EventsThe New Social Environment#900

Mark di Suvero: Painting and Sculpture

Featuring Jed Morse, Steven Henry, Ivana Mestrovic, and Jessica Holmes, with Garrett Caples

Monday, September 18, 2023 1 p.m. Eastern / 10 a.m. Pacific

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Nasher Sculpture Center Chief Curator Jed Morse, Paula Cooper Gallery Senior Partner Steven Henry, and Mark di Suvero Studio Manager Ivana Mestrovic join Rail ArTonic Editor Jessica Holmes for a conversation. We conclude with a poetry reading by Garrett Caples.

Jed Morse

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Jed Morse is an art historian, author, and curator who has organized numerous exhibitions and published and lectured widely on modern and contemporary art and architecture, as well as the role of art in the public realm. He currently serves as Chief Curator at the Nasher Sculpture Center, where he has been curator since 2002. Mr. Morse previously worked at the Dallas Museum of Art and the National Museum of American Art (now Smithsonian American Art Museum) in Washington, D.C. He received his M.A. in Art History from the University of Texas at Austin and B.A. in Art History from Middlebury College.

    Steven Henry

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    Steven Henry has been the Senior Partner of Paula Cooper Gallery in New York since 2021 after joining the gallery as Director in 1998. In 2020, Henry oversaw the opening of the gallery’s first location outside of New York City in Palm Beach, Florida. Previously, Mr. Henry was the Associate Director at Margo Leavin Gallery in Los Angeles. He has also worked at the New Museum of Contemporary Art in New York, and the Dallas Museum of Art in Texas. Mr. Henry serves on the Board of Directors of the Little Opera Theatre of New York, the Selection Committee for Art Basel Miami Beach, the Advisory Board of the Block Museum of Art at Northwestern University, and the Board of the Art Dealers Association of America.

      Ivana Mestrovic

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      Ivana Mestrovic started working for Mark di Suvero in 1987 and is the director of his Spacetime studio. Ivana also sits on the boards of Socrates Sculpture Park, The Athena Foundation, and the little OPERA theatre of ny. She has studied poetry with Marie Howe and Ellen Bass and her work has appeared in Evening Street Review, The Midwest Quarterly and Night Picnic. She holds a bachelor’s degree in philosophy from Yale University.

        Jessica Holmes

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        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.

        The Rail has a tradition of ending our conversations with a poetry reading, and we're fortunate to have Dao Strom reading.

        Dao Strom

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        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 🌈✨

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