Mark Leysen received his MA from California State University, Fullerton, and currently teaches Design, Painting, and Gallery Studies at Santa Ana College and Irvine Valley College. Leyson s art has been featured at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, The Laguna Art Museum and the Orange County Museum of Art. The San Bernardino County Museum is at the California Street exit from Interstate 10 in Redlands. Children under five and museum members are admitted free. Parking is free, and the facility is handicapped-accessible.
Some artists keep sketchbooks.
Others write in journals. Still others devise their own method. Not only do we view the finished artwork, but we are granted a rare glimpse behind the scenes for a look at the drawings, the quickly scribbled thought, the unfinished poem, the preliminary draft which preceded it. Often this behind the scenes work is experimental, as one would expect from the diary-like gestures of an artist speaking to himself or herself. The creative process contains elements of mystery and madness, but it also has its concrete and even banal aspects.