The New Social Environment#874

Renée Cox: A Proof of Being

Featuring Cox and Eleanor Heartney, with Dior J. Stephens

 

1 p.m. Eastern / 10 a.m. Pacific

Photographer Renée Cox joins Rail Editor-at-Large Eleanor Heartney for a conversation. We conclude with a poetry reading by Dior J. Stephens.

In this talk

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Renée Cox

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Renée Cox makes photographs, collages, and installations that draw on art history, fashion photography and popular culture. Her work invokes a critical vision of female sexuality, beauty, power and heroism through nudity, religious imagery and symbolism that inform her interdisciplinary process. Her work has been included in solo and group exhibitions at prominent institutions including Tate Liverpool, The New Museum of Contemporary Art (New York, NY), and the Brooklyn Museum. She received the Artists Fellowship Award, New York Foundation for the Arts, among other recognitions. Cox is an associate professor at Columbia University.

Eleanor Heartney

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Eleanor Heartney has been writing about art since 1981. She is a longtime contributor to Art in America, Contributing Editor to Artpress, Editor at Large for the Brooklyn Rail, and has written extensively on contemporary art issues for Artnews, Artnet, Art and Auction, the Washington Post and the New York Times. Heartney was the 1992 recipient of the College Art Association’s Frank Jewett Mather Award for distinction in art criticism and was honored in 2008 by the French government as a Chevalier dans l’Ordre des Arts et des Lettres. Her most recent book is the co-authored Mothers of Invention: the Feminist Roots of Contemporary Art.

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

Dior J. Stephens

A black and white portrait of Dior J. Stephens
Dior J. Stephens (they/he) is a proud pisces hailing from Midwestern waters. He is the author of the chapbooks SCREAMS & lavender, 001, and CANNON!. Their debut full-length collection, CRUEL/CRUEL is out now with Nightboat Books. They happily serve as the Managing Poetry Editor of Foglifter Journal and Press.

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