EventsThe New Social Environment#530
Fragments: Siobhan Liddell and Linda Matalon
Featuring Siobhan Liddell, Linda Matalon, Ksenia M. Soboleva, and William Corwin
Monday, April 4, 2022 1 p.m. Eastern / 10 a.m. Pacific
These free events are produced by The Brooklyn Rail.
Artists Siobhan Liddell, Linda Matalon, and art critic Ksenia M. Soboleva join Rail contributor William Corwin for a conversation. We conclude with a poetry reading.
In this Talk
Siobhan Liddell

The work of painter and sculptor Siobhan Liddell deals with the space between knowing and unknowing, the mystery in the everyday, history, and the continuum of desire to record and create our unique worlds. Siobhan’s work has always found a means through subtlety, engaging spaces with a delicate awareness, using ambient light and the reflective color of materials that, in their faintly glowing hues, hold a quiet power beside her intermittent and poetic use of text. Liddell’s work has been shown in renowned institutions around the world, including the 1995 Whitney Biennial. She is the recipient of the Joan Mitchell Foundation Award and the recipient of the Rome Prize: Vera List Fellowship 2011-12. She is represented by Gordon Robichaux.
Linda Matalon

Artist Linda Matalon’s drawings and sculpture have been featured in exhibitions including The Drawing Center, The New Museum in New York and Centre Pompidou. Art in America described Matalon’s post-minimalist work as an “unflagging effort, by turns dogged, tender, angry and amused, to wrestle pure vision into tangible form.” Her art has been in international shows including “Risk” at Turner Contemporary, UK “The Circle Walked Casually” at Museo de Arte Moderno de Buenos Aires, Deutsche Kunsthalle Berlin, “Linda Matalon, Agnes Martin, Joyce Hinterding” at National Art School, Australia, the 11th Biennale de Lyon, and the 7th Mercosul Biennial, Brazil. Matalon has received grants from the New York Foundation for the Arts and Art Matters. She is represented by Kadel Willborn, Düsseldorf.
Ksenia M. Soboleva

Dr. Ksenia M. Soboleva is a New York based writer and art historian specializing in queer art and culture. She holds a PhD from the Institute of Fine Arts, NYU. Her writings have appeared in The Brooklyn Rail, BOMB, Ursula Magazine, Cultured, Artforum, frieze, Hyperallergic, as well as numerous exhibition catalogues and artist monographs. Soboleva practices an autobiographical approach to art history, and an art historical approach to autobiography. She is currently completing her book manuscript What Happens After: Art, AIDS, and Lesbian Histories. Soboleva teaches at NYU.
William Corwin

Sculptor and journalist William Corwin is from New York. He has exhibited at galleries in New York, London, Hamburg, Beijing and Taipei. He has written regularly for The Brooklyn Rail, Artpapers, Bomb, Artcritical, Raintaxi and Canvas. Most recently he curated and wrote the catalog for Postwar Women at The Art Students League in New York, an exhibition of the school’s alumnae active between 1945-65, and 9th Street Club, and exhibitions of Perle Fine, Helen Frankenthaler, Mercedes Matter, Grace Hartigan, Lee Krasner and Elaine Dekooning at Gazelli Art House in Mayfair. He is the editor of Formalism; Collected Essays of Saul Ostrow, (2020).
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 🌈✨