81 Leonard is pleased to present the group exhibition Departures. The artwork on view in Departures evidences the human impulse to sentimentalize. Personal milestones, relationships, places, and mortality are driving forces for creatives. Whether the story is one of physical departure from a place or mental departure from the people we once were, our lives are punctuated by these changes. Artists are especially compelled to memorialize and make meaning out of otherwise insignificant objects and materials. The stories and ideas explored by Henry Anker, Sammy Bennett, Steffie Chau, Danielle Klebes, Kendall Henderson, Ray Hwang, Nancy Pantirer, Hannah Eve Rothbard, Katia Rozenberg, Susan May Tell, and Rochelle Voyles are presented visually, but aided by language, as there is always more to the story than the objects themselves can tell.
