With the end of our Golden Anniversary Season comes a new look and a new artist, Leonard Dente, to bring the first season of our next fifty years to life.
An aspiring illustrator originally from Attleboro, Massachusetts, Leonard Dente is a recent graduate of Massachusetts College of Art and Design, with a BFA in illustration who specializes in portraiture. Most of his work is done by layering various media such as graphite, watercolor, and gouache.
Did you know that VO commissions original artwork for each of its seasons? It's our way to engage local, Canadian and international visual artists in the same way that we engage our performing artists.
Our graphic designer, Annie Mack, keeps a constant watch for interesting artists and illustrators. She scours design and communications websites and printed catalogues for work that leaps off the page. She came upon Leonard Dente when his award in a student competition was announced to the design world. Attracted by the strong personalities and contemporary colours of his portraits, Annie immediately added him to the short list of contenders for this year's commission. As we made our final decision, we kept coming back to Leonard's portraits and we decided to have him do portraits of the title characters in our 2010-2011 operas.
You can see more of his artwork at http://leonarddente.com/
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