2002-2000 Painting

Frank Pictures Gallery Exhibition

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Journal by Lederle

Press Release
BY Laurie Frank

Frank Pictures Gallery
Bergamot Station

Hermann Lederle's new show of his paintings at Frank Pictures Gallery is a body of selected works from 1987 to the present. Through the blizzard of paint, Lederle evolves the history of his art: the quick charcoal life drawings of his years at the San Francisco Art Institute, their transformation into his blurred oil stick paintings, to his discovery of gold leaf, with it's definite high contrast surface, applied in grids that literally trap his expressionistic figures - bodies, faces, fish and birds -- within a pattern of golden pixels. "I don't capture what I see", he says, "I capture what I feel I see." In his white paintings, Lederle continues to deal with the figure, liberating and imprisoning it simultaneously, and then sending it into dynamic, turbulent motion through the introduction of circular layers atop the gold-leaf grid, playing background against foreground in a perpetual tug-of-war with the eye of the viewer.

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