Zoe Leonard
Survey
11 Nov 2018 - 25 Mar 2019
Zoe Leonard: Survey. Installation view at The Geffen Contemporary at MOCA, 2018. Courtesy of The Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles. Photo by Brian Forrest
Zoe Leonard: Survey. Installation view at The Geffen Contemporary at MOCA, 2018. Courtesy of The Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles. Photo by Brian Forrest
Zoe Leonard: Survey. Installation view at The Geffen Contemporary at MOCA, 2018. Courtesy of The Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles. Photo by Brian Forrest
Zoe Leonard: Survey. Installation view at The Geffen Contemporary at MOCA, 2018. Courtesy of The Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles. Photo by Brian Forrest
Zoe Leonard: Survey. Installation view at The Geffen Contemporary at MOCA, 2018. Courtesy of The Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles. Photo by Brian Forrest
Zoe Leonard: Survey. Installation view at The Geffen Contemporary at MOCA, 2018. Courtesy of The Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles. Photo by Brian Forrest
Zoe Leonard: Survey. Installation view at The Geffen Contemporary at MOCA, 2018. Courtesy of The Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles. Photo by Brian Forrest
Zoe Leonard: Survey. Installation view at The Geffen Contemporary at MOCA, 2018. Courtesy of The Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles. Photo by Brian Forrest
Zoe Leonard: Survey. Installation view at The Geffen Contemporary at MOCA, 2018. Courtesy of The Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles. Photo by Brian Forrest
Zoe Leonard: Survey. Installation view at The Geffen Contemporary at MOCA, 2018. Courtesy of The Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles. Photo by Brian Forrest
ZOE LEONARD: SURVEY
New York–based artist Zoe Leonard (b. 1961) is among the most critically acclaimed artists of her generation. Over the past three decades, she has produced work in photography and sculpture that has been celebrated for its lyrical observations of daily life coupled with a rigorous, questioning attention to the politics and conditions of image making and display.
Zoe Leonard: Survey is the first large-scale overview of the artist’s work in an American museum. The exhibition looks across Leonard’s career to highlight her engagement with a range of themes, including gender and sexuality, loss and mourning, migration, displacement, and the urban landscape. More than it focuses on any particular subject, however, Leonard’s work slowly and reflectively calibrates vision and form. Using repetition, subtle changes of perspective, and shifts of scale, Leonard draws viewers into an awareness of the meanings behind otherwise familiar images or objects. A counter-example to the speed and disposability of image culture today, Leonard’s photographs, sculptures, and installations ask the viewer to reengage with how we see.
Zoe Leonard: Survey is organized by Bennett Simpson, Senior Curator, and Rebecca Matalon, Assistant Curator, The Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles.
New York–based artist Zoe Leonard (b. 1961) is among the most critically acclaimed artists of her generation. Over the past three decades, she has produced work in photography and sculpture that has been celebrated for its lyrical observations of daily life coupled with a rigorous, questioning attention to the politics and conditions of image making and display.
Zoe Leonard: Survey is the first large-scale overview of the artist’s work in an American museum. The exhibition looks across Leonard’s career to highlight her engagement with a range of themes, including gender and sexuality, loss and mourning, migration, displacement, and the urban landscape. More than it focuses on any particular subject, however, Leonard’s work slowly and reflectively calibrates vision and form. Using repetition, subtle changes of perspective, and shifts of scale, Leonard draws viewers into an awareness of the meanings behind otherwise familiar images or objects. A counter-example to the speed and disposability of image culture today, Leonard’s photographs, sculptures, and installations ask the viewer to reengage with how we see.
Zoe Leonard: Survey is organized by Bennett Simpson, Senior Curator, and Rebecca Matalon, Assistant Curator, The Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles.