Howerton Leightty is an artist living in Louisville, Kentucky who specializes in drawing. She is a recipient of the 2002 Kentucky Arts Council Al Smith Fellowship and numerous other awards (including awards from The Evansville Museum, The Kentucky Foundation for Women, The University of Louisville, and The Floyd County Museum).

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	She is currently exhibiting a series of drawings that continue her fascination with our culture?s lack of empathy with the land. Her aim in these drawings is to push the objectification of the landscape, by creating ?landscape objects? which can be held, bought, admired, owned, and sold.
	The format and materials were chosen to give voice to this concept. All of the work was done with goldpoint or graphite and encaustic on wood. The pieces are made to have a sense of atmospheric beauty suggesting both the natural beauty of the landscape and the contrived beauty of a manmade object. Choice of format size, 6? x 6? and 2? deep, is essential to conveying the sense of ?objectness? so important to the concept.

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