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Sandra Lee Gallery

November 1 - November 28, 2010

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Retrospective Homage: Ginsberg and Whitman, 1999. Leonard Breger.
Opening reception with artist on Thursday, November 4 from 5:30-7:30 pm Sandra Lee Gallery proudly announces the retrospective of works by Leonard Breger, on view at the gallery November 1 through 27, 2010. The opening reception will be held on Thursday, November 4, 5:30-7:30pm, and the public is invited to this event in honor of one of the Bay Area's most colorful, creative personalities. This very special, end of the year exhibition will feature a range of works from the 90-year old Breger's prolific and varied artistic history. These range from earlier drawings and paintings to the distinctive and boldly colored shaped Masonite canvases for which the artist is renowned. Breger points to a dramatic aesthetic epiphany realized during a 1966 trip to the caves at Lascaux, France and Altamira, Spain where he viewed prehistoric art that were organically contiguous to their environment. This point marks the break between his use of rectangular canvases to the individually cut and contoured paintings that the artist continues to create today. His paintings are fanciful, almost psychedelic recreations of his personal impressions of the world, ranging from the commonplace moments of everyday life to homages of radical cultural icons. Breger's previous shows include solo exhibitions at the Palace of the Legion of Honor, the de Young Museum and, most recently, at the Marin Museum of Contemporary Art in July 2009. The artist has worked in the San Francisco Bay Area for over 5 decades, teaching at institutions such as the University of California and San Francisco State University . He continues to be active in his community, leading several monthly Master-Class art critique sessions.