Session 5: Yvette Drury Dubinsky and Vicky Tomako present their Visual Art Collaborations and their work with A.I.R. Gallery

Monday, February 15, 2021, 8 am EST
Webinar link: https://us02web.zoom.us/j/81716552323
Webinar ID: 817 1655 2323

Yvette Drury Dubinsky and Vicky Tomayko have been working together (as well as separately) for several years.  The collaboration began without a thought-out plan to do so.  In 2018 they jointly participated in a community event and made some large-scale prints using ink, old paper and a steamroller.  In an effort to improve the artwork that resulted they continued working and established an enjoyable working relationship which continued over a long period of time, produced an exhibition with two United States venues and a catalog.  Subsequently they taught a class together in collaborating and printmaking.  They continue to collaborate and have thought a great deal about that partnership and what makes it work.  They will discuss their working relationship and compare it to other types of collaborations. This would be accompanied by images of the work they have done together.  

Links:
Catalog to Steamroller Show: https://issuu.com/brunodavidgallery/docs/dubinsky-tomayko_catalog_v1_2019_issuu_bruno-david

Susan Bee has been a member of A.I.R. Gallery since 1996. She has had solo shows at Southfirst Gallery, Lisa Cooley Gallery, Accola Griefen Gallery, University of Pennsylvania, Odetta, Belmont University, Kenyon College, Columbia University, William Paterson College, the New York Public Library, Pratt Institute Library, Virginia Lust Gallery, and her work has been included in numerous group shows. Bee has published sixteen artist’s books. She has collaborated with poets Susan Howe, Charles Bernstein, Johanna Drucker, Rachel Levitsky, and Jerome Rothenberg. Bee is the coeditor of M/E/A/N/I/N/G: An Anthology of Artist’s Writings, Theory, and Criticism, Duke, 2000, and the coeditor of M/E/A/N/I/N/G Online. Her artist’s book archive and the M/E/A/N/I/N/G archive are at the Beinecke Library, Yale University. Bee’s paintings are on over 50 book covers and her artworks, interviews, and writings have been included in many publications. Bee has been reviewed in Art in America, The New York Times, The New Yorker, ArtNews, The Brooklyn Rail, Artcritical, ArtSlant, The Forward, Huffington Post, Art Papers, and Hyperallergic. She has given presentations at the Whitney Museum, Reina Sofia, Brooklyn Museum, MoMA PS1, College Art Association, Queens Museum, NY Public Library, Parsons, Pratt, School of Visual Arts, M.I.T., University of Pennsylvania, and in Paris, London, Amsterdam, Belgrade, Berlin, Portugal, Spain, Scotland, Sweden, Israel, Cuba, New Zealand, Korea, and China. Bee’s artwork is in many public and private collections including the Metropolitan Museum of Art, Douglas F. Cooley Memorial Art Gallery at Reed College, Bibliotheque Nationale de France, Getty Museum, and the Victoria & Albert Museum. She has a BA from Barnard College and a MA in Art from Hunter College. She won a Guggenheim Fellowship in Fine Arts in 2014 and has had fellowships at the MacDowell Colony, Virginia Center for the Creative Arts, and Yaddo. Bee has taught at the University of Pennsylvania, School of Visual Arts, and Pratt Institute.