Favorite Island, 2006
Digital print mounted under acrylic
26” x 40”, Edition of 5
Camo II, 2004
Photo collage on panel
8.75” x 12.25”
Drift II, 2004
photo collage on panel
7” x 9”
Identity Strand
(sea, sun, sky, sand), 2005
Oil, acrylic, epoxy resin, photo on panel
60” x 48”
Mirage (Study), 2004
Acrylic on photograph
12-5/8” x 11-5/8”
New Kid in Town, 2005
Color photo collage
19 3/4”x 19 3/4”
On My Own, 2005
Ink, graphite, acrylic on gesso panel
36” x 48”
Sand Dollar V
(Sand Dollar Series after Haeckel), 2005
Ink wash on paper
10” x 11”
Shift, 2003
Color Photo Collage, Acrylic
30” x 23.25” fr
T, 2003
Color Photo Collage, Acrylic
25” x 18” fr
Tracking II, 2003
Oil, epoxy resin, photo collage, polyurethane
24” x 32”
Trespassing, 2005
Oil, acrylic, epoxy resin, photo on panel
48” x 60”
Untitled, 2004
photo collage on panel
30” x 41.5” fr
What I’ve Been Looking For, 2005
Color photo collage on panel
26” x 36”
Wishing, 2004
Photo collage
12-3/4” x 11-3/4”
Leo Bersamina recently presented new works in a variety of media and will featured a group of drawings based on information he has gathered from many houses he has lived in.
In earlier bodies of work Leo Bersamina has played with imagery from his personal history and with signifiers of cultural identity. Bersamina’s treatments of these subjects have an unexpected formal and abstract structure, and incorporate both painting and photography. With a built-in layer of irony, they are highly inventive representations of history and memory. For example, an earlier abstract painting with a repeating florid pattern was based on a street map of his childhood paper route.
Reflecting on his newest work, Bersamina offers this introduction:
“I am an ardent observer of life’s visual rhythms and feel compelled to try to articulate them in my work… ”
Copyright Gallery Paule Anglim
14 Geary Street | San Francisco, CA 94108 | 415.433.2710
