SOLO EXHIBITIONS

 

2010_ReCreation, Barton College Art Galleries, Wilson, North Carolina.
2009_Clearing the Path, Allyn Gallup Contemporary Art, Sarasota, Florida.
2008_Ruinations, Selby Gallery, Ringling School of Art and Design, Sarasota, Florida.
2007_Accumulated Mysteries: Sculptural Work by Leslie Fry,
_____Brattleboro Museum and Art Center, Brattleboro, Vermont.
2004_Cast-Offs: Girls, Riddles, Fate, Firehouse Gallery, Burlington, Vermont.
2002_TransPlants, Philadelphia Art Alliance, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
1997_The Gingerbread Museum, Exquisite Corpse Artsite, Burlington, Vermont.
1996_Recent Work: Arts/Industry, John Michael Kohler Arts Center, Sheboygan, Wisconsin.
1990_Monoprints, Francis Colburn Gallery, University of Vermont, Burlington, Vermont.
1988_Sculpture, The Penson Gallery, New York, New York.
1987_Relief Sculpture, The Albany Academy Gallery, Albany, New York.
1982_Limbo, The Robert Hull Fleming Museum, Burlington, Vermont.
1977_Bodywork, La Galerie Suzele Carle, Montréal, Québec.

 

SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS

 

2011 Paperwork, Allyn Gallup Contemporary Art, Sarasota, Florida.
An Exchange with Sol Lewitt, Mass MoCA, North Adams, Massachusetts.
2010
_2008-2009 Project Fellowship II, Blackburn 20/20, Elizabeth Foundation for
_____the Arts, New York, New York.
_____Foreign Affairs, Universitat fur Bodenkultur, Vienna, Austria.
_____Foreign Affairs Impulse, Salvation Army, Reykjavik, Iceland.

2009
_Foreign Affairs: Steps to Hope (2 artist collaboration), Windspiel Galerie
_____Vienna, Austria and Studio 620, St. Petersburg, Florida.
2008
_Drawing Beyond the Plane, Tampa Museum of Art, Tampa, Florida.
_____Site Matters: Proposed Installations for the New TMA,
_____Tampa Museum of Art, Tampa, Florida.
2006_Amor Eterno,Tampa Museum of Art, Tampa, Florida.
_____Unrestricted, Florida Craftsmen Gallery, St. Petersburg, Florida.
2005_Florida Focus: Tampa Bay, Gulf Coast Museum of Art, Largo, Florida.
_____Riverbend Sculpture Biennial, Owensboro Museum of Fine Art,
_____Owensboro, Kentucky.
2004_Art at Northlake Park, City of Orlando Sculpture Program, Orlando, Florida.
_____2004-2005.
2003_Hybrids, Wave Hill, Bronx, New York.
_____Leslie Fry / Burk Uzzle, Mira Mar Gallery, Sarasota, Florida.
_____Efflorescence, Kohler Arts Center, Sheboygan, Wisconsin.
2002_Florida Visual Arts Fellowships Exhibition 2001-2002, traveling exhibition
_____through 2003.
2001_Uncommon Threads: Contemporary Artists and Clothing, Herbert F. Johnson
_____Museum, Cornell University, Ithaca, New York.
_____UnderCurrent/OverView, Tampa Museum of Art, Tampa, Florida.
1999_Botanica: Contemporary Art and the World of Plants, traveling exhibition
_____through 2001.
_____Femmes, Corps et Âme, Couvent des Cordeliers, Paris, France.
1998_After Eden: Garden Varieties in Contemporary Art, Middlebury College Museum
_____of Art, Middlebury, Vermont.
_____Post-Pastoral: New Images of the New England Landscape, Hood Museum of
_____Art, Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire.
1996_Femmes, Corps et Âme, Musée de la Civilisation, Québec, Québec.
_____Incestuous, Thread Waxing Space, New York, New York. Curators: Carter Kustera
_____and Tiong Ang.
_____Casts of Character: The Factory and Beyond, Kohler Arts Center, Sheboygan,
_____Wisconsin.
_____Exhibition of Painting and Sculpture, Berkshire Museum, Stockbridge,
_____Massachusetts. Curator: Dan Cameron.
1995_Cherchez La Femme, Kuntshaus, Hamburg, Germany.
_____A Distinct Grace, Museum of Contemporary Art, Boulder, Colorado.
1994_Disembodied: Clothing Forms in Contemporary Sculpture, The Fleming Museum,
_____Burlington, Vermont.
_____Corpus, Centre des Arts Visuels, Montréal, Québec.
1993_Empty Dress: Clothing as Surrogate in Recent Art. Traveling exhibition through 1996.
        Curator: Nina Felshin.
_____1920, The Subtlety of Subversion, The Continuity of Intervention,
_____Exit Art, New York, New York.
_____Artists Select, Artists Space, New York, New York.
_____States of the Art, A.I.R. Gallery, New York, NY. Juror: Lowery Sims,
_____Metropolitan Museum of Art.
1991_Drawings, Erector Square Gallery, New Haven, Connecticut. Juror: Howardena
_____Pindell.
1990_Works on Paper, The Berkshire Museum, Pittsfield, Massachusets.
_____Juror: Charlotta Kotick, Brooklyn Museum.
_____Arte de los Noventa, El Instituto de Cultura de Yucatan, Merida, Mexico.
1989_New Dimensions Art Exhibit, Galeria La Merced, Maracaibo, Venezuela.
_____Contemporary Sculpture at Chesterwood, Chesterwood, Stockbridge,
_____Massachusetts.
_____Clay Works, The Rice Gallery, Albany Institute of History and Art, Albany,
_____New York.
_____Small Works, Amos Eno Gallery, New York, New York. Juror: Sharon Jacques,
_____Museum of Modern Art.
1988_Dolls by Artists: Fetish Objects, Textile Arts Centre, Chicago, Illinois. Juror:
_____Joyce Scott
_____Monoprints, Image Gallery, Stockbridge, Massachusetts.



COMMISSIONS

 

Springfield Theater architectural sculpture restoration. Housing Vermont. 2011.

Nest Builder, cast stone sculpture commissioned by City of Tampa Public Art for Seminole Garden Center, 5850 N. Central Ave., Tampa, FL. 2010.

Wild Life Sculpture Search. Boca Ciega Millennium Park, Seminole, Florida. Pinellas County Cultural Affairs. 2007.

Broward Public Art and Design Program: Large-scale wall reliefs for four libraries. Fort Lauderdale, Florida. 2005.

Quercus Emancipation. Site-specific sculpture for Wave Hill, Bronx, New York. 2003.

Mermaid House. Housing Vermont. 84 North Avenue, Burlington, Vermont. 2003.

Pomerleau Neighborhood Park. Chosen with architect Steven Schenker, by Burlington Public Art Committee. Burlington, Vermont. 1999.

Step Dress. Edition of ten cast-glass sculpture/awards created for the non-profit organization, First Step. New York City. 1998.

Pear.16’ steel sculpture covered and surrounded by growing vegetables, created with community groups. John Michael Kohler Arts Center, Sheboygan, Wisconsin. Summer 1996.

Medée. Installation created for a performance by Marthe Mercure. Musée d’Art Contemporain, Montréal, Québec. February 1981.

HONORS AND AWARDS

 

Creation Grant. Vermont Arts Council. 2011.

Fundacion Valparaiso, Mojacar, Spain. Fellowship, January 1998 and November 2010.

U.S. Embassy Vienna, Austria. Grant, September-October 2009.

Robert Blackburn Printmaking Workshop, New York, NY. Fellowship, October 2008.

I-Park, East Haddam, Connecticut. Fellowship, September 2008.

Firehouse Center for the Arts, Burlington, Vermont, Artist-in-Residence, 2004.

Florida State Individual Artist Fellowship, 2001.

Women and Minorities Print Project, Ringling School of Art and Design, Sarasota, Florida. Artist-in-Residence, January 2000.

Anderson Ranch Arts Center, Snowmass Village, Colorado. Fellowship, March 1998.

Ragdale Foundation, Lake Forest, Illinois. Fellowship,1997.

John Michael Kohler Arts Center, Sheboygan, Wisconsin. Artist-in-Residence, May 1996.

Arts/Industry Program, Kohler Company, Kohler, Wisconsin, 1996.

Vermont Council on the Arts Development Grant. 1992.

Yaddo, Saratoga Springs, New York. Fellowship, March 1991.

The Virginia Center for the Creative Arts, Sweet Briar, Virginia. Fellowship,1990.

Blue Mountain Center, Blue Mountain Lake, New York. Fellowships in 1989, 1988, 2006.

The Pollock-Krasner Foundation, New York, New York. Grant for 1989.

The Millay Colony for the Arts, Austerlitz, New York. Fellowship, October 1987.

COLLECTIONS

 

Whole Foods Market Art Collection, Sarasota, Florida.

The Tampa Museum of Art, Tampa, Florida.

Robert Hull Fleming Museum, University of Vermont, Burlington, Vermont.

John Michael Kohler Arts Center, Sheboygan, Wisconsin.

Kohler Company, Kohler, Wisconsin.




SELECTED BIBLIOGRAPHY

 

Gwendolyn Purdom, "Making a Difference," Preservation, July/August, 2011.

Joyce Wadler, "Sowing Enchantment," New York Times, June 16, 2011.

Anne Barclay Morgan, "Leslie Fry," Sculpture Magazine, July/August 2010.

Arlene Distler, “Accumulated Mysteries: Leslie Fry,” Art New England, August/September 2007.

Lennie Bennett, "Wild Art," St. Petersburg Times, April 2, 2007.

Ann Albritton, "Leslie Fry," Sculpture Magazine, November 2003.

Grace Glueck, "Silo Meets Satellite Dish," New York Times, September 4,1998.

Eleanor Heartney, essay for After Eden: Garden Varieties in Contemporary Art, Middlebury College Museum of Art, 1998.

Nina Parris, “The Gingerbread Museum: Installation by Leslie Fry,” Art New England, Feb./March 1998.

Akiko Kotani and Bernard Freydberg, “Crossover in the Arts,” Fiberarts, Summer 1997.

Hajo Schiff, “Feminismus, Trivialitat und Kunsterkenntnis,” Taz Hamburg, January 4, 1996.

Leslie Fry, contribution to “Women’s Work,” in Art Journal: “Clothing as Subject,” Spring 1995.

Nancy Smith, “Empty Dress, Loaded Images,” Ms. Magazine, December 1993.

Richard Brown, “Leslie Fry: Recent Work,” Art New England, May 1986.

Pierre-A. Larocque, “Sculptures-Masques” (interview with Leslie Stevenson Fry), Le Baroque, cahier 3, Montréal, Québec, November 1977.

INVITED LECTURES AND COLLOQUIA

 

"Diplomacy Through Arts Alliances," Amerika Haus, Vienna, Austria, October 1, 2009.

“Public Art/Art for the Public,” Humanities Institute, University of South Florida, Tampa, Florida, November 13, 2007.

“Views of the Body in Art – Past to Present,” SUNY Buffalo, Buffalo, New York, September 28, 2007.

“Imagined Bodies,” Lecture Series: Artists on Art, Tampa Museum of Art, Tampa, Florida, May 6, 2004.

“The Artist as Educator,” Sarasota Biennial Public Education Programs, Creating the Continuum: Dialogues on Contemporary Art, The Ringling Museum, Sarasota, Florida, Nov. 2, 2000.

“Problems in Representing the Female Body in Contemporary Art,” University Art Museum, State University at Albany, Albany, New York, February 25, 1999.

“Ad/Dressing the Body in Western Art from Classical Greek to the Present,” for the Honors Seminar: Knowledge and Theory, University of Vermont, Burlington, Vermont, October 25, 1995, and for Gender Issues and Society, St. Michael’s College, Colchester, Vermont, February 18, 1998.

“A Quick History: 20 Years of Work,” The Robert Hull Fleming Museum, University of Vermont, Burlington, Vermont, April 13, 1994.

Panel discussion with Nina Felshin and Lesley Dill, for Disembodied: Recent Sculpture, The Fleming Museum, University of Vermont, Burlington, Vermont, March 12, 1994.

EDUCATION

 

Milton Avery Graduate School of the Arts, Bard College, Annandale, NY. M.F.A. 1993.

University of Vermont, Burlington, Vermont. Dean's List, B.A. 1975.

Central School of Art and Design, London, England. 1973-74.


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