Roz Leibowitz
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Roz Leibowitz, Doll Portraits
Sears-Peyton Gallery is pleased to present “Doll Portraits”, an exhibition of photographs and drawings by New York artist Roz Leibowitz. In her two previous shows with the gallery, Leibowitz focused her creative energies on elaborately patterned narrative drawings. As Ken Johnson wrote in The New York Times, they looked “uncannily like the works of a self-taught Victorian mystic.”
Leibowitz came to the art world having worked for years as a children's librarian and reading teacher, professions that fed her appetite for stories and fables, manuscripts and weathered paper, faded snapshots and family albums, and, of course, dolls. Everything about her work is obsessive: looping lines of ink become pathways from one story to another, figures move from penciled patterns to center stage befor...
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Sears-Peyton Gallery is pleased to present “Doll Portraits”, an exhibition of photographs and drawings by New York artist Roz Leibowitz. In her two previous shows with the gallery, Leibowitz focused her creative energies on elaborately patterned narrative drawings. As Ken Johnson wrote in The New York Times, they looked “uncannily like the works of a self-taught Victorian mystic.”
Leibowitz came to the art world having worked for years as a children's librarian and reading teacher, professions that fed her appetite for stories and fables, manuscripts and weathered paper, faded snapshots and family albums, and, of course, dolls. Everything about her work is obsessive: looping lines of ink become pathways from one story to another, figures move from penciled patterns to center stage befor...