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Born 4-14-59 One critic writes: “There might be a whiff of German abstractionist Anseim Keifer’s grandiosity in Lentsch’s ambitious images, but his bravura gestures have an authentic individuality.”
EDWARD LENTSCH is a well-established Mid-career painter working in mixed media on canvas. Lentsch’s monumental sized works exhibit unique surfaces and refined textures while also reflecting a contemplative element of alchemy and spiritual introspection. The Spiritual overtones of Lentsch’s painting are captured by his titles, where he uses mystical images and esoteric subjects to inspire the imagination of his viewer. His titles are compelling as he reaches for what he refers to as a “dialog that redefines synectic reasoning…” (a concept first coined by Buckminster Fuller --20th Century visionary inventor…) Wikipedia contributor William Gordon describes Synectics as: a problem solving approach that stimulates thought processes of which the subject is generally unaware. He describes this method as “Trusting things that are alien, and alienating things that are trusted." In Lentsch’s work he often pairs paintings with titles that attempt to explain this idea of synectic reason by connecting a vast matrix of complex relationships between science and mysticism; and the metaphysical and spiritual…
“My paintings are derived from a source of contemplation and fascination with the wonders of an awesome logic that exists in nature,” Lentsch explains in one of his many essays on the subject. For Lentsch, “as words define those things that are most important to our definition of self, art is the translation of those same but most important definitions.”
Lentsch is an artist, author, architectural builder, designer, inventor, and entrepreneur. He lives in Minneapolis, Minnesota and works out of his studio in the Warehouse District of Minneapolis. He is the founder of Artist’s League Studios, a Minneapolis based think-tank/studio for emerging artists. More information can be obtained on the artist’s website: www.artistsleague.com
Lentsch’s works are in both corporate and private collections all over the world including Japan, Israel, Belgium, France, British Colombia, and Madrid. Lentsch exhibits in Scottsdale, Boston, Los Angeles, West Palm Beach, Palm Desert, Chicago, Houston and Santa Fe. He has a major exhibition at OK Harris in New York, December of 07.
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