Heard Museum Leon Polk Smith: Hiding in Plain Sight February 5, 2021 – May 31, 2021
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The Heard Museum of Art in Phoenix, Arizona is planning a solo Smith show that will include works from the 1930s to the 1990s. It is focused around the Native American influences and affinities in Smith’s art. Born in Oklahoma Indian Territory Smith had parents who were each one-half Cherokee. He spoke Cherokee growing up and remained proud of his Native American heritage. This survey, the broadest survey of Smith’s art since the Brooklyn Museum’s 1995-96 retrospective
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Gray is pleased to announce the release of Leon Polk Smith: Endless Space, an illustrated publication examining the artist’s iconic Correspondence and Constellation series.
Produced on the occasion of the eponymous exhibition at Gray Warehouse in 2019, this in-depth volume offers readers the opportunity to explore 51 color illustrations, a foreword by art historian and independent curator Dana Miller and an essay by scholar and curator Jonathan David Katz.
The Lisson gallery is planning a retrospective survey spanning from 1949 to 1996 in West 24th Street space of the paintings and drawings of Leon Polk Smith.
The New York City-based independent scholar and curator Lynn Zelevansky, former director of the Carnegie Museum of Art in Pittsburgh and previously a curator at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art and The Museum of Modern Art, New York is curating the exhibition and writing the accompanying catalogue’s lead essay.
