EventsThe New Social Environment#875
Edvard Munch: Trembling Earth
Featuring Peter Acheson, Jay Clarke, David Carrier, and Sarah Jackson, with Allen Fisher
Monday, August 14, 2023 1 p.m. Eastern / 10 a.m. Pacific
These free events are produced by The Brooklyn Rail.
Artist Peter Acheson, curator Jay Clarke, and author David Carrier join visual artist and writer Sarah Jackson for a conversation. We conclude with a poetry reading by Allen Fisher.
Peter Acheson

Peter Acheson lives and works in the Hudson Valley in Ghent, NY. His interest is in graphing the overlaps of image, language, and nature, mindful of how they roll into each other. A refugee from the ’80s Williamsburg scene, he inhabits a landscape of orchards and farm fields giving way to second homes, populated by maple trees, red-tailed hawks, deer, and the occasional black bear. He has been an avid reader of archetypal psychology, artists’ biographies, and poetry for 40 years. He has written, “the key concern of the painter and poet is the Wild- wild nature from the macro to the microscopic. The mind is wild, imagination is wild, and artists should free themselves from categorical thinking and the dominating concept of Self…"
Jay A. Clarke

Jay A. Clarke is the Rothman Family Curator of Prints and Drawings at the Art Institute of Chicago. From 2009 to 2018 she was the Manton Curator of Prints, Drawings, and Photographs at the Clark Art Institute and a lecturer in the graduate program in the history of art at Williams College. Most recent exhibitions she has curated or co-curated with books she has edited or co-edited include, Bridget Riley Drawings from the Artist’s Studio (2022), and Edvard Munch: Trembling Earth (2023). Jay has written several articles on Käthe Kollwitz, Edvard Munch, and the materials, processes, and markets of prints and drawings circa 1900. She received her master’s and PhD from Brown University.
David Carrier

David Carrier taught philosophy in Pittsburgh and art history in Cleveland. He writes art criticism. His In Caravaggio’s Shadow: Naples as a Work of Art (London, 2025) is forthcoming.
Sarah Jackson

Sarah Jackson is a Jungian analyst and visual artist as well as an adjunct faculty member and supervisor at the C.G. Jung Institute of NY. She is interested in the overlap and intersection of visual art and analytic psychology. Recent lectures include “Some Reflections on Shadow”, the keynote address at the Metamorfos Institute’s annual conference (2023), “Shaker Communal Life”, Shaker Museum, Old Chatham, NY, (2022), and “Images of the Other in Visual Art”, at the XXI International Congress for Analytical Psychology, Vienna, Austria (2019). Her review of the Clark’s Turner & Constable at the Clark appeared in the journal Chronogram in 2018. Sarah lives in Great Barrington MA.
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 🌈✨