To Wait For That Dawn is the very first multi-panel work by Sam Leach in dedication to the King Vulture, which in Maya mythology served as a messenger between the humans and the gods. This monumental work looks at the majestic creature and meditates on its folkloric associations across multiple planes, spaces, and histories. As such, the aviary species in particular has found favoritism in Leach’s pictures, the corpus of which has placed a now-trademark emphasis on the uncanny encounter between nature and man-made science.
Sam Leach is known for his photorealist paintings, governed by a virtuosity and an air that together pay homage to seventeenth-century Dutch painting, where wildlife intersects with corporate architecture and landscape intertwines with cutting-edge technology. For this project, the artist takes his strategy one step further and extends the reach of his visual enigma beyond the expected format.
