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James Leonard - Hold Me Close installation view. Silkscreen treated with flypaper adhesive.
James Leonard - Hold Me Close view of Silkscreen. Map of Ann Arbor, Michigan with city parks and university properties highlighted.
James Leonard - Hold Me Close detail of fly trapped by flypaper adhesive applied to this artwork.
James Leonard - Hold Me Close installation view. Silkscreen treated with flypaper adhesive.
James Leonard - Hold Me Close view of Silkscreen. Map of Ann Arbor, Michigan with city parks and university properties highlighted.
James Leonard - Hold Me Close detail of fly trapped by flypaper adhesive applied to this artwork.

Hold Me Close

$9,000.00

2004 
Serigraph, flypaper adhesive, incidental debris and organisms 
46" x 46" 
Edition of 3 (two available)

Hold Me Close was created as an acknowledgement of the sacrifices made by the artist’s wife, when she relocated to be with him during his MFA program in Michigan.


The silkscreen graphic derives from the map of Ann Arbor. Outlines demark city parks—areas that brought the artist’s wife comfort during this time—while orange indicates property owned by the University of Michigan, an ever-present entity in their lives.

With the addition of flypaper adhesive, the piece also functions as a literal flytrap. Nearly a sixteenth of an inch thick, this adhesive gives the print a unique, velveteen lustre.


The first in this series was a gift to his wife, and hangs in their Brooklyn home; it still catches unwitting insects.