Sculpture — LEEMOUR PELLI

Crows (After The Painted Bird), 2007 Cast hydro-stone, paint. 9”h x 18” w x 6 1/2”d each bird ten birds. An approximate size of the piece is 9”H x 54”L x 30-35”Wide This piece was inspired by an episode in Jerzi Kozinski’s (Holocaust subject matter) book The Painted Bird. The sculpture consists of 10 birds, nine of which are black, and which surround and are about to attack another bird that looks slightly different. The point is that the central bird is just slightly different from the others – though it is from the same family/species of birds. This work is about exterior differences, or even internal differences, and the conflicts and violence that they may cause. Paradoxically, these exterior differences allude to internal differences as well ie: different characters and personae in this universe. In this case, the work takes on a political undertone and explores the darker and destructive impulses of both animal and man.

Untitled (Hearts), 2007, Cast concrete, paint 10L” x 5”W x 5”H each heart. Face is 10”L x 6” w x 4”d. Total size can be approximately: 60”L x 15”H x 30”W. This sculpture can be installed in different ways. A black face is surrounded by a group of large black hearts. The multiple black hearts can stand in for a certain kind of humanity or occurrence - while the black face represents one effected by the former.

Untitled (Black Heart, White Heart), 2007, Pigmented cast Polyester resin, cold cast marble dust 10L” x 5W” x 5D” each heart Total 10”L x 10”W x 5”D

Lungs, 2007-2008, Pigmented Polyester resin, cold cast marble dust. 10 1/2” x 10” x 5 1/2” lungs. Face is 8”L x 6”W x 3 ½”D. Lungs and face together: 18 ½”L x 10”W x 5 ½”D. A black face is weighed down by the weight of large black lungs. This piece can also just be shown with the lungs without the face. This piece has both poetic and political undertones.

Perception (Pain), 2007-2008, Anatomical tract, face, Cast concrete 31” h x 18” w x 1”d This installation is composed of two anatomical tracts and faces, that can be installed together or separately. This piece centers on the limited ideas and realities of human perception - and shows what one can not always see. The human figure is exposed from the inside out - and explored in an anatomical, interior, and poetic way - as a place of memory, darkness, and transformation.

Mirror, Mirror, 2008-2009. Cast concrete, paint, 31 1/2” h x 20” w x 4 1/2” deep This sculpture consists of a black painted mirror that manifests an exposed three-dimensional face (that of the artist) and a heart. It presents what a mirror normally does not. –This mirror has a fixed object and is not able to reflect correctly. Not your normal mirror, reflects the inside of a person not the outside. The internal not the external. Mirror that does not reflect.

Lament for Narcissus, 1999, installation. Latex, mixed media, styrofoam, resin. This work is about reflections and impossible images. A face sees a different face as if reflected on a surface - not its own face.