NADA House 2024

Carlos Sandoval de Leon tackles the notions of origin, the symbolic, the folkloric, and the erasure by bringing together materials charged with specificity in an instinctive juxtaposition. The materials he selects celebrate the care in every effort. He leaves space for his viewer to instinctively traverse the distance between the work and its meaning, high art and the every day, minutia and artifact. It’s not about what’s there as much as it’s about what isn’t there; however, the absences aren’t eerie as they are ripe with a personal history to which we can all relate. Sandoval de Leon asks us to slow down and meditate on the objects that surround us, both meaningful and banal.

At NADA House 2024, Cindy Rucker Gallery presents “Have a Nice Day!”, Sandoval de Leon’s ongoing project of handmade and interactive hammocks woven from the plastic take-out bags that usually litter urban spaces.