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Susan Bee: Apocalypses, Fables, and Reveries

Susan Bee, Saint Martha and the Tarasque, 2021, 36” x 24”, oil, enamel, sand on linen

Susan Bee: Apocalypses, Fables, and Reveries

Featuring Susan Bee and Ann McCoy, with Charles Bernstein

Monday, March 20, 2023 at 1 PM via Zoom


Hosted by the Brooklyn Rail as part of their New Social Environment series, Artist Susan Bee will join Rail Editor-at-Large Ann McCoy for a conversation in conjunction with her solo exhibition Apocalypses, Fables, and Reveries: New Paintings. The talk will be concluded with a poetry reading by Charles Bernstein.


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Brooklyn based artist Susan Bee is having her tenth solo show at A.I.R. Gallery. Bee has published eighteen artist’s books, including collaborations with Susan Howe, Charles Bernstein, Jerome McGann, Rachel Levitsky, and Jerome Rothenberg. Bee’s artwork is in many collections and has been widely reviewed. She has given numerous talks in museums and galleries in the US and abroad. She was the coeditor of M/E/A/N/I/N/G from 1986-2016. Her artist’s book archive and the M/E/A/N/I/N/G archive are at the Beinecke Library at Yale. She has a BA from Barnard College and a MA from Hunter College. Bee received a Guggenheim Fellowship in Fine Arts in 2014. Her latest book is Off-World Fairy Tales, with Johanna Drucker, Litmus Press.


New York-based sculptor, painter, and art critic Ann McCoy is an Editor-at-Large for the Brooklyn Rail. She lectured at the Yale School of Drama for 10 years, and taught in the Art History Department at Barnard College for 20 years. Ann’s work is included in the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, the Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, the Museum of Modern Art, the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, and the Whitney Museum of American Art, among others. In 2019, she was awarded a John Simon Guggenheim Foundation Fellowship. Ann McCoy worked with Prof. C.A. Meier, Jung’s heir apparent for twenty-five years in Zurich. She has studied alchemy since the early seventies in Zurich and in Rome at the Vatican Library.


Poet Charles Bernstein is the winner of the 2019 Bollingen Prize for Near/Miss (University of Chicago Press, 2018) and for lifetime achievement in American Poetry. He is the author of Topsy-Turvy (Chicago, April 2021) and Pitch of Poetry (Chicago, 2016).

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