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Leonard Gerwick Biography
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LEN GERWICK PAINTINGS
The artist Leonard Gerwick has used his skills in a most profound way, since the mid 1960's. Besides being a career puppeteer, he has pursued painting seriously and continues to show and sell his art throughout New England and Massachusetts. Any one who enjoys his creations can buy his paintings at the studio located in Marlborough, Massachusetts.
These paintings are directly marketed to the buyer from the studio, or through email and telephone conversations. Lenny believes it is important to interact with a customer in a personal way and is willing to show his work at any time a request is made.
His artwork is comprised of four genres: abstract art, figure paintings, landscape paintings and map drawings. These genres can be described as follows:
ABSTRACT PAINTINGS
Many of Len Gerwick's paintings are abstract. Their main objective is to create visual rhythm which reflects orderly and expressive repetition. This is accomplished in various ways through the use of acrylic paints, collage and assembled objects. The paint ranges from watercolor thin to impasto. Also, found objects are used to enhance the collages into a three dimensional masterpiece. The paintings are created by observing the relationship of forms, their proximity, how they overlap, the space between forms as well as the scale of one to another. Some of his art is made more appealing by placing them under framed glass or completing them on raw canvas. This skill is what makes many of these paintings unique.
FIGURE PAINTINGS
Len has a great ability to paint figures and see multiple figures as rhythmic forms with special psychological components. These figure paintings can constitute contemporary, political or even mythological impressions. He believes that the empty spaces surrounding the figures are to be considered an important part of the composition.
LANDSCAPE PAINTINGS
Not only do Len Gerwick's figure paintings excel with the aid of rhythmic progression of forms, so does the popular genre of landscape art. In addition to painting these landscapes at specific sites, Lenny will more often achieve his results from memory or from imagination. His early landscapes were of the New England countryside and he still is influenced by the subtle tones that New England can provide.
MAP DRAWINGS
Drawings made in highly focused detail is a particular skill that Lenny possesses. He has shown this ability in the very specialized body of work known as The Lost City This is an arrangement of eighteen maps of an imagined city where each map shows the growth or destruction for each century that it exists. The map creation currently covers eighteen hundred years and is quite fascinating to see the story unfold on paper. This group of maps must be sold as one body of work in order to state its meaning.
As an artist who paints in Marlborough, Massachusetts, Len Gerwick has made his home in New England for nearly forty years. His art that encompasses a rich visual world has been exhibited in galleries in Boston, Massachusetts as well as various shows that have been presented throughout New England and surrounding states. His artwork is currently in private collections in New York City, New York, Los Angeles, California, Colorado, Massachusetts, Florida, Canada, France, Austria and Brazil.
The art paintings seen on this website are located also in Len Gerwick's studio-gallery and can be purchased directly or by mail. You can contact him to chat, ask questions or setup a tour of his studio. The sale prices include frames where noted. But in many cases Len feels his paintings are better left unframed. Packaging and shipping are extra costs. He invites you to his painting studio at 184 Hildreth Street, Marlborough, Massachusetts and hopes you enjoy this web site as much as he has in making it.
Biography of Leonard Gerwick New England Artist from Massachusetts-MA-Marlborough
Len Gerwick was born on March 29th, 1940 in New York City and attended Monsignor Scanlon High School in the Bronx, His education was continued at Pratt Institute in Brooklyn where he majored in art having graduated in 1963. Because of his love for puppeteering, he began to do shows in grade school and performed his own shows while in high school, art school and after throughout the city and suburbs.
Upon graduation Lenny traveled and lived in Europe, worked at General Drafting, a map making company in Convent Station, New Jersey, and worked two and a half years as assistant art director on a weekly magazine with McGraw-Hill in New York. He took courses at Columbia University in preparation for a master's degree in Art History. and in 1968, immigrated to Canada. In 1969 he lived in Vienna studying German and returned to Canada where he earned an Master of Art in Art History at the University of Toronto.
In 1971 Lenny settled in Boston where he taught art and art history at Holliston High School until 1980. With his first wife, Deborah Costine, he co-founded The Gerwick Puppets in 1974 (
www.GERWICKPUPPETS.com
He enjoyed drawing all of his life and can remember creating series of pictures at the age of four. Drawing and later painting remains a source of deep solace, intense expression and a creation of order. He has drawn the human figure continually and his painting in spite of art school, was a skill that was self taught. The liberation of art today, in the early 21st Century, is exhilarating. It is the viewer, as it has really always been the viewer, who makes art. But after all the explosive painting of the 20th Century, the fare today is a watery soup. He wants something to chew.
EXHIBITIONS
Group Show: Hooker Dunham Gallery, Brattleboro, VT. June 5 - August 7, 2010
Group Show: Art Works, Sarah Louise Cousins Gallery, New Bedford, MA. June 7 - July 19, 2008
One person show: Mazmanian Gallery, Framingham State College, Framingham, MA. June 15-August 15, 2007
One person show: F Scott Gallery, Sudbury, MA, December 1, 2006-January 30, 2007
Group show: Fuller Craft Museum, Brockton, MA, March 4-June 18, 2006
Two person show: A.P.E. Gallery, Northampton, MA, February 3-February 28, 2006
One person show: Student Union Gallery, University of Massachusetts, Amherst, MA, March 21 - April 2005
Group show: Upstairs at Johnson Paint, Boston, MA, November 8-November 24, 2003
Group show: Evos Art, Lowell, MA, July 24-July 27, 2003
Two person show: Southborough Center for the Arts, Southborough, MA, April 19-May 17, 2003