EventsThe New Social Environment#115

Gina Beavers with EJ Hauser

Tuesday, August 25, 2020 1 p.m. Eastern / 10 a.m. Pacific

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Artists Gina Beavers and EJ Hauser join us in conversation. We’ll conclude with a poetry reading from Laura Jaramillo.

In this Talk

Gina Beavers

A photo of Gina Beavers on The Brooklyn Rail's New Social Environment
Gina Beavers creates paintings and installations from photos culled from the Internet and social media and rendered in high Acrylic relief. Series include paintings based on the creative realms of body painting, social media user’s photos of their meals, make-up tutorials, memes, and body builder selfies. Her work is in the collections of the Whitney Museum, the Tel Aviv Museum of Art and the ICA Miami. Her work has been reviewed in the New York Times, Artforum, Art in America, Frieze, Modern Painters, and the New Yorker, among others. Her first Institutional show, ‘The Life I Deserve’ opened at MoMA PS1 in 2019. Her first show with Marianne Boesky gallery will open in September 2020 and her first show in Asia will open at Various Small Fires Seoul in December 2021.

    EJ Hauser

    A photo of EJ Hauser on The Brooklyn Rail's New Social Environment
    Painter EJ Hauser lives and works in Brooklyn and is represented by Derek Eller Gallery and Philipp Haverkampf Gallery. Her paintings are graphic yet open to interpretation, teetering between iconography and something familiar but abstract. This imagery shifts between omnivorous references both ancient and current, her paintings are mysterious talisman, employing buzzing pallets and marks that dance. Stuttering lines form a visual code like musical notes, which coalesce with atmospheric layers to create ineffable messages. Her work has been shown in numerous group exhibitions in New York and in The New Yorker, The New York Times, Frieze, and The Brooklyn Rail, among others. EJ is an Adjunct Assistant Professor of Visual Arts at Columbia University in the Graduate Department.

    The Rail has a tradition of ending our conversations with a poetry reading, and we're fortunate to have Dao Strom reading.

    Dao Strom

    A photo of Dao Strom on The Brooklyn Rail's New Social Environment
    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 🌈✨

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