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Whitney Leland
2205 Maplewood Drive
Knoxville, Tennessee 37920
whitneyleland@att.net
Preferred: (865)577-3649


Public Collections:

Aslan Foundation, Knoxville, Tennessee
Bass, Berry and Sims, Nashville, Tennessee
Chase Manhattan Bank, New York, New York
Chattahoochee Valley Art Museum, LaGrange, Georgia
Federal Reserve Bank of Atlanta, Miami Branch, Miami, Florida
Harris Bank, Chicago, Illinois
Hospital Corporation of America, Nashville, Tennessee
Hunter Museum of Art, Chattanooga, Tennessee
Huntsville Museum of Art, Huntsville, Alabama
IBM, Tampa, Florida
Knoxville Museum of Art, Knoxville, Tennessee
LSU Museum of Art, Shaw Center for the Arts, Baton Rouge, Louisiana
Montgomery Museum of Fine Arts, Montgomery, Alabama
National Museum of American Art, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, D.C.
Springfield Art Museum, Springfield, Missouri
Tennessee Arts Commission, Nashville, Tennessee
Tennessee Valley Authority, Sequoyah Nuclear Plant
The Arkansas Art Center, Little Rock, Arkansas
The Tennessee State Museum, Nashville, Tennessee
Third National Bank, Nashville, Tennessee



My work is evolutionary: I intentionally develop it slowly and pay close attention to the ideas that have preceded. I am interested in a continuum and distrust sudden change. The art that I make is distinctly abstract and there is no aspiration for a symbolic or concrete reading. The formal structure of the paintings has the power to suggest different possibilities to the viewer, depending on his/her individual experiences and knowledge of art. My personal ambition is for the paintings to generate an internal reasoning that is exclusive to each piece, to engage me emotionally and to possess a clear sense of resolution.