Kevin Ledo

"These works are very spontaneous, intuitive, messy, and lots of fun. Most of my work is planned out to a certain degree, and these works gave me the chance to just ride out some mark making and let the pieces evolve on the spot. I’ve been playing with abstract art for about two years now, and I am taking it more and more seriously. While I still enjoy realistic portraiture, I needed a new outlet. My work has incorporated geometric shapes for more than a decade... I figured it was time to let my abstract tendencies stand alone, and live a life void of anything recognizable." – Kevin Ledo

Kevin Ledo’s artistic practice crosses back and forth through the boundaries of mural/street art, fine art, and gold leaf art installations. Ledo aims to create visually bold, and iconic compositions, focusing on portraiture and the human form interlaced with stylized abstract forms. Ledo’s figures are mostly void of foreground and background, and are suspended in a minimalistic and slightly surreal world, captured in moments of contemplation, intimacy, emotion and wonderment.

The subject and approach to Ledo’s artwork changes according whether it’s public art or his personal explorations in fine art. While there is a common visual thread between these different artistic activities, his public art has several different considerations that are taken into account before creating. Some of these considerations include the neighbourhood the mural is set to be in and the history of the area and people who live there. Ledo’s public murals are often celebrations of people and diversity and aim to relate to the communities they are found in. Whenever possible, Ledo’s own photography is used as reference for his murals. In some cases the people used in Ledo’s murals are people from the local community.

Ledo works with a variety of mediums on his murals, including both spray paint and latex wall paint, and on occasion gold leaf. He can work solely with either spray paint or latex wall paint, but usually blend the two techniques into one painting.