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| Study for Self Portrait, 2005 |
KITTY LEECH (1957-2015)
On return from Santa Fe and Chicago we learned
the tragic news that Kitty Leech died on Wednesday, July 15th. Our
relationship with Kitty (named for her grandmother, Katharine McCollum
Gallagher) began in 1990 when we started to show the work of her grandfather,
Michael J. Gallagher. Kitty and her sister Gwyneth were avid supporters of the
work of their grandparents, their mother, Louise Leech, and each others work as
well.
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Costume design for Sapiens, 1991, for the Amazon Chorus in By
Jupiter.
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Leech was a draftsman, costume designer,
illustrator, photographer, and teacher -- most recently at the New York
University Tisch School of the Arts Drama Department. She designed the costumes
for the original production of Gross Indecency, The Three Trials of Oscar
Wilde, that debuted at the Minetta Lane Theater, NY, in 1997, and traveled to
theaters in the USA and England, including the Gielgud Theatre in London's West
End in 1999.
At the Gallery her work was featured in the
exhibitions The Gallagher/Leech Family, 2001, the Family Business, 2005, Day Job, 2009, and most recently
Families/Cities SHIFT, 2013.
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Costume design for Imprints on a Landscape, The Mining Project,
2008, a collaborative piece by the artist’s aunt, the choreographer Martha
Wittman. The artist’s niece, Megan Wilson, is the female dancer in this drawing.
Our condolences to her family; we are saddened
by her untimely death and will always miss her.
