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Leonardo Drew

Leonardo Drew (Born 1961) is active/lives in New York, Connecticut.  Leonardo Drew is known for Large-scale sculpture installations, abstract painting, assemblage.

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 modern industrial America. The charred timbers of this installation suggested some such references, bu   ...  [Displaying 1000 of 5288 characters.]  Artist bio

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