The New Social Environment#624
Charles Gaines: The American Manifest
Featuring Gaines and Thyrza Nichols Goodeve
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1 p.m. Eastern / 10 a.m. Pacific
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Artist Charles Gaines joins Rail Editor-at-Large Thyrza Nichols Goodeve for a conversation. We conclude with a poetry reading by andriniki mattis.
In this talk
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Charles Gaines
A pivotal figure in the field of conceptual art, Charles Gaines engages formulas and systems to interrogate the relationships between the objective and subjective realms. He has been the subject of numerous exhibitions in the US and internationally, and his work is in prominent public collections including at the MoMA, the Whitney Museum of American Art, the Studio Museum in Harlem, and LACMA. Gaines lives and works in Los Angeles. He recently retired from the CalArts School of Art, where he was on faculty for over 30 years and established a fellowship to provide critical scholarship support for Black students in the M.F.A. Art program.
Thyrza Nichols Goodeve
Thyrza Nichols Goodeve is a writer, editor, and educator who lives in Brooklyn Heights. She was Senior Art Editor at the Rail from 2017 to 2019 and is currently an Editor-at-Large.
The Rail has a tradition of ending our conversations with a poetry reading, and we’re fortunate to have andriniki mattis reading.
andriniki mattis
Poet andriniki mattis has received fellowships from Cave Canem, Poets House, and The Poetry Project. They earned an M.A in Creative Writing and Education, from Goldsmiths University of London, and a B.A in Political and Poetic Resistance, from Brooklyn College. Their work has appeared in Nepantla, Cortland Review, Wasifiri, the anthology “The Sun Isn’t Out Long Enough,” and elsewhere. andriniki is from and currently living in Brooklyn.
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