Sandra Lee Gallery Contemporary Art

Leonard Breger Retrospective

Exhibition Dates: November 1-27, 2010

Opening Reception: Thursday, November 4, 5:30-7:30pm

Homage: Ginsberg and Whitman, 1999.  Leonard Breger.  48”x64” acrylic on cut-shape masonite

Union Sq., San Francisco – October 1, 2010 – Sandra Lee Gallery proudly announces the retrospective of works by Leonard Breger, on view at the gallery November 1 through 27, 2010. The opening reception will be held on Thursday, November 4, 5:30-7:30pm, and the public is invited to this event in honor of one of the Bay Area’s most colorful creative personalities.

This very special, end of the year exhibition will feature a range of works from the 90-year old Breger’s prolific and varied artistic history. These range from earlier drawings and paintings to the distinctive and boldly colored shaped Masonite canvases for which the artist is renowned.

Breger points to a dramatic aesthetic epiphany realized during a 1966 trip to the caves at Lascaux, France and Altamira, Spain where he viewed prehistoric art that were organically contiguous to their environment. This point marks the break between his use of rectangular canvases to the individually cut and contoured paintings that the artist continues to create today.

Breger’s previous shows include solo exhibitions at the Palace of the Legion of Honor, the de Young Museum and, most recently, at the Marin Museum of Contemporary Art in July 2009. The artist has worked in the San Francisco Bay Area for over 5 decades, teaching at institutions such as the University of California and San Francisco State University . He continues to be active in his community, leading several monthly Master-Class art critique sessions.

For further information or to set up a media interview or preview of the exhibition with the gallery, contact Sandra Lee Gallery at 415.291.8000 or art@sandraleegallery.com. Visit our website at www.sandraleegallery.com.