Performance-in-Place: From the Personal Collection of Eileen Myles, 6/30

Exterior of Myles home. Work by Glen Hanson. [Image Description: A photo of the top Eileen Myles’ home. In the gray facade is an orange circle. Above the roof is a blue sky.]

Tuesday, June 30, 2020
8pm EST

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Poet and novelist Eileen Myles will lead a tour of their home in Marfa, Texas, discussing a variety of artworks in their extensive collection, which includes works by painters Robin Bruch and Xylor Jane, as well as photographer Jack Pierson. Myles will elaborate on specific artworks, mapping their relationship with each of these artists and the personal memories associated with the objects and artworks in their home.

Bio

Eileen Myles came to New York from Boston in 1974 to be a poet, subsequently a novelist, public talker and art journalist. Their twenty-two books include For Now, an essay/talk about writing from Yale Press (forthcoming, fall 20) evolution (poems), Afterglow (a dog memoir), a 2017 re-issue of Cool for You, I Must Be Living Twice/new and selected poems, and Chelsea Girls. They showed their photographs in 2019 at Bridget Donahue, NYC. Eileen is the recipient of a Guggenheim Fellowship, an American Academy of Arts and Letters Award in Literature, an Andy Warhol/Creative Capital Arts Writers grant, four Lambda Book Awards, the Shelley Prize from the PSA, and a poetry award from the Foundation for Contemporary Arts. In 2016, Myles received a Creative Capital grant and the Clark Prize for excellence in art writing. In 2019 they received an award from the American Academy of Arts & Letters. They live in New York and Marfa, TX.