Leah Oates

Transitory Space, Brooklyn, NY, Color Photography, 2021

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Transitory Space, Brooklyn, NY, Color Photography, 2021

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Artist Statement

The Transitory Space series deals with urban and natural locations that are transforming due to the passage of time, altered natural conditions and a continual human imprint. This series articulates fluctuation in the photographic image and captures movements through time, perception and space.

Transitory spaces have a messy human energy that is perpetually in the present yet continually altering. They are endlessly interesting, alive places where there is a great deal of beauty and fragility. They are temporary monuments to the ephemeral nature of existence.

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Leah Oates has a B.F.A. from the Rhode Island School of Design and a M.F.A. from The School of the Art Institute of Chicago and is a Fulbright Fellow for graduate study at Edinburgh College of Art in Scotland. From 2021-2022 Oates was part of group shows in NYC at Usagi NY and Susan Eley Fine Art. From 2018 to 2020 Oates was in group shows in Toronto at The Gladstone Hotel, Gallery 1313, Propeller Gallery, Papermill Gallery, Arta Gallery and Wychwood Barns. Oates has had solo shows at Black Cat Artspace, Susan Eley Fine Art, The MTA Lightbox Project at 42nd Street, The Arsenal Gallery in Central Park, The Center for Book Arts, Real Art Ways in Connecticut and Artemisia Gallery in Chicago.