EventsThe New Social Environment#925

Yevgeniya Baras: Stargazer

Featuring Baras and Amanda Millet-Sorsa, with Sophia Dahlin

Monday, October 23, 2023 1 p.m. Eastern / 10 a.m. Pacific

These free events are produced by The Brooklyn Rail.

Artist Yevgeniya Baras joins Rail contributor Amanda Millet-Sorsa for a conversation. We conclude with a poetry reading by Sophia Dahlin.

In this Talk

Visit Yevgeniya Baras: Stargazer, on view at Sargent’s Daughters through December 9, 2023 →

Yevgeniya Baras

Photo by Maggie Shannon

Yevgeniya Baras is an artist based in New York. Her paintings take shape through a process of layering and accumulation, combining oil media with various found and unconventional materials. The resulting objects hover between painting and sculptural relief, with layers that frequently extend onto the sides and supports of the canvas, refusing any definitive boundary. Within these stratified compositions, Baras creates symbolic topographies which address ideas of language, migration, and translation. She has exhibited her work widely throughout the U.S. and internationally, and is the recipient of recognitions including, the Pollock-Krasner grant (2023) and the Guggenheim Fellowship (2019).

Amanda Millet-Sorsa

Amanda Millet-Sorsa is an artist, arts writer and arts worker based in New York. She has exhibited at Spring Projects DUMBO, The Socrates Sculpture Park, Governor's Island, and Time Equities Inc, among others. She has received grants through the Fulbright Scholar award for Brazil, Materials for the Arts, NYC Cultural Affairs, and Queens council on the arts . She holds an M.F.A from the New York Studio School, a B.A. from Brandeis University, and has been a contributor to the Brooklyn Rail since 2021.

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 🌈✨