Craig Leonard - Shaken Antlers
February 2015
Shaken Antlers was an installation in which the artist employed 24 cork mats, each uniquely altered, set on a low stage to create a barrier to entry to the gallery.
“I am interested in subtly making the familiar strange so there is a point of entry, but no reliable resolution. The creation of defamiliarized experience, then, means the possibility of the creation of new origins. Herein, for me, is art’s political function.”
Craig Leonard is an artist and musician living in Nova Scotia. He has taught intermedia at NSCAD since 2006. He was recently a resident artist at Acme studios in London UK and a visiting artist at CalArts. He has had solo exhibitions at various galleries, including Mercer Union in Toronto, WWTWO in Montreal and Acme project space in London, UK. He was included in the Oh, Canada! retrospective at MassMoCA which toured Canada.
