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    • Ani Rossakam and Bill Leech: A Wonderful World
    • Archive >
      • 2021-2 Drawing Rooms Exhibitions
      • 2020 >
        • David & Beatrice: Hands and Other Symbols. The Work of David W. Cummings and Beatrice M. Mady
        • Take Home a Work of Art Fundraiser 2020
        • Art Fair 14C 2020
      • 2019 >
        • The Big Show: All Animals Welcome
        • Cosmic Love
        • Just Beneath the Surface
        • Let Me Tell You A Story
        • Somewhere We Landed
        • Art Fair 14C 2019
      • 2018 >
        • Now Ya See it Now Ya Don’t / Open and Shut / Sneak Peek/ Not Ready for Prime Time / This is Not the Grand Opening: Drawing Rooms Presents Artists of the Topps Building
        • Somewhere Over The Interconnected Rainbow and Prospero's Grand St. Masque
        • Drawing Rooms Art Project: JC to AC
      • 2017 >
        • The Big Small Show 2017
        • Honoring Margaret & Sup-A-Genius
        • NJCU MFA Dress Rehearsal
        • The Can-Man Show
        • The Innocence of Trees
        • Bold and Beautiful
      • 2016 >
        • THE BIG SMALL Show 2016
        • State of the Union
        • Pin It Up
        • ReUse, ReDuce, RePurpose: The Art of ReFuse
        • New Drawing, New Jersey
        • The Nature of Things
        • Project Rooms Show 2016
      • 2015 >
        • THE BIG SMALL SHOW 2015
        • The Divine and Sublime
        • Mostly Drawing
        • Color Rules
        • Little Hand
        • Paper Constructions
        • Project Rooms Show 2015
      • 2014 >
        • THE BIG SMALL SHOW 2014
        • Duets
        • Drawing of the Wall
        • There to Here
        • Automatic Systematic
        • Pictures of Everything
        • Just Looking
      • 2013 >
        • THE BIG SMALL PAINTING SHOW 2013
        • Raw Drawing
        • Multiplicities
        • Night and Day
      • 2012 >
        • Subjective Objective
      • 2011 >
        • Pin It Up at Mana Contemporary
        • VAP at Warburg Realty
        • Victory Arts Projects at Mack-Cali Atrium
      • 2007-10 >
        • Victory Arts Projects at The Beacon
        • 545 Washington
    • Artsy
    • Dvora Gallery >
      • Archive >
        • Dvora 2021
        • Dvora 2020
  • Projects & Programs
    • Installment One
    • The Art Project
    • Prayers for the Pandemic Project
    • JC Library Project
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Bill Leech
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    “"Buildings with turquoise background
    2009
    acrylic on canvas
    47" x 60" 
    8,500 

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    "Flower-Birds- Faces"
    2007
    acrylic on canvas
    60" x 38"
    $8,500

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Bill Leech  Artist Bio & Statement
I grew up in a small town in rural Kansas. Drawing for me came at an early age and later colored pencils and crayons. I couldn’t get enough of it. It was an activity that I have kept up through all the years. After high school I attended the Kansas City Art Institute where after the first year of Foundation, I chose Painting as my major.   In my third year of college I attended the summer session at the Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture.I have lived in Kansas City, Boston, New York City and Roosevelt, New Jersey.

Since around 2008 I’ve become more involved in abstraction. The paintings are getting smaller and I am finally getting past trying to “put everything I ever learned into each painting”. They are becoming less worked over and although compositional elements are mapped out in a flat up front way. In working with paint I am attempting reveal certain areas with clarity and definition and at the same time trying to respect what paint does without “me” stepping in to over control it.  I am blindly following some inner vision that isn’t fully formed but has asserted itself repeatedly over time and that I recognize as me - or perhaps my soul.  I look for openings that, when sensed or visualized, I can follow through and establish through the act of painting.



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