EventsThe New Social Environment#756

Léonie Guyer: Nothing kept happening

Featuring Guyer and Dore Bowen, with Leah Nieboer

Tuesday, February 28, 2023 1 p.m. Eastern / 10 a.m. Pacific

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Artist Léonie Guyer joins Rail Editor-at-Large Dore Bowen for a conversation. We conclude with a poetry reading by Leah Nieboer.

Léonie Guyer

A photo of Léonie Guyer on The Brooklyn Rail's New Social Environment
Léonie Guyer makes paintings, drawings, site-based work, and books. Her work is characterized by idiosyncratic shapes that are deployed in a variety of spaces. Guyer’s work has been exhibited nationally and internationally at the CCA Wattis Institute for Contemporary Arts; UC Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive; and other venues, and her work is held in numerous public collections. She has taught at the San Francisco Art Institute, California College of the Arts, University of California at Berkeley, San José State University, and elsewhere. Léonie Guyer was born in New York, NY. She received a B.F.A. and an M.F.A. from the San Francisco Art Institute. She lives and works in San Francisco, CA.

Dore Bowen

A photo of Dore Bowen on The Brooklyn Rail's New Social Environment
Dore Bowen, PhD, writes on modern and contemporary art, focusing on perceptual practices that probe the texture of ordinary life. She publishes in journals, such as Art in America, Afterimage, Culture & Musées, Square Cylinder, and Camerawork, on an international group of artists, including Yael Bartana, Dan Graham, Akram Zaatari, Elin Hansdottir, and Lydia Ourahmane. In 2019 Bowen published Bruce Nauman: Spatial Encounters (with Constance M. Lewallen, University of California Press), and is currently completing a monograph on the diorama from the 19th century to contemporary installation art. She is Research Professor in the Department of Art, Art History & Visual Studies at Duke University.

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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