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Publications & Reviews
viewRobert C. Morgan, Catalog, Essay for Dillon Gallery Exhibition, 2009
viewLyle Rexer,
Art in America, "Hector Leonardi at the Viewing Gallery," June
3, 2003
Anthony Barzilay Freund, Town and Country,
“Connoisseur’s World, “ February 2002
Lyle Rexer, Review Magazine, “Hector Leonardi:
New Paintings,” May 15, 1998
Ann Lauterback, Catalog, “Hector Leonardi:
The Innate Order of Particulars,” January, 1991
David Bell, The Albuquerque Journal, May
23, 1982
Susan Zwinger, The Santa Fe Reporter, May
23, 1982
viewJohn
Russell, The New York Times, May 9, 1980
viewJohn Russell,
The New York Times, May 4, 1979
John Russell, The New York Times, June
9, 1978
John Russell, Catalog, Essay for Razor
Gallery Exhibition, 1973
Peter Frank, The Soho Weekly News, December
6, 1973
In many of the minor monuments of ancient Egypt, successive periods of history lie one on top of another: image upon image, color upon color, texture upon texture. Hector Leonardi’s new paintings combine the memory of that experience with a grid structure such as many good painters have lately employed and some textural variants of his own devising. All this works particularly well on a large scale, with an overflow of strong feeling kept in check by the patchwork of the grid and some idiosyncratic markings and mottlings to keep our imaginations on the jump.