EventsThe New Social Environment#564

Night Chorus: Michelle Segre

Featuring Segre and David Rhodes

Friday, May 20, 2022 1 p.m. Eastern / 10 a.m. Pacific

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Artist Michelle Segre joins Rail Editor-at-Large David Rhodes for a conversation. We conclude with a poetry reading by Diana Rickard.

Michelle Segre

A photo of Michelle Segre on The Brooklyn Rail's New Social Environment
In her sculptures of plaster, wire, mesh, found detritus, and various organic matter, Michelle Segre develops a heterogeneous vision, informed as much by mega-ancient Neolithic idols as by Joan Miró and science fiction. The effect is fantastical and bizarre, an invitation to negotiate an alternate reality. Segre’s work hovers at an edge where everything remains fragmentary and incomplete, refusing to fulfill expectations. The process is improvisational and fluid, resulting in pieces that are both playfully casual and intense. Segre has had solo exhibitions at institutions such as Cress Gallery (University of Tennessee, Chattanooga), and she has been honored with the American Academy of Arts and Letters Award, John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation Fellowship, and others.

David Rhodes

A photo of David Rhodes on The Brooklyn Rail's New Social Environment
New York-based artist and writer David Rhodes is originally from Manchester, UK. His most recent solo exhibition Aletheia was at High Noon Gallery, New York in January 2024. His paintings are in the collections of the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston and the Huntington Museum, Los Angeles, among others. He has published catalog essays for Michael Werner Gallery, New York, Karma Gallery, New York and Museum Ludwig, Köln. He is an Editor-at-Large at the Brooklyn Rail.

The Rail has a tradition of ending our conversations with a poetry reading, and we're fortunate to have Dao Strom reading.

Dao Strom

A photo of Dao Strom on The Brooklyn Rail's New Social Environment
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 🌈✨

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