Leo Valledor was a Filipino-American painter who pioneered the hard-edge painting style.
16 Facts About Leo Valledor
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Leo Valledor was a leader of the minimalist movement in the 1970s.
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Leo Valledor was born and raised in the Fillmore district of San Francisco.
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From 1953 until 1955, Valledor was a student at the California School of Fine Arts under auspices of a scholarship.
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In New York at the Kaymar Gallery in March and April 1964 Leo Valledor exhibited with Sol LeWitt and Donald Judd.
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Leo Valledor had a solo show at the Graham Gallery on Madison Avenue in New York City.
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In 1968 Leo Valledor left New York returning to San Francisco.
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Leo Valledor exhibited there at such establishments as the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, and the San Francisco Art Institute.
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Leo Valledor was at the vanguard of the minimalist painting movement in the mid 1970s, and later in the seventies he exhibited at the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, Daniel Weinberg Gallery, M H de Young Memorial Museum, and the Los Angeles Museum of Contemporary Art.
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Leo Valledor was a guest teacher at the University of California, Berkeley.
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Leo Valledor created a roof mural for the Department of Public Works approved by the San Francisco Arts Commission.
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Leo Valledor received his first National Endowment for the Arts Artist Fellowship Grant in 1981, and received another grant in 1982.
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Leo Valledor lived in the city of San Francisco until his death in 1989.
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Leo Valledor was survived by his wife Mary Valledor and his son Rio Valledor.
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Leo Valledor's work has a classical or pure form-oriented bent, but in the early '60s he emerged as a pioneer of the Minimalism which was to dominate that decade.
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Where Leo Valledor's art gets hard for some is right where it ought to get easy.