THE LIFE OF A BOOK Ewa Monika Zebrowski & Dean Rader in Conversation

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Ewa Monika Zebrowski is a Montreal-based photographer and poet. Her photographs and artist’s books touch on displacement, memory, place, time, and traces. She creates visual narratives often inspired by art and literature, sometimes collaborating with writers and poets, sometimes including her own poems or text Zebrowski has had forty solo exhibitions and produced twenty-five artist’s books. Her work can be found in over 50 museum and institutional collections in Canada, the United States, the United Kingdom, Italy, Denmark, and Australia, including MoMA, the Getty Research Institute, the Menil Collection, the Museum of Fine Arts Houston, Columbia University, Yale University, Stanford University among others. Since 2012, the celebrated artist Cy Twombly has been a primary inspiration for her work. In 2023 she published I NEVER KNEW CY TWOBLY, Bassano in Teverina with Nearest Truth Editions.

Dean Rader has authored or co-authored twelve books, including Self-Portrait as Wikipedia Entry, Landscape Portrait Figure Form, named a Barnes & Noble Best Book, and Works & Days, which won the T. S. Eliot Prize. Before the Borderless: Dialogues with the Art of Cy Twombly, appeared in 2023. He is a professor at the University of San Francisco and a 2019 Guggenheim Fellow in Poetry.