Brian Leo

Brian Leo (b. 1976, USA) is a painter known for his floor-to-ceiling installations of small paintings. Leo’s source material draws broadly on personal identity, current events, pop culture, and social issues, resulting in brightly colored paintings of cartoonish forms and appropriated images. Leo intends for his audience to make free associations from his paintings, which range from clever and humorous to poignant, and to approach his installations as an intimate setting. After graduating from Rutgers’ Mason Gross School of Art in 1999 with a BFA, he traveled around the world to view ancient and contemporary Asian, European and Australian art. He settled in New York and briefly assisted art...View all