Leedy
Sight-Line
Sherry
Sherry Leedy Sight-Line
September 3 - October 23, 2021
Sight-Line
Sherry Leedy’s, Sight-Line, is made up of drawings in soft pastel, many large-scale, all based on direct observation. Leedy’s continued interest in visual perception, slow looking and response, results in compositions of intensity, balance and beauty. Her subject matter is a cast of unlikely objects – lemons and perfume bottles, blue and green antique glass, mirrors and glass funnels, artist postcards and crystal balls – all activated by light. They appear together on stage, in familiar but unknown performances. Certain objects are cast, time and again, playing new roles in a new drawing, while others in the troupe wait off stage. There is a power in these artifacts of the recent past, in their human familiarity and strangeness, and in the way that Leedy draws them into existence, mark by mark of pastel, soft as butter.
The drawings, however, do not tell a well-known narrative even though they are composed of recognizable and named objects. Rather than individual still life objects having symbolic significance, it is the composition as a whole that holds the meaning. It is the adding up of visual elements that creates the story. The weight of objects, the transparency and reflectivity of light and color, the movement of line and shape, activate Leedy’s still-life compositions, bringing them to life, and taking the willing viewer on an unexpected journey.
Sherry Leedy’s work is found in the permanent collections of the Nerman Museum of Contemporary Art, Overland Park, Kansas; the Daum Museum of Contemporary Art, Sedalia, MO; the Los Angeles County Museum, CA: Emprise Bank, Wichita, KS; First National Bank, Columbia, MO; AT&T, KC, MO; Sprint Corporation, Leawood, KS among others.
Lasso
Soft pastel on paper
46.5” x 34”
Picasso’s Butterflies
Soft pastel on paper
46.5” x 31”
Balancing Act
Soft pastel on paper
25.5” x 31.5”
Lilies
July
Soft pastel on paper
44.5” x 34”
Double Take Soft pastel on paper
34” x 43.75”
The Blue Meander
Soft pastel on paper
45” x 34.25”
Rappaports
Soft pastel on paper
33” x 42.5”
Center Stage
pastel on paper
Soft
33” x 41.5”
Razzle Dazzle
Soft pastel on paper
34” x 43.75”
A Month of Sunday’s
Soft pastel on paper
41” x 28.5”
Belladonna Blues
Soft pastel on paper
34” x 23.5”
(Searching for) Safe Harbor Soft pastel on paper
26” x 34”
Oh, What a Day
Soft pastel on paper
26” x 34”
Corral Soft pastel on paper
25.25” x 34”
The Far Away
Soft pastel on paper
43.5” x 34”
Matriarch
Soft pastel on paper
32” x 24”
The
Offerings
Soft pastel on paper
34.25” x 34”
American Beauty
Soft pastel on paper
34” x 26”
Light and Color
Soft pastel on paper
25.25” x 28”
