Shaun Leonardo




Shaun Leonardo is an artist who is best known for drawing male figures in reference to masculinity, race, sports, and culture. During the Zoom meeting that was held he explained to the audience that the body tells a story that might be more truthful than the words that might be shared. 

Superhero - sign enamel on plywood cutout, 72" x 60" x 0.75", 2005.


What's important about the work he does according to him is we try to understand or justify things, and to move information that would otherwise be stuck in headlines and make us become a part of it 
He drew the same image six times over the span of six days in order to more carefully examine something that would otherwise have been thrown away in time, that way he could put himself there and truly see it.

Michael Brown (Drawings 1-6) - charcoal on paper, 8.5 x 11" each, 2015.


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  1. William LuMarch 16, 2021 at 1:08 PM

    Yasmine, I agree with your statement that the body tells a story than just information alone. I similarly wrote on my blog that Shaun and his community have done an exercise that conducts a narrative approach about diversion, trauma, and criminality which show not only meaning but transcribed into the truth that performed.

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