Following Your Own Sense of Justice Leonard Turkel: Pioneer & Activist

February 7, 2014- March 29, 2014

Leonard Turkel was coined the “Father of Florida Condominiums” by The Miami Herald and is noted as the pioneer of the Florida condominium development boom. But behind the exterior of the successful entrepreneur, Leonard Turkel had a social conscience that proved much greater than that of the typical businessman. In addition to leaving behind a legacy for equal rights, proper inner-city housing, mobile health clinics and midnight basketball for at-risk teenagers, Leonard Turkel was an artist who created hundreds of collages and assemblages that mirror his morals of social justice.

Following Your Own Sense of Justice is a retrospective of Leonard Turkel’s rarely seen artwork and is a true testament to the legacy of a man that proved to be one of Miami’s greatest mavericks of civic equality and community building.

MDC Museum of Art + Design
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Miami, Florida 33132
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