Dec 122015
 

leonbenn

 

If you are headed to Culver City, make sure to check out Leon Benn’s painting exhibit Spare Time at Roberts & Tilton gallery.

His process for creating these paintings is especially interesting.

From the press release

The surfaces are slowly built up through varying layers, dimensions, demands. Benn starts his paintings by selecting canvas, which he then treats and hand dyes prior to starting batik applied through a water-based resist. Drawings utilizing oil pastels breaches the structure left from the underlying batik motif. The results are phantasmagoric paint-scapes that explore imagistic transference of natural imagery to a static commercial medium.

This show closes 12/12/15