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The New York Public Library
presents
An Artist Dialogue Series Event
Tony Feher
in conversation with
Zoe Leonard
Wednesday May 30, 2012
6:00 P.m.
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
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, 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 and curator and writer Russell Ferguson. Superbly realized by renowned New York design studio Matsumoto Incorporated 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 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 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 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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