PHOEBE LEGERE
THE 29
A NEW YORK ART MOVEMENT DECLARES ITSELF
ADDED VALUES + / a generous landscape
PS122 Gallery, East Village,
October 8-31, 2026
OPENING: Oct. 8 – 6- 8 pm
PS122 Gallery, 150 First Avenue
There are moments when artists stop waiting for history to name them.
The 29 is one of those moments.
At the front of the gallery hangs my CRISIS OF THE IMAGE, oil on linen, 54 x 80 inches: a bold, virile painting in which my brush becomes a baseball bat battling the forces of evil in a theater of rupture and desire. Alizarin Crimson approaches a flesh-tinged Nocturne, seducing and threatening her maidenhead. Kandinsky collides with Frans Hals, George Bellows and de Kooning; Franz Kline eats breakfast with Hilda af Klint. The painting casts its vote for the future of female leadership.
And on October 24, I will stand before it and make the argument physical.
For this LIVE ART performance I will wear giant sculptural forms, sing, dance, recite text and play seven instruments while cinema is projected across my body. Painting, music, film, sculpture, theater, dance, costume and language will fuse into one living organism.
I call this TOTAL ART SYNTHESIS.
I have spent my life working toward TOTAL ART: seventeen albums; a practice formed between Indigenous knowledge, feminist history, mythology, popular music and the visual arts. I studied painting with Larry Rivers. My work is held in museum collections. I am a NYSCA and Yaddo Fellow. I have performed with David Bowie and Joni Mitchell.
Come witness the Brunhildes of THE 29 marching voluntarily into the fire, and walking out of it reborn. 🔥 The art world is about to be returned to its rightful owners, the mothers of creation, the eternal holders of the mitochondrial flame.
Movements are often recognized only after they have changed the world.
We are announcing ours before the historians arrive.
THE 29: ADDED VALUES + / a generous landscape
October 8-31, 2026
PS122 Gallery, 150 First Avenue (entrance on 9th Street between 1st Ave and Ave A), New York City
Opening: Thursday, October 8, 6-8 PM
Gallery hours: Wednesday-Saturday, 1-6 PM, and by appointment
Phoebe Legere: TOTAL ART SYNTHESIS / CRISIS OF THE IMAGE
Live performance: Saturday, October 24, 5 PM
Photo by Peter Beard
A Child’s Garden of Joy: I just built the Bloom Squad Game to find out how Foundation for New American Art 501 (c3) can best serve YOU and your children. Start Playing Now! #art #music #performance
The Catastrophic Sublime:
My paintings of HUNTER THOMPSON
HOWL HAPPENING Gallery
2 Pianos, Phoebe Legere’s award winning video with animation and score by Phoebe Legere
Homage to the East Village High Renaissance
Egg Tempera, graphite on paper
Jean-Michel, Keith, Ethyl, Ethyl’s tattoo, Pyramid Go-Go Boy
THE ART and LIFE of PHOEBE LEGERE
New Music by Phoebe Legere:
https://open.spotify.com/artist/74cjbKk7frNdeQEMcADTnX?si=U6E07tP2SC6zy9qFBT70cQ
Eco-magic, music, and joy. Discover why NPR calls Legere ‘a visionary artist.’ 🎹✨ Listen now
NOISE and FLESH:
Crisis of the Image -
OPENS Nov. 1 6 pm - 8 pm
New American Art Gallery
Mid - Hudson
Liberty and Child
On LINKNYC Towers through the 5 boroughs of NYC, hundreds of thousands of impressions - From July 1 - July 14.
Phoebe Legere, award winning director of the Gender Symphony, writer, actress, film composer and animator. This is the trailer with many of her awards and laurels.
National Association of Women Artists
LÉGERE: ART IN CONVERSATION
with Farrin Chwalkowski, School of Visual Arts
Sky Eyes Mother
from Vanishing Women Series #MMIWG
@LEONOVICH GALLERY in CHELSEA THROUGH JUNE 21
Male Seahorse: Giving Birth
Ink, Graphite
Legere
Phoebe Legere performs with Giant Wearable Art on Sept 24 at PS 122.
The Shamancycle, a 15 foot,, one on sculpture entire made from upcycled and repurposed material by Phoebe Legere. It is a rideable, interactive giant eagle puppet. Art of Phoebe Legere
The Shamancycle
Interactive, Rideable , Alternative Fuel Sculpture Vehicle - Love is Your Power” words & music © Phoebe Legere
Built on the chassis of a Toyota Tacoma, with materials salvaged from a junk yard and 1000 eagle feathers cut by hand from ice tea and beer cans, built on an armature of junk bicycles, this sculpture now in now part of the permanent collection of the Nevada City School of Art in California.
SOUNDART:
Legere’s autobiography TEENAGE WEIMAR underscored with Legere’s original
classical, new wave and electronic compositions including LIVE tracks of MONAD
excerpts from Dark Harbor,
Oh La La Coq Tail
music recorded live - Einstein Records.
THE FISH WHO SAVED NEW YORK
SOLD OUT
JUNE 28th, 2026
at the FLOATING
WATERFRONT MUSEUM THEATER
RED HOOK, BROOKLYN!
2 PM
PHOEBE LEGÈRE
and the children and teachers of
Paint Brushes Not Guns
GENDER SYMPHONY
Award Winning Movie by Phoebe Legere
NEW MEDIA running continuously at the
Every Woman Biennial
Pen and Brush Gallery
through 4/11
29 East 22nd Street, New York, NY 10010
Nest of Origin
Oil, Metal, Turqouise, Nest
Legere
Gold and Shadow
NOCTURNE IN Eb
SOLD
Mixed media assemblage with shaped frame. See my instagram page for a video of framed NOCTURNE in Eb
Calm, Poised, Confident Blue
GAMES BY LEGERE
Still: Self portrait with Catfish
From the 2022 Riverine Ecology #GAME: “HOOKED!”
Oil, music and digital animation by Legere
HOOKED is a game with handpainted images and original music. The game was painted, created and composed by Legere. HOOKED is a #GAME designed to make ecology fun. It is edu-tainment teaching the interrelations of wonderful animals that live in and near The Mahicantuck AKA The Hudson River.