Spirtual painter Leon Kennedy on dreams and visions

Video Title :	Spirtual painter Leon Kennedy on dreams and visions
Description :	Dreams and visions, the interconnectedness of artists, the flow of ideas. Using markers, crayons, and paint, renown Oakland folk artist Leon Kennedy creates vibrant visions of God's glory on wood, canvas, old bed sheets and other found objects. An ecstatic spiritualist and self-taught outsider, his message is about the power of faith, our limitless minds, and love. His bold, distinctive works are part of significant collections of black American folk art, including The Smithsonian Institution's American Art Museum, which purchased a bed sheet mural by Mr. Kennedy in 1997, as well as The African American Museum in Dallas, Texas, The House of Blues, The Ames Gallery in Berkeley, CA, and numerous private collections. Mr. Kennedy is in the NMAA online research database; photos and other materials of Kennedy are part of the illustrious National Archives. In 2006 two of Kennedy's paintings formed a major part of the yearlong exhibit at Baltimore's prestigious American Visionary Art Museum, "Race, Class, Gender," which travelled in 2007 to the Lowell Revolving Museum. A major one-man retrospective was exhibited at the Kings Gallery of the San Francisco Unitarian Universalist Church in 2004. His works were exhibited in "Ordinary Folk: Extraordinary Visions" at the San Francisco Arts Commission Gallery in March and April of 2000, (curator, Bonnie Grossman of The Ames Gallery.) In late the 1990's The House of Blues purchased several of Leon's works. Mr. Kennedy is documented thoroughly in Contemporary American Folk Art: A Collector's Guide, by Chuck and Jan Rosenak (Abbeville Press). He is listed in all reliable surveys, including Betty-Carol Sellen's "Self Taught, Outsider, and Folk Art."
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Rating :	5.00
Keywords, Tags :	Outsider artwork art brut
Video Length :	1 : 45

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