Leonhard Lalevga

The Color of Motion
January 2 - January 23, 2007

Reception: Thursday January 4, 2007 6-8 PM

Press Release

Lalevga derives his inspiration from the grains, cracks and buckles within the flats of wood on which he paints. Standing before the wood panel, Lalevga will "expose, dig, stroke, injure, cut, carve, [and] bore into the wood." He shapes his colors like a sculptor, engaging in a personal archaeology, which yields paintings made of shreds of color reigned in by line, or framed by painterly bursts of geometric shapes. The works certainly bear witness to his dramatic description. The paintings, most of which are more than seven feet in length, eventually become several layers of color "similar to emotions which are removed and built up again." His paintings are a personal history, but also an exploration of the creative moment, of which the artist is, at times, an observer. The works are given Roman numerals for names, as Lalevga believes that to name a piece is to impose a restriction upon it for the viewer. Lalevga's paintings come into existence via the artist's intense dialogue with himself through the medium, and it is through that dialogue that we become participants.

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