12/08/2015
Daniel Leonard
Website: https://www.behance.net/dpowers1b2af
Thirteen international emerging artists based in New York City come together under a theme of Sexuality and Strangers.
LEUT consists of members, Nikki Codis, Allison Flamberg, Bonnie Jiang, SEOYOUNG KIM, Daniel Leonard, Natalie Ochoa, Sa Peng, Jimmy Tagliaferri, Claudia Thuleweit, ZAZI vitsara, Ece Yalcin, Hilo Yamash*ta, and Li Yao.
12/08/2015
Daniel Leonard
Website: https://www.behance.net/dpowers1b2af
12/08/2015
Sa Peng
Website: www.pengsa.co
Oil painting is the primary language I speak. Through my paintings, I tell my own stories. This language is subconscious and intuitive, yet it still manages to articulate the state of my surroundings. My work in the beginning, was inspired by Impressionism by artists including Manet,Monet,Degas, Van Gogh, Valadon and more, Then I became interested in the work of Mattisee,Bacon, Freud, de Kooning, Alex Katz, etc. In my paintings, I create my view of worlds that are reflections of my reality. I draw on my personal memories, emotions, and experiences; transferring them on flat canvases, playing with brushstrokes, colors and compositions. I treat the figures in my compositions as residents in my imaginary worlds and allow them to develop organically on their own. This process allows me to create a work free of any predetermined expectations, with the final product an unexpected visual expression of my stream of consciousness. Throughout the creative process, my sole intent is to capture an expansive environment where my imagination and self-reflections are preserved and nurtured. For certain pieces, such as “Seven Deadly Sins”, I consciously elect to enlarge figure’s size, so that the viewers feel they are seeing some strong human bodies play around in a frontal plane rather than observing them from afar. My Drawing and Printmaking primarily serve as studies for my paintings. My painting focuses on the human body, painted in various poses and movements, often surrounded by small objects that interest me.
12/08/2015
Ece Yalcin
Website: www.eceyalcin.com
12/08/2015
Natalie Ochoa
Web Site: http://ochoanatalie.com/
My art is an extension of who I am. It exposes the layers of my inner core, my childish ambition, defiance of structure, and growing curiosity to understand my world, and pulls it out to the forefront in thick textures. It is a snapshot of my mood. A reflection of myself. My music. My people. My spirit.
12/08/2015
Hilo Yamash*ta
Web Site: http://www.hyamash*ta.com/
My work is about capturing humanity from the perspective of cultural anthropology. Often, it comes from daily routines, which include both interactions with others, as well as activities most people engage in. In addition, my work can reflect Japanese conventions, ceremonial behaviors and folklore, having roots in Shintoism, Buddhism, and Confucianism. Through the subject matter, I observe various relationships between man and something that involves to him, such as other people, a home, animals, a memory, or how he sees himself in his society. Many images I create are composed of a group of marks and lines, and they are drawn as if they are alive with various intension and different characters, and correlating with each other. This enables to produce the symbiosis of the entities.
12/08/2015
Li Yao
Web Site: http://cargocollective.com/liyaostudio
Exploring absurdity beneath the ordinary, the cracks on the surface of our subjective reality; ART is to give forms and names to nothingness.
11/12/2015
LEUT NYC Art Group Presenting "Impulses"