531 West 24th Street, NY 10011, New York, United States
Open: Tue-Sat 10am-6pm
Sat 7 Sep 2024 to Sat 19 Oct 2024
531 West 24th Street, NY 10011 Joanne Leonard and Brittany Nelson
Tue-Sat 10am-6pm
Artists: Joanne Leonard - Brittany Nelson
Luhring Augustine presents a two-person exhibition of photographers Joanne Leonard and Brittany Nelson. This presentation marks Leonard’s first exhibition with Luhring Augustine and Nelson’s second show with the gallery, her work previously featured in Tiptoeing Through the Kitchen, Recent Photography (Spring 2024).
Ann Arbor, MI, 1976-85
Gelatin silver print
17.1 × 17.1 cm
© Joanne Leonard. Courtesy of the artist and Luhring Augustine, New York
Ann Arbor, MI, 1976-85
Gelatin silver print
17.1 × 17.1 cm
© Joanne Leonard. Courtesy of the artist and Luhring Augustine, New York
Ann Arbor, MI, 1976-85
Gelatin silver print
17.1 × 17.1 cm
© Joanne Leonard. Courtesy of the artist and Luhring Augustine, New York
Ann Arbor, MI, 1976-85
Gelatin silver print
18.7 × 18.7 cm
© Joanne Leonard. Courtesy of the artist and Luhring Augustine, New York
Berkeley, CA, 1976-85
Gelatin silver print
17.1 × 17.1 cm
© Joanne Leonard. Courtesy of the artist and Luhring Augustine, New York
Gelatin silver print
17.1 × 17.1 cm
© Joanne Leonard. Courtesy of the artist and Luhring Augustine, New York
Countertop Sue's Kitchen, 1976-85
Gelatin silver print
35.6 × 34.3 cm
© Joanne Leonard. Courtesy of the artist and Luhring Augustine, New York
East Bay, CA, 1976-85
Gelatin silver print
50.8 × 49.5 cm
© Joanne Leonard. Courtesy of the artist and Luhring Augustine, New York
Field 1, 2024
Handmade gelatin silver print
81.3 × 58.4 cm
© Brittany Nelson. Courtesy of the artist, PATRON, Chicago, and Luhring Augustine, New York
Field 2, 2024
Handmade gelatin silver print
81.3 × 58.4 cm
© Brittany Nelson. Courtesy of the artist, PATRON, Chicago, and Luhring Augustine, New York
Field Ripple, 2024
Handmade gelatin silver print
30.5 × 25.4 cm
© Brittany Nelson. Courtesy of the artist, PATRON, Chicago, and Luhring Augustine, New York
Handmade gelatin silver print
30.5 × 25.4 cm
© Brittany Nelson. Courtesy of the artist, PATRON, Chicago, and Luhring Augustine, New York
Glowing Dish, 2024
Handmade gelatin silver print
30.5 × 27.9 cm
© Brittany Nelson. Courtesy of the artist, PATRON, Chicago, and Luhring Augustine, New York
Gelatin silver print
17.1 × 17.1 cm
© Joanne Leonard. Courtesy of the artist and Luhring Augustine, New York
Kitchen, Pound Ridge, NY, 1976-85
Gelatin silver print
17.1 × 17.1 cm
© Joanne Leonard. Courtesy of the artist and Luhring Augustine, New York
Motel, Santa Cruz, CA, 1976-85
Gelatin silver print
17.1 × 17.1 cm
© Joanne Leonard. Courtesy of the artist and Luhring Augustine, New York
Handmade gelatin silver print
30.5 × 25.4 cm
© Brittany Nelson. Courtesy of the artist, PATRON, Chicago, and Luhring Augustine, New York
Handmade gelatin silver print
81.3 × 106.7 cm
© Brittany Nelson. Courtesy of the artist, PATRON, Chicago, and Luhring Augustine, New York
Pound Ridge, NY, 1976-85
Gelatin silver print
17.1 × 17.1 cm
© Joanne Leonard. Courtesy of the artist and Luhring Augustine, New York
Pound Ridge, NY, 1976-85
Gelatin silver print
17.1 × 17.1 cm
© Joanne Leonard. Courtesy of the artist and Luhring Augustine, New York
Gelatin silver print
17.1 × 17.1 cm
© Joanne Leonard. Courtesy of the artist and Luhring Augustine, New York
Handmade gelatin silver print
35 × 42 cm
© Brittany Nelson. Courtesy of the artist, PATRON, Chicago, and Luhring Augustine, New York
Handmade gelatin silver print
35 × 42 cm
© Brittany Nelson. Courtesy of the artist, PATRON, Chicago, and Luhring Augustine, New York
Handmade gelatin silver print
35 × 42 cm
© Brittany Nelson. Courtesy of the artist, PATRON, Chicago, and Luhring Augustine, New York
Handmade gelatin silver print
35 × 42 cm
© Brittany Nelson. Courtesy of the artist, PATRON, Chicago, and Luhring Augustine, New York
Handmade gelatin silver print
35 × 42 cm
© Brittany Nelson. Courtesy of the artist, PATRON, Chicago, and Luhring Augustine, New York
Gelatin silver print
17.1 × 17.1 cm
© Joanne Leonard. Courtesy of the artist and Luhring Augustine, New York
The Array, 2024
Handmade gelatin silver print
30.5 × 25.4 cm
© Brittany Nelson. Courtesy of the artist, PATRON, Chicago, and Luhring Augustine, New York
Turned Away, 2024
Handmade gelatin silver print
30.5 × 25.4 cm
© Brittany Nelson. Courtesy of the artist, PATRON, Chicago, and Luhring Augustine, New York
Handmade gelatin silver print
81.3 × 106.7 cm
© Brittany Nelson. Courtesy of the artist, PATRON, Chicago, and Luhring Augustine, New York
Untitled, 1976-85
Gelatin silver print
17.8 × 17.8 cm
© Joanne Leonard. Courtesy of the artist and Luhring Augustine, New York
Joanne Leonard's photographs of interiors are celebrations and examinations of the cacophony of domestic settings and many of the now-obsolete technologies of the mid-twentieth century. Shot in the late 1970s and early 1980s, these kitchens, laundry rooms, and bedrooms are filled with the entanglements and jumbled ephemera of lived-in spaces – a sphere that is historically associated with the feminine domain. The images are subtly threaded with the hectic happiness of life and family, and yet they read as crowded, confining, and overwhelming. Leonard’s use of light, and her balance of rich blacks and greys, bring a softness to these images and add a loving caress of appreciation to the overlooked appliances and products of the quotidian.
In contrast to these familiar and object-saturated interiors, Brittany Nelson’s photographs are otherworldly, with horizons expanding beyond our planetary borders. Nelson often turns to outer space in her work, employing it as a metaphor for queerness – exploring ideas of isolation and the need for human connection. The works on display in this presentation are from the Allen Telescope Array series, made while Nelson was in residency at the SETI Institute, an organization that is dedicated to searching for life in the universe. While there, she photographed the 42 antennas that compose SETI’s enormous telescope array, roaming the grounds alone at night with a medium-format camera and reversing the telescopes’ outward gaze by searching for them with a hand-held light source. The resulting photographs are at once shocking and soothing; while the enormous scale of the dishes is intimidating, their frontality and open presence imbue them with a sense of acceptance and even trust in the viewer, almost as if they were beings themselves.
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