Omar d'Leon

Omar d'León exhibition in San Francisco, Calif.

2012-01-25T08:26:00.000-08:00

cordially invites you and your guests to a San Francisco Premiere Exhibition

“Neo Magic Realism” - Paintings and Drawings by

OMAR D’LEON

ANDREA YOMTOB

Thursday, February 2, 2012

6-9 pm

Hors d’oeuvres and fine wines

Great conversation and interesting company

Discover today’s finest artists at one of San Francisco’s leading galleries.

3378 Sacramento Street @ Walnut

San Francisco, California 94118

Admission is free

RSVP

paul@paulmahdergallery.com

(415) 474-7707

Omar d’Leon, “Tropicana”, oil on canvas, 24”x36”, 2007

Omar d’Leon, “Ancestral Family” #04, Mixed ink on paper, 18”x24”, 2000

The Paul Mahder Gallery presents a rare exhibit by one of Nicaragua’s finest painters, Omar d’Leon along with new works by protégé, Andrea Yomtob. Reception will be held on Thursday, February 2, from 6 – 9pm.

Omar d’Leon is one of the most renowned painters and poets from Nicaragua in the last 50 years. D'Leon studied for nine years at the Escuela Nacional de Bellas Artes in Nicaragua under its director Rodrigo Penalba. His early inspirations were the frescoes of Pompeii, where he saw the use of cross-hatching and applied this technique to his love of the Impressionist school.

He founded a museum in Managua in 1970 named "Museum-Gallery 904". The museum's collection encompassed the arts of Nicaragua from pre-Hispanic to contemporary. In the earthquake of December 1972, D'Leon's museum and studio were partly destroyed and later ransacked, vandalized and robbed. After the Sandinistas took power in Nicaragua, he moved to Camarillo, California.

In 1982, one of his paintings was reproduced in the form of a UNICEF Stamp. His paintings are in many museum collections such as the Museum of Latin American Contemporary Art in Washington DC, the Ponce Museum of Art in Puerto Rico, the Museum of Latin American Art in Long Beach, the Chicago Art Institute and the Cuevas Museum in Mexico City. In 2011 the Ventura County Museum, CA exhibited a solo retrospective of his work.

“D'Leon's work is imbued with a mystical quality, one that knows abundance in paradise and the anguish of losing it, one that held the light of grace to find a way through fear and torture to be rewarded with pure vision and the ability to record it on canvas. He infused echoes of the frescoes in Pompeii and classical Grecian ideas of philosophy, community and beauty. He imprints European impressionistic painting imported to his country by his mentor with magical realism qualities that are essentially Nicaraguan.” Amy Jones

Omar d’Leon, now in his eighties, taught many students throughout the years. Andrea Yomtob, a graduate from the Art Center College of Design, has been his apprentice for the past 12 years. Andrea Yomtob is a gifted painter in the spirit and technique of Omar d’Leon and will be exhibiting alongside his works.

Andrea Yomtob, “Los Treces Symbolicos”, oil on canvas, 24”x36”, 2012

This exhibit may be enjoyed through March 2012 during our regular gallery hours of 10am – 7pm Monday through Saturday and Sunday, 1-5pm.

For more information, please contact:
Paul Mahder, Director
(415) 474-7707
paul@paulmahdergallery.com
http://www.paulmahdergallery.com

EGIPTO

2011-03-23T06:57:00.000-07:00

#15) – Nov. 2002 – Desierto Sahara – (de leche con Amor #21)

EGIPTO

Veo el ancestral ámbar de la Vesania en mis pupilas
y sus visiones, ensueños y asombro apuntan directo a
la cúspide argenta de la gigantesca pirámide de Kheops
luminiscente de majestad milenaria…

El desierto es un mar infinito de arena
y dunas ondulantes enterrando todo
sin entregar ese corazón azur
que tanto esperan mis solitarios pensamientos…

Y tú, antiguo Egipto de leyendas, mitos y dinastías,
qué me dices, qué me cuentas, qué cantan tus sitros:
de tus escribanos, de tus gloriosos faraones y reinas,
de tus deidades y dioses itafálicos y concubinas,
de tus reales Hipogeos sumergidos en oscuridad,
repujados de oro, de piedras preciosas y de sortilegios mortales,
de tu bella Nefertiti, de tu diosa Athor luz solar en la inmensidad,
de tus ocios, placeres y sagrados valles,
de tus padre Nilo, nutridor de tus estirpes y esclavos,
de tus esfinges aladas descendidas celestiales,
de tus secretos y enigmas no descifrados,
y de tu ogdóada, racimo óptimo de ocho divinidades.

¡Oh, mi sacro antiguo Egipto! Te juro por mi alma
y mi cuerpo reposados sobre la joroba de mi camello
echado sobre la tibia arena del Sahara
y por mi paladar sublimando la dulzura incomparable
de tus dátiles maduros con áurea dermis deleitables
que MA PETITE GRANDEUR es superior a tu grandeza,
porque mañana ella será lo que tú eres hoy:
Un desierto de ruinas magistrales.

Te juro antiguo Egipto, que así es y así será,
porque ya no puedes matarme, lo cual me fortalece
sobre tus oasis, donde el bello Amón evade bochornos,
allí donde mis flotantes lotos y nenúfares azules
fornican con plenilunios de sonámbulos espectros
de tu majestuoso imperio,
perpetuándose entre oleajes de arenas lapidarias…
Y aún así, venerable Egipto, te juro por Osiris
que tus ruinas libertarias y el artista Omar d’León
han sido amigos ya desde siempre.

Omar d’León

"El canto nicaraguense"

2010-05-07T19:58:00.000-07:00

Exhibition in San Francisco, California / 11-21-2009

2009-11-17T12:34:00.000-08:00

Exhibition in Museum of Ventura County - dec-10-2009

2009-11-16T18:07:00.000-08:00

En galería Praxis, Nicaragua 1967

2009-09-24T14:57:00.000-07:00

Serie: 9 Mysteries of magical realism - oil/canvas - 8 x 10"

2009-09-24T14:34:00.000-07:00

BOCETO DEL JUICIO FINAL. Poema y pintura de Omar d'León.

2009-09-24T11:15:00.000-07:00

2008-11-16T08:29:00.000-08:00

FRUTERO AZUL - oil/canvas - 8 x 10"

2008-11-16T08:25:00.000-08:00

MELOCOTONES - oil/canvas - 8 x 10"

2008-11-16T08:21:00.000-08:00

BALCON EN LA BOQUITA - oil/canvas - 20 x 24 -

2008-11-16T08:15:00.000-08:00

ZAPOTES - oil/canvas - 20 x 24"

2008-11-16T08:04:00.000-08:00

SANDIAS - oil/canvas - 24 x 28"

2008-11-16T07:18:00.000-08:00

LIBERACION - oil/canvas

2008-11-16T07:15:00.000-08:00

LAS VENDEDORAS - oil/canvas - 16 x 20"

2008-11-16T07:11:00.000-08:00

DANZA - oil/canvas - 18 X 24"

2008-11-16T07:09:00.000-08:00

MORPHOS DE LA DURMIENTE - 12 x 23" - oil/canvas

2008-09-03T04:17:00.000-07:00

RAPTO DEL MITO - oil/board - 8x10"

2008-09-03T04:15:00.000-07:00

EL GALLITO DE ORFEO - oil/board - 8x10"

2008-09-03T04:12:00.000-07:00

DESNUDO - oil/board - 8x10"

2008-09-03T04:09:00.000-07:00

VIRGEN DEL VALLE GOTTEL - oil/canvas -16 x 20"

2008-09-03T04:06:00.000-07:00

BOCANA - oil/canvas - 16 x 20"

2008-09-03T04:04:00.000-07:00

MUSAS - oil/canvas -24 x 30"

2008-09-03T03:56:00.000-07:00

OCASO - oil/canvas 16 x 20"

2008-09-03T03:53:00.000-07:00

EN EL JARDIN DE RAINIER - oil/canvas - 16 x 20"

2008-09-03T03:48:00.000-07:00

NOEMI - oil/canvas - 20 x 24"

2008-07-13T13:43:00.000-07:00

MAREMOTO - oil/board - 16 x 20"

2008-07-13T13:41:00.000-07:00

NOCTURNO - oil/board - 16 x 20"

2008-07-13T13:38:00.000-07:00

SIN TITULO- oil/canvas - 16 x 20"

2008-07-13T13:14:00.000-07:00

HOTEL DE MASACHAPA - oil/canvas - 16 x 20"