EventsThe New Social Environment#555

The Awakening: Tavares Strachan

Featuring Strachan and Amanda Gluibizzi

Monday, May 9, 2022 1 p.m. Eastern / 10 a.m. Pacific

These free events are produced by The Brooklyn Rail.

Artist Tavares Strachan joins Rail Artseen Editor Amanda Gluibizzi for a conversation. We conclude with a poetry reading by Funto Omojola.

In this Talk

Visit The Awakening: Tavares Strachan, on view at Marian Goodman Gallery Through June 11, 2022 →

Tavares Strachan

Born in Nassau, Bahamas, Tavares Strachan lives and works between New York City and Nassau. His artistic practice activates the intersections of art, science, and politics, offering uniquely synthesized points of view on the cultural dynamics of scientific knowledge. His text-based neon sculptures are an anthem for our political and cultural moment. Strachan’s ambitious, open-ended practice has included collaborations with numerous organizations and institutions across the disciplines. His work has been featured in numerous solo exhibitions, including You Belong Here, Prospect 3. Biennial, New Orleans and The Immeasurable Daydream, Biennale de Lyon. He has been the recipient of numerous awards, most recently, Artist in Residence at the Getty Research Institute (2019-2020).

Amanda Gluibizzi

Amanda Gluibizzi is the founding Co-Director of the New Foundation for Art History (NFAH) and Artseen Editor for the Brooklyn Rail. She specializes in mid- and late-20th century art, design, and urbanism in the United States, Europe, and Latin America. Amanda is the author of Art and Design in 1960s New York (Anthem Press, 2021).

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 🌈✨