Leo Sewell - CV

EDUCATION

 

M.A. in Art History, University of Delaware, 1970, with

Concentration in 20th Century Art; thesis entitled

Use of the Found Object in Dada and Surrealism

 

MEDIA

 

Reclaimed objects are assembled by stainless fasteners

or by welding.

 

INTERESTS

 

Found Objects

Kitsch

Naïve Art

Mannered Materials

 

COLLECTIONS

 

Lucile Packard Children’s Hospital, Palo Alto, CA

Hartsfield Atlanta Intl Airport, Atlanta, GA

American Visionary Art Museum, Baltimore, MD

Booth Western Art Museum, Cartersville, GA

William Penn State Museum, Harrisburg, PA

Express-ways Children’s Museum, Chicago, IL

Children’s Museum of Memphis, TN

Children’s Museum of Indianapolis, IN

Ursinus College, Collegeville, PA

Please Touch Museum, Philadelphia, PA

Center for the Arts, Vero Beach, FL

Hilton Hotel, Allentown, PA

Carpenter’s Union, Washington,  DC

Lehigh University, Bethlehem, PA

The Garbage Museum, Stratford, CT

Ripley’s Believe It or Not Museums in 23 cities worldwide

Nike Headquarters, Portland, OR

NBC Corporate Headquarters, New York

Shonandai Cultural Center, Fujisawa, Japan

Museo de Sera Internacional, Madrid, Spain

Appleton Museum of Art, Ocala FL

Cedarhurst Center for the Arts, Mt. Vernon, IL

Fuller Craft Museum, Brockton, MA

Agnes Scott College, Atlanta, GA

Philip Berman

George Carlin

John Delorean

Hal Linden

Nelson Rockefeller

Neil Sedaka

Sylvester Stallone

 

To date, I have made over 3,600 sculptures and could only account for about

100 of them.