Leila Heller Gallery
About Leila Heller Gallery
Leila Heller Gallery, located in the Upper East Side, promotes a cutting edge program of international contemporary artists.
Leila Heller Gallery (formerly LTMH Gallery) located in the heart of Chelsea’s gallery district promotes a cutting edge program of international contemporary emerging and mid-career artists. The gallery has gained recognition for fostering the careers of artists working across a multitude of disciplines and mediums, helping to establish them among the leading contemporary artists internationally.
The gallery presents a dynamic exhibition schedule, actively engaging world renowned curators, hosting educational panels and producing catalogues with scholarly essays. The Gallery also participates in major international art fairs each year and stages offsite projects as a continuation of the program. Gallery artists have consistently participated in major international exhibitions and biennials, and are included in important institutional collections worldwide.
The gallery has gained worldwide recognition for being a pioneer in promoting contemporary Middle Eastern artists. This specialization has positioned the gallery well within the burgeoning Iranian, Turkish and Middle Eastern art market. Most importantly, it is the gallery's mission to establish contemporary Middle Eastern art within a larger cultural and Art Historical context.
The gallery remains dedicated to promoting the careers of its artists, and is ambitious in growing its program. In addition to its roster of contemporary artists, the gallery is also active in the American, European and Middle Eastern secondary art markets.
With all of the gallery’s activities, it remains committed to fostering long-lasting bonds within the global art world through its professionalism and innovative vision.
Exhibitions:
http://www.leilahellergallery.com/current_exhibition.php
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Through a series of interactive installations and marble sculptures, Rachel Lee Hovnanian aims to dissect social constructs of consumerism and societal pressures. In Part III of ‘The Women’s Trilogy Project, ‘PURE’, Hovnanian invites participants to confront notions of consumerism and beauty faced by women in contemporary society by literally smashing the sculptures that comprise her installation. The exhibition presents plaster sculptures of ivory soap bars that participants... can destroy using a variety of tools—a cathartic and symbolic act that aims to break down notions of perfect, homogeneous beauty. ________________________ Part III of Hovnanian’s Women’s Trilogy Project, ‘PURE’ is on view at Leila Heller Gallery until July 21st, 2018. ________________________ Image: Rachel Lee Hovnanian, Pure, 2018 © Douglas Friedman courtesy of Leila Heller Gallery
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Rachel Lee Hovnanian featured in Surface Magazine | For the third and final installment of her interactive series, ‘The Women’s Trilogy Project’, the multidisciplinary artist Rachel Lee Hovnanian invites participants to confront notions of consumerism and beauty faced by women in contemporary society by literally smashing the sculptures that comprise her installation. ________________________
Part III of Hovnanian’s Women’s Trilogy Project, ‘PURE’ is on view at Leila Heller Gallery until July 20th, 2018.
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One of Hovnanian’s most personal exhibitions yet, ‘Happy Hour’ looks specifically at the insidious manner in which addiction tears at the fabric of a family preoccupied with maintaining appearances. “When I was in high school, I was, you know, the ‘good girl,’” said Hovnanian. “And then I had a date with some guy, and he went around telling everybody that I’d slept with him, and I didn’t, but it went around, and then it went around to all the mothers, and all of a sudden—that... was the first acronym I learned, QR; questionable reputation— all of a sudden, I got a questionable reputation. I hadn’t done anything; I didn’t have sex with him, but it didn’t matter.” The painting implicitly contrasts the shamed girl with the figure of the debutante, a Southern ideal. It’s a reputation questioned by the debutante’s attributes in the canvas, a monogrammed flask and a pearl necklace. ________________________
Part II of Hovnanian’s Women’s Trilogy Project, ‘Happy Hour’ is on view at Leila Heller Gallery until May 31st, 2018 ________________________ Image: Pink Lady, 2018, Mixed media on canvas, 132 x 97 in
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Wishing you a Happy and Blessed Holy Month of Ramadan. _______________ Image: Philip Taaffe, Cairene Window I, 2008, Mixed media on canvas, 42 x 60.5 in
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Artist Rachel Lee Hovnanian, whose take on a meditation space, NDD Immersion Room (2017)—a forested room in which visitors spend time alone, after having surrendered their phones and other devices—was recently on view at Leila Heller Gallery in New York, practices a form of OM by simply walking in the woods and thinking.
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Girl Scout iconography is prominent throughout Rachel Hovnanian’s ‘Happy Hour’, particularly in her installation, ‘House of Empty Bottles’. Encased in walls of chalkboards, lined with barbed wire at the top, is a collection of empty alcohol bottles with labels crafted from a vintage Girl Scout manual; phrases referencing how a “good girl” is to behave and act are highlighted or underlined, accompanied by her own drawings. Hovnanian has been creating the labels for three years..., and continues to add more as she gets inspired by passages in the book. “We wonder where we’re getting these rules — where does it say that the woman has to clean the table?” Hovnanian says. “You start to realize, oh, maybe this is where — how to look good, why you have to look good, how to set the table,” an extension of cultural ideals being passed down in gender lineages. ________________________
Part II of Hovnanian’s Women’s Trilogy Project, ‘Happy Hour’ is on view at Leila Heller Gallery until May 31st, 2018
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Rachel Lee Hovnanian in Vogue “The Women Trilogy Project, Rachel Lee Hovnanian’s three-part, six-month takeover of Leila Heller’s Chelsea gallery, marks the first time in recent memory that a single artist will have three sequential exhibitions in a New York gallery. It is a lot of space to fill, and a lot of time in which to do it, and it is sure to draw a fair amount of attention in terms of what exactly she plans to do as a female artist given free rein in the age of #MeTo...o in an industry that’s never been particularly subtle about its attitudes towards women (quoth Picasso to his lover, Françoise Gilot: “women are machines for suffering”). For her part, Hovnanian, whose Part II opens to the public on April 20th, has been using the time and the space less to chase the crashing wave of retribution or the headlines and trending topics and instead to tackle one very big, very old question: what happens when what we consume begins to consume us?” ________________________ Part II of Hovnanian’s Women’s Trilogy Project, ‘Happy Hour’ opens April 20th and is on view until May 31st, 2018
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