EventsThe New Social Environment#554

Dark Reflections: Russell Craig

Featuring Craig and Jessica Holmes

Friday, May 6, 2022 1 p.m. Eastern / 10 a.m. Pacific

These free events are produced by The Brooklyn Rail.

Artist Russell Craig joins Rail ArTonic Editor Jessica Holmes for a conversation. We conclude with a poetry reading by Dante Clark.

In this Talk

Visit Dark Reflections: Russell Craig, on view at Malin Gallery through May 22, 2022 →

Russell Craig

Philadelphia-based artist Russell Craig is co-founder of Right of Return, USA, the first national fellowship dedicated to supporting formerly incarcerated artists. Craig’s artwork was prominently featured in the critically-acclaimed Marking Time: Art in the Age of Mass Incarceration at MoMA PS1. His first solo exhibition, Blood, Sweat, and Tears, was featured at Magic Gardens (Philadelphia). Craig has been a featured speaker on multiple panels about criminal justice reform, and he recently served as keynote speaker at the 10th Annual Student Engagement Lecture Series at Manhattan College. Dark Reflections at Malin Gallery is the artist’s first solo exhibition in New York City. Craig’s work is in several prominent private collections and in the permanent collection of the Brooklyn Museum.

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Jessica Holmes

Jessica Holmes, a co-editor of the Artseen section for the Brooklyn Rail, has also contributed to its pages for over a decade. Her writing has also featured in BOMB, Hyperallergic, The New York Observer, Vanity Fair Spain, among many others, and has been included in over two dozen exhibition catalogues and monographs. Previously, Jessica worked for the Calder Foundation for nearly two decades, including six years as its Deputy Director.

https://www.jessicaholmeswriter.com

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 🌈✨