The New Social Environment#233
Hugo McCloud with Lyle Rexer
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Artist Hugo McCloud joins critic, curator, and writer Lyle Rexer for a conversation. We’ll conclude with a poetry reading from Nicole Wallace.
Hugo McCloud
![Hugo McCloud Hugo McCloud](/web/20210226180538im_/https://brooklynrail.org/media/files/img_6214.jpg?nf_resize=fit&w=250)
Born in Palo Alto California in 1980, Hugo McCloud is one of the most prolific young artists working today. Self-taught with a background in industrial design, McCloud’s practice is unrestricted by classical, academic tenets. Drawing inspiration from the rawness and decay of the urban landscape, McCloud creates rich, large-scale abstract paintings and sculptural objects by fusing unconventional industrial materials — tar, bitumen, aluminum sheeting and oxidized steel plates — with traditional pigment and woodblock printing techniques. His approach is instinctive and physical, often working on the floor, sanding, hammering and torching his materials until a total metamorphosis takes place. Hugo McCloud lives and works in Brooklyn, New York and Tulum, Mexico.
Lyle Rexer
![Lyle Rexer Lyle Rexer](/web/20210226180538im_/https://brooklynrail.org/media/files/38276.jpg?nf_resize=fit&w=250)
Independent critic, curator and writer. Lyle is the author of numerous books, catalogue essays, and articles on art, architecture, and photography. He contributes to many publications and writes a regular column for Photograph magazine. He lives in Brooklyn and teaches at the School of Visual Arts. Publications include The Edge of Vision: The Rise of Abstraction in Photography; Jonathan Lerman: The Drawings of An Artist with Autism; How to Look At Outsider Art; Photography’s Antiquarian Avant-Garde: The New Wave in Old Processes, among many others.
The Rail has a tradition of ending our conversations with a poem, and we’re fortunate to have Nicole Wallace reading.
Nicole Wallace
![Nicole Wallace Nicole Wallace](/web/20210226180538im_/https://brooklynrail.org/media/files/nicole_wallace_cropped.jpg?nf_resize=smartcrop&w=130&h=130)
The author of WAASAMOWIN (IMP, 2019), a member of the Indigenous Kinship Collective, and Managing Director of The Poetry Project. Nicole was a June/July 2020 poetry micro-resident at Running Dog and a 2019 Poets House Emerging Poets Fellow. Recent work can be read in print in Survivance: Indigenous Poesis Vol. IV Zine and online at Running Dog, A Perfect Vacuum, and LitHub. Originally from Gakaabikaang, located in Minnesota, Nicole is of mixed settler/European ancestry and is a descendent of the Fond du Lac Band of Lake Superior Chippewa (Ojibwe).