Katie Skinner – art21 Leonardo Drew

I did my art21 on Leonardo Drew and I watched “Leonardo Drew in ‘Investigation’”, “Traveling & Making”, “Finding Piet Mondrian”, and a bit of “Investigation.” I really liked how he kept his childhood sketches and how he started out with comics and cartoons which I really can relate to a lot, I also really appreciated that he utilized all of the materials he had access to. I also found it interesting that he stopped himself from drawing and painting to realize his full potential in sculpture. His process is fascinating, he works on about 7 pieces at the same time and they all influence and affect each other. The way that he also aged his material by ‘cooking’ it on the roof of his building was very cool and he was more into ‘the already made’ rather than ‘found object’ style although he didn’t necessarily call it that. His different processes for ‘aging’ the materials were also very cool because he bought them all new, so the process itself also becomes part of his art in a sense too. I also appreciated how when he felt he had explored a subject matter to his satisfaction, he no longer dwelled on it and instead moved on, almost like it was closure for him.