The source of Legere’s art is her Native American and #LGBTQ heritage. Her paintings depict the art of family, faith, community, and love.

The show at ARTHOUS, Two City Center, 645 W. Hamilton Street, Allentown, Pennsylvania .

Indigenous women who are missing or murdered are seen shimmering as ghostly apparitions in spiritual landscapes in which past, present and future exist simultaneously in a single picture frame.

At ARTHAUS GALLERY multi-disciplinary artist Legere will show paintings & drawings, music & NFT’s. NFT’s are video art works that include hand drawn and 3D animations she does for her cultural, educational Children’s TV show The Color Wheel. In addition, NFT display screens will show The Shamancycle, a giant Eagle rideable sculpture made from upcycled and repurposed junk cars and iced tea cans, and the Sneakers of Samothrace, a musical instrument Legere invented for disabled children.

Community service is an integral part of Legere’s artistic practice: She is the Founder and President of the Foundation for New American Art. The mission of the Foundation is to educate, nurture and strengthen the artistic & musical spirit of the children of low-income communities of color.

All proceeds from sales of the show go to her nonprofit The Foundation for New American Art.

BIO

Phoebe Legere is an artist whose art operates in the space between ecology, engineering, painting, drawing, sculpture, alternative energy, text, video, dance, music, performance art, new technologies and sculptural costuming. The Brooklyn Rail raved: “Her existence infinitely incarnates artistic and human experience.” Legere’s art teachers were Larry Rivers and Hilary Knight. Legere’s artistic development was driven by formative friendships with David Bowie, Joni Mitchell, Jack Smith, Allen Ginsberg, Keith Haring, Ethyl Eichelberger, Jean-Michel Basquiat, Rupaul, John Ashbery, Hunter Thompson and Peter Beard. PHOEBE LEGERE is the President and Founder of the Foundation for New American Art, a nonprofit that brings free music and art training to the children of low-income communities of color. Legere has received numerous awards including NYSCA, a Pulitzer nomination and a recent YADDO Fellowship. She is a lecturer at NYU Gallatin School. The Foundation for New American Art is the recipient of a 2022 “Challenge America” grant from the National Endowment for the Arts.

For Immediate Release:

PHOEBE LEGERE

Evanescent Landscapes/Vanishing Women

ARTHAUS GALLERY

Two City Center, 645 W. Hamilton Street, Allentown, Pennsylvania

610-841-4866

Curator: Deborah Rabinsky

Phoebe Legere (Abenaki/Cajun) is a multidisciplinary artist whose paintings of LGBTQ and Native American subjects will be on view at ARTHAUS GALLERY

PREVIEW: “Evanescent Landscapes/Vanishing Women” opens at ARTHAUS GALLERY October 8, 6-8

CONCERT: ARTHAUS on Third Thursday, October 20 6-8

ARTHAUS is located at Two City Center, 645 W. Hamilton Street, Allentown, Pennsylvania

Phone: 607- 772-9179.

Website: https://www.building.allentownarts.com/arthaus

Phoebe Legere (Kennebec Abenaki/Cajun) is a multi-disciplinary artist who works in oils, acrylic, mixed media, resin, and egg tempera.

Legere uses experimental combinations of new and ancient mediums to express her passion for the subtle engineering of human anatomies. Legere’s line is virtuosic, meticulous, incisive, sensuous, and vibrant.

Legere’s works are politically engaged. They inspire conversations about women’s issues, diversity, inclusiveness, cultural equity, Native American issues, respect for the environment, and the volatility of consciousness.

Legere’s paintings are deeply contemporary; the works comment on the inestimable value of the creations of the human hand.

Legere says: “Machines have colonized and occupied our minds. The only cure, the only way to restore the Human Soul, is to return to the well spring of all human endeavor: Real Art and Music.”

Further acquaintance with Legere’s biography and the inspirations behind her oeuvre reveal an artist who has 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. “My greatest educational experiences came from rubbing shoulders with geniuses.”

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“Legere’s art is a total art synthesis of astonishing range, discipline, and depth.” – Binghamton Artzine

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. “Machine Dazzle” is Legere’s newest single, will be released Sept. 8th to coincide with her sound installation at the Museum of Art and Design NYC.

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.

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About Phoebe Legere

From a young age, Legere was taken to museums and galleries. Her father, a painter, art teacher and member of the “Boston Expressionists” group , explained the works of Modern Painters and introduced young Legere to nonrepresentational methods of picturing reality. Both parents studied with Hans Hoffman in Provincetown. There they met Larry Rivers. Rivers later became Phoebe’s painting teacher. Larry introduced me to all the major New York painters from Robert Rauschenberg to Jasper Johns to Dennis Oppenheim, to Louise Bourgeois, to Donald Judd. Teenaged Legere also 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 artist Hilary Knight, with whom she is featured in a 2018 HBO Special, “Hilary and Me.”

Legere has a painting studio in Manhattan where she creates her dreamscapes. Legere 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.

Legere has had a life filled with wonderful experiences – from opening for David Bowie on his Sound & Vision tour (1991), to her work in film, radio, and TV. Her newest starring role is in a film that is about to be released. It’s a move about art called “The Masterpiece” directed by internationally acclaimed Brazilian artist Gustavo Von Ha. Her new CD Machine Dazzle will be released Sept. 8.th The song will be used as a sound installation in a show opening Sept. 8 at the Museum of Art and Design in Manhattan.

Legere’s life experiences, her appetite for truth and beauty, and her extraordinary friendships with the most creative personalities of our time are heated in the alembic of her art practice.