EventsThe New Social Environment#929

Sydney Vernon

Featuring Vernon, Tyhe Cooper, and Chloe Stagaman, with Victoria Mbabazi

Friday, October 27, 2023 1 p.m. Eastern / 10 a.m. Pacific

These free events are produced by The Brooklyn Rail.

Artist Sydney Vernon joins Rail Production Editor Tyhe Cooper and Rail Director of Programs Chloe Stagaman for a conversation. We conclude with a poetry reading by Victoria Mbabazi.

In this Talk

Visit Sydney Vernon, on view at Kapp Kapp, New York through November 3, 2023 →

Sydney Vernon

Artist Sydney Vernon superimposes personal family photographs and folklore with both real and imagined histories, quietly critiquing the global depiction of Black life and bodies. Combining elements of painting, drawing, and collage, Vernon’s multilayered works blend memory and history into new forms, at once imagining a poetic contextualization and a demand for recontextualization, coalescing symbols and ornaments with the spirit of her figures. Vernon earned her BFA at The Cooper Union, New York. Recent exhibitions include 125 Newbury, New York; Luce Gallery, Turin; Deli Gallery, New York, and Sargent’s Daughter’s, Los Angeles. She lives and works in Baltimore, MD.

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Tyhe Cooper

Photo by Kayhl Cooper

Tyhe Cooper is a writer and editor. Their work has been published in the Brooklyn Rail, the Poetry Project Newsletter, Peach Mag, trilobite.bond, and elsewhere. Their chapbook, Book of Joke, was published by Slab Editions in 2024. They are the Production Editor at the Brooklyn Rail.

Chloe Stagaman

Chloe Stagaman is a Brooklyn-based curator and writer. Since 2022, she has been the Director of Programs at the Brooklyn Rail, where she organizes the journal’s weekday conversation series The New Social Environment.

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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 🌈✨