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| Zoe Leonard was born in 1961 in Liberty, New York, and now lives and works in New York City. She has exhibited internationally since 1990, including recent solo presentations at Dia:Beacon (2008); Dia at the Hispanic Society, NY (2008); the Wexner Center for the Arts, Columbus, Ohio (2007); Paula Cooper Gallery, New York City (2003); Centre National de la Photographie, Paris (1998); Kunsthalle Basel (1997); and the Renaissance Society at the University of Chicago (1993). In 2007, Leonard was the subject of a 20-year career retrospective at the Fotomuseum Winterthur, in Winterthur, Switzerland, which is traveling to the Museo Nacional Reina Sofia in Madrid, the Pinakothek der Moderne in Munich, and the Museum Moderner Kunst in Vienna. Since the mid-1980s, Leonard has been taking photographs of water, maps, museum displays, mirrors, aerial views of cities and villages, bullfights, and fashion shows. What has distinguished these images is the "unauthorized" air of their graininess and viewpoints. The pictures look as if they were taken in the split second opportunity of a moment (as from an airplane window), or in haste not to get caught at it. This attitude lends the images a transfixing and elusive power. [Joe Scanlon, Zoe Leonard: Photographs, the Renaissance Society at the University of Chicago (1993)] |
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| Untitled 1989 gelatin silver print image: 8-5/8 x 5-3/4 inches 10 x 8 inches paper [12-1/4 x 9-1/4 framed] Courtesy of the artist |
| ZOE LEONARD |
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| Untitled 1989 gelatin silver print image: 6-1/8 x 9-1/8 inches 8 x 10 inches paper [9-1/2 x 12-1/4 inches framed] Courtesy of the artist |
http://outoftheblueproject.org contact: joy.garnett @ gmail dot com |