Alicia Leeke

My creativity is inspired by the French Salon painters and how they captured history, social conscience and architecture by painting the people and environments surrounding them. Using the term I coined for a new era of art, called “Fabaism,” I meld familiar scenes and transform them into contemporary masterpieces by blending the concepts behind French Impressionism and Color Field painting. Using acrylic paint, my work conveys an abstracted and subjective feel to the Contemporary American landscape. The majority of my Cityscapes revolve around vignettes while the rest of my work focuses on the abstract. Stylistically, the underlying foundation of all of my paintings is the use of intense black lines found most often in Fauvism highlighted with rich reds, vibrant oranges, shocking blues and sharp white accents. Gentle distortions of linear perspective are a fundamental element to the overall design of these creations and are a necessary ingredient in the composition of my pieces.