EventsThe New Social Environment#275

Alex Hay with Amanda Gluibizzi

Tuesday, April 13, 2021 1 p.m. Eastern / 10 a.m. Pacific

These free events are produced by The Brooklyn Rail.

Artist Alex Hay joins Rail ArtSeen Editor Amanda Gluibizzi for a conversation. We conclude with a poetry reading from Nada Gordon.

In this Talk

Alex Hay

moved to New York from Florida in 1959, by 1962 he was part of the nascent Judson Dance Theatre, gaining early recognition for his performances, while simultaneously working as a visual artist. In the 1960s, he made paintings, drawings, and sculpture based on everyday objects, meticulously rendered and surprisingly out of scale. Hay followed an increasingly conceptual path in his work, embracing circumstance by responding to and recording his whereabouts or activities, making use of a tool or material at hand, or employing something as unpredictable as the weather. His work reflects his state of perpetual observation and acute presence. Hay’s latest paintings, monumentally-scaled details of the coats of four of his cats, are his first portraits, or representations of life.

Amanda Gluibizzi

Amanda Gluibizzi is the founding Co-Director of the New Foundation for Art History (NFAH) and Artseen Editor for the Brooklyn Rail. She specializes in mid- and late-20th century art, design, and urbanism in the United States, Europe, and Latin America. Amanda is the author of Art and Design in 1960s New York (Anthem Press, 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 🌈✨