LEAH NETSKY
Leah Netsky uses photographs as a material to create larger works. Pairing images with other images, as well as digital or mechanical processes and products, she explores the growing interaction between animal and plant life, science, and technology.
Netsky’s work has been featured in the Boston Globe and on PBS. She has exhibited nationally in New York, Boston, and Chicago, and internationally in Switzerland, South Korea, and the United Arab Emirates. Venues include the Hilton Midtown MediaLounge at the College Art Association Conference and Sotheby’s Institute of Art in Manhattan, NY, Site Brooklyn Gallery in Brooklyn, NY, the Center for Creative Photography in Tucson, AZ, the Shemer Art Center and Museum in Phoenix, AZ, La Petite in Abu Dhabi, UAE, the Congress Center in Basel, Switzerland, and the CICA Museum in Gimpo, South Korea. Netsky holds an MFA degree in Photography from the University of Arizona and currently works as Collections Photographer at Historic New England.
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ARTIST Q&A
Born: Cambridge, MA
Currently lives: Huron Village, Cambridge, MA
Title of artwork: Triangular Melons
What’s it about?
This piece is part of my “Future Fruit” series, which is, a play on genetic modification in fruit production. Many foods we think of as “natural,” such as fruits and vegetables are highly cultivated. In this series, I imagine how fruits might be designed in the future.
Where else can we find your work?
I currently have a piece on view at Gallery A2 at Artisans Asylum in Boston and I will have a piece in an upcoming show at the Kathryn Schultz Gallery in Cambridge.
Where is your favorite public art piece in the area?
Mass MoCA
Who is your favorite Boston-area artist to follow?
I don’t really have a favorite Boston artist. For photography, I generally find great work at the Photographic Resource Center and the Griffin Museum.
What’s your favorite way to spend a day off?
Biking, cooking, traveling
Favorite food spot in in Allston, Brighton or the surrounding area?
Shabu Zen or Happy Lamb Hot Pot
What have you learned about your creative practice in recent years?
That the act of making is just as important if not more important than the final product.
What is a piece of advice you would give to your past self as a young artist?
That you don’t always have to have the concept worked out in the initial phases of creating work. If you have an urge to make a piece, just make it and the concept will come later.
You’re hosting book club next, what is everyone reading?
100 Years of Solitude
What is your dream project to work on?
I have a real interest in light and how it can transform a piece. I have experimented quite a bit with creating light boxes to display my images. I think it would be really cool to work on designing surrealist lamps that incorporate imagery.
