Craig Leonard

Vernissage February 24th

Show runs until March 31st

Leonard’s Pitch Sets continue his exploration of possible configurations within a set of parameters.

Each numbered Pitch Set is a sculpture created from eight existing industrial man-made objects whose original purpose was based on its inherent breakability and impermanence.

These objects are fragile, and the assigned stacking renders an instability to the sculptures. Leonard imbues the owner with a responsibility to maintain the piece, not only as a precarious object, but to adhere to the assigned rules of assembly.

 Artist Statements:

The constructive role of an ordering of a specific collection of elements.

To possess and use material things but not to be possessed or used by them.

Mindfulness as an internal form of integration developing the 'soft skills' for career success.

Craig Leonard is an artist and musician living in Nova Scotia. He has taught intermedia at NSCAD since 2006. 

Leonard's summer 2016 exhibition at the Anna Leonowens Gallery (Halifax) presented a re-enactment of the 1970 "Halifax Conference", organized by Seth Siegelaub, based on archival video footage. Among his solo exhibitions, he has shown at Mercer Union in Toronto, WWTWO in Montreal and Acme project space in London, UK. In 2012, he was resident artist at Acme studios, London as part of the Canada Council's International Residency Program. Leonard was also included in the Oh, Canada! retrospective at MassMoCA (2012) and the Esker Foundation (2015).