She reimagines fishing nets and traps through weaving together clay coils in a similar fashion to traditional fiber baskets.
Courtney leonard ceramics.
Her art manages to be both poetic and political and also simultaneously personal.
Her art manages to be both poetic and political and also simultaneously personal and universal garth johnson curator of ceramics asu art museum phoenix az.
Courtney m leonard art ceramicist and multimedia artist courtney m.
Leonard shinnecock nation is an installation and multi media artist.
Leonard is one of the strongest emerging voices in the field of ceramics today said johnson.
Website by otherpeoplespixels courtney m.
Leonard is a member of the shinnecock nation of long island new york a community with historic cultural ties to whales water and material sustainability recurring themes throughout her extensive body of internationally acclaimed work.
This is one of her clay sperm whale teeth.
Leonard is one of the strongest emerging voices in the field of ceramics today said johnson.
Leonard creates delicate ceramic sculptures grounded in the forms and histories of indigenous fishing technologies.
Leonard is a part of the offshore art movement a trend concerned with global climate change and its effects on the conditions of the oceans and their shorelines.