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81 Leonard Gallery is pleased to present Irrational Craft, a selection of artists who seek to recontextualize craft, rejecting the culture of immediacy through nuanced engagement with material. In dialogue, Rhea Barve, Abby Cheney, Delia Pelli-Walbert, Hannah Eve Rothbard, and Kris Waymire explore themes of place and purpose within a continuum of storytelling.

In timelines that stretch from geological to generational, the artists of irrational craft sow relationships through physical and repetitive processes. The artists draw from histories of form and gesture in clay, beads, glass, and …