Marfa Carpenter / MCSq2
I first met Leland Cardenal at Chronos Festival—No, at LOOP, Sissi’s booth, Sissi Aronson. Leland introduced me to so many important gallerists, and artists, he’s connected to everyone doing important work. And he understands that it’s about so much more than, Do you want to own this piece or that piece? Art is not about ownership, it’s about having a consensual, custodial dialogue with a piece . . . Leland’s passionate about time-based media art. Right now he’s got me very interested in performative work, he believes it’s the medium for our times: everyone’s already living performatively, so he feels this is the next logical aesthetic step. Leland believes it will be uniquely transformative.
-Maria Morhosa-Smith, philanthropist, art collector, CEO, Morhosa Systems
