Leah Raintree

Rise|Retreat is a photographic diptych capturing two moments within landscapes both closely measured and abstracted in relation to global climate change, the rising waters of the New York Harbor and the retreating Athabasca Glacier. | (2012)   Athabasca Glacier, August 2, 2012, 9:56 PM  |  New York Harbor, September 28, 2012, 5:54 PM

On Force is a series of silver gelatin prints produced while in residence at the Banff Centre in Alberta, Canada using shale stone from Banff’s Mount Rundle. | Silver Gelatin Prints (unique), 16 x 20 in and 24 x 20 in (2012)

Estimated Ultimate Recovery (EUR) is the measure the oil and gas industry uses to calculate the amount of resource potentially recoverable or already recovered from a given reserve or well. The project was completed in May of 2012 as over 100 New York municipalities have banned or placed moratoriums on hydraulic fracturing, a controversial form of natural resource extraction, and continue efforts for a statewide ban. The two-part work includes a 132 x 168" inch drawing created through the process of breaking shale stones until they were fully dispersed and a newsprint poster of curated research on hydraulic fracturing available for public distribution. Shale on paper 132 x 168" Newsprint, edition of 1000 (2012)

Working and Walking in Space was a studio installation that existed for a period of six months. The installation began with a series of shale stones that were gradually broken down and distributed as various forms of work and movement occurred within the space. (2012)

1:1 is a series of drawings created through the process of breaking one piece of shale stone down into dust. The process was completed using a masonry hammer and following the fracturing pattern of the stone as it dispersed. Shale is a sedimentary stone formed through compaction, a geologic process that generally occurs under slow moving bodies of water and takes several million years to occur. High deposits of natural gas have linked common association with shale to hydraulic fracturing, while due to their locations and sedimentary process, these formations are often lauded as abundant fossil fields. Shale on paper 52.5 x 59 in, 35 x 4 in, 68 x 60 in (2012)

Shore was a site-specific installation at Building 110: LMCC's Arts Center at Governor's Island, for the exhibition No One is an Island, curated by Omar Lopez-Chahoud. Building debris from the southern end of the island were carted to the gallery's northern location to create a shoreline that meets the view of the Hudson River and Lower Manhattan beyond. (2011)

Governors Island and Squamish, BC, Archival inkjet prints, 16 x 16 in (2011)  

Archival inkjet prints, 15 total, 19 x 19 in (2010)

Archival inkjet print, 16 x 20 in (2010)

This in progress drawing is made through the meeting of two actions, physically crushing paper and a subjective mapping of the resulting plane. Ink on paper, 60 x 90 in