Leslie Andelin 'Urban Abstractions' Fine Art Opening
Organization:
Avenue 12 Gallery
Category:
Visual Arts
Geographical Area:
San Francisco
Start
Date:
12/11/2016
End Date:
12/11/2016
Start Time:
5:00 PM
End Time:
7:00 PM
Event
Info:
Avenue 12 Gallery, located in San Francisco's Lake Street neighborhood, is the City's newest contemporary art gallery. The inaugural exhibition features Leslie Adelin: Urban Abstractions. Join us for the opening Sunday December 11 noon to 7pm. Leslie will be here 5pm to 7pm.
These latest paintings, large oils on canvas, are sweeping immersive abstractions of iconic maps of San Francisco. At once an emotional ode to the city and an aerial perspective that transcends time and distance, these layered complex works draw us into the feelings and life that the city represents.
While Leslie's paintings explore the patterns and repetitions of nature, cities, landscapes, her true subjects have always been light and emotion. Both her representational work, which often guides viewers toward a specific emotion, and her abstract work, which strives to elicit emotions directly, are first and foremost about states of mind.
Leslie Andelin: "Painting the cities is a way of bringing everything back together - to express that we are in fact part of this planet, that we do belong here. If I can take something I see and single out what makes it beautiful to me, then I'm resonating with something around me the feeling is one of belonging there. Once I really started looking at San Francisco, I became very attracted to the weather, the light, the fog...these imparted a sense of belonging, of peace. That started me on a path to finding a way to paint that emotion itself, rather than painting the physical images that elicited it or the entire balance in which that emotion fit. The city became just a structure into which I could start putting the elements of emotional conveyance the light and emotions and contrasts. Of course to do that, one still has to start by unraveling the complex abstraction of it all. You have to try to understand how all those little marks ultimately say 'city,' or 'downtown,' or 'houses'. At this point I feel like I have achieved a vocabulary for that."
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