Hugh Leeman's works are made with carbon soot emissions - think of what is melting the ice caps, killing the ozone and giving him cancer while making these. The backgrounds are corporate ad posters he's removed from billboards on nights while out wheat pasting his artwork onto city walls. The subjects pictures are appropriated by invading stranger’s Facebook pages. These pieces are meant to raise questions on corporate behemoths considered "to big to fail", the fragility of our environment, and the invasion of our private information, that is sold to corporations and spearheaded by social media. They are a portrait of the 21st century in both message and medium.
His past work includes: starting a not for profit t-shirt project with the inner city homeless, creating the first ever Martin Luther King Jr. mural overlooking his historic birth house in Atlanta, Georgia, and his artwork hangs inside San Francisco Mayor Ed Lee's office. Leeman's work has appeared in shows and on walls in Palestine, Israel, India, Colombia, England, and The United States.
