Leonard Meiselman

Born and raised in New York City, Leonard Meiselman received his art education at the Cooper Union, the Skowhegan School of Art in Maine and the Cranbrook Academy in Michigan. After living in Florence, Italy, he returned to the United States and now maintains studios in New York and Maine.

Meiselman has had one-person exhibitions at the Camden Arts Center in London, the Yeshiva University Museum in New York, the Holocaust Center in Manhasset and elsewhere. His paintings have appeared in group shows, including the Allan Stone Gallery in New York, the Florence Biennale (Palazzo Strozzi) and the Hebrew Union College Museum in New York. In 2007, Meiselman founded ArtCriesOut.com, a website for protest art.

Statement

We are all adjusting to challenging times… I am reexamining my attitude toward myself as an artist and what I believe and struggle to express… The work I am exhibiting represents that search and process. I am committed to painting as a response to crisis; to art as an outcry against injustice, tragedy and the absurd; and the affirmation of the human spirit confronting adversity and despair.

Select Exhibitions

2002 “Art Against Forgetting.” Yeshiva University Museum, NYC.
2014 “The Dilemma of Memory.” Group show, Holocaust and Human Rights Center (UMA) Augusta, ME.
2016 “Protest Artist on Monhegan.” Brunswick, ME. Library.
2016 Two-person show Midcoast Conservancy, Wiscasset, ME.
2017 “Home(less).” Group show, Hebrew Union College Museum, NYC.
2017 “Portraits of Trees.” Green Lion Gallery, Bath, ME.
2017. “America Now.” Group show, Holocaust and Human Rights Center (UMA) Augusta, ME.
2018. “America Now.” Group show, Portland, ME. Library this July.