About

Eric Leshinsky is a multidisciplinary artist, designer, and city planner, based in Annapolis, MD. He creates site-specific and interactive sculptural installations in public environments where places act as a medium and become part of the finished artwork. His work responds to the unique dynamics of places— their defining social, historical, cultural, and ecological features. He is attracted to sites where an art intervention can have a measurable impact on the experience of the place, or in some cases, actually create a place. Using this standard, he has created successful installations in a wide variety of very specific locations including along waterways, along busy streets and back alleys, within vacant lots, on manicured estates, as part of major festivals, and within gallery and museum spaces.

He approaches projects as a design challenge where a site’s constraints become opportunities, where art is not architecture, and where a project that is too functional risks being too narrowly interpreted. He looks for ambiguities in narrative content and sculptural forms that can open up avenues to diverse interpretations and experiences.

In addition to working independently, Eric also serves as the Chief of Comprehensive Planning for the City of Annapolis, MD, and is a Board Member at Maryland Hall for the Creative Arts in Annapolis.

He has received grant awards for his work from Creative Capital (2012) and the Baltimore Creative Fund (2008), has held artist residencies at the Cynthia Woods Mitchell Center for the Arts at University of Houston (2011) and the Delaware Center for Contemporary Art (2013), and has served as adjunct faculty in art and design at several universities. 

This website is an ongoing archive of his public projects and published writings completed independently or collaboratively over many years.