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
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
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
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).