LEO VALLEDOR
Leo Valledor was a San Francisco-born, New York-based abstractionist and founding member of downtown Manhattan’s trailblazing Park Place Gallery.
The space was an iconoclastic artist collective and exhibition venue founded by ten emerging artists, including Valledor, many of which are now recognised as among the most influential Modernists in American history, including Dean Fleming, Mark di Suvero, and Robert Grosvenor, among others. It was a space for collaborative experimentation where the cohort advanced what became genre-defining techniques of geometric abstraction and new concepts of space. It provided a venue to show their friends, also then- emerging, now-iconic artists, such as Sol LeWitt, Eva Hesse, and Donald Judd, and more.
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