About
LEO FUCHS; Artist Statement and Biography
What my art is, and is not about!
My Art is NOT personal, it is NOT about my own psycho-emotional state or feeling. Also my work is NOT about contemporary social or political issues in the world of temporal experience. I do NOT seek to create didactic images that move the viewer to action or revulsion. Nor do I create images of desire through a depiction of genre scenes of daily life.
My Art is about creating mythic imagery for our time, but the reference is tosomething greater beyond our sense perception. It is to create visual metaphors that bring echoes of perennial truths in to our contemporary consciousness. It is to render visible, the underlying meaning and purpose of humanity as is revealed by the new tools of knowledge, understanding, and perception. It is to take that which is archetypal and sacred in our shared humanity and bring the essence forward to perceive its meaning in the continuum of life as a universal intent for the evolution of consciousness.
My Art is about allowing perception to ascend between the pairs of opposites,( space and time ) and bring the viewer to the still point of aesthetic arrest, where the inner and outer worlds meet. Where we can transcend temporal experience and glimpse a higher order of consciousness which underlies and informs all life in the universe.
LEO FUCHS has continued to create and exhibit art throughout California in many group and solo shows. Leo has taught drawing, painting, design, and art philosophy at major colleges and universities. Leo is also known for his many many public lectures on “The True and Final Meaning of Art” as well as “ Human Creative Intelligence for Life ”. Leo has also appeared on numerous radio and television shows, and has published dozens of articles on art education, creative development, and right brain intelligence.