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Aperture and Dear Dave, Magazine present a conversation between artist Penelope Umbrico and Cay Sophie Rabinowitz, cofounder and editor of Fantom magazine. This event coincides with the recently released Aperture book Penelope Umbrico (photographs), which offers a radical reinterpretation of everyday consumer and vernacular images.
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Penelope Umbrico, born in Philadelphia, graduated from the Ontario College of Art and Design in Toronto, and received her MFA from the School of Visual Arts, New York. She has participated extensively in solo and group exhibitions, including at the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art and PS1 Contemporary Art Center, New York. Umbrico is a faculty member at the School of Arts and lives in New York City.
Cay Sophie Rabinowitz is a contemporary art writer, curator, and educator, based mostly in New York and sometimes in Berlin. She has previously served as the Senior Editor of Parkett and Artistic Director of Art Basel. She has curated numerous international exhibitions and programs of contemporary art, including co-curating the 2nd Athens's Biennale and a number of projects for Art Production Fund Lab in New York. She is cofounder and Editor of Fantom , a photography quarterly of photography, and is on the faculty at Columbia University's MFA program. In 2011 she launched the brand Giulietta together with designer Sofia Sizzi.
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