Leah Gallant
LEAH GALLANT is an artist and writer based in Philadelphia.
Myths of the Marble
By Leah GallantA double vanity appears in your left hand; a giant wineglass appears in your right. With the press of a button, both are released into a floating black orb, to be replaced by a length of gutter and a plywood crescent.
Teju Cole’s Blind Spot
By Leah GallantIf Blind Spot, Teju Cole’s most recent book, is an extension of his work on Instagram, it is only because he uses social media towards that rare and admirable thing: not as a tool for marketing himself, but as a platform for experimentation.
Luis Camnitzer’s One Number is Worth One Word
By Leah GallantThe recent collection of the artist’s writing on art and education concerns a keen interest in conceptual art as communication, museums as places of learning, the political possibilities of creative thinking, and a constant trespassing between disciplines and forms. Camnitzer rarely discusses his own work in these texts, but it’s through the lens of his visual work that his writing feels most fully formed.
Candor Arts: The Chicago-Based Press Reenvisioning Equity in Arts Publishing
By Leah GallantThe organization aims to restructure art publishing to fairly compensate all contributors, rather than one in which artists pay exorbitant costs to publish their work. These publishing projects function like an archive of the Chicago arts during the six years the press was active. Ranging from poetry chapbooks to photo portfolios, the more than editions produced also include the monographs accompanying major museum exhibitions.
