Leandra Arvazzetti MFA, Florida International University, Miami, Florida 2015. Leandra is a South Florida based Artist who has shown her work in numerous exhibitions nationwide. Her practice explores identity as a construct and the dissolution of that identity into a collective consciousness. Through the use of fabric, house paint, and various industrial materials, which she considers signifiers of her identity, she creates intuitive site responsive installations. While engaged in the meditation created between the inherent unpredictable nature of the object’s interaction with the site, she is looking to explore form/space and light/color as a physical manifestation of consciousness. With a playful focus on process and materiality, she investigates the mediums of painting, sculpture, and fiber.

Leandra was a recipient of the Women in the Visual Arts Scholarship in 2014 and her work is a part of the Girls’ Club’s permanent art collection. She is a Professor at Florida International University, Fiber Art, and Broward College, Art History. Leandra is also the Miami Program Director for the NYC based non-profit organization ProjectArt. She collaborated with Miami Heat’s Chris Bosh during Art Basel 2014 and most recently, designed and was the Instructor for an FIU collaborative public space Installation in the Miami International Airport. 

I am interested in exploring the idea of my identity as a construct and the dissolution of that identity into what can be described as a collective consciousness. Through the use of fabric, house paint, and various industrial materials, which I consider signifiers of my identity, I create intuitive site responsive installations. While engaged in the meditation created by the inherent materiality of the object’s interaction with the site, I am looking to explore form/space and light/color as a physical manifestation of consciousness.

My commingling of signifiers typically associated with the feminine, such as textiles and pink thread, and the masculine, various industrial materials, is not so much to blur gender norms, but to re-define and claim them as my own outside of restrictive binaries. With a playful focus on process and materiality, I investigate the mediums of painting, sculpture, and fiber art and am motivated by the unpredictable nature of the visual language created between the materials and the space.