ARTISTS COMING TO THE CONRAD WEST GALLERY

Esteban Leyva

     Esteban Leyva is a painter, draftsman, graphic designer and Cuban muralist who lives and works in the city of Havana, Cuba. With more than 40 years of painting he has participated in 20 personal and more than 70 collective exhibitions.

     His painting integrates the private collections of art connoisseurs in more than 30 countries. He has been awarded 6 First National and International Painting Prizes, among them the “Contest March 13” of 1986 sponsored by the University of Havana and the National Museum of Fine Arts. He is a member of the Union of Writers and Artists of Cuba (UNEAC) and the National Council of Plastic Arts (CNAP).

Patrick Pépin

Patrick Pépin Artist

     Patrick Pepin is an auto-didactic painter who works from an abstraction of action. Using his unique style and brilliant colour palette, he has left his mark on the art scene. Pepin’s varied experiences in global and artistic journey are unique to his life beliefs. For many years, Pepin’s travels have influenced and challenged him in every aspect of his life. Inspired by his travels, Pepin’s art reflects freedom, movement, and decisions that he makes spontaneously on the road and in the process of creation. Pepin’s paintings, he says, represents a sincere and frank confession. They are in a state of realized detachment and enforced by spontaneous gestures in calculated disorder. They often express repressed images belonging to the realm of dreams and the unconscious. They are created in several steps, by successive layers. For Pepin there exists a link between travel and his artistic process. Here lays the journey that matters to him, the decisions he makes during realization of the paintings and which appear to be irreversible choices. Thus in his works all is not determined in advance.  Pepin likes to think outside the box to explore new avenues, likewise travelling in unknown lands is born of chance encounters. Pepin plays a game of chance in life and art to create contrasts and harmony between colours, people and space.

Gloria Estefanell

Gloria Estefanell (Barcelona 1960) is a multidisciplinary artist who works between Madrid and her studio on the island of Formentera. (Balearic Islands, Spain). Self-taught painter, simultaneous acrylic, water-colour and oil techniques in works of different formats, generally large, that reveal her passion for sport and nature. The sea and the high mountains mainly. All her work reflects her exquisite sensitivity, her interest in aesthetics, almost obsessive architecture and art. Estefanell also explores the possibilities of textiles, ceramics and porcelain. After a long and successful career in the management of Olympic sports, always in Winter Sports, Gloria Estefanell recently gave her creativity a boost.

Will Kurtz

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     My subjects are real, everyday people who are often undistinguished and living on the margins of society. I select and create uncommon characters that have a distinct emotive quality. I use photography to capture a moment of their daily lives. They are often comic in character, dress or body type. The posture, gestures, facial expressions and clothing bring the figures to life. They have a familiarity of someone you might know or have passed on the street. I capture their resilience and vulnerability to embody a true empathy for the hardships we all share. The animals are selected to show their unique breed, size, shape or type of hair. Through them I am able express their innocence and humor that has a universal appeal.

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