975), The Milton Avery Graduate School of the Arts at Bard College (M.F.A., 1992), and I attended the Central School of Art and Design in London (1973-74). Between 1988 and 2002, I taught studio art at the University of Vermont, St. Michael’s College, the M.F.A. program at Vermont College, and New College of Florida.
The images in my art reflect and encompass basic human needs: food, clothing, sexuality, and shelter. And “work” is implied in the labor-intensive processes to create these hybrid forms. Notwithstanding the prevalence of technologically-driven media at contemporary art galleries and museums, I am dedicated to using time-honored, traditional methods and materials. This is not to say that the outcome is traditional. The workmanship involved in building armatures, modeling in clay, making molds and casting is the humble magic of transforming inert materials into the physical presence of my imagination.
In both theme and process, tactile qualities and a sense of connectedness with real things are important to me. These encounters take place in a slippery realm of metamorphosis. One foot is firmly on the earth with sand between the toes while the other is stepping into the fluid world of change and possibility.
Contact:
Leslie Fry
48 Elm St.
Winooski, VT 05404
Phone: (802) 655-4349
e-mail: Leslie Fry lfry@lesliefry.com
Ceramics; foundry-work casting with bronze, iron, lead, and brass; sewn fabric construction; cold casting with plaster, clay, concrete, paper, rubber, Forton, and resins; drawings, monoprints, and collage