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How do you connect to the city where you live? I explore this question from my perspective as an artist in NYC, in a new interview with Married to an Artist.
“New York City-based artist Gwyneth Leech is the focus of today’s Artist Spotlight. You can read the Spotlight via https://marriedtoanartist.ca/2022/10/11/artist-spotlight-gwyneth-leech/
She has spent 20+ years focused on documenting New York City through her art. It was her most-recent construction art that caught my eye, but she has previously completed coffee-cup art and portraits of the diverse families in her neighborhood, Hell’s Kitchen.
Check out her Spotlight at and check out her art!”
A solo exhibition of paintings depicting the changing city
June 15 - 26, 2022
Reception Thurs June 16, 6 - 8pm
Open Weds - Sat 11am - 5:30pm
Sun 12 - 5pm
Presented by Garvey/Simon Projects
at Foley Gallery
59 Orchard Street
New York, NY 10002
From Liz Garvey:"I am thrilled to announce Gwyneth Leech’s forthcoming solo exhibition, Liminal New York at Foley Gallery, June 15th through 26th, 2022. Gwyneth Leech is a documentarian of the Manhattan landscape, infusing her representations of the evolving skyline with the dual poeticism and clarity of a New Yorker. She scans her concrete surroundings with the spirit of an Impressionist, seeking to grasp transitory moments as new structures emerge from nothing. Buildings rise, communities shift, and time passes under Leech’s watchful gaze."
For more information contact:
liz@garveysimon.com
917-796-2146
Image: Hudson Yards Rising, View from Pier 84
Oil on canvas, 15" x 30", 2021
www.gwynethleech.com/nyc-construction
Instagram @gwynethleech
A solo exhibition of paintings depicting building construction in the changing city
June 15 - 26, 2022
Reception, Thursday June 16, 6-8pm
Gallery hours:
Wednesday - Saturday 11am - 5:30pm
Presented by GarveyISimon Projects
at Foley Gallery
59 Orchard Street, New York, NY 10002
For more information contact
liz@garveysimon.com
917-796-2146
I am delighted to be exhibiting three paintings in the i.d.e.a Museum's newest exhibition, Imagine Design Build, 1/21/2022- 8/7/2022.
Read about it below, from an article by Christina Silvestri in Arizona Foothills Magazine:
Starting Friday, January 21, 2022, the i.d.e.a. Museum in Mesa will present the new exhibition, Imagine, Design, Build! Featuring 40 artworks by 15 artists from four states and six countries, the exhibition will include a variety of paintings, sculpture, fiber works, digital videos, LED lighting, and digital photography.
Running until Sunday, August 7, 2022, Imagine, Design, Build! will focus on the complexities of architecture, the art and science of designing buildings and structures, as well as the people who put this into practice as professional architects. Architects express an artistic vision through the size, shape, color, materials, and style of a building's elements.
Numerous interactive and artmaking activities will also be in the gallery that will allow visitors to act as an architect and design their own buildings using a variety of materials and techniques.
These activities include:
- Fort building in our outdoor atrium space
- Experience animal architects and builders in the Eagles Nest Reading room
- See yourself inside the world of Minecraft in our green screen activity space
- Experience the work of an architect in our Design Studio
- Design your own architectural model in our Make a Model space
- And much more!
Participating artists include: Laura Spaulding Best and Mayme Kratz, Mesa, AZ; Tim Boyle, Denise A. Currier and Amy Sansbury Manning,Phoenix, AZ; Jesse Orrico and Jeriden Villegas, California; Ralph Chermak, Illinois; and Gwyneth Leech, New York.
International artists include: Josue Isai Ramos Figueroa, Costa Rica; Bernd M. Schell, Germany; Angela Yuen Ka Yee, Hong Kong; Shivendu Shukla, India; Danist Soh, Singapore; and Ricardo Gomez Angel, Switzerland.
Plan your visit and purchase tickets at www.ideamuseum.org.
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- Garvey Simon Gallery (map)
Both an in person and online event. Gwyneth is pleased to be included in Select 6 at Garvey Simon Gallery in NYC, the sixth annual exhibition of work by emerging and mid-career artists chosen by director Elizabeth K. Garvey through the gallery’s innovative Review Program. Online, this is an Artsy exclusive exhibition and can be viewed at HERE . Physical artworks in the exhibition can be viewed at the gallery which is open by appointment at their Upper West Side and Long Island City locations. More information about the exhibition is available on the gallery's website HERE.
Please contact Liz at liz@garveysimon.com or 917.796.2146 to schedule a viewing.
I am pleased to be featured in the December issue of Modern Steel Construction Magazine, in a podcast interview and an article. The magazine is a monthly print publication by the AISC, the American Institute of Steel Construction.
Click HERE to read the full article.
Click HERE to listen to the podcast.
November 26, 2019
Many thank to artists and curator Anne Finkelstein for including 16 of my paintings in the group exhibition Picturing Space! The show will be up for the six weeks in the Art and Design Gallery and adjacent lobby space at F.I.T. in Manhattan. There are many wonderful artists in the exhibition working at the intersection of art and architecture!
November 26, 2019 - January 5, 2020
November 6, 2019
Watch for my construction-themed paintings on the Link video kiosks throughout the five boroughs. For the next two weeks eight of my paintings will be in rotation on all 1700 screens!
Many thanks to @ArtonlinkNYC for curating my artwork into this urban art project!
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I am delighted to share a NY1 television interview with Kristen Shaughnessy about my construction site artwork, The Monolith documentary and my current exhibition at the Kaufman arcade. The two and a half minute segment can be viewed online at this link: Kristen S Bush Videos.
The 10 minute documentary, The Monolith can be viewed here: www.vimeo/AngeloG/themonolith.com.
And information about my current solo show is below.
I am pleased to invite you to a solo exhibition of my construction site paintings
in the Kaufman Arcade Public Art Space at 132 West 36th Street in Manhattan.
The exhibition continues through Tuesday, April 3rd.
CONSTRUCTION SERIES
by GWYNETH LEECH
A solo exhibition of paintings by New York City artist Gwyneth Leech bears witness to a rapidly changing Midtown Manhattan.
February 15 - April 3, 2018
Mon - Fri, 6am - 9pm
Sat - Sun, 8am - 6pm
Kaufman Arcade
139 W 35th St / 132 W 36th St
New York, NY 10018
Presented by the Garment District Alliance Public Art Space Program
Painting on site at an easel, in acrylic on canvas, and in the studio with oils on canvas or wood panel, Leech's paintings capture specific times of day and particular stages of the high rise construction process. The exhibition includes paintings of construction sites in the Garment District neighborhood,
as well as around the Hudson Yards, by Grand Central Station and on West 53rd Street.
Leech has exhibited her drawings, paintings and installations across the United States and the United Kingdom in a wide variety of museum, commercial gallery, public art, non-profit and alternative spaces. She is well known for her artwork on used coffee cups which she exhibited widely as site specific installations, starting in 2011 in the Garment District Alliance Window Space for Public Art on West 38th Street in New York City.
Leech holds degrees from the University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA, and from Edinburgh College of Art, Edinburgh, UK. The recipient of numerous awards and grants, including several Scottish Arts Council awards, a University of Colorado's President's Fund Grant, an Elizabeth Greenshields Memorial Award and a Thouron Fellowship, Leech's artwork resides in important private and public collections.
For more infromation about art in the Garment District click here.
Watch it here:
Gwyneth Leech will be opening her studio to the public on Thurs. October 19th, 6-9PM and Sat. October 21st, 1-6PM, at 315 West 39th Street, #1306
in Manhattan.
Mark Your Calendar!
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The Garment District Alliance is proud to present the 14th Annual Garment District Arts Festival, featuring Gwyneth Leech.
The Garment District Arts Festival is a district-wide celebration of the artists, performers, galleries and theaters that contribute to the creative energy that fuels this neighborhood.
The Garment District Arts Festival takes place October 19-21. Visit the 2017 Arts Festival Website for the most up to date festival information.
Make a behind the scenes visit to artists' studios, view a unique installation, enjoy outdoor artist services or tour our numerous galleries. It's all part of the 2017 Garment Ditsrict Arts Festiva
A documentary short about Gwyneth Leech's artwork and studio practice will screen on Saturday, October 7th during the East Hampton Film Festival.
"I am honored that my current artwork and studio practice are the subject of a documentary short by New York film-maker, Angelo Guglielmo (The Woman Who Wasn't There, 2012; The Heart of Steel, 2008). The short will have a work-in-progress screening next Saturday, October 7th at the East Hampton Library at 1PM during the East Hampton Film Festival. I will be there with Angelo for a Q&A afterwards. If you are out there, please join us!"
RSVP to 631-324-0222 Ext. 3, or get a free ticket here: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/advanced-film-screening-ticket…
In April of 2017, artist Gwyneth Leech travelled from New York City to Cotonou, Benin, in West Africa to participate in an artist exchange program.
"Art has no walls.. by traveling to Benin, and meeting with local artists.. sharing our art and art making- processes we were able to transcend language, find common ground and discover that our lives and goals were not so different. "
Read more here
I am pleased to be showing new construction site drawings and paintings in the offices of Sciame Construction on Wall Street in Lower Manhattan through December 15th, 2016. The exhibition can be viewed weekdays by appointment by emailing me at gwynethl@earthlink.net.
I was pleased to create a site-specific window installation for "Art on / with Paper", a group show at Concepto Gallery, 741 Warren Street in Hudson, NY.
The exhibition ran from September 19th to October 17th, 2015. Curated by gallery director, Kiyoshi Ike.
Gwyneth Leech: Themes and Variations
Paintings and Works on Paper, 2004-2015
April 21st - May 26th.
Opening reception: 6:30-8:00 PM, on Tuesday April 21st.
All welcome.
ARTWorks Gallery on the Green
at 60 East Avenue, Norwalk CT 06851
(on the grounds of St. Paul's on the Green church)
Free and open to the public.
Mon-Fri. 9-5
Sat.10- 1
Sun. 10-11 and 12-1
Commemorating 10 years since New York City artist, Gwyneth Leech completed her striking contemporary stations of the cross for Saint Paul’s on the Green in Norwalk, CT, ARTWorks Gallery on the Green will host a solo show of the artist’s paintings and works
on paper from April 21st – May 26th, 2015. The artist will be showing selections from several bodies of work, representing a
decade of development since undertaking the commission in 2004. The show includes:
-Preparatory oil paintings on paper for the stations of the cross commission, 2004 (the finished paintings are permanently on view in the church across from the gallery).
-A selection from a series of oil portraits on canvas and wood panel called "Perfect Families", 2006-2010.
-A selection from an ongoing series of oils on wood called "Reflected City", 2010-2015.
-A suspended cup installation from her ongoing cup artwork series, 2010-2015.
For more information about the exhibition click here
December News, 2014:
Food for Thought Exhibition
Many thanks to everyone who came to see my cup installations,
small sculptures and paintings in the Food for Thought exhibition
at the Hewitt Gallery, Marymount Manhattan College.
from November 6th to December 3rd, 2014.
Food for Thought
at the Hewitt Art Gallery
Marymount Manhattan College
221 East 71st Street.
Open 7 days a week, 9 AM - 9 PM
November 6 - December 3
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Cup and Paintings at Admit to Bitter, December 2014
I showed brand new cup and painting pairs based on the idea of the City as Coffee Cups. at Admit to Bitter, a pop-up gallery and shop in the South Street Seaport, at 117 Beekman/Titanic Park, NYC, open 12-7PM daily through the middle of December.
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New Cup Collection for Anthropologie for Holiday Season, 2014
I am pleased to announce that my second collection of ceramic coffee cups for Anthropologie is now widely available in their USA and Canadian stores as well as online. Click here to purchase online, international shipping available!
Many thanks to you for following my ever-evolving cup journey!
It continues to be an adventure filled with unexpected twists and turns. Wishing you all the best for the upcoming season of celebrations.
I am thrilled to be taking part in ArtPrize, the world's largest art competition, taking place in Grand Rapids, Michigan,
September 24-October 12.
I will be in Grand Rapids for a week, installing 1001 coffee cup artworks, (my largest cup art installation so far!), then drawing in the window of my venue for five days, September 24-28.
Stop by to visit me then, or see my installation
any time between 9/24 and 10/12.
The venue:
Harris Building, 111 South Division Avenue in Downtown, Grand Rapids.
My drawing sessions:
12 - 2 PM, 9/24, 9/25. 9/26, 9/27 and 9/28,
plus 5-7 PM, Thursday, 9/25 and Saturday, 9/27.
The dates my installation will be on view:
September 24 - October 12.
VOTE CODE: 56642
Here's the link to my ArtPrize page with more information:
http://www.artprize.org/gwyneth-leech/2014/1001-coffee-cup-stories
365: A Year in Cups is included in
TIME FRAMES MARKING TIME
May 24–June 15
WESTBETH GALLERY
55 Bethune St, New York, NY 10014
Gallery Hours: Wednesday-Sunday 1:00-6:00 pm; Closed Mon-Tues.A multi-media exhibition curated by Elisa Decker and Barbara Lubliner featuring 19artists who engage time as a palpable presence. Each artwork tells its own story, bringing attention to the temporal nature of life and inviting contemplation and dialogue about our relationship to time.
Artists Reception: Weds, June 4, 6:00-9:00 pm
Participating Artists: Mara Alper, Fran Beallor, Stefan Beltzig, Elisa Decker, Gwen Fabricant, Liza Folman, Tony Foster, Ellen Grossman, Valerie Huhn, Suzanne Kelser, Gwyneth Leech, Barbara Lubliner, John Mendelsohn, Elaine Norman, Jeffrey Allen Price, Ronnie Seiden-Moss, Drew Shiflett, Linda Stillman,Tamara Wyndham
I will be doing two live drawing events in the gallery on Saturday, May 31, 1:00-4:00 pm and Sunday, June 15, 3:00-6:00 pm.
See you there!
Anthropologie
48 Brattle Street
Well, London was amazing! Now I am back in New York City sorting through photos and I will be posting a detailed wrap-up soon on my blog, Gwyneth's Full Brew. In the meantime, many thanks to British film-maker, Chris Floyd, for this delightful short film. It was shot and edited just a few weeks ago while I was actually working in the window of Anthropologie in Regent Street during the London Design Festival. It really captures the moment for me. And the shoot was a lot of fun!
the London Design Festival in September with an exhibition of 365 of my original cup artworks in the window of their store at 158 Regent Street.
And I will be there for five days,
from September 14 -18, drawing on cups!
If you happen to be in London then, please come on by and see me at work in the window.
Dates and times as follows:
Sat 14th & Sun 15th: 12pm - 3pm
Mon 16th: 11am - 2pm
Tue 17th & Wed 18th: 4pm - 7pm
The cup art installation will be on view 24 hours a day through October 4th.
For those of you in Scotland, I will also be doing a one day event in Edinburgh at Anthropologie's George Street store on Saturday, September 21st from 12 - 3pm with a talk at 2pm.
For the Design Festival program page click the following link:
Gwyneth Leech: 365 -A Year in Cups.
I am delighted to have created three new site specific installations in galleries in and near NYC this Spring:
"Gathering Place" , a No Longer Empty exhibition, was at 24 West 8th Street, Greenwich Village, NY
Fri -Mon 1- 7 pm, through March 23rd.
The public joined me to draw on cups, Fri, Sat, and Mon from 10 - 4 pm through 3/23.
"Diptychs, Triptcyhs and Multiple"s
City Without Walls, Newark,
Tues - Sat 12-6pm, ran through April 13th.
"Family/City Shift" at Susan Teller Gallery,
568 Broadway, 502, Tues - Sat 11-6pm, April 5 to May 11, and still open by appointment through the end of May.
this exhibition was an official part of the 2013 New Museum's Ideas City Festival.
"Cup Cascade", 365 suspended cup drawings
at City Without Walls Gallery, Newark, NJ
Read the latest posts on my blog: "Gwyneth's Full Brew: art and life in New York City, cup in hand"
I am a painter living in New York City and I draw and paint rather compulsively on paper coffee cups - the ubiquitous take-out kind. In my blog I am documenting the intersection of tea, coffee, art-making, art-seeing and daily life. I blog about family life in the city, exhibitions I go to, artists I meet, things I am working on in the studio, and upcycle, recycle and eco-art.
MAIN GALLERY & REBECCA COLE GALLERY
The Pearl Fincher Museum of Fine Arts presents the exhibition Luxuriant Refuse curated by Melissa Grobmyer of MKG Art Management. Artists in the exhibition choose detritus as a medium, exploring ideas about consumption, creativity, and transformation. Artists include Adela Andea, Johnston Foster, Allison Foshee, Sarah Frost, Gwyneth Leech, Shawne Major, Aurora Robson, Betsabeé Romero, and Paul Villinski.
Opening Reception
Tuesday, June 5
6:30-8:30pm
All are invited to an evening event with MKG Art Management on Tuesday, June 5 from 6:30-8:30pm at the Pearl.
Pearl Fincher Museum of Fine Arts
6815 Cypresswood Drive
Spring, TX 77379
281.376.6322, fax 281.376.2944
Gwyneth Leech, the Cup Drawings
Studio in the Prow
The cup drawings are at the FLATIRON BUILDING, NYC,
in the glass windows (the Prow)
where 5th Avenue and Broadway cross at 23rd Street.
I will be drawing in the windows Tuesday - Saturday 11AM - 2PM
from September 20, 2011 through February 18th, 2012!
Bring me one of your own used paper coffee cups
with your name and the date you drank the beverage written on the bottom.
and I will add it to the installation.
Two rules:
The NYC Fashion Center presents
"Gwyneth Leech, The Cup Drawings"
An Installation of drawings on upcycled paper coffee cups.
On view Monday - Friday, 9:00AM - 5:00PM
February 28 - April 1, 2011
I will in the window drawing and adding to the installation
every week day during the show 11:30AM - 1:00PM
Please stop by if you are in New York City,
or follow my progress on my blog at:
www.gwynethsfullbrew.com
About the Coffee Cup Drawings
"With Leech's diverse background in painting, video, ceramics, calligraphy and printmaking, the cup series began as a casual outgrowth of her compelling urge to draw wherever she is. One day, without a sketchbook handy, Leech used what was available in the moment. The curved form, challenge of working with existing shapes, colors, and text, and the infinite possibilities of expressive variation became as addictive as the caffeinated beverage the cup once contained. In addition to raising issues of consumerism, post-consumer waste and environmental concerns the cups are essentially about what drawing is: a conversation between mark making and surface."
Check out my blog: "Gwyneth's Full Brew: art and life in New York City, cup in hand"
I am a painter living in New York City and I draw and paint rather compulsively on paper coffee cups - the ubiquitous take-out kind. In my blog I am documenting the intersection of tea, coffee, art-making, art-seeing and daily life. I blog about family life in the city, exhibitions I go to, artists I meet, things I am working on in the studio, and upcycle, recycle and eco-art.
During the Pool Art Fair this coming weekend I will be keeping my studio going by taking to the bed with art materials in Room 940, Gershwin Hotel 7, E. 27th St. NYC. Climb aboard and make drawings of your own family! If I like what you do I might add it to the show. Markers, crayons and paper will be available.
Gwyneth Leech will be showing her Perfect Family Portraits at
PooL Art Fair New York
Suite 940
Opening Hours
Friday March 5th, 3-10 PM
Saturday March 6th, 3-10 PM
Sunday March 7th, 3-10 PM
Friday March 5th
6-10 PM - Vernissage
Gershwin Hotel
7 E 27th Street
New York City
Family event and portrait drawing workshop for children this Saturday 1/23, 12-2PM
at Art at First
First Presbyterian Church,
5th Avenue between 11th and 12th Street
New York City
The exhibition includes a new series of family portraits focusing on hands
to express relationships which transcend the politics of race, religion and gender.
Remaining exhibition dates:
Friday, January 22
1:00 PM to 4:00 PM
Saturday, January 23
11:00 AM to 2:00 PM
Wednesday, January 27
1:00 PM to 4:00 PM
Friday, January 29
1:00 PM to 4:00 PM
Monday, February 1st
1:00 PM to 4:00 PM
Use the 5th Avenue entrance to the building on the downtown side of the church
and go upstairs to the Great Hall.