Through the Lens of Rauschenberg: Zoe Leonard

Discover a brand new perspective on Robert Rauschenberg on this participating speak and tour led by modern photographer Zoe Leonard. Best identified for his mixed-media works, Rauschenberg additionally had a deep relationship with pictures. Through the Lens of Rauschenberg invitations visiting photographers to guide considerate conversations that discover their views on his work. Light bites will likely be offered, and drinks will likely be obtainable on the MCNY Bar. 

About the Speaker: 

New York-based artist Zoe Leonard balances rigorous conceptualism with a distinctly private imaginative and prescient in her work, which merges pictures, sculpture, and set up. By using methods of repetition, shifting views, and a large number of printing processes, Leonard’s follow probes the politics of illustration and show. Leonard explores themes corresponding to gender and sexuality, loss and mourning, migration, displacement, and the city panorama. Her pictures particularly invitations us to ponder the position that the medium performs in establishing historical past, and to contemplate the roots of latest photographic tradition. More than its deal with any explicit topic, nevertheless, Leonard’s work encourages the viewer to rethink the act of wanting itself, drawing consideration to remark as a posh, ongoing course of. 

This program is supported, partially, by public funds from the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs in partnership with the City Council.