EventsThe New Social Environment#514

Mungo Thomson: Time Life

Featuring Thomson and Andrew Woolbright

Monday, March 14, 2022 1 p.m. Eastern / 10 a.m. Pacific

These free events are produced by The Brooklyn Rail.

Artist Mungo Thomson joins Rail Editor-at-Large Andrew Woolbright for a conversation. We conclude with a poetry reading by Joshua Mehigan.

In this Talk

Visit Mungo Thomson: Time Life, on view at Karma Gallery through April 16, 2022 →

Mungo Thomson

The wide-ranging, multi-media work of Mungo Thomson approaches mass culture and everyday perceptual experience through a lens of deep time and cosmic scale, implicating the spaces of production and exhibition in ever-widening extrapolations. Recent exhibitions have taken place at renowned institutions, including The Henry Art Gallery, Seattle; The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston; The Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles; and Museo Jumex, Mexico City. He was included in many events, such as The 2nd CAFAM Biennial, Beijing, China; the 2011 Istanbul Biennial, and The 2008 Whitney Biennial. His work is in the public collections of the Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Washington, D.C.; Walker Art Center, Minneapolis; Whitney Museum of American Art; and many others.

https://mungothomson.com/

Andrew Woolbright

Artist, curator, and critic Andrew Woolbright is based in Brooklyn, New York, and is an MFA graduate from RISD in painting. Woolbright is the founder and director of the gallery Below Grand located on the Lower East Side in New York. In addition to curating, he is an Editor-at-Large at the Brooklyn Rail. In 2021, Woolbright curated the show Density Betrays Us with Angela Dufresne and Cash Ragona at the Hole; and curated shows at Provincetown Fine Arts Work Center and Hesse Flatow in the summer of 2022. He currently teaches at School of Visual Arts and Pratt Institute and is a 2021–2022 resident at the Sharpe-Walentas Studio Program in Dumbo.

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 🌈✨