Spotlight: Celebrated Artist Leonardo Drew Constructs a Scene of Legible Chaos In His New London Exhibition

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Spotlight: Celebrated Artist Leonardo Drew Constructs a Scene of Legible Chaos In His New London Exhibition
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See Leonardo Drew's scenes of legible chaos in his first site-specific show at Goodman Gallery in London:

Leonardo Drew in his studio . Photography by Christopher Garcia Valle Courtesy AMFA and GLNY.

Every month, hundreds of galleries add newly available works by thousands of artists to the Artnet Gallery Network—and every week, we shine a spotlight on one artist you should know. Check out what we have in store, and inquire for more with one simple click.Brooklyn-based artist Leonardo Drew is famed for his sculptures made of organic materials that seem to burst from the walls, their forms vacillating between order and chaos.

cardboard, paint, paper, plastic, rope, string, tree trunks—into richly detailed works using labor-intensive processes such as oxidation, burning, and weathering to mimic natural processes of aging, and underscoring the traces of labor on the material world. These works can hint at urban metropolises transformed into wastelands. While Drew’s works have long made these allusions, in the wake of world events over the past few years, these works are newly resonant.

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