Leah Harper

Biography

Leah is an interdisciplinary artist with a background in art, architecture, and graphic design. She's interested in the delicate balance between nature and the built environment, with an emphasis on the implications of climate change and rising seas. Her work explores natural forms and environmental systems. Originally from South Florida, she currently lives and works in Brooklyn, NY.

Exhibitions

Leah Harper - Mitosis
Solo Exhibition 10 Apr - 15 May 2021
Yi Gallery is delighted to present Mitosis, a collection of biomorphic site-specific installations and drawings by Brooklyn-based artist Leah Harper. This new body of work will be on view from April 10-May 15 at 56 Bogart Street in Bushwick, Brooklyn.
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The Art of Quarantine
#ArtKeepsGoing - Also On View via ARTSY 20 Apr - 10 Jun 2020
Yi Gallery is pleased to present The Art of Quarantine, an online group exhibition of works made during home quarantine between March and May, 2020. Responding to the conditions of self-isolation, the artists from different parts of the world in this exhibition have continued to create. These new, intimate and richly layered works reflect the psychological conditions surrounding the times we live in. The very act of continuing to work under constraints and social distancing suggests hope, solidarity, healing and possibilities.
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Works

Overview

Leah Harper is an interdisciplinary artist with a background in art, architecture, and graphic design. She's interested in the delicate balance between nature and the built environment, with an emphasis on the implications of climate change and rising seas. Her work explores natural forms and environmental systems. Originally from South Florida, she currently lives and works in Brooklyn, NY.

Press

Blog

Exhibition Review: Leah Harper’s “Mitosis” A Triumph
AUDRA LAMBERT, ANTE MAG May 14, 2021
A visitor can be forgiven for entering Yi Gallery’s current exhibition, “Mitosis “, and wondering whether they’ve been shrunken down into an aesthetically pleasing science lab. All that’s missing is the petri dish. This solo show of works by Leah Harper indicates the scope and breadth of the artist’s multi-disciplinary practice in dialogue with the lived environment, particularly with regards to marine life. The abstracted “creatures” that the artist presents assume migratory patterns, frozen in a form of arrested motion. By foregrounding the objects themselves, one is compelled to think...
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Leah Harper

Leah Harper - Mitosis

The Art of Quarantine

On the Ephemeral Beauty of Community: Yi Gallery Presents Leah Harper

Questions of Scale: Leah Harper’s “Mitosis” A Triumph at Yi Gallery

La mostra di Leah Harper alla Yi Gallery Project Room di New York

Yi Gallery exhibits biomorphic installations and drawings by Leah Harper

Exhibition Review: Leah Harper’s “Mitosis” A Triumph

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