Leonard Han: An Ethos for the Living — What Remains, What Becomes

Wave Street Studios Presents An Ethos for the Living — What Remains, What Becomes

Wave Street Studios presents An Ethos for the Living — What Remains, What Becomes, an exhibition of paintings, monotypes, and dry pastel drawings by Monterey Peninsula artist Leonard Han, spanning five decades of artistic exploration.

Bringing together works shaped by personal experience, cultural traditions, and diverse creative influences, the exhibition reveals a practice that moves freely across subjects, approaches, and material. Despite their varied forms, the works share a contemplative sensibility and explore our relationship to the world.

Grounded in the physical process of making, Han’s work explores line, color, texture, space, and mixed media. His approach to materials and imagery remains fluid and open to discovery, allowing each work to find its own form and meaning without being confined to a predetermined way of working.

The exhibition’s unity emerges through connections between past and present,…