Casual Meet-and-Greet with Leon Syfrit

Leon Syfrit is Art 145's Resident Artist from May 11th through May 21st, and we can't wait for you to meet him!

"My mother made art, and my father was a chef, so the visual and culinary arts were influential from an early age. Mom went on beach walks and collected seashells and driftwood to make sculptures. Dad did the same thing with food, although his walks were at the butcher shop and produce market. And, of course, dad's sculptures were edible."

While Leon visits Superior from Las Vegas, NV, he will be expanding his project Portraits In ICE-olation where he prints a photographic portrait on paper that he stains with paint and botanicals, and freezes it all in water with plants and other substances. The resulting image is a fusion of the original portrait photograph, the materials arranged with the print, and the unique impression created by the natural…