Switch
Switch (detail)
Hand painted acrylic on canvas, 2025. 96"x 36" (Bridge Studio Collective Exhibition)
The Behavior Patterns Series — the Evolution of a Concept
Behavior Patterns is Leon Loucheur’s long-form study of desire, damage, and the cyclical nature of human impulse. The series blends satire with symbolism, inviting viewers into compositions that feel lush and inviting at first glance, only to reveal deeper, darker truths beneath the surface. What emerges is a portrait of our shared tendencies to reach for what harms us, to repeat what we know, and to dress our self-destruction in forms of beauty.
The series began in 2019 with the Pick Your Poison solo exhibition at 111 Minna Gallery. Playing on the theme of “attractive poisons,” the work explores the temptations we recognize as dangerous but pursue anyway. Bright feathers, shimmering bottles, and pop-infused branding set the stage, as birds smoke with human nonchalance, and fish drift toward alcoholic beverages as if hypnotized. These works were highly rendered, intimate, and disarmingly charming, a playful humor pointing toward serious commentary: a culture built on consumption often markets its own undoing.
By the 2021 solo exhibition Into the Light at Luna Rienne Gallery, singular subjects dissolved into repeating motifs, echoing the loops of habit and the patterns we inherit without question. The work no longer examined just personal vice but the collective momentum of a society caught in rhythm with its own compulsions. As the satire softened into atmosphere, textures expanded, compositions sprawled, and meaning dispersed across the canvas—reflecting how small, individual choices accumulate into shared consequence, the group-think of self-destruction.
The 2022 solo exhibition Petal to the Meddle at Modern Eden Gallery showcased new conceptual and design components as the series took a darker breath. Weaponry entered the frame alongside the familiar venomous snakes and smoking birds, representing a shift deeper into the primal instincts beneath our polished surfaces. Patterns fractured, leaving blank interruptions: glitches in an unraveling narrative, failures of memory, or perhaps ruptures where truth breaks through. Some pieces abandoned color entirely, collapsing into stormy grays and blacks, a sense of threat hanging in the air…an aesthetic of beauty on the brink.
The 2025 exhibition Bridge Studio Collective at 111 Minna Gallery featured the latest evolution in the series, introducing a new formal language: geometric shapes intersect the organic patterns, attempting (and often failing) to contain them. Color transitions abruptly from vibrant to desolate, like mood shifts or moral turns. Collaged textures interrupt painted surfaces, creating tension between the controlled and the chaotic. And scale expands, as new works reach dimensions measuring up to eight feet, allowing viewers not just to see the paintings but to enter them. Standing before these large-scale works feels immersive, almost participatory: a recognition that we, too, live inside our own patterns of behavior.
A Series Still in Motion
Most series conclude when their conceptual path is fully charted. Not so here; Behavior Patterns keeps unfolding, revealing new territories as the world changes and as the artist deepens his inquiry. This work is not a closed loop but a living ecosystem: part satire, part psychology, part prophecy, maintaining a conceptual thread while continually becoming something new. The work lives in the tension between what attracts us and what undoes us; between individual instinct and collective fate; between the radiant beauty of nature and the quiet ways we jeopardize it.
Pins and Needles
Mixed Media on Canvas, 2025. 36”x 48” (Bridge Studio Collective Exhibition)
The Behavior Patterns Series — the Evolution of a Concept
Behavior Patterns is Leon Loucheur’s long-form study of desire, damage, and the cyclical nature of human impulse. The series blends satire with symbolism, inviting viewers into compositions that feel lush and inviting at first glance, only to reveal deeper, darker truths beneath the surface. What emerges is a portrait of our shared tendencies to reach for what harms us, to repeat what we know, and to dress our self-destruction in forms of beauty.
The series began in 2019 with the Pick Your Poison solo exhibition at 111 Minna Gallery. Playing on the theme of “attractive poisons,” the work explores the temptations we recognize as dangerous but pursue anyway. Bright feathers, shimmering bottles, and pop-infused branding set the stage, as birds smoke with human nonchalance, and fish drift toward alcoholic beverages as if hypnotized. These works were highly rendered, intimate, and disarmingly charming, a playful humor pointing toward serious commentary: a culture built on consumption often markets its own undoing.
By the 2021 solo exhibition Into the Light at Luna Rienne Gallery, singular subjects dissolved into repeating motifs, echoing the loops of habit and the patterns we inherit without question. The work no longer examined just personal vice but the collective momentum of a society caught in rhythm with its own compulsions. As the satire softened into atmosphere, textures expanded, compositions sprawled, and meaning dispersed across the canvas—reflecting how small, individual choices accumulate into shared consequence, the group-think of self-destruction.
The 2022 solo exhibition Petal to the Meddle at Modern Eden Gallery showcased new conceptual and design components as the series took a darker breath. Weaponry entered the frame alongside the familiar venomous snakes and smoking birds, representing a shift deeper into the primal instincts beneath our polished surfaces. Patterns fractured, leaving blank interruptions: glitches in an unraveling narrative, failures of memory, or perhaps ruptures where truth breaks through. Some pieces abandoned color entirely, collapsing into stormy grays and blacks, a sense of threat hanging in the air…an aesthetic of beauty on the brink.
The 2025 exhibition Bridge Studio Collective at 111 Minna Gallery featured the latest evolution in the series, introducing a new formal language: geometric shapes intersect the organic patterns, attempting (and often failing) to contain them. Color transitions abruptly from vibrant to desolate, like mood shifts or moral turns. Collaged textures interrupt painted surfaces, creating tension between the controlled and the chaotic. And scale expands, as new works reach dimensions measuring up to eight feet, allowing viewers not just to see the paintings but to enter them. Standing before these large-scale works feels immersive, almost participatory: a recognition that we, too, live inside our own patterns of behavior.
A Series Still in Motion
Most series conclude when their conceptual path is fully charted. Not so here; Behavior Patterns keeps unfolding, revealing new territories as the world changes and as the artist deepens his inquiry. This work is not a closed loop but a living ecosystem: part satire, part psychology, part prophecy, maintaining a conceptual thread while continually becoming something new. The work lives in the tension between what attracts us and what undoes us; between individual instinct and collective fate; between the radiant beauty of nature and the quiet ways we jeopardize it.
Butterfly
Hand Painted Acrylic on Canvas, 2025. 24”x 31” (Bridge Studio Collective Exhibition)
repeated as pattern
The Behavior Patterns Series — the Evolution of a Concept
Behavior Patterns is Leon Loucheur’s long-form study of desire, damage, and the cyclical nature of human impulse. The series blends satire with symbolism, inviting viewers into compositions that feel lush and inviting at first glance, only to reveal deeper, darker truths beneath the surface. What emerges is a portrait of our shared tendencies to reach for what harms us, to repeat what we know, and to dress our self-destruction in forms of beauty.
The series began in 2019 with the Pick Your Poison solo exhibition at 111 Minna Gallery. Playing on the theme of “attractive poisons,” the work explores the temptations we recognize as dangerous but pursue anyway. Bright feathers, shimmering bottles, and pop-infused branding set the stage, as birds smoke with human nonchalance, and fish drift toward alcoholic beverages as if hypnotized. These works were highly rendered, intimate, and disarmingly charming, a playful humor pointing toward serious commentary: a culture built on consumption often markets its own undoing.
By the 2021 solo exhibition Into the Light at Luna Rienne Gallery, singular subjects dissolved into repeating motifs, echoing the loops of habit and the patterns we inherit without question. The work no longer examined just personal vice but the collective momentum of a society caught in rhythm with its own compulsions. As the satire softened into atmosphere, textures expanded, compositions sprawled, and meaning dispersed across the canvas—reflecting how small, individual choices accumulate into shared consequence, the group-think of self-destruction.
The 2022 solo exhibition Petal to the Meddle at Modern Eden Gallery showcased new conceptual and design components as the series took a darker breath. Weaponry entered the frame alongside the familiar venomous snakes and smoking birds, representing a shift deeper into the primal instincts beneath our polished surfaces. Patterns fractured, leaving blank interruptions: glitches in an unraveling narrative, failures of memory, or perhaps ruptures where truth breaks through. Some pieces abandoned color entirely, collapsing into stormy grays and blacks, a sense of threat hanging in the air…an aesthetic of beauty on the brink.
The 2025 exhibition Bridge Studio Collective at 111 Minna Gallery featured the latest evolution in the series, introducing a new formal language: geometric shapes intersect the organic patterns, attempting (and often failing) to contain them. Color transitions abruptly from vibrant to desolate, like mood shifts or moral turns. Collaged textures interrupt painted surfaces, creating tension between the controlled and the chaotic. And scale expands, as new works reach dimensions measuring up to eight feet, allowing viewers not just to see the paintings but to enter them. Standing before these large-scale works feels immersive, almost participatory: a recognition that we, too, live inside our own patterns of behavior.
A Series Still in Motion
Most series conclude when their conceptual path is fully charted. Not so here; Behavior Patterns keeps unfolding, revealing new territories as the world changes and as the artist deepens his inquiry. This work is not a closed loop but a living ecosystem: part satire, part psychology, part prophecy, maintaining a conceptual thread while continually becoming something new. The work lives in the tension between what attracts us and what undoes us; between individual instinct and collective fate; between the radiant beauty of nature and the quiet ways we jeopardize it.
Dolores
Hand Painted Acrylic on Canvas, 2022. 24"x 36" (Petal to the Meddle Exhibition)
The Behavior Patterns Series — the Evolution of a Concept
Behavior Patterns is Leon Loucheur’s long-form study of desire, damage, and the cyclical nature of human impulse. The series blends satire with symbolism, inviting viewers into compositions that feel lush and inviting at first glance, only to reveal deeper, darker truths beneath the surface. What emerges is a portrait of our shared tendencies to reach for what harms us, to repeat what we know, and to dress our self-destruction in forms of beauty.
The series began in 2019 with the Pick Your Poison solo exhibition at 111 Minna Gallery. Playing on the theme of “attractive poisons,” the work explores the temptations we recognize as dangerous but pursue anyway. Bright feathers, shimmering bottles, and pop-infused branding set the stage, as birds smoke with human nonchalance, and fish drift toward alcoholic beverages as if hypnotized. These works were highly rendered, intimate, and disarmingly charming, a playful humor pointing toward serious commentary: a culture built on consumption often markets its own undoing.
By the 2021 solo exhibition Into the Light at Luna Rienne Gallery, singular subjects dissolved into repeating motifs, echoing the loops of habit and the patterns we inherit without question. The work no longer examined just personal vice but the collective momentum of a society caught in rhythm with its own compulsions. As the satire softened into atmosphere, textures expanded, compositions sprawled, and meaning dispersed across the canvas—reflecting how small, individual choices accumulate into shared consequence, the group-think of self-destruction.
The 2022 solo exhibition Petal to the Meddle at Modern Eden Gallery showcased new conceptual and design components as the series took a darker breath. Weaponry entered the frame alongside the familiar venomous snakes and smoking birds, representing a shift deeper into the primal instincts beneath our polished surfaces. Patterns fractured, leaving blank interruptions: glitches in an unraveling narrative, failures of memory, or perhaps ruptures where truth breaks through. Some pieces abandoned color entirely, collapsing into stormy grays and blacks, a sense of threat hanging in the air…an aesthetic of beauty on the brink.
The 2025 exhibition Bridge Studio Collective at 111 Minna Gallery featured the latest evolution in the series, introducing a new formal language: geometric shapes intersect the organic patterns, attempting (and often failing) to contain them. Color transitions abruptly from vibrant to desolate, like mood shifts or moral turns. Collaged textures interrupt painted surfaces, creating tension between the controlled and the chaotic. And scale expands, as new works reach dimensions measuring up to eight feet, allowing viewers not just to see the paintings but to enter them. Standing before these large-scale works feels immersive, almost participatory: a recognition that we, too, live inside our own patterns of behavior.
A Series Still in Motion
Most series conclude when their conceptual path is fully charted. Not so here; Behavior Patterns keeps unfolding, revealing new territories as the world changes and as the artist deepens his inquiry. This work is not a closed loop but a living ecosystem: part satire, part psychology, part prophecy, maintaining a conceptual thread while continually becoming something new. The work lives in the tension between what attracts us and what undoes us; between individual instinct and collective fate; between the radiant beauty of nature and the quiet ways we jeopardize it.
Razor's Edge
Hand Painted Acrylic on Canvas, 2024. 24"x 48" (Group Exhibition)
The Behavior Patterns Series — the Evolution of a Concept
Behavior Patterns is Leon Loucheur’s long-form study of desire, damage, and the cyclical nature of human impulse. The series blends satire with symbolism, inviting viewers into compositions that feel lush and inviting at first glance, only to reveal deeper, darker truths beneath the surface. What emerges is a portrait of our shared tendencies to reach for what harms us, to repeat what we know, and to dress our self-destruction in forms of beauty.
The series began in 2019 with the Pick Your Poison solo exhibition at 111 Minna Gallery. Playing on the theme of “attractive poisons,” the work explores the temptations we recognize as dangerous but pursue anyway. Bright feathers, shimmering bottles, and pop-infused branding set the stage, as birds smoke with human nonchalance, and fish drift toward alcoholic beverages as if hypnotized. These works were highly rendered, intimate, and disarmingly charming, a playful humor pointing toward serious commentary: a culture built on consumption often markets its own undoing.
By the 2021 solo exhibition Into the Light at Luna Rienne Gallery, singular subjects dissolved into repeating motifs, echoing the loops of habit and the patterns we inherit without question. The work no longer examined just personal vice but the collective momentum of a society caught in rhythm with its own compulsions. As the satire softened into atmosphere, textures expanded, compositions sprawled, and meaning dispersed across the canvas—reflecting how small, individual choices accumulate into shared consequence, the group-think of self-destruction.
The 2022 solo exhibition Petal to the Meddle at Modern Eden Gallery showcased new conceptual and design components as the series took a darker breath. Weaponry entered the frame alongside the familiar venomous snakes and smoking birds, representing a shift deeper into the primal instincts beneath our polished surfaces. Patterns fractured, leaving blank interruptions: glitches in an unraveling narrative, failures of memory, or perhaps ruptures where truth breaks through. Some pieces abandoned color entirely, collapsing into stormy grays and blacks, a sense of threat hanging in the air…an aesthetic of beauty on the brink.
The 2025 exhibition Bridge Studio Collective at 111 Minna Gallery featured the latest evolution in the series, introducing a new formal language: geometric shapes intersect the organic patterns, attempting (and often failing) to contain them. Color transitions abruptly from vibrant to desolate, like mood shifts or moral turns. Collaged textures interrupt painted surfaces, creating tension between the controlled and the chaotic. And scale expands, as new works reach dimensions measuring up to eight feet, allowing viewers not just to see the paintings but to enter them. Standing before these large-scale works feels immersive, almost participatory: a recognition that we, too, live inside our own patterns of behavior.
A Series Still in Motion
Most series conclude when their conceptual path is fully charted. Not so here; Behavior Patterns keeps unfolding, revealing new territories as the world changes and as the artist deepens his inquiry. This work is not a closed loop but a living ecosystem: part satire, part psychology, part prophecy, maintaining a conceptual thread while continually becoming something new. The work lives in the tension between what attracts us and what undoes us; between individual instinct and collective fate; between the radiant beauty of nature and the quiet ways we jeopardize it.
Merritt Blue
Hand Painted Acrylic on Canvas, 2022. 24"x 36" (Petal to the Meddle Exhibition)
The Behavior Patterns Series — the Evolution of a Concept
Behavior Patterns is Leon Loucheur’s long-form study of desire, damage, and the cyclical nature of human impulse. The series blends satire with symbolism, inviting viewers into compositions that feel lush and inviting at first glance, only to reveal deeper, darker truths beneath the surface. What emerges is a portrait of our shared tendencies to reach for what harms us, to repeat what we know, and to dress our self-destruction in forms of beauty.
The series began in 2019 with the Pick Your Poison solo exhibition at 111 Minna Gallery. Playing on the theme of “attractive poisons,” the work explores the temptations we recognize as dangerous but pursue anyway. Bright feathers, shimmering bottles, and pop-infused branding set the stage, as birds smoke with human nonchalance, and fish drift toward alcoholic beverages as if hypnotized. These works were highly rendered, intimate, and disarmingly charming, a playful humor pointing toward serious commentary: a culture built on consumption often markets its own undoing.
By the 2021 solo exhibition Into the Light at Luna Rienne Gallery, singular subjects dissolved into repeating motifs, echoing the loops of habit and the patterns we inherit without question. The work no longer examined just personal vice but the collective momentum of a society caught in rhythm with its own compulsions. As the satire softened into atmosphere, textures expanded, compositions sprawled, and meaning dispersed across the canvas—reflecting how small, individual choices accumulate into shared consequence, the group-think of self-destruction.
The 2022 solo exhibition Petal to the Meddle at Modern Eden Gallery showcased new conceptual and design components as the series took a darker breath. Weaponry entered the frame alongside the familiar venomous snakes and smoking birds, representing a shift deeper into the primal instincts beneath our polished surfaces. Patterns fractured, leaving blank interruptions: glitches in an unraveling narrative, failures of memory, or perhaps ruptures where truth breaks through. Some pieces abandoned color entirely, collapsing into stormy grays and blacks, a sense of threat hanging in the air…an aesthetic of beauty on the brink.
The 2025 exhibition Bridge Studio Collective at 111 Minna Gallery featured the latest evolution in the series, introducing a new formal language: geometric shapes intersect the organic patterns, attempting (and often failing) to contain them. Color transitions abruptly from vibrant to desolate, like mood shifts or moral turns. Collaged textures interrupt painted surfaces, creating tension between the controlled and the chaotic. And scale expands, as new works reach dimensions measuring up to eight feet, allowing viewers not just to see the paintings but to enter them. Standing before these large-scale works feels immersive, almost participatory: a recognition that we, too, live inside our own patterns of behavior.
A Series Still in Motion
Most series conclude when their conceptual path is fully charted. Not so here; Behavior Patterns keeps unfolding, revealing new territories as the world changes and as the artist deepens his inquiry. This work is not a closed loop but a living ecosystem: part satire, part psychology, part prophecy, maintaining a conceptual thread while continually becoming something new. The work lives in the tension between what attracts us and what undoes us; between individual instinct and collective fate; between the radiant beauty of nature and the quiet ways we jeopardize it.
Bloom to Black
Hand Painted Acrylic on Canvas, 2025. 14”x 18” (Bridge Studio Collective Exhibition)
The Behavior Patterns Series — the Evolution of a Concept
Behavior Patterns is Leon Loucheur’s long-form study of desire, damage, and the cyclical nature of human impulse. The series blends satire with symbolism, inviting viewers into compositions that feel lush and inviting at first glance, only to reveal deeper, darker truths beneath the surface. What emerges is a portrait of our shared tendencies to reach for what harms us, to repeat what we know, and to dress our self-destruction in forms of beauty.
The series began in 2019 with the Pick Your Poison solo exhibition at 111 Minna Gallery. Playing on the theme of “attractive poisons,” the work explores the temptations we recognize as dangerous but pursue anyway. Bright feathers, shimmering bottles, and pop-infused branding set the stage, as birds smoke with human nonchalance, and fish drift toward alcoholic beverages as if hypnotized. These works were highly rendered, intimate, and disarmingly charming, a playful humor pointing toward serious commentary: a culture built on consumption often markets its own undoing.
By the 2021 solo exhibition Into the Light at Luna Rienne Gallery, singular subjects dissolved into repeating motifs, echoing the loops of habit and the patterns we inherit without question. The work no longer examined just personal vice but the collective momentum of a society caught in rhythm with its own compulsions. As the satire softened into atmosphere, textures expanded, compositions sprawled, and meaning dispersed across the canvas—reflecting how small, individual choices accumulate into shared consequence, the group-think of self-destruction.
The 2022 solo exhibition Petal to the Meddle at Modern Eden Gallery showcased new conceptual and design components as the series took a darker breath. Weaponry entered the frame alongside the familiar venomous snakes and smoking birds, representing a shift deeper into the primal instincts beneath our polished surfaces. Patterns fractured, leaving blank interruptions: glitches in an unraveling narrative, failures of memory, or perhaps ruptures where truth breaks through. Some pieces abandoned color entirely, collapsing into stormy grays and blacks, a sense of threat hanging in the air…an aesthetic of beauty on the brink.
The 2025 exhibition Bridge Studio Collective at 111 Minna Gallery featured the latest evolution in the series, introducing a new formal language: geometric shapes intersect the organic patterns, attempting (and often failing) to contain them. Color transitions abruptly from vibrant to desolate, like mood shifts or moral turns. Collaged textures interrupt painted surfaces, creating tension between the controlled and the chaotic. And scale expands, as new works reach dimensions measuring up to eight feet, allowing viewers not just to see the paintings but to enter them. Standing before these large-scale works feels immersive, almost participatory: a recognition that we, too, live inside our own patterns of behavior.
A Series Still in Motion
Most series conclude when their conceptual path is fully charted. Not so here; Behavior Patterns keeps unfolding, revealing new territories as the world changes and as the artist deepens his inquiry. This work is not a closed loop but a living ecosystem: part satire, part psychology, part prophecy, maintaining a conceptual thread while continually becoming something new. The work lives in the tension between what attracts us and what undoes us; between individual instinct and collective fate; between the radiant beauty of nature and the quiet ways we jeopardize it.
Lucidum 417
Hand painted acrylic on canvas, 30”x 30”
Knuckle Sandwich
Hand painted acrylic on canvas, 2022. 44"x 60" (Petal to the Meddle Exhibition)
The Behavior Patterns Series — the Evolution of a Concept
Behavior Patterns is Leon Loucheur’s long-form study of desire, damage, and the cyclical nature of human impulse. The series blends satire with symbolism, inviting viewers into compositions that feel lush and inviting at first glance, only to reveal deeper, darker truths beneath the surface. What emerges is a portrait of our shared tendencies to reach for what harms us, to repeat what we know, and to dress our self-destruction in forms of beauty.
The series began in 2019 with the Pick Your Poison solo exhibition at 111 Minna Gallery. Playing on the theme of “attractive poisons,” the work explores the temptations we recognize as dangerous but pursue anyway. Bright feathers, shimmering bottles, and pop-infused branding set the stage, as birds smoke with human nonchalance, and fish drift toward alcoholic beverages as if hypnotized. These works were highly rendered, intimate, and disarmingly charming, a playful humor pointing toward serious commentary: a culture built on consumption often markets its own undoing.
By the 2021 solo exhibition Into the Light at Luna Rienne Gallery, singular subjects dissolved into repeating motifs, echoing the loops of habit and the patterns we inherit without question. The work no longer examined just personal vice but the collective momentum of a society caught in rhythm with its own compulsions. As the satire softened into atmosphere, textures expanded, compositions sprawled, and meaning dispersed across the canvas—reflecting how small, individual choices accumulate into shared consequence, the group-think of self-destruction.
The 2022 solo exhibition Petal to the Meddle at Modern Eden Gallery showcased new conceptual and design components as the series took a darker breath. Weaponry entered the frame alongside the familiar venomous snakes and smoking birds, representing a shift deeper into the primal instincts beneath our polished surfaces. Patterns fractured, leaving blank interruptions: glitches in an unraveling narrative, failures of memory, or perhaps ruptures where truth breaks through. Some pieces abandoned color entirely, collapsing into stormy grays and blacks, a sense of threat hanging in the air…an aesthetic of beauty on the brink.
The 2025 exhibition Bridge Studio Collective at 111 Minna Gallery featured the latest evolution in the series, introducing a new formal language: geometric shapes intersect the organic patterns, attempting (and often failing) to contain them. Color transitions abruptly from vibrant to desolate, like mood shifts or moral turns. Collaged textures interrupt painted surfaces, creating tension between the controlled and the chaotic. And scale expands, as new works reach dimensions measuring up to eight feet, allowing viewers not just to see the paintings but to enter them. Standing before these large-scale works feels immersive, almost participatory: a recognition that we, too, live inside our own patterns of behavior.
A Series Still in Motion
Most series conclude when their conceptual path is fully charted. Not so here; Behavior Patterns keeps unfolding, revealing new territories as the world changes and as the artist deepens his inquiry. This work is not a closed loop but a living ecosystem: part satire, part psychology, part prophecy, maintaining a conceptual thread while continually becoming something new. The work lives in the tension between what attracts us and what undoes us; between individual instinct and collective fate; between the radiant beauty of nature and the quiet ways we jeopardize it.
Lucidum 748
Hand painted acrylic on canvas, 30”x 30”
Blue to Black
Hand Painted Acrylic on Canvas, 2025. 14”x 18” (Bridge Studio Collective Exhibition)
The Behavior Patterns Series — the Evolution of a Concept
Behavior Patterns is Leon Loucheur’s long-form study of desire, damage, and the cyclical nature of human impulse. The series blends satire with symbolism, inviting viewers into compositions that feel lush and inviting at first glance, only to reveal deeper, darker truths beneath the surface. What emerges is a portrait of our shared tendencies to reach for what harms us, to repeat what we know, and to dress our self-destruction in forms of beauty.
The series began in 2019 with the Pick Your Poison solo exhibition at 111 Minna Gallery. Playing on the theme of “attractive poisons,” the work explores the temptations we recognize as dangerous but pursue anyway. Bright feathers, shimmering bottles, and pop-infused branding set the stage, as birds smoke with human nonchalance, and fish drift toward alcoholic beverages as if hypnotized. These works were highly rendered, intimate, and disarmingly charming, a playful humor pointing toward serious commentary: a culture built on consumption often markets its own undoing.
By the 2021 solo exhibition Into the Light at Luna Rienne Gallery, singular subjects dissolved into repeating motifs, echoing the loops of habit and the patterns we inherit without question. The work no longer examined just personal vice but the collective momentum of a society caught in rhythm with its own compulsions. As the satire softened into atmosphere, textures expanded, compositions sprawled, and meaning dispersed across the canvas—reflecting how small, individual choices accumulate into shared consequence, the group-think of self-destruction.
The 2022 solo exhibition Petal to the Meddle at Modern Eden Gallery showcased new conceptual and design components as the series took a darker breath. Weaponry entered the frame alongside the familiar venomous snakes and smoking birds, representing a shift deeper into the primal instincts beneath our polished surfaces. Patterns fractured, leaving blank interruptions: glitches in an unraveling narrative, failures of memory, or perhaps ruptures where truth breaks through. Some pieces abandoned color entirely, collapsing into stormy grays and blacks, a sense of threat hanging in the air…an aesthetic of beauty on the brink.
The 2025 exhibition Bridge Studio Collective at 111 Minna Gallery featured the latest evolution in the series, introducing a new formal language: geometric shapes intersect the organic patterns, attempting (and often failing) to contain them. Color transitions abruptly from vibrant to desolate, like mood shifts or moral turns. Collaged textures interrupt painted surfaces, creating tension between the controlled and the chaotic. And scale expands, as new works reach dimensions measuring up to eight feet, allowing viewers not just to see the paintings but to enter them. Standing before these large-scale works feels immersive, almost participatory: a recognition that we, too, live inside our own patterns of behavior.
A Series Still in Motion
Most series conclude when their conceptual path is fully charted. Not so here; Behavior Patterns keeps unfolding, revealing new territories as the world changes and as the artist deepens his inquiry. This work is not a closed loop but a living ecosystem: part satire, part psychology, part prophecy, maintaining a conceptual thread while continually becoming something new. The work lives in the tension between what attracts us and what undoes us; between individual instinct and collective fate; between the radiant beauty of nature and the quiet ways we jeopardize it.
Lucidum 415
Hand painted acrylic on canvas, 30”x 30”
Oriole Blue
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Hand painted acrylic on canvas, 2020. 18"x 24" (Group Exhibition)
The Behavior Patterns Series — the Evolution of a Concept
Behavior Patterns is Leon Loucheur’s long-form study of desire, damage, and the cyclical nature of human impulse. The series blends satire with symbolism, inviting viewers into compositions that feel lush and inviting at first glance, only to reveal deeper, darker truths beneath the surface. What emerges is a portrait of our shared tendencies to reach for what harms us, to repeat what we know, and to dress our self-destruction in forms of beauty.
The series began in 2019 with the Pick Your Poison solo exhibition at 111 Minna Gallery. Playing on the theme of “attractive poisons,” the work explores the temptations we recognize as dangerous but pursue anyway. Bright feathers, shimmering bottles, and pop-infused branding set the stage, as birds smoke with human nonchalance, and fish drift toward alcoholic beverages as if hypnotized. These works were highly rendered, intimate, and disarmingly charming, a playful humor pointing toward serious commentary: a culture built on consumption often markets its own undoing.
By the 2021 solo exhibition Into the Light at Luna Rienne Gallery, singular subjects dissolved into repeating motifs, echoing the loops of habit and the patterns we inherit without question. The work no longer examined just personal vice but the collective momentum of a society caught in rhythm with its own compulsions. As the satire softened into atmosphere, textures expanded, compositions sprawled, and meaning dispersed across the canvas—reflecting how small, individual choices accumulate into shared consequence, the group-think of self-destruction.
The 2022 solo exhibition Petal to the Meddle at Modern Eden Gallery showcased new conceptual and design components as the series took a darker breath. Weaponry entered the frame alongside the familiar venomous snakes and smoking birds, representing a shift deeper into the primal instincts beneath our polished surfaces. Patterns fractured, leaving blank interruptions: glitches in an unraveling narrative, failures of memory, or perhaps ruptures where truth breaks through. Some pieces abandoned color entirely, collapsing into stormy grays and blacks, a sense of threat hanging in the air…an aesthetic of beauty on the brink.
The 2025 exhibition Bridge Studio Collective at 111 Minna Gallery featured the latest evolution in the series, introducing a new formal language: geometric shapes intersect the organic patterns, attempting (and often failing) to contain them. Color transitions abruptly from vibrant to desolate, like mood shifts or moral turns. Collaged textures interrupt painted surfaces, creating tension between the controlled and the chaotic. And scale expands, as new works reach dimensions measuring up to eight feet, allowing viewers not just to see the paintings but to enter them. Standing before these large-scale works feels immersive, almost participatory: a recognition that we, too, live inside our own patterns of behavior.
A Series Still in Motion
Most series conclude when their conceptual path is fully charted. Not so here; Behavior Patterns keeps unfolding, revealing new territories as the world changes and as the artist deepens his inquiry. This work is not a closed loop but a living ecosystem: part satire, part psychology, part prophecy, maintaining a conceptual thread while continually becoming something new. The work lives in the tension between what attracts us and what undoes us; between individual instinct and collective fate; between the radiant beauty of nature and the quiet ways we jeopardize it.
Broken
Hand painted acrylic on canvas, 2026. 30”x 30” (Group Exhibition)
The Behavior Patterns Series — the Evolution of a Concept
Behavior Patterns is Leon Loucheur’s long-form study of desire, damage, and the cyclical nature of human impulse. The series blends satire with symbolism, inviting viewers into compositions that feel lush and inviting at first glance, only to reveal deeper, darker truths beneath the surface. What emerges is a portrait of our shared tendencies to reach for what harms us, to repeat what we know, and to dress our self-destruction in forms of beauty.
The series began in 2019 with the Pick Your Poison solo exhibition at 111 Minna Gallery. Playing on the theme of “attractive poisons,” the work explores the temptations we recognize as dangerous but pursue anyway. Bright feathers, shimmering bottles, and pop-infused branding set the stage, as birds smoke with human nonchalance, and fish drift toward alcoholic beverages as if hypnotized. These works were highly rendered, intimate, and disarmingly charming, a playful humor pointing toward serious commentary: a culture built on consumption often markets its own undoing.
By the 2021 solo exhibition Into the Light at Luna Rienne Gallery, singular subjects dissolved into repeating motifs, echoing the loops of habit and the patterns we inherit without question. The work no longer examined just personal vice but the collective momentum of a society caught in rhythm with its own compulsions. As the satire softened into atmosphere, textures expanded, compositions sprawled, and meaning dispersed across the canvas—reflecting how small, individual choices accumulate into shared consequence, the group-think of self-destruction.
The 2022 solo exhibition Petal to the Meddle at Modern Eden Gallery showcased new conceptual and design components as the series took a darker breath. Weaponry entered the frame alongside the familiar venomous snakes and smoking birds, representing a shift deeper into the primal instincts beneath our polished surfaces. Patterns fractured, leaving blank interruptions: glitches in an unraveling narrative, failures of memory, or perhaps ruptures where truth breaks through. Some pieces abandoned color entirely, collapsing into stormy grays and blacks, a sense of threat hanging in the air…an aesthetic of beauty on the brink.
The 2025 exhibition Bridge Studio Collective at 111 Minna Gallery featured the latest evolution in the series, introducing a new formal language: geometric shapes intersect the organic patterns, attempting (and often failing) to contain them. Color transitions abruptly from vibrant to desolate, like mood shifts or moral turns. Collaged textures interrupt painted surfaces, creating tension between the controlled and the chaotic. And scale expands, as new works reach dimensions measuring up to eight feet, allowing viewers not just to see the paintings but to enter them. Standing before these large-scale works feels immersive, almost participatory: a recognition that we, too, live inside our own patterns of behavior.
A Series Still in Motion
Most series conclude when their conceptual path is fully charted. Not so here; Behavior Patterns keeps unfolding, revealing new territories as the world changes and as the artist deepens his inquiry. This work is not a closed loop but a living ecosystem: part satire, part psychology, part prophecy, maintaining a conceptual thread while continually becoming something new. The work lives in the tension between what attracts us and what undoes us; between individual instinct and collective fate; between the radiant beauty of nature and the quiet ways we jeopardize it.
Pallmall
Hand painted acrylic on canvas, 2018. 16"x 20" (Group Exhibition)
The Behavior Patterns Series — the Evolution of a Concept
Behavior Patterns is Leon Loucheur’s long-form study of desire, damage, and the cyclical nature of human impulse. The series blends satire with symbolism, inviting viewers into compositions that feel lush and inviting at first glance, only to reveal deeper, darker truths beneath the surface. What emerges is a portrait of our shared tendencies to reach for what harms us, to repeat what we know, and to dress our self-destruction in forms of beauty.
The series began in 2019 with the Pick Your Poison solo exhibition at 111 Minna Gallery. Playing on the theme of “attractive poisons,” the work explores the temptations we recognize as dangerous but pursue anyway. Bright feathers, shimmering bottles, and pop-infused branding set the stage, as birds smoke with human nonchalance, and fish drift toward alcoholic beverages as if hypnotized. These works were highly rendered, intimate, and disarmingly charming, a playful humor pointing toward serious commentary: a culture built on consumption often markets its own undoing.
By the 2021 solo exhibition Into the Light at Luna Rienne Gallery, singular subjects dissolved into repeating motifs, echoing the loops of habit and the patterns we inherit without question. The work no longer examined just personal vice but the collective momentum of a society caught in rhythm with its own compulsions. As the satire softened into atmosphere, textures expanded, compositions sprawled, and meaning dispersed across the canvas—reflecting how small, individual choices accumulate into shared consequence, the group-think of self-destruction.
The 2022 solo exhibition Petal to the Meddle at Modern Eden Gallery showcased new conceptual and design components as the series took a darker breath. Weaponry entered the frame alongside the familiar venomous snakes and smoking birds, representing a shift deeper into the primal instincts beneath our polished surfaces. Patterns fractured, leaving blank interruptions: glitches in an unraveling narrative, failures of memory, or perhaps ruptures where truth breaks through. Some pieces abandoned color entirely, collapsing into stormy grays and blacks, a sense of threat hanging in the air…an aesthetic of beauty on the brink.
The 2025 exhibition Bridge Studio Collective at 111 Minna Gallery featured the latest evolution in the series, introducing a new formal language: geometric shapes intersect the organic patterns, attempting (and often failing) to contain them. Color transitions abruptly from vibrant to desolate, like mood shifts or moral turns. Collaged textures interrupt painted surfaces, creating tension between the controlled and the chaotic. And scale expands, as new works reach dimensions measuring up to eight feet, allowing viewers not just to see the paintings but to enter them. Standing before these large-scale works feels immersive, almost participatory: a recognition that we, too, live inside our own patterns of behavior.
A Series Still in Motion
Most series conclude when their conceptual path is fully charted. Not so here; Behavior Patterns keeps unfolding, revealing new territories as the world changes and as the artist deepens his inquiry. This work is not a closed loop but a living ecosystem: part satire, part psychology, part prophecy, maintaining a conceptual thread while continually becoming something new. The work lives in the tension between what attracts us and what undoes us; between individual instinct and collective fate; between the radiant beauty of nature and the quiet ways we jeopardize it.
Still Dreamin
Hand Painted Acrylic on Canvas, 2021. 36”x 48” (Into the Light Exhibition)
The Behavior Patterns Series — the Evolution of a Concept
Behavior Patterns is Leon Loucheur’s long-form study of desire, damage, and the cyclical nature of human impulse. The series blends satire with symbolism, inviting viewers into compositions that feel lush and inviting at first glance, only to reveal deeper, darker truths beneath the surface. What emerges is a portrait of our shared tendencies to reach for what harms us, to repeat what we know, and to dress our self-destruction in forms of beauty.
The series began in 2019 with the Pick Your Poison solo exhibition at 111 Minna Gallery. Playing on the theme of “attractive poisons,” the work explores the temptations we recognize as dangerous but pursue anyway. Bright feathers, shimmering bottles, and pop-infused branding set the stage, as birds smoke with human nonchalance, and fish drift toward alcoholic beverages as if hypnotized. These works were highly rendered, intimate, and disarmingly charming, a playful humor pointing toward serious commentary: a culture built on consumption often markets its own undoing.
By the 2021 solo exhibition Into the Light at Luna Rienne Gallery, singular subjects dissolved into repeating motifs, echoing the loops of habit and the patterns we inherit without question. The work no longer examined just personal vice but the collective momentum of a society caught in rhythm with its own compulsions. As the satire softened into atmosphere, textures expanded, compositions sprawled, and meaning dispersed across the canvas—reflecting how small, individual choices accumulate into shared consequence, the group-think of self-destruction.
The 2022 solo exhibition Petal to the Meddle at Modern Eden Gallery showcased new conceptual and design components as the series took a darker breath. Weaponry entered the frame alongside the familiar venomous snakes and smoking birds, representing a shift deeper into the primal instincts beneath our polished surfaces. Patterns fractured, leaving blank interruptions: glitches in an unraveling narrative, failures of memory, or perhaps ruptures where truth breaks through. Some pieces abandoned color entirely, collapsing into stormy grays and blacks, a sense of threat hanging in the air…an aesthetic of beauty on the brink.
The 2025 exhibition Bridge Studio Collective at 111 Minna Gallery featured the latest evolution in the series, introducing a new formal language: geometric shapes intersect the organic patterns, attempting (and often failing) to contain them. Color transitions abruptly from vibrant to desolate, like mood shifts or moral turns. Collaged textures interrupt painted surfaces, creating tension between the controlled and the chaotic. And scale expands, as new works reach dimensions measuring up to eight feet, allowing viewers not just to see the paintings but to enter them. Standing before these large-scale works feels immersive, almost participatory: a recognition that we, too, live inside our own patterns of behavior.
A Series Still in Motion
Most series conclude when their conceptual path is fully charted. Not so here; Behavior Patterns keeps unfolding, revealing new territories as the world changes and as the artist deepens his inquiry. This work is not a closed loop but a living ecosystem: part satire, part psychology, part prophecy, maintaining a conceptual thread while continually becoming something new. The work lives in the tension between what attracts us and what undoes us; between individual instinct and collective fate; between the radiant beauty of nature and the quiet ways we jeopardize it.
Blunt
Hand painted acrylic on canvas, 2019. 48"x 72" (Pick Your Poison Exhibition)
The Behavior Patterns Series — the Evolution of a Concept
Behavior Patterns is Leon Loucheur’s long-form study of desire, damage, and the cyclical nature of human impulse. The series blends satire with symbolism, inviting viewers into compositions that feel lush and inviting at first glance, only to reveal deeper, darker truths beneath the surface. What emerges is a portrait of our shared tendencies to reach for what harms us, to repeat what we know, and to dress our self-destruction in forms of beauty.
The series began in 2019 with the Pick Your Poison solo exhibition at 111 Minna Gallery. Playing on the theme of “attractive poisons,” the work explores the temptations we recognize as dangerous but pursue anyway. Bright feathers, shimmering bottles, and pop-infused branding set the stage, as birds smoke with human nonchalance, and fish drift toward alcoholic beverages as if hypnotized. These works were highly rendered, intimate, and disarmingly charming, a playful humor pointing toward serious commentary: a culture built on consumption often markets its own undoing.
By the 2021 solo exhibition Into the Light at Luna Rienne Gallery, singular subjects dissolved into repeating motifs, echoing the loops of habit and the patterns we inherit without question. The work no longer examined just personal vice but the collective momentum of a society caught in rhythm with its own compulsions. As the satire softened into atmosphere, textures expanded, compositions sprawled, and meaning dispersed across the canvas—reflecting how small, individual choices accumulate into shared consequence, the group-think of self-destruction.
The 2022 solo exhibition Petal to the Meddle at Modern Eden Gallery showcased new conceptual and design components as the series took a darker breath. Weaponry entered the frame alongside the familiar venomous snakes and smoking birds, representing a shift deeper into the primal instincts beneath our polished surfaces. Patterns fractured, leaving blank interruptions: glitches in an unraveling narrative, failures of memory, or perhaps ruptures where truth breaks through. Some pieces abandoned color entirely, collapsing into stormy grays and blacks, a sense of threat hanging in the air…an aesthetic of beauty on the brink.
The 2025 exhibition Bridge Studio Collective at 111 Minna Gallery featured the latest evolution in the series, introducing a new formal language: geometric shapes intersect the organic patterns, attempting (and often failing) to contain them. Color transitions abruptly from vibrant to desolate, like mood shifts or moral turns. Collaged textures interrupt painted surfaces, creating tension between the controlled and the chaotic. And scale expands, as new works reach dimensions measuring up to eight feet, allowing viewers not just to see the paintings but to enter them. Standing before these large-scale works feels immersive, almost participatory: a recognition that we, too, live inside our own patterns of behavior.
A Series Still in Motion
Most series conclude when their conceptual path is fully charted. Not so here; Behavior Patterns keeps unfolding, revealing new territories as the world changes and as the artist deepens his inquiry. This work is not a closed loop but a living ecosystem: part satire, part psychology, part prophecy, maintaining a conceptual thread while continually becoming something new. The work lives in the tension between what attracts us and what undoes us; between individual instinct and collective fate; between the radiant beauty of nature and the quiet ways we jeopardize it.
Conversations
Hand Painted Acrylic on Canvas, 2021. 36”x 48” (Into the Light Exhibition)
The Behavior Patterns Series — the Evolution of a Concept
Behavior Patterns is Leon Loucheur’s long-form study of desire, damage, and the cyclical nature of human impulse. The series blends satire with symbolism, inviting viewers into compositions that feel lush and inviting at first glance, only to reveal deeper, darker truths beneath the surface. What emerges is a portrait of our shared tendencies to reach for what harms us, to repeat what we know, and to dress our self-destruction in forms of beauty.
The series began in 2019 with the Pick Your Poison solo exhibition at 111 Minna Gallery. Playing on the theme of “attractive poisons,” the work explores the temptations we recognize as dangerous but pursue anyway. Bright feathers, shimmering bottles, and pop-infused branding set the stage, as birds smoke with human nonchalance, and fish drift toward alcoholic beverages as if hypnotized. These works were highly rendered, intimate, and disarmingly charming, a playful humor pointing toward serious commentary: a culture built on consumption often markets its own undoing.
By the 2021 solo exhibition Into the Light at Luna Rienne Gallery, singular subjects dissolved into repeating motifs, echoing the loops of habit and the patterns we inherit without question. The work no longer examined just personal vice but the collective momentum of a society caught in rhythm with its own compulsions. As the satire softened into atmosphere, textures expanded, compositions sprawled, and meaning dispersed across the canvas—reflecting how small, individual choices accumulate into shared consequence, the group-think of self-destruction.
The 2022 solo exhibition Petal to the Meddle at Modern Eden Gallery showcased new conceptual and design components as the series took a darker breath. Weaponry entered the frame alongside the familiar venomous snakes and smoking birds, representing a shift deeper into the primal instincts beneath our polished surfaces. Patterns fractured, leaving blank interruptions: glitches in an unraveling narrative, failures of memory, or perhaps ruptures where truth breaks through. Some pieces abandoned color entirely, collapsing into stormy grays and blacks, a sense of threat hanging in the air…an aesthetic of beauty on the brink.
The 2025 exhibition Bridge Studio Collective at 111 Minna Gallery featured the latest evolution in the series, introducing a new formal language: geometric shapes intersect the organic patterns, attempting (and often failing) to contain them. Color transitions abruptly from vibrant to desolate, like mood shifts or moral turns. Collaged textures interrupt painted surfaces, creating tension between the controlled and the chaotic. And scale expands, as new works reach dimensions measuring up to eight feet, allowing viewers not just to see the paintings but to enter them. Standing before these large-scale works feels immersive, almost participatory: a recognition that we, too, live inside our own patterns of behavior.
A Series Still in Motion
Most series conclude when their conceptual path is fully charted. Not so here; Behavior Patterns keeps unfolding, revealing new territories as the world changes and as the artist deepens his inquiry. This work is not a closed loop but a living ecosystem: part satire, part psychology, part prophecy, maintaining a conceptual thread while continually becoming something new. The work lives in the tension between what attracts us and what undoes us; between individual instinct and collective fate; between the radiant beauty of nature and the quiet ways we jeopardize it.
Indifferent Sun
Hand Painted Acrylic on Canvas, 2022, 44"x 60" (Petal to the Meddle Exhibition)
The Behavior Patterns Series — the Evolution of a Concept
Behavior Patterns is Leon Loucheur’s long-form study of desire, damage, and the cyclical nature of human impulse. The series blends satire with symbolism, inviting viewers into compositions that feel lush and inviting at first glance, only to reveal deeper, darker truths beneath the surface. What emerges is a portrait of our shared tendencies to reach for what harms us, to repeat what we know, and to dress our self-destruction in forms of beauty.
The series began in 2019 with the Pick Your Poison solo exhibition at 111 Minna Gallery. Playing on the theme of “attractive poisons,” the work explores the temptations we recognize as dangerous but pursue anyway. Bright feathers, shimmering bottles, and pop-infused branding set the stage, as birds smoke with human nonchalance, and fish drift toward alcoholic beverages as if hypnotized. These works were highly rendered, intimate, and disarmingly charming, a playful humor pointing toward serious commentary: a culture built on consumption often markets its own undoing.
By the 2021 solo exhibition Into the Light at Luna Rienne Gallery, singular subjects dissolved into repeating motifs, echoing the loops of habit and the patterns we inherit without question. The work no longer examined just personal vice but the collective momentum of a society caught in rhythm with its own compulsions. As the satire softened into atmosphere, textures expanded, compositions sprawled, and meaning dispersed across the canvas—reflecting how small, individual choices accumulate into shared consequence, the group-think of self-destruction.
The 2022 solo exhibition Petal to the Meddle at Modern Eden Gallery showcased new conceptual and design components as the series took a darker breath. Weaponry entered the frame alongside the familiar venomous snakes and smoking birds, representing a shift deeper into the primal instincts beneath our polished surfaces. Patterns fractured, leaving blank interruptions: glitches in an unraveling narrative, failures of memory, or perhaps ruptures where truth breaks through. Some pieces abandoned color entirely, collapsing into stormy grays and blacks, a sense of threat hanging in the air…an aesthetic of beauty on the brink.
The 2025 exhibition Bridge Studio Collective at 111 Minna Gallery featured the latest evolution in the series, introducing a new formal language: geometric shapes intersect the organic patterns, attempting (and often failing) to contain them. Color transitions abruptly from vibrant to desolate, like mood shifts or moral turns. Collaged textures interrupt painted surfaces, creating tension between the controlled and the chaotic. And scale expands, as new works reach dimensions measuring up to eight feet, allowing viewers not just to see the paintings but to enter them. Standing before these large-scale works feels immersive, almost participatory: a recognition that we, too, live inside our own patterns of behavior.
A Series Still in Motion
Most series conclude when their conceptual path is fully charted. Not so here; Behavior Patterns keeps unfolding, revealing new territories as the world changes and as the artist deepens his inquiry. This work is not a closed loop but a living ecosystem: part satire, part psychology, part prophecy, maintaining a conceptual thread while continually becoming something new. The work lives in the tension between what attracts us and what undoes us; between individual instinct and collective fate; between the radiant beauty of nature and the quiet ways we jeopardize it.
Fade to Black
Digitally modified ink drawing
The Behavior Patterns Series — the Evolution of a Concept
Behavior Patterns is Leon Loucheur’s long-form study of desire, damage, and the cyclical nature of human impulse. The series blends satire with symbolism, inviting viewers into compositions that feel lush and inviting at first glance, only to reveal deeper, darker truths beneath the surface. What emerges is a portrait of our shared tendencies to reach for what harms us, to repeat what we know, and to dress our self-destruction in forms of beauty.
The series began in 2019 with the Pick Your Poison solo exhibition at 111 Minna Gallery. Playing on the theme of “attractive poisons,” the work explores the temptations we recognize as dangerous but pursue anyway. Bright feathers, shimmering bottles, and pop-infused branding set the stage, as birds smoke with human nonchalance, and fish drift toward alcoholic beverages as if hypnotized. These works were highly rendered, intimate, and disarmingly charming, a playful humor pointing toward serious commentary: a culture built on consumption often markets its own undoing.
By the 2021 solo exhibition Into the Light at Luna Rienne Gallery, singular subjects dissolved into repeating motifs, echoing the loops of habit and the patterns we inherit without question. The work no longer examined just personal vice but the collective momentum of a society caught in rhythm with its own compulsions. As the satire softened into atmosphere, textures expanded, compositions sprawled, and meaning dispersed across the canvas—reflecting how small, individual choices accumulate into shared consequence, the group-think of self-destruction.
The 2022 solo exhibition Petal to the Meddle at Modern Eden Gallery showcased new conceptual and design components as the series took a darker breath. Weaponry entered the frame alongside the familiar venomous snakes and smoking birds, representing a shift deeper into the primal instincts beneath our polished surfaces. Patterns fractured, leaving blank interruptions: glitches in an unraveling narrative, failures of memory, or perhaps ruptures where truth breaks through. Some pieces abandoned color entirely, collapsing into stormy grays and blacks, a sense of threat hanging in the air…an aesthetic of beauty on the brink.
The 2025 exhibition Bridge Studio Collective at 111 Minna Gallery featured the latest evolution in the series, introducing a new formal language: geometric shapes intersect the organic patterns, attempting (and often failing) to contain them. Color transitions abruptly from vibrant to desolate, like mood shifts or moral turns. Collaged textures interrupt painted surfaces, creating tension between the controlled and the chaotic. And scale expands, as new works reach dimensions measuring up to eight feet, allowing viewers not just to see the paintings but to enter them. Standing before these large-scale works feels immersive, almost participatory: a recognition that we, too, live inside our own patterns of behavior.
A Series Still in Motion
Most series conclude when their conceptual path is fully charted. Not so here; Behavior Patterns keeps unfolding, revealing new territories as the world changes and as the artist deepens his inquiry. This work is not a closed loop but a living ecosystem: part satire, part psychology, part prophecy, maintaining a conceptual thread while continually becoming something new. The work lives in the tension between what attracts us and what undoes us; between individual instinct and collective fate; between the radiant beauty of nature and the quiet ways we jeopardize it.
Moonlit
Hand Painted Acrylic on Canvas, 2025. 30"x 30" (Group Exhibition)
The Behavior Patterns Series — the Evolution of a Concept
Behavior Patterns is Leon Loucheur’s long-form study of desire, damage, and the cyclical nature of human impulse. The series blends satire with symbolism, inviting viewers into compositions that feel lush and inviting at first glance, only to reveal deeper, darker truths beneath the surface. What emerges is a portrait of our shared tendencies to reach for what harms us, to repeat what we know, and to dress our self-destruction in forms of beauty.
The series began in 2019 with the Pick Your Poison solo exhibition at 111 Minna Gallery. Playing on the theme of “attractive poisons,” the work explores the temptations we recognize as dangerous but pursue anyway. Bright feathers, shimmering bottles, and pop-infused branding set the stage, as birds smoke with human nonchalance, and fish drift toward alcoholic beverages as if hypnotized. These works were highly rendered, intimate, and disarmingly charming, a playful humor pointing toward serious commentary: a culture built on consumption often markets its own undoing.
By the 2021 solo exhibition Into the Light at Luna Rienne Gallery, singular subjects dissolved into repeating motifs, echoing the loops of habit and the patterns we inherit without question. The work no longer examined just personal vice but the collective momentum of a society caught in rhythm with its own compulsions. As the satire softened into atmosphere, textures expanded, compositions sprawled, and meaning dispersed across the canvas—reflecting how small, individual choices accumulate into shared consequence, the group-think of self-destruction.
The 2022 solo exhibition Petal to the Meddle at Modern Eden Gallery showcased new conceptual and design components as the series took a darker breath. Weaponry entered the frame alongside the familiar venomous snakes and smoking birds, representing a shift deeper into the primal instincts beneath our polished surfaces. Patterns fractured, leaving blank interruptions: glitches in an unraveling narrative, failures of memory, or perhaps ruptures where truth breaks through. Some pieces abandoned color entirely, collapsing into stormy grays and blacks, a sense of threat hanging in the air…an aesthetic of beauty on the brink.
The 2025 exhibition Bridge Studio Collective at 111 Minna Gallery featured the latest evolution in the series, introducing a new formal language: geometric shapes intersect the organic patterns, attempting (and often failing) to contain them. Color transitions abruptly from vibrant to desolate, like mood shifts or moral turns. Collaged textures interrupt painted surfaces, creating tension between the controlled and the chaotic. And scale expands, as new works reach dimensions measuring up to eight feet, allowing viewers not just to see the paintings but to enter them. Standing before these large-scale works feels immersive, almost participatory: a recognition that we, too, live inside our own patterns of behavior.
A Series Still in Motion
Most series conclude when their conceptual path is fully charted. Not so here; Behavior Patterns keeps unfolding, revealing new territories as the world changes and as the artist deepens his inquiry. This work is not a closed loop but a living ecosystem: part satire, part psychology, part prophecy, maintaining a conceptual thread while continually becoming something new. The work lives in the tension between what attracts us and what undoes us; between individual instinct and collective fate; between the radiant beauty of nature and the quiet ways we jeopardize it.
Fade to black
Digitally modified ink drawing
The Behavior Patterns Series — the Evolution of a Concept
Behavior Patterns is Leon Loucheur’s long-form study of desire, damage, and the cyclical nature of human impulse. The series blends satire with symbolism, inviting viewers into compositions that feel lush and inviting at first glance, only to reveal deeper, darker truths beneath the surface. What emerges is a portrait of our shared tendencies to reach for what harms us, to repeat what we know, and to dress our self-destruction in forms of beauty.
The series began in 2019 with the Pick Your Poison solo exhibition at 111 Minna Gallery. Playing on the theme of “attractive poisons,” the work explores the temptations we recognize as dangerous but pursue anyway. Bright feathers, shimmering bottles, and pop-infused branding set the stage, as birds smoke with human nonchalance, and fish drift toward alcoholic beverages as if hypnotized. These works were highly rendered, intimate, and disarmingly charming, a playful humor pointing toward serious commentary: a culture built on consumption often markets its own undoing.
By the 2021 solo exhibition Into the Light at Luna Rienne Gallery, singular subjects dissolved into repeating motifs, echoing the loops of habit and the patterns we inherit without question. The work no longer examined just personal vice but the collective momentum of a society caught in rhythm with its own compulsions. As the satire softened into atmosphere, textures expanded, compositions sprawled, and meaning dispersed across the canvas—reflecting how small, individual choices accumulate into shared consequence, the group-think of self-destruction.
The 2022 solo exhibition Petal to the Meddle at Modern Eden Gallery showcased new conceptual and design components as the series took a darker breath. Weaponry entered the frame alongside the familiar venomous snakes and smoking birds, representing a shift deeper into the primal instincts beneath our polished surfaces. Patterns fractured, leaving blank interruptions: glitches in an unraveling narrative, failures of memory, or perhaps ruptures where truth breaks through. Some pieces abandoned color entirely, collapsing into stormy grays and blacks, a sense of threat hanging in the air…an aesthetic of beauty on the brink.
The 2025 exhibition Bridge Studio Collective at 111 Minna Gallery featured the latest evolution in the series, introducing a new formal language: geometric shapes intersect the organic patterns, attempting (and often failing) to contain them. Color transitions abruptly from vibrant to desolate, like mood shifts or moral turns. Collaged textures interrupt painted surfaces, creating tension between the controlled and the chaotic. And scale expands, as new works reach dimensions measuring up to eight feet, allowing viewers not just to see the paintings but to enter them. Standing before these large-scale works feels immersive, almost participatory: a recognition that we, too, live inside our own patterns of behavior.
A Series Still in Motion
Most series conclude when their conceptual path is fully charted. Not so here; Behavior Patterns keeps unfolding, revealing new territories as the world changes and as the artist deepens his inquiry. This work is not a closed loop but a living ecosystem: part satire, part psychology, part prophecy, maintaining a conceptual thread while continually becoming something new. The work lives in the tension between what attracts us and what undoes us; between individual instinct and collective fate; between the radiant beauty of nature and the quiet ways we jeopardize it.
No Filter
Hand painted acrylic on canvas, 2021. 16"x 20" (Into the Light Exhibition)
The Behavior Patterns Series — the Evolution of a Concept
Behavior Patterns is Leon Loucheur’s long-form study of desire, damage, and the cyclical nature of human impulse. The series blends satire with symbolism, inviting viewers into compositions that feel lush and inviting at first glance, only to reveal deeper, darker truths beneath the surface. What emerges is a portrait of our shared tendencies to reach for what harms us, to repeat what we know, and to dress our self-destruction in forms of beauty.
The series began in 2019 with the Pick Your Poison solo exhibition at 111 Minna Gallery. Playing on the theme of “attractive poisons,” the work explores the temptations we recognize as dangerous but pursue anyway. Bright feathers, shimmering bottles, and pop-infused branding set the stage, as birds smoke with human nonchalance, and fish drift toward alcoholic beverages as if hypnotized. These works were highly rendered, intimate, and disarmingly charming, a playful humor pointing toward serious commentary: a culture built on consumption often markets its own undoing.
By the 2021 solo exhibition Into the Light at Luna Rienne Gallery, singular subjects dissolved into repeating motifs, echoing the loops of habit and the patterns we inherit without question. The work no longer examined just personal vice but the collective momentum of a society caught in rhythm with its own compulsions. As the satire softened into atmosphere, textures expanded, compositions sprawled, and meaning dispersed across the canvas—reflecting how small, individual choices accumulate into shared consequence, the group-think of self-destruction.
The 2022 solo exhibition Petal to the Meddle at Modern Eden Gallery showcased new conceptual and design components as the series took a darker breath. Weaponry entered the frame alongside the familiar venomous snakes and smoking birds, representing a shift deeper into the primal instincts beneath our polished surfaces. Patterns fractured, leaving blank interruptions: glitches in an unraveling narrative, failures of memory, or perhaps ruptures where truth breaks through. Some pieces abandoned color entirely, collapsing into stormy grays and blacks, a sense of threat hanging in the air…an aesthetic of beauty on the brink.
The 2025 exhibition Bridge Studio Collective at 111 Minna Gallery featured the latest evolution in the series, introducing a new formal language: geometric shapes intersect the organic patterns, attempting (and often failing) to contain them. Color transitions abruptly from vibrant to desolate, like mood shifts or moral turns. Collaged textures interrupt painted surfaces, creating tension between the controlled and the chaotic. And scale expands, as new works reach dimensions measuring up to eight feet, allowing viewers not just to see the paintings but to enter them. Standing before these large-scale works feels immersive, almost participatory: a recognition that we, too, live inside our own patterns of behavior.
A Series Still in Motion
Most series conclude when their conceptual path is fully charted. Not so here; Behavior Patterns keeps unfolding, revealing new territories as the world changes and as the artist deepens his inquiry. This work is not a closed loop but a living ecosystem: part satire, part psychology, part prophecy, maintaining a conceptual thread while continually becoming something new. The work lives in the tension between what attracts us and what undoes us; between individual instinct and collective fate; between the radiant beauty of nature and the quiet ways we jeopardize it.
Fade to Black
Digitally modified ink drawing
The Behavior Patterns Series — the Evolution of a Concept
Behavior Patterns is Leon Loucheur’s long-form study of desire, damage, and the cyclical nature of human impulse. The series blends satire with symbolism, inviting viewers into compositions that feel lush and inviting at first glance, only to reveal deeper, darker truths beneath the surface. What emerges is a portrait of our shared tendencies to reach for what harms us, to repeat what we know, and to dress our self-destruction in forms of beauty.
The series began in 2019 with the Pick Your Poison solo exhibition at 111 Minna Gallery. Playing on the theme of “attractive poisons,” the work explores the temptations we recognize as dangerous but pursue anyway. Bright feathers, shimmering bottles, and pop-infused branding set the stage, as birds smoke with human nonchalance, and fish drift toward alcoholic beverages as if hypnotized. These works were highly rendered, intimate, and disarmingly charming, a playful humor pointing toward serious commentary: a culture built on consumption often markets its own undoing.
By the 2021 solo exhibition Into the Light at Luna Rienne Gallery, singular subjects dissolved into repeating motifs, echoing the loops of habit and the patterns we inherit without question. The work no longer examined just personal vice but the collective momentum of a society caught in rhythm with its own compulsions. As the satire softened into atmosphere, textures expanded, compositions sprawled, and meaning dispersed across the canvas—reflecting how small, individual choices accumulate into shared consequence, the group-think of self-destruction.
The 2022 solo exhibition Petal to the Meddle at Modern Eden Gallery showcased new conceptual and design components as the series took a darker breath. Weaponry entered the frame alongside the familiar venomous snakes and smoking birds, representing a shift deeper into the primal instincts beneath our polished surfaces. Patterns fractured, leaving blank interruptions: glitches in an unraveling narrative, failures of memory, or perhaps ruptures where truth breaks through. Some pieces abandoned color entirely, collapsing into stormy grays and blacks, a sense of threat hanging in the air…an aesthetic of beauty on the brink.
The 2025 exhibition Bridge Studio Collective at 111 Minna Gallery featured the latest evolution in the series, introducing a new formal language: geometric shapes intersect the organic patterns, attempting (and often failing) to contain them. Color transitions abruptly from vibrant to desolate, like mood shifts or moral turns. Collaged textures interrupt painted surfaces, creating tension between the controlled and the chaotic. And scale expands, as new works reach dimensions measuring up to eight feet, allowing viewers not just to see the paintings but to enter them. Standing before these large-scale works feels immersive, almost participatory: a recognition that we, too, live inside our own patterns of behavior.
A Series Still in Motion
Most series conclude when their conceptual path is fully charted. Not so here; Behavior Patterns keeps unfolding, revealing new territories as the world changes and as the artist deepens his inquiry. This work is not a closed loop but a living ecosystem: part satire, part psychology, part prophecy, maintaining a conceptual thread while continually becoming something new. The work lives in the tension between what attracts us and what undoes us; between individual instinct and collective fate; between the radiant beauty of nature and the quiet ways we jeopardize it.
Up
Hand painted acrylic on canvas, 2021. 16"x 20" (Into the Light Exhibition)
The Behavior Patterns Series — the Evolution of a Concept
Behavior Patterns is Leon Loucheur’s long-form study of desire, damage, and the cyclical nature of human impulse. The series blends satire with symbolism, inviting viewers into compositions that feel lush and inviting at first glance, only to reveal deeper, darker truths beneath the surface. What emerges is a portrait of our shared tendencies to reach for what harms us, to repeat what we know, and to dress our self-destruction in forms of beauty.
The series began in 2019 with the Pick Your Poison solo exhibition at 111 Minna Gallery. Playing on the theme of “attractive poisons,” the work explores the temptations we recognize as dangerous but pursue anyway. Bright feathers, shimmering bottles, and pop-infused branding set the stage, as birds smoke with human nonchalance, and fish drift toward alcoholic beverages as if hypnotized. These works were highly rendered, intimate, and disarmingly charming, a playful humor pointing toward serious commentary: a culture built on consumption often markets its own undoing.
By the 2021 solo exhibition Into the Light at Luna Rienne Gallery, singular subjects dissolved into repeating motifs, echoing the loops of habit and the patterns we inherit without question. The work no longer examined just personal vice but the collective momentum of a society caught in rhythm with its own compulsions. As the satire softened into atmosphere, textures expanded, compositions sprawled, and meaning dispersed across the canvas—reflecting how small, individual choices accumulate into shared consequence, the group-think of self-destruction.
The 2022 solo exhibition Petal to the Meddle at Modern Eden Gallery showcased new conceptual and design components as the series took a darker breath. Weaponry entered the frame alongside the familiar venomous snakes and smoking birds, representing a shift deeper into the primal instincts beneath our polished surfaces. Patterns fractured, leaving blank interruptions: glitches in an unraveling narrative, failures of memory, or perhaps ruptures where truth breaks through. Some pieces abandoned color entirely, collapsing into stormy grays and blacks, a sense of threat hanging in the air…an aesthetic of beauty on the brink.
The 2025 exhibition Bridge Studio Collective at 111 Minna Gallery featured the latest evolution in the series, introducing a new formal language: geometric shapes intersect the organic patterns, attempting (and often failing) to contain them. Color transitions abruptly from vibrant to desolate, like mood shifts or moral turns. Collaged textures interrupt painted surfaces, creating tension between the controlled and the chaotic. And scale expands, as new works reach dimensions measuring up to eight feet, allowing viewers not just to see the paintings but to enter them. Standing before these large-scale works feels immersive, almost participatory: a recognition that we, too, live inside our own patterns of behavior.
A Series Still in Motion
Most series conclude when their conceptual path is fully charted. Not so here; Behavior Patterns keeps unfolding, revealing new territories as the world changes and as the artist deepens his inquiry. This work is not a closed loop but a living ecosystem: part satire, part psychology, part prophecy, maintaining a conceptual thread while continually becoming something new. The work lives in the tension between what attracts us and what undoes us; between individual instinct and collective fate; between the radiant beauty of nature and the quiet ways we jeopardize it.
Fade to black
Digitally modified ink drawing
The Behavior Patterns Series — the Evolution of a Concept
Behavior Patterns is Leon Loucheur’s long-form study of desire, damage, and the cyclical nature of human impulse. The series blends satire with symbolism, inviting viewers into compositions that feel lush and inviting at first glance, only to reveal deeper, darker truths beneath the surface. What emerges is a portrait of our shared tendencies to reach for what harms us, to repeat what we know, and to dress our self-destruction in forms of beauty.
The series began in 2019 with the Pick Your Poison solo exhibition at 111 Minna Gallery. Playing on the theme of “attractive poisons,” the work explores the temptations we recognize as dangerous but pursue anyway. Bright feathers, shimmering bottles, and pop-infused branding set the stage, as birds smoke with human nonchalance, and fish drift toward alcoholic beverages as if hypnotized. These works were highly rendered, intimate, and disarmingly charming, a playful humor pointing toward serious commentary: a culture built on consumption often markets its own undoing.
By the 2021 solo exhibition Into the Light at Luna Rienne Gallery, singular subjects dissolved into repeating motifs, echoing the loops of habit and the patterns we inherit without question. The work no longer examined just personal vice but the collective momentum of a society caught in rhythm with its own compulsions. As the satire softened into atmosphere, textures expanded, compositions sprawled, and meaning dispersed across the canvas—reflecting how small, individual choices accumulate into shared consequence, the group-think of self-destruction.
The 2022 solo exhibition Petal to the Meddle at Modern Eden Gallery showcased new conceptual and design components as the series took a darker breath. Weaponry entered the frame alongside the familiar venomous snakes and smoking birds, representing a shift deeper into the primal instincts beneath our polished surfaces. Patterns fractured, leaving blank interruptions: glitches in an unraveling narrative, failures of memory, or perhaps ruptures where truth breaks through. Some pieces abandoned color entirely, collapsing into stormy grays and blacks, a sense of threat hanging in the air…an aesthetic of beauty on the brink.
The 2025 exhibition Bridge Studio Collective at 111 Minna Gallery featured the latest evolution in the series, introducing a new formal language: geometric shapes intersect the organic patterns, attempting (and often failing) to contain them. Color transitions abruptly from vibrant to desolate, like mood shifts or moral turns. Collaged textures interrupt painted surfaces, creating tension between the controlled and the chaotic. And scale expands, as new works reach dimensions measuring up to eight feet, allowing viewers not just to see the paintings but to enter them. Standing before these large-scale works feels immersive, almost participatory: a recognition that we, too, live inside our own patterns of behavior.
A Series Still in Motion
Most series conclude when their conceptual path is fully charted. Not so here; Behavior Patterns keeps unfolding, revealing new territories as the world changes and as the artist deepens his inquiry. This work is not a closed loop but a living ecosystem: part satire, part psychology, part prophecy, maintaining a conceptual thread while continually becoming something new. The work lives in the tension between what attracts us and what undoes us; between individual instinct and collective fate; between the radiant beauty of nature and the quiet ways we jeopardize it.
Bloom
Hand painted acrylic on canvas, 2021. 16"x 20" (Into the Light Exhibition)
The Behavior Patterns Series — the Evolution of a Concept
Behavior Patterns is Leon Loucheur’s long-form study of desire, damage, and the cyclical nature of human impulse. The series blends satire with symbolism, inviting viewers into compositions that feel lush and inviting at first glance, only to reveal deeper, darker truths beneath the surface. What emerges is a portrait of our shared tendencies to reach for what harms us, to repeat what we know, and to dress our self-destruction in forms of beauty.
The series began in 2019 with the Pick Your Poison solo exhibition at 111 Minna Gallery. Playing on the theme of “attractive poisons,” the work explores the temptations we recognize as dangerous but pursue anyway. Bright feathers, shimmering bottles, and pop-infused branding set the stage, as birds smoke with human nonchalance, and fish drift toward alcoholic beverages as if hypnotized. These works were highly rendered, intimate, and disarmingly charming, a playful humor pointing toward serious commentary: a culture built on consumption often markets its own undoing.
By the 2021 solo exhibition Into the Light at Luna Rienne Gallery, singular subjects dissolved into repeating motifs, echoing the loops of habit and the patterns we inherit without question. The work no longer examined just personal vice but the collective momentum of a society caught in rhythm with its own compulsions. As the satire softened into atmosphere, textures expanded, compositions sprawled, and meaning dispersed across the canvas—reflecting how small, individual choices accumulate into shared consequence, the group-think of self-destruction.
The 2022 solo exhibition Petal to the Meddle at Modern Eden Gallery showcased new conceptual and design components as the series took a darker breath. Weaponry entered the frame alongside the familiar venomous snakes and smoking birds, representing a shift deeper into the primal instincts beneath our polished surfaces. Patterns fractured, leaving blank interruptions: glitches in an unraveling narrative, failures of memory, or perhaps ruptures where truth breaks through. Some pieces abandoned color entirely, collapsing into stormy grays and blacks, a sense of threat hanging in the air…an aesthetic of beauty on the brink.
The 2025 exhibition Bridge Studio Collective at 111 Minna Gallery featured the latest evolution in the series, introducing a new formal language: geometric shapes intersect the organic patterns, attempting (and often failing) to contain them. Color transitions abruptly from vibrant to desolate, like mood shifts or moral turns. Collaged textures interrupt painted surfaces, creating tension between the controlled and the chaotic. And scale expands, as new works reach dimensions measuring up to eight feet, allowing viewers not just to see the paintings but to enter them. Standing before these large-scale works feels immersive, almost participatory: a recognition that we, too, live inside our own patterns of behavior.
A Series Still in Motion
Most series conclude when their conceptual path is fully charted. Not so here; Behavior Patterns keeps unfolding, revealing new territories as the world changes and as the artist deepens his inquiry. This work is not a closed loop but a living ecosystem: part satire, part psychology, part prophecy, maintaining a conceptual thread while continually becoming something new. The work lives in the tension between what attracts us and what undoes us; between individual instinct and collective fate; between the radiant beauty of nature and the quiet ways we jeopardize it.
Fade to black
Digitally modified ink drawing
The Behavior Patterns Series — the Evolution of a Concept
Behavior Patterns is Leon Loucheur’s long-form study of desire, damage, and the cyclical nature of human impulse. The series blends satire with symbolism, inviting viewers into compositions that feel lush and inviting at first glance, only to reveal deeper, darker truths beneath the surface. What emerges is a portrait of our shared tendencies to reach for what harms us, to repeat what we know, and to dress our self-destruction in forms of beauty.
The series began in 2019 with the Pick Your Poison solo exhibition at 111 Minna Gallery. Playing on the theme of “attractive poisons,” the work explores the temptations we recognize as dangerous but pursue anyway. Bright feathers, shimmering bottles, and pop-infused branding set the stage, as birds smoke with human nonchalance, and fish drift toward alcoholic beverages as if hypnotized. These works were highly rendered, intimate, and disarmingly charming, a playful humor pointing toward serious commentary: a culture built on consumption often markets its own undoing.
By the 2021 solo exhibition Into the Light at Luna Rienne Gallery, singular subjects dissolved into repeating motifs, echoing the loops of habit and the patterns we inherit without question. The work no longer examined just personal vice but the collective momentum of a society caught in rhythm with its own compulsions. As the satire softened into atmosphere, textures expanded, compositions sprawled, and meaning dispersed across the canvas—reflecting how small, individual choices accumulate into shared consequence, the group-think of self-destruction.
The 2022 solo exhibition Petal to the Meddle at Modern Eden Gallery showcased new conceptual and design components as the series took a darker breath. Weaponry entered the frame alongside the familiar venomous snakes and smoking birds, representing a shift deeper into the primal instincts beneath our polished surfaces. Patterns fractured, leaving blank interruptions: glitches in an unraveling narrative, failures of memory, or perhaps ruptures where truth breaks through. Some pieces abandoned color entirely, collapsing into stormy grays and blacks, a sense of threat hanging in the air…an aesthetic of beauty on the brink.
The 2025 exhibition Bridge Studio Collective at 111 Minna Gallery featured the latest evolution in the series, introducing a new formal language: geometric shapes intersect the organic patterns, attempting (and often failing) to contain them. Color transitions abruptly from vibrant to desolate, like mood shifts or moral turns. Collaged textures interrupt painted surfaces, creating tension between the controlled and the chaotic. And scale expands, as new works reach dimensions measuring up to eight feet, allowing viewers not just to see the paintings but to enter them. Standing before these large-scale works feels immersive, almost participatory: a recognition that we, too, live inside our own patterns of behavior.
A Series Still in Motion
Most series conclude when their conceptual path is fully charted. Not so here; Behavior Patterns keeps unfolding, revealing new territories as the world changes and as the artist deepens his inquiry. This work is not a closed loop but a living ecosystem: part satire, part psychology, part prophecy, maintaining a conceptual thread while continually becoming something new. The work lives in the tension between what attracts us and what undoes us; between individual instinct and collective fate; between the radiant beauty of nature and the quiet ways we jeopardize it.
Fool's Retort
Hand Painted Acrylic on Canvas, 2022. 44"x 60" (Petal to the Meddle Exhibition)
The Behavior Patterns Series — the Evolution of a Concept
Behavior Patterns is Leon Loucheur’s long-form study of desire, damage, and the cyclical nature of human impulse. The series blends satire with symbolism, inviting viewers into compositions that feel lush and inviting at first glance, only to reveal deeper, darker truths beneath the surface. What emerges is a portrait of our shared tendencies to reach for what harms us, to repeat what we know, and to dress our self-destruction in forms of beauty.
The series began in 2019 with the Pick Your Poison solo exhibition at 111 Minna Gallery. Playing on the theme of “attractive poisons,” the work explores the temptations we recognize as dangerous but pursue anyway. Bright feathers, shimmering bottles, and pop-infused branding set the stage, as birds smoke with human nonchalance, and fish drift toward alcoholic beverages as if hypnotized. These works were highly rendered, intimate, and disarmingly charming, a playful humor pointing toward serious commentary: a culture built on consumption often markets its own undoing.
By the 2021 solo exhibition Into the Light at Luna Rienne Gallery, singular subjects dissolved into repeating motifs, echoing the loops of habit and the patterns we inherit without question. The work no longer examined just personal vice but the collective momentum of a society caught in rhythm with its own compulsions. As the satire softened into atmosphere, textures expanded, compositions sprawled, and meaning dispersed across the canvas—reflecting how small, individual choices accumulate into shared consequence, the group-think of self-destruction.
The 2022 solo exhibition Petal to the Meddle at Modern Eden Gallery showcased new conceptual and design components as the series took a darker breath. Weaponry entered the frame alongside the familiar venomous snakes and smoking birds, representing a shift deeper into the primal instincts beneath our polished surfaces. Patterns fractured, leaving blank interruptions: glitches in an unraveling narrative, failures of memory, or perhaps ruptures where truth breaks through. Some pieces abandoned color entirely, collapsing into stormy grays and blacks, a sense of threat hanging in the air…an aesthetic of beauty on the brink.
The 2025 exhibition Bridge Studio Collective at 111 Minna Gallery featured the latest evolution in the series, introducing a new formal language: geometric shapes intersect the organic patterns, attempting (and often failing) to contain them. Color transitions abruptly from vibrant to desolate, like mood shifts or moral turns. Collaged textures interrupt painted surfaces, creating tension between the controlled and the chaotic. And scale expands, as new works reach dimensions measuring up to eight feet, allowing viewers not just to see the paintings but to enter them. Standing before these large-scale works feels immersive, almost participatory: a recognition that we, too, live inside our own patterns of behavior.
A Series Still in Motion
Most series conclude when their conceptual path is fully charted. Not so here; Behavior Patterns keeps unfolding, revealing new territories as the world changes and as the artist deepens his inquiry. This work is not a closed loop but a living ecosystem: part satire, part psychology, part prophecy, maintaining a conceptual thread while continually becoming something new. The work lives in the tension between what attracts us and what undoes us; between individual instinct and collective fate; between the radiant beauty of nature and the quiet ways we jeopardize it.
Fade to black
Digitally modified ink drawing
The Behavior Patterns Series — the Evolution of a Concept
Behavior Patterns is Leon Loucheur’s long-form study of desire, damage, and the cyclical nature of human impulse. The series blends satire with symbolism, inviting viewers into compositions that feel lush and inviting at first glance, only to reveal deeper, darker truths beneath the surface. What emerges is a portrait of our shared tendencies to reach for what harms us, to repeat what we know, and to dress our self-destruction in forms of beauty.
The series began in 2019 with the Pick Your Poison solo exhibition at 111 Minna Gallery. Playing on the theme of “attractive poisons,” the work explores the temptations we recognize as dangerous but pursue anyway. Bright feathers, shimmering bottles, and pop-infused branding set the stage, as birds smoke with human nonchalance, and fish drift toward alcoholic beverages as if hypnotized. These works were highly rendered, intimate, and disarmingly charming, a playful humor pointing toward serious commentary: a culture built on consumption often markets its own undoing.
By the 2021 solo exhibition Into the Light at Luna Rienne Gallery, singular subjects dissolved into repeating motifs, echoing the loops of habit and the patterns we inherit without question. The work no longer examined just personal vice but the collective momentum of a society caught in rhythm with its own compulsions. As the satire softened into atmosphere, textures expanded, compositions sprawled, and meaning dispersed across the canvas—reflecting how small, individual choices accumulate into shared consequence, the group-think of self-destruction.
The 2022 solo exhibition Petal to the Meddle at Modern Eden Gallery showcased new conceptual and design components as the series took a darker breath. Weaponry entered the frame alongside the familiar venomous snakes and smoking birds, representing a shift deeper into the primal instincts beneath our polished surfaces. Patterns fractured, leaving blank interruptions: glitches in an unraveling narrative, failures of memory, or perhaps ruptures where truth breaks through. Some pieces abandoned color entirely, collapsing into stormy grays and blacks, a sense of threat hanging in the air…an aesthetic of beauty on the brink.
The 2025 exhibition Bridge Studio Collective at 111 Minna Gallery featured the latest evolution in the series, introducing a new formal language: geometric shapes intersect the organic patterns, attempting (and often failing) to contain them. Color transitions abruptly from vibrant to desolate, like mood shifts or moral turns. Collaged textures interrupt painted surfaces, creating tension between the controlled and the chaotic. And scale expands, as new works reach dimensions measuring up to eight feet, allowing viewers not just to see the paintings but to enter them. Standing before these large-scale works feels immersive, almost participatory: a recognition that we, too, live inside our own patterns of behavior.
A Series Still in Motion
Most series conclude when their conceptual path is fully charted. Not so here; Behavior Patterns keeps unfolding, revealing new territories as the world changes and as the artist deepens his inquiry. This work is not a closed loop but a living ecosystem: part satire, part psychology, part prophecy, maintaining a conceptual thread while continually becoming something new. The work lives in the tension between what attracts us and what undoes us; between individual instinct and collective fate; between the radiant beauty of nature and the quiet ways we jeopardize it.
Jarritos
Hand painted acrylic on panel, 2019. 16"x 20" (Pick Your Poison Exhibition)
The Behavior Patterns Series — the Evolution of a Concept
Behavior Patterns is Leon Loucheur’s long-form study of desire, damage, and the cyclical nature of human impulse. The series blends satire with symbolism, inviting viewers into compositions that feel lush and inviting at first glance, only to reveal deeper, darker truths beneath the surface. What emerges is a portrait of our shared tendencies to reach for what harms us, to repeat what we know, and to dress our self-destruction in forms of beauty.
The series began in 2019 with the Pick Your Poison solo exhibition at 111 Minna Gallery. Playing on the theme of “attractive poisons,” the work explores the temptations we recognize as dangerous but pursue anyway. Bright feathers, shimmering bottles, and pop-infused branding set the stage, as birds smoke with human nonchalance, and fish drift toward alcoholic beverages as if hypnotized. These works were highly rendered, intimate, and disarmingly charming, a playful humor pointing toward serious commentary: a culture built on consumption often markets its own undoing.
By the 2021 solo exhibition Into the Light at Luna Rienne Gallery, singular subjects dissolved into repeating motifs, echoing the loops of habit and the patterns we inherit without question. The work no longer examined just personal vice but the collective momentum of a society caught in rhythm with its own compulsions. As the satire softened into atmosphere, textures expanded, compositions sprawled, and meaning dispersed across the canvas—reflecting how small, individual choices accumulate into shared consequence, the group-think of self-destruction.
The 2022 solo exhibition Petal to the Meddle at Modern Eden Gallery showcased new conceptual and design components as the series took a darker breath. Weaponry entered the frame alongside the familiar venomous snakes and smoking birds, representing a shift deeper into the primal instincts beneath our polished surfaces. Patterns fractured, leaving blank interruptions: glitches in an unraveling narrative, failures of memory, or perhaps ruptures where truth breaks through. Some pieces abandoned color entirely, collapsing into stormy grays and blacks, a sense of threat hanging in the air…an aesthetic of beauty on the brink.
The 2025 exhibition Bridge Studio Collective at 111 Minna Gallery featured the latest evolution in the series, introducing a new formal language: geometric shapes intersect the organic patterns, attempting (and often failing) to contain them. Color transitions abruptly from vibrant to desolate, like mood shifts or moral turns. Collaged textures interrupt painted surfaces, creating tension between the controlled and the chaotic. And scale expands, as new works reach dimensions measuring up to eight feet, allowing viewers not just to see the paintings but to enter them. Standing before these large-scale works feels immersive, almost participatory: a recognition that we, too, live inside our own patterns of behavior.
A Series Still in Motion
Most series conclude when their conceptual path is fully charted. Not so here; Behavior Patterns keeps unfolding, revealing new territories as the world changes and as the artist deepens his inquiry. This work is not a closed loop but a living ecosystem: part satire, part psychology, part prophecy, maintaining a conceptual thread while continually becoming something new. The work lives in the tension between what attracts us and what undoes us; between individual instinct and collective fate; between the radiant beauty of nature and the quiet ways we jeopardize it.
Lucky Strike
private collection
Hand painted acrylic on canvas, 2019. 44"x 60" (Pick Your Poison Exhibition)
The Behavior Patterns Series — the Evolution of a Concept
Behavior Patterns is Leon Loucheur’s long-form study of desire, damage, and the cyclical nature of human impulse. The series blends satire with symbolism, inviting viewers into compositions that feel lush and inviting at first glance, only to reveal deeper, darker truths beneath the surface. What emerges is a portrait of our shared tendencies to reach for what harms us, to repeat what we know, and to dress our self-destruction in forms of beauty.
The series began in 2019 with the Pick Your Poison solo exhibition at 111 Minna Gallery. Playing on the theme of “attractive poisons,” the work explores the temptations we recognize as dangerous but pursue anyway. Bright feathers, shimmering bottles, and pop-infused branding set the stage, as birds smoke with human nonchalance, and fish drift toward alcoholic beverages as if hypnotized. These works were highly rendered, intimate, and disarmingly charming, a playful humor pointing toward serious commentary: a culture built on consumption often markets its own undoing.
By the 2021 solo exhibition Into the Light at Luna Rienne Gallery, singular subjects dissolved into repeating motifs, echoing the loops of habit and the patterns we inherit without question. The work no longer examined just personal vice but the collective momentum of a society caught in rhythm with its own compulsions. As the satire softened into atmosphere, textures expanded, compositions sprawled, and meaning dispersed across the canvas—reflecting how small, individual choices accumulate into shared consequence, the group-think of self-destruction.
The 2022 solo exhibition Petal to the Meddle at Modern Eden Gallery showcased new conceptual and design components as the series took a darker breath. Weaponry entered the frame alongside the familiar venomous snakes and smoking birds, representing a shift deeper into the primal instincts beneath our polished surfaces. Patterns fractured, leaving blank interruptions: glitches in an unraveling narrative, failures of memory, or perhaps ruptures where truth breaks through. Some pieces abandoned color entirely, collapsing into stormy grays and blacks, a sense of threat hanging in the air…an aesthetic of beauty on the brink.
The 2025 exhibition Bridge Studio Collective at 111 Minna Gallery featured the latest evolution in the series, introducing a new formal language: geometric shapes intersect the organic patterns, attempting (and often failing) to contain them. Color transitions abruptly from vibrant to desolate, like mood shifts or moral turns. Collaged textures interrupt painted surfaces, creating tension between the controlled and the chaotic. And scale expands, as new works reach dimensions measuring up to eight feet, allowing viewers not just to see the paintings but to enter them. Standing before these large-scale works feels immersive, almost participatory: a recognition that we, too, live inside our own patterns of behavior.
A Series Still in Motion
Most series conclude when their conceptual path is fully charted. Not so here; Behavior Patterns keeps unfolding, revealing new territories as the world changes and as the artist deepens his inquiry. This work is not a closed loop but a living ecosystem: part satire, part psychology, part prophecy, maintaining a conceptual thread while continually becoming something new. The work lives in the tension between what attracts us and what undoes us; between individual instinct and collective fate; between the radiant beauty of nature and the quiet ways we jeopardize it.
Jarritos
Hand painted acrylic on panel, 2019. 16"x 20" (Pick Your Poison Exhibition)
The Behavior Patterns Series — the Evolution of a Concept
Behavior Patterns is Leon Loucheur’s long-form study of desire, damage, and the cyclical nature of human impulse. The series blends satire with symbolism, inviting viewers into compositions that feel lush and inviting at first glance, only to reveal deeper, darker truths beneath the surface. What emerges is a portrait of our shared tendencies to reach for what harms us, to repeat what we know, and to dress our self-destruction in forms of beauty.
The series began in 2019 with the Pick Your Poison solo exhibition at 111 Minna Gallery. Playing on the theme of “attractive poisons,” the work explores the temptations we recognize as dangerous but pursue anyway. Bright feathers, shimmering bottles, and pop-infused branding set the stage, as birds smoke with human nonchalance, and fish drift toward alcoholic beverages as if hypnotized. These works were highly rendered, intimate, and disarmingly charming, a playful humor pointing toward serious commentary: a culture built on consumption often markets its own undoing.
By the 2021 solo exhibition Into the Light at Luna Rienne Gallery, singular subjects dissolved into repeating motifs, echoing the loops of habit and the patterns we inherit without question. The work no longer examined just personal vice but the collective momentum of a society caught in rhythm with its own compulsions. As the satire softened into atmosphere, textures expanded, compositions sprawled, and meaning dispersed across the canvas—reflecting how small, individual choices accumulate into shared consequence, the group-think of self-destruction.
The 2022 solo exhibition Petal to the Meddle at Modern Eden Gallery showcased new conceptual and design components as the series took a darker breath. Weaponry entered the frame alongside the familiar venomous snakes and smoking birds, representing a shift deeper into the primal instincts beneath our polished surfaces. Patterns fractured, leaving blank interruptions: glitches in an unraveling narrative, failures of memory, or perhaps ruptures where truth breaks through. Some pieces abandoned color entirely, collapsing into stormy grays and blacks, a sense of threat hanging in the air…an aesthetic of beauty on the brink.
The 2025 exhibition Bridge Studio Collective at 111 Minna Gallery featured the latest evolution in the series, introducing a new formal language: geometric shapes intersect the organic patterns, attempting (and often failing) to contain them. Color transitions abruptly from vibrant to desolate, like mood shifts or moral turns. Collaged textures interrupt painted surfaces, creating tension between the controlled and the chaotic. And scale expands, as new works reach dimensions measuring up to eight feet, allowing viewers not just to see the paintings but to enter them. Standing before these large-scale works feels immersive, almost participatory: a recognition that we, too, live inside our own patterns of behavior.
A Series Still in Motion
Most series conclude when their conceptual path is fully charted. Not so here; Behavior Patterns keeps unfolding, revealing new territories as the world changes and as the artist deepens his inquiry. This work is not a closed loop but a living ecosystem: part satire, part psychology, part prophecy, maintaining a conceptual thread while continually becoming something new. The work lives in the tension between what attracts us and what undoes us; between individual instinct and collective fate; between the radiant beauty of nature and the quiet ways we jeopardize it.
Wisp
Hand painted acrylic on panel, 2019. 14"x 14" (Pick Your Poison Exhibition)
The Behavior Patterns Series — the Evolution of a Concept
Behavior Patterns is Leon Loucheur’s long-form study of desire, damage, and the cyclical nature of human impulse. The series blends satire with symbolism, inviting viewers into compositions that feel lush and inviting at first glance, only to reveal deeper, darker truths beneath the surface. What emerges is a portrait of our shared tendencies to reach for what harms us, to repeat what we know, and to dress our self-destruction in forms of beauty.
The series began in 2019 with the Pick Your Poison solo exhibition at 111 Minna Gallery. Playing on the theme of “attractive poisons,” the work explores the temptations we recognize as dangerous but pursue anyway. Bright feathers, shimmering bottles, and pop-infused branding set the stage, as birds smoke with human nonchalance, and fish drift toward alcoholic beverages as if hypnotized. These works were highly rendered, intimate, and disarmingly charming, a playful humor pointing toward serious commentary: a culture built on consumption often markets its own undoing.
By the 2021 solo exhibition Into the Light at Luna Rienne Gallery, singular subjects dissolved into repeating motifs, echoing the loops of habit and the patterns we inherit without question. The work no longer examined just personal vice but the collective momentum of a society caught in rhythm with its own compulsions. As the satire softened into atmosphere, textures expanded, compositions sprawled, and meaning dispersed across the canvas—reflecting how small, individual choices accumulate into shared consequence, the group-think of self-destruction.
The 2022 solo exhibition Petal to the Meddle at Modern Eden Gallery showcased new conceptual and design components as the series took a darker breath. Weaponry entered the frame alongside the familiar venomous snakes and smoking birds, representing a shift deeper into the primal instincts beneath our polished surfaces. Patterns fractured, leaving blank interruptions: glitches in an unraveling narrative, failures of memory, or perhaps ruptures where truth breaks through. Some pieces abandoned color entirely, collapsing into stormy grays and blacks, a sense of threat hanging in the air…an aesthetic of beauty on the brink.
The 2025 exhibition Bridge Studio Collective at 111 Minna Gallery featured the latest evolution in the series, introducing a new formal language: geometric shapes intersect the organic patterns, attempting (and often failing) to contain them. Color transitions abruptly from vibrant to desolate, like mood shifts or moral turns. Collaged textures interrupt painted surfaces, creating tension between the controlled and the chaotic. And scale expands, as new works reach dimensions measuring up to eight feet, allowing viewers not just to see the paintings but to enter them. Standing before these large-scale works feels immersive, almost participatory: a recognition that we, too, live inside our own patterns of behavior.
A Series Still in Motion
Most series conclude when their conceptual path is fully charted. Not so here; Behavior Patterns keeps unfolding, revealing new territories as the world changes and as the artist deepens his inquiry. This work is not a closed loop but a living ecosystem: part satire, part psychology, part prophecy, maintaining a conceptual thread while continually becoming something new. The work lives in the tension between what attracts us and what undoes us; between individual instinct and collective fate; between the radiant beauty of nature and the quiet ways we jeopardize it.
Loop
Hand painted acrylic on panel, 2020. 24"x 24" (Group Exhibition)
The Behavior Patterns Series — the Evolution of a Concept
Behavior Patterns is Leon Loucheur’s long-form study of desire, damage, and the cyclical nature of human impulse. The series blends satire with symbolism, inviting viewers into compositions that feel lush and inviting at first glance, only to reveal deeper, darker truths beneath the surface. What emerges is a portrait of our shared tendencies to reach for what harms us, to repeat what we know, and to dress our self-destruction in forms of beauty.
The series began in 2019 with the Pick Your Poison solo exhibition at 111 Minna Gallery. Playing on the theme of “attractive poisons,” the work explores the temptations we recognize as dangerous but pursue anyway. Bright feathers, shimmering bottles, and pop-infused branding set the stage, as birds smoke with human nonchalance, and fish drift toward alcoholic beverages as if hypnotized. These works were highly rendered, intimate, and disarmingly charming, a playful humor pointing toward serious commentary: a culture built on consumption often markets its own undoing.
By the 2021 solo exhibition Into the Light at Luna Rienne Gallery, singular subjects dissolved into repeating motifs, echoing the loops of habit and the patterns we inherit without question. The work no longer examined just personal vice but the collective momentum of a society caught in rhythm with its own compulsions. As the satire softened into atmosphere, textures expanded, compositions sprawled, and meaning dispersed across the canvas—reflecting how small, individual choices accumulate into shared consequence, the group-think of self-destruction.
The 2022 solo exhibition Petal to the Meddle at Modern Eden Gallery showcased new conceptual and design components as the series took a darker breath. Weaponry entered the frame alongside the familiar venomous snakes and smoking birds, representing a shift deeper into the primal instincts beneath our polished surfaces. Patterns fractured, leaving blank interruptions: glitches in an unraveling narrative, failures of memory, or perhaps ruptures where truth breaks through. Some pieces abandoned color entirely, collapsing into stormy grays and blacks, a sense of threat hanging in the air…an aesthetic of beauty on the brink.
The 2025 exhibition Bridge Studio Collective at 111 Minna Gallery featured the latest evolution in the series, introducing a new formal language: geometric shapes intersect the organic patterns, attempting (and often failing) to contain them. Color transitions abruptly from vibrant to desolate, like mood shifts or moral turns. Collaged textures interrupt painted surfaces, creating tension between the controlled and the chaotic. And scale expands, as new works reach dimensions measuring up to eight feet, allowing viewers not just to see the paintings but to enter them. Standing before these large-scale works feels immersive, almost participatory: a recognition that we, too, live inside our own patterns of behavior.
A Series Still in Motion
Most series conclude when their conceptual path is fully charted. Not so here; Behavior Patterns keeps unfolding, revealing new territories as the world changes and as the artist deepens his inquiry. This work is not a closed loop but a living ecosystem: part satire, part psychology, part prophecy, maintaining a conceptual thread while continually becoming something new. The work lives in the tension between what attracts us and what undoes us; between individual instinct and collective fate; between the radiant beauty of nature and the quiet ways we jeopardize it.
Drag
Hand painted acrylic on panel, 2019. 14"x 14" (Pick Your Poison Exhibition)
The Behavior Patterns Series — the Evolution of a Concept
Behavior Patterns is Leon Loucheur’s long-form study of desire, damage, and the cyclical nature of human impulse. The series blends satire with symbolism, inviting viewers into compositions that feel lush and inviting at first glance, only to reveal deeper, darker truths beneath the surface. What emerges is a portrait of our shared tendencies to reach for what harms us, to repeat what we know, and to dress our self-destruction in forms of beauty.
The series began in 2019 with the Pick Your Poison solo exhibition at 111 Minna Gallery. Playing on the theme of “attractive poisons,” the work explores the temptations we recognize as dangerous but pursue anyway. Bright feathers, shimmering bottles, and pop-infused branding set the stage, as birds smoke with human nonchalance, and fish drift toward alcoholic beverages as if hypnotized. These works were highly rendered, intimate, and disarmingly charming, a playful humor pointing toward serious commentary: a culture built on consumption often markets its own undoing.
By the 2021 solo exhibition Into the Light at Luna Rienne Gallery, singular subjects dissolved into repeating motifs, echoing the loops of habit and the patterns we inherit without question. The work no longer examined just personal vice but the collective momentum of a society caught in rhythm with its own compulsions. As the satire softened into atmosphere, textures expanded, compositions sprawled, and meaning dispersed across the canvas—reflecting how small, individual choices accumulate into shared consequence, the group-think of self-destruction.
The 2022 solo exhibition Petal to the Meddle at Modern Eden Gallery showcased new conceptual and design components as the series took a darker breath. Weaponry entered the frame alongside the familiar venomous snakes and smoking birds, representing a shift deeper into the primal instincts beneath our polished surfaces. Patterns fractured, leaving blank interruptions: glitches in an unraveling narrative, failures of memory, or perhaps ruptures where truth breaks through. Some pieces abandoned color entirely, collapsing into stormy grays and blacks, a sense of threat hanging in the air…an aesthetic of beauty on the brink.
The 2025 exhibition Bridge Studio Collective at 111 Minna Gallery featured the latest evolution in the series, introducing a new formal language: geometric shapes intersect the organic patterns, attempting (and often failing) to contain them. Color transitions abruptly from vibrant to desolate, like mood shifts or moral turns. Collaged textures interrupt painted surfaces, creating tension between the controlled and the chaotic. And scale expands, as new works reach dimensions measuring up to eight feet, allowing viewers not just to see the paintings but to enter them. Standing before these large-scale works feels immersive, almost participatory: a recognition that we, too, live inside our own patterns of behavior.
A Series Still in Motion
Most series conclude when their conceptual path is fully charted. Not so here; Behavior Patterns keeps unfolding, revealing new territories as the world changes and as the artist deepens his inquiry. This work is not a closed loop but a living ecosystem: part satire, part psychology, part prophecy, maintaining a conceptual thread while continually becoming something new. The work lives in the tension between what attracts us and what undoes us; between individual instinct and collective fate; between the radiant beauty of nature and the quiet ways we jeopardize it.
Blackbook
Hand drawn ink in sketchbook
Slither in Spring
Hand drawn ink on paper. 5"x 7"
Blackbook
Hand drawn ink in sketchbook
With the stars
Hand drawn ink on paper. 5"x 7"
Blackbook
Hand drawn ink in sketchbook
Slither in Spring
Hand drawn ink on paper. 5"x 7"
Interlude
Digitally modified ink drawing
Smoking with the stars
Hand drawn ink on paper, 5”x 7”
Interlude
Digitally modified ink drawing
Round midnight
Hand drawn ink on paper, 5”x 7”
Interlude
Digitally modified ink drawing
Round midnight
Hand drawn ink on paper, 5”x 7”
Tangle of repose
Hand drawn ink on paper, 5”x 7”
Shelter in Place
Tangle of repose
Hand drawn ink on paper, 5”x 7”
Shelter in Place
Tangle of repose
Hand drawn ink on paper, 5”x 7”
Shelter in Place




















































