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Luc Leestmaker featured in ARTNews, February 2009. Click here to read story.
Breaking
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Madison Gallery presents: 
Presents
The Intentional Artist Book Signing
and Tour
Tel. (204) 475-0483 (toll free 1-800-561-1833)
The Lineage Dance Board of Directors
is pleased to invite you to a gala event on the beautiful
terrace of the Pasadena Museum of California Art. Showcasing the grace and elegance
of Lineage Dance, the evening includes the world premiere of
Hilary Thomas’ newest dance, Breaking Through the
Canvas. Be amongst the first to see this collaboration
of cutting-edge dance inspired by the music of acclaimed composer
Vincent Ho and the renowned visual artist Luc Leestemaker. As
the evening unfolds, enjoy a gourmet meal with friends and
dance the night away under the stars. |
Luc Leestemaker: A Retrospective Hardbound cloth-wrapped book packaged in printed cardboard box. Introduced and edited by Peter Frank. Over 250 color plates spanning a period of 16 years. Essays and poems by the artist. Includes a DVD. Book:
DVD:
To order your copy, click here. |
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Luc Leestemaker: Limited Collector's Edition
To order your copy, click here. |
Charlie Haden Album Cover Artwork
Winner of the 2005 Grammy for "Best Contemporary Latin Jazz" Album of the year
The music CD "Land Of The Sun" by Charlie Haden; transcriptions of compositions by a number of Mexican composers, was recently released.
Famed jazz composer and musician,Charlie Haden, a collector of the artist's work, asked Leestemaker to listen to the recorded music, and create the artwork for the CD.
Land of the Sun (La Tierra del Sol. Charlie Haden, Gonzalo Rubalcaba). Verve / Universal 0249820825
Riverside Art Museum
Plein Air Abstraction
February - May 2008
Elizabeth Chandler, Luc Leestemaker, Joan Perlman, Janet Rosener,
Susan Sommer, Marie Thibeault, Gina Werfel.
Plein
Air Abstraction brings together the painting of seven American
artists who paint direct observation of nature. They paint
not what they see, but what they feel upon seeing it. Of the
seven painters, five live in southern California. Luc Leestemaker,
who was born in Holland, and now resides in the Hollywood Hills,
responds gesturally to the sea and mountains of southern California.
These painters follow in a tradition that not only descends
from the beginnings of abstraction but has produced some of
the monuments of modern art, among them Kandinsky's improvisations,
Mondrian's post-cubist geometries, O'Keeffe's luminous and
fluid images and De Koonings's dynamic depictions of urban
and rural space.
Peter Frank
Senior Curator
Banner
Estrella Medical Center, Phoenix, Arizona
Work was recently completed for the new Banner Estrella Medical Center, in Phoenix, Arizona. Unique in this project is the eye for detail in design and art.
Leestemaker was commissioned to create a 10 x 10 ft. painting for the lobby entrance, as well as 12 additional artworks installed in other areas throughout the building.
The project was executed by Tiffiny Lendrum, of Lendrum Fine Art, in Los Angeles.
Award Winning Composer Vincent Ho
Canadian composer Vincent Ho is currently writing a composition, inspired by paintings of Luc Leestemaker. The composer, who won the prestigious 2005 “Robert Fleming Prize” for most outstanding young Canadian Composer, and the 2004 ASCAP Foundation “Morton Gould Young Composer Award” for his composition “Dragon Realms” has now been commissioned by the Royal Conservatory to write a new composition based on and inspired by Leestemaker’s work, which will be performed at a number of art music festivals throughout China in 2006. Various concerts are planned for Canada and the US as well.
From notes by Vincent Ho to the artist:
"...I am so absolutely thrilled!
Your works have been wonderful inspirations for me. As a
consequence, I have just completed one movement of my piece
inspired by your painting, BIRDSONG No.9. When I initially
saw it, I felt a pervasion of youthful optimism; an energetic
lyricism colored by tastefully seasoned dissonances. For
some reason, I also saw the summation of one journey and
the re-awakening of an inner-child; like the end of one phase
and the re-embracement of long-lost one. As well, there is
a folkloric quality about it that adds to its rustic character.
For the music, I responded in a similar vein. The piece is
fast and energetic, built on Chinese folk rhythms and sonorities,
and seasoned with delicious dissonances to give it that added
excitement. It expresses a youthful energitic quality that
harkens an earlier musical period of mine; a period when
I still viewed music with a child-like sense of wonder and
excitement before the realities of life jaded my perspectives.
I can't wait for you to hear this...!"
MUSEUM RETROSPECTIVE
BAKERSFIELD MUSEUM
OF ART
A survey of fourteen years of expressionist and impressionist painting in America
February 26 - April 20, 2004
Please contact for more information.
WEST VALLEY ART MUSEUM
Scheduled Exhibition: August 6 – September 12, 2004
West
Valley Art Museum
17420 N. Avenue of the Arts
Surprise (Phoenix), AZ 85374
(623) 972-0635
Please contact Mr. David Tooker for more information.
