Then & Now: Channing Lefebvre, Peter Leue and Terry Slade
Then & Now featuring the work of Channing Lefebvre, Peter Leue and
Terry Slade opens January 2 and runs until February 7. The opening reception
will be held on Friday January 2 from 5 p.m. – 9 p.m. in conjunction
with 1st Friday.
Channing Lefebvre attended the graduate program at the State University
of New York at Albany in Printmaking and received his B.F.A. from the Art
Center College of Design in Pasadena, California. Lefebvre’s prints
are on archive with the Print Club of Albany and the Zea Mays Printmaking.
His works are in numerous collections including The State University of
New York at Albany, The Rensselaer-Newman Foundation, RPI Campus, Northeast
Savings Bank Corporate Headquarters and General Electric just to name a
few. Lefebvre received the prestigious National Endowment Fellowship Grant
in Printmaking in 1974 and his works have been on exhibit at Russell Sage
College Gallery, The Schenectady Museum, Empire State Plaza, Albany Institute
of History & Art, Albany Center Gallery and many more. This exhibit
features approximately twenty new drawing which are process driven. “The
mark is made by the repetitive movement of my natural gesture. The mark
making is methodical, energetic, rhythmic and hypnotic. Interwoven, multidirectional
and overlapping marks create subtle layers of gradations. This translates
the lines into translucent layers of color and emerging form, creating a
‘chaotic elegance’. Although there are no overt associations
with the forms at the start of the drawings, associations appear as the
drawing progresses”.
Peter Leue received his B.F.A. in woodworking and furniture design from
the Rochester Institute of Technology and attended the School for American
Craftsmen. Leue has had a one-man show at the Schenectady Museum and received
the Historic Albany Foundation Preservation Merit Award. Leue’s work
was featured in House and Garden, Playboy, Esquire, Home Furnishings Daily
and Hudson Valley Magazines. Leue is a master at blurring the line between
furniture and sculpture. “My practical side, however, has always enjoyed
the interactive nature of furniture. It matters if a chair feels right,
a cabinet befits life-style needs and a well-crafted handrail leads the
eye and hand to its destination. Enjoy my toys”.
Terry Slade has lived in New York State since 1983. Slade’s work has
been exhibited widely throughout the United States, including solo exhibitions
in NYC, Rochester, Albany, Utica, Philadelphia, Pittsburgh, Cleveland, Memphis
and Knoxville, Tennessee, Duxbury and Pittsfied. He has also exhibited in
Japan and Europe. His work is represented in private and public collections
in the US, Japan and Europe. Slade’s work has included the use of
many different media including found objects, wood, paper, stone, bronze
and glass, producing works ranging in size from small objects to large indoor
and outdoor installations. His primary focus has been exploring the relationship
between humans and the natural world, often using objects from nature, such
as sticks, branches and seedpods, cast in bronze.
