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Welcome to the Fine Art of Don De Leva
My paintings are based on intuition, shape and color. I am fascinated by how color creates shapes, lines create depth and how together they create a composition that crystalizes in front of me. I coax the image into realization and have a 2 way dialog with image never knowing how the final piece will turn out.
I have been creating art for the last 25 years, during this time have have crossed the gambit of painting, printing, and drawing. I have created work in numerous styles, Photo-realism, Surrealism, Pop Surrealism, Futurism, Abstract Expressionism, Abstract and Suprematism. Slowly, over the years I have eliminated and kept elements of each style. Since since Art History has played a great role in my art I have come to a point in my career that my interests are starting to come together.
I received my MFA from Bradley University in Illinois 1992 and an BFA from the University of the Pacific in California 1987.
I have been exhibiting my work regularly in the Northwest since 1992. Recently have started to enter shows outside of Washington State, Portland, San Francisco, Los Angelos, New York and Chicago.
Statement:
'Joseph Beuys repeatedly said that his art was intended to arouse in other people a "spiritual response," and it was his role to provide "the means to point out that the human being is a creative being." Perhaps he could have made his messages more clear, but for Beuys, "Art is not there to provide knowledge in direct ways. It produces deepened perceptions of experience. . . . Art is not there to be simply understood, or we would have no need of art.". '
-Emily Rekow, Walker Art Center Department of Education and Community Programs
When I was young I had a very hard time differentiating between reality and dreaming.
Visions would over shadow reality so much that I would become confused between what was physical and
what was hallucination. From age 16 thru 35, I decided to record these visions as best I could, to help me understand them. but I never found
any answers, so I stopped trying to assign meaning to them, If there are deeper messages in my work, I don't lay claim to them. They are the
property of the viewer.
De Leva
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