Derek Eller Gallery

LAST CHANCE

Zachary Leener
Lachlan Hinwood
On view through Friday, July 10, 2026

Derek Eller Gallery is pleased to present a two-person exhibition featuring ceramic sculpture by Zachary Leener and paintings by Lachlan Hinwood. Like a reliquary of curious specimens, the works in this show share a meditative quality, an intimacy in scale, and a curvilinear, biomorphic vocabulary.

Zachary Leener continues his ongoing search for new archetypal three-dimensional forms, presenting a suite of ceramics with diorama-like arrangements. The recurring typological shape — evoking bassinet, bed, sofa or coffin — becomes a central stage on which the drama unfolds and wherein individuated personalities emerge. It is within these prosceniums that a range of abstract elements are fused in, stuck on, cordoned off and otherwise embedded.

The shapes that populate the interior (and in some cases exterior) spaces of the sculptures are both found and newly formed, as Leener mines for his embellishments in an intuitively personal archaeology. Present in this arrangement are freshly glazed fragments of previously abandoned artworks, unaltered chunks fished from the clay recycle at the school where Leener teaches, pieces of street glass collected during walks through his neighborhood and the oddly detached hollow of a child’s metal spoon.

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ZACHARY LEENER
Glass Lunch, 2026
glazed terra cotta
11 x 9 x 11.25 inches