EventsThe New Social Environment#645
Deborah Buck: Figures Transformed
Featuring Buck and Chloe Stagaman
Monday, September 12, 2022 5 p.m. Eastern / 2 p.m. Pacific
These free events are produced by The Brooklyn Rail.
Artist Deborah Buck joins Rail Programs Director Chloe Stagaman for a conversation. We conclude with a poetry reading by Barbara Henning.
In this Talk
Deborah Buck
Exhibiting professionally since the 1980s, Deborah Buck has shown recently in The Hamptons, Connecticut, and New York City. She explores the interplay of surrealism and abstraction in her work, where interests in absurdity, romanticism, and the darker side of fairy tales lend a strong narrative sense to her practice. Deborah has played an instrumental part in New York’s arts education as both member of the faculty at School of Visual Arts Master of Design Program and as a Trustee of The Pratt Institute. She is the Founder and Director of The Deborah Buck Foundation which supports organizations working to reverse the marginalization of women in the fine arts.
Chloe Stagaman
Chloe Stagaman is a Brooklyn-based curator and writer. Since 2022, she has been the Director of Programs at the Brooklyn Rail, where she organizes the journal’s weekday conversation series The New Social Environment.
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.
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 🌈✨