The New Social Environment#229

Eddie Martinez with Jason Rosenfeld

 

1 p.m. Eastern / 10 a.m. Pacific

Artist Eddie Martinez joins Rail editor-at-large Jason Rosenfeld for a conversation. We conclude with a poetry reading from Ali Black.

In this talk

Eddie Martinez

Eddie Martinez
Courtesy of Hercules Universal
Brooklyn-based artist Eddie Martinez’s work joins together painting and drawing, abstraction and representation in non-traditional ways. Imbued with a sense of personal iconography, his practice often combines signature figurative elements, such as bug-eyed humans and eclectic headgear with gestural, abstract blocks of color. His paintings employ an aggressive use of color and texture with various combinations of oil, enamel, spray paint and collage elements on canvas. Martinez also produces large and small-scale abstract sculpture, made mostly from found materials such as rubber hoses, Styrofoam, cardboard, and metal scraps sourced from wherever the artist is working at the time.

Jason Rosenfeld

A black and white photo of Jason Rosenfeld
Distinguished Chair and Professor of Art History at Marymount Manhattan College Jason Rosenfeld, Ph.D., has curated the exhibitions John Everett Millais (Tate Britain, Van Gogh Museum), Pre-Raphaelites: Victorian Avant-Garde (Tate Britain and the National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.), and River Crossings (Olana and Cedar Grove, Hudson and Catskill, New York). He is a co-author of the monograph Cecily Brown (Phaidon, 2020), and a Senior Writer and Editor-at-Large for the Brooklyn Rail.

Hovey Brock

Hovey Brock
Courtesy of Hovey Brock
Painter, writer, and educator who divides his time between Brooklyn, NY and Ulster County, NY. The Brooklyn Rail has been publishing his reviews since 2016.

The Rail has a tradition of ending our conversations with a poetry reading, and we’re fortunate to have Ali Black reading.

Ali Black

A black and white photograph of poet Ali Black, wearing a black shirt and looking at the camera.
Photo by Donald Black, Jr.
Ali Black is a writer from Cleveland, Ohio. She is the recipient of the Academy of American Poets University & College Poetry Prize for her poem “Kinsman.” Her work has appeared in December, jubilat, LitHub, The Offing and elsewhere. Her first book of poetry, If It Heals At All was selected by Jaki Shelton Green for the New Voices series at Jacar Press.

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