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| Galleries Bumbley.com The most complete selection is at this online gallery. 1-800-353-2232 Click here to see a variety of John Leben's work. Lake Effect Gallery 54 West Eighth Street Holland, Michigan 49423 616-395-3025 website MaryAl Studio 3488 64th Street Saugatuck, MI 49453 269-857-3220 website Button/ Petter Gallery 161 Blue Stary Hwy Douglas, MI 49406 269-857-7861 website Les Sirenes Galerie D'Art 338 Main Street Frankfort, MI 49635 231-352-7640 website Art de Triumph Gallery 2936 N. Clark Street Chicago, IL 60657 773-832-4038 website Red Door Gallery 310 W. Ludington Ave. Ludington, MI 49431 231-392-4709 website The Peoria Art Guild 203 Harrison Street. Peoria, IL 61602 309-637-2787 website |
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Artist's Statement
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Silent Stairways
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| The landscapes on this website are paintings that I created in my Macintosh computer. So, I guess I'm a digital artist... a difficult designation to explain. Using the computer as an art medium is still pretty new in the fine art world. Misconceptions abound about "digital artists." It is true that a computer program is capable of turning a photograph into a what looks like an oil painting at the touch of a button. Indeed, I have a computer program called "Painter" that has a Van Gogh filter, and it actually gives photos the look of Van Gogh's wild brushwork. Its fun, but its not art. My digital paintings are not created by the computer. They are created with the computer as a tool, by me. Each painting takes a month or more to create. For this series, the original images (the printing plates) are digital files residing in my Macintosh computer. Each line and each color are meticulously applied layer by layer with digital pen or mouse much like a traditional printmaker would scratch lines and textures with a stylus on copper for etching plates. But the pictures, not the technique, are the stars of this show. I’ve been working digitally for many years in an effort to capture the unique qualities of both the Michigan ande Florida landscape. The stairs, I've learned, are one of Michigan's most unique features, so I paint stairs. But I also paint the sea, the boats, the harbors... and, for fun, a scene or two from my imagination. It is my hope that some of these pictures will evoke in the viewer the same feelings of nostalgia and mystery that they do in me. John Leben |
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| I've been walking the beaches of Western Michigan for over 20 years, admiring the dunes and the sea and sometimes contemplating the long, meandering stairways people build from their homes down to the beach. But its only recently that I've chosen to focus on these unique stairways as a subject for my work. I still don't know exactly what it is that grabs me about these stairways. They seem to hold a secret memory of anticipation, storing every footfall in their wooden steps from every family that ventures down for a day at the beach. It's the nostalgia of carefree summer fun, but also the mystery of strangers never met. And the houses... Who lives there? Where do they come from? Where are they now? Empty houses, most of them. Summer houses, vacant, waiting for the next family. The stairs, silent, brooding, except in summer months when footsteps, young and old echo up and down these old treads. John Leben |
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