About Bob Leonard

I live in New York City and use photography mainly to create abstracts, scavenging my environment with an eye for shapes and color. These images are transformed into something unrecognizable and presented as composites. The series “Reinventions,” “Walls” and “Joyful Curves” explore these ideas.

“Stories” is an ongoing project where I combine four images, typically found objects and artifacts, connected by a specific theme, shape, or color. “Covid Stories,” is my observation of the pandemic in New York.

I’m a long-term member of the Soho Photo Gallery. My work has appeared in Lenscratch, LaDomenica, a publication of Repubblica Nazionale, and YourDaiyPhotograph.

An image from the Walls series was selected by juror Debra Klomp-Ching in the NYC4PA Abstract2020competition.In 2023, an image from the series, “Stories” was chosen by Paula Tognarelli, Curatorand former Executive Director of the Griffin Museum of Photography for the RICPA 9th International Juried Exhibition.

Artist’s Statements 

I explore my environment with an eye for geometric patterns and appealing colors. The original source material is then altered and then seemingly placed at random as a polyptych. My attempt is to create a visual dance between these multiple images, the result possibly greater than each individual component. 

Four images, typically found objects and artifacts, are connected by theme, shape, or color.  These composites present a narrative of a place, moment in time, or a thought.

New Brunswick Art Salon 2022 — Photography: “Interchangeable Lens: Frame of Mind”

New Brunswick Art Salon 2025 – Photography: “Beyond the Image: Unveiling Hidden Narratives”

Artist Interview

Exhibitions

  • Stories – Soho Photo Gallery, New York City, December 2023
  • Stories – 9th International Juried Exhibition, RI Center for Photographic Arts, April, 2023
  • Joyful Curves – Soho Photo Gallery, New York City, April 2023
  • Walls – Alfa Art Gallery, New Brunswick, NJ, January 2022
  • Walls – Soho Photo Gallery, New York City, October 2021
  • Walls – NYC4PA Abstract 2020Competition (Online)
  • Covid Stories – Soho Photo Gallery, New York City, March 2021
  • Reinventions – Soho Photo Gallery, New York City, April 2019
  • Urban Patterns – Soho Photo Gallery, New York City, December 2018
  • Urban Hieroglyphs – Soho Photo Gallery, New York City, April 2016
  • Memorialized – Soho Photo Gallery, New York City, September 2015
  • Riders – Soho Photo Gallery, New York City, October 2014