EventsThe New Social Environment#230
Mike Cloud and Samuel Jablon with Hovey Brock
Tuesday, February 9, 2021 1 p.m. Eastern / 10 a.m. Pacific
These free events are produced by The Brooklyn Rail.
Artists Mike Cloud and Samuel Jablon are joined by artist, educator, and writer Hovey Brock for a conversation. We conclude with a poetry reading from Zoe Brezsny.
In this Talk
Mike Cloud

An American painter living and working in Chicago, Illinois. Mike Cloud earned his M.F.A. from Yale University School of Art and his B.F.A. from the University of Illinois-Chicago. His work has been exhibited nationally and internationally at P.S.1, NY; the Studio Museum in Harlem, NY; Danubiana Meulensteen Art Museum, Slovak Republic; Honor Fraser Gallery, CA; Thomas Erben Gallery, NY; Good Children Gallery, LA; Marianne Boesky Gallery, NY; White Columns, NY; Max Protetch, NY; Apexart, NYC. Cloud has been reviewed in the New York Times, Art in America, Art Review and featured in the publication Painting Abstraction by Bob Nickas, published by Phaidon Press.
Samuel Jablon

Artist and poet based in New York City. Jablon received his MFA in painting from Brooklyn College/CUNY (2013) and his BA in poetry from Naropa University, Boulder, Colorado (2009).
Hovey Brock

Painter, writer, and educator who divides his time between Brooklyn, NY and Ulster County, NY. The Brooklyn Rail has been publishing his reviews since 2016.
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.
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 🌈✨