Philadelphia-based artist Drew Leshko has brought his singular sculptural work to Europe for what is his first solo show on the continent; Heaven Is Whenever currently showing at Makerversity Amsterdam in a collaborative exhibition with Andenken Gallery.
Leshko’s sculptures — made largely from paper and wood, and in a 1:12 dollhouse scale — are documentary studies of architectural and everyday objects that are all a part of our collective consciousness yet rarely celebrated; choosing to memorialise the mundane, the artist creates a comprehensive catalogue of visual references that the tide of gentrification is washing away.
From painstaking recreations of corner shop façades to 1980s mobile homes, post boxes to city-living detritus like dumpsters and pallets; Drew Leshko observes the oft-ignored iconography of city life, that which is being irreversibly erased by cookie-cutter coffee shops and bubble cars plugged in to the grid. Heaven Is Whenever presents a selection of his works that traverse the gamut of metropolitan mundanity, rendering its uneasy beauty in miniature scale.
Drew Leshko, Heaven Is Whenever, continues at Makerversity Amsterdam until 14 November.
Nut Hut, 2016
paper, enamel, acrylic, basswood, wire, clay, inkjet print,
fabric, plastic, dry pigments 16” x 33 1/2”
Breezy, 2016
paper, enamel, acrylic, basswood, wire, clay, inkjet print,
fabric, plastic, dry pigments, 16” x 19 7/8”
Father & Sons Used Tires, 2016
paper, enamel, acrylic, basswood, wire, clay, inkjet prints,
plaster, plastic, dry pigments, 12” x 22 1/8” x 8”
Green Dumpster (with trash), 2016
paper, enamel, acrylic, wire, inkjet prints, basswood, toy wheels, plastic,
4 3/4” x 6 3/4” x 3 1/2”
Postal Boxes, 2016
paper, enamel, acrylic, inkjet prints, dry pigments
4 1/2” x 2 1/8” x 4 1/2”
Ice Box (red), 2016
paper, enamel, acrylic, wire, dry pigments,
6 1/2” x 3 1/8” x 2 1/4”
Go 4 Fun, 2016
paper, enamel, acrylic, basswood, wire, clay, inkjet print,
fabric, plastic, dry pigments, 16” x 19 1/4”
C4, 2016
paper, enamel, acrylic, wire, inkjet prints,
6” x 6 3/4” x 6”
