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The West
Never Left.
Figures on the edge. A world in transition. Painted with spontaneity

The Work

Things Aren't What They Appear

 

There's always something happening at the edges of a Gabe Leonard painting. A figure you can't quite read. A sky that's doing more than weather. The world burning softly behind someone who isn't looking back.

"I like to discover what I'm doing as I go. Being too deliberate causes the work to go flat — emotionally flat."

The paintings live somewhere between Western myth and fever dream — a cinematic, pre-apocalyptic landscape, The quiet right before something shifts. The figures aren't posing for paintings. Abstraction is doing most of the talking, we feel it.

Comedy on the cusp of tragedy. The feeling is the point. Spare us the details.