Paul Dorrell is a gallery owner and art consultant who works with a wide variety of private and corporate collectors, both beginners and connoisseurs. Paul founded Leopold Gallery in 1991. Prior to that, he worked as Director's Assistant at Hill-Stead Museum in Farmington, CT.
Dorrell specializes in designing visionary "Art Programs" for corporate and civic clients. He is art consultant for the new H&R Block World Headquarters, as well as the University of Kansas Hospital and BKD. He has also served as consultant for the National D-Day Memorial, the Overland Park Convention Center, the Mayo Clinic, the City of Hartford, G.E. Aircraft Engines, and scores of others. He consulted on a monument of Dwight Eisenhower for the Capitol Building in Washington, DC, and provided sculpture for the sets of a new Warner Brothers film: Watchmen.
Dorrell is also the author of Living the Artist's Life. This acclaimed guidebook for artists earned him a column in The Artist's Magazine, and took him on a tour of 60 cities, where he won praise for his talks at venues such as The Art Students League of New York, and dozens of major bookstores. He has been interviewed on some 35 Public Radio stations, and in the Associated Press. Dorrell's screenplay, Trading in Souls, earned a Nicholl Foundation Award at the Academy Awards.
Currently Dorrell is developing a TV program in Los Angeles called Urban Impact. It's described as follows: "Brilliant but impoverished high school artists get a chance to prove their genius, and overcome their hardships, as they struggle to create a mind-blowing masterpiece--with a life-changing finish." One of Dorrell's passions is working with young artists from low-income families.
Reared in Kansas City and educated at the University of Kansas, Dorrell has spent years roaming America by motorcycle. He has lived in Alaska, New York, California, Italy, Spain, and England. He currently lives with his wife and two sons in Kansas City, where Leopold Gallery is based.
