2 LEAFS

In 2 LEAFS (Bill Leaf, left; Gwaylon Leaf, right) a father and son share their paintings, influenced by American Abstract Expressionism and the traditions of Bill’s early childhood home, a small village in China. Layered spaces and calligraphic mark-making reveal their heritage, but the simple forms, reflective gold leaf tinged with transparent colored glazes, and primary color schemes of Bill’s works and the hot-rod enamels that appear dimensional and create shifting colors of Gwaylon’s work show influences of mid-20th-century American art.

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