About this Item

Title
Big Untitled #2
Contributor Names
Leibman, Adam Beau (Creator, Artist)
Prayzner, Andrew (Thesis advisor)
Date
2023
Summary/Artist's Statement
I had always felt this desire to express things I was unable to with words or writing. I needed painting with all its colors and textures. I was inspired by painting for a long time, captivated by the references to famous artists like Salvador Dali and Leonardo Da Vinci in popular culture. To me the mysterious nature of these works of art was spiritual. For the very same reasons I later resonated with the work of Kandinsky, Hilma Af Klimt for their early historical abstract art practices. These artists had to delve into the unknown to find their art. I have always felt a deep connection to the innocuous unseen nature of things. The immaterial was always something for me to seek out. For a long time listening to music and feeling it deeply was a way for me to express things I couldn’t say otherwise by relating in some way and it was through music and many days spent in isolation I would become my most creative. So, I set out on my voyage and found freedom and peace in painting.
My art process is entirely based on intuition, and faith in that process. I am pushing, flinging, scraping, wiping away the paint as I build up layers and taking away adding reducing over and over until I’m either exhausted or satisfied. It always feels tentative or provisional painting abstractly but for me this is the purest way for me to stay present in the moment and create something that is entirely my own. I take pride in my ability to convert what energy I’m feeling in the moment into painting. I can be present with myself and expel the energies that no longer serve me and the whole process is very energetic. I often go through cycles where I start to feel a great sense of relief or frustration about my work. I can then take a step back and look at what I’ve done and digest, adjust it into something that I’m very excited about and can’t wait to share with as many people as possible.
I must engage with the action of painting very presently with what I feel in the studio. Anxiety, Depression, Joy, Happiness, all push me. I start in washes or go all out at first adjust as I go along to the rhythm of my energy. I often find images subconsciously planted in my work and find myself surprised with what emerges. There is very little planning involved other than the tools and colors I intuitively employ. Yellow is a common motif in my work because to me it translates into light. Blue is the color of my soul, orange to color of my energy born in a fire as I am an Aries. I could sense a color from all my emotions and parts of me colliding together to find them staring back at me on the canvas. I am chaos like nature, and it is this pattern that drives me. It’s this transmutation of emotion into raw creativity that gives rise to my most original and bold artwork. It’s the reason I believe in myself as an Artist and will continue to practice this way for as long as I can, for me my art is survival.
Type
Still Image
Paintings (visual works)
Medium
Acrylic on canvas
Medium (Terms)
Acrylic paint
Canvas (textile material)
Course/Degree Information
Program/Degree: Fine Arts BFA
Course name: FA 491 - Senior Project Thesis: Painting
Academic semester: Spring 2023
Professor: Andrew Prayzner
Related Materials
Instagram: www.instagram.com/beausky.art
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Identifier
FIT Repository ID: fa_000291

Citation

Leibman, A. B. (2023). Big Untitled #2. FIT Institutional Repository. https://institutionalrepository.fitnyc.edu/item/118988
Leibman, Adam Beau. Big Untitled #2. 2023. FIT Digital Repository, https://institutionalrepository.fitnyc.edu/item/118988
Leibman, Adam Beau. "Big Untitled #2." FIT Digital Repository, 2023. https://institutionalrepository.fitnyc.edu/item/118988