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The New Social Environs #370

Living Big: Dawn Clements

Featuring Angela Dufresne, Judy Glantzman, Amanda Nedham, and Andrew Woolbright

ane p.m. Eastern / 10 a.chiliad. Pacific

Artists Angela Dufresne, Judy Glantzman, and Amanda Nedham join artist and Rail correspondent Andrew Woolbright for a conversation on Dawn Clements. Nosotros conclude with a verse reading past Taylor Byas.

In this talk

Dawn Clements, Living Big: A Survey is on view at Mana Contemporary through September iv, 2021.

Angela Dufresne

A portrait of Angela Dufresne

Brooklyn-based artist Angela Dufresne is a painter, teacher, and occasional author who has shown her work in the Usa and Europe since 1993. She has been the subject of twenty-three solo exhibitions and participated in over 100 group shows at the Hammer Museum, MoMA PS1, and The National University of Arts and Messages, among many others. She studied painting at the Kansas City Art Institute, earned her MFA in Painting from Tyler School of Art, and has won grants from the National Academy of Arts and Messages in NY, and the Jerome Foundation in Minneapolis. She is an Banana Professor in the Painting Department at the Rhode Isle School of Pattern.

Judy Glantzman

A portrait of Judy Glantzman courtesy of the artist

Painter and sculptor Judy Glantzman is a New York based artist and former instructor at RISD and the New York Studio School. She has received grants from the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation, New York Foundation for the Arts, Anonymous Was a Woman Foundation, and the Pollock Krasner Foundation, amongst others. Her piece of work tin can exist seen in numerous public collections, including the Whitney Fine art Museum, New York, NY; Grey Art Gallery, New York, NY; the Phoenix Art Museum, Phoenix, AZ; The Progressive Collection, Cleveland, OH; and the Tampa Museum of Art, Tampa, FL. Glantzman is represented by the Betty Cunningham Gallery.

Amanda Nedham

A portrait of Amanda Nedham

Artist, educator, and designer Amanda Nedham is currently living in Brooklyn. She received her BFA in Printmaking at OCAD University and her MFA in Painting at RISD. Her studio practice is interdisciplinary with an emphasis on drawing. Recent exhibitions include Frida Smoked at Invisible-Exports in New York, My Swain is a Peacekeeper at Putty's Coronation in New York, Q: Are you lot an undertaker? A: No Q: Are you a service provider? A: Yes at LE Gallery in Toronto, Extract IV Immature Art Prize in Copenhagen, Howdy Future Talents Archive Project in Athens, and False Dawn at AUD in Dubai. Amanda has received grants from the Ontario Arts Council, the Toronto Arts Council, and recently completed ARTHA's one year residency in New York.

Andrew Woolbright

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 Beneath Grand located on the Lower East Side in New York. In addition to curating, he is a regular contributor to the Brooklyn Rail. In 2021, Woolbright curated the show Density Betrays U.s. with Angela Dufresne and Cash Ragona at the Hole; and will be curating shows at Provincetown Fine Arts Work Center and Hesse Flatow in the summertime or 2022. He currently teaches at School of Visual Arts and SUNY New Paltz 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 poem, and we're fortunate to have Taylor Byas reading.

Taylor Byas

A photograph of Taylor Byas

Black Chicago native currently living in Cincinnati, Ohio, Taylor Byas is a Yates scholar tertiary-yr PhD pupil at the University of Cincinnati besides as an Assistant Features Editor for The Rumpus. She was the 1st place winner of the 2020 Poesy Super Highway, the 2020 Frontier Verse Award for New Poets Contests, and a finalist for the 2020 Borderland OPEN Prize. She is the writer of the chapbook Bloodwarm (Variant Literature 2021) and her debut total-length I Done Clicked My Heels Iii Times is forthcoming in Spring 2023 from Soft Skull Press. She is represented by Rena Rossner of the Deborah Harris Agency. Bank check out her chapbook here →