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| "Number 45 1995 fabric, wood, rust, feathers 188 x 444 x 5 inches" |
- from "World Art" mag http://www.leonardodrew.com/PDF/WorldArt.pdf
"The fact that he scavenges his materials from streets and urban lots does not detract from his works' handsomeness; indeed, his highly tactile (and still evolving) sculptural language is remarkable for its sensitivity to his materials' physical expressiveness and their cultural implications.
But Drew also maintains an ambitious breadth of vision. His grand, abstract works allude to both black American history and Western art history- and, moreover, integrate them seamlessly.Drawing from his love of cast-off materials - among which are such loaded or symbolically suggestive substances as cotton rust sacks rope, feathers and dead animals - Drew creates lyrical allegories of decay and regeneration."
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