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From No Responses to His Own Gallery: Leroy Powell on Turning a Salon Wall Into Ivy Lane Gallery
This episode of Let's Chat Creative Pathways is recorded inside Ivy Lane Gallery, the plant filled gallery space Leroy Powell built into Powell & Burke Salon, the Newbury Street hair salon he co-owns with his husband, Jason Burke.
After sending roughly 20 outreach emails to galleries and getting zero responses, Leroy stopped waiting for permission. He turned his own brick and mortar into the gallery he couldn't get into, then held the door open wide, curating group shows that bring in other artists too.
We talk about:
- Why "no" would've been easier to hear than silence, and what he did instead.
- His portrait process: tracing, graphite transfer, then loosening up with color and collage.
- Building a 12-piece astrological portrait series (a color wheel when hung together).
- Starting an annual holiday painting turned into greeting cards.
- Growing up between Ivy Lane Farm in England and Connecticut, art school at Montserrat College of Art, and how illustration and campus life led him into hairstyling.
- His standing instruction to commission clients: "give me as little or as much as you want, I'll fill in the rest," and what taught him to hold a firm line around what's his to add.
Find Leroy's work, prints, and commission info at goleroy.com. It's a fun site to poke around, he designed it himself.
Follow his process videos on TikTok: @leroypowell
Follow him on Instagram: @leroypowellart
Watch it here on YouTube, or listen wherever you get your podcasts.#NewburyStreet #BostonArtists #MixedMediaArt______________________________________________________Support Creative Pathways Inc., a 501(c)(3) nonprofit by donating. All donations bring art programming to Brockton youth. creative-pathways.com/donateFollow on Instagram: @creativepathwaysproject @bethbaileystudio__________________________________________________________Music by Greg Loftus, find his work wherever you stream and visit The Lounge at the Brew in Falmouth for live shows.Intro/outro song “Dog Days" by Greg Loftus used with full permission of the artist.Licensor name: Greg LoftusLicensor organization: Independent artist (self-owned copyright)Licensor email: gregloftusmusic@gmail.com
