NYAB Event - Inaugural Exhibition

Inaugural Exhibition

Jeffrey Leder Gallery

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“Our Inaugural Exhibit is conceived and curated to illustrate our aesthetic approach and commitment to foster a creative space for artists, collectors, collaborators and the general public to interact,” Director Jeffrey Leder said. “It is our philosophy that art serves to establish community, linking each of us to each other and to that which is around us.”
Jeffrey Leder Gallery has chosen to open with these five exceptionally talented artists because of their internal commitment to their art, to learning, and to their creative passion:

Charles Marburg’s unique artwork is an exploration of shape and spatial relationships. His approach often dictates the culmination of each piece, with the resulting works evoking personal stories that express an unconscious dialogue. His goal in this is to “be more sensitive to my creative process, and hopefully better able to question my own underlying assumptions about subject matter.” No piece is finished until it possesses “a hint of the sublime” that connects the viewer, the artist and the subject matter.

Leigh Wen’s paintings express her personal and cultural histories. Having grown up on the island of Taiwan, she has a deep affinity for the elemental power of water and the forces of nature. “My working method is a process of subtraction from darkness to light.” Now living in America, Wen feels the ebb and flow of competing cultures. The ancient philosophies of her homeland, which teach self-discipline and selflessness, collide and mingle with Western notions
of ego, alienation, and desire.

Vincent Inconiglios’ painting, drawing and collage works have their origins in observation and emotion. In his recent series, “Gansevoort Girls,” form and theme function in parallel to communicate an emotional story. While specific to subject, time, and place, Inconiglios believes the structural logic in his work is simply about formal relationships. He enjoys the spontaneity and directness of the collage process, exploring additive, reductive, chance, and change properties that arise when disparate elements come together to surprise and form powerful images.

Donna Levinstone’s pastel landscapes concern themselves more with a spirit of place than an actual place. They don't describe a specific location or place as much as they strive to create an essence of light and atmosphere. Levinstone’s current work is centered around the relationships between tranquility and volatility, the ethereal and the earthly, light and dark, and night and day. Through the reflected light in her atmospheric drawings, Levinstone invites the viewer to explore the duality of what is permanent in our world and what is ever changing in it.

Wilfredo Chiesa’s paintings reflect his deeply spiritual process, which results in brightly energetic, moving works. Profoundly engaged with the “metaphysical nature of painting,” Chiesa’s studio approach is very much about process — “the act of creating expands and multiplies the experience of living.” Almost primal in their simplicity, Chiesa’s works have a deceptive complexity and elegance of emotion.

Media

• Painting
• Drawing
• Photography
• Other

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