Leslie Gaduzo has always been interested in art. Since childhood, he has been drawing constantly, from single point perspective drawings at age 10 to complex architectural drawings. As the years progressed, the artist took the skills he’d developed in drawing and translated them into the world of painting. Regardless of the medium, art has always been an important and constant element in Gaduzo’s life.
New York, oil, 31½ x 31½"In New York, viewers are placed at street level in the Big Apple, looking up at the towering skyscrapers ahead. “[This painting is about] the evolution of a city, how movement is conducted via channels that are created as a result of architectural forms, how we are inextricably linked to our modes of transport, our new normal,” says Gaduzo.
Broadway by Flat Iron Building, oil on board, 23½ x 31½"
A cornerstone of Gaduzo’s artwork is a proper sense of depth and perspective. Broadway by Flat Iron Building,on the left, demonstrates that sense of depth. While the scene clearly reads as a busy city street lined with buildings in a single-point perspective, this painting is rendered in a more abstract style. The yellow cabs on the street are defined, while the buildings are made up of a series of expressive squares and geometric shapes, all leading toward the vanishing point in the distance. “I always strive to achieve an illusion of depth in my paintings,” Gaduzo comments. “[It’s] also important for me to transmit movement of people and of the viewer in order to capture the feeling of being there in that place.”
The London Underground Waterloo Station, oil on board, 31½ x 47"
Leslie Gaduzo working in his studio.
Retiring from architecture in 2014 after 24 years in the profession, Gaduzo now dedicates his time to painting, always striving to improve as an artist. —
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