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Leonardo Drew

(1961) Sculptor

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Leonardo Drew is a sculptor.

Quick Facts About Leonardo Drew

Born: January 1, 1961
Profession: Sculptor

About Leonardo Drew

[Wikidata] American contemporary artist based in Brooklyn, New York (born 1961)... | [Wikipedia] Leonardo Drew is a contemporary artist based in Brooklyn, New York. He creates sculptures from natural materials and through processes of oxidation, burning, and decay, Drew transforms these objects into massive sculptures that critique social injustices and the cyclical nature of existence.

Quotes by Leonardo Drew

I started making work, and it's like, yes you are calling out all of these things that are part of your memory,…

Body

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The longer they hang out, the deeper the history, the richer the life. If you use that as a template or as…

Deeper

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Soap, a cleaning product, can be made from decay.

Cleaning

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It should be not only a synergy, but a complicity between the viewer and the artist, and so I'm wide open to…

Art

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There is the artwork that you physically make but there's also the journey that happens on the inside.

Artwork

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The more you touch something, the stronger it becomes.

Stronger

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If you are working, almost like with layers of the Grand Canyon, there's history within those layers.

Canyons

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You know that you don't have all the answers, and the unknown is the best place where you would want to be…

Answers

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That's the position I place myself in always. I don't know. It says follow me. It pulls you right through, just by…

Follow me

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If you imagine my studio floor, you can just keep picking it up and getting masterpieces.

Ifs

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Why should you be bogged down with my titles and how I thought about it and my poetic reasoning? No, that's not…

Black

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The fact is, art is alive. It's moving around. It's alive.

Alive

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