Exhibitions

EMILY LEONARD: SOW

David Lusk Gallery Nashville / 516 Hagan St. April 23 - June 1st

Emily Leonard

As I work on these pieces, I keep thinking about this part of Wendell Berry’s manifesto: “Ask the questions that have no answers. Invest in the millenium. Plant sequoias. Say that your main crop is the forest that you did not plant, that you will not live to harvest.” It helps to liken a painting practice to planting a forest that I will not live to reap ... and to think of sowing these seeds among the tall trees sown by all the painters who’ve come before -- EL 2024