The Bundy Museum Presents:

Retrospective: The Art of Phoebe Legere
Evanescent Landscapes/Vanishing Women

Opening Reception First Friday, June 3 2022 - 6:00PM – 9:00PM

• Concert First Friday June 3 at 8pm
  in the Bundy Museum’s Annex Theater

• Amazing online auction June 3 to benefit Phoebe's Foundation

• 'LIVE' interview on NPR June 3 10:30am WLIW-FM 88.3

• No RSVP is required for the First Friday event

Exhibition on display from June 3rd, 2022 to June 28th, 2022
Located in the Bundy Museum 3rd floor art gallery
Admission to art gallery is always free
Tuesday - Saturday 11am - 5pm

Our galleries are currently open following Covid-19 guidelines. Masks are recommended for both vaccinated and non-vaccinated visitors.

Walk-ins are welcome however booking a reservation online is recommended. Upon arriving, please check in at our visitor’s center at 133 Main St., Binghamton NY

Legere is a versatile painter who works in oils, acrylic, mixed media, resin and egg tempera, creating semi-abstract works inspired by her passion for anatomy and landscape.

“Phoebe Legere is a virtuoso. Legere’s line is meticulous, incisive, sensuous, and vibrant. Her works are politically engaged and inspire conversations about women’s issues, diversity, inclusiveness, cultural equity, Native American issues, respect for the environment, and the volatility of consciousness.” – Linda Nochlin

Legere’s paintings are deeply contemporary; each painting is a comment on the validity of handmade painting in a world where we are increasingly dominated by machines. “Machine-made, mechanistic art and music have colonized and occupied our minds. The only cure, the only way to restore the health of the Human Soul, is to return to the well spring of all human endeavor: Art and Music,” according to Legere.

Visit phoebelegereart.com to learn more.

“The Art of Phoebe Legere” opens at the Bundy Museum on Friday, June 3rd, and she will be presenting a concert of her original songs that night at 8 pm in the Bundy’s Annex Theater.

The same day she will launch an online auction to benefit The Foundation for New American Art 501(c)(3). Legere’s music has been compared to “Edith Piaf, Jerry Lee Lewis and Maria Callas” (NY Times) and Frank Zappa (Billboard). Studs Terkel, during a radio broadcast profile of Phoebe on National Public Radio said it best: “She is an American Original.”

Legere studied music at Juilliard and painting at Vassar College. Some of Phoebe Legere’s noteworthy milestones include the following: ---Legere is a grant recipient of a New York State Council of the Arts award for her musical about the Native American Holocaust of New England, “Queen of New England”

• Legere received a Pulitzer Prize nomination for her musical epic poem about Water issues, “The Waterclown”

• She is an Acker Award recipient for her musical “Hello, Madame President” about the first African American female president of the U.S.

• David Bowie chose Phoebe Legere for the support act spot on his National Tour

• Legere has appeared on NBC, CBS, ABC, HBO, NPR, PBS

• The 2022 “Best of Manhattan” Entertainment Award was presented to Legere

• Legere co-starred on Nickelodeon’s “Naked Brothers Band”

• Legere scored and starred in the most popular cult movie of all time- “Toxic Avenger’

• As the Creator, Executive Producer, Featured Performer, Host, Writer, and Set Designer, Legere’s educational children’s TV show, “The Color Wheel” has been viewed by tens of thousands

• Legere can be seen playing & singing in “Ghostbusters 2” and can be seen on the “Golden Anniversary Ghostbusters Collectors” DVD

• Legere has collaborated with friends and colleagues considered to be the most creative people of our time: Joni Mitchell, David Bowie, Johnny Depp, Hunter Thompson, Allen Ginsberg and Billy Joel to name a few…

• Legere has written, produced and performed on 17 albums of original songs.

Follow her on YouTube, Spotify, Instagram, Tiktok, Facebook and Twitter. www.instagram/phoebelegere

Proceeds from sales of her paintings & music go to fund the Foundation for the New American Art, a nonprofit that brings free art and music to at-risk children of low-income communities. “After the financial crisis of 2008 they eliminated art & music to children in most NYC public schools. I believe free access to art & music is every child’s birthright. That’s why I founded the Let Every Child Sing Chorus, Paintbrushes Not Guns and Music Teachers Without Borders which offers free art & music lessons to underserved children,” says executive director Legere.

Legere’s charity was awarded a National Endowment for the Arts Grant for their important work bringing cultural equity to communities and recently received a New York Community Trust grant to carry on the Foundation’s work in arts education.

About the Artist:
Phoebe Legere (Kennebec Abenaki/Cajun) is a versatile painter who works in oils, acrylic, mixed media, resin and egg tempera, creating semi-abstract works inspired by her passion for anatomy and landscape. Legere uses experimental combinations of new and ancient mediums. “Phoebe Legere is a virtuoso. The speed, lyricism & dexterity of her brushstrokes express truly Herculean Creativity. Legere’s line is meticulous, incisive, sensuous, and vibrant. Her works are politically engaged and inspire conversations about women’s issues, diversity, inclusiveness, cultural equity, Native American issues, respect for the environment, and the volatility of consciousness.” – Linda Nochlin

Legere’s paintings are deeply contemporary; each painting is a comment on the validity of hand made Painting in a world where we are increasingly dominated by machines. Phoebe explains: “Machine-made, mechanistic art and music have colonized and occupied our minds. The only cure, the only way to restore the health of the Human Soul, is to return to the well spring of all human endeavor: Art and Music.”

Further acquaintance with Legere’s biography and the inspirations behind her oeuvre reveal an artist who has deftly marshaled passion, intellectual rigor, and a lifetime of solid discipline in both music & art to create a genuinely original body of work. Legere studied music at Juilliard and art at Vassar College. She holds degrees in art, performance art, and a master’s degree in film scoring.

From a young age, her parents took Phoebe Legere to museums and galleries where her artist mother, a famous Art Director and her father, painter, art teacher and member of the “Boston Expressionists” group , showed her the works of Modern Painters and introduced her to nonrepresentational methods of picturing reality. Her parents both studied with Hans Hoffman in Provincetown. There they met Larry Rivers. Rivers later became Phoebe’s painting teacher, introducing her to all the major New York painters from Robert Rauschenberg to Jasper Johns to Dennis Oppenheim, to Louise Bourgeois, to Donald Judd. As a teenager she had formative friendships with Keith Haring, Jean-Michel Basquiat, David Bowie, Allen Ginsberg, Peter Beard, Hunter Thompson, Jack Smith and Andy Warhol as well as brilliant illustrator Hilary Knight, with whom she is featured in a 2018 HBO Special.

Legere has a painting studio in Manhattan. She incorporates iconic architectural buildings and threatened landscapes into paintings that also feature human bodies leaping, dancing, and dreaming. She is represented by galleries in multiple cities in the US and has exhibited regularly in various venues throughout the US, EU and Brazil, and has received prestigious art awards in the US and Germany. Her pieces are owned by collectors and museums worldwide.

From her experiences opening for David Bowie on his Sound & Vision tour, to her work as an Underground Movie Star, including her soon to be released starring role, playing herself, as a multi-disciplinary artist in a movie about YADDO, the legendary artist residency. The movie is called “The Masterpiece” directed by internationally acclaimed Brazilian artist Gustavo Von Ha.

Legere’s life experiences, her appetite for truth and beauty, and her extraordinary friendships with the most creative personalities of our time have been synthesized with her an art practice of astonishing range and breadth.

For additional information:

Anne Leighton:
Ph: 718-881-8183 (texting only 707-637-6070)
LeightonMedia@aol.com, Anne@AnneLeighton.com

Xander at phoebelegereart@gmail.com

Visit PhoebeLegereArt.com to learn more.

Phoebe Legere brings her music and art to Bundy Museum

Phoebe Legere is a multi-disciplinary artist whose work honors her Native American heritage.

Art Exhibit Virtual Tour:
Retrospective: The Art of Phoebe Legere Evanescent Landscapes/Vanishing Women

WBDY-LP 99.5FM - The Bundy Radio Hour: (To be Determined)
Listen to an interview with Phoebe Legere about the exhibit Retrospective: The Art of Phoebe Legere.

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