P·P·O·W is pleased to host a reading and conversation with artist Elizabeth Glaessner and art historian Ksenia M. Soboleva in conjunction with Running Water, Glaessner's fourth solo exhibition with the gallery.
Following a reading of Soboleva's essay "To Watch the Sky," she and Glaessner will discuss their multimedia project "Holding the Sky," published this past summer in the bi-annual magazine 90antiope. Combining Glaessner's intuitive drawings with textual responses by Soboleva, the duo's collaboration examines many themes that appear across Glaessner's exhibition. Using this project as a starting point, Glaessner and Soboleva will explore shared ideas around the expansion of personal experience and memory through myth, metaphor as a means of abstraction, and the importance of "place" within both of their practices.
Running Water is currently on view at 390 Broadway, 2nd Floor, through Saturday, October 18.
Please join us for this in-person event at 390 Broadway on Thursday, October 9 at 5:30pm.
No RSVP necessary. Seating will be allocated on a first come, first served basis.
Elizabeth Glaessner (b. 1984) Glaessner received her BA from Trinity University, San Antonio, TX in 2006, and her MFA at the New York Academy of Art, New York, NY in 2013. She was awarded a postgraduate fellowship at the New York Academy of Art in 2013. Glaessner has presented solo exhibitions at P·P·O·W, New York, NY; Perrotin, Tokyo, Japan and Paris, France; François Ghebaly, Los Angeles, CA; and Consortium Museum, Dijon, France. Her work has been included in group shows at Timothy Taylor, New York, NY; James Cohan, New York, NY; Mrs., Maspeth, NY; Brigitte Mulholland, Paris, France; FLAG Art Foundation, New York, NY; Kasmin, New York, NY; Asia Art Center, Taipei, Taiwan; and Public Gallery, London, UK; among others.
Dr. Ksenia M. Soboleva is a New York based writer and art historian specializing in queer art and culture. She holds a PhD from the Institute of Fine Arts, NYU. Soboleva practices an autobiographical approach to art history and an art historical approach to autobiography. Her writings have appeared in The Brooklyn Rail, BOMB, Cultured, Ursula Magazine, Artforum, Frieze, Hyperallergic, as well as various artist monographs and exhibition catalogues. Previously, Soboleva was a Vilcek Curatorial Fellow at the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum in New York, and an Andrew W. Mellon Postdoctoral Fellow in Gender and LGBTQ+ History at the New York Historical Society. She is the recipient of the 2022 Baxter St. Camera Club Guest Curatorial Initiative, and the 2025 Dora Maar House Fellowship. She is currently completing her book manuscript What Happens After: Art, AIDS, and Lesbian Histories and co-editing the first monograph on Trial BALLOON, a lesbian-run gallery and project space in the early 1990s. She teaches at NYU Steinhardt.