Available at the
2023 INTERNATIONAL CERAMIC ART FAIR
Gardiner Museum
Toronto, Ontario
June 8 – 18, 2023
BREACH: Logbook 21 | CONVOKE
BREACH: Logbook 21 | NEBULOUS | GHOST TRAP STUDY – MTS O1
BREACH: Logbook 21 | NEBULOUS | ARTIFICE – CSW2 & CSW3
BREACH: Logbook 21 | SCRIMSHAW STUDY #3
BREACH: Logbook 21 | NEBULOUS | FLOW TRAP STUDY G1
ABOUT
Shinnecock, b. 1980
lives and works in Northfield, Minnesota
Courtney M. Leonard is an artist and filmmaker, who has contributed to the Offshore Art movement. Leonard’s current work embodies the multiple definitions of “breach”, an exploration and documentation of historical ties to water, whale and material sustainability. In collaboration with national and international museums, cultural institutions, and indigenous communities in North America, New Zealand, Nova Scotia, and the United States Embassies, Leonard’s practice investigates narratives of cultural viability as a reflection of environmental record.
Leonard’s work is in the permanent public collections of the United States Art In Embassies, the Crocker Art Museum, the Heard Museum, ASU’s Art Museum and Ceramic Research Center, the Peabody Essex Museum, the Nerman Museum of Contemporary Art, the Museum of the North, the Mystic Seaport Museum, and the Pomona Museum of Art.
Leonard has been the recipient of numerous awards, fellowships, and residencies that include The Andy Warhol Foundation, The Robert Rauschenberg Foundation, The Rasmuson Foundation, The United States Art In Embassies Program, and The Native Arts and Culture Foundation.
Courtney Leonard, “BREACH: Logbook 21 | NEBULOUS | FLOW TRAP STUDY G1”, 2021, Coiled & Woven Earthenware, Appx. 15” x 15” x 5.5″
ON BREACH
“Breach” is an exploration of historical ties to water and whale, imposed law, and a current relationship of material sustainability. Navigation lies within visual translation; an account of relations and responsibility.
Charting exists as a log of record; the documentation and mapping of each point where the surface breaks.
As a visual acknowledgment, each work examines the evolution of language, image, and culture through video, audio, and tangible objects. Each component, a resonation of memory, documenting both social and environmental issues acknowledged through the cartography of mixed media.”– Courtney M. Leonard, Shinnecock Nation
BREACH: Logbook 23 | CARRIER | PARALLEL TRAP STUDY P1, 2023, ceramics, coiled & woven earthenware, 25 x 13 x 5″
BREACH: Logbook 21 | CONVOKE, 2021, multi-ply birch wood and acrylic, coiled and woven earthenware, coiled micaceous clay, oyster shells, various dimensions
Breach: Logbook 23 | CARRIER | BURDEN STUDY #1, 2023, ceramics, coiled & woven earthenware, 13 x 13 x 26″
FEATURED EXHIBITIONS
MELTING POINT
2021 | Group Exhibition at Ferrin Contemporary & Heller Gallery | North Adams, MA & New York, NY
Survey of a diverse group of artists whose use of the melting point is central to their practice.
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- Courtney Leonard, “BREACH: Logbook 21 | NEBULOUS | GHOST TRAP STUDY – MTS O1”, 2021,Media: Ceramics | Coiled & Woven Earthenware, paint.
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- Courtney Leonard, “BREACH: Logbook 21 | NEBULOUS | GHOST TRAP STUDY – MTS O1”, 2021,Media: Ceramics | Coiled & Woven Earthenware, paint, wood.
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- Courtney Leonard, “BREACH: Logbook 21 | NEBULOUS | GHOST TRAP STUDY – MTS O1”, 2021,Media: Ceramics | Coiled & Woven Earthenware, paint.
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- Courtney Leonard, “BREACH: Logbook 21 | NEBULOUS | GHOST TRAP STUDY – MTS O1”, 2021,Media: Ceramics | Coiled & Woven Earthenware, paint.
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- Courtney Leonard, “BREACH: Logbook 21 | NEBULOUS | GHOST TRAP STUDY – MTS O1”, 2021,Media: Ceramics | Coiled & Woven Earthenware, paint.
CURRENT + RECENT
2023 INTERNATIONAL CERAMIC ART FAIR (ICAF)
By the Gardiner Museum
Toronto, Ontario
June 8 – 18, 2023
Conversing in Clay: Ceramics from the LACMA Collection
LACMA, Los Angeles, CA
August 7, 2022 – May 21, 2023
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Additional works may be available to acquire, but not listed here.
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