You’re invited to AlphaCore Wealth Advisory‘s upcoming Core Connection event! Join us for an engaging happy hour where you and a friend can savor a glass of wine and indulge in a delightful charcuterie spread at the esteemed Contemporary Fine Arts Gallery on Thursday, February 1, from 5:30 p.m. – 7:30 p.m. By attending this special event, you will have the rare opportunity to meet one of California’s leading abstract expressionist painters, James C. Leonard, as you tour La Jolla’s finest gallery with your local AlphaCore team and like-minded peers.
We encourage you to bring a friend to share the experience as we immerse ourselves in fine art and toast to great connections. We can’t wait to see you there!
If you are interested in joining this event, please contact us to find out how to register.
About the Artist: James C. Leonard lives and works in San Francisco, California, and is one of California’s leading abstract expressionist painters. Working with an extended palette knife and acrylics on canvas, he creates bold horizontal and vertical strokes in strong colors in order to trigger the viewer’s emotions. This basic movement is complicated by the inventive layering of dropped, speckled and fragmented colors that create a sense of additional depth. Leonard says, “I’m pulling paint, layering one layer at a time, which creates a sense of history in the painting. It’s like looking at a fence post that’s been repainted over a period of time. You can see the different colors and layers.”
Leonard’s paintings have ambient landscape qualities and can have thirty or forty layers in one painting. His final touch employs a technique he calls graffito — scraping lines through the upper layers, so the colors of the ground layers show through.
The German painter Gerhard Richer has influenced his style, approach and directness. James Leonard’s paintings have been exhibited internationally. His works also reside in private and corporate art collections across the United States and Europe.