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Time Well Spent

Time Well Spent

Artist(s)
Reception
08/05/2022 - 5:00pm to 8:00pm
August 5th, 2022 to August 26th, 2022
Exhibition Description

Time Well Spent is comprised of paintings created by Julia Leggent during her residency at the LUX. Julia Leggent grew up in Norton, Kansas, a small town located 10 minutes from the Nebraska border. She received her B.F.A. in Painting from Fort Hays State University in 2017 and her M.F.A from the University of Nebraska-Lincoln in 2021.

Artist Statement

These paintings are about time; they are a testimony of the life that I am living. Some represent a single significant moment, the point I fell in love with my partner or the daily decision to take a pill that prevents pregnancy. Other works represent a specific portion of time, the time it takes to grow eleven inches of hair or cook every recipe in a cookbook.

My paintings are meticulous and operate at a one-to-one, life scale. Making a painting with this amount of detail takes time, and there is a symbolic connection between the hours it took to create the work and the moments I chose to immortalize.

Medium
Painting
 
 

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