CITY Paintings by Christopher St. Leger

"The medium of watercolor simulates the life of what is built amid the distress by its environment. Watercolor is a richly animating method of honing what is sublime." 

The complex textures and shadowy character of the urban environment is one of the underlying themes present in the work exhibited by Christopher St. Leger in the Mebane Gallery, at the University of Texas at Austin. A keen observer of the “Urban Spectacle” he documents the anonymous volumes and voids that comprise the city.

 

His work in oil and watercolor has been exhibited in New York, Houston, Austin and Edinburgh, Scotland.. Based in Lockhart, Texas, St. Leger’s subjects are international in scope illuminating the vast differences between the urbanities of Texas in contrast to New York City and Europe.  

 

Christopher St. Leger studied at the Miami University in Oxford, Ohio, and the Budapest Technical University in Budapest, Hungary. His work was featured in New American Paintings. 

The Mebane gallery will be open from 11:00am - 1:00 pm Monday - Friday.