LEONARD KOSCIANSKI

Leonard Koscianski was born in Cleveland, Ohio. A student of R. Buckminster Fuller, and noted American painter Wayne Theibaud, he received his Bachelor’s degree from the Cleveland Institute of Art and his Master’s degree from the University of California, Davis.

An American painter, with a unique visionary style, he has exhibited his psychologically charged artwork worldwide.  He is represented by the Meisel Gallery in New York, and the J Willott Gallery in California.

His artwork is included in many public and private collections like the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York, the Philadelphia Museum, and the Chicago Art Institute.   It has appeared in the New York Times, the Los Angeles Times, Art News, Art in America, and Art Forum.

A popular professor and speaker, he has received numerous awards including the National Endowment for the Art’s Individual Artist Fellowship, and the Rockefeller Foundation’s Bellagio Fellowship.  He lives and works in Annapolis, Maryland where he is a member of the city’s Art in Public Places Commission.

LK_Bend-In-The-Road
Bend in the Road is a painting done in oils on canvas. It is medium in size, and surreal in style. It’s surrealism comes mainly from a forced perspective that distorts, and creates a curved space. The viewer starts off looking down at the foreground houses, and trees, then gradually looks straight out at the distant hills in the background. There is a change in time that parallels the change in space. It’s morning in the foreground, but still night in the background. The runners and birds convey the gradual passage of time. 
LK_Nocturne-in-Blue_On-Thin-Ice
On Thin Ice is a medium size painting in oil on canvas. It is composed primarily of blues. Most of the colours range from green blues to purple blues. It is a suburban winter scene with a skater on thin ice. Growing up on a pond we were always eager for the ice to form in the winter. We would test it when it was still pretty thin by slowly walking out on the pond, listening for cracks. The most dangerous time was in early spring when the ice would thaw unevenly creating thin spots and dangerous holes.n

LK_SuburbanTriptych

LK_The-New-Day_
The New Day is a medium size painting using oil paint on linen canvas. It is painted from the imagination. The subject is an organic, dreamlike re-creation of my morning run. It is Post Modern, and Surreal in style, and is influenced by Wayne Thiebaud, Grant Wood, Edward Hopper, and the Scene Painters of the American Midwest. It is also related in style to the now forgotten, Cleveland School of art, a group of Modern artists and designers that were loosely clustered around the Cleveland Institute of Art, from which I graduated.
LK_The-Skater
The Skater is a medium size painting, in oils on canvas. The overall whiteness and blue of the colours is intended to create the sense of winter. The style is surreal. In the tradition of American Primitive Art, it is based on a childhood memory. Having grown up on a pond in suburban Cleveland, I enjoyed ice skating in the winter, especially skating at night under the moon. The space is curved, the viewer looks down at the foreground and straight out at the surrounding neighbourhood. The house in the lower left is reminiscent of my childhood home.

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