Pocket Book Club
Sargent’s Daughters is delighted to announce Pocket Book Club: a new literary programming series that spotlights books handpicked by gallery artists and team members.
Pocket Book Club features primarily shorter texts and will rotate on the basis of exhibitions, with a live discussion for each book at our New York City location.
In our first edition of the Book Club, we will be reading The Hour of the Star by Clarice Lispector, which is also the title of the current New York exhibition of Kate Barbee’s new paintings. All are invited to a facilitated discussion with the artist about the literary inspirations behind her work.
The Hour of the Star is a 1977 novella by Ukranian-Brazilian author Clarice Lispector. The text follows the life of a young typist living in the slums of Rio de Janeiro, whose destitution is placed in contrast to the cosmopolitan city surrounding her. Lispector’s introspective narrative is a patchwork of impressions and reflections, considering the perils of city life, the loss of innocence, and the instability of identity.
The discussion will be hosted by publishing professional, Savannah Daniels, on April 13 at 4:30pm. Please RSVP by clicking the link below.
Kate Barbee (b. 1994, Dallas, TX) received her BFA in Studio Art from the University of Texas at Austin, TX in 2017.
Barbee has recently exhibited at Kohn Gallery, (Los Angeles, CA), Albertz Benda (New York, NY), San Luis Obispo Museum of Art (San Luis Obispo, CA), UQBAR Gallery (Berlin, Germany), Saatchi Gallery (London, U.K.), The Golden Gate Parlor (Los Angeles, CA), Royal Co-op (Austin, TX), Visual Arts Center (Austin, TX), Co-Lab Gallery (Austin, TX), Activation Gallery (Austin, TX), and Dollhouse Space (Chicago, IL). Barbee was an Artist-in-Residence at the Bed Stuy Art (Brooklyn, NY) in 2021. Her work is in the permanent collection at the Hill Art Foundation (New York, NY), Andrew Xue Collection (Singapore), and Danjuma Collection (London, UK).
Her work has been reviewed in Arte Fuse, Mercer Contemporary, ODDA Magazine, Whitehot Magazine, Artnet, KCRW, Flaunt, Metal Magazine, Art and Cake, Art of Choice, L’Officiel Art, Harper’s Bazaar, VoyageLA, amongst others. She lives and works in New York, NY.
Savannah Daniels is a queer writer and creative based in Brooklyn, New York. She holds dual BAs in English and Political Science with a postcolonial focus, and studied Arabic and regional politics in Amman, Jordan. She is a passionate freelance editor who previously worked at agencies and literary magazines such as the Kenyon Review. Currently, she is a National Accounts Manager at HarperCollins Publishers, where she chairs an internal reading group and serves as president of their Association.
The Hour of the Star by Clarice Lispector
