Joanne Leonard is currently one of the many artists to be featured at the International Center of Photography (ICP) under their ongoing exhibition 'American Job - 1940-2011' and at the National Gallery in their ongoing exhibiton 'The 70's Lens: Remaining Documentary Photography'.
The exhibition at the ICP, curated by Makeda Best, photography historian and Deputy Director of Curatorial Affairs at the Oakland Museum of California, 'highlights the collection’s breadth and contemporary relevance by surveying the photographic response to labor organizing and strike activity, race and gender discrimination in labor, organized labor’s role in politics, labor and activism, and the intersection of labor and the social changes wrought by the economic restructurings of the twentieth century.'
At the National Gallery of Art, a feature of over 100 works by 80 artists copture how photographers reinvented documentary pratcie in the 70's during the radical shift in American life, 'with pictures of suburban sprawl, artists like Lewis Baltz and Joe Deal challenged popular ideas of nature as pristine. And Micheal Jang and Joanne Leonard made interior views that examine the social landscape of domestic spaces.'
'American Job 1940-2011'
Where: 84 Ludlow Street, New York, NY 10002
