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                Leslie Edwards Humez
                                   
   sculpture, mixed media, public art, and visual excursions into the language of imagination
                         
                                 

Copyright notice: All work, text and photos on this website are the intellectual property of the artist and may not be used in whole or in part, including in the creation of derivative works or compilations without the expressed written permission of the copyright holder.   © 1995-2099 All Rights Reserved

Hi!  I'm Leslie, the resident pop-surrealist and free spirit here and I Iove what I do.  C-19 notices. 

It has been said that men tell jokes and women tell stories. My specialty is creating visual tales that rely on metaphor, allusion and the occasional word gag.  I sculpt in clay and paint with custom acrylics and Day-Glo fluorescents, and also use glow-in-the dark formulations and powdered pigments.

I work hard to push my own boundaries by experimenting using common materials in uncommon ways.  When I sit down at the bench and let the clay talk, I'm as surprised to see the results as you are!

Watching an idea come to life in my own hands is a power
ful and profoundly humbling experience.
I've been chosen to create public and privately commissioned works and thanks to the Fates, some of what I've dreamed up has been exhibited on four continents. 

I have my dad and many others to thank for the support and encouragement along the way.

Whether it's food for thought, a promotional mascot or just bringing out a bogeyman, ask me how I can coax the clay into your dream reality. Write here for a
free no strings, consultation.
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Leslie Edwards Humez is a Cleveland native living in Lake County who creates sculpture, public art, and commissioned works.  Some can be seen in Cleveland galleries and all will soon be available in the Monster Lounge.art toy store. It's time to turn a new page.  Coming soon!


Do aliens plaster travel stickers on their ships?
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          More at The Donut Project


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BB Blues Bird from the comic book of the same name by illustrators Gary Dumm & Ron Hill.  Thank you for the opportunity to turn your comic character into sculpture.
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       Betty Boop bares all in GRAPHIC!
Sold at the Artist Archives of the Western Reserve.


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                     Gluttony:
              Make Me One With Everything
                       ©2013

       Available in Cleveland at AAWR
         March 29 thru May 3, 2019
           Details and directions
     Previous awards at Salmagundi Club, NYC
        and Fairmount Center For The Arts.        


                     Literary Art: An Essay
On Third Friday ama
zing people gather in 78th Street Studios. Here's how one very small visitor touched my heart and forever changed the way I think about how we see art.

Thanks for your purchase, Mentor Senior Center and a tip of the hat to the mastermind and creative influence responsible for bringing this idea to fruition,  Beth Lynne - Artist
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Mentor Ohio
Rocks The Bears
2019




 


Carmen Bearanda
on permanent display at
Mentor Senior Center.

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Blue Racer
Donated through the generosity of Dealer Tire, LLC 
this work is now resident in the collection of
The Children's Museum of Cleveland

3813 Euclid Ave, Cleveland, OH 44115
(216) 791-7114 
   

A commissioned work, Blue Racer was purchased by and became a part of the corporate collection of Scott Mueller, CEO,Dealer Tire, LLC., Vice Chairman of the Board, MOCA Cleveland from my
Year of the Snake proposal in a Public Art Project 2013 and later donated.  Many thanks to all who made this possible.

Hats Off to the Farmingdale man (S.M. Sr.) who wrote in to say that he was vexed by a misspelled word on this site.  He failed, however, to mention on which of these 400 pages it was located.

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     "We" and Day Glo 7 at Waterloo Arts.

Credit Where Credit Is Due Department 
Some of my work is seen on these pages, but much of what I did for fun in 2019 involved an amazing collaboration with my friend and fellow monster-maker extraordinaire PJ Halliwill.

We decided to pass small sculptures back and forth between us until complete. The result was  a bunch of amazing work.  The remainder will be introduced at the new Monster Lounge.art  ecommerce site, coming in June of 2020.  Here's a sample of a piece of small work I created from her original Valentine.  What a team!   So grateful for the experience!
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                    2019
PS..Preservation Silk Scarves at Artisan Gallery

 our new location in Little Italy, Cleveland

Made only from imported vintage Indian saris.



Artists Archives of the Western Reserve
Holiday Treats Show 2018
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So what's new with PATS?

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      Freshwater Cleveland PATS review
       iShop review at The Art Gallery

Tri-C West Gallery
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Humez-Kocar-Pickering
Never More Together! 

Tri-C West Gallery
11000 Pleasant Valley Rd.
Parma, Ohio 44120
October 22 - November 21, 2018
Reception October 24    5pm-7pm
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    Chief Wahoo is in Scott Kraynak's amazing new must-have book loaded with Cleveland's contemporary art and artists. The perfect gift for
        anyone who loves Cleveland.
          First 2019 edition sold out!
         The heART of Cleveland
         Book review: Cleveland.com
Congratulations and thank you, Scott Kraynak!

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          The Chief - Still Fighting ©2015         

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                              Sold
                     WINSTON ©2016
                         $2200. 

          Art Fur Animals Benefit Auction 2016
              Thank you James Goldsmith.


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                 Trick or Treat 
          Calavera sold to Christina Sadowski.
           Krysti & Joe Kilcoyne of Lakewood
                made it a sell out event!  
                     Thank you!


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              Mickey Meows ©2014
                       available
                        POR



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   Cleveland Artists' Lonely Art Club Show
I'm delighted to have painted a panel for this 6 x9 foot Beatles mural.  It's permanently displayed, first floor hallway, 78th St. Studio, Cleveland, Ohio.  Prints are available at e11even 2 gallery.


               Scene Magazine 
       
e11even 2 Gallery Video preview

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                            Sold
           Exquisite corpse press at Cool Cleveland    


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                       Sold              
                  Spot The Clown
 
©2015
Fund-raiser / Cleveland Kennel / Art Fur Animal Auction 2015
          Thank you Amanda and Matthew Love
 


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                           Sold 
                Gourmutt the Baker
©2014
Fund-raiser / Cleveland Kennel / Art Fur Animal Auction 2014
         Thank you Amanda and Matthew Love
 

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   Colorless Green Ideas Sleep Furiously
©1991
                 NFS  
      From a life mask of Matt Edwards.                  
      



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   Three French Hens on the Riviera ©2014                                  Available            

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    SWEET NOTES © 2016      
Limited first edition sold out
Send love with a cookie. 
Personalize with your own message on the back
and pop this glow-in-the-dark cookie in the mail!
                         


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Sundae Shoes
Olivia Olssen Memorial Award / Salmagundi Club NYC / 2012

$3600


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Bad Hair ©2014
Faux brush made with real hardwood and brass nails
instead of bristles.  It'll make you laugh and
it's mean enough to scare away the worst bad hair days. 
      
NFS    

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                 Lust ©2012
               
   Available

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Pop-up art demos, private & public.
Contact me.
      



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                 Sweet Somethings

           Commissioned by Main Street Gourmet
          Harvey Nelson, CEO, Cuyahoga Falls, Ohio
                         


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                         Sold
                 Who Pulled The Plug?
©2012
         In the private collection of the Pilzer family
                  Silver Springs, Maryland.                                      

Live demo:  Watch It Wednesday 
78th St. Studios  June 6  2018
Kitty by me from an Angela Oster illustration. Thanks to e11even2 visitors who watched me work!! 

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Special thanks to Helen Heibert who has included The Dress Says It All in her Sunday Paper, an amazing blog that includes all sorts of new and interesting paper projects along with the groundbreaking work of artists around the globe.


  Art Fur Animals 2018  Shown are Puss in Boots          and Bob my studio cat companion.
   Thank you Sue Speer for the winning bid!
       Press:  WKYC TV Lakeside Today 
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                Anti-social Media
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Previously exhibited at
Lakeland Community College.


    Cartoonist Gary Dumm of American Splendor fame,
                    clowning around.

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      Photo by Earthman courtesy of Laura Dumm.


                 What Do You Do
          When Life Gives You Lemons?

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                            Sold
                 Draw a Blank ©2016
               Available at Sandusky Cultural Center
                 Thank you Marsha Gray Carrington


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                      Sold
              Go With The Flow ©2016
               Thank you Diane Cooper Hoeptner

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                 Abandoned
                 Focus ©2016           
                  Found by Kelly Hahn

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                        Greed

     
       The Cleveland Hyatt Regency Hotel
                      courtesy of the
                       Maria Neil Project

             Thank you Adam Tully and John Farina

                          Available                 


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                     Junk Mail
    
           Courtesy of the Maria Neil Project
            at the Hyatt Regency Cleveland Arcade
           Thank you Adam Tully and John Farina

                   24" x 30"
                     Not available 
                  I burned in a fit of pique.



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            Textile #1 (fragment)  ©2015
                        5'2" x 34"
         Maria Neil Project at the Hyatt Regency
                Cleveland Arcade
          Thank you Adam Tully and John Farina
                        NFS
                Plans for textiles.



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            Dead On My Feet ©2015
    Previously exhibited at Lakeland Community College
                        Available
                 

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      Sold
      From the Shoji Lights Collection
©2014
         Thank you Gail Hoover and Bob Safarz. 

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                     Of Course ©2015
                 Henry the Horse is ready to go!
                                   available
      


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                     I Scream ©2015
     Proceeds to the America Scores Benefit Auction             which provides Cleveland kids with after school
         programs to teach literacy and fitness.
                     not available
                     Destroyed


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            Mamma In Her Kerchief ©2014
                 available
 


    When is charity work appropriate?
  Rare pigments stored at Harvard University
 Copyright in Derivative Works and Compilations
             U.S. Copyright Office