artist: Leemour Pelli

series: Leemour Pelli Life Now

title: Two Hearts Diverged On A Road I started Painting you before You Arrived

portfolio: http://www.leemourpelli.com

Leemour Pelli is an artist who lives and works in New York City. She is a graduate of the School of Visual Arts (B.F.A., painting, 1994), and Hunter College (M.A. in Art History). In 2008, the artist had her first solo exhibition at the Daneyal Mahmood Gallery in New York. Her other recent solo exhibitions include two at the Annina Nosei Gallery in New York in 2004 and 2005, and in 2003 at the Art Gallery of the University of Central Florida in Orlando. The University published a catalogue, and produced a mini-documentary about the artist and her work. Pelli’s recent exhibitions include the Robert Fontaine Gallery in Miami, Kinz Tillou and Feigen Gallery, the Whitney Museum the American Art at Champion, Connecticut, PS1 Institute of Contemporary Art, Long Island City, Spaces Contemporary Art Center in Ohio, and the Artcore Gallery in Toronto. Her work has been reviewed in various publications including ArtForum (2008), Art News, The New York Times, New York Arts Magazine, Tema Celeste, and The Globe and Mail.

This body of work focuses on my continued interest with human inter-relationships. I use poetic, anatomical, and medical imagery as an extension of the figure or the body - to convey human experiences. This appears in the form of multiple or single figures merging into one another, and being effected by one another. At times the figures appear with enlarged and out of control hearts, enlarged and overlapping lungs, and other inner organs as an expression of one’s inner realities and dramas. The figures in the work seem almost overtaken by each other, and by their inner organs and emotions. The works are conceived in layers of paint that build up and at the same time disintegrate as an expression of the internal and elusive nature of human kind.

This work was exhibited in the 2021 Museum of Wild and Newfangled Art Biennial, which took place from April 30 through September 22, 2021. The 2021 mowna Biennial exhibited an international pool of artists selected from 44 countries gathered through a free call for submissions process that ran from January through March of 2021. The Biennial includes all forms of art made from 2019 to 2021. The show has been added to mowna's collection, which is available for viewing online at https://www.mowna.org.

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