ARTIST STATEMENT
My art practice straddles two and three dimensional forms that navigate the modern complexities of home, family, and identity. Through my works on paper, I connect more deeply with my intuition, as these pieces collage emotional and material languages.
The work submitted is an expression of way-finding through my new role as a mother and the evocation of my childhood through watching my own daughter grow. I often conjure the built environment to represent the tension between industry’s power and the fragility of modern life, as never ending “progress” remains an affront to peace on this planet.
Traversing the emotional and ideological distance between my conservative upbringing and the intentionally contrasting life I am creating for my daughter, these works on paper have become an essential step in reimagining the myth I created about home prior to my daughter’s birth.
I am inviting a stillness in these works not granted to me as a child, but that I seek to find as a caregiver and adult. My intention is to open a vulnerable dialogue about being both daughter and mother, two roles demanding wildly different forms of loyalty and love, understanding that the ideas of home and identity are continually negotiated under the forces of modernity.
ABOUT THE ARTIST
Leslie Drennan is a sculptor and visual artist from Atlanta, Georgia. She graduated with a BS in Psychology from the University of Georgia in 2016 and completed an MFA in Sculpture at Georgia State University in 2025. She was selected by the Welch Foundation at Georgia State to participate in a residency at the Hambidge Center for Creative Arts in May of 2023 and her work has been exhibited at the Atlanta Contemporary, Dalton Gallery at Agnes Scott College, Swan Coach House Gallery, Echo Contemporary Art, Eyedrum, Blue Heron Nature Preserve, and Gallery One in Ellensburg, Washington.
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