Len Agrella is a contemporary Southwestern painter living in Prescott, Arizona. Agrella built his reputation representing images and colors of the American Southwest in his own bold, layered, mixed-media style. From the beginning of his career until now, Agrella’s work had maintained a recognizable stylistic consistency, even while the content of the canvasses continually varies from regionally-inspired abstract to more traditional southwest subjects.

Throughout the late 1970s and 1980s, Agrella’s work was exhibited prominently by galleries such as C.G. Rein (Scottsdale, Santa Fe), The Martin Gallery (Scottsdale), American West (Chicago), Gallery One (Fort Worth), Many Horses Gallery (Los Angeles), and the iconic Los Llanos Gallery (Santa Fe), often in annual or semi-annual one-man shows. Since the early 1990s, Agrella has opted for closer relationships with a small but dedicated group of collectors.

He comments, “The function of the artist is to provide what life does not. Logic gives man what he needs, but magic gives him what he wants. I truly believe in the artist as magician.”

“I regard myself as a southwestern contemporary outsider artist. If I lived in the Midwest or East, I would still be a contemporary artist, but I live in the southwest and am very influenced by the area”

One common denominator has remained constant. The notion of a certain intensity and purity of vision, a never quite defined, yet palpable freshness of invention or what is called “raw creation”, or untutored creativity.

Len Agrella currently lives and works in Prescott, Arizona.