LEONARD URSACHI
NEW YORK
Leonard Ursachi is a Romanian-born American artist based in Brooklyn, New York. He was born in Romania during the communist regime and grew up under a dictatorship which has a significant influence on his work. He studied art history and archeology at Sorbonee University in Paris and spent years border-hopping before settling in New York.
Ursachi's art reflects our contemporary world of porous borders, vulnerable shelters, and mutating identities. His sculptures and installations use architectural references such as tropes for systems that enclose, exclude, protect and reject. He is interested in the boundaries which systems create, how these boundaries are transgressed, and in the impact of structures - material, theoretical, social, political - on individuals and communities.
Much of Ursachi's work is site-specific - the physical, historical and cultural aspects of the site inform his concept and his use of materials. He is interested to show not only in galleries or museums, but also in the public realm where his ideas reach audiences outside the art world. In that context, his art not only addresses issues of boundaries, but also embodies them.
His work has been shown in many internationally acknowledged museums like the National Museum of Contemporary Art in Bucharest and John & Mable Ringling Museum of Art in Sarasota, Florida as well as publicly in Brooklyn Bridge Park and Prospect Park in New York.
