CV June 2011

Alex Leaver

Plymouth, MA 02360

(508) 747-5135 (H)   (774) 283-2776 (C)

alex.leaver@verizon.net

The Art Institute of Boston at Lesley University

 MFA, Visual Arts, February 2011

Selected Shows and Awards

                Boston Young Contemporaries, 808 Commonwealth Gallery, Boston

                                                2011 - Drawing

                University Hall Gallery, Cambridge, MA

                                                2011 -- MFA in Visual Arts, AIB, 13th Graduate exhibit (thesis show)

                South Shore Art Center Summer Juried Members' Show

                                                2010  - Honorable mention, Drawing

                                                2011 -  Drawing

                Duxbury Art Association Annual Juried Show

                                                2006 - Drawing

                                                2007 - Honorable mention, Sculpture

                                                2010 - Drawing

                                                2011 - Second Place, Drawing

                Plymouth Guild Annual Juried Show

                                                2006 - First prize, Drawing

                                                2007 - Sculpture

                                           2008 - Drawing

                                           2009 - First prize, Drawing;

                                                           Mixed media

                                                2010 - Drawing

                A Different Vision ( Juried show of art for the blind and vision-impaired, Plymouth Guild)

                                                2010 - First prize, Sculpture

                Duxbury Art Association Midsummer Art Show

                                                2006 - Honorable mention, Drawing

               

                                                                                                                                               

Published and Commissioned Artwork

2011 Cover illustration: Healthy Agriculture, Healthy Nutrition, Healthy People, ed:AP     Simopoulos, B      Childs, Karger, Basel

2006 Interior Illustrations: Keys to Drawing with Imagination, Bert Dodson, North Light                                                   Books, Cincinnati

          Greeting Card: Unitarian Universalist Service Committee Christmas Card, National                                                 Contest, First Prize      

2000 Cover Illustration: Street Foods, ed: AP Simopoulos, RU Bhat, Karger, Basel

1997 Logo: International Conference on The Return of ω-3 Fatty Acids Into The Food Supply,

                National Institutes of Health, Bethesda MD

1990 Cover Illustration: Genetic variation and Nutrition, ed:AP Simopoulos, B Childs, Karger,                                        Basel

          Logo: The Center for Genetics, Nutrition and Health, Washington, DC

1996 Cover Illustration: Das Persönliche Gesundheitsmanagement, Siegfried Harrah and Helmut                                                  Heseker, Rasch un Rohring, Hamburg

                1994 Greeting Card: Friends of Boston University Medical center Hospital Fundraiser, Boston

                       Poster: Youth Violence: Physician Intervention, AMA-MMS Section 7 Annual Meeting,                                                              Boston

                       Interior Illustrations: Pulse: Medical Student Impressions, Journal of the American Medical                                                      Association, Vol. 271, N0. 5

                1993 Cover Illustration, Interior Illustrations: Hemispheres, Boston University School of                                                                  Medicine, Boston

                          Cover Illustration, Interior Illustration: The Red Book, Boston university School of                                                  Medicine, Boston

1992 Cover Illustration, Logo, and Interior Art for The Lyndon Review Vol. V, No. 1, Troll Press,                                                     St Johnsbury

                1991 Cover Illustration: Health Effects of ω-3 Polyunsaturated Fatty Acids in Seafoods,

                                Ed: AP Simopoulos, et al, Karger, Basel

1989 Logo: Saltillo Press, St Johnsbury, VT

                1988 Commemorative coin and Hellenic Post Office postmark celebrating First International                                                         Conference on Fitness And Nutrition

         Logo:International Conference on Fitness and Nutrition

                1984 Poster: Festival of Awareness / WOMR benefit, Provincetown     

Publications

                2011 MFA  in Visual Arts Graduate Exhibition Catalogue, Art Institute of Boston at Lesley University,                                           January 10-15, 2011.                                                                                                                        

                2010 Feinberg, J. "A Feeling for Art: Exhibit in Plymouth invites visitors to Please Touch." Patriot ledger,                                        April 29,  2010 pp21-22.   

                                                                                                                                                           

daphne

Latest re-iteration (is that an oxymoron?) of a Daphne artist statement, to accompany a bunch of Daphne art at the DAA studio sale / show next weekend.

DAPHNE

Many of my drawings depict metamorphosis, and the Greek myth of Daphne and Apollo has been a particularly favorite subject. Sometimes identified as a maiden and sometimes as a wood nymph, Daphne was a skilled huntress who lived in the woods of Arcady. She was pursued by the god Apollo and, to avoid being raped, she turned into a laurel tree. She could not deny the oppression that Apollo presented, but she did not give up the power to make a choice, even in her dire straits. How creative is that--Who would think of turning into a tree? To own the possibility of choice in the face of oppression is to experience freedom -- not freedom from oppression, but freedom despite oppression.

My drawings of Daphne symbolize the possibility of  experiencing freedom from the oppression of our polarizing culture of dominance and submission. She reminds me to see all personal actions as expressions of choice. When drawing, I often depict figures I see in my environment, or 'trace' figures I see emerge from the vagaries of the surface I am drawing on. And so I am reminded also, that what we see is what we choose to see.

Alex Leaver

Day trips

Grand Rapids Day Trips

Topeka day trips

SSAC Juried Show at the Arts Fair

"We Can Handle the Truth" in South Shore Art Center's Juried exhibit at the Arts Festival June 17-19 on Cohasset Common.

BYC 2011

‎"Daphne's Bark (#1)" in Boston Young Contemporaries Show, July 15 to August 14, 2011, at 808 Commonwealth Gallery in Boston.
("Daphne's Bark #2" sold at the Waldorf Auction last week....Thanks, Jay ;))

What's up.

"Wisdom," second prize drawing, Duxbury Art Guild annual juried show 2011, was up at the Art Complex Museum in Duxbury this winter. One of my tambourines, "Bacchantes (pretty enough but struggling with facial hair)" is in the Plymouth Guild show; also, a little 'small art' piece --ink drawing of a Daphne--was donated, for their Hat's Off to the Arts show/fundraiser. Finished over a dozen pieces that became / have been UFO's during MFA pursuit. making giant (for me--approx a foot across) fiber things. Also knitting / felting ridiculous Barbie clothes. Once again attending the Harlow House Fiber Guild meetings--Dye Pot Day at the Harlow house is May 21. I will once again be in charge of the madder pot, and hope to prevent boiling this year. Also on May 21 is the Waldorf School of Cape Cod annual auction, I will be at both events. Donated one of the "Daphne's Bark" drawings to that auction--large drawing, beautifully framed by Metalwoods, for the thesis show but I did not end up hanging it there. Finished working on a book cover illustration today.

"Goethe in Massachusetts," Day and Night.

MFA thesis show--Reception