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Charlie Haden Album Cover ArtworkWinner 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 2005 Richard Wilbur Award The prestigious 2005 Richard Wilbur Award was given to Chelsea Rathburn, for her collection of poetry The Shifting Line, published by the University of Evansville Press. In a collaboration between the poet and the artist, Luc Leestemaker created the artwork for the cover of this exquisitely produced publication. Copies are available trough local bookstores nationwide or directly from the publisher at http://english.evansville.edu/ShiftingLineOrderForm.htm  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:
MUSEUM RETROSPECTIVE
BAKERSFIELD MUSEUM
OF ART Please contact for more information.
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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.
...Tradition weighs on Leestemaker's
and Erdman's minds, not to mention shoulders. They are dedicated
not just to artistic practice, but artistic discourse, and
do not just add to the number of objects in the world, but
make an argument for the spiritual and intellectual durability
of what they produce. For Erdman and Leestemaker, an artwork's
presence is justified as much by the history it inheres and
emotion it radiates as by the beauty and self-possession it
commands. Erdman's marbles and Leestemaker's oils are not props
in a gallery (much less images on a Website), they are resonant
concretions existing in the same material reality as their
observers. They don't simply look like art, they are art...
Saturday, June 7, 2008. 6 - 10 P.M. 
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.
"...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...!"
