EventsThe New Social Environment#565
Carnage Composition: Raúl de Nieves
Featuring de Nieves and William Corwin
Monday, May 23, 2022 1 p.m. Eastern / 10 a.m. Pacific
These free events are produced by The Brooklyn Rail.
Artist Raúl de Nieves joins Rail contributor William Corwin for a conversation. We conclude with a poetry reading by Kaur Alia Ahmed.
In this Talk
Raúl de Nieves

Multimedia artist, performer, and musician Raúl de Nieves has a wide-ranging practice, investigating notions of beauty and transformation. De Nieves’s visual symbolism draws on classical Catholic and Mexican vernacular motifs to create his own unique mythology that challenges and explores themes of sexuality, the human body, and individual and public histories. Having learned traditional Latin American sewing and beadwork at school and alongside family, his work pays tribute to and invents upon traditional forms. De Nieves has had solo exhibitions at ICA, Boston, MOCA, Miami, and numerous other institutions. He has performed at Documenta 14 and MoMA PS1, among many other venues. De Nieves was born in Michoacan, Mexico, and currently lives and works in Brooklyn, NY.
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 🌈✨