EventsThe New Social Environment#1214

Cameron Gainer and Caroline Kent

Featuring Gainer and Kent

Thursday, April 24, 2025 1 p.m. Eastern / 10 a.m. Pacific

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Artists Cameron Gainer and Caroline Kent have a conversation about their practices on the occasion of their concurrent exhibitions in Chicago

Cameron Gainer

A photo of Cameron Gainer on The Brooklyn Rail's New Social Environment
Cameron Gainer is a visual artist making work in a diverse range of media. Over the last two decades, Gainer has combined scientific and artistic inquiry in his expansive practice. His past works include using the world’s most light-sensitive camera to capture bioluminescence, and casting time out of 4-billion-year-old meteorites. He is the founder of The Third Rail, an internationally distributed publication devoted to a discussion of modern and contemporary art, politics, philosophy, and culture. Awards and fellowships include a Smithsonian Artist Research Fellowship, Pollock-Krasner grant, James L. McKnight Fellowship, and a Jerome Foundation grant for research. 
 
 

    Caroline Kent

    A photo of Caroline Kent on The Brooklyn Rail's New Social Environment

    Photo by Milo Bosh.

    Moving beyond the borders of the canvas, Caroline Kent’s formal investigations expand into sculpture, architecture and installations. Drawing on a personal archive of painted works on paper, Kent’s use of the color black functions doubly. One on hand, it is a conduit for understanding color. On the other hand, it is a site for exploring new forms and geometry. Kents work takes language and transforms it into a site/context for the projection of desire, wonder, and alternate fictions.

    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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