Lone Wolf
2019
Oil on panel
8 x 10 inches
LK 18
Good Bad Dog
2008
oil on canvas
45¼ x 67 inches
LK5
Flowers that Fly
oil on canvas
46 x 66
2008
Nature Lovers
oil on canvas
46 x 66
2008
Bats in the Night Sky
oil on canvas
33 x 25 inches
2008
Maple Leaves in the Moonlight
2008
oil on canvas
33 x 25 inches
LK3
Fishing and Catching
oil on canvas
66 x 46
2008
Leonard Koscianski
Biographical Sketch
Leonard Koscianski was born in Cleveland, Ohio. A student of R. Buckminster Fuller, and noted American painter Wayne Thiebaud, he received his Bachelor’s degree from the Cleveland Institute of Art, and his Master’s degree from the University of California, Davis. An inspired painter, with an eerie, menacing vision, he has exhibited his much-acclaimed artwork throughout the United States and Europe. He is represented by the O.K. Harris Gallery in New York, and the Carl Hammer Gallery in Chicago. His artwork is to be found in many public and private collections including the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York, the Philadelphia Museum, and the Chicago Art Institute. It has appeared in the New York Times, the Los Angeles Times, Art News, Art in America, and Art Forum. He is a popular professor and speaker, and the recipient of numerous awards including the National Endowment for the Art’s Individual Artist Fellowship, and the Rockefeller Foundation’s Bellagio Fellowship. He lives and works in Annapolis, Maryland.
Solo Exhibitions
2009 Carl Hammer Gallery, Chicago, Illinois
2007 O.K. Harris Gallery, New York, New York.
2004 O.K. Harris Gallery, New York, New York.
2001 Robert Berman Gallery, Santa Monica, California.
1996 Wright Gallery, New York, New York.
Notre Dame College, Baltimore, Maryland.
Cumberland Gallery, Nashville, Tennessee
1995 Miami-Dade Community College, Miami, Florida.
OK Harris Gallery, New York, New York.
1994 Robert Berman Gallery, Los Angeles, California
1992 Arthur Roger Gallery, New Orleans, Louisiana
1991 Phyllis Kind Gallery, Chicago, Illinois
Fendrick Gallery, Washington, D.C.
1990 Phyllis Kind Gallery, New York
Phyllis Kind Gallery, Chicago
Arthur Roger Gallery, New Orleans
1989 Brody Gallery, Washington, D.C.
Phyllis Kind Gallery, Chicago
1988 Greenville County Museum of Art, Greenville, S. Carolina
Phyllis Kind Gallery, New York
1987 Karl Bornstein Gallery, Los Angeles
Phyllis Kind Gallery, Chicago
1986 Phyllis Kind Gallery, New York
1984 Karl Bornstein Gallery, Los Angeles
1984 Newport Harbor Museum, Newport Beach, California
Phyllis Kind Gallery, New York
1983 Phyllis Kind Gallery, New York
Karl Bornstein Gallery, Los Angeles
1980 Karl Bornstein Gallery, Los Angeles
1979 George Belcher Gallery, San Francisco
C. N. Gorman Museum, Davis, California
Public Collections
The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, New York.
The Philadelphia Museum of Art, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
The Chicago Art Institute, Chicago, Illinois.
The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, Ohio.
The Chrysler Museum, Norfolk, Virginia.
The Milwaukee Museum of Art, Milwaulkee, Wisconsin.
The Long Beach Museum of Art, Long Beach, California.
The Greenville County Museum of Art, Greenville, South Carolina
The Montgomery Museum of Art, Montgomery, Alabama
The Newport Harbor Museum of Art, Newport Beach, California
The Arnot Museum of Art, Oswego, New York
The Chrysler Museum of Art, Norfolk, Virginia.
University Art Museum. Vanderbilt University, Nashville, Tennessee.
The Federal Reserve Board, Washington, D.C.
The Federal Reserve Board, Cleveland, Ohio.
C.N. Gorman Museum, Davis California.
Arrowmont School of Arts and Crafts, Sandra J. Blain Gallery,
Gatlinburg, Tennessee.
University of California, Davis, California.
The Student Loan Marketing Association, Washington D.C.
AT&T Corporation, Chicago, Illinois.
IBM, New York, New York.
Disney Corporation, Pasedena, California.
ESPN Sportzone, Chicago, Illinois.
3-M Corporation, Saint Paul, Minnesota.
Rayovac Corporation, Madison, Wisconsin.
Chase Manhattan Corporation, New York, New York.
Tennessee Valley Authority, Knoxville, Tennessee.w
Awards National Endowment for the Arts’ Individual Artists Fellowship, 1985, and 1989.
Maryland Art’s Council’s Individual Artists Fellowship, 1995,1993, 1989, and1986.
The Rockefeller Foundation’s Bellagio Fellowship, 1989, Bellagio, Italy.
Tennessee Arts Commission, Visual Artists Fellowship, 1984
“Awards in the Visual Arts”, Individual Artists Fellowship, 1983
“SECCA 7”, Individual Artists Fellowship, South Eastern Center For Contemporary Art, 1983
Education
Master of Fine Art University of California Davis, California
Bachelor of Fine Art Cleveland Institute of Art Cleveland, Ohio
Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture Skowhegan, Maine
University of Detroit School of Architecture Detroit, Michigan
Maryland Institute College of Art Baltimore, Maryland