Wild Goose Creative is proud to present March’s 2025 Wild Gallery, Warmer Days, featuring Hannah Fitzgerald, Sam Lee, and Joe Leonard.

Warmer Days transforms Wild Goose Creative into an immersive and sensorial experience for visitors to the space. Featuring the work of artists Hannah Fitzgerald, Sam Lee, and Joe Leonard, this exhibition captures three distinct artistic practices that share a common appreciation and investigation of their surroundings and of themselves. Installations poke at our memories, oil paintings savor the ordinary, and collages unfold before our eyes.

Hannah Fitzgerald holds a BFA in Fine Arts from Columbus College of Art & Design, where she primarily focused on sculpture. Prior to CCAD, Fitzgerald interned at The Children’s Museum of Art (NYC, New York) as an art administration and education intern. This experience led her to The Wexner Center for The Arts, where she interned in the Learning and Public Practice department for two academic years. After earning her BFA, she dedicated time to international artist residencies, which included The Burren College of Art (Ballyvaughan, Ireland,) Metafora Studio Arts (Barcelona, Spain,) and R.A.R.O BCN (Barcelona, Spain & Paris, France.) Back in Columbus, Fitzgerald has completed two solo exhibitions, was the gallery manager at Adamah Ceramics, and is establishing her studio practice at The Dream Clinic. She is currently the Assistant Director of Development at The Wexner Center for The Arts.

Sam Lee is a queer & non-binary emerging artist based in the Midwest with work focusing on creative communication, poetry & chaotic collage. Using found materials, poetry and collage to explore identity as a gay & genderqueer person living in a socially & politically frought Midwest. Translating emotional experiences and written work into a controlled visual chaos. Like with identity and patterns in life, the longer you look, the more you see.

Joe Leonard is a multi-disciplinary artist currently based in Columbus, OH. Joe’s work strives to honor the simple and ordinary. Inspiration stems from his direct environment, taking wonder in the design of nature and manmade objects present in the day to day. The familiar becomes the foundation for vibrant expressions of otherwise overlooked subject matter. His paintings are an invitation to observe the unnoticed, to slow down and engage with the world familiar with us all. With a foundation in drawing and painting from the Laguna College of Art and Design, Joe utilizes classical painting techniques in his work. By combining his traditional oil painting education with a love of midcentury modern design and pop art, he creates a visual language rich in shape, color, and rhythmic line that evokes joy and playfulness. Joe aims to bring a sense of lightheartedness to the world while preserving and reinterpreting artistic traditions, all while celebrating the beauty of the everyday.