TEDDY’S CHRISTMAS EXHIBITION: Teddy Dean Lepley III
One-Off Exhibitions•Nov 07, 2025 — Dec 20, 2025
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TEDDY’S CHRISTMAS EXHIBITION by TEDDY DEAN LEPLEY III on view through December 20, 2025.
Enjoy the sights and sounds of Christmas joy, along with a tender reflection of a fathers' love. In this work I seek to find meaning in the small moments of affection between me and my emotionally distant father. Gift-giving was the way my dad was most comfortable showing his love for me and Christmas was the best time for gift-giving.
My father’s possessions have been sitting in my closet since he passed away in 2024. I have been holding on to those things trying to find the meaning in them. A few of these objects I carefully wrapped with handmade bows and decorated papers. I understand now that they are his gifts to me. My toy train, an actual gift from my father that I cannot let go of, runs around the tree. Other decorations, drawings, and prints hang on the walls alongside a large bow. It is the bow that would have rested on top of the Camaro I had always planned to buy my dad when I became…
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TEDDY’S CHRISTMAS EXHIBITION: Teddy Dean Lepley III
One-Off Exhibitions•Nov 07, 2025 — Dec 20, 2025
Press Release
TEDDY’S CHRISTMAS EXHIBITION by TEDDY DEAN LEPLEY III on view through December 20, 2025.
Enjoy the sights and sounds of Christmas joy, along with a tender reflection of a fathers' love. In this work I seek to find meaning in the small moments of affection between me and my emotionally distant father. Gift-giving was the way my dad was most comfortable showing his love for me and Christmas was the best time for gift-giving.
My father’s possessions have been sitting in my closet since he passed away in 2024. I have been holding on to those things trying to find the meaning in them. A few of these objects I carefully wrapped with handmade bows and decorated papers. I understand now that they are his gifts to me. My toy train, an actual gift from my father that I cannot let go of, runs around the tree. Other decorations, drawings, and prints hang on the walls alongside a large bow. It is the bow that would have rested on top of the Camaro I had always planned to buy my dad when I became…

























































