EventsThe New Social Environment#854
Beatriz Cortez: The Volcano That Left
Featuring Cortez and Chloe Stagaman, with Laura Jaramillo
Friday, July 14, 2023 1 p.m. Eastern / 10 a.m. Pacific
These free events are produced by The Brooklyn Rail.
Artist Beatriz Cortez joins Rail Director of Programs Chloe Stagaman for a conversation. We conclude with a poetry reading by Laura Jaramillo.
In this Talk
Beatriz Cortez
Beatriz Cortez is a multidisciplinary artist based in Los Angeles. Her work explores simultaneity, different temporalities, and speculative imaginaries of the future. She currently has solo exhibitions at Storm King Art Center in New York and Williams College Museum of Art. She has received the Latinx Artist Fellowship (2023); Borderlands Fellowship (2022-2024); Atelier Calder Artist Residency (2022); California Studio Artist Residency at UC Davis (2022); Longenecker-Roth Artist Residency at UCSD (2021); Artadia Los Angeles Award (2020); Frieze LIFEWTR Inaugural Sculpture Prize (2019), among others. Cortez holds an MFA from the California Institute of the Arts and is currently Associate Professor of Art at UC Davis.
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 🌈✨