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Artist Exhibitions:
EDUCATION:
University of Illinois-Urbana,
School of Art & Design - BFA,
1969
Ohio State University - MS,
1975
EXHIBITS
1968 - Student Exhibit,
University of Illinois-Urbana
1968 - Boston Printmakers,
Museum of Fine Arts, Boston
1969 - Student Exhibit,
University of Illinois
1970 - Beloit College, WI
1970 - Illinois State Fair,
Springfield
1973 - French Market ...
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Artist Galleries:
1999-2000 - Gallery 5 North,
345 Congress Street (Fort
Point), Boston
2000-2004 - Cambridge Art
Association, Cambridge, MA
Current - Unrepresented, but
would welcome interest....
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Artist Reviews:
Coming Soon!
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Collections:
Fiduciary Trust, Boston, MA
Forest City Bank, Brookline,
MA
Michael Stepien, Ft. Myers, FL
Jeffrey Kalin, Boston, MA
James Lynch, Scotland
Iestyn Lewis, Atlanta, GA
Elizabeth Cernek, Sutton, NH
Eugenio Tellez, New York, NY
Gary Benson, Albaquerque, NM
Charles Seifert, Rantoul, IL
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Commissions:
Coming Soon!
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Artist Statement for Leslie Lewis
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The viewer of a painting, drawing or print is an active participant in a conversation between the artist's imagery and his/her own experiences and desires. In presenting the viewer with images, an artist can create either an adverse or positive reaction, depending upon the formal and cognitive qualities of what is placed on the canvas, and upon his (the artist's) understanding of the range of social and societal experience the viewer brings into the equation.
My emphasis has long been on the use of color and the simplification of form to set up an intuitive conversation, where color, shape and spatial inter-relationships work together to elicit an emotional and psychological response. Beginning with extremely simplified landscape imagery, where space and light are defined by strong color relationships and forms by broad areas and stripes of vibrant color, in the late 1960's and early 1970's I carried this approach into both painted canvases and single-plate color etchings and milling-machine engravings.
My recent work is on a more accessible scale than former large shaped canvas assemblages (6' X 12'). Beginning with similar imagery with variations to suit the expressive intent, they rely on coloristic qualities and tensions to create a feeling of space and depth. The working of one color against another, and how they relate to the whole, also allows for a greater range of compositional elements and arrangements, thus extending the potential breadth of internal conversations. I like to think they present an optimistic world-view, with a sense of the adventure of life and an enjoyment of the world around us.
Color by its nature can have a profound influence, in ways that we often do not clearly recognize or indentify to sort out into verbal form. I want people looking at my paintings to go away with a sense that their day has been enhanced and lightened.
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