Other-Worlding: Artist Talk by Emilie L. Gossiaux, in Conversation with Georgina Kleege

The Center for Disability Studies and NYU’s Grey Art Gallery invite you to join Emilie L. Gossiaux for an artist talk in advance of her debut museum solo exhibition, Other-Worlding, at the Queens Museum in New York City. Gossiaux will be in conversation with Georgina Kleege, author of More than Meets the Eye: What Blindness Brings to Art. Gossiaux and Kleege will preview Gossiaux’s exhibit, discuss her artistic practice, and consider the ways a disabled artist’s experience can inform how museums provide access.

Emilie L. Gossiaux is a multidisciplinary artist whose works center disability pride through her investigations of the complex relationships between humans and animals in the Anthropocene, or the human-impacted world. Gossiaux’s work fosters imagination, liberation, and pleasure in opposition to the Anthropocene’s exploitative systems of capitalism and ableism. For her first museum solo exhibition, Gossiaux will create a large-scale sculptural installation that both expands upon her deep and sincere relationship with her guide dog, London, and celebrates the white cane as a symbol of freedom.

A photo of the artist Emilie L. Gossiaux sitting in her studio—she has dark brown hair, light tan skin, and is wearing a denim blue sleeveless button-up top and black pants. She looks down with a big smile on her face, and holds up a small drawing of her guide dog, London, in her hands. London, a golden labrador retriever, is seated beside Emilie and is poking her nose at the bottom of the drawing.

Emilie Louise Gossiaux (b. 1989, New Orleans, LA) received a BFA from The Cooper Union School of Art in 2014, and an MFA in Sculpture from Yale School of Art in 2019. Gossiaux’s recent solo shows include Significant Otherness at Mother Gallery, New York, and Memory of a Body at Mother Gallery, Beacon, NY. Group shows include Don’t Mind If I Do at MoCa Cleveland (2023); In Plain Sight at the Wellcome Collection (2022);  Greater New York at MoMA PS 1 (2021); Crip Time at Museum für Moderne Kunst, Frankfurt (2021); Open Call at The Shed (2021) among others. Gossiaux was awarded a John F. Kennedy Center’s VSA Prize, the Wynn Newhouse Award, a NYFA Barbara and Carl Zydney Grant, the Colene Brown Art Prize, the Queens Museum Jerome Foundation Fellowship, and the Pébéo Production Prize. Her work has been featured in publications such as The Paris Review, The Brooklyn Rail, The New Yorker, Art in America, and Topical Cream Magazine. Gossiaux currently lives and works in New York City.

This is a head shot of Georgina Kleege, a middle-aged white woman with chin-length white hair. She is smiling and her white cane is visible on the right side of the image.

Georgina Kleege is Professor Emeritus of English at UC Berkeley. She now lives in New York City. Her recent books include: Sight Unseen, Blind Rage: Letters to Helen Keller, and More than Meets the Eye: What Blindness Brings to Art.

Event is free and open to the public.

ASL and live captions will be provided.

If you require captioning and ASL simultaneously, we recommend using a laptop or desktop computer, and not a tablet or smartphone.

Please email accessibility needs as they relate to this event to msf440@nyu.edu.

Co-sponsored by Proclaiming Disability Arts