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White Columns, with artist S*an D. Henry-Smith, is pleased to present the first in a series of virtual readings and conversations in celebration of the artist’s exhibition, “in awe of geometry & mornings”.
For this event Henry-Smith along with poet and performer Justin Allen, artist and photographer Elliott Jerome Brown Jr., and visual artist Kearra Amaya Gopee will come together for a reading and conversation reflecting on language, image, and text in their practices.
 
Justin Allen makes performances and writes poems and essays to understand our relationships to time, social context, and place. He has shared his work at The Poetry Project, Brooklyn Museum, BAAD!, and ISSUE Project Room where he was a 2020 artist-in-residence. He has received support from Franklin Furnace and Foundation for Contemporary Arts.
Elliott Jerome Brown Jr. (b. 1993, Baldwin, New York) contemplates the use of discretion in photography. He lives and works in Queens, New York. He has had solo exhibitions at Nicelle Beauchene Gallery, New York (2019); Staple Goods, New Orleans (2019); and Baxter St. at the Camera Club of New York (2019). His work has been included in various group exhibitions with Public Art Fund, The Studio Museum in Harlem, The MAC Belfast, Leslie Lohman Museum, and PPOW Gallery, among others.
Brown is included in recent exhibitions that include Upkeep at The Arts Club of Chicago, IL and New Photography: Create, Collect, Compile at the New Orleans Museum of Art, LA. He recently completed the 2019-20 AIRspace Residency at Abrons Art Center, New York, and was a recipient of the 2019 Rema Hort Mann Foundation Emerging Artist Grant. Brown received his BFA in Photography from the Tisch School of the Arts, New York University.
Kearra Amaya Gopee is an anti-disciplinary visual artist from Carapichaima, Trinidad and Tobago. They are currently based in Tovaangar (Los Angeles). Their research based practice focuses on the nature of violence and erasure, and the particularities of those that are inflicted on the Caribbean and its diasporas by the global north.
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