LeonidesArts New York Gallery Presents "Men, Portraits and Abstract Landscapes" by Mark Vinsun at the Ninth Avenue Saloon, New York, New York

New York, NY, April 18, 2010 --(PR.com)-- Always creating questions in his paintings about what's real and what's not, Mark Vinsun has taken the task to create a series of men’s portraits and abstract landscapes that compliment the portraits at the gallery of The Ninth Avenue Saloon in New York City. The show comprising of 7 paintings is quiet small, by the Marks standard, but it brings to light another side of Marks works, in that his training as an artist in the realm of realism as well as the abstract painting of which he is known has helped him assess his strengths. It is sometimes hard to detect the “smoke and mirrors” in an artists works, but they're always there hiding.

Mark was drawn to create these paintings as a means to lending a fresh eye on his “painting techniques” on the images using abstract expressionism. As a result, the men in the paintings appear at home in their “surroundings” as ethereal masculine creatures that are arrestingly handsome and eerily masculine. He wanted to look at himself as an artist from the inside out going back to the human form; the realistic landscape; to the methods he was taught at school and by his mentors; so he could clear his head and move forward as an artist. Living in New York City as an artist becomes hard to know what is the “truth” and if other artists and the public are telling you the truth about your art. Mark said, he went back to the early days of him painting to see where he was once at and where he has been, and where he is going. “Everything changes, it has a different tempo and rhythm the images flow forward, the viewer can see a manifestation of that”.

The natural light draws the human form so well, he explains; “Light is Art," Esteban Vicente taught him to never to be afraid to use all the elements of light whatever he did, it would always create something unexpected. On first glance the men appear to be posing for the work around them, as if interrupted by the artist working; on closer inspection the men seem to be mimicking the portraits and sculptures that they are surrounded by in the studio. He has created a balance and harmony between the model and the room, each one not overpowering the other. Thus, each portrait is a chameleon, whether perched as a sculpture on a pedestal, or literally staring into the artist's canvas. The portraits are muses after the fact -- call it still life imitating art. The exhibition runs at The Ninth Avenue Saloon til May 28th 2010. Mark Visun is represented by LeonidesArts New York Gallery, 484 West 43rd Street, Suite 4-B, New York, New York 10036.

Juan Kutzman Art Critic

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