{"id":31619,"date":"2018-05-15T01:00:25","date_gmt":"2018-05-15T08:00:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thejealouscurator.com\/blog\/?p=31619"},"modified":"2018-05-14T16:15:57","modified_gmt":"2018-05-14T23:15:57","slug":"drew-leshko","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thejealouscurator.com\/blog\/2018\/05\/15\/drew-leshko\/","title":{"rendered":"drew leshko"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thejealouscurator.com\/blog\/?attachment_id=31620\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-31620\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-31620\" src=\"http:\/\/www.thejealouscurator.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/DrewLeshko.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"584\" height=\"7878\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.thejealouscurator.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/DrewLeshko.jpg 584w, https:\/\/www.thejealouscurator.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/DrewLeshko-76x1024.jpg 76w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 584px) 100vw, 584px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Ok, I&#8217;m quite sure this guy could make <em>anything.<\/em> This is a series titled, you guessed it, &#8220;Buildings&#8221; by Philadelphia based artist<a href=\"http:\/\/www.drewleshko.com\/\"> Drew Leshko<\/a>. The level of detail and his choice of facades is fantastic, but you know what&#8217;s just as great? His artist statement:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><em>&#8220;By carving, cutting, and layering varieties of paper and wood, Leshko creates documentary studies of architecture from his neighborhood in an attempt to create a three dimensional archive of buildings that are in transitional periods. The work examines gentrification and history, how historical relevance is determined, and most importantly, what is worth preserving. Working from observation and photographs, the artist painstakingly recreates building facades from his neighborhood at a 1:12 scale. The scale is familiar for some viewers as standard dollhouse spec; the treatment to the buildings is widely different. The minute detail of his work includes city detritus such as dumpsters and pallets, which are commentary of the same ideas of what is worth preserving. Highlighting quick fixes and simple solutions, Leshko\u2019s work begs the viewer to build their own ideas of why and when these changes had been made. Accumulations of typically overlooked details and minutiae like acid rain deposits and rust become beautiful adornments.&#8221;<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Beautiful, sad, brilliant.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ok, I&#8217;m quite sure this guy could make anything. This is a series titled, you guessed it, &#8220;Buildings&#8221; by Philadelphia based artist Drew Leshko. The level of detail and his choice of facades is fantastic, but you know what&#8217;s just as great? His artist statement: &#8220;By carving, cutting, and layering varieties of paper and wood, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[3,6,12],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thejealouscurator.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31619"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thejealouscurator.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thejealouscurator.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thejealouscurator.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thejealouscurator.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=31619"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.thejealouscurator.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31619\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":31621,"href":"https:\/\/www.thejealouscurator.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31619\/revisions\/31621"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thejealouscurator.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=31619"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thejealouscurator.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=31619"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thejealouscurator.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=31619"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}