This work by Leah Horowitz hints at the broader preoccupations of the artist, illustrator, designer and educator in the subtlest of ways and offers a glimpse at her visual process. Figures seen in the periphery of normal life are referenced from northern renaissance art. This work was painted from Hans Balding Grein’s Death and the Maiden. Northern Renaissance artists had a fascination with magical and demonic subjects which is displayed in the painting. Horowitz paints with graphite powder giving the work a gritty sparkling effect. Dealing with themes of displacement and solitude suggest how these odd figures come to be.
Leah Horowitz, b. 1988, New York, studied at the Maryland Institute College of Art, where she developed her design practice as a form of problem solving. She also holds an MFA from Brooklyn College where she studied and taught fine art. Her process is equally weighted with contextual understanding and acute visual sensibility. Horowitz’s clients include Bloomberg, The New York Times, and Vogue, and her work has been featured in institutions including Printed Matter, MoMA PS1, Yale University and is a forthcoming resident artist at Mass MOCA.
Graphite wash and colored pencil on paper
Unique
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