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104 Whitehall Rd., Apt. 9
Amesbury, MA 01913 (Stati Uniti)
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tel. 978-388-6599
email: LeslieLlws@aol.com
web: www.leslewis.net
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Opere
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Cherishing the Good Times
acrilic
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canvas,
40 cm,
2002
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Crossing Paths
acrilic
on
canvas,
50.5" x 50.5" cm,
2002
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North Beach, Hampton 1
acrilic
on
canvas,
30 cm,
2002
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North Beach, Hampton 2
acrilic
on
canvas,
24" x 30" cm,
2002
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Biography:
Born 1938, Auburn, NY
In High School, I worked evenings and weekends in a local museum, hanging exhibits, and unpacking/packing art. I gained the greatest interest in painting while in military service, spending two years in Vicenza, Italy, where I saw the works of Tiepolo, Titiano, and other Venetian painters. After the military, I studied painting and printmaking at the Iniversity of Illinois-Urbana's School of Art & Design, studying painting under Edward Betts, Enrique Castro-Cid, Douglas Hilson and Frank Gunther. I also studied printmaking under Dennis Rowan and Eugenio Tellez, who had been studio manager for Atelier 17 in Paris prior to that. In the late 60's and early 70's, I worked on large assemblages of shaped canvases articulating space with vivid stripes and voids. I also worked at that time on single-plate color etchings and multiple-plate engravings using industrial milling machines, as well as photo-silkscreen processes.
Because of the need to raise a family, my work was dormant for a number of years, but I began creating more intensely about three years ago, beginning with ideas that could be developed on a smaller scale than 6' X 15'. My more recent paintings, while presenting spatial and formal ideas, also focus on the interaction of color and how it articulates the canvas through contrasts and edge effects. The edge effects I am interested in employ a retinal glow that results from the juxtaposition of two or more colors, and how they effect the viewer's understanding of a painting on a visceral level. I see a painting as a conversation between the artist and an unknown viewer, and strive to make that viewer see what I see inside. It is my hope that the viewer will go away with a more positive world view than when he arrived.
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Curriculum vitae:
EDUCATION
1969 BFA, University of Illinois-Urbana
1975 MS, Ohio State University
1979 Uncompleted PhD Program, University of Chicago
EXHIBITS
1968 University of Illinois-Urbana - Student Exhibit
1968 Museum of Fine Arts, Boston - Young Printmakers
1969 University of Illinois- Urbana - Student Exhibit
1970 Beloit College, WI Young Painters
1970 Springfield, IL - Illinois State Fair
1973 Columbus, OH - French Market Art Show
1995 New London, NH - Daffodil Art Show
2001 Cambridge Art Association - SOUND
2001 Cambridge Art Association - Art is Ageless
2001 Cambridge Art Association - New Members Exhibit
2001 Cambridge Art Association - Fall Salon
2002 Bromfield Gallery, Boston - Solo Show
2002 Midland Center for the Arts, Midland, MI - in association with "The Nature of Diamonds"
2002 Cambridge Art Association - Summer in New England
2002 "Stand Up For Kids" Charity Auction, Boston
2002 Amesbury Artworks Open Studios Exhibit, Amesbury
2003 Biennale Internazionale dell'Arte Contemporanea, Firenze
INTERNET PRESENCE
Personal Website at www.leslewis.net
2000 Repository for Abstract Art - Listed under New Artists
2001 Bronze Award, Art Kara, Geneva, Switzerland
2001 Gold Art Award, Art Gallery Online (AGO)
2002 Artspace2000 Art Award
Portfolios on:
absolutearts.com
Digital Consciousness (digitialconsciousness.com)
gallerysites.com
artspace2000.com
World Wide Art Resources (Premier Portfolio)
Also listed on:
Ask Art
Art in Context
Internet Art Resources
Retif Art
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Ultimo aggiornamento:
martedì 24 Giugno 2003
Visitatori dal
19/9/2001
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