Teixeira Leite

Graduated in Industrial Design, José Roberto Teixeira Leite Júnior is self-taught in painting. He has already produced individuals at Restaurante Tanaka (2004), Espaço Cultural Maurice Valansi (2005) and Restaurante Piola (2006), in addition to having his paintings on permanent display at Galeria Luz dos Anjos, in Brasília – DF. Abroad, he exhibited in Miami, at the Art Fusion Gallery (2007) and in Belgium, at De Muze Galerie (2007). He recently had a solo show at Cassino Atlântico, at the Angelina Arts Assossiation, as a reward for standing out, first, among more than 120 participants who applied for placement.

Served by good drawing and strong colors, Teixeira Leite's paintings are unmistakable: they almost always represent women, seen both from the front and in profile, geometrically schematized and with bodies that seem to perform unusual movements, if not levitate, freed from the law of gravity, amid scenes in which appear, as recurring elements, chairs that stand on two or three legs, cross those depicted or merge with them, vases with four or five skinny flowers and the chessboard floor, all tied together in a peculiar way and each element obeying its own vanishing point, which creates, on the surface of the painting, ambig...

Graduated in Industrial Design

He held solo exhibitions at Restaurante Tanaka (2004), at Espaço Cultural Maurice Valansi (2005) and at Restaurante Piola (2006), in addition to having his paintings on permanent display at Galeria Luz dos Anjos, in Brasília – DF. Abroad, he exhibited in Miami, at the Art Fusion Gallery (2007) and in Belgium, at De Muze Galerie (2007). He recently did a solo show at Cassino Atlântico, at the Angelina Arts Assossiation, as a reward for standing out in first place, among more than 120 participants who applied for placement.