EventsThe New Social Environment#81
Carrie Moyer and Sheila Pepe with Yasi Alipour
Wednesday, July 8, 2020 1 p.m. Eastern / 10 a.m. Pacific
These free events are produced by The Brooklyn Rail.
Artists Carrie Moyer and Sheila Pepe will discuss their work and process with artist and Rail contributor, Yasi Alipour. We’ll conclude with a poetry reading from Biswamit Dwibedy.
In this Talk
Carrie Moyer
Artist and writer Carrie Moyer is known for her sumptuous paintings which explore and extend the legacy of American Abstraction. Moyer’s work has been exhibited throughout the US and Europe, including the 2017 Whitney Biennial and several solo museum presentations. Between 1991-2008, Moyer and photographer Sue Schaffner collaborated as Dyke Action Machine! She has received awards from the Guggenheim and Joan Mitchell Foundations, Anonymous Was a Woman, and Creative Capital, among others. Moyer’s first monograph, released this past fall by Rizzoli Books, includes writing by Johanna Fateman, Lauren O’Neill-Butler, and Katy Seigel. Along with Lisa Corinne Davis, she co-directs the MFA Program in Studio Art at Hunter College. Moyer is represented by DC Moore Gallery in New York City.
Sheila Pepe
An artist and educator based in Brooklyn who has exhibited internationally for over 25 years. Her museum exhibitions include Greater New York, P.S.1 /MoMA, Artisterium, Republic of Georgia, ARTInRETI–Fondazione Pistoletto, Italy; Fiber: Sculpture 1960– Present, ICA/Boston, and We Have Never Participated: The 8th Shenzhen Sculpture Biennale, OCAT, China. Her mid-career survey, Sheila Pepe: Hot Mess Formalism traveled to the DeCordova Sculpture Park & Museum, Everson Museum of Art, and the Bemis Center for the Arts. Her work has been widely anthologized in books and scholarly volumes.
Yasi Alipour
Iranian artist, writer, and folder Yasi Alipour currently lives in Brooklyn and wonders about paper, counting, and silence. She received her MFA from Columbia University and is a faculty member at Columbia, Parsons and SVA, New York.
The Rail has a tradition of ending our conversations with a poetry reading, and we're fortunate to have Dao Strom reading.
Dao Strom
Artist Dao Strom works with three “voices”—written, sung, visual—to explore hybridity and the intersection of personal and collective histories. She is the author of Instrument (Fonograf Editions, 2020) and its musical companion Traveler’s Ode (Antiquated Future Records, 2020); a bilingual poetry-art book, You Will Always Be Someone From Somewhere Else (AJAR Press); a memoir, We Were Meant To Be a Gentle People, and song cycle, East/West; and two books of fiction, The Gentle Order of Girls and Boys and Grass Roof, Tin Roof. Born in Vietnam, Strom grew up in the Sierra Nevada foothills of California and lives in Portland, Oregon. She is co-founder of two collective art projects, She Who Has No Master(s), and De-Canon.
We’d like to thank The Marion Boulton Kippy Stroud Foundation and Teiger Foundation for making these conversations possible, and for their support of our growing archive 🌈✨