Index Code:

ART-STA-DRE

Orgin:

USA

Field Notes:

Burnt wood rusted metal and found matter are ordered into grids piles and cascades that compress history into texture

Defining Moment:

The large numbered works where erosion and stacking read as a structural archive rather than debris

Leonardo Drew

(

1961–

)

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Drew built a world where debris becomes order — charred wood, fibers, and fragments arranged into monumental grids.

His works turn ruin into structural rhythm.

Structural Focus

Material as Condition

Material behavior determines outcome more than composition or image. Gravity, density, texture, or resistance guide form.

In Leonardo Drew’s work, this approach appears where accumulation and entropy shape surface.

Position

Material as Condition

Material behavior determines outcome more than composition or image. Gravity, density, texture, or resistance guide form.

In Leonardo Drew’s work, this approach appears where accumulation and entropy shape surface.

Material Intelligence

Material behavior actively determines structural decisions.

Systems of Clarity

Order and coherence arise through disciplined systems and constraints.

Gesture

Gesture functions as structure through disciplined, repeatable action.

Proportion

Proportion organizes coherence through measured intervals, scale, and relation.

Structure

Structure holds the work through rules, joins, and controlled relationships between parts.

Art

Form operates as a site for material, perceptual, and conceptual inquiry.

Process Art

Work is defined by making, duration, and transformation.

Contemporary

Current practice engages inherited structures under present conditions.

Leonardo Drew

Structural Focus

Material as Condition

Position

Material as Condition

Observartory

In Dialogue

Leonardo Drew

Structural Focus

Material as Condition

Position

Material as Condition

Observartory

By Structural Focus

In Dialogue