i’m the crack addict of art
Leonardo Drew
Contemporary Artist
Brooklyn, New York
“I want the [object] to live, to go through me and come out the other end…it’s like I become the weather and take these things to the next place.”
Leonardo Drew was born in Tallahassee, Florida in 1961, and grew up in Bridgeport, Connecticut. Although often mistaken for accumulations of found objects, his sculptures are instead made of “brand new stuff”—materials such as wood, rusted iron, cotton, paper, and mud—that he intentionally subjects to processes of weathering, burning, oxidation, and decay. Whether jutting out from a wall or traversing rooms as freestanding installations, his pieces challenge the architecture of the space in which they’re shown.
Leonardo is featured at “The Drop” a gallery show, curated by Sima Familant, located in the lobby of the Ellen Browning Building, Portland, Ore.
Check out this CBS profile of Leonardo….https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hYcN7CmF6lI