{"id":11877,"date":"2012-06-07T13:35:42","date_gmt":"2012-06-07T17:35:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.artoronto.ca\/?p=11877"},"modified":"2012-09-19T15:01:38","modified_gmt":"2012-09-19T19:01:38","slug":"leon-rooke","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/artoronto.ca\/?p=11877","title":{"rendered":"Leon Rooke"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Leon Rooke\u00a0was born in North Carolina he has made Canada his home for most of his long and outstanding career as a writer of short stories and fiction. In recent years he has gained recognition as an artist and the proud sponsor of The Paint Slam &#8211; the third annual to be held at Fran Hill Gallery, Saturday, July 14th, 2012. He works in a surprising array of materials from painting to collage to sculptural assemblages, often from found objects. The results are always startling.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.artoronto.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/06\/New-Orleans-Blues.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter  wp-image-11866\" title=\"New Orleans Blues\" src=\"http:\/\/www.artoronto.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/06\/New-Orleans-Blues.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"273\" height=\"274\" \/><\/a>Leon Rooke<br \/>\nNew Orleans Blues, 2012<br \/>\noil on paper,<br \/>\n6 1\/2 x 6 1\/2 inches<br \/>\n$ 350. <strong><span style=\"color: #800080;\">Auctions starts at $60<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.artoronto.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/06\/I-like-you.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter  wp-image-11865\" title=\"I like you\" src=\"http:\/\/www.artoronto.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/06\/I-like-you.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"263\" height=\"263\" \/><\/a>I Like You, 2012<br \/>\noil on board<br \/>\n8 3\/4 x 8 1\/2 inches<br \/>\n$400. <strong><span style=\"color: #800080;\">Auctions starts at $60<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><strong>LEON ROOKE<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>He works in a surprising array of materials from painting to collage to sculptural assemblages, often from found objects.<\/p>\n<p class=\"more-link-p\"><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/artoronto.ca\/?p=11877\">Read more &rarr;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":11893,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[25,1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11877","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-listings_archive","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/artoronto.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11877","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/artoronto.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/artoronto.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/artoronto.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/artoronto.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=11877"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/artoronto.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11877\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14725,"href":"https:\/\/artoronto.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11877\/revisions\/14725"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/artoronto.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/11893"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/artoronto.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=11877"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/artoronto.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=11877"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/artoronto.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=11877"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}