EventsThe New Social Environment#589

Writing By Artist: William Wegman

Featuring Wegman, Andrew Lampert, and Charlotte Kent

Friday, June 24, 2022 1 p.m. Eastern / 10 a.m. Pacific

These free events are produced by The Brooklyn Rail.

Artist William Wegman and curator Andrew Lampert join Rail Editor-at-Large Charlotte Kent for a conversation. We conclude with a poetry reading.

In this Talk

Visit William Wegman: Writing By Artist, on view at Sperone Westwater through July 29, 2022 →

William Wegman

Born in Holyoke, Massachusetts, in 1943, William Wegman is an artist best known for his portraits of his Weimaraner dogs. His work has been exhibited extensively in both the United States and abroad. The retrospective William Wegman: Funney/Strange, was held at the Brooklyn Museum, and traveled throughout the U.S. to museums including the Smithsonian American Art Museum, Washington, D.C. William Wegman: Being Human, an international touring exhibition of his large-format Polaroids, traveled to venues including Palais de L’Archevêché, Arles and National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne. His videos and photos have appeared in a variety of films, advertisements, books, and television programs such as Sesame Street and Saturday Night Live.

Andrew Lampert

Working primarily in film, video, and performance, Andrew Lampert pursues the alchemy between artist, art, and audience in a public space, especially that of cinema. A trained film archivist, Lampert revels in cinema as a performative environment, and reclaims this space from a mass media culture to emphasize its potential for immediacy and accident. He regularly exhibits in national and international contexts, and has taught at CUNY City College, Purchase College, The New School, and Cooper Union. He frequently writes on art and cinema, is the coauthor of Art in America’s “Hard Truths” Column, and has edited multiple catalogues and volumes, most recently Tony Conrad: Writings (Primary Information, 2019).

Charlotte Kent

Associate professor of visual culture at Montclair State University Charlotte Kent, PhD, is an Editor-at-Large for the Brooklyn Rail, and a contributor to assorted books on art and technology, including as co-editor of Contemporary Absurdities, Existential Crises, and Visual Art (Intellect Books, 2024), co-author of Midnight Moment: A Decade of Artists in Times Square (Monacelli Press, 2024), and editor of Generation to Generation (Vetro, 2026). She is the recipient of grants from NEH and Google Art + Machine Intelligence, with a forthcoming book on contemporary art and technoabsurdity. She is a member of the College Art Association’s Committee on Intellectual Property.

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 🌈✨