Leslie Zelamsky

"Leftovers", abstract, dark colors, mixed media, oil, painting

2015

“What Remains?” is a mixed media painting by Leslie Zelamsky. Its neutral color palette and lush surface have an earthy quality. The three dimensional ...

Leslie Zelamsky's "Point of Departure 2" is a 42 x 42 x 2.75 inch mixed-media painting on wood panel. This abstract painting contains an assortment of ...

Leslie Zelamsky's "Point of Departure 6" is a 65.5 x 44 x 2.75 inch mixed-media painting on wood panel. The surface of this ethereal abstract piece arr...

Ayeka is a mixed media painting that includes the use of stain, tar and oil paint. The neutral, rich palette of grey and black evolves from adding and removing layers of paint. The s...

Leslie Zelamsky's "Four by Four" is a 33 x 33.5 inch mixed media painting on 16 connected 8 x 8 inch wood panels. Each individual square contains a sed...

Leslie Zelamsky's “Point of Departure” is a 42 x 42 x 2.75 inch mixed-media painting on wood panel. The surface of this bold abstraction contains broad...

The Forgotten America. Mixed Media oil paint, tar, gravel. metal, resin on wood panel artist unique style and technic, the frame is part of the artwork. Randi Grantham...

Painted on deep-profile gallery-wrapped canvas, comes ready to hang. Artist's Statement: "A new take on an earlier series of paintings I did called "Aggregate," this time with fewe...

Artist's Statement: "This painting harkens back to a series called "Gridish" that I created over the past couple of years, comprising similar rectangular shapes with complex surfaces incorporating tar, house paint, enamel safety paint and other materials. Here, though, the forms are isolated in negative space rather than stacked in a grid, which gives them a more iconic quality." “Lyman’s work evolves restlessly, with the common elements generally being deft and unusual color choices that balance assonance and dissonance, and vestiges of the hand and facture purposely left in the paintings. The negative space is often so meticulously worked that it’s almost as if the objects – usually simple shapes – are there as much to complement the background as vice versa. Despite the often bold colors there is an elegance about his paintings that prevents them from being either loud or decorative. " Artbeit Zeitschrift “His paintings are a refreshing departure from the current abstract art world’s seemingly endless parade of fields of color with scribbles providing form, a style that is easily mimicked and has become a sort of “safe,” accessible go-to. There are confident decisions in these paintings appearing as commitments of strongly delineated forms and unexpected collisions of color that give the work a visceral, confident and playful soul, increasingly missing from contemporary expressionist abstraction. They are the paintings of a real painter rather than a decorative artist.” ArtSeen, 2018 (from a collector): "Love your work. We collect colorists like Wolf Kahn and Jennifer Bartlett, whom I commissioned a piece from that is in the entrance of Mayo Clinic. We are old fans...

A large and imposing painting from the recent series combining tar with oil and acrylic, a painting using a limited palette to powerful effect. There are echoes of Robert Motherwell ...

Artist's Statement "This is a painting I made in the 90's, before my forms became more biomorphic. I was exploring simple geometric forms but with extremely complex surfaces, using ...

From the recent series combining tar with oil and acrylic, a painting using a limited palette to powerful effect. Artist's statement: "After a period of making big, colorful acrylic...