EventsThe New Social Environment#681
Liz Collins: Mischief
Featuring Collins, Julia Bryan-Wilson, and Ksenia M. Soboleva, with Rebecca Teich
Tuesday, November 1, 2022 1 p.m. Eastern / 10 a.m. Pacific
These free events are produced by The Brooklyn Rail.
Artist Liz Collins and curator Julia Bryan-Wilson join Rail contributor Ksenia M. Soboleva for a conversation. We conclude with a poetry reading by Rebecca Teich.
Liz Collins
Multimedia artist Liz Collins works fluidly between art and design, with emphasis and expertise in textiles. Liz’s solo exhibitions and installations have been presented at Museum of Arts and Design, the Tang Museum, Luis de Jesus Los Angeles, among others. Collins’ honors include a USA Fellowship, a MacColl Johnson Fellowship, Foundation for/ Contemporary Arts & ArtistRelief grants, Drawing Center Open Sessions. In 2020, the Tang Museum released Liz Collins Energy Field, Collins’ first major publication. Next year several of her works will be included in Lynne Cooke’s upcoming survey show about textiles and abstract art, and an expanded version of Mischief, Collins’ mid-career retrospective at Touchstones Rochdale will open at the RISD Museum in 2025 with a major publication.
Julia Bryan-Wilson
Julia Bryan-Wilson is the author of Louise Nevelson’s Sculpture: Drag, Color, Join, Face. Her previous books include Art Workers: Radical Practice in the Vietnam War Era and Fray: Art and Textile Politics, which won the ASAP Book Prize, the Frank Jewett Mather Award from CAA, and the Robert Motherwell Book Award. She teaches at Columbia University and is Curator-at-Large at the Museu de Arte de São Paulo.
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.
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 🌈✨