The New Social Environment#325

Monika Baer with Tom McGlynn

 

1 p.m. Eastern / 10 a.m. Pacific

Artists Monika Baer joins Rail Editor-at-Large Tom McGlynn for a conversation. We conclude with a poetry reading by Malvika Jolly.

In this talk

Monika Baer

Courtesy Galerie Barbara Weiss, Berlin and Greene Naftali, New York. Photograph: wowe
Courtesy Galerie Barbara Weiss, Berlin and Greene Naftali, New York. Photograph: wowe
Monika Baer lives and works in Berlin. Her exhibition loose change is currently on view at Greene Naftali Gallery, New York. An upcoming solo exhibition will open at the Kunsthalle Bern in fall 2021. She was the winner of Berlin’s Hannah Höch Prize for lifetime achievement in 2019; an associated exhibition was held at the Neuer Berliner Kunstverein in 2020. Recent solo exhibitions include Kunstmuseum Bonn, Germany (2019); Museum Abteiberg, Mönchengladbach, Germany, which traveled to Kestnergesellschaft, Hanover, Germany (both 2016); Greene Naftali (2015); and Art Institute of Chicago (2013), which traveled to Williams College Museum of Art, Williamstown, Massachusetts (2014). Her work is in international collections from New York, Chicago, Los Angeles, Cologne, Munich, among others.

Tom McGlynn

Portrait drawing of Tom McGlynn by Phong Bui
Portrait of Tom McGlynn by Phong Bui
Artist, writer, and independent curator Tom McGlynn is based in the NYC area. His work is represented in the permanent collections of the Whitney Museum, the Museum of Modern Art, and the Cooper-Hewitt National Design Museum of the Smithsonian. He is the director of Beautiful Fields, an organization dedicated to socially-engaged curatorial projects, and is also currently a visiting lecturer at Parsons School of Design, The New School. McGlynn’s work is interested in the morphing of commercial signage into cyphers of phenomenal experience—minimalist, abstract arrangements of color. He holds an MFA from Hunter College and a BFA from the Ramapo College of New Jersey. Tom is an Editor-at-Large for the Brooklyn Rail.

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

Malvika Jolly

A portrait of Malvika Jolly
Artist, writer, and translator Malvika Jolly (she/her) lives on occupied Munsee, Lenape, and Wappinger land in New York City. Her essays, interviews, and criticism have appeared or are forthcoming in Chicago magazine, The Margins, and the South Side Weekly, where she is a regular contributor focusing on visual culture and community history. She is the Special Projects Associate at the Brooklyn Rail.

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