Roxane Gay said that as president of the board of directors, she will support the great experimental art and ensure aesthetic diversity is brought to Performance Space.
“And now it’s out of control.” For Art in America, Roxane Gay also spoke to artist Jenny Saville about obesity and feminism. “I started researching and acquiring items,” she said. In an interview with Artnet News in April of this year, she said that in her funds there are works by Mikalen Thomas, Jenny Holzer, Julie Mehretu, Kalil Robert Irving, and others. Her 2014 essay collection Bad Feminist made the New York Times bestseller list, and her 2017 book Hunger: A Memoir of (My) Body was widely acclaimed.Īlthough Roxane Gay is not usually associated with the art world, she has made forays as a collector lately. Roxane Gay is an outspoken commentator who raises questions of identity and privilege. But Performance Space New York, the beloved alternative space in the East Village, went in a different direction when it appointed best-selling author Roxanne Gay as president of its council. Roxane Gay at A24's screening of the the film ZOLA, 2021, in Los Angeles.Īrtistic council leaders are generally made up of wealthy collectors and renowned philanthropists.
