ART & MAKING
Artist statement
sloan leo cowan’s work is decidedly queer, unambiguously Black, and compassionately collective. Theirs is a social practice that embeds them in the dynamics, evolution, and beautifully fraught realities of finding, nurturing, and navigating community. Through facilitation, dialogic pedagogy, digital video, photography, and printmaking, their frankly political work invites the audience to confront and grapple with their own values, commitments, and sense of belonging. sloan leo’s work subtly and explicitly pushes against binary understandings of race and gender. By manipulating and excavating layers of material and meaning, sloan leo publicly exhibits an intimate and profoundly personal revelatory journey.
