Brian Leo

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showed up on time or late
but held the door and dropped some cups in the receptacle
and was totally  down with the level of professionalism
everyone had committed to
as always
evryone is committed
jon stewart with the fluorescent red "couch" painting next to his head!

ate some chips
saw that movie slumdog mill...
painted a sketch of the taj mahal

Brian Leo's new exhibition, Brian Leo is Every Soldier in the World, on view at the Leo Kesting Gallery, is what happens when one of New York's most recognizable young artists mixes popular imagery, global terror and irony, with a twist of Day-Glo surrealism. The title of the show references Facebook and its personal updates which contrast the mundane to the illuminative. 

For Brian Leo, these new works present "a cavalcade of images in mass that show deep events of cultural significance flanked by bizarre moments of personal experience." In one painting entitled, Commemorative Plates (4'x5', mixed media, 2009), a haunting image of carnage is depicted in the form of a flayed Wall Street Bull. In Fresh Flesh (3'x4', mixed media, 2009), viewers are forced to contemplate how the Internet porn industry is no longer a sideshow to the mainstream and that it is bigger than major league sports and perhaps Hollywood in The U.S.A..

"What New Yorker hasn't stopped, frozen in fear at the sight of a low-flying aircraft? " asks gallerist John Leo. "All that harsh medicine needs a sweet chaser of humor. Amen for cats masturbating with dust busters." The painting, Cat with Dustbuster, invites viewers to  consider utilitarianism, domestic settings, and most importantly sex disorder, which has been recently brought to light through mass media coverage of actor David Duchovny.

Leo Kesting Gallery invites you to attend the opening night reception for Brian Leo is Every Soldier in the World on Saturday, March 7 from 7:00 to 10:00 pm. The exhibition runs until March 29.

Brian Leo has exhibited in Tokyo, Chicago, Miami, Los Angeles, and galleries throughout New York City. He was also noted in the July 29, 2007 issue of The New York Times and the April 2006 Brooklyn Rail Armory Review. He holds a B.F.A. from Rutgers/ Mason Gross School of Arts.

Leo Kesting Gallery launched in 2003 and developed an aggressive campaign to introduce new figurative artists to collectors and art supporters. Leo Kesting offers the art viewing public an opportunity to see forthcoming talents in an intimate setting where undiscovered, cutting-edge artists are presented to the contemporary art scene.

Leo Kesting Gallery is located at 812 Washington Street at the corner of Gansevoort in Manhattan's Meat Packing District. A, C, E or L train to 8th Ave and 14th Street or 1, 2, 3 train to 14th Street. Gallery hours are Tuesday to Sunday from 11am until 7pm.

brian has been exhibitng a deluge of up to 500 smalll paintings at shows for a while, but it it is at this moment that he has started to select certain imagery and blown them to the scale of 4'x6'. 

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about mozart recently
and NN afterwards
Wwhy do you like this feeling?)
Why are you thinking about a free barbecue grill promoting shopping mall ... uncooked, dark meat chicken quarter from 1986,


I know why..
Because in the Audi a song played called Amedeuos


could it be
and who were you with

and up late as always in NYC

LeoKesting Gallery is proud to present Brian's 5th exhibition here! The show  entitled, "Brian is every soldier in the world" parodies the timeliness gift and ridiculous misfortune  of facebook omniprescence. The title, in flux, references the pop surrealist objects of jettison/meditation in Brian's paintings.

"When you come to the gallery, you"ll be surprised to see 10 large scale works by Brian, which reference cats masturbating with dust busters, Slash from Gun's N' Roses with Abraham Lincoln's Bible, Obama's eye under a flayed Wall Street Bull, Google Pornography, China as police of the world, and Britta filters filtering oil", says gallery director John Leo.
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Dave Kesting notes that for an artist who painted The Korean Dictator, Kim Jong Il smoking Angelie Jolie's lips and to have been written up as an event to be attended on flavorpill.com., means that Brian fits right in with controversial artists that we exhibit such as, Daniel Edwards.

Brian Leo adresses culture, politics, and American identity. He exhibits a cavalcade of images en masse that show deep events of cultural significance flanked by bizarre moments of his personal experience.
 Leo's setting is an imaginary place where a sense of wonder and innocence prevails.  We see the inhabitants of this magical realm as if through the eyes of a child; poeticallly imagined, yet charged with symbolic meaning. His use of whimsical subject matter and bright colors provide a flashlight and sense of hope, which makes this often dark content seem less so.