EventsThe New Social Environment#894

Rachel Feinstein in Florence

Featuring Feinstein and Andrew Woolbright, with Rachel James

Friday, September 8, 2023 1 p.m. Eastern / 10 a.m. Pacific

These free events are produced by The Brooklyn Rail.

Artist Rachel Feinstein joins Rail Editor-at-Large Andrew Woolbright for a conversation. We conclude with a poetry reading by Rachel James.

In this Talk

Visit Rachel Feinstein in Florence, on view at Palazzo Medici Riccardi, Florence through September 18, 2023 →

Visit Rachel Feinstein in Florence, on view at Museo Marino Marini through September 18, 2023 →

Visit Rachel Feinstein in Florence, on view at Museo Novecento through September 18, 2023 →

Rachel Feinstein

Photo by Markus Jans

Born in Fort Defiance, Arizona, and raised in Miami, Rachel Feinstein received a BA in 1993 from Columbia University, New York, where she studied religion, philosophy, and studio art. Her work was included in the first iteration of MoMA PS1’s Greater New York in 2000, and her first career survey, Maiden, Mother, Crone at the Jewish Museum, New York (2019–21), presented three decades of her sculptures, paintings, and videos and was accompanied by a major monograph. In 2023, Feinstein’s exhibition Façade was at the SCAD Museum of Art, Savannah. Also in 2023, a multipart project exhibits Feinstein’s paintings and sculpture in dialogue with Baroque and Renaissance masterworks across three museums in Florence: Palazzo Medici Riccardi, Museo Stefano Bardini, and Museo Marino Marini.

Andrew Woolbright

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

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 🌈✨