EventsThe New Social Environment#881

Darrel Ellis: Regeneration

Featuring Sergio Bessa, Allen Frame, Leslie Cozzi, and Ksenia M. Soboleva, with Tommye Blount

Tuesday, August 22, 2023 1 p.m. Eastern / 10 a.m. Pacific

These free events are produced by The Brooklyn Rail.

Bronx Museum Chief Curator Emeritus Sergio Bessa, photographer Allen Frame, and Baltimore Museum of Arts curator Leslie Cozzi join Rail contributor Ksenia M. Soboleva for a conversation. We conclude with a poetry reading by Tommye Blount.

In this Talk

Visit Darrel Ellis: Regeneration, on view at The Bronx Museum through September 10, 2023 →

Sergio Bessa

Antonio Sergio Bessa has organized several exhibitions including Martin Wong: Human Instamatic (in collaboration with Yasmin Ramirez), Gordon Matta-Clark: Anarchitect (in collaboration with Jessamyn Fiore), and The Life and Times of Alvin Baltrop. His essays on concrete poetry have been published in several anthologies, journals, and websites, and he is the author of Öyvind Fahlström: The Art of Writing, and editor of Novas: Selected Writings of Haroldo de Campos (in collaboration with Odile Cisneros), and of Mary Ellen Solt: Toward a Theory of Concrete Poetry.

Allen Frame

Allen Frame is a photographer and writer, based in New York and represented by Gitterman Gallery. His books include Innamorato (Meteoro Editions, 2023), Fever, (Matte Editions, 2021), and Detour (Kehrer, 2001). Frame was a winner of the 2017/2018 Rome Prize from the American Academy in Rome. He has curated numerous exhibitions, including, Love and Jump Back, the Photography of Charles Henri Ford, at Mitchell Algus Gallery; Darrel Ellis at Art in General in NYC, and in 2023, Luxe, Calme, Volupte at Candice Madey, with co-curator Sergio Bessa. He is an Adjunct Professor of Photography at Pratt Institute (MFA) and also teaches at the School of Visual Arts (BFA), the International Center of Photography in New York, and for Strudelmedialive.

Leslie Cozzi

Dr. Leslie Cozzi, FAAR'18, is the Curator of Prints, Drawings & Photographs at The Baltimore Museum of Art, where she is responsible for the museum’s post-1900 works on paper and has organized numerous exhibitions, including A Modern Influence: Henri Matisse, Etta Cone and Baltimore; Omar Ba: Political Animals; and Darrel Ellis: Regeneration. She was a 2017-2018 Rome Prize Winner at the American Academy in Rome. Dr. Cozzi previously served as the Curatorial Associate at the Grunwald Center for the Graphic Arts at the Hammer Museum. She holds a PH.D. from the University of Virginia and a B.A. from Yale University.

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Ksenia M. Soboleva

Photo by Irina Kadyrova-Schuddeboom

Dr. Ksenia M. Soboleva is a New York based writer and art historian specializing in queer art and culture. She holds a PhD from the Institute of Fine Arts, NYU. Her writings have appeared in The Brooklyn Rail, BOMB, Ursula Magazine, Cultured, Artforum, frieze, Hyperallergic, as well as numerous exhibition catalogues and artist monographs. Soboleva practices an autobiographical approach to art history, and an art historical approach to autobiography. She is currently completing her book manuscript What Happens After: Art, AIDS, and Lesbian Histories. Soboleva teaches at NYU.

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.

https://www.daostrom.com/

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 🌈✨