About the Artist:
Born in 1975 at the annual Montana Testicle Festival where 10,000 bikers gather to devour 20,000 deep fried bull testicles, the artist, even then, seemed destined for success. Raised in the desert outside of White Sands, New Mexico, Leora showed a precocious flair for artistic endeavor, publishing her first book, "101 Uses for a Depleted Uranium Fuel Rod," at age 15. On her 18th birthday, Leora hitched a ride out of town with a willing group of traveling sideshow performers on their way back to Gibsonton, FL for the carnival off-season. She eventually settled in Hollywood and proceeded to set the art world on fire.
A recount of the accomplishments of this world-renowned artisan would be futile, at best. She is perhaps most commonly known for her ventures into the world of performance art when, starting in 1997, she performed a five-part, two-year series entitled "A Rebuttal to the Phallocracy of the Viennese Aktionists" that eventually called for the use and subsequent destruction of over nine tons of broccoli.
Soon, exhausted by her own fame and feeling that the world of performance art had come to emphasize form over content, Leora turned away from those "traditional art forms" to study a new medium. A prior history of abuse of noxious chemicals made the progression into a career in photography a natural choice. Her next project involves a highly conceptual approach to photography, where the camera is considered as a sentient object, leading to a shooting style somewhat reminiscent of automatic writing. Eventually she plans to have nothing to do with her own artwork, not unlike Andy Warhol. Besides being more artistically sound, she believes this approach will also save her an enormous amount of otherwise wasted time and energy.
