Distinction Gallery: Escondido, CA

Distinction Gallery, Escondido, CA

Distinction Gallery · Escondido, CA

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Distinction Gallery has called downtown Escondido home since 2004, championing cutting-edge, figurative work by highly skilled artists for collectors around the world. Distinction has represented Gabe Leonard since 2005, and his solo shows remain among the most anticipated events every year

The works shown here are available through Distinction. To see a piece in person or ask about availability, reach out to the gallery anytime.

No hope and change | Distinction Gallery

Distinction Gallery | Sept 2026
  • NO HOPE - Vote Plissken
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    Gabe Leonard
    NO HOPE - Vote Plissken , 2026
    oil on linen
    37x22 inches
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  • Do You Hear That?
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    Gabe Leonard
    Do You Hear That?, 2026
    oil on canvas
    24x18 inches
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  • Pretty Far From Ok
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    Gabe Leonard
    Pretty Far From Ok, 2026
    oil on canvas
    22x28 inches
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  • STFU Donnie
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    Gabe Leonard
    STFU Donnie, 2026
    oil on canvas
    12.5x20 inches
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  • Serpico
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    Serpico
    Oil on canvas
    36x22
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  • Eternal Sunshine
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    Gabe Leonard
    Eternal Sunshine
    oil on canvas
    11x14 inches
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  • Lemmy
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    Gabe Leonard
    Lemmy , 2026
    oil on canvas
    11x14 inches
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  • Call Me Snake
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    Gabe Leonard
    Call Me Snake, 2026
    oil on panel
    7x5 inches
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  • Mr. Blonde
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    Gabe Leonard
    Mr. Blonde
    Oil on canvas
    30x24 inches
    $ 9,250.00
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  • Distinction Gallery / artist reception Sept 26 No Hope and Change New paintings, an homage to our shared cultural experinces...

    Distinction Gallery  /  artist reception Sept 26

    No Hope and Change

    New paintings, an homage to our shared cultural experinces captured in cinema. Some things become more relevant with time, some things just ryhme. 

    The night also brings live music and open studios. Plot Armor, a new bar on site, will have a live DJ spinning albums. I heard Stuntman Mike will be there!

    Gabe will be at the gallery, avialble for public beatings and hand embellishing collectors pieces live on September 26,

    Opening  [Sept 12, 6pm-10pm]
    Second reception  Sept 26, [6pm-9pm]
    [317 E Grand Ave, Escondido, CA 92025]

  • New Work

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    Unique editions from the current body of work, produced in the artist's studio

  • New Releases

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    Respawn, [ree-spawn] | verb
    Respawn studio proof 48"x30 inches

    Respawn

    [ree-spawn] | verb

    (of a character or item in a video game) to reenter an existing game environment at a fixed point after having been defeated or otherwise removed from play.

     

    Every path eventually reaches its conclusion. We come to find there’s nowhere left to go but down. An ending, a brief intermission, back to scheduled programming already in progress.

     

    Nobody cares where you came from except the people who are still there

     

    Nobody cares where you’re going or what you’ve done since except you


    We all came from here

     

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  • Welcome to town · Edition of 75 No More Half Measures 'The world's burning behind him. Maybe he destroyed it,...
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    Welcome to town · Edition of 75

    No More
    Half Measures

     

    "The world's burning behind him. Maybe he destroyed it, maybe he's just coming through it. But this is a rebirth into something new. Everything else is old and burning away."

    "...don't go halfway with things. No half measures. You commit to it. You go forward and you don't look back."

    "I modeled the horse after a Friesian: big, powerful, jet-black. The power is what I wanted. He's got a self-assuredness about him... He knows what he's doing."

     

  • Welcome To Town · Edition of 75 - 7 studio proofs Stay to the End 'There's contrasting elements: this menacing...
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    Welcome To Town · Edition of 75 - 7 studio proofs

    Stay to
    the End

     
    "There's contrasting elements: this menacing and dark character and then the softness of the flowers and white roses. I painted this after my cat of 15 years passed away and I watched him die of kidney disease. 'Stay to the end' was what that meant. His ears are silhouetted in here."

    Grief is something we all go through. It feels like you're in a different timeline where the world is moving on without you and nothing stops. But we stay to the end for those that we love. Out of the death and the hurt, new things come up.

  • Welcome to Town · Edition of 75 Time Has No Meaning Around Here 'The title comes from a dream. I...
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    Welcome to Town · Edition of 75

    Time Has No Meaning
    Around Here

     

    "The title comes from a dream. I was in the little town I grew up in in Wyoming and I got commandeered by someone. I watched just one atrocity happen after the other. At some point I ended up in a lounge, talking to one of the characters. I said, 'This was a ghost town a couple years ago.' He looked me square in the eye and said, 'Time has no meaning around here.' Then I woke up."

    "I already had this idea for a train painting from a morning in Alaska, going out to fish. Misty and foggy, the sun rising through the fog. It occurred to me that the light looked like a train coming through the mist. A big steam train in a river, in the middle of nowhere. Rusted out. Like a world that's gone. But the light on the train is still lit. Like it could come back to life."

    "There are no hands on the clock face. Who knows what time it is."

  • The Work

    A Selection Across
    the Collections

     

    Twenty-five years of painting. This is a cross-section of what's available to collect.