Book of Sketches now available...

Chris Leib Sketchbook by Chris Leib | Make Your Own Book

Subway Sketching Dec. 1st

Ball point pen, colored pencil

More Sketches while riding subway...

ball point pen, colored pencil, and stick on 'googlie eyes'

ball point pen, colored pencil

Subway sketching

If you see me sketching on the subway... I'm not drawing you... this is what I'm doing...

ball point pen

ball point pen

Reality 2 (squared)

Seek.Me Magazine interview

Check out my interview in the upcoming issue of Seek.Me Magazine...

Website Updates, and show at Pence Gallery in Davis CA

I've updated my website and added a few new paintings. Please have a look... ChrisLeib dot com

You can also find me on Facebook, where I often post new works and photos of the paintings at various stages of completion... ChrisLeibArt on Facebook

Surfrider

You can see Surfrider (above) and several other paintings in the exhibit Reality 2 (squared)...

Reality 2 (squared)
October 1 - November 10, 2013
Reception: October 11, 6-9 PM

Pence Gallery
212 D Street
Davis, CA 95616

Six Bay Area figurative painters illustrate with wisdom, imagination, and considerable humor, the strength of realism to convey an alternative or superior reality. Bay Area art critic DeWitt Cheng selected paintings and drawings by artists Arthur Bell, Mark Bryan, William Harsh, Chris Leib, Pierre Merkl, and Michael Kerbow that feature varying levels of pictorial realism.

Reality 2 features individual visions that are imaginative, personal, and idiosyncratic, often drawing from representational sources.

Curator Talk: October 11, 5 - 6 PM (FREE)
Join DeWitt Cheng in a quick overview tour of the exhibit, with support from the artists.

Sponsored by Far Western Anthropological Research Group

New Bonobo and Spacebaby that you can see currently at the Church of St. Paul the Apostle, near Columbus Circle, NYC. It is part of an exhibit titled All of the Above. Check it out!

Bonobo with AstroBaby

detail

Alan Richards, Andrew Berardi, Ariel Zakarison, Benjamin Armas & Ori Carino, Chris Leib, Denise Gieseke Penizzotto, Elisa Soliven, Eric Jiaju Lee, Erik Dalzen, Firth MacMillan, Guillermo Lorente Perez, Ingrid Roe, James Vanderberg, Janna Dyk, jdx, Jen Phippen, Jess Willa Wheaton, Joachim Marx, Joey Kilrain, Joyce Yamada, Katie Rubright, Laura Frantz, Mary DeVincentis, Mark Brennan, Michael TianXiang, Miya Ando, Patricia Bellucci, Reiner Hansen, Robert Aitchison, Samantha Holmes, Seldon Yuan, Summer McCorkle, Tim Rusterholtz, Timothy Collins, Visakh Menon, and Walter O’Neill.
Curated by Michael Berube and Keena Gonzalez
- See more at: http://openingsny.com/exhibit-1-all-of-the-above/#sthash.lXgQ8Oj0.dpuf

Alan Richards, Andrew Berardi, Ariel Zakarison, Benjamin Armas & Ori Carino, Chris Leib, Denise Gieseke Penizzotto, Elisa Soliven, Eric Jiaju Lee, Erik Dalzen, Firth MacMillan, Guillermo Lorente Perez, Ingrid Roe, James Vanderberg, Janna Dyk, jdx, Jen Phippen, Jess Willa Wheaton, Joachim Marx, Joey Kilrain, Joyce Yamada, Katie Rubright, Laura Frantz, Mary DeVincentis, Mark Brennan, Michael TianXiang, Miya Ando, Patricia Bellucci, Reiner Hansen, Robert Aitchison, Samantha Holmes, Seldon Yuan, Summer McCorkle, Tim Rusterholtz, Timothy Collins, Visakh Menon, and Walter O’Neill.
Curated by Michael Berube and Keena Gonzalez
- See more at: http://openingsny.com/exhibit-1-all-of-the-above/#sthash.lXgQ8Oj0.dpuf

Alan Richards, Andrew Berardi, Ariel Zakarison, Benjamin Armas & Ori Carino, Chris Leib, Denise Gieseke Penizzotto, Elisa Soliven, Eric Jiaju Lee, Erik Dalzen, Firth MacMillan, Guillermo Lorente Perez, Ingrid Roe, James Vanderberg, Janna Dyk, jdx, Jen Phippen, Jess Willa Wheaton, Joachim Marx, Joey Kilrain, Joyce Yamada, Katie Rubright, Laura Frantz, Mary DeVincentis, Mark Brennan, Michael TianXiang, Miya Ando, Patricia Bellucci, Reiner Hansen, Robert Aitchison, Samantha Holmes, Seldon Yuan, Summer McCorkle, Tim Rusterholtz, Timothy Collins, Visakh Menon, and Walter O’Neill. - See more at: http://openingsny.com/exhibit-1-all-of-the-above/#sthash.FlfOGMk4.dpuf

Close-up

I just started this one. Here's a close up of the first layers on the astrobaby.

I'll update with an image of the finished painting shortly...

Sex + Design

Check out Bonobo Baby in Sex + Design magazine's 'Brave New World' issue this month!

Queen of Hearts

Happy to be part of Wonderland SF's Anniversary Show. I did a painting specially for the show... Check out 'Queeen of Hearts' at Wonderland SF. Hey, I like that typo... okay, new title... QUEEEN of Hearts.

Where: Wonderland SF

2929 24th Street, San Francisco

Time:  Friday, May 17th, 6 to 10 pm

Queen of Hearts, 16 x16 inches

Bonobo Baby

Bonobo Baby, oil, 18 x 20 inches

Check out my painting at...

Progress... update

Here's a detail of the painting I've been working on this last week or two...

In Progress...

Detail...

Here's a teaser detail of a painting I'm working on for a group show in May. It's still in progress. More soon....

Single Fare 3

Single Fare 3 at RH Gallery... artworks created on New York City subway cards.

Here are my entries...

 

detail

 

It looks like the opening is going to be packed. Check it out.
More information can be found on the Single Fare Facebook page...

Looking for the Alameda

In Progress...

I started this one four years ago and put it in storage. Recently I did a little work on it. Originally it was a guy on a night time suburban street. Now it's an astronaut. Not sure what is going behind the trees where the glowing light is coming from....

Still Life Sketchathon

Went to a sketch-a-thon in the Village the other day. Here's a couple from the sketchbook.

Now available in print...

I'm offering several prints of my work through Imagekind.com. These images come in framed and unframed prints in a variety of sizes. Please visit my Imagekind.com store for more information.

Think-Work-Play, In the Studio with...

I recently did an interview with the London based online magazine, Think-Work-Play. Check it out! Think-Work-Play