William Leavitt

William Leavitt, Arctic Earth, 2014. Photograph by Mark McNulty.

William Leavitt, Body Space, 2012. Photograph by Roger Sinek.

William Leavitt, Chaco Rising, 2008. Photograph by Roger Sinek.

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The private space of domestic interiors can seem strikingly ordinary but also quietly unnatural, as if it exists partly in the past and partly in the future. When a houseplant takes on an air of science fiction, we know that the unruliness of a Great Outdoors has come to infect the safety of a Great Indoors. Quickly, recognizable images lose their familiarity and dip into dysfunction.

William Leavitt (b. 1941, Washington, DC) lives in Los Angeles. He was awarded a BA from University of Colorado in 1963 and an MFA from Claremont Graduate School in 1967. Leavitt participated in Take it or Leave It: Institution, Image, Ideology, Hammer Museum, Los Angeles, 2014; among his solo presentations are Sidereal Time, Zurich, 2014; Space Junk, Greene Naftali, New York, 2013; Tensile Structures, Margo Leavin Gallery, Los Angeles, 2012; and Theater Objects, Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, 2011.