Cary Leibowitz

Cary Leibowitz aka Candyass (born 1963) is an American conceptualist visual artist. His humorous artworks are a self-deprecating mélange of self-doubt, self-loathing as well as mirrors of overarching multicultural woe—particularly “Jewishness” set in a queer subtext. Leibowitz’s works are proclamations of outsider awareness, vain signboards of a visceral need to assimilate oneself within one’s cultural surroundings—an allusion to the horrors of the Holocaust and the necessity for Jews to “pass” as Gentiles. His works serve to question the role of art as "The New York Times" writer Holland Cotter espouses “post-beauty, post-theory, post-cool, post-mature.” Leibowitz’s work can be found in the permanent collection of the Chase Manhattan Bank, the Hirschhorn Museum, The Jewish Museum, New York; the Peter and Eileen Norton Collection and the Robert J Shiffler Foundation.

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* [http://www.alexandergray.com/Artist-Detail.cfm?ArtistsID=663 Alexander Gray Associates: Cary Leibowitz]
* [http://www.villagevoice.com/art/0712,saltz,76084,13.html Village Voice: Cary Leibowitz]
* [http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=940CE2D6103FF937A25751C1A9679C8B63 The New York Times: Cary Leibowitz]
* [http://heartasarena.blogspot.com/2007/02/cary-leibowitz-is-my-co-pilot.html Heartsarena Blog: Cary Leibowitz]
* [http://www.kunstwissen.de/fach/f-kuns/o_pm/leibow0.htm Kunstwissen: Cary Leibowitz]
* [http://www.andrewkreps.com/LebowitzPressReleases.html Andrew Kreps Gallery: Cary Leibowitz]
* [http://www.inliquid.com/thought/review/0304zarrosinger.shtml Inliquid Review: Cary Leibowitz]
* [http://www.cliffordsmithgallery.com/01febcandy.html Clifford Smith Gallery: Cary Leibowitz]
* [http://www.nowtoronto.com/issues/2003-04-10/art_reviews.php Now Toronto: Cary Leibowitz]
* [http://www.artcal.net/event/view/1/4070 Artcal: Cary Leibowitz]
* [http://www.artmetropole.com/popups/events_exhibits.cfm?str_filename=exhibits/exhibits_03/candyass/candy.htm Art Metropole: Cary Leibowitz]
* [http://www.artmetropole.com/popups/events/events_03/27_candytalk/candytalk.htm Art Metropole: Cary Leibowitz Artist's Talk]
* [http://www.inliquid.com/gallery/beaver/archive/0202arcadia.html Inliquid Review: Cary Leibowitz, Arcadia]
* [http://artforum.com/diary/id=9027 ArtForum: Cary Leibowitz]
* [http://209.85.165.104/search?q=cache:aWSFdoISPlEJ:www2.jewishculture.org/publications/jcn/JCN_2004_FALL.pdf+cary+leibowitz&hl=en&ct=clnk&cd=39&gl=us&client=safari Jewish Culture.org: Cary Leibowitz]