A Conversation and Book Launch
with Verne Dawson and Jennifer Krasinski
at Karma, New York
Thursday, February 13, 6–7 pm

Karma presents a conversation between Verne Dawson and Jennifer Krasinski followed by a book launch and signing.

Verne Dawson paints chimeric landscapes and cosmological scenes that attend to timekeeping and the structures—both ancient and contemporary—that govern everyday life. Evoking the fantastical worlds of Hieronymus Bosch and the formal reductiveness of folk and so-called “outsider” artists, Dawson’s oils imbue abstraction with a creatural spirit and figuration with the expansiveness of expressionism. Working from observation and memory, as well as improvisationally, the artist uses loose brushstrokes to reflect on the symbols, belief systems, and stories that inform the relationship between humanity and the natural world. Dawson lives between New York and North Carolina.

Jennifer Krasinski is a writer and cultural critic who frequently contributes to 4Columns, Artforum, Bookforum, the New Yorker (Goings On), and other publications. Her essays have been published in numerous books and catalogs including Reza Abdoh, Jill Johnston: The Disintegration of a Critic, and Hilton Als’s Andy Warhol: The Series. Formerly a Senior Editor at Artforum, she also served as the magazine’s Digital Editorial Director, launching their video series “Artists On Writers,” and “Under the Cover.” She was on faculty in the MA Art Writing department at the School of Visual Arts (2013–2021), and has taught at Art Center College of Design, New York University, Yale University, and elsewhere. She is the recipient of an Andy Warhol Foundation Arts Writers Grant (2012), a Rauschenberg residency (2024), and is a 2023–24 MacDowell fellow. She lives in Brooklyn, New York.

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