Following is text from an exhibition review published in Art in America online magazine, January 18, 2013. "Leonard Drew" by Mary Proenza. Number 161, a floor-to-ceiling installation winding through... Read full biography
Following is text from an exhibition review published in Art in America online magazine, January 18, 2013. "Leonard Drew" by Mary Proenza. Number 161, a floor-to-ceiling installation winding through the gallery, was the dynamic centerpiece of this exhibition, which also included a dozen elegant... Read full biography
Following is text from an exhibition review published in Art in America online magazine, January 18, 2013. "Leonard Drew" by Mary Proenza. Number 161, a floor-to-ceiling installation winding through the gallery, was the dynamic centerpiece of this exhibition, which also included a dozen elegant wall sculptures (all works 2012). Made primarily of wood, some of it burned and much apparently found, the pieces at their best display Leonardo Drew's virtuosic ability to create forms as quietly,... Read full biography
Following is text from an exhibition review published in Art in America online magazine, January 18, 2013. "Leonard Drew" by Mary Proenza. Number 161, a floor-to-ceiling installation winding through the gallery, was the dynamic centerpiece of this exhibition, which also included a dozen elegant wall sculptures (all works 2012). Made primarily of wood, some of it burned and much apparently found, the pieces at their best display Leonardo Drew's virtuosic ability to create forms as quietly, incontestably credible as those in nature. Drew, an African-American artist born in Tallahassee in 1961 and raised in housing projects in Connecticut, has often alluded to sociopolitical issues in his work. His past use of such symbolically charged... Read full biography
Following is text from an exhibition review published in Art in America online magazine, January 18, 2013. "Leonard Drew" by Mary Proenza. Number 161, a floor-to-ceiling installation winding through the gallery, was the dynamic centerpiece of this exhibition, which also included a dozen elegant wall sculptures (all works 2012). Made primarily of wood, some of it burned and much apparently found, the pieces at their best display Leonardo Drew's virtuosic ability to create forms as quietly, incontestably credible as those in nature. Drew, an African-American artist born in Tallahassee in 1961 and raised in housing projects in Connecticut, has often alluded to sociopolitical issues in his work. His past use of such symbolically charged materials as cotton, rope, rags and rust has been cited as referring to the antebellum South, Civil Rights struggles and mo... Read full biography
Leonardo Drew - Artist Info
About Leonardo Drew: Books
Books & Publications (2)
Publications based on askART research. List may not be comprehensive.
The Artists Bluebook 34,000 North American Artists to March 2005
2005
AskART.com Inc. - Dunbier, Lonnie Pierson (Editor)
479 pages
Vanitas: Meditations on Life and Death in Contemporary Art