Spirtual painter Leon Kennedy on dreams and visions

Dreams and visions, the interconnectedness of artists, the flow of ideas.
Using markers, crayons, and paint, renown Oakland folk artist Leon Kennedy creates vibrant visions of God's glory on wood, canvas, old bed sheets and other found objects. An ecstatic spiritualist and self-taught outsider, his message is about the power of faith, our limitless minds, and love. His bold, distinctive works are part of significant collections of black American folk art, including The Smithsonian Institution's American Art Museum, which purchased a bed sheet mural by Mr. Kennedy in 1997, as well as The African American Museum in Dallas, Texas, The House of Blues, The Ames Gallery in Berkeley, CA, and numerous private collections. Mr. Kennedy is in the NMAA online research database; photos and other materials of Kennedy are part of the illustrious National Archives. In 2006 two of Kennedy's paintings formed a major part of the yearlong exhibit at Baltimore's prestigious American Visionary Art Museum, "Race, Class, Gender," which travelled in 2007 to the Lowell Revolving Museum. A major one-man retrospective was exhibited at the Kings Gallery of the San Francisco Unitarian Universalist Church in 2004.
His works were exhibited in "Ordinary Folk: Extraordinary Visions" at the San Francisco Arts Commission Gallery in March and April of 2000, (curator, Bonnie Grossman of The Ames Gallery.) In late the 1990's The House of Blues purchased several of Leon's works.

Mr. Kennedy is documented thoroughly in Contemporary American Folk Art: A Collector's Guide, by Chuck and Jan Rosenak (Abbeville Press). He is listed in all reliable surveys, including Betty-Carol Sellen's "Self Taught, Outsider, and Folk Art."

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[mrblackdog7]

Mr.Paul.Why don`t you take that comment that thegeorgiaredmudpainter put up with a fake I D

claming to be BoscoRichardsChalmers. This was not written by Bosco but him red mud.He does this all over youtube making nasty comments claiming to be some other folk artist just to cause trouble.He is a sad example of what SOUTHERN folk art is all about and everyone should email him and let him know he is sick.

Youtube keeps taking his ID down but he keeps putting new ones up. Thanks J

[mrblackdog7]

This is BS. Mr. Bosco did not write this. He has nothing but respect for Leon. I am surprised you haven`t removed this stupid remark from this jerk impersonating Bosco.

[RedMudPainter]

Beware of Richard Chalmers, he is a net stalker and art plagirizer he gose by boscobear,blackdog acdcart, well any I.D that babbles about me is him...he is carzy read The Art Police Blog

[boscobear33]

The best there is as an artist and a person

[BoscoRichardChalmers]

i'm the greatest artist alive!