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Local Artist Featured for the 25th Brookside Art Annual
KANSAS CITY, MO (January 15, 2010) –
This year’s Brookside Art Annual marks a milestone event – the
25th anniversary. In celebration, Brookside invited several artists
to compete for the featured piece of art that will be the face of
this year’s event. The winning submission, a montage of Brookside
photographs, was created by Rusty Leffel to celebrate the heart and
spirit of Brookside.
“I am thrilled to have my piece selected for the 25th Brookside Art
Annual,” said Leffel. “Photographs capture a moment in time. To me,
a good photograph continues to express the feelings and experience
of that moment.”
Leffel – a lawyer by profession – began his work in photography
during college. He has now been showing his work professionally for
almost 20 years. Leffel actively exhibits through national juried
competitions, invitational shows and juried art fairs like the
Brookside Art Annual, with works having been shown in 26 states and
the District of Columbia.
“My work is street photography,” says Leffel. “I am fascinated by
cities and the way we live our daily lives in them. I look for how
we interact with each other and with the built environment around
us.”
Leffel is a regular gallery artist in Kansas City at The Late Show
Gallery in the Crossroads District, and a member of the Kansas City
Artists Coalition, the Art Association of Harrisburg, Pa. and The
Salmagundi Club in New York City. His work is in permanent
collections of the Masur Museum of Art (Monroe, La.); Museum of
Anthropology (CSU – Chico, Ca.); Sprint-Nextel Art Collection
(Overland Park, Kan.) and City Art Collection of Prairie Village,
Kan.
The 25th Brookside Art Annual will be held this year April 30 – May
2, 2010. Nearly 70,000 visitors attend this event each year, and a
diverse group of local, national and international artists
displaying art of all types and price ranges. For more information
on the Brookside Art Annual, please visit www.brooksidekc.org.
Click Here to view and download this year’s Brookside Art Annual
logo featuring the work of Rusty Leffel. |