In conjunction with the exhibition Hunter Reynolds / Dean Sameshima: Promiscuous Rage, we are pleased to host a daylong activation of Hunter Reynolds’s Dialogue Table 3, My First Year Out, 1992, this Saturday, December 14, from 11am-5pm.
The event will feature Grace Byron, Candystore & Jarrett Earnest, Hilary Harkness & Ara Tucker, Carlos Motta & Trey Hollis, and Dean Sameshima, all of whom will sit at the Dialogue Table for hourlong discussions, inviting the public to participate by joining them in collective conversation.
An installation-cum-library, Dialogue Table 3, My First Year Out is a collection of publications, periodicals, and Polaroids that reveal Reynolds’s own interests and fantasies, while simultaneously inviting participatory engagement. In Reynolds’s own words on the occasion of the presentation of his Dialogue Tables at Hunter College in 1992, “In my studio between 1987 and 1992, I had tables set up as stations, which functioned as laboratories, surfaces on which I could contain myself and my art making process. Everything I did at the table or placed on the table, whether that was an activity, a table arrangement, a still life, placements of found objects or pictures, private actions, recorded frames of time, became the art itself. Just sitting at the tables and recording and photographing these dialogues, actions and arrangements as a working process became a kind of sketch book and diary for what intended to result as some bigger artwork. It took about 3 years of this process to realize the Dialogue Table was the art.”
Please join us at 392 Broadway on Saturday, December 14 from 11am-4pm to take part in the activation, and find the timing of each speaker down below. No RSVP necessary.
11am: Dean Sameshima
12pm: Jarrett Earnest & Candystore
1pm: Carlos Motta & Trey Hollis
3pm: Hilary Harkness & Ara Tucker
4pm: Grace Byron
Hunter Reynolds / Dean Sameshima: Promiscuous Rage is on view December 13, 2024 - January 25, 2025.
Speaker Bios
Grace Byron is a writer from the Midwest based in Queens whose writing has appeared in The Cut, Vogue, The Nation, The Baffler, Bookforum, and elsewhere. Find her on instagram @emotrophywife. Her debut novel Herculine is forthcoming from Saga Press.
Candystore is a multidisciplinary artist and poet from San Jose, California and the author of Further From Heaven (Smutburger Editions). Shimher writing and art have been published in Artforum, PAPER Magazine, Phile Magazine, Precog Mag, RFD, Riot of Perfume, and THE WHITNEY REVIEW of New Writing among others.
Jarrett Earnest is the author of What it Means to Write About Art: Interviews with Art Critics (David Zwirner Books, 2018) and Valid Until Sunset (MATTE Editions, 2023) as well as the host of Angelic Transmissions, an art talk show on East Village Radio.
Hilary Harkness is an artist whose work has been featured in exhibitions at The FLAG Art Foundation, New York, NY; Museo Thyssen-Bornemisza, Madrid, Spain; American Academy of Arts and Letters, New York, NY; Portland Institute of Contemporary Art, Portland, OR; and The Aldrich Museum of Contemporary Art, Ridgefield, CT; among others. Her work is in the permanent collection of the Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY; Yuz Museum Shanghai; Mead Art Museum, Amherst, MA; and the Seavest Collection, New York, NY; among others. Co-published by Black Dog Press and P·P·O·W, Hilary Harkness: Everything for You is the first comprehensive monograph on the artist’s work.
Ara Tucker is an artist and storyteller whose practice focuses on the intersection of race, class, gender, sexual orientation as well as intergenerational memory and trauma with a particular interest in how these intersections warp daily life. As a writer, Tucker transcends traditional observations of how the New York City art world operates through projects including her blog The Art Dealer’s Daughter and novels How to Raise an Art Star and How to Date a Black Girl.
Carlos Motta is a multidisciplinary artist who has presented survey exhibitions at Museo de Arte Moderno de Bogotá (MAMBO), Bototá, Colombia, 2023, and the Wexner Center for the Arts, Columbus, OH, 2022. He was a Penn Mellon Just Futures Initiative Grant grantee in 2023, a Rockefeller Brothers Fund Grant grantee in 2019, was awarded The Vilcek Foundation Prize for Creative Promise in 2017, The PinchukArtCentre’s Future Generation Art Prize in 2014, and a Guggenheim fellowship in 2008. He is an associate professor of Interdisciplinary Practice in Fine Arts at Pratt Institute in Brooklyn, and will present a mid-career survey exhibition at Museu d’Art Contemporani de Barcelona (MACBA) in 2025.
Trey Hollis has been at P·P·O·W since 2016, where he is currently Senior Director. He was a close colleague and friend of Hunter Reynolds's during his lifetime.
Dean Sameshima lives and works in Berlin. Sameshima most recently participated in the 60th International Art Exhibition of La Biennale di Venezia, curated by Adriano Pedrosa, in Venice, Italy. Sameshima is in the permanent collections of the Getty Museum, Los Angeles; Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles, CA; Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, CA; and the Henry Art Gallery, Seattle, WA, and was the 2022 recipient of The Artist Acquisition Club award in Los Angeles, CA. In 2025, Sameshima will have his first solo institutional exhibition at Neuer Aachener Kunstverein, Aachen, Germany.
