ABOUT
Leigh Ann Tischler grew up and studied art in the New York metropolitan area. From beginnings rooted in her childhood, Leigh Ann’s work has been and continues to be an outlet for both pleasure and pain. She has dedicated her life to developing and nurturing her insatiable passion for painting and sculpture into a unique abstract expressionistic style all her own.
Leigh Ann works in varied mediums from traditional oil painting techniques, acrylic and watercolor – to sculptural construction pieces made of many elements in combination with the paint.
She creates artwork with a visual pulse that reveals a vital world seen through her eyes.
Meet Leigh Ann
I love to explore the nature and juxtaposition of objects and the tension they generate as they morph into each other with a fused energy. I am traversing the contradictions between symbolic elements that represent both personal and universal experiences. My anxieties and convictions are incorporated with these physical elements in what I hope design undaunted visual statements. There are no accidents in the work but there are many experiments with different approaches to all of the ingredients and how they interact with each other.
I have struggled with the subjectivity and objectivity of the works. There has to be a combination of both sides of the brain. What your emotions and instincts force your hands to create along with what is considered or taught to be great compositions and use of color. Is there really a right or wrong? Do we as individuals just know what we like and gravitate too?
I am often labeled a sculptor instead of a painter but like Frank Stella, I prefer to think of it as “physically shaping or building the surface on which I paint. “
The watercolors are representations of organic, figurative, and geometric forms that transform into unrecognizable illusions.
My constructions are acrylic on mixed assemblage structures. I strive to integrate organic and man-made materials mixed with other elements that will release fearless and provocative energies to the viewer. Every object, its placement and each color has a purpose and a meaning. A branch is an artery that feeds life. It may appear to be wire, but it is hair. The mussels are organic emblems for strength. The viewer may or may not understand the symbolism of each as I have presented them, but I hope a connection is made and that these metaphorical elements trigger insight. If my work provokes thought and stays with you as you walk away, I have been successful.
A quote from James Hendricks, a Professor at the University of Massachusetts/ Amherst
in a press release for an exhibit at the University
“The work is multi-directional with real and illusionist forms that reach into and break open space. The applied color enhances the form while metal and other objects counter it. The work attracts and radiates spirituality. In my twenty-one years of teaching art on a college level, and out of approximately 4,000 students, I have come to realize that only a handful or so, will in the final years, be judged as ‘artist’.
As a young woman artist, I hope Leigh Ann will be stimulated by this recognition and be able to resist the excessive demands on her life from traditional expectations, (family, employment), and be able to always set aside time and grow and continue to develop as the artist she is. I feel in the future she will have a chance to be numbered among the few. She possesses a unique spirit and feeling in her work together with a fresh sense of form.”