EventsThe New Social Environment#208

Sarah Crowner with Tom McGlynn

Friday, January 8, 2021 1 p.m. Eastern / 10 a.m. Pacific

These free events are produced by The Brooklyn Rail.

Artist Sarah Crowner will join artist and Rail Editor-at-Large Tom McGlynn for a conversation. We’ll conclude with a poetry reading from Aristilde Kirby.

In this Talk

Sarah Crowner

Sarah Crowner was born in Philadelphia in 1974. She earned a BA from the University of California, Santa Cruz, and an MFA from Hunter College, City University of New York. In her search for a mode of image making that accommodates immediacy and spontaneity, Crowner creates graphic compositions that discretely test the boundaries of abstract painting while also engaging and reshaping its art historical legacy. From afar, the bold geometric forms, clean lines, and elegant arabesques inhabiting her canvases conjure the pristine visual fields of geometric abstraction. On closer viewing, the presence of stitches and seams reveals a craft-oriented methodology in which raw and painted segments of canvas are cut, rearranged, and sewn together using the process-based logic of collage.

Tom McGlynn

Tom McGlynn is an artist and writer based in the NYC area. His work is represented in the permanent collections of the Whitney Museum, The Museum of Modern Art, and The Cooper- Hewitt National Design Museum of the Smithsonian among other national and international collections. He is currently an Editor at Large at The Brooklyn Rail, contributing articles and criticism since 2012. He also currently teaches at Parsons/The New School, NYC. In June 2024, he had his first one-person exhibition in Europe, at Settantotto Gallery in Gent, Belgium. He opened his fourth solo exhibition at Rick Wester Fine Art, NYC, in October 2025.

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.

https://www.daostrom.com/

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 🌈✨