My paintings find a harmony between the urban and the pastoral: the man-made and the natural. Most recently I’ve drawn inspiration from my surroundings in the borough of the Bronx, a place where city and country often mingle. My paintings often depict singular people, sometimes heroic in scale. They are set against the backdrop of a mix of the urban and natural, yet are seen immersed within it. They serve as our guides to the world of the painting. I find motifs in the immediate environment where I live, and from places culled from my memory: the color of a woman’s shirt in the intense afternoon sun; a dog silhouetted against a green lawn; a viaduct’s arch. I combine these elements not to illustrate a story, but to create refuge from the disorder of the urban experience as well as from the chaos of nature. For inquiries, please contact me via email. |Home| |paintings | |bio| EDUCATION     1992 Indiana University, Bloomington, IN, BFA 1990 Indiana University Program in Florence, Italy     PROFESSIONAL ACTIVITY     2001 Visiting artist, Marywood University, Scranton, Pennsylvania 1999-2001 Teaching Assistant of Lithography, Columbia University     EXHIBITIONS     2008 “Small Works Exhibition,” 80 Washington Square East Galleries, New York 2005 “Dido and Aeneas,” Stage design for opera, Greenwich Music Festival, Greenwich, Connecticut 2002 “Book Show,” Neiman Gallery, Columbia University, New York 2001 “Gatherings,” Solo exhibition of paintings, prints, and artist books, Interchurch Center, New York 2000 “Object of My Desire,” Neiman Gallery, Columbia University, New York 1999 Kochi International Triennial Exhibition of Prints, Kochi Prefecture, Japan 1990 “Leonard Anderson Selects”, First Street Gallery, New York