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Artist Statement:
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"Within my work I have
developed a personal
interconnecting system of
symbolic and metaphorical
structures. I use esoteric
symbolism, new physical
theory, and comparative
psychology to create this
interconnecting system. By
combining these disciplines I
hope to create a common
context in which all are
welcome to participate.
This...
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Artist Exhibitions:
RECENT EXHIBITIONS
2005 Group show- Sylvia
Schmidt Gallery, N.O., La.
2004 Group show- Contemporary
Arts Center, N.O., La.
2003 Group show- Sylvia
Schmidt Gallery, N.O., La.
2002 Group Show- 'Lenin
Busted',50 of New Orleans
finest artists interpret a
bust of Lenin. Barrister's
Gallery, N.O., ...
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Artist Galleries:
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request.
Gallery representation- Sylvia
Schmidt Gallery, N.O.,La.
"...The gallery seeks to
encourage promising young and
emerging artists-- alchemical
assemblage artist Paul
LeBlanc, French ...
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Border Town Alchemy
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By D. Eric Bookhardt
Seen from the rear window perspective of the fast-fading 20th century, it sounds strange to say that art, science and mysticism were once inseparably linked, as intimately interwoven as the morning glory vines in your neighbor's yard. But, in fact, they were and had been all along, until just a few centuries ago. That was when science decreed that nothing was real that could not be quantified -- weighed or measured -- and a lot of people have spent a lot of time weighing and measuring things ever since.
Nothing against weights and measures, mind you, but fixing one's focus solely only on those things deemed tangible enough to be calculated seems sort of, well, fixated somehow -- or such is the overall import of Paul LeBlanc's new show, Terra Reforma, at Sylvia Schmidt. LeBlanc is apparently a latter-day alchemist of sorts, and his work suggests a peculiar mix of medieval mysticism and modern anarchical funk art. Indeed, his salvage sculptures often have a distinctly Magazine Street (or even West Bank) aura about them.
Filius Cosmi, for one, is an ornate little affair, like a cross between an old-time carriage lamp and those outdoor folk altars that used to dot the landscape of South Louisiana. With snakeskin filigree, a cypress knee stem and a little statue of the Infant Jesus of Prague inside, Cosmi falls into this funk icon category.
In fact, the Infant Jesus of Prague has attained unusual ecumenical stature in these parts by being a prominent patron of both Roman Catholics and Protestant Spiritualists alike -- a true folk art saint. But LeBlanc's treatment of this is as archaic as it is folksy; it all comes across like a medieval experiment gone strangely awry, perhaps an alchemical attempt at time travel that ended up in the wrong part of Marrero by mistake. Similarly, Tree of Alchemy, a kind of illuminated turtle shell replete with bird wings, esoteric inscriptions and treelike protrusions, transforms swamp funk speculation into a kind of crazed medieval gris gris.
Yves & Kay is among LeBlanc's more polished -- and surreal -- pieces. There is a strange, kitschy beauty about these constructions, a Louisiana pop baroque sensibility that stands in contrast to the more painterly resolve of the canvases. Terra Transforma is a classic alchemical painting, a hybrid of cross and tree festooned with esoteric symbols, all floating in space. Painted in a style of renaissance realism, it displays a visionary surreality that becomes pure surrealism in Yves & Kay.
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