Leo Warchol
Artist Statement
When I first started making images, I really wanted to excite the viewer, the same way I got excited at the thought of a potential image. I wanted to describe how much fun I was having in the making of work. It’s the same kind of fun you have at a party, walking into new rooms with new faces everywhere, new stories layered, that somehow all ended in one space.
The ‘Party’ is an intersection where multiple attitudes meet, and create a symphony of rhythmic identity. There is as much potential at a party for a good outcome as there is for the opposite. It is a point at which emotions can be prolonged or accelerated, miscommunicated or resolved.
A good party usually needs a big room and that room needs furniture and carpets. The walls need paintings and the tables need objects. This party needs a host and guests, and they all need names, shoes and invitations. They need unique senses of style and different tastes in music. They need items that they use often, and favorite types of food. They need habits and vices,emotions, and dreams. They need reasons to argue, to love and to misinterpret one another. They need jobs that they love and careers that they hate. They need tragedies and victories, and everything in between. Some need culture or religion, and some need nothing at all. They need places to live, in a town, a city or maybe in just one massive building, a place where they can live, eat, sleep and evolve.
![A drawing of colorful lines overlapping each other.](_images/the-stories-660x421.jpg)
The Stories // 17" x 11" // Graphite, Colored pencils // 2019-2020
![An image of the inside of a living space.](_images/the-room-660x371.jpg)
The Room // 22" x 17" // Blender Render // 2020
![An image of a figure with a chimney head looking out the window.](_images/the-portrait--660x973.jpg)
The Portrait // 8.5" x 11" // Blender Render // 2019
![A digital drawing of a group of figures in a car on a city street at night.](_images/the-group-660x315.jpg)
The Group // 17" x 11" // Digital Painting // 2019
![A digital design of a large building.](_images/the-building-660x371.jpg)
The Building // 17" x 11" // Blender Render // 2019-2020
![An image of the outside of a house at night.](_images/the-house-660x838.jpg)
The House // 8.5" x 11" // Blender Render // 2020
![Multiple small drawings of animals with words underneath them to describe them.](_images/the-characters-660x503.jpg)
The Characters // 22" x 19" // Pen on Paper // 2019-2020
![A digital painting of a person eating food with multiple hands.](_images/the-food-660x428.jpg)
The Food // 11" x 8.5" // Digital painting, Graphite// 2019
![A drawing of a city with two giant figures walking through it.](_images/the-city-660x467.jpg)
The City // 22" x 19" // Graphite // 2019-2020
![A drawing of a lot of people, some with animals heads at a party.](_images/the-party-660x453.jpg)
The Party // 22" x 17" // Graphite // 2020