Stacy Leeman is a gestural painter influenced by Abstract Expressionism and symbolism. She utilizes mark making and the juxtaposition of incongruous colors to create unified and absorbing images, while simultaneously developing a set of symbols in terms of colors, shapes, and underlying images.
Leeman’s paintings begin with an investigation sparked by a question or problem, often from a text, for example, traditional Jewish texts or A Room of One’s Own by Virginia Woolf. She mulls over these ideas in her studio using tools, paintbrushes, symbols, canvas, wood, panels, and pigments. She applies paint to the substrate through a series of additive and subtractive methods, while turning the canvas to continually discover and investigate. Leeman arrives at a solution through the creation of a set of symbols and colors.
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