Lynn Leland was born in 1937 in Buffalo, NY. He studied at Pratt Institute in New York, and was awarded a Fulbright Scholarship to study in Europe in 1961, where he attended the Hochschule für Bildende Künste in Hamburg studying with the British sculptor Eduardo Paolozzi. Returning to New York, he exhibited at The Preston Gallery and A.M. Sachs Gallery and, on the recommendation of the curator Henry Geldzahler, his work was included in the influential exhibition 'The Responsive Eye', held at The Museum of Modern Art in 1965. His work was also included in the following group exhibitions; Albright-Knox Museum, 1960; Brooklyn Museum Biennial, 1960; Optics & Kinetics, Ohio University, 1965-66; Multiplicity, ICA, Boston, 1966; The Jewish Museum, 1966 (works from the Harry Abrams collection). Throughout the 1960s, Leland's abstract work remained focused on the optical effect of ordered grids of colored circles - based partially on the artist's interest in contemporary musical composition. However, by the early 1970s he had become disillusioned with the art market and stopped exhibiting, focusing instead on a career as an art educator. "Despite it cool deliberation, Leland's mathematical form of perceptual art is of a high aesthetic order. The basis for Leland's form stems from techniques used by composers such as Schoenberg, Alban Berg, et al. In fact the titles of his pictures are all dedicated to composers. Edgar Varese and Stockhausen among them come as no surprise. Leland works in series of paintings which he calls Permutations. A permutation is by dictionary definition the arrangement of any determinate number of things in all possible orders one after the other. For instance, 24 small square canvases in a single group demonstrate every possible variation effected with four colors playing within the same pattern of tiny circles. The number of rings around the circles determines the number of possible solutions.... [http://www.francisfrost.com/bioleland.html] undefined

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