Artist’s Statement

 

   Lescas studied design at Miami Ad School, in Florida. There he learned the fundamentals of composition, color theory, typography and studio photography. Prior to school he worked at a print shop for several years and mastered silkscreening. He later moved to California and became very interested in painting. Lescas continued to study art at Glendale College. He looked at magazines and read books about contemporary art, learned the artists and visited local galleries and the great museums of Los Angeles and Pasadena. It became an obsession for him. 

    Lescas works with acrylics, charcoal, sharpies, oils, chalk, pastels, paper, and canvas. Color harmony is a great preoccupation for him. Lescas's art deals with themes about isolation, personal experiences, musical interpretations, ambiguity, and sexuality. He uses painting as a form of confession. Perhaps to reflect on mistakes he has made in the past. "Mistakes are a major component necessary for the progress of civilization." Even though these past events may not be as bad as some may regard them to be, they are often painful and embarrassing for him. They are embarrassing enough to keep to himself; so Lescas expresses them through painting, and he has a relationship with his work that is tremendously rewarding for him. 

 

 

 

 

Louis Lescas