‘The melding of Romanticism and Modernism create what I describe as Romodernism. I have always gravitated towards the fantastic and elaborate as well as the bold and expressive eras of art and design. Integral to my work is color. While color to many is seen as wild or cautionary, I see color as life…I see it as light itself, because…it is. Emotional colors wrap, fold and reflect into atmospheric abstraction opening up a liminal dream realm. My works are visual explorations of the mysteriousness of life. I seek to unfold the wonder, magnificence and joy around us, whether through sculpture or painting. I hope that my works act as portals or thresholds to another world.’

The 'Eques' series LED light sculptures explore the mystery and wonder of nature.  Inspired by the unique Leafy Sea Dragon (Phycodurus Eques), the sculptures’ buoyant elements are made from air inflated metal ‘plumes’ that create a material metamorphosis whereby metal takes on the appearance of glass.  Offered in a bespoke arrangement of high polished mirror stainless steel, plated 24KT Gold, Rose Gold, and custom painted colors. The works appear to float and defy gravity, while creating abstract reflections within the environment.

Sculptural lighting works have been shown internationally at Design Miami/Basel, Salon Art & Design/NY, Collectible/Brussels as well as PAD Design Art/London.

Original plume designs are exclusively made by Full Blown for DLEUCI.

Exploring the quality of light within a dreamy realm, painting becomes a medium revealing the emotional colors like those found within Color Field Abstraction and Impressionism. Paint and color take manifold form in fluid, curvilinear and thread-like brushstrokes. Together, they represent both an individualistic and collective whole similar to an undulating and expansive grassy field, or a nest-like hive. Energetic and swooshing brushstrokes create dynamic and intertwining movements mirroring nature’s cyclical exchanges of energy. Each stroke appears to pull apart bands of light creating a stasis of wonder interplaying with transparency, opacity, and translucency. The elemental sense of each painting blurs the boundaries of what might be air, earth, light or water. My paintings also act as meditative portals that pull a viewer in for a look closer. With this interaction, there is an invitation to almost travel to imaginary plane while staying tethered to this world…reminding us that all we see, is not all we see. 

'Dream Hives' are cocoon or nest like singularities bundling and holding space for the emphermal nature of light. Silken brush strokes collectively transform into fluttering ovalur silhouettes conveying an essence of gestating life, or some buoyant apparition levitating within space. Each work manifests feathery and curvy forms, suggesting a mysterious or unexplained phenomena whereby light folds unto itself acting as both a portal and an entity. The paint and surface create unique color chain reactions behaving like DNA strands singular to each painting.

'Dream Fields' are expansive portals tethered to both color field painting and abstract expressionism in a romantic and ethereal manner. Each work envelops the surface creating a micro-universe of color that dances and flickers. Using signature rhythmic brushstrokes, the fluctuating density and amalgamation of threadlike pattern creates a field of energy expressed solely through color. The paintings are created with the intention of revealing the invisible and molecular energy binding us all together and seeking to make the invisible visible.

The paintings vary in size and are made with acrylic paint, mediums and specially prepared canvas or Yupo paper

CV

Born 1970, Binghamton, New York. 

Lives and works in Brooklyn, New York

EDUCATION:

1992

BFA - The New School / Parsons School of Design, NYC

EXHIBITIONS:

2024

Color Theory / Salon Design 27 Vestry Street, New York, NY
Sina Dyks, Rosie Li, Kajsa Willner, Dominick Leuci, Darryl Westly, Christina Watka

2023

Anatomy of Light / Galerie Duret 7bis rue des Saints Pères, Paris France
Kean, Johannes Holt Iversen, Dominick Leuci

2022

Light + Space / Galerie Duret 15 rue du Page, Brussels Belgium
Kean, Katrin Fridriks, Dominick Leuci

2021

Time is a UFO / Sweet Lorraine Gallery 183 Lorraine Street, Brooklyn NY
Stephanie Serpick, Amy Weil, Michael B Amendolara, Shira Toren, Karen Mainenti, Viveca Licata, Scott Ferfguson, Brigitta Rubin, Natale Adgnot, Dominick Leuci, Alexa Williams
Curator: Amanda Nedham

2019 - 2021

Pied-a-terre NYC / 32 East 1st Street, New York, NY
Mathieu Lehanneur, Dominick Leuci
Curator: Isabela Rennó Braga

2020

Global Pop-Up Exhibition / www.globalpopupexhibitionnyc.com New York, NY
Dana-Marie Bullock, Dominick Leuci, Kate Tova, Joey Wang
Curator: Joanna Liu

2019

Wrap Around 18 / ARENA at Suite 18, New York, NY
Dominick Leuci, Linda Nagaoka, Angelica Maria Millan Lozano
Curator: Renee Riccardo

PERMANENT COLLECTION:

2023

MGM Resorts Bellagio, Baccarat Room, Las Vegas, Nevada USA
Curator: Clemence Mailly, Kevin Barry Art Advisory

ABOUT DOMINICK LEUCI

Dominick Leuci opened his studio in 2016 with a futuristic look to the past Eras of Romanticism and Modernism with a focus on the quality of light itself.

He works with materials to create a sense of alchemy and to produce new mysteries. Balancing multiple processes, his works become portals to another world. He creates painting and sculptural works including 'Dream Hives' that explore the delicate and ephemeral nature of light. His ‘Eques’ sculptural lighting is inspired by the Leafy Seadragon, or Phycodurus Eques.

Atmospheric color fields in the shape of a 'dream' fold and unfold space. Swooshing fluid acrylic paint is applied in a rhythmic manner suggesting a nest, or hive like form. Fluttering brushstrokes act as synaptic connections transferring electrical pulses from one hemisphere to the other. The organic form also references an egg, and combined with the color genesis of the paint itself, color field abstraction is pushed into a geometric representation of fertility.

Working under a trance like state, both paint and surface exchange energy in which the artist tries to achieve a sublime moment of ‘lift’ by allowing materials to have an expression of their own. Paint and process reveal a dynamic spatial quality from the painting surface that remains exposed. By applying various gestures of hand pressure, the brushstrokes create multiple levels of translucency providing a sense of bouyancy, levitation and incandescence. Color combinations act like DNA sequences that are 'set off' while painting. These create chain reactions of atmospheric abstraction that are romantic odes to the Light and Space Movement.

The ‘Eques’ lighting sculptures are unique works in inspired by the Leafy Seadragon. They are designed to be lit or unlit, with specially integrated LED lighting that makes them ‘disappear’ when turned off. The overall form is intended to create a sense of joy, uplift, and buoyancy. These works are a combination of multiple fabrication techniques that when combined become a new expression of flora and fauna.

Following a scientific current, Dominick believes, ‘What we see, is not all we see.’ His explorations in both art and design create tethers between us and the hidden worlds within Nature and Science. He refers to some of his works as an ‘atmospheric occurrences’ or ‘meditative abstractions’ that offer a sense of contemplation, mystery and wonder within the ethereal world made visible by light...‘ETHEReality.’