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Kevin Beasley: In an effort to keep
Artist Kevin Beasley joins Rail ArtSeen Editor Amanda Gluibizzi for a conversation. We conclude with a poetry reading by JJJJJerome Ellis.
The New Social Environment #850
Recorded on Monday, July 10, 2023 at 1 p.m. Eastern / 10 a.m. Pacific
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In this talk:
🚩 Kevin Beasley -- Kevin Beasley (b. 1985, Lynchburg, VA) lives and works in New York. He received his BFA from The College for Creative Studies, Detroit in 2007 and his MFA from Yale University School of Art, New Haven, CT in 2012. Beasley’s practice spans sculpture, photography, sound, and performance, while centering on materials of cultural and personal significance, from raw cotton harvested from his family’s property in Virginia to sounds gathered using contact microphones. Beasley alters, casts, and molds these diverse materials to form a body of works that acknowledge the complex, shared histories of the broader American experience, steeped in generational memories.
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🚩 Amanda Gluibizzi -- Formerly Associate Professor at Ohio State University, Amanda Gluibizzi is the founding Co-Director of the New Foundation for Art History (NFAH) and Artseen Editor for the Brooklyn Rail. She specializes in mid- and late-20th century art, design, and urbanism in the United States, Europe, and Latin America. Amanda is the author of Art and Design in 1960s New York (Anthem Press, 2021).
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The Rail has a tradition of ending our conversations with a poem, and on this day we were fortunate to have JJJJJerome Ellis:
🚩 JJJJJerome Ellis -- JJJJJerome Ellis is an animal, artist, and proud stutterer. Through music, literature, performance, video, and photography he researches relationships among blackness, disabled speech, divinity, nature, sound, and time. Born in 1989 to Jamaican and Grenadian immigrants, he lives in Norfolk, Virginia with his wife, ecologist-poet Luísa Black Ellis.
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as a recovered childhood stutterer and a painter....I thank you. Really brought a pleasure to my day