In Conversation: Ed Schlossberg & Karen Conway

Wednesday, July 28

7:30 - 8:30 pm

Artist, designer, and author Ed Schlossberg joins curator Karen Conway for a virtual talk on his work.

Edwin Schlossberg’s artwork portrays words as art, turning poems into visual objects to make them more accessible for the viewer. He has worked in a variety of mediums, including vinyl, plexiglass, aluminum and copper. His works have appeared in numerous solo and group exhibitions throughout the United States and internationally, and can be found in private collections and museums, including the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, the Metropolitan Museum of Art, and the Museum of Modern Art. In addition to his accomplishments in visual art and poetry, Schlossberg is the Founder and Principal Designer for ESI Design, a leading experience design firm in New York. Read more.

Schlossberg's work is on view in Spacing Out: Expanding the Field of Vision at the JAC from July 2 through August 14, 2021.

Karen Conway has been the Director of Exhibitions at Jamestown Arts Center, RI for the past seven years, where she also curated the exhibitions: Paper-Made, 2014 and Word: Text in Contemporary Art, 2017, and the upcoming Spacing Out: Expanding the Field of Vision, Summer 2021, among many others. Conway has held various positions, including curator, gallery director, collections manager, program coordinator and research consultant at numerous institutions.

Conway has worked at the Whitney Museum of American Art, Newport Art Museum, and Heritage Museums and Gardens, as well as numerous galleries and private collections, including curator to Edwin Schlossberg since 2017. Conway holds a graduate certificate in Museum Studies from Harvard University. In addition, Conway has a MA in Feminism and the Visual Arts from the University of Leeds, UK, where she studied with Griselda Pollock.