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Leanne Shapton

           “It all involves repetition. Visually, I’ll do something over and over again to get it right... I want to master the direction of absences.” — Leanne Shapton

Feature 3 image Portrait by Beat Schweizer

           “It all involves repetition. Visually, I’ll do something over and over again to get it right... I want to master the direction of absences.” — Leanne Shapton

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Leanne Shapton avidly documents the human experiences through beautiful writing and visuals.

           Renowned artist, writer and publisher, Canadian-born Leanne Shapton is now based in NYC, and made her name as art director of The New York Times Op-Ed page. She is now art directing The New York Review of Books. Stories haunt her process and paintings. Written words layer with watercolour, found photographs with washes of ink. She explores pattern in nature - the symbiosis between chaos and order - through her beguilingly soft, sparse style. She teaches in the creative writing department at Columbia University School of the Arts. Shapton is a fellow of the Royal Canadian Geographical Society.

Artist CV

Publications

In 2010 and 2013 she published two books of paintings, and her illustrated autobiography, Swimming Studies, won a National Book Critic's Circle Award. In 2021, she published Colonial Interiors, her 100-print run of haunting sepia scenes.

Her works have appeared in various publications such as The New York Times, Granta, and The New Yorker.

Other work

Shapton is co-founder of J&L Books, a not-for-profit imprint supporting emerging artists.

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Working in the boundaries between art, decoration and design, Jaime Hayon's creations for are full of optimism and show his limitless imagination. ⁠His work can be seen in public spaces and as part of leading hotels worldwide, as well as making creations with brands such as Zara, Swarovski, Cartier, &Tradition and Cassina.
Renowned artist, writer and publisher, Canadian-born Leanne Shapton is now based in NYC. She is Art Editor of The New York Review of Books, and her illustrations have previously explored themes, such as swimming pools, women’s fashion, and floral forms.
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Philippe Weisbecker's work has been featured in some of the most prestigious publications, including The New York Times, Forbes, GQ and The New Yorker, and he is currently collaborating on inspiring projects with global design brands.
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Kim Fisher works across photography, printmaking and installation, responding to her adopted city of Los Angeles – tracking its culture, weather, and architecture, as well as their disorienting effects. Collage is key part of her process, and she uses sources ranging from her own photographs to clippings from newspapers and magazines.
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Monika Sosnowska's practice takes inspiration from architectural entropy, rooted in her experience of structural change in various Eastern European cities. The defunct forms of post-industrial buildings have long informed the artist’s warped and distorted sculptures, in particular, her engagement with ideas of collapse – materially and conceptually.
Martin Boyce's poetic installations comprise a vocabulary of images, typography and interconnected forms which emerge across his sculptures, wall paintings, and photography. Collectively, these conjure liminal spaces which explore the aesthetic and political legacy of Modernism, the collapse of nature and culture, and the boundary between the real and fictional.
Lisa Alvarado's practice is rooted in her knowledge of Mexican American textile and mural painting traditions. Alvarado’s free-hanging works are considered orchestrations, exploring visual and sonic resonance, as well as quotidian rhythms – the transition from day to night, the drawing of breath in and out of the body.
Dirk Bell's practice questions our attempts to make sense of the belief systems and structures that control our world. The artist employs a variety of linguistic signs across drawing, painting, and sculpture in his arresting multimedia installations, often reflecting on the relationship between civilisation and human nature.
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