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Jerry Lebo
Jerry Lebo is rapidly becoming well-known for his small and medium size oil paintings and works on paper with subject matter that ranges from the mundane corners of suburban life to the wide open passages of the American west. His work is traditional, in the sense that it draws on the lineage of artists and traditions of classical painting, but is infused with the modern and conceptual nature of pop-art.
Compelled by the possibility of combing traditional oil painting techniques, with the pop art conceptions of such influences as Wayne Thiebaud, Larry Rivers and Andy Warhol, Jerry's paintings are meant to raise basic questions on the nature of seeing and visual sensation as part of everyday existence. By compartmentalizing the visual experience into compact statements, the emphasis is on how painting can be used to make a statement about not only what we are seeing, but what we experience as we interact in a culture where objects and consumer goods have become almost excessively available. Rather than to beautify the mundane, the objective of Jerry's work is to raise basic questions as to the nature and sustainability of what has become a largely consumption and materially driven American existence--raising the possibility that our "manifest destiny" is an illusion founded on our visual context.
Bio
Jerry Lebo was born in 1964 in Indiana, USA, and lives and works in the Gaithersburg, Maryland. He has exhibited widely, including group shows in Washington DC in 2005 and 2006, as well as several solo shows in the late 1990s. Jerry was trained as an economist and artist, studying with Lee Newman and Jack Boul at the Washington Studio School. He studied at Randolph-Macon College, graduating in 1986, with other artists, including Duane Keiser and Mitchell Johnson.