Guest artist CARRIE MOYER
joins JILLIAN KNIPE to discuss her work via 'Cassandra at the Wedding' by Dorothy Baker. Published in 1962 by Houghton Mifflin (US) and Victor Gollancz (UK), most recently Daunt Books, with sympathetic tenderness and acerbic wit, it follows twin sisters Cassandra and Judith as they navigate Judith’s wedding to a very pleasant and capable young doctor.
The other key characters are their father, a retired philosophy professor who fancies a Brandy soda tipple, the ghost of their dead mother and their maternal grandmother.
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"it feels like all of the interesting innovations have been done by women painters in terms of abstraction"
Carrie and Jillian's conversation encompasses activism, wit, abandonment, confusion, family, ambivalence, agitpop, snarkiness, ambiguity, galaxy, queer, optical bliss, transitional places, menacing edge, geological time, mental illness, burying identity, utter distaste, ominous vibe and deadpan humour. They also talk about family as a cult, female body parts, destabilised vibration of colours, digging under conventions, being a lesbian in public, hard edge abstraction, vicious in a great beautiful smart way, wholesome hetro homemakers, abstract expressionism as a language and what the future is supposed to hold for you as a young woman.
CARRIE MOYER
'Always Venus, Never Mars' Pilar Corrias 23 Jan - 7 Mar 2026
'Queer Abstraction' Des Moines Art Center by Curator Jared Ledesma 1 Jun - 8 Sep 2019
'Cave Dwellers who Paint Abstraction' 2025
'Radiant Granularity' 2025
'Art Glass' 2016
ARTISTS + CURATORS
Amy Sillman
Anish Kapoor
Béla Bartók
David Getsy
Dona Nelson
Elizabeth Murray
Frank Stella
Helen Frankenthaler
Jack Whitten '9.11.01' 2006 after Sep 11 2001
Judy Chicago
Laura Owens
Louise Fishman
Mary Reid Kelley and Patrick Kelley 'Best Femmes Forever'
Morris Louis
Pat Steir
Rebecca Byrne
Rochelle Feinstein
Sabine Moritz
Stephen Meuller
William Butler Yeats
BOOKS + AUTHORS + FILM
Anna Burns 'The Milkman' narrator Brid Brennan
Arundhati Roy 'Mother Mary Comes to Me'
Audible
'Carrie Moyer' 2021 with contributions by Lauren O'Neill-Butler, Katy Siegel, Joanna Dinah Fateman by Rizzoli Electa
Flann O'Brien 'The Third Policeman' narrator Jim Norton
J D Salinger 'Catcher in the Rye'
John Gray 'Men are from Mars, Women are from Venus'
'The Ice Tower'
Travis Jeppesen 'Queer Abstraction (Or How to Be a Pervert with No Body) Some Notes Toward a Probability' Mousse magazine 2019
'Young Man with a Horn' 1950
UNIVERSITIES + ORGANISATIONS
Boston University
Daunt Books
Hunter College, New York
London Film Festivals
MoMA, New York 'Jack Whitten: The Messenger' 2025
Pratt Institute
