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ERIC LEGGE IS TRULY UNIQUE EVEN AMONG SO CALLED "OUTSIDER" ARTISTS. HE IS COMPLETELY UNTRAINED, YET HE HAS EARNED TWO COLLEGE DEGREES, ONE IN PHILOSOPHY, THE OTHER IN ANTHROPOLOGY. EVIDENCE OF ERIC'S CREATIVITY WAS SEEN EARLY ON AT THE TENDER AGE OF SEVEN. ERIC HAS BEEN BLESSED IN THAT HE HAS KNOWN FOR A LONG TIME WHAT HE WAS DESTINED TO DO.
ERIC SPENDS HIS DAYS AND NIGHTS CREATING BEAUTIFUL WORK FOR ALL OF US TO ENJOY. HE CONTINUES TO DEFY AN ACCURATE DESCRIPTION, OFTEN HIDING ELEMENTS INSIDE HIS PIECES.
LEGGE, PEERS THROUGH PAINT-FLECKED, TORTOISE-SHELL SPECS. HIS SMILE IS NERVOUS AND CONSTANT. HIS HAIRCUT IS CHOPPY, HIS CHEEKBONES ARE AS HOLLOW AND HIS JEANS' LEGS ARE AS VOLUMINOUS AS ANY GREENWICH VILLAGE URCHIN'S. BUT HIS ACCENT IS SOUTH GEORGIA SWEET.
CALLER I.D. AND KEROSENE HEATERS ARE ABOUT AS WIRED AS ERIC GETS, BUT THE SYMBOLISM IN HIS SIGNATURE IS STILL APT. A YOUNG MAN WITH A BACHELOR'S DEGREE, WITH PAINTINGS IN MUSEUMS FROM DALLAS TO MANHATTAN. LEGGE IS A FAR CRY FROM THE ECCENTRIC ELDERS OR UNSCHOOLED "ISOLATES" MANY PEOPLE TYPE CAST AS SELF-TAUGHT ARTISTS.
Our Art Gallery also has work by Revernd Howard Finster, Inez Nathaniel Walker, William Edmondson, Thornton Dial, Missionary Mary Proctor, Miz Thang, Nancy Valelly, R A Miller, Jimmy Lee Sudduth, Mose Tolliver, folk pottery and all the great outsiders new or old.
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