EventsThe New Social Environment#914

Ruth Asawa Through Line

Featuring Kim Conaty and Edouard Kopp and Christina Yang, with Cleo Abramian

Friday, October 6, 2023 1 p.m. Eastern / 10 a.m. Pacific

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Curators Kim Conaty and Edouard Kopp join scholar Christina Yang for a conversation. We conclude with a poetry reading by Cleo Abramian.

Kim Conaty

A photo of Kim Conaty on The Brooklyn Rail's New Social Environment
Photo by Kelly Conaty
Kim Conaty is the Steven and Ann Ames Curator of Drawings and Prints at the Whitney Museum, a position she has held since 2017. In addition to overseeing the Whitney’s collection of drawings and prints, she has organized several exhibitions there, including Edward Hopper’s New York (2022) and Nothing Is So Humble: Prints from Everyday Objects (2020). Prior to her role at the Whitney, Conaty was Curator at the Rose Art Museum at Brandeis University and Assistant Curator at The Museum of Modern Art, New York. The recipient of a Fulbright Fellowship and Clark Fellowship, Conaty holds a Ph.D. in the History of Art from the Institute of Fine Arts, NYU, and a Masters degree from Williams College.

    Edouard Kopp

    A photo of Edouard Kopp on The Brooklyn Rail's New Social Environment
    Photo by Allyson Huntsman
    Edouard Kopp is the John R. Eckel, Jr. Chief Curator of the Menil Drawing Institute. The latter is a program of the Menil Collection in Houston, TX, that seeks to foster scholarship and raise public understanding of the drawing medium through collecting, exhibitions, publications, public programs and fellowships. Edouard is co-curator, with Kim Conaty, of the exhibition Ruth Asawa Through Line, which will travel to the Menil after its presentation at the Whitney Museum of American Art. He is the author of Robert Motherwell Drawing: As Fast as the Mind Itself (Houston, 2022); and co-editor of Dare to Know: Prints and Drawings in the Age of Enlightenment (Cambridge, MA, 2022). Kopp holds a Ph.D. in the History of Art from the Courtauld Institute, London.

      Christina Yang

      A photo of Christina Yang on The Brooklyn Rail's New Social Environment

      Christina Yang is Executive Director of AAMC Foundation as well as an independent curator based in New York and Williamstown. She specializes in spectatorship, politics of the image, experimental genres, and feminist care. She has been a curator at The Kitchen, Queens and Guggenheim Museums, as well at Williams College and UC Berkeley. She teaches in SVA’s Masters Program in Curatorial Practice. She participated in Asia Art Archive in America’s 2024 Leadership Camp led by Simon Wu and Daniel Chew. She received her Ph.D in performance studies from NYU in 2025. 

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

      Dao Strom

      A photo of Dao Strom on The Brooklyn Rail's New Social Environment
      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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