Leslie Bender
Artist Statement
My work for the last 30 years has involved commissioned portraiture, theater backdrops, public and private murals, and educational programs - both classroom teaching and project leadership through work with groups. But the main body of my work - paintings, drawings, prints and sketches - has concerned situations and ideas that are supercharged with life energy and have drawn me like a magnet from the day I first picked up a paintbrush. These include the edge of the ocean, social interactions, the symphony orchestra, the symbolic power and grace of horses, and the many implications of allegory, dream and myth. In each, I invest my passions, my intuition and whatever knowledge and experience I have gained to fulfill the purpose of the artist in any society --i.e. to interpret our individual and communal life experience and to reach towards expressing universal and spiritual truths.
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Arguing, The Twins Isolated Themselves 2005 |
Man About Town |
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Blue Waltz 2008 |
Gift of the Father 1996 |
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Hot Stuff 2006 |
Along the Sea 2006 |
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Beach Abstract 2001 |
Beach Nudes |
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Frolicking Along the Jersey Shore |
Rainbow Umbrella 2007 |
