Selected Drawings
West Africans Lost At Sea (Madrid, Spain, 2023)
Having recently lost a friend to the Atlantic ocean en rout to the Canary Islands, I am presently working on a series of large-scale drawings of Africans lost at sea, depicting people being tossed from cayucos (West African fishing boats) resembling Japanese panel screens. There is no such thing as a “migration crisis” there is a visa crisis related to colonial-era borders and racism.
Lech Szporer, West Africans Lost At Sea #2, Madrid, Spain, 2023, pen and ink on ivory paper, 27.5” x 39”
People Warehoused In Architectural Settings/People in Architectural Spaces (Washington DC, USA & Madrid, Spain, 2020-2022)
Humans beings living within architectural prescriptions and codes of conduct are shaped by these preexisting physical spaces and expectations.
Lech Szporer, People In A Box, Madrid, Spain, 2022, pen and ink drawing, 11” x 17”
Lech Szporer, Refugees In A Fenced-Off Area, Madrid, Spain, 2022, pen and ink drawing, 11” x 17”
Lech Szporer, Refugees In A Boat, Madrid, Spain, 2020, pen and ink drawing, 11” x 17”
Lech Szporer, Protesters In A Street, Madrid, Spain, 2022, pen and ink drawing, 11” x 17”
Lech Szporer, Protesters On A Bridge, Madrid, Spain, 2022, pen and ink drawing, 11” x 17”
Lech Szporer, Rikers Island Correctional Facility With A Superimposed American Flag, New York, 2017, pen and ink drawing, 11” x 17”
Clinic-In-A-Box
These are drawings for a proposal to create transportable solar-powered shipping containers that transform into clinics for remote regions of Africa.
Lech Szporer, Clinic-In-A-Box (Proposal), Madrid, Spain, 2021, pen and ink drawing, 11” x 17”
Lech Szporer, Clinic-In-A-Box (Proposal), Madrid, Spain, 2021, pen and ink drawing, 11” x 17”
Toyscape Sculpture (NY, USA, 2020)
This series of pen and ink drawings continues upon a surrealist approach to the cartoonification of sexual desire and the ongoing anthropomorphic conflict between human and animal nature.
Lech Szporer, Toyscape Heap In Landfill, New York, 2021, pen and ink drawing, 11” x 17”
Lech Szporer, Toyscape Heap, New York, 2021, pen and ink drawing, 11” x 17”
Lech Szporer, Memorial Fence (Sculpture Schematic), New York, 2017, pen and ink drawing, 11” x 17”
Lech Szporer, Toyscape Sculpture, New York, 2017, pen and ink drawing, 11” x 17”
Lech Szporer, Toyscape Sculpture, New York, 2017, pen and ink drawing, 11” x 17”
Lech Szporer, Toyscape Sculpture, New York, 2017, pen and ink drawing, 11” x 17”
Lech Szporer, Toyscape Sculpture, New York, 2017, pen and ink drawing, 11” x 17”
Lech Szporer, Toyscape Sculpture, New York, 2017, pen and ink drawing, 11” x 17”
Fish Cut With Cigarettes (Madrid, Spain, 2023)
This series of pen and ink drawings continues upon a surrealist approach to the cartoonification of sexual desire and the ongoing anthropomorphic conflict between human and animal nature.
Selected Unrealized Post-Criminal & Post-Colonial Projects
These are some examples of planning images for unrealized projects.
Lech Szporer, Vernon C. Bain Correctional Center Projection Action (Proposal), New York, 2017, pen and ink drawing, 11” x 14”
Lech Szporer, Vernon C. Bain Correctional Center Projection Action (Proposal), New York, 2017, pen and ink drawing, 11” x 14”
Lech Szporer, Vernon C. Bain Correctional Center Projection Action (Proposal), New York, 2017, pen and ink drawing, 11” x 14”
Lech Szporer, Vernon C. Bain Correctional Center Projection Action (Proposal), New York, 2017, pen and ink drawing, 11” x 14”
Lech Szporer, Covering Columbus With Thermal Emergency Blanket (Proposal), Madrid, Spain, 2021, pen and ink drawing, 11” x 14”
Lech Szporer, Fence Sculpture Idea #44, New York, USA, 2021, pen and ink drawing, 11” x 14”
Lech Szporer, Covering Columbus With Thermal Emergency Blanket (Proposal), Madrid, Spain, 2021, pen and ink drawing, 11” x 14”
Lech Szporer, The View Live Intervention (Proposal), New York, 2017, pen and ink drawing, 11” x 14”
Lech Szporer, Hot Air Balloon Cage Project (Proposal), Madrid, Spain, 2021, pen and ink drawing, 11” x 17”
Lech Szporer, Muslim Women Sitting (Proposal for West African Monument), Madrid, Spain, 2021, pen and ink drawing, 11” x 17”