EventsThe New Social Environment#84
Arlene Shechet with Raymond Foye
Monday, July 13, 2020 1 p.m. Eastern / 10 a.m. Pacific
These free events are produced by The Brooklyn Rail.
Sculptor and ceramic artist, Arlene Shechet will discuss their work with writer, editor, curator, and publisher, Raymond Foye. We’ll close with a poetry reading from David Mills.
In this Talk
Arlene Shechet

Artist Arlene Shechet lives and works in New York. A critically-acclaimed twenty-year survey of the artist’s work, All At Once, was on view at the Institute of Contemporary Art/Boston in 2015. Shechet has designed and curated exhibitions including Porcelain, No Simple Matter: Arlene Shechet and the Arnhold Collection at The Frick Collection, and From Here on Now at The Phillips Collection. Her large-scale public project Full Steam Ahead featured monumental porcelain and mixed media sculptures installed in Madison Square Park. Shechet’s first solo show at Pace Gallery, Skirts, opened in New York in February 2020. Shechet currently has work on view at The Metropolitan Museum of Art, the Whitney Museum of American Art, The Jewish Museum, and the Museum of Arts and Design.
Raymond Foye

Writer, curator, editor, and publisher Raymond Foye is based in New York City. He is a Consulting Editor of the Brooklyn Rail, and a regular contributor to the Gagosian Quarterly. From 1986-96 he was the editor and publisher (with Francesco Clemente) of Hanuman Books. From 1990-95 he worked as director of exhibitions and publications at Gagosian Gallery in New York. He received the American Book Award for The Collected Poems of Bob Kaufman (co-edited with Tate Swindell), and he recently co-edited (with George Scrivani) The Golden Dot: Last Poems 1997-2000 by Gregory Corso (Lithic Press, 2022). He represents the Estate of Jordan Belson.
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 🌈✨