EventsThe New Social Environment#596

The Observing Heart: Mary Frank

Featuring Frank and Andrew Woolbright

Tuesday, July 5, 2022 1 p.m. Eastern / 10 a.m. Pacific

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Artist Mary Frank joins Rail contributor Andrew Woolbright for a conversation. We conclude with a poetry reading by Sarah Passino.

Mary Frank

A photo of Mary Frank on The Brooklyn Rail's New Social Environment
Sculptor, painter, photographer and a fierce advocate for human rights, Mary Frank’s work is in the collections of the Metropolitan, Whitney and Brooklyn Museums and numerous private collections. Represented by DC Moore and Elena Zang Galleries in New York, she lives and works in Manhattan and Bearsville, New York. “Endlessly I ask myself- what is art for? The list changes. When people make music they inhale, connect their eyes and, on exhalation, begin the music- I would love to make that moment visible. A body of work is a wonderful expression. The feet, the space between the bones, the sigh, the scream, the wings, the eyes, the connective tissue in us and between all living things.”

Andrew Woolbright

A photo of Andrew Woolbright on The Brooklyn Rail's New Social Environment

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

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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