EventsThe New Social Environment#785

LaToya Ruby Frazier: More Than Conquerors

Featuring Ruby Frazier and Jessica Holmes, with Madison McCartha

Monday, April 10, 2023 1 p.m. Eastern / 10 a.m. Pacific

These free events are produced by The Brooklyn Rail.

Visual artist, photographer, and advocate LaToya Ruby Frazier joins Rail Art Editor Jessica Holmes for a conversation. We conclude with a poetry reading by Madison McCartha.

In this Talk

Visit More Than Conquerors: A Monument for Community Health Workers of Baltimore, Maryland 2021-2022, on view at Gladstone Gallery, New York through April 15, 2023 →

LaToya Ruby Frazier

Courtesy of Carnegie Museum of Art. Photography by Sean Eaton

LaToya Ruby Frazier was born in 1982 in Braddock, Pennsylvania. Her practice spans a range of media including photography, video, performance, installation art and books, and centers on the nexus of social justice, cultural change, and commentary on the American experience. Frazier uses collaborative storytelling with the people who appear in her artwork to address topics of industrialism, rust belt revitalization, environmental justice, access to healthcare, access to clean water, workers’ rights, human rights, family, and communal history. This builds on her commitment to the legacy of 1930s social documentary work and 1960s and ’70s conceptual photography that address urgent social and political issues of everyday life. Frazier’s work has been featured in solo exhibitions worldwide.

https://latoyarubyfrazier.com/

Jessica Holmes

Jessica Holmes, a co-editor of the Artseen section for the Brooklyn Rail, has also contributed to its pages for over a decade. Her writing has also featured in BOMB, Hyperallergic, The New York Observer, Vanity Fair Spain, among many others, and has been included in over two dozen exhibition catalogues and monographs. Previously, Jessica worked for the Calder Foundation for nearly two decades, including six years as its Deputy Director.

https://www.jessicaholmeswriter.com

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 🌈✨