Artist: Ryan Leitner | Location: New Orleans, LA, LA
Iridescent Rhythms
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Ryan Leitner
New Orleans, LA, LA
Ryan Leitner is an artist based in New Orleans whose work explores the fluidity of form through the body, objects, and environments. Using alternative approaches to collage, his two-dimensional works examine material and perspective through macro photography, fluid painting, digital media, and sculpture. By building images through pigment and pixel, Leitner finds a sense of abstract reality that permeates his work. He is also deeply committed to creating visibility and permanence for LGBTQ+ histories. Through public monument restoration and creation, he archives, writes, and memorializes queer narratives that might otherwise be forgotten. His ongoing project Strange Inheritance includes monuments to the Up Stairs Lounge Fire of 1973 and the Pink Dolphin Monument in Galveston, TX. Leitner has also been published in The Advocate for his writing on queer memory.