EventsThe New Social Environment#409
The Antepenultimate End: Kon Trubkovich
Featuring Trubkovich and Jason Rosenfeld
Monday, October 18, 2021 2 p.m. Eastern / 11 a.m. Pacific
These free events are produced by The Brooklyn Rail.
Artist Kon Trubkovich joins Rail Editor-at-Large Jason Rosenfeld for a conversation. We conclude with a poetry reading by imogen xtian smith.
Kon Trubkovich
Artist Kon Trubkovich uses recollection as the primary source material for his works on paper, paintings, and videos. Drawing from subconscious references, deteriorated home footage, and recorded history, his work reflects moments warped by both time and antiquated technology. He has exhibited nationally at P.S.1 Contemporary Art Center, New York, NY; Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago, IL; and United Artists, Ltd., Marfa, TX; among others; and internationally at Kunstmuseum Bern, Bern, Switzerland; the Athens Biennial of Contemporary Art, Athens, Greece; and The Garage Center for Contemporary Sculpture, Moscow, Russia, to name a few. His work is in numerous permanent collections. Born in Moscow, Russia, Trubkovich lives and works in Brooklyn, NY.
Jason Rosenfeld
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
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 🌈✨