NOVADO GALLERY PRESENTS: "FeelLicks," a solo exhibition of new works by PAUL LEIBOW; September 10-October 16, 2021!

Meet Paul Leibow, Sunday September 19 & 26, 6-8pm!

Iconography, old and new, exists in our everyday lives. It is incorporated through a less traditional sense in Paul Leibow's work. In his new solo show"FeelLicks," figuration merges with abstraction, and the resulting paintings, installation, and sculpture present us with a visual playground of dark humor.  Leibow draws inspiration from a wide range of sources, including vintage characters and popular urban culture, combining cartoonish contrivance and commentary with his raw mark-making.

Expressionism, Street Art, and Pop Art influence Leibow's creative process in his reconstructed characters and compositions. The figures he references include Felix the Cat, Batman, One Punch Man, and other Anime. Leibow developed his own visual architecture into an iconic shape, now merged into an up-cycled, iconic image known as FeelLicks. 


FeelLicks often appears with edited-out facial features, ears, mouth, and eyes, surveyed through a social lens.  Moulded and formed by guttural painterly lines, Leibow's characters serve as observations of contemporary life through light pathos and dark humor.


The FeelLicks series exists like the cracks that exist in the surfaces of polite society and the public sphere. There is always some form of social injustice that finds its way subversively embedded in Leibow's work. These artworks open up ideas about the dues we have to pay, the pleasures we seek, and often represent gender, sexuality, and other themes around the human condition.

FeelLicks opens to the public 7-9pm Friday, September 10, 2021.  Face masks are required regardless of vaccination status.