Lenny Moskowitz doesn’t approach a painting with a preconceived idea. He places himself in front of his inspirations, trying not to judge his work in progress, telling himself that he is painting for the first time each time. There is a good deal of experimentation and trial and error. He hopes his paintings impart his emotional reactions to the visual world.
When Moskowitz is looking at a motif, be it a figure or a landscape, he responds to the shapes and flow of movement. He wants to meld with the subject and recreate a sense of its spirit through his painting. To communicate his emotional response, he simplifies and isolates certain aspects of shapes, exaggerates certain colors, and excludes others. He finds that this creates something new. It is not the subject anymore, and it is not the artist, but it takes on a life of its own.
Lenny Moskowitz received his BFA from the Philadelphia College of Art and his MFA from Cranbrook Academy. He is a painterly figurative and abstract artist who embraces the creative spirit of the unexpected and unknown in order to develop a different vision of reality to emerge with order and smoothed edges. Lenny has exhibited his paintings and has been awarded several residencies nationwide. He teaches workshops in Connecticut, Block Island, and Nantucket and currently is an art professor at Quinnipiac University in Hamden, CT.