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Number 25D,

2005

Leonardo Drew, American, born 1961
2005-95
Leonardo Drew forges abstract collages, sculptures, and installations from humble, cast-off materials rich with symbolic and historical connotations. At age thirteen, Drew began working from the salvaged trash he found at a neighborhood junkyard, later favoring materials that invoke the natural cycles of birth and decay as well as industrialization and the antebellum South. Cotton, wood, rope, rags, and rust feature frequently in his work. In Number 25D, Drew constructs an irregular, asymmetrical grid—a foundational element of modern art—out of cotton fabric and thread. The strands of extraneous thread rest on top of and in between the small squares that comprise the grid, introducing disorder, vulnerability, and tactility into a compositional format that is more typically associated with stability, science, and standardization.

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Title
Number 25D
Dates

2005

Medium
Fabric, cotton thread, and graphite
Dimensions
58.4 x 58.4 x 3.8 cm (23 x 23 x 1 1/2 in.) frame: 66.4 × 66.4 × 8.3 cm (26 1/8 × 26 1/8 × 3 1/4 in.)
Credit Line
Museum purchase, Fowler McCormick, Class of 1921, Fund
Object Number
2005-95
Culture
Period