Lawrence Alexander Willette (New York, 1952-2005) was a dynamic painter whose abstractions are as sensual as his female nudes. Willette had assimilated the lessons of the abstract expressionists and applied them in a powerful postmodern manner to create paintings with flowing contours and brilliant colors, emphasized by firm black outlines. Born in Manhattan, L.A.Willette cultivated his prowess as an abstract expressionist and has since mastered several other genres of painting over the years as a professional artist. Before even finishing his years as an undergraduate at S.U.N.Y, he had a stint teaching graduate classes in the BFA program, where he came under the tutelage of two masters painters: Alexander Minewski, a protégé of Matisse, and Joop Sanders, a friend and compatriot of Willem de Kooning. The result being an influence based on the poetry of Matisse's nudes and the compositional complexities of abstract expressionism.
