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Paul Leibow, Coffee + Cigarettes, 2019

Paul Leibow

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This is a super rare and imaginative print - LAST ONE - from the edition of only 10 (TEN) - and it makes an amazing gift!

Paul Leibow

Coffee + Cigarettes, 2019

Lithograph on Newsprint Grey Somerset Velvet

Printed at Tamarind Institute. Hand printed by Elena Carrasco under the supervision of Master Printer Brandon Gunn

Pencil signed and numbered lower right from the edition of only 10

Bears Tamarind Institute chop mark lower left

Accompanied by copy of detailed Tamarind documentation sheet

Measurements: 28.25" (vertical) x 22" (horizontal)

Unframed

Critic Tris Mccall writes in a recent review:

"Felix the Cat is older than Mickey. He was created over a century ago, and he's been fading in plain view ever since sound was added to motion pictures. But in his Gilded Age prime, Felix was incredibly popular: famous enough to leave a burn mark in his image on the collective imagination. The spirit of the Cat retains enough psychic power to guide the hand of at least one contemporary artist - painter and sculptor Paul Leibow... This playful, irreverent work uses the figure of Felix, or what's left of him, to comment on sexuality, decay and reassembly, mechanical reproduction and corporate branding, and the ubiquity and ambiguity of the commercialized image..."

Lithograph with image concept invention of a non existent character: Feel licks ears over ads of vintage comics, creating a unique abstract work, including ghosted figures and cigarettes and coffee falling from an imagined earthquake. The attempt was to use a series from vintage characters that inform the piece, with a body inside the Feel Licks cat face structure. Includes a brain W-ray with lamb faces as a surreal interplay. 6-color print, derived from the artist Mark Rothko in a blend roll or orange and red hue. Limited edition print, signed recto from the edition of only 10

PAUL LEIBOW BIOGRAPHY

ARTIST BIO

Paul Leibow works in painting, sculpture, mixed media, and film. A documentary art video about his archival process was selected for the Metropolitan Museum of Arts (a program for art on film). Over his art career, his work has been selected for art books and exhibitions by curators from the Whitney Museum and Met. Leibow has created artworks for recording artist Bruce Springsteen for his world tour, including books, and branded icons/logos utilized for his concerts. 2019 awarded an art residency at Tamarind Institute New Mexico, with two editions archived in the New Mexico Art Museum (UNM). 2020 artworks featured in ArtMaze Magazine’s Winter Issue 16. Hyperallergic -FeelLicks Artwork “Pink”: painting included in review (Art Fair 14C) 2022

Born: New York City / School of Visual Arts - NY, BFA, / Summer Works: Art and design program– NY State / Studied with Milton Glaser

2023 Noyes Museum. NJAA Stockton.
2022 Jersey City Times Review from art critic Tris McCall at (Art Fair 14C) Nov. 2022
2021 Jersey City Times(BEST 2021 SHOW) #5 by art critic Tris McCall
2021 Novado Gallery - Review Solo Show review, Tris McCall_Jersey City Times
2021 ArtsBergen Sneak Peak: Award / Art video and panel discussion
2020 One Fair Wage: Created artwork for vertical billboard shown all over USA
2020 OFW: Featured artwork for new brand as vertical billboard in Times Square NYC
2019 New Mexico Art Museum (UNM) – Two Tamarind Editions archived into the museum.
2019 Tamarind Institute – Artist Residency (one of 4 artist awarded residency)
2019 Tamarind Institute Gallery – No Modifiers exhibition
2019 PABT Arts – New York City, Windows Gallery Aug. – November
2019 Le Galerista – French Canada –art used on apparel line
2016 MoRUS Museum, – Black Babylonian Beads- film premier, Museum reclaimed urban-space 2010 Borghi Fine Arts Gallery – NJ
2004 Waltouch Gallery – NJ
1998 Liquid Gallery – NJ Sibling Rivalry-a show with his brother.
1989 John Harms Center for the Arts, Bergen PAC – NJ
1987 John Harms Center for the Arts, Bergen PAC- NJ
1995 Watchung Arts Center NJ Installation (Elucidations of the empty)
1995 Montclair State University Art Gallery – NJ Abstract Polarities -Jurior by Ivan Karp

SELECTED EXHIBITIONS

2022 Hyperallergic -Artwork painting included in review from Art Fair 14C Nov. 2022
2022 ART FAIR 14C Artwork selected for juried exhibition fundraiser Art Fair 14C Nov. 2022 2021 Novado Gallery_ Solo Show Sept 10th / Jersey City Times review by Tris McCall
2021 SHRINE.NYC / Group Show 7
2021 WNYC –poem entitled THIS, aired on April’s (poetry month)
2021 SHRINE – NYC / Group Show - online Exhibition
2020 Montclair Art Museum – JAM at MAM auction / online Exhibition
2020 Art maze Magazine’s Winter Issue 16 - international artists featured in the print edition 2020 Artcritical –David Cohen selected work for Alpha 137 Gallery show
2020 The Museum of Hoboken: Featured in Every Mask a Blank Canvas Exhibition
2020 BSB gallery – Silent auction / Online Exhibition
2020 Transformative – Online Exhibition
2020 Novado Gallery – N.J. handling work included in Exhibition RED
2020 Sugar Press – CA Print editions
2019 Paper west –Utah
2019 Frontline Arts –Oct. (The war on the world)
2019 Edward Williams Gallery – FDU, NJ Red carpet hides beneath our desire
2019 Tamarind Institute, Artist Residency New Mexico, May exhibition ”No Modifiers”

2019 Studio Montclair Gallery, NJ, Everyday Objects
2019 Studios Projects Gallery “HA exhibition” and artist talk – Hoboken NJ
2018 Paper west – Utah
2018 1340 Galley – Art registry
2018 The Rotunda Gallery – Abstract show- June, Photography shows July
2018 Edward Williams Gallery – Group FDU
2018 Union Street Galley – Pen & Ink show- March, Chicago Il.
2018 bG Galley: Stripes show – Santa Monica CA
2017 Alvin Gittins Gallery– Utah, Paper West- National works on paper juried show 2017 MoRus Museum- NYC, Taking it to the streets: Museum of reclaimed urban space 2017 New York Times -Taking it to the streets review May18th by (Colin Moynihan) 2016 Art Film premier at MoRUS Museum- NYC
2016 Film Festivals, GBFF Green Bay, NNFF Near Nazareth, SCFF Studio City & FBFF.
2016 AEDRA Fine Arts- NJ Jersey City, gallery interview
2014 ARTWORKS Gallery- NJ

SHOWS & REVIEWS Limited highlights
Metropolitan Museum of Art - art film entitled: “For a Limited Time” Program for Art on Film ALJIRA - NJ National 4 Juried Show
ACNNJ- NJ -National Juried Show By curator: -Thyrza Nichols Goodeve, Whitney Museum
City Without Walls - NJ -The Mask: Magic or Menace
SVA: Visual Arts Museum - NYC Best of the Best
Montclair State Art Gallery -NJ juried by William Zimmer
Exit Art/ The First World – NY
Leo Castelli Gallery -SVA Alumni 77’ thru 87’
Juror Lowery Sims Curator: Metropolitan Museum (Work removed)
Montclair State Art Gallery - N J (Received Juror’s Award)
New American Paintings – Art Book- Elisabeth Sussman, curator Whitney Museum
Arts Center Northern N.J. -National Show/ Top Prize: Juror-Cynthia Goodman, Whitney Museum

INTERVIEWS / AWARDS - Partial list
The Museum of Hoboken: award co-winner of the Every Mask a Blank Canvas
The Record News Paper NJ (Oct. 2014) Leonia Mural
New American Paintings Book 15th Edition
NY1 News story, Currency Show - Borghi Fine Arts, NJ
Bruce Springsteen - Recording artist: ‘95 /‘96 World Tour and new album of that year.
The Record News Paper NJ (02/04/09) Better Living Section
201 Magazine -Arts Issue, NJ (04 / 07) Featured & Interview about work in art & design
The Record News Paper-NJ (05/06/07) Interview of one-man show- Art featured on cover
The Newark Star Ledger - NJ (08 / 03) Review of Masks- CWW Show
The New York Times - NJ (09/03/95) Review of work
The New York Times - NJ (05/14/95) Review of work
New American Paintings – Book: two page spread Juror: Elisabeth Sussman, Whitney Museum Montclair State Art Gallery - N J (Received Juror’s Award)
New York Magazine - Featuring sculpture from (Exit Art/The First World.)
Arts Center of Northern N.J. - NJ National Juried Show / Awarded Top Prize:
-Juror-Cynthia Goodman -curator Whitney Museum
Channel 5 News - NY Morning show airs sculpture Cosmetized 1989
-San Diego Union - CA. 04/09/89 Art -review West Week
Pavilion Gallery Catalog - NJ June 30 Featured Work on Cover: with Commentary
-(by Burton Wasserman and Jacob Landau)
This Magazine -Tokyo, Japan: artist’s interview (Vol. 3)
IDEA - (annual) - Tokyo, Japan
The Metropolitan Museum of Art - 1990-2000 film: “For a Limited Time”