The Leonovich Gallery is proud to present a new series of work by Richard Humann in his first solo exhibition with the gallery.

For the exhibition, Humann produced over sixty music “singles,” pressed onto clear polycarbonate flex discs. The discs are backed with archival film of X-ray images. The concept in doing this is based on a practice that was common in the late 1950’s and early 1960’s in countries trapped behind the Iron Curtain. Called bone music, music on bones, or jazz on bones, this was a black-market method of smuggling in behind the Iron Curtain music that was banned for fear of Western influence.

Richard Humann is a neo-conceptual artist with numerous international museum and gallery exhibitions. He has been included in the 2003 and 2017 Venice Biennale, and represented the United States in the 2017 Karachi Biennale. Richard is a recipient of grants from the Brooklyn Arts Council, the New York State Council on the Arts, and the 2016 Pollock-Krasner Award, and has been an artist in residence at Yaddo in Saratoga Springs, The Emily Harvey Foundation in Venice, Italy, and Ssamzie Space in Seoul, Republic of Korea among many others.