{"id":26766,"date":"2019-01-17T07:30:19","date_gmt":"2019-01-17T13:30:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.discoverclarksville.com\/articles\/?p=26766"},"modified":"2019-01-17T00:26:42","modified_gmt":"2019-01-17T06:26:42","slug":"art21-artist-leonardo-drew-to-speak-at-apsu","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.discoverclarksville.com\/articles\/2019\/01\/17\/art21-artist-leonardo-drew-to-speak-at-apsu\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018Art21\u2019 artist Leonardo Drew to speak at APSU"},"content":{"rendered":"

Austin Peay State University (APSU)<\/h2>\n

\"AustinClarksville, TN<\/strong> – The Austin Peay State University (APSU) Department of Art + Design, with support from the Center of Excellence for the Creative Arts, is pleased to welcome \u201cArt21\u201d featured artist, Leonardo Drew, to Austin Peay State University.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe are really excited to have Leonardo visit APSU for a CECA Visiting Artist Lecture,\u201d said Michael Dickins, chair of the Visiting Artist Speaker Committee.<\/p>\n

\"Austin<\/a>

Austin Peay State University welcomes \u201cArt21\u201d featured artist, Leonardo Drew to campus.<\/p><\/div>\n

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\u201cHis name was proposed to the committee last year, and I was familiar with his work via PBS\u2019 \u2018Art21\u2019 TV series. Then I was fortunate to experience his work in person, this past March, as his work adorned the entrance to The Armory Show 2018 in New York City. The scale of the work was inescapable, and the texture was mesmerizing. I was fascinated by the obvious amount of labor that went into the piece, and I knew we had to bring him to Clarksville,\u201d Dickins stated.<\/p>\n

Drew is an artist known for his large wall-mounted sculptures composed of jagged tree trunks layered with thousands of segments of cut wood. The monumental installations perform as abstracted landscapes, which undulate and retract through a combination of natural and man-made shapes.<\/p>\n

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