Adela Leibowitz

Leibowitz takes the viewer on a voyeuristic journey somewhere between The Shining and Alice in Wonderland. The work focuses on the female psyche and draws its’ imagery from romantic 19th century literature scenery as well as vintage horror movies. The vignettes presented in the paintings depict at times rich and dramatically opulent interiors and at others simple denuded outdoor settings. Whether in socially enticing and oppressive interiors or free and seemingly more pure outdoor environments, the characters (exclusively women) all seem involved in role-playing. Occasionally blindfolded, masked, or nude, the women reenact childhood games, violent or sexual acts, cultural rituals, or tales of morality.

Influenced by Jung and Freud’s theories, Leibowitz plays with women’s counteracting primitive and developed, socially conscious instincts. Each painting contains a certain polarity, highlighting paradoxical elements - repulsion and beauty, fear and comfort, children and violence, and the domestic and the demonic to name a few which delivers complex psychological dramas.

Education:

2000 M.F.A., New York Academy of Art, New York, NY.
1998 B.F.A., F.I.T. College of Art & Design, New York, NY.

Grants and Residences:

2007/8: Chashama Studio Residency, Brooklyn, NY.
2007: Barbera Deming Foundation Grant
2005: William and Dorothy Yeck 2nd place purchase award
2004: George Sugarman Foundation Grant
2003: Ludwig Vogelstein Foundation Grant
2002/3: PS 122 Project Space Residency, New York, NY.
2002: E.D. Foundation Grant
2002: Weir Farm Trust, CT
2001: Barbera Deming Foundation Grant
2001: Millay Colony for the Arts, Austerlitz, NY.
2000: Ludwig Vogelstein Foundation Grant
2000: Vermont Studio Center, Johnson, VT.
2000: IFCS Fellowship Award, Vermont Studio Center, Johnson, VT.

Exhibitions:

2009: solo exhibit, 33 Bond Gallery, New York, NY
2008: group exhibit, Chashama Show, ABC Gallery, New York, NY.
2008: group exhibit, Recent Acquisitions:Tedeschi Collection, Parisian Laundry, Montreal, Canada.
2008: group exhibit, Dangerous Women, DFN Gallery, New York, NY.
2008: group exhibit, Summertime in Paris, Parisian Laundry, Montreal, Canada.
2008: group exhibit, Meatpacking Art Vol 1, HPGRP Gallery, New York, NY.
2008: group exhibit, LA Art Fair in NY, Richard Heller Gallery, New York, NY.
2008: group exhibit, Indifference & Apocrypha, Fuel Collection, Philadelphia, PA. Curated by Katerina Lydon-Warner.
2008: group exhibit, Becoming:Visions of Childhood, The Bronfman Gallery at New York University, New York, NY. Curated by Lois Stavsky.
2007: solo exhibit, Blackwell, Gallery 10G, New York, NY.
2007: group exhibit, Miami University 9th Annual Young Painters Exhibition, Miami University, Oxford, OH.
2007: group exhibit, Scope Miami, Jack The Pelican Presents, Miami, Fl.
2007: group exhibit, Scope Miami, Gallery 10G, Miami, Fl.
2007: group exhibit, Once There Was, Once There Wasn’t: Fairy Tales Retold, Eight Modern, Santa Fe, NM. Featuring: Jim Dine, David Hockney, Adela Leibowitz, David Levinthal, Paula Rego, Kiki Smith, and Richard Tuttle.
2007: group exhibit, Scope Hamptons, Jack the Pelican Presents, East Hamptons, NY.
2007: group exhibit, American Woman:New Feminism, HPGRP Gallery, Tokyo, Japan.
2007: group exhibit, NYAA Summer exhibit, Wilkinson Hall, New York Academy of Art, NY. Chosen by Eric Fischl, Vincent Desiderio, Jenny Saville.
2007: group exhibit, Art Chicago, Julie Baker Fine Art, Chicago, IL.
2007: group exhibit, Lovely, Dark and Deep, Pelham Art Center, Pelham, NY. Curated by Titia Hulst and Barbara Mundy.
2007: group exhibit, Scope Art Fair, Gallery 10G, New York, NY.
2007: group exhibit, LA Art Show, Julie Baker Fine Art, Los Angeles, CA.
2007: group exhibit, Wild and Scenic, Julie Baker Fine Art, Nevada, CA.
2007: group exhibit, Blue, Jenkins Johnson Gallery, New York, NY.
2006: solo exhibit, The Cassandra Prophesies, HPGRP Gallery, New York, NY.
2006: group exhibit, Winter Haikus, Jenkins Johnson Gallery, San Francisco, CA.
2006: group exhibit, Contemporary Imaginings: The Howard A. and Judy Tullman Collection, Mobile Museum of Art, Mobile, AL
2006: group exhibit, The Great Outdoors, Blue Bottle Gallery, Seattle, WA. Curated by Ryan Sanchez
2006: group exhibit, Art 212, 69th Regiment Armory, New York, NY.
2006: group exhibit, American Eden, Jenkins Johnson Gallery, New York, NY.
2006: group exhibit, Woman:Self-Portrait, Kashya Hildebrand Gallery, NY, NY. Curated by Dalit Anolik
2006: group exhibit, Fresh Start, Arena 1 Gallery, Santa Monica, CA.
2006: group exhibit, Miami University Young Painters Competition, Heistand Gallery, Miami University, OH.
2006: group exhibit, Scope Miami, Jack The Pelican Presents, Miami, Fl.
2006: group exhibit, Scope Miami, Gallery 10G, New York, NY.
2005: group exhibit, David Caspar Séance-A Group Show, Jack the Pelican Presents, Brooklyn, NY
2005: group exhibit, Kunst 05 Zurich c/o Jack the Pelican Gallery, Zurich, Switzerland.
2005: group exhibit, Day-Dreaming, curated by Tomoko Ashikawa, HPGRP Gallery, New York, NY.
2005: group exhibit, Animal Tales, DFN Gallery, New York, NY.
2005: group exhibit, By-Proxy, Broadway Gallery, New York, NY.
2005: group exhibit, Nova Young Art Fair, Jack the Pelican Presents, Chicago.
2005: group exhibit, Girl Memories, AG Gallery, Brooklyn, NY. Curated by Tomoko Ashikawa
2004: solo exhibit, Fairytales of the Macabre, Jack the Pelican Presents Gallery, Brooklyn, NY.
2004: group exhibit, Scope Miami Art Fair, Jack the Pelican Presents, Miami, FL.
2004: group exhibit, Innocence Found, DFN Gallery, New York, NY.
2003: solo exhibit, Landscapes, OK Harris Gallery, New York, NY
2003: group exhibit, P.S. 122 Project studio artists, PS 122 Gallery, New York.
2003: group exhibit, New Lawn, Jack the Pelican Presents, Brooklyn, NY.
2003:group exhibit, Selections, OK Harris Gallery, New York, NY.
2002: group exhibit, Night of 1,000 Drawings, Artists Space, New York, NY.
2002: group exhibit, 5 Artists, 450 Broadway Gallery, New York, NY. Curated by Kim Foster
2002: group exhibit, Take home a nude, Sothebys, New York, NY.
2002: group exhibit, Accepted into White Columns Registry
2001: group exhibit, Works on Paper, LSU Union Art Gallery, LA. Chosen by David Kiehl.
2000: group exhibit, Centerfold, toured: Leslie Powell Gallery to University of Arts and Sciences, OK
2000: group exhibit, New York Area Exhibition, Hunter College Times Square Gallery, New York, NY.

Press:

2008: Dangerous Women, American Art Collector, August.
2007: Featured Artists, Iniciativa Colectiva, September, No. 1 Vol. 6.
2007: Surreal South, “tulip, 2006” on book cover, A collection of short stories, Press 53.
2007: Ever After, SF Reporter, Sept. 19-25.
2007: Scarsdale Schools, Fifth Graders learn to look, April 27.
2007: Art by and for women in Pelham and New Rochelle, by Georgette Gouveia, Lower Hudson Online, March 30.
2007: Adela Leibowitz, NY Arts Magazine International Edition, Vol. 11 no 9/10
2006: Creative Imaginings:The Howard A. and Judith Tullman Collection, Mobile Museum of Art, catalogue, November.
2006: New American Paintings, Issue #62, February: The Open Studios Press
2006: A Red Riding Hood and a Veil, Dorit Cohen, NY Arts Magazine, October.
2006: Art Pick, The Daily News, August 4.
2006: On the Town, NY Sun, August 10.
2006: Featured artwork, Mastermind Magazine, Issue#3, April.
2005: From Vulnerability, to Power, to desire, Brian Zalpin, The Improper, Vol. 5 September.
2005: Critics Pick, Village Voice, Vol. L No. 26 June 29-July 5.
2005: April Review by James Kalm, NY Arts Magazine, Vol. 10 April.
2003: Adela Leibowitz at OK Harris, Abstract Art Online, December.
2001: Expo XX, Helen A. Harrison, The New York Times, March.