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September Issue
2008
Charleston Artist Guild in Charleston,
SC, Features Works by Alicia Leeke
The Charleston Artist Guild in Charleston, SC, will present the exhibit, Coastal Inspirations, featuring works by South Carolina artist, Alicia Leeke, on view at the Charleston Artist Guild Gallery from Sept. 5 - 30, 2008.
Using the term she coined for a new era of art, called "Fabaism," Leeke offers her personal interpretations of Charleston and transforms familiar scenes into modern-day masterpieces. This new body of work focuses on the impact color and abstraction has on landscape painting. The artist's love of the coast extends back into early childhood where family vacations were spent exploring the woods, dunes and tides of South Carolina's coast.
Called a Contemporary Master, Leeke's creativity
is inspired by the French Salon painters and how they captured
history, social conscience and architecture by painting the people
and environments surrounding them.
Complementing each painting is a robust combination of dry brush
painting techniques to create texture. She manipulates acrylics
to capture the thick rich texture of oils and mixes a palette
full of rich reds, vibrant oranges, shocking blues and sharp white
accents.
Leeke's gentle distortions of linear perspective are a fundamental element to the overall design of her creations and are a necessary ingredient in the composition of her pieces. In fact, they create such a positive visual response that many viewers want to step inside each painting.
For further information check our SC Institutional
Gallery listings, call the Guild at 843/722-2454 or visit (www.charlestonartistguild.com).
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