Marc Leavitt
I enjoy developing and returning to multiple series to expand my material approach to abstract painting. My multilayered works reflect a visual investigation regarding flowers, figuration, literal text, collected images, signs, symbols, and music.
As each artwork is developed, color represents an overriding concern—with particular excitement occurring when color relationships offer problems that require continual exploration, layering, and refinement. Building up surfaces, including using predetermined “random” colors that seem “wrong” in relation to other colors and forms in a painting, I then spend weeks in the studio to pursue making artworks “right” as objects of aesthetic beauty. ~Marc Leavitt
As each artwork is developed, color represents an overriding concern—with particular excitement occurring when color relationships offer problems that require continual exploration, layering, and refinement. Building up surfaces, including using predetermined “random” colors that seem “wrong” in relation to other colors and forms in a painting, I then spend weeks in the studio to pursue making artworks “right” as objects of aesthetic beauty. ~Marc Leavitt
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Garden Series oil on canvas
Garden Meditation Series acrylic and enamel on paper
Eight of Marc's paintings were featured in Architectural Digest November 2006 issue in a German venture capitalist's Boston home. Three works shown here from left, Shasta Daisy 72''x 72'' Reflected Water 48''x 48'' and Pop Objects (flag) 48''x 60."
