Artist Leonardo Drew is known for his large-scale sculptures which address personal experiences and the cyclical nature of life and death through charged materials.
Read MoreDrew was born in 1961 in Tallahassee, Florida. He spent his childhood in Bridgeport, Connecticut, where the windows of his apartment overlooked the city's heaps of trash and dump. Drew's work was first publicly exhibited at the age of 13, and two years later he was being scouted by DC Comics and Marvel as an illustrator.
Drew studied at the Parsons School of Design in New York in 1981 and 1982. He received his BFA from The Cooper Union for the Advancement of Science and Art, New York in 1985.
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Arianna Mercado | Ocula | 2022
As the strength of global galleries attending has increased, the proportion of participating galleries with a base in Shanghai has decreased.
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Despite their organic aesthetic, Drew's works seem at home in Hong Kong: a cityscape framed by cranes and scaffolding, as one building is taken down and another is put up.
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Leonardo Drew (b. 1961) considers himself an elder statesman of the art world. In his first exhibition, at age 13, he showed a larger than life painting of Captain America. His natural talent for draf
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Leonardo Drew’s wooden assemblages inspire a distinctly energetic choreography. Employing the minute and the monumental as coconspirators in his visual schema, Drew facilitates an unanchored viewing e
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'As you're going through, just stay loose, and digest,' Leonardo Drew tells visitors who approach him at Sikkema Jenkins & Co., where his work is currently on display. Last week during our conversation at the gallery, groups flocked to the artist, seeking elucidations. Drew was kind—always with a smile on his face, usually...
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Exploring the idea of memory recollection, Paul Moorhouse, curator of 20th-century art at London’s National Portrait Gallery, drew together six international artists for Structures of Recollection: Contemporary Approaches to Materials and Memory, currently showing at Pearl Lam Galleries in Hong Kong. Moorhouse’s curatorial...
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