RUSTY LEFFEL

6408 Willow Lane - Mission Hills, Kansas 66208

Tel: 913 362 9727   Email: rcleffel@aol.com

Artist’s Statement

My work is street photography.  I am fascinated by cities and the way we live our daily lives in them.  I look for how we interact with each other and with the built environment around us.    

Selected Recent Juried Group Exhibition Awards

79^th Annual International Juried Exhibition.  Art Association of Harrisburg; Harrisburg, PA.  First Place, Photography  with cash award.   Juror:  Alex Baker, Curator of Contemporary Art, PA Academy of Fine Arts.  May-June 2007.

16^th National Juried Show.  Art Center of Northern New Jersey; New Milford, NJ. Best of Show with $1,000 cash award.   Juror:  Ted Mann, Asst. Curator–Collections, Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum; New York, NY.  April-May 2007.

Salmagundi Club, New York City/Members.  Annual Combined Exhibition, Honorable Mention.  Jan, 2007. Non-Juried Summer Exhibition, Honorable Mention.  August 2006.

71^st Annual Cooperstown Art Association National 2006.  Cooperstown Art Assoc., Cooperstown, NY. Award of Merit. Jurors:  Elizabeth F. Barker, Dir., Ficker Art Gallery, Colgate Univ.; Sydney L. Waller, Ex. Dir. of Sculpture Space, Utica, NY.  July 2007

15^th National/Regional Juried Photography Show.  The Louisville Art Association, Louisville Center for the Arts, Louisville, CO. Best of Category.   Juror:  Malia Thompson, Executive Director, Old Firehouse Art Center, Longmont, CO.  July 2006.

19^th National Juried Art Exhibition.  South Cobb Arts Alliance, Mable House Arts Center, Mableton, GA.  Award of Excellence.  Juror:  Marcia Goldenstein, Professor of Drawing and Painting, University of Tennessee School of Art.  July-August 2006.

Cape Cod Art Association 2006 Annual New England Exhibition.  Cape Cod Art Association, Barnstable, MA.  First Place, Photography.  Jurors: Cindy Nickerson, Director/Curator, Cahoon Museum of American Art in Cotuit; Elizabeth Ives Hunter, Executive Director, Cape Cod Museum of Art in Dennis, MA.  June-July 2006. 

National Juried Art Exhibition.  Walter Greer Gallery, Arts Center of Coastal Carolina.  Hilton Head Art League, Hilton Head Island, SC.  Honorable Mention.  Juror:  Judi Betts, NWS, AWS, painter, instructor, juror and author.  May 2006

Brush with Art – the 14^th Havre de Grace International Juried Art Exhibition. Harford Artists Assoc., Inc. & Havre de Grace Arts Commission; Riverview Gallery, Havre de Grace, Maryland.  Honorable Mention.  Juror:  Stephen Bennett Phillips, Curator, The Phillips Collection, Washington, DC.  July 2005

National Juried Art Exhibition.  Regional Artist Consortium, San Antonio, Texas.  Honorable Mention-Award of Artistic Excellence.   Juror:  Charles Field, Prof Emeritus in Painting, University of Texas at San Antonio.  July 2005.

Selected Solo Exhibitions

Haydon Art Center; Lincoln, Nebraska, August, 2007; Charno Gallery; Kansas City Artists Coalition; Kansas City, Missouri; May 2007; Rosewood Gallery; City of Kettering, Ohio. “245 Blocks of Broadway, New York City/USA”; January 2006.

Collections

Masur Museum of Art-Monroe, Louisiana; Museum of Anthropology-California State University, Chico, California; Sprint / Nextel Art Collection; City Art Collection-Prairie Village, Kans