Join us on September 18th at 7PM for a conversation with San Antonio artist Joey Fauerso and poet Jenny Browne around the release of Joey Fauerso: You Destroy Every Special Thing I Make, which spans nearly a decade of her career as an artist, ranging from painting and installation to video and performance work.

Including essays by Jenny Browne, Veronica Roberts, Betsy Huete, Neil Fauerso, Aurvi Sharma, Hilary Leichter, and Claire Hoffman, You Destroy Every Special Thing I Make presents Fauerso's work newly contextualized and demonstrates her ongoing commitment to addressing themes of family, gender, and humor in her artwork.

about the author

Joey Fauerso is an artist and 2022 Guggenheim Fellow in the Fine Arts. Her work consists mostly of painting, video, installation and performance addressing issues of gender, humor and family. Recently her work has been exhibited at the Visual Arts Center at the University of Texas, Bemis Center for Contemporary Art, MASS MoCA, Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art, the Drawing Center in New York, and New Mexico State University Art Museum. Fauerso has been the recipient of multiple grants and residencies, including a 2022 Guggenheim Fellowship, a 2020 Joan Mitchell Grant for Painters and Sculptors, a 2021 Sustainable Arts Foundation grant, the Open Sessions residency at The Drawing Center in New York, the Golden Foundation Grant, Dallas Museum of Art Kimberough Grant, the RAIR artist in residence grant, Yaddo, MacDowell, and Kunstlerhaus Bethanien in Berlin. Fauerso is a  Professor in the School of Art and Design at Texas State University, and lives with her family in San Antonio, Texas.

Jenny Browne is the author of three poetry collections: At Once, The Second Reason, and Dear Stranger, and two chapbooks, Welcome to Freetown and Texas, Being. She was the 2017 Poet Laureate of Texas. She is currently a professor of English at Trinity University, San Antonio, Texas.