Arshile Gorky
Arshile Gorky Estate
Arshile Gorky was born an ethnic Armenian in Khorkom, Van, Ottoman Empire (present-day Turkey) in c. 1904. Fleeing the genocide that claimed the life of his mother, he immigrated to the United States as a teenage refugee in 1920. After five years with relatives in Massachusetts, Gorky moved to New York and changed his name in honor of the celebrated Russian poet. Refusing all categories, whether artistic or political, as necessarily reductive, Gorky forsook assimilation in favor of celebrating his otherness, becoming a central figure of the cultural milieu of a city on the brink of Modernism.
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In Conversation: Zoe Leonard and curator Nadiah Rivera Fellah on ‘Al río / To the River’
Sat 10 September 2022
1 – 3 pm
New York 22nd Street, 2nd Floor
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