Cleveland St Community College will feature new paintings by David LeDoux, Professor Emeritus, Department of Art, Middle Tennessee State University. The exhibit will be held October 2–27 in the Adkisson Administration Building, 1st Floor Hallway Gallery during regular college hours Monday through Friday, and Saturday, 8 a.m. – 3 p.m.
David LeDoux is originally from Church Point, Louisiana, and took a Bachelor of Arts degree from Louisiana College, Pineville, LA; special study in art from The University of Chattanooga; a Master of Arts degree from Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge, LA; special study in psychology at North Texas State University, Denton, TX; Post-Graduate study in the Ph. D. Program, Painting, at The Ohio State University, Columbus, OH; was honored with a National Endowment for the Humanities Fellowship, Columbia University, New York, NY; and has traveled and studied in Britain, France, Spain, Italy and Switzerland.
LeDoux said, “People ask me what kind of paintings I make. They mean, ‘Do you work in watercolor, oil, etc?’ That has always seemed to me to be the wrong question. No one cares about Shakespeare’s pencil. A painting should be inventive, striking, challenging, no matter what the media. I say that I make good paintings. That generally gets a laugh. Yet, that can be a serious response… My work offers itself to the imagination of others, and where their imaginative life is determines what they see in it. In sum, then, say that I am a late 20th Century (early 21st?) Modern American Abstract Painter.”
David LeDoux has painted for more than fifty years. He began as a Graduate Assistant in 1949, and started teaching at Middle Tennessee State University in 1956, and became the Director of the Painting Program before retiring in 1994.
LeDoux’s exhibition record includes galleries in New York, Louisiana, Texas, Alabama, Georgia, Indiana, Arkansas, Kentucky, Mississippi, North Carolina, South Carolina, Oklahoma, Illinois, and Tennessee. His work was included in the “1997 Invitational Exhibition, American Academy of Arts and Letters, New York, NY.”
He is represented in numerous collections including The Tennessee Arts Commission Collection, the Louisiana Arts Commission Galleries, The Ohio State University Collection, and the Hunter Museum of American Art, to name just a few.
According to Jere Chumley, Associate Professor of Art, Director of the Art Department, and curator of exhibitions at Cleveland St Community College, “David LeDoux is the most prolific painter that I’ve ever known (or heard of), and he has been my mentor since I became an art student at MTSU in 1957. If you love art and you want to have an extraordinary experience, don’t miss this exhibition and the opportunity to meet David LeDoux.”
For more information phone the CSCC Art Department at (423) 472-7141, ext. 431.