EventsThe New Social Environment#265

Super Dutchess with Jason Rosenfeld

Featuring Reilly Davidson, Lauren Fejarang, and Andrew Woolbright

Tuesday, March 30, 2021 1 p.m. Eastern / 10 a.m. Pacific

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Artists and members of the collective Super Dutchess Reilly Davidson, Lauren Fejarang, and Andrew Woolbright join Rail Editor-at-Large Jason Rosenfeld. We conclude with a poetry reading from Aris White.

In this Talk

Reilly Davidson

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A writer, curator, and interdisciplinary artist based in Brooklyn, New York. Her practice is largely research-based, working in both video and tactile poetry, with a distinct focus on capturing an “instant-now.”

    Lauren Fejarang

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    Lauren Fejarang, Photo by Yael Nov
    A Los Angeles-born Pacific Islander, sculptor, and interdisciplinary artist based in Los Angeles. Fejarang received her MFA from Art Center College of Design, Pasadena, CA in 2013. Her practice utilizes materials such as concrete and paper, to address questions around contradicting sensations that impinge the body. She has shown her work at MiM Gallery in Los Angeles, Launch F18 in New York, and Coherent in Brussels among others. Along with her art practice, she is also a curator of the artist-run gallery Super Dutchess in New York.

      Andrew Woolbright

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      Artist, curator, and critic Andrew Woolbright is based in Brooklyn, New York, and is an MFA graduate from RISD in painting. Woolbright is the founder and director of the gallery Below Grand located on the Lower East Side in New York. In addition to curating, he is an Editor-at-Large at the Brooklyn Rail. In 2021, Woolbright curated the show Density Betrays Us with Angela Dufresne and Cash Ragona at the Hole; and curated shows at Provincetown Fine Arts Work Center and Hesse Flatow in the summer of 2022. He currently teaches at School of Visual Arts and Pratt Institute and is a 2021–2022 resident at the Sharpe-Walentas Studio Program in Dumbo.

      Jason Rosenfeld

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      Distinguished Chair and Professor of Art History at Marymount Manhattan College Jason Rosenfeld, Ph.D., has curated the exhibitions John Everett Millais (Tate Britain, Van Gogh Museum), Pre-Raphaelites: Victorian Avant-Garde (Tate Britain and the National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC), and River Crossings (Olana and Cedar Grove, Hudson and Catskill, New York). He is a co-author of the monograph Cecily Brown (Phaidon, 2020), and a Senior Writer and Editor-at-Large for the Brooklyn Rail.

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

      Dao Strom

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      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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