EventsThe New Social Environment#944

Sarah McEneaney: The World Around

Featuring McEneaney and Amanda Millet-Sorsa, with Rachel James

Friday, November 17, 2023 1 p.m. Eastern / 10 a.m. Pacific

These free events are produced by The Brooklyn Rail.

Artist Sarah McEneaney joins Rail contributor Amanda Millet-Sorsa for a conversation. We conclude with a poetry reading by Rachel James.

In this Talk

Visit The World Around: A Mixed Bag, on view at Tibor de Nagy, New York through November 25, 2023 →

Sarah McEneaney

Born in Munich, Germany, Philadelphia-based artist Sarah McEneaney received a certificate of painting from the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts and studied at Philadelphia College of the Arts. Her autobiographical subject matter renders people, places, and things with vibrant, meticulous and detailed brushwork characteristic of the acrylic medium in which she often paints. Sarah’s paintings are an invitation into the story of a life lived. McEneaney’s work is in numerous collections and she has had regular solo gallery exhibitions in New York since 2001 and Philadelphia since 1979. She has been awarded artist residencies at Tyrone Guthrie Centre, Ballinglen Arts Foundation, the Joan Mitchell Center, the Chinati Foundation, among others.

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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 🌈✨