EventsThe New Social Environment#691

Jessi Reaves: At the well

Featuring Reaves and Julia Trotta, with Anneysa Gaille

Tuesday, November 15, 2022 1 p.m. Eastern / 10 a.m. Pacific

These free events are produced by The Brooklyn Rail.

Artist Jessi Reaves joins filmmaker Julia Trotta for a conversation. We conclude with a poetry reading by Anneysa Gaille.

In this Talk

Visit Jessi Reaves: At the well, on view at Bridget Donahue through November 19, 2022 →

Jessi Reaves

Born and raised in Portland, Oregon, Jessi Reavesholds a BFA from Rhode Island School of Design. Reaves combines iconic modernist design with an irreverent aesthetic in sculpture that toys with functionality. Often beginning with found furniture, which she dismantles, converts, remakes, enhances, pads, and embellishes in ways that still allow the suggestion of physical contact or use, she proposes that objects be examined visually and in terms of their purpose in life. She has been a part of many solo and two-person exhibitions, including Going Out in Style, Herald St, London (2019), among others. She was awarded the Fall 2020 Teiger Mentor in the Arts from Cornell University.

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Julia Trotta

Julia Trotta is an art consultant based in New York who has worked closely with artists, galleries, non-profits and collectors for over 15 years. She has curated a number of exhibitions, both in the United States and abroad, and in 2024 co-founded Artists & Mothers, a non-profit providing childcare grants to artists.

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 🌈✨