Discipline: Visual Art – printmaking

Fábio Leão

Discipline: Visual Art – printmaking
Region: São Paulo, BRAZIL
MacDowell Fellowships: 2014

My work revolves about questions concerned with the relationships between art, architecture, design, and science. I'm interested in investigating concepts about perception and representation of reality. On a more formal level, I'm always trying to distance myself from traditional ways of representation, and I'm also interested in creating nontraditional approaches to printmaking and sculpture.

Studios

Heinz

Fábio Leão worked in the Heinz studio.

The icehouse, built of fieldstone in 1914–1915, was a practical part of Marian MacDowell’s plan for a self-sufficient farm. Winter ice cut from a nearby pond was stored here for summer use on the property. Idle since 1940, it was a handsome but outdated farm building. In 1995, Mrs. Drue Heinz, a vice chairman…

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