Leroy Almon

Leroy Almon (1938 – 1997) bụ onye omenkà America mara maka ịcha osisi na ike ya.

Ndụ

Amụrụ Almon na Tallapoosa, Georgia mana tolitere na Ohio .  Mgbe ọ akwụkwọ akwụkwọ na ụlọ akwụkwọ, ọ stand onye na-ere ihe ngosi ma ọrụ ọrụ maka ọrụ Coca-Cola na Columbus, Ohio .  Na Gay Tabernacle Baptist Church, Almon zutere Elijah Pierce.  na 1979, Pierce onye ndu nka Almon.  Ọ kuziri Almọn ka esi akpụ osisi ma na-agbagịgba oghere gallery nke Pierce nwere n'aja akpụ isi ya..

Almon lụrụ Mary Allice Almon wee laghachi na Tallapoosa na 1982 iji weghachi ebe obibi nwata ya. Mgbe Almọn laghachiri na Jọjia, ọ ghọrọ onye ozi e chiri echichi, onye na-ezisa ozi ọma na-abụghị nke okpukpere chi, na onye na-ezipụ ndị uwe ojii.

Ọ nwụrụ na 1997 nke nkụchi obi.

Ọrụ

Mgbe Almon la mfe na Tallapoosa iji weghachi ụlọ ezina ngwaahịa ya, ọ nzere ulo ka ọ bụrụ ụlọ ihe nkiri nkeonwe.  Almọn na-eji naanị ngwa aka were mapụta na kpụrụ osisi ya.  "A ga-ebufe ihe ọrụ mbụ ya na mpempe akwụkwọ softwood ma jiri obere akpa na chisel kpụrụ ya na obere isi."  [1] Mgbe ahụ ahụ, a ga-eji ihe na-mahụ anya, plastik, beads ma ọ bụ ihe ndị ọzọ achọtara ngosi ya mma.  Iso ụzọ bụ isi ihe na- anya na ndụ Almon na ọrụ nka.  [1] O nweela ihe ngosi na Ogden Museum of Southern Art, [2] na mahadum dị iche iche

Ọrụ dị na mkpokọta na-adịru nke Smithsonian American Art Museum, [1] American Folk Art Museum, [2] Ackland Art Museum, [3] Minneapolis Institute of Art, [4] Birmingham Museum of Art [5] na Pérez  Art Museum Miami, [6] na High Museum of Art, Atlanta.