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Leila Daw

(American, born 1940)

northeast seas exploration fragments by leila daw

Leila Daw

Northeast Seas Exploration Fragments, 2011

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fibonacci landscape by leila daw

Leila Daw

Fibonacci Landscape, 2013

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persisting the land by leila daw

Leila Daw

Persisting the Land, 2010

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edge by leila daw

Leila Daw

Edge, 2008

600 USD

heros in an alternate universe by leila daw

Leila Daw

Heros in an Alternate Universe, 2011

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"jetty" by leila daw

Leila Daw

"Jetty", 2006

600 USD

river magic by leila daw

Leila Daw

River Magic

2,000 USD

earth by leila daw

Leila Daw

Earth, 2014

2,000 USD

double beaches are not the harbor by leila daw

Leila Daw

Double Beaches are not the Harbor, 2014

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perfect place by leila daw

Leila Daw

Perfect Place, 2007

600 USD

where the romans were by leila daw

Leila Daw

Where the Romans Were, 2008

600 USD

ballowell cairn by leila daw

Leila Daw

Ballowell Cairn, 2006

1,300 USD

Biography

Timeline

1974 - 1975
Artist in Residence of one year, Assistant Professor, Tusculum College, Greenville, TN
1975 - 1976
Adjunct Assistant Professor of Art, Maryville College, Maryville, TN
Adjunct Assistant Professor of Art, Forest Park Community College, St. Louis, MO
1976 - 1990
Professor of Art, Member of the Graduate Faculty, Head of Multimedia Program, Southern Illinois University, Carbondale, IL
1986 - 1987
Summer Research Fellowship, Southern Illinois University, Edwardsville, IL
1990 - 2002
Professor of Art, Studio for Interrelated Media, Massachusetts College of Art, Boston, MA
1990
Recipient, Mid-America Art Alliance/National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship for painting and works on paper
Clayton, Missouri Highway Medians Design Competition: First Place, Single Median Design; Second Place, Design for Three Consecutive Medians (In collaboration with Rick Kacenski, Landscape/Architect)
1991
National Endowment for the Arts Design Arts Grant for design team work on Master Plan for Landscaping and Arts Project along Right of Way of Metrolink Light Rail System, St. Louis, MO
1995
Federal Design Achievement Award for design of Metrolink Light Rail System, St. Louis, MO

Exhibitions

2015
Leila Daw Exhibitions in 2015:
“Women in the Atrium,” Atrium Gallery, St. Louis, MO
2014
In and of the Land, Five Points Gallery, Torrington, CT (solo)
2013
From the Land, Atrium Gallery, St. Louis, MO (solo)
Are We Where Yet? A.I.R. Gallery, New York, NY (solo)
Rivers Alive, Washington Art Association, Washington Depot, CT (solo)
Remember How You Got Here, SUNY Suffolk County, Brentwood, NY (solo)
Handful of Art, John Slade Ely House, New Haven, CT (solo)
2012
Ground Truth, Housatonic Art Museum, Bridgeport, CT (solo)
Material Measure: Use and Reinvention of Maps The Institute Library, New Haven CT (solo)
AAF-LA. Atrium Gallery, Los Angeles, CA (solo)

Public Collections

2000
Developed Public Art Program for downtown Cupples Station Area Redevelopment Project, St. Louis, MO
2002
Artist member of design team for new railroad and pedestrian bridges and walkway handrails, Cross County MetroLink light rail extension, St. Louis, MO
Winsted on the Move, A Percent for the Arts permanent site-specific installation for the New Learning Center, Northwest CT Community College, Winsted, CT, commissioned by Connecticut Commission on the Arts and Department of Public Works.
2003
Winsted on the Move, A Percent for the Arts permanent site-specific installation for the New Learning Center, Northwest CT Community College, Winsted, CT, commissioned by Connecticut Commission on the Arts and Department of Public Works.
2004
Planetary Conditions, permanent site-specific installation of mapforms in 400 ft. long ticketing hall of new terminal, Bradley International Airport, Windsor Locks, CT: A Percent for Arts Public Project, Commissioned bythe Connecticut Commission on Culture and Tourism, Arts Division, and the Connecticut Department of Transportation
Planetary Conditions, permanent site-specific installation of mapforms in 400 ft. long ticketing hall of new terminal, Bradley International Airport, Windsor Locks, CT: A Percent for Arts Public Project, Commissioned bythe Connecticut Commission on Culture and Tourism, Arts Division, and the Connecticut Department of Transportation
2005
Trail Stones, temporary installation of art for the trail, for annual meeting of the East Coast Greenway Alliance, New Haven Colony Historical Society, New Haven, CT
Migrating Maps, three sea chart bench sculptures migrating to a series of urban sites in New Haven CT, emphasizing the coastal nature of the community: project supported by a grant from the Berkshire-Taconic Artists' Resource Trust
Trail Stones, temporary installation of art for the trail, for annual meeting of the East Coast Greenway Alliance, New Haven Colony Historical Society, New Haven, CT
Migrating Maps, three sea chart bench sculptures migrating to a series of urban sites in New Haven CT, emphasizing the coastal nature of the community: project supported by a grant from the Berkshire-Taconic Artists' Resource Trust

Literature

2013
“Events on Long Island,” New York Times, February 3, illustration
“Leila Daw: Worried Mother,” Studies in the Maternal, Birbeck, University of London
“Trip of a Lifetime,” Windcheck Magazine, June
2012
“Different Routes”, New Haven Register, April 1
Zanghi, Alexis, “The Map and the Territory”, New Haven Advocate, April 5
Zella, Robbin, Ground Truth: Mapping the Senses/Charting Experience, Housatonic Museum of Art, Bridgeport, CT
2011
Rooney, E. Ashley, 100 Artists of New England, Schiffer Publishing
“Mapping Humanity: Leila Daw: better to travel than to arrive…”, Connecticut Magazine, June
Carlock, Marty, Boston Sculptors 2011, Lulu
2010
Donohoe, Victoria, “Four artists at Gershman. Art from maps, varied, up-to-date”, The Philadelphia Enquirer, June 11
Rice, Robin, “Charted Territory”, Philadelphia City Paper, May 25
2009
Birke, Judy, “Guilford Art Center’s ‘Seduced’ is visually stunning and thought-provoking,” New Haven Register, March 22
Burnham, John, “Artist in the Galapagos,” Cruising World, January 27
Harmon, Katherine, The Map as Art, Princeton Architectural Press
Kobasa, Stephen Vincent, “The Dismay of Landscape,” New Haven Advocate, March 31
Petrovich, Dushko, “Where Nature Went,” Boston Globe, March 1
2008
Markonish, Denise and Joseph Thompson, Badlands: New Horizons in Landscape, MIT Press, Boston, MA
Clements, French, “The Art of Cultivation,” Berkshire Living, August
“Make Way,” New Haven Advocate, May 28
Norwood, Clare, uncoordinated mapping art cartography in contemporary art, Contemporary Arts Center, Cincinatti, OH
Weinstein, Tresca, “Earth Works,” Berkshire Living, August
2007
Fleming, Ronald Lee, The Art of Placemaking: Interpreting Community through Public Art and Urban Design, Merrill Publishers
Smart, Paul, “Byrdcliffe paths,” Woodstock Times, June 7
2006
“5 exhibits not to miss,” Where – St. Louis, September
Art in Public Spaces—Connecticut,” Connecticut Commission on Culture and Tourism, Hartford, CT
“Art in the Garden,” New Haven Register, July 14
Barry, Amy J., “Discover a garden of Earthly (and Unearthly) Delights,” The Sound, August 10
Hoffman, Hank, “Sculpture is in season at Guilford garden center,” Arts! New Haven, July/August
Shaw, Karen, There’s the Rub, Islip Art Museum, Islip, NY
2005
“Branford Artist Explores Planetary Conditions at Bradley Airport,” The Sound, January 27
DeCordova Sculpture Park Map and Guide, Lincoln, MA
2004
Fisher, Nathan, “A New Connecticut Landscape: Branford Artist Leila Daw Marries Topography to Art,” The Sound, January 15
Markonish, Denise, “Beyond the Sky's Limits: a Fantastic Voyage Through Bradley International Airport,” in Leila Daw Two Public Projects, catalog
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