Art Critic Peter Frank Lecture at The Madison Gallery in La Jolla

April 30, 2008 - PRLog -- Senior Riverside Art Museum Curator and Art Critic  Peter Frank will give a talk at Luc Leestemaker's opening reception. Frank has followed Leestemaker's art career since the early nineties and he has written a number of essays and reviews about the artist's work.

His talk will explore the placement of Leestemaker's paintings in the framework of both the 20th, and 21st Century Modern Masters.

BIO:

PETER FRANK is Senior Curator at the Riverside Art Museum, art critic for Angeleno magazine and the L. A. Weekly, and past editor of Visions art quarterly, and art critic for The Village Voice and The SoHo Weekly News in New York.

He moved to Los Angeles in 1988. Frank contributes articles to numerous publications and has written many monographs and catalogues to one person and group exhibitions. He has also organized many theme and survey shows for institutions throughout the world, has taught at colleges and universities on both coasts, and has lectured extensively all over North America and Europe. Among Frank’s books are Something Else Press: An Annotated Bibliography (McPherson & Co. Documentext); New, Used & Improved, an overview of the New York art scene co-written with Michael McKenzie (Abbeville Press); and a cycle of poems, The Travelogues (Sun & Moon Press).

Artist Bio:

Dutch-American artist Luc Leestemaker returns to Madison Gallery, with an exhibition titled “Earth Songs.”  Blending the brushstrokes, of 17th Century Dutch and British painters, and the long landscape tradition of his native country, with abstract compositions of the next generation American Abstract Expressionism, Leestemaker’s work evokes a surreal sense of familiarity and comfort.

The artist will be present at the opening reception to greet collectors, talk about his work, and sign copies of his latest 250 page hardcover book, published by Skylark Press.