https://www.leemourpelli.com/home daily 1.0 2021-03-19 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/604bb6dd458e414dfd77bfec/3dd513ff-4c05-4d80-8f67-c17dbbf1b27a/Untitled%28CoupleI%29Csml.jpg HOME Untitled, (Couple I), 2008, oil on canvas, 70" x 54." part of a diptych. In Private Collection. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/604bb6dd458e414dfd77bfec/87c4455f-0281-44cb-b23a-be4b4bbd148e/Untitled%28CoupleII%29C.jpg HOME Untitled (Couple II), 2008, oil on canvas, 70" x 54." Published in ArtForum. 2008. https://www.leemourpelli.com/about daily 0.75 2021-03-19 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/604bb6dd458e414dfd77bfec/1616029507041-TXB02R37QHNJWB7JNOFS/HeartChoices+I%2C+II%2C+III%2C+2013.+Oil+on+canvas%2C+30%22+x+24%22+each+canvas. About Heart Choices I, II, and III, 2015, oil on canvas, triptych. Each canvas is 30” x 24".” Total Size: 30” x 72.” https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/604bb6dd458e414dfd77bfec/d1ab70e4-b3dd-4bfc-a127-39f90fce13a5/ToDoThyWillWithAPerfectHeartI2019.jpg About To Do Thy Will With a Perfect Heart I and II, 2019, oil on canvas, 48" x 36" each canvas. Part of a triptych. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/604bb6dd458e414dfd77bfec/3c10a05e-71dc-488d-a59c-cc8c9edcac49/ToDoThyWillWithAPerfectHeartII2019.jpg About https://www.leemourpelli.com/paintings daily 0.75 2021-03-21 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/604bb6dd458e414dfd77bfec/5f14a529-c040-40ad-82c0-2f026f08a0ad/ToDoThyWillWithAPerfectHeartI2019.jpg Paintings To Do Thy Will With a Perfect Heart, I, II and III, 2019-2020, oil on canvas, triptych. Each canvas is 48" x 36." Total size: 48" x 108." The title of this painting comes from a Psalm in the Bible. The figures depicted are inter-connected and interacting with one another. Their hearts and anatomy do not seem "perfect," some are small, some enlarged and out of control, and some are distorted, and in some kind of movement or drama. The internal organs are a place for inner hidden emotions. Published in Heart of Flesh Magazine. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/604bb6dd458e414dfd77bfec/26cc2ba9-e4c7-4eba-927c-655c2534fea0/ToDoThyWillWithAPerfectHeartII2019.jpg Paintings To Do Thy Will With a Perfect Heart II, 2019-2020, oil on canvas, triptych. Each canvas is 48" x 36." Total triptych: 48" x 108." The title of this painting comes from a Psalm in the Bible. The figures depicted are inter-connected and interacting with one another. Their hearts and anatomy do not seem "perfect," some are small, some enlarged and out of control, and some are distorted, and in some kind of movement or drama. The internal organs are a place for inner hidden emotions. Published in Heart of Flesh Magazine. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/604bb6dd458e414dfd77bfec/8a736f59-1d58-4a76-b05a-42b7545f01f2/ToDoThyWillWithAPerfectHeartIII2019.jpg Paintings To Do Thy Will With a Perfect Heart III, 2019-2020, oil on canvas, triptych. Each canvas is 48" x 36." Total triptych: 48" x 108." The title of this painting comes from a Psalm in the Bible. The figures depicted are inter-connected and interacting with one another. Their hearts and anatomy do not seem "perfect," some are small, some enlarged and out of control, and some are distorted, and in some kind of movement or drama. The internal organs are a place for inner hidden emotions. Published in Heart of Flesh Magazine. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/604bb6dd458e414dfd77bfec/a5a63f42-78c2-4132-b71f-307cf7002f4d/SomewhereinTimeTrueLovetime.jpg Paintings Somewhere in Time. True Love Time. 2018-2019, oil on canvas, 48" x 36." Art Dex third prize winner. The painting's title was inspired by the movie "Somewhere in Time," which is based on a love story between two people that might be from two different time periods. The painting depicts two figures that are connected to one another. Something visceral is transpiring between them. Their inner organs (hearts and anatomy) are distorted, enlarged, and in movement. They seem to be growing and disintegrating at the same time. The painting was also inspired by the Robert Frost poem "The Road not Taken." Behind the two figures is a landscape with two different roads or paths that come together and diverge, alluding to choices that one must make in one's lifetime. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/604bb6dd458e414dfd77bfec/577318f2-c369-48fc-988c-57d80809e827/UntitledLoveLungsI2019.jpg Paintings Love Lungs I, 2019, oil canvas, part of a diptych. Each canvas 30” x 24” A figure is depicted not in a typical art historical way, but from the inside out. The figure is as if x-rayed to reveal its enlarged and out of control inner organs, movements and emotions. This is part of a diptych. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/604bb6dd458e414dfd77bfec/ee9f1be0-da66-45ab-bb90-3ed9b79eadef/TwoHeartsDivergedOnARoad%28IstartedPaintingyou+beforeYouArrived.JPG Paintings Two Hearts Diverged on a Road. I started Painting Before You Arrived. 2018, oil on canvas, 60" x 48" This painting was inspired by the Robert Frost Poem "The Road Not Taken." https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/604bb6dd458e414dfd77bfec/90f8049b-6045-4cf2-921c-ccc17fff1354/PerfectHeartsI.jpg Paintings Perfect Hearts I, and II, 2021, oil on canvas, 14" x 11" each canvas. This is part of a diptych, and a series of two paintings painted during the time of Covid. Two figures are engulfed by each other, their secrets and inner thoughts, and what is happening in the world. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/604bb6dd458e414dfd77bfec/702b5e71-efeb-4439-b46b-cf64f3dd7ab7/PerfectHeartsII.jpg Paintings Perfect Hearts II, 2021, oil on canvas, 14" x 11" each canvas. This is part of a diptych, and a series of two paintings painted during the time of Covid. Two figures are engulfed by each other, their secrets and inner thoughts, and what is happening in the world. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/604bb6dd458e414dfd77bfec/feeb1664-5f07-4e81-9bd0-bb8d1fb1f27e/Self-portraitwithHeart2019+copy.jpg Paintings Self-Portrait with Heart, 2019, oil on canvas, 60” x 48” A female persona, or "Christ like" figure, bearing a cross like easel, is represented in the role of an "artist figure." This is not your typical female role, but it is not a typical rendering of a portrait, as metaphorically and poetically the figure's heart is shown in some kind of movement and x-ray fashion. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/604bb6dd458e414dfd77bfec/ca37f259-148d-4b34-b58a-0310e350364d/TwoRoadsDiverged.JPG Paintings Two Roads Diverged, 2018-2019, oil on canvas, 14” x 11.” This painting was inspired by the Robert Frost Poem "The Road not Taken." https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/604bb6dd458e414dfd77bfec/b719dda5-0b8f-473c-8a60-c044f0408096/ArtistsFadingLungsIsml.jpg Paintings Artist’s Lungs Fading I and II, 2018, oil on canvas, diptych: Each canvas is 14” x 11".” In the first painting, Artist’s Lungs Fading I, a visceral figure is depicted with large or enlarged, somewhat “unstill” and “out of control” pair of lungs. In the second painting, Artist’s Lungs Fading II, the face, lungs, and background appear to fade, as if all is being erased, consumed by time, or about to disappear. The Paintings are about an Artist or persona actually fading from sight, from the public, or in general, fading from life and/or the Self. The painting might also signify the fading away of the creative powers of the Artist, or the fear of losing those powers. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/604bb6dd458e414dfd77bfec/18efa178-3c35-48af-8f2f-ae3ec4c16533/ArtistsLungsFadingII+copy.jpg Paintings Artist’s Lungs Fading II, 2018, oil on canvas, diptych: Each canvas is 14” x 11." In the first painting, Artist’s Lungs Fading I, a visceral figure is depicted with large or enlarged, somewhat “unstill” and “out of control” lungs. In the second painting, Artist’s Lungs Fading II, the face, lungs, and background appear to fade, as if all is being erased or about to disappear. The Paintings are about an Artist or persona actually fading from sight, from the public, or in general, fading from life and/or the Self. The painting might also signify the fading away of the creative powers of the Artist, or the fear of losing those powers. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/604bb6dd458e414dfd77bfec/3ac096bb-4a3a-41c4-8778-edbc490e212a/BetweenTwoPaths2018.jpg Paintings Between Two Paths, 2016-2017, oil on canvas, 14” x 11.” This painting was inspired by the Robert Frost poem "The Road not Taken." https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/604bb6dd458e414dfd77bfec/aed54a51-075b-469a-9176-24feed64cd44/ArtPathLovePathlg.JPG Paintings Art Path, Love Path, 2016-2017, oil on canvas, 14" x 11." This painting was inspired by the Robert Frost Poem "The Road Not Taken." https://www.leemourpelli.com/works-on-paper daily 0.75 2021-03-19 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/604bb6dd458e414dfd77bfec/3b8b3d64-422f-4acb-92ac-d7f1bcab3f05/IMG_0481.jpg Works on Paper Untitled, 2021, pencil, oil on paper, 29" x 22" https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/604bb6dd458e414dfd77bfec/9d2a6b0d-76a1-4bd6-b7db-d24143b7792d/LeemourPelli.Artist.ActI2018.JPG Works on Paper Leemour Pelli: Artist: Act I, 2018, Mixed media on paper, 30” x 22.” Triptych. Total Size: 30" x 66." https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/604bb6dd458e414dfd77bfec/e6d5aa86-2a8d-48b6-a03a-9995d42e7975/ArtistsAnatomyDarkenedI.jpg Works on Paper Artist’s Anatomy Darkened I, 2011, Manipulated image on paper, 30” x 22.” https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/604bb6dd458e414dfd77bfec/811b2031-0757-488e-925c-c49bfbb4243e/IMG_0483.jpg Works on Paper Untitled, 2021, pencil, oil on paper, 29" x 20" https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/604bb6dd458e414dfd77bfec/39cfcaa7-7ffd-45f2-9824-25f0cb562064/LeemourPelli.Artist.ActII2018.JPG Works on Paper Leemour Pelli: Artist: Act II, 2018, Mixed media on paper, 30” x 22.” Triptych. Total Size: 30" x 66." https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/604bb6dd458e414dfd77bfec/dfe3be46-82b3-44c5-9297-7c8028493a38/ArtistsAnatomyDarkenedII.jpg Works on Paper Artist’s Anatomy Darkened II, 2011, Manipulated image on paper, 30” x 22.” https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/604bb6dd458e414dfd77bfec/88687410-fb6f-4177-81aa-4bc352ffc43e/IMG_0480.jpg Works on Paper Untitled, 2021, pencil, oil on paper, 29" x 22" https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/604bb6dd458e414dfd77bfec/b42805ff-c9d2-4896-87ed-bd2357435fbd/LeemourPelli.Artist.ActIII2018.JPG Works on Paper Leemour Pelli: Artist: Act III, 2018, Mixed media on paper, 30” x 22.” Triptych. Total Size: 30" x 66." https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/604bb6dd458e414dfd77bfec/c3895c55-938f-40e0-80f4-08437f423c3d/ArtistsGuts.jpg Works on Paper Artists Guts, 2012, Mixed media on paper, 30” x 22.” https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/604bb6dd458e414dfd77bfec/1e5a9907-a076-40be-924e-b095d468d683/RedLungs2020lg.jpg Works on Paper Red Lungs, 2020, pencil, oil on paper, 29" x 22" https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/604bb6dd458e414dfd77bfec/c1706e3e-0319-4a24-a776-78d04f47dff7/WomanofSorrows2018.JPG Works on Paper Woman of Sorrows, 2018, mixed media, artist's blood, bandages, on paper, 30" x 22." https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/604bb6dd458e414dfd77bfec/3e148fca-8918-4835-ba3a-caf26c6ff640/ArtistsHeartTroubles.jpg Works on Paper Artists Heart Troubles, 2012, Mixed media on paper, 30” x 22.” https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/604bb6dd458e414dfd77bfec/97ed6d8a-dd3e-4af8-8ddb-b75b6a4a5923/DarkTime2020Lg.jpg Works on Paper Dark Time, pencil, oil on paper, 29" x 22" https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/604bb6dd458e414dfd77bfec/89db17ba-caee-4fb5-b4e3-4305842b5909/ILovedArtTooMuchI.jpg Works on Paper I loved Art too much I, 2008-2010, Bandages, artist’s blood, oil paint, mixed media on paper. 30” x 22.” https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/604bb6dd458e414dfd77bfec/0fdc9850-e190-4c9f-aee7-6ad6e4c0a8c5/Life-DarkTime2020boardlg.jpg Works on Paper Life-Dark Time, 2020, mixed media, oil, styrofoam on paper. 30" x 22". https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/604bb6dd458e414dfd77bfec/7eaba146-4e0e-48d4-84f6-f549639879b8/SufferingArtist2010.jpg Works on Paper Suffering Artist, 2008-2010, Bandages, artist’s blood, oil paint, mixed media on paper, 30” x 22.”  https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/604bb6dd458e414dfd77bfec/1d7bfc03-33c9-4b17-94b9-21996d7f4e51/DeathLifeI.jpg Works on Paper Death Life I, pencil, oil on paper, 29" x 22" https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/604bb6dd458e414dfd77bfec/7b8ac45d-d446-4d07-b584-22afd8566032/MedicalLeemour.jpg Works on Paper Medical Leemour, 2010, Manipulated image, hospital bandages on paper, 30” x 22.” https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/604bb6dd458e414dfd77bfec/14ee3829-149c-43aa-8d45-f63de8ba8db1/DeathLifeII.jpg Works on Paper Death Life II, pencil, oil on paper, 29" x 22" https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/604bb6dd458e414dfd77bfec/1faf58d0-1239-46f9-97d4-71e5b2e746fb/TwoSkeletonsonadayinMayI72res.jpg Works on Paper Skeletons, (two Skeletons on a day in May I), 2006, Pencil, oil on paper. 29” x 22” https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/604bb6dd458e414dfd77bfec/27d2c758-4a76-4c63-95f4-f970471ecfe0/RealityMadnessI2020lg.jpg Works on Paper Reality Madness I, 2020, pencil, oil on paper, 29" x 22" https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/604bb6dd458e414dfd77bfec/ee3b7f37-8919-4b85-a6e9-fe50e06b7d86/TwoSkeletonsonadayinMayIICpaper.jpg Works on Paper Skeletons, (two Skeletons on a day in May II), 2006, Pencil, oil on paper. 29” x 22.” https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/604bb6dd458e414dfd77bfec/77cef670-52a4-4aa0-80c5-ee0ec40bb66d/RealityMadnessII2020Large.jpg Works on Paper Reality Madness II, pencil, oil on paper, 29" x 22" https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/604bb6dd458e414dfd77bfec/de5c6c78-b077-47c6-a6a8-3322f71e8d3d/11crowcharacter.jpg Works on Paper Crow Character, 2003, pencil, oil on paper, 30” x 22.” https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/604bb6dd458e414dfd77bfec/b9ee778c-57d4-4a24-876f-f66da88dc813/06Castletime.jpg Works on Paper Castle-time, 2003, pencil, oil, manipulated transfers on paper, 30” x 22.” https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/604bb6dd458e414dfd77bfec/50f85dd7-78ba-46a5-9a10-932a0a4170af/07madnessroomI.jpg Works on Paper Madness Room I, 2003, pencil, oil, mixed media on paper, 30” x 22.” Part of a series of two drawings. https://www.leemourpelli.com/contact daily 0.75 2021-03-21 https://www.leemourpelli.com/paintings-20172015 daily 0.75 2021-03-21 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/604bb6dd458e414dfd77bfec/b86d7ebb-6065-4328-91af-5a99337f62e5/Almost-sightthoughts2copy300ressml.jpg Paintings 2017-2008 Almost-sight thoughts, 2009 oil on canvas 60” x 48” The painting is a critique of sight and perception – and how one can not quite achieve the correct perception of things, or time, until a later time. . . but not in the moment itself. There are two central figures with other faces surrounding them. The lines seem to indicate lines of space, and time. There is an overlap, a sense of memory, there is a drama to the space. . . https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/604bb6dd458e414dfd77bfec/a40f612f-fcd1-4f42-90e2-2d25877c84b6/Untitled%28CoupleIII%29best.jpg Paintings 2017-2008 Untitled (Couple III), 2011-2012. oil on canvas, 70" x 54." When the original Untitled (Couple I) sold, the artist created another painting to go as a diptych with Untitled Couple II. Two entwined figures are inspired by Ted Hughes’ poem – He loved her and she loved him. This painting is about the difficulty of human relations – and the complexity of love. It attempts to show a poetic internal interaction between the two figures. They are exposed and made visible or perhaps the relation has left them as such – over exposed and vulnerable. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/604bb6dd458e414dfd77bfec/90e25e6a-e567-4714-ac86-73629146ce61/Untitled%28CoupleIII%29C.jpg Paintings 2017-2008 Untitled (Couple III), 2008 oil on canvas 14” x 11” https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/604bb6dd458e414dfd77bfec/b5b9efd2-e95c-42cd-830d-283ebeb7056b/Almost-timethoughts+300ressml.jpg Paintings 2017-2008 Almost-time thoughts, 2009 oil on canvas 60” x 48” This painting contains two elements of time, namely two clocks. Yet there is no sense of time, and there can be no "real time," in a painting. The multiple layers and lines of paint actually suggest a collapse of time. One can not see what is happening in time between the two depicted figures. Is it the past, the present, or a memory. The clocks, as well as the figures are not clear. The clocks also allude to something that is time-related, or temporal, or limited. There seems to be a collapse of something, something as strong as love perhaps. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/604bb6dd458e414dfd77bfec/1615993782989-FE76IYO37W9TTRJPB0C3/Untitled%28CoupleII%29CCsml.jpg Paintings 2017-2008 Untitled (Couple II), 2011-2012 oil on canvas 70” x 54” https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/604bb6dd458e414dfd77bfec/b59bf1b7-0401-4941-a2cd-dc181e743dec/Passio.jpg Paintings 2017-2008 Passio, 2008-9 oil on canvas 60” x 48” This painting's Title comes from the Estonian Composer Arvo Part's piece "Passio." This painting depicts two fragmented figures – that are still attached to one another – though somewhat separate, turned away from one another. They seem to be attached by their ribs or torsos, surrounded by or permeated with musical notes. The faded music notes are attached to the figures as if to mark a certain time, music, or connection. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/604bb6dd458e414dfd77bfec/b9c1ff86-32dd-4f7e-9101-b6f3ffeea5c7/New1300res.jpg Paintings 2017-2008 Untitled, 2010 oil on canvas, 70” x 54” https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/604bb6dd458e414dfd77bfec/1615993807815-0SE80UA7ZRBQWC206HZ3/Thisismycreation72res.jpg Paintings 2017-2008 This is my Creation, 2009-10, oil on canvas, 70" x 54." The title of the painting "This is my Creation," comes from a Ted Hughes poem called Crow Blacker than Ever - and it has to do with Hughes' idea of theology and persona Crow - among other things. I create my own personae in this multi-layered painting and focus on art and human inter-relations which both create, change and destroy. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/604bb6dd458e414dfd77bfec/085bdf54-bcde-4d85-bc92-2ecda8dbb6b1/CollapseofloveC.jpg Paintings 2017-2008 Collapse of Love, 2008-2010 oil on canvas 60” x 48” https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/604bb6dd458e414dfd77bfec/a2df58fb-4057-4844-a316-010f897657cf/EastwardoneWesttheotherjpg+copy.jpg Paintings 2017-2008 East Ward One. West the Other, (After Lautreamont), 2009 oil on canvas 60” x 48” The title comes from Lautreamont’s Les Chants de Maldoror. . . “Who can understand why two lovers who idolised one another the night before, because of one word misinterpreted, split up, eastward one, west the other, goaded by hate, both cloaked in lonely pride. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/604bb6dd458e414dfd77bfec/1615993813503-AW96034KNA0KS6RDAT00/Untitled272res.jpg Paintings 2017-2008 Untitled, (easel), 2009-2010, oil on canvas, 60" x 48" Easel rendered in painting can no longer be seen. It is covered up by another figure and large rib-cages. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/604bb6dd458e414dfd77bfec/8027a814-e0b5-480a-b8c9-2655ea90fcb0/CastleScarI.jpg Paintings 2017-2008 Castle-Scar, 2012, oil on canvas, 14" x 11" https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/604bb6dd458e414dfd77bfec/85bcbcf9-3542-4e11-84a8-b6320ff32d9a/LoveSouls2014b.JPG Paintings 2017-2008 Love-Souls, 2014   (for Jeff) Oil on canvas  30” x 24” This painting is a smaller version of larger paintings made with the same theme(s). This piece was influenced by two poems by the poet Ted Hughes. The first one is called Love Song and it is from his book Selected Poems 1957-1994.  The poem starts with “He loved her and she loved him. His kisses sucked out her whole past and future or tried to... .” The other poem called “Love,” said God, say “Love,” is in a book of poems called –  From the life and songs of the Crow. In these poems there is a “dark” character called Crow. . . and in this particular poem metaphorically speaking God is teaching the Character Crow how to say “love.“ In the painting, there are two central figures, yet not typical figures in that they are somewhat skeletal, and their bodies have become exposed almost like x-rays. One can see their rib cages and their inner states of being/emotions. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/604bb6dd458e414dfd77bfec/82190915-ba5a-4c4a-ba3b-e6af40223318/YourheartisinmysoulCsml.jpg Paintings 2017-2008 Your Heart is in my Soul, 2007-2008, oil on canvas, 48" x 36." In this painting the viewer does not know if there is a drama occurring between one figure or two figures. There seems to be one body/figure present and to it are attached a heart and a face that the full, skeletal figure in the front seems to be clinging to. One questions whether the face/figure in the background is real or imagined. The psychological dimension is blurred. The Object and the subject become interwined, or confused, and the object is a mirror of the subject. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/604bb6dd458e414dfd77bfec/187217f7-fac7-457e-b536-9a5751fdf2d5/HeartChoicesI.jpg Paintings 2017-2008 Heart Choices I, II and III Each canvas is 30" x 24" or total size of triptych: 30" x 72" This piece was influenced by two poems by the poet Ted Hughes. The first one is called Love Song and it is from his book Selected Poems 1957-1994. The poem starts with “He loved her and she loved him. His kisses sucked out her whole past and future or tried to... .” The other poem called “Love,” said God, say “Love,” is in a book of poems called –  From the life and songs of the Crow. In these poems there is a “dark” character called Crow. . . and in this particular poem metaphorically speaking God is teaching the Character Crow how to say “love.“ https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/604bb6dd458e414dfd77bfec/f1e15dc4-d60d-4ddc-9c56-777869c6e31d/UntitledCsml.jpg Paintings 2017-2008 Untitled, 2008-2009, oil on canvas, 48" x 36." https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/604bb6dd458e414dfd77bfec/2be27a05-83e3-418d-af10-a5ae3873850c/HeartChoicesII.jpg Paintings 2017-2008 Heart Choices, II, 2013 Each canvas is 30" x 24" or total size of triptych: 30" x 72" This piece was influenced by two poems by the poet Ted Hughes. The first one is called Love Song and it is from his book Selected Poems 1957-1994. The poem starts with “He loved her and she loved him. His kisses sucked out her whole past and future or tried to... .” The other poem called “Love,” said God, say “Love,” is in a book of poems called –  From the life and songs of the Crow. In these poems there is a “dark” character called Crow. . . and in this particular poem metaphorically speaking God is teaching the Character Crow how to say “love.“ https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/604bb6dd458e414dfd77bfec/84a37785-785f-41f1-b42b-f3ea9fed2e2e/HeartChoicesIII.jpg Paintings 2017-2008 Heart Choices III, 2013 Each canvas is 30" x 24" or total size of triptych: 30" x 72" This piece was influenced by two poems by the poet Ted Hughes. The first one is called Love Song and it is from his book Selected Poems 1957-1994. The poem starts with “He loved her and she loved him. His kisses sucked out her whole past and future or tried to... .” The other poem called “Love,” said God, say “Love,” is in a book of poems called –  From the life and songs of the Crow. In these poems there is a “dark” character called Crow. . . and in this particular poem metaphorically speaking God is teaching the Character Crow how to say “love.“ https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/604bb6dd458e414dfd77bfec/5a251cda-7594-426e-885f-1f2cae61696a/HeartFailure.jpg Paintings 2017-2008 Heart Failure, 2012 oil on canvas 14” x 11” https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/604bb6dd458e414dfd77bfec/a607e5ac-fdd8-45f5-a5d5-a00777bc6cf3/HeartHellI12013.jpg Paintings 2017-2008 Heart Hell I and II, 2013, oil on canvas 14” x 11” each. Two figures are entwined and interconnected. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/604bb6dd458e414dfd77bfec/6e9851fd-fb3f-4580-b0fc-d2aaffb87a31/HeartHellII2013.jpg Paintings 2017-2008 Heart Hell I and II, 2013, oil on canvas 14” x 11” each. Two figures are entwined Two figures are entwined and interconnected. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/604bb6dd458e414dfd77bfec/9c76547d-76df-46ff-af48-babd4d8f8a67/Crazylove2011.jpg Paintings 2017-2008 Crazy love, 2011, oil on canvas, 20" x 16" Two figures are depicted with large and out of control poetic hearts. The hearts seem to overtake their entire being. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/604bb6dd458e414dfd77bfec/961f1ab8-d303-4dff-8dd6-9f627b161096/AnatomicalSituationI.jpg Paintings 2017-2008 Anatomical Situation I, 2012 oil on canvas 48” x 36” https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/604bb6dd458e414dfd77bfec/a6d71db4-868a-427c-98c1-cd9217bc601c/AnatomicalSituationII.jpg Paintings 2017-2008 Anatomical Situation II, 2012 oil on canvas 48” x 36” https://www.leemourpelli.com/sculpture daily 0.75 2021-03-21 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/604bb6dd458e414dfd77bfec/a36a6765-aa88-4679-8c81-f40f4be006d9/Crowsbest1300res.jpg Sculpture Crows (After The Painted Bird), 2007 Cast hydro-stone, paint. 9”h x 18” w x 6 1/2”d each bird ten birds. An approximate size of the piece is 9”H x 54”L x 30-35”Wide This piece was inspired by an episode in Jerzi Kozinski’s (Holocaust subject matter) book The Painted Bird. The sculpture consists of 10 birds, nine of which are black, and which surround and are about to attack another bird that looks slightly different. The point is that the central bird is just slightly different from the others – though it is from the same family/species of birds. This work is about exterior differences, or even internal differences, and the conflicts and violence that they may cause. Paradoxically, these exterior differences allude to internal differences as well ie: different characters and personae in this universe. In this case, the work takes on a political undertone and explores the darker and destructive impulses of both animal and man. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/604bb6dd458e414dfd77bfec/8a6069da-4250-470f-90c0-d5ab1b5ab70f/Hearts300reslg.jpg Sculpture Untitled (Hearts), 2007, Cast concrete, paint 10L” x 5”W x 5”H each heart.   Face is 10”L x 6” w x 4”d. Total size can be approximately: 60”L x 15”H x 30”W. This sculpture can be installed in different ways. A black face is surrounded by a group of large black hearts. The multiple black hearts can stand in for a certain kind of humanity or occurrence - while the black face represents one effected by the former. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/604bb6dd458e414dfd77bfec/43f153ca-0121-4c77-b628-befae16f1baa/hearts.jpg Sculpture Untitled (Black Heart, White Heart), 2007, Pigmented cast Polyester resin, cold cast marble dust 10L” x 5W” x 5D” each heart Total 10”L x 10”W x 5”D https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/604bb6dd458e414dfd77bfec/6d682f73-1477-47eb-b28c-5a43205d828c/blacklungs.JPG Sculpture Lungs, 2007-2008, Pigmented Polyester resin, cold cast marble dust. 10 1/2” x 10” x 5 1/2” lungs. Face is 8”L x 6”W x 3 ½”D. Lungs and face together:  18 ½”L x 10”W x 5 ½”D. A black face is weighed down by the weight of large black lungs. This piece can also just be shown with the lungs without the face. This piece has both poetic and political undertones. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/604bb6dd458e414dfd77bfec/c27b51b3-6b18-4c52-acb8-95b763991993/Lungs72res.jpg Sculpture Lungs, 2007-2008, Pigmented Polyester resin, cold cast marble dust. 10 1/2” x 10” x 5 1/2” lungs. Face is 8”L x 6”W x 3 ½”D. Lungs and face together:  18 ½”L x 10”W x 5 ½”D. A black face is weighed down by the weight of large black lungs. This piece can also just be shown with the lungs without the face. This piece has both poetic and political undertones. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/604bb6dd458e414dfd77bfec/b8fbdee6-9ef4-477a-a285-a30511d9035e/Pain.jpg Sculpture Perception (Pain), 2007-2008, Anatomical tract, face, Cast concrete 31” h x 18” w x 1”d This installation is composed of two anatomical tracts and faces, that can be installed together or separately. This piece centers on the limited ideas and realities of human perception - and shows what one can not always see. The human figure is exposed from the inside out - and explored in an anatomical, interior, and poetic way - as a place of memory, darkness, and transformation. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/604bb6dd458e414dfd77bfec/918d80de-a030-4c5e-a063-4415efce56b1/Mirrormirror1.jpg Sculpture Mirror, Mirror, 2008-2009. Cast concrete, paint, 31 1/2” h x 20” w x 4 1/2” deep This sculpture consists of a black painted mirror that manifests an exposed three-dimensional face (that of the artist) and a heart. It presents what a mirror normally does not. –This mirror has a fixed object and is not able to reflect correctly. Not your normal mirror, reflects the inside of a person not the outside. The internal not the external. Mirror that does not reflect. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/604bb6dd458e414dfd77bfec/6cda5242-26c0-4799-a5c4-6c5e62041727/LamentforNarcissus72res.jpg Sculpture Lament for Narcissus, 1999, installation. Latex, mixed media, styrofoam, resin. This work is about reflections and impossible images. A face sees a different face as if reflected on a surface - not its own face. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/604bb6dd458e414dfd77bfec/ff7a99ad-b4f1-4428-a191-25f26d5632e0/Whoisthefairestofthemall.jpg Sculpture Who is the Fairest, 2000 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/604bb6dd458e414dfd77bfec/b6de94ab-d575-47c6-bcb1-71de071a40a7/DoubleRealitywhite.jpg Sculpture Double Reality, 1999 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/604bb6dd458e414dfd77bfec/89457527-799c-4467-aaee-bfe26ca93321/SelfportraitinMirror2.jpg Sculpture Mirror (Self-Portrait), mixed media, latex on canvas https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/604bb6dd458e414dfd77bfec/21a0735f-1a71-48ff-b35c-756383972834/Love-mirrorlatex.jpg Sculpture Love Mirror, 2000, mixed media, latex, on canvas, 48" x 36." https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/604bb6dd458e414dfd77bfec/929227e8-96a3-4e93-8cd6-6659c4658a65/Torsoheart.jpg Sculpture Torso with Heart, 2000 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/604bb6dd458e414dfd77bfec/05431d67-0c6b-4796-bda0-a0176b573730/Torsoimprint.jpg Sculpture Torso with Rib Cage Imprint, 2000 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/604bb6dd458e414dfd77bfec/fd64923c-a589-4bda-97a1-18f824c3a05a/multipletorsosb.jpg Sculpture Untitled, latex on canvas, 60" x 48" https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/604bb6dd458e414dfd77bfec/d1b57fb5-7d72-4d69-9ac7-1b0605add89b/Untitledlatextorsos.jpg Sculpture Untitled, latex on canvas https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/604bb6dd458e414dfd77bfec/fede3921-7638-4f14-8e3e-04d08805fac9/UntitledlatextorsosII.jpg Sculpture Untitled, latex on canvas https://www.leemourpelli.com/press daily 0.75 2021-03-17 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/604bb6dd458e414dfd77bfec/1615938666934-2P688UP2A6TGFXJH0YC4/ArtForumarticle2008.jpg Press ArtForum, 2008. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/604bb6dd458e414dfd77bfec/1615938779790-G50OGUR7ZSSNK2G71DJ7/AnninaNoseiReview2004.jpg Press Review of Annina Nosei Exhibition. 2004. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/604bb6dd458e414dfd77bfec/1615938857336-JXNLGBFOJU1NRVDJI2FT/FloridaReview2006.jpg Press Orlando Leisure Review, 2005, The University of Central Florida Exhibition https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/604bb6dd458e414dfd77bfec/5dc452ab-fe06-44d2-8e09-4ade53db609a/TheNYTimesNJ2000BarrySchwabskyReview.jpg Press https://www.leemourpelli.com/resume daily 0.75 2025-07-07 https://www.leemourpelli.com/paintings-1 daily 0.75 2021-03-21 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/604bb6dd458e414dfd77bfec/619268b6-7373-4313-9b6d-2c7d15d79dfe/Untitled%28Fate%292011best+copy.jpg Paintings Untitled (Fate), 2010 oil on canvas 60” x 48” https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/604bb6dd458e414dfd77bfec/c5ac02c0-dd96-43dc-904f-89138b14ea58/20crow.jpg Paintings Crows, 2010, oil on canvas, 60” x 48” https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/604bb6dd458e414dfd77bfec/5aa5c203-03af-402a-9d6e-49fad5a598f0/MyheartisinmystomachCsml.jpg Paintings My Heart is in My Stomach, (For Joseph) 2006-7, oil on canvas, 70” x 54” https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/604bb6dd458e414dfd77bfec/fdcf0a9b-90a0-4f49-b215-22ac6f26ac7a/ItsnotblackorwhiteI.jpg Paintings Its not Black or White I, II, and III, triptych. 2005, Each canvas is 70” x 54." Total Size: 70" x 162." https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/604bb6dd458e414dfd77bfec/b4691a2a-a91c-41ab-883f-abeeb5e0b418/LovesaidgodsayloveIICsml.jpg Paintings “Love,” said God, Say “Love,” 2005 oil on canvas 70” x 54” Published in Annina Nosei Catalogue. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/604bb6dd458e414dfd77bfec/be883018-3170-434b-bb28-d720e17586d9/itsnotblackorwhiteII.jpg Paintings Its not Black or White II, triptych. 2005, Each canvas is 70” x 54." Total Size: 70" x 162." https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/604bb6dd458e414dfd77bfec/26e39eac-edfe-4919-ab02-350141f87092/TwoSkeletonsonadayinMayICsml.jpg Paintings Two Skeletons on a day in May I, II, and III 2005-6, oil on canvas, 60” x 48” each canvas. Triptych. Total size: 60” x 144” In my work, figures are often turned “inside out” showing conditions, experiences, desires and memories that are not always seen in visual form but that nevertheless exist. These paintings are based on a poem that I wrote called "Two Skeletons on a day in May." The skeletons are a metaphor for the human condition, and they can mean different things. It can be a proclivity for a poetic state or space, or a certain kind of persona, or just the opposite, a mark of sorts. . . an imprint, or fate. . . a skeleton in the closet so to speak. . . perhaps alluding to a dark and romantic situation. The skeletons take on a poetic quality that allude to a(n) (extra) sensitivity of sorts, perhaps a human weakness, an incompleteness or fullness, things in hiding or tragedy and passion. The paintings are about x-rayed figures who are somewhat exposed, and looked at from the inside as well as the outside. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/604bb6dd458e414dfd77bfec/ee4fea56-4067-4f4f-9339-d6bce7d1cafe/ItsnotblackorwhiteIII.jpg Paintings Its not Black or White III, triptych. 2005, Each canvas is 70” x 54." Total Size: 70" x 162." https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/604bb6dd458e414dfd77bfec/ecae2ada-8fda-41ea-9925-3fd9fe5092b4/TwoSkeletonsonadayinMayIICsml.jpg Paintings Two Skeletons on a day in May II, 2005-6, oil on canvas, 60” x 48” each canvas. Triptych. Total size: 60” x 144” In my work, figures are often turned “inside out” showing conditions, experiences, desires and memories that are not always seen in visual form but that nevertheless exist. These paintings are based on a poem that I wrote called "Two Skeletons on a day in May." The skeletons are a metaphor for the human condition, and they can mean different things. It can be a proclivity for a poetic state or space, or a certain kind of persona, or just the opposite, a mark of sorts. . . an imprint, or fate. . . a skeleton in the closet so to speak. . . perhaps alluding to a dark and romantic situation. The skeletons take on a poetic quality that allude to a(n) (extra) sensitivity of sorts, perhaps a human weakness, an incompleteness or fullness, things in hiding or tragedy and passion. The paintings are about x-rayed figures who are somewhat exposed, and looked at from the inside as well as the outside. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/604bb6dd458e414dfd77bfec/4382f058-dfa3-49c9-9be6-8763888edf7c/TwoSkeletonsonadayinMayIIIC.jpg Paintings Two Skeletons on a day in May III, 2005-6, oil on canvas, 60” x 48” each canvas. Triptych. Total size: 60” x 144” In my work, figures are often turned “inside out” showing conditions, experiences, desires and memories that are not always seen in visual form but that nevertheless exist. These paintings are based on a poem that I wrote called "Two Skeletons on a day in May." The skeletons are a metaphor for the human condition, and they can mean different things. It can be a proclivity for a poetic state or space, or a certain kind of persona, or just the opposite, a mark of sorts. . . an imprint, or fate. . . a skeleton in the closet so to speak. . . perhaps alluding to a dark and romantic situation. The skeletons take on a poetic quality that allude to a(n) (extra) sensitivity of sorts, perhaps a human weakness, an incompleteness or fullness, things in hiding or tragedy and passion. The paintings are about x-rayed figures who are somewhat exposed, and looked at from the inside as well as the outside. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/604bb6dd458e414dfd77bfec/e4bf45f1-c08c-480d-a9b1-8afecc28dc46/CrowIsmall.jpg Paintings Crow I, 2012, oil on canvas, 24” x 20.” This is part of a diptych. These paintings were inspired by Ted Hughes book of poems "From the life and songs of the Crow." In these poems there is a “dark” character called Crow. . . and in one particular poem metaphorically speaking God is teaching the Character Crow how to say “love.“ God says to Crow, "Love," said God, say "Love." https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/604bb6dd458e414dfd77bfec/63a94743-58d0-4a8f-b712-4dfe12d4771a/CrowII.jpg Paintings Crow II, 2012, oil on canvas, 24” x 20.” Total size: 24” x 40.” This is part of a diptych. These paintings were inspired by Ted Hughes book of poems "From the life and songs of the Crow." In these poems there is a “dark” character called Crow. . . and in one particular poem metaphorically speaking God is teaching the Character Crow how to say “love.“ God says to Crow, "Love," said God, say "Love." https://www.leemourpelli.com/new-page daily 0.75 2025-12-19 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/604bb6dd458e414dfd77bfec/29e702d2-0c6c-4295-a162-297aae79db7b/CrowMeetsCrowaIIApl2025sml.jpg https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/604bb6dd458e414dfd77bfec/e1e45d84-ecf4-472a-bab5-eb981df3167a/CrowaMeetsCrow2025newsml.jpg https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/604bb6dd458e414dfd77bfec/202a90d2-3c9a-4101-8b44-88e0fd93b1d6/CrowaMeetsCrowaIApl2025sml.jpg https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/604bb6dd458e414dfd77bfec/b8921c21-915c-4004-8197-e22604616eef/CrowainFullFlightmed2025.jpg https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/604bb6dd458e414dfd77bfec/d4caf54d-c7d1-45c8-ab73-554010910908/CrowaFlyingHigh2025med.jpg https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/604bb6dd458e414dfd77bfec/ef27cd24-9b26-4601-a2ee-6022d341d6a3/CrowaLoveStrucksml2025.jpg https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/604bb6dd458e414dfd77bfec/6fef89ad-0cce-4232-84a3-5aef44670810/GodsTimeImed.jpg https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/604bb6dd458e414dfd77bfec/4079de0a-a52e-4f4e-846e-26d5ec6aa629/GodsTimeIImed.jpg https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/604bb6dd458e414dfd77bfec/dcf4e4b9-adc7-4a6a-9cdc-8fda36ae0a08/GodsTimeIIImed.jpg https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/604bb6dd458e414dfd77bfec/90bd4739-18c5-473e-a923-2b16e59f6961/ForDrowningOthersThouWastDrownedII.jpgmed.jpg https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/604bb6dd458e414dfd77bfec/94aeb7b0-b205-4c6f-9d90-abd62a33603e/ForDrowningOthersThouWastDrownedIIImed.jpg https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/604bb6dd458e414dfd77bfec/682dbbff-31b1-49ae-90ab-2a879335f73c/ForDrowningOthersThouWastDrownedImed.jpg