Drawing from skies, horizons, and atmospheres that feel both familiar and subtly unmoored, his paintings hover in a liminal space where beauty is fleeting and meaning refuses to settle. Acidic colors, skewed light, and off-axis compositions destabilize the natural world just enough to suggest an adjacent reality, one governed by emotional rather than physical laws. Even when clouds darken with soot or horizons dissolve into near-obliteration, the work resists despair, instead carrying a quiet, hypnotic charge. Mock paints not light but its echo, not home but the yearning for it—inviting viewers into a state of mind where wonder, melancholy, and hope coexist.
Leo Mock (b. 1964, Los Angeles, CA) graduated from ArtCenter College of Design in Pasadena, California. Recent solo exhibitions include Blocking Your Sun at Anton Kern Gallery, New York; Rise and Fall of Shame at Galerie Guido W. Baudach, Berlin; In the Jingle Jangle Morning at Tif Sigfrids, New York; and …And Still Somehow at M+B, Los Angeles. His work has recently been featured in The New York Times and ArtReview. Mock lives and works in Mérida, Mexico.