2025
“Theme of Growth Takes Many Forms at New Art Exhibition”
USM News, University of Southern Maine, February 4, 2025
Coverage of Life Forms: Grow, USM Art Gallery, Gorham, Maine
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2024
“Women’s Sculpture Collective Debuts Work in Wells”
Portland Press Herald, August 18, 2024
Coverage of Life Forms Preview, Corey Daniels Gallery, Wells, Maine
“Life Forms”
Art New England, September 2024
Review of Life Forms Preview, Corey Daniels Gallery, Wells, Maine
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2018
“Garden As Gallery”
Gina Souders, Mother Earth News, August 14, 2018
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2015
“Operation Strawberry: One Artist’s Mission to Revive a Heritage Fruit”
Science Friday, NPR, October 5, 2015
Full feature interview on the Marshall Strawberry project
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2014
“Artist on a Mission to Revive a Strawberry Beloved for Its Taste”
Portland Press Herald, June 29, 2014
Full profile on the Marshall Strawberry project, Brunswick, Maine
“Woman Helps Save Rare Strawberry from Extinction”
Washington Times Herald, July 22, 2014
Feature on the Marshall Strawberry project
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2013
“Reintroducing the Marshall Strawberry”
Civil Eats, May 24, 2013
Feature on the Marshall Strawberry pop-up shop and distribution model
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2012
“The Growing Trend”
Nicole J. Caruth, Big Red and Shiny, December 16, 2012
Survey of artists working with urban agriculture and food systems; discusses Sharecropper (2009) and The Marshall (2012) alongside Agnes Denes, Fallen Fruit, and other leading practitioners
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“Marshall Duchamp”
Edible Geography, 2012
Essay connecting the Marshall Strawberry project to the Duchampian readymade tradition
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“Artist Helps Revive the Once Nearly Extinct Marshall Strawberry”
City Farmer News, 2012
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“Marshall Strawberry Explores Its Artistic Side”
Indiana Public Media / WFIU Public Radio, Bloomington, Indiana
Studio feature on the Marshall Strawberry project and Mending Season
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2010
“SoFA Gallery’s ‘Tending a Difficult Hope’ Includes Free Hands-On Workshops on Sustainable Food”
IU Newsroom, Indiana University, October 5, 2010
Exhibition announcement and artist interview, SoFA Gallery, Indiana University, Bloomington, Indiana
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2008
Essay on Melon, DeCordova Annual Exhibition
Nick Capasso, Senior Curator, DeCordova Sculpture Park and Museum, Lincoln, Massachusetts, 2008
2006
Reviews of Lettuce, Thesis Exhibition
Aidekman Arts Center, Tufts University, Medford, Massachusetts, 2006
“The experience of observing visitors interact with her installation was a memorable one. Lettuce succeeds as an aesthetic object that provokes a series of questions surrounding contemporary and historical ecology, the sense of taste, and our role as consumers in the fullest sense.”
Meghan Hughes, Professor of Visual and Critical Studies, Tufts University
“Director Werner Herzog often comments both in interviews and his works on how modern living conditions, including capitalism, impoverish lived experience. In response to similar impulses, Leah works with rare and endangered agricultural plant species… By inviting the viewer to have a very rare culinary experience based in the richness of biodiversity, once commonplace and now endangered by industrial practices, she is directly speaking to the impoverishing influence of modernization.”
Patte Loper, Artist and Professor of Painting, School of the Museum of Fine Arts Boston
“At a time when we need imaginative ways to capture the interest and attention of the public to make change to protect natural resources and the environment, Leah’s work is all the more relevant. She is pushing visual language, social messaging and art history with her work.”
David Cabrera, Artist and Professor of Contemporary Art, School of the Museum of Fine Arts Boston
Bibliography
Academic Journals
Gilbert, Ame and Yael Raviv. “Space to Grow: Women, Art, and the Urban Agriculture Movement.” Women & Performance: A Journal of Feminist Theory, 2011.
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Books
Paolini, Judy. The Inspired Garden: 24 Artists Share Their Vision. Photographs by Nance Trueworthy. Down East Books, 2009.
Features Leah Gauthier among 24 New England artist/gardeners, with interview and photographs.
Exhibition Catalogs
Cheim, John, Yvonne Jacquette, and Judith Tannenbaum, jurors. Portland Museum of Art 2005 Biennial. Portland Museum of Art, 2005.
Exhibition catalog featuring critical commentary and documentation of selected works. Juried by John Cheim (Cheim & Read, New York), Yvonne Jacquette (painter and printmaker), and Judith Tannenbaum (Richard Brown Baker Curator of Contemporary Art, RISD Museum).