Statement

Mark Leysen’s art has been exhibited throughout California and Mexico in various group and one-person exhibitions, including; the UCLA Hammer Museum, the San Bernardino Museum, the Laguna Art Museum, Orange County Museum of Art, the Irvine Fine Arts Center, Chapman University, Museo de Arte in Queretaro, Mexico, California State University at Fullerton, the Los Angeles County Museum ARS Gallery, and Grand Central Art Center in Santa Ana. 

Leysen’s non-representative paintings allude to physical space, its experience and emotional imprint left on memory. A strong sense of color and rhythm shapes the compositions, while the more formal aspects of geometric forms give balance and harmony.  

Art writer, Dr. Roberta Carasso states, “Leysen’s interaction of space, movement in a variety of directions, enhances the surface quality and creates the illusion of multiple planes. The already large image seems even more immense because our eyes continue moving upward and outward, following each shape beyond the space of the canvas.”