EventsThe New Social Environment#385

Mattress World: Guy Goodwin and David Reed

Featuring Goodwin, Reed, and Charlotte Kent

Tuesday, September 14, 2021 1 p.m. Eastern / 10 a.m. Pacific

These free events are produced by The Brooklyn Rail.

Artists Guy Goodwin and David Reed join Rail Editor-at-Large Charlotte Kent for a conversation. We conclude with a poetry reading by Andrea Abi-Karam.

In this Talk

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Guy Goodwin

Portrait drawing of Guy Goodwin by Phong H. Bui

Artist Guy Goodwin lives and works in Brooklyn, New York. He received his MFA from the University of Illinois in 1965. Recent exhibitions include Painters Reply: Experimental Painting in the 1970s, Lisson Gallery, New York, NY (2019), Looking Back / The Ninth White Columns Annual - Selected by Cleopatra’s, White Columns, New York, NY (2015), High Times, Hard Times: New York Painting 1967-1975 (2006–07, traveling), Daniel Weinberg Gallery, Los Angeles, CA (1987), Bykert Gallery, New York, NY (1974), Whitney Annual Exhibition of American Painting, Whitney Museum, New York, NY (1972). Guy Goodwin: Mattress World, curated by David Reed, is on view at the Milton Resnick & Pat Passlof Foundation through October 23, 2021.

Guy Goodwin in conversation with Phong H. Bui (Brooklyn Rail, July/August 2017)

David Reed

Portrait by Phong H. Bui

Artist David Reed attended the Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture before receiving his BA from Reed College in Portland, OR. He studied at the New York Studio School and later attended a seminar there led by Philip Guston. Reed is the recipient of numerous awards, including the National Endowment for the Arts, John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation Fellowship, and Rockefeller Foundation Fellowship. Select recent exhibitions include David Reed: New Paintings at Gagosian Gallery (2020), David Reed: Vice and Reflection – An Old Painting, New Paintings and Animations, Pérez Art Museum, Miami, FL (2016), and Two by Two: Mary Heilmann & David Reed, Museum für Gegenwart, Hamburger Bahnhof, Berlin, Germany (2015).

http://www.davidreedstudio.com/

Charlotte Kent

Associate professor of visual culture at Montclair State University Charlotte Kent, PhD, is an Editor-at-Large for the Brooklyn Rail, and a contributor to assorted books on art and technology, including as co-editor of Contemporary Absurdities, Existential Crises, and Visual Art (Intellect Books, 2024), co-author of Midnight Moment: A Decade of Artists in Times Square (Monacelli Press, 2024), and editor of Generation to Generation (Vetro, 2026). She is the recipient of grants from NEH and Google Art + Machine Intelligence, with a forthcoming book on contemporary art and technoabsurdity. She is a member of the College Art Association’s Committee on Intellectual Property.

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 🌈✨