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The New York Public Library



presents

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An Artist Dialogue Series
Event<http://www.nypl.org/events/programs/2012/05/30/tony-feher-and-zoe-leonard-artist-dialogue>



*Tony Feher*

* in conversation with *

*Zoe Leonard*

* *

Wednesday May 30, 2012

6:00 P.m.

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Margaret Liebman Berger Forum

Room 227 (2nd Floor)



The New York Public Library

Stephen A. Schwarzman Building

5thAvenue at 42nd Street

New York, NY 10018

917-275-6975

 www.nypl.org

(directions) <http://www.nypl.org/locations/tid/36/directions>



*Room 227 opens to the public at 5:30 p.m.*

All events are FREE and subject to last minute change or cancellation.



Tony Feher’s sculptures are often recognizable through his use of commonly
overlooked objects. His creative vocabulary is distinctly his own,
expressed through structures of unexpected beauty, their play of color and
light, and the singular ways they engage space.* Join Tony Feher in a
conversation with artist Zoe Leonard about their many shared topics of
interests*. This event coincides with a two-year traveling retrospective of
Feher’s work, organized by The Blaffer
Museum<http://www.class.uh.edu/blaffer/exhibit_tony_feher.html>,
and the publication of *Tony Feher*, the first monograph to cover Feher’s
complete body of work and his considerable contributions to contemporary
art.



Bottles aligned on shelves or suspended in the air, jars of marbles and
dye-filled tubes: form, substance and structure emerge from deceptively
humble means in the sculpture of Tony Feher. His work uses gravity, light
and repetition to isolate and animate everyday objects, creating a
sculptural territory that Feher can rightfully claim as entirely his own. *Tony
Feher* is the first publication to explore work from the artist’s entire
body of significant and influential career. This comprehensive book
reproduces his many sculptures, site-specific installations and
two-dimensional works and includes major new texts on Feher’s practice from
Blaffer Director Claudia
Schmuckli<http://nypl.bibliocommons.com/search?t=author&search_category=author&q=Schmuckli%2C+Claudia+&commit=Search&searchOpt=catalogue>and
curator and writer Russell
Ferguson<http://nypl.bibliocommons.com/search?commit=Search&q=Ferguson%2C+Russell+&searchOpt=catalogue&search_category=author&t=author&f_status=MM>.
Superbly realized by renowned New York design studio Matsumoto
Incorporated<http://www.matsumotoinc.com/profile.html>this monograph
is the definitive book on the work of a vanguard American
artist.



*Copies of the book are available for purchase and signing at the event*.

*Tony Feher*<http://thepacegallery.com/#/q_title=Now%20Searching%3A%20Home&q_searches=6&q_id=1&q_q_1=homepage&q_c_2=Artist&q_q_2=Artist_isPaceArtist%3Atrue&q_c_3=Catalog&q_q_3=Catalog_yearPublished%3A2011&q_c_4=Catalog&q_q_4=Catalog_yearPublished%3A2009&q_c_5=Catalog&q_q_5=Catalog_yearPublished>makes
use of generally overlooked and discarded common objects, often in a
serial manner that highlights their formal qualities and imbues them with
personal meaning. His careful consideration transforms and
re-contextualizes these items into unique works of art. Roberta Smith
writes in *The New York Times*, “Mr. Feher is a poet but also an engineer
of the everyday….” Concurrent to his studio work, Feher also engages
site-determined, architecturally-based installations that are often of
large-scale. His recent commissions include a public artwork for the
Federal Courthouse in Rockford, Illinois and The Hudson (Show) Room at
Artpace in San Antonio. Tony Feher is represented by The Pace Gallery,
Lucien Terras, Inc. and D'Amelio Gallery.

*Zoe Leonard<http://nypl.bibliocommons.com/search?t=subject&search_category=subject&q=leonard%2C+zoe&commit=Search&searchOpt=catalogue>
* is a New York–based artist working with photography, sculpture, and
installation. A retrospective of her work at Fotomuseum Winterthur,
Switzerland, traveled to Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía, Madrid;
Pinakothek der Moderne, Munich; and Museum Moderner Kunst Stiftung Ludwig,
Vienna (2007–2010). Other solo exhibitions have taken place at Dia:Beacon,
Beacon, New York (2008 –11); Dia at the Hispanic Society, New York (2008);
Wexner Center for the Arts, Columbus, Ohio (2007); Vienna Secession (1997);
Kunsthalle Basel (1997); and the Renaissance Society at the University of
Chicago (1993). Leonard participated in documenta 9 (1992) and 12 (2007),
and her work was included in the 1993 and 1997 Whitney Biennials. She is
co-chair of the graduate program in photography, Bard College. Recent
publications include *Zoe Leonard: Analogue* (2007), *Zoe Leonard:
Photographs* (2008), and *Zoe Leonard: You see I am here after all* (2010).
Her essay *James Castle: Inside Out* was published in *James Castle: Show
and Store* (2011). She has an upcoming solo show at the Camden Arts Centre,
London (2012). Zoe
Leonard<http://www.galerie-capitain.com/artists/zoe-leonard/works.html>is
represented by Galerie Gisela Capitain, Cologne.

Initiated and organized by Arezoo Moseni in 2004, *Artist Dialogues
Series*provide an open forum for understanding and appreciation of
contemporary
art. Artists are paired with critics, curators, gallerists, writers or
other artists to converse about art and the potential of exploring new
ideas.


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