On the evening of Wednesday, February 25, poet Miller Oberman will lead a walkthrough of our current exhibitions, Golnar Adili, To measure the emotions of others, and Kate Teale, Vanishing Points. Oberman will be joined by the artists as he responds to the works on view, opening up new lines of inquiry.

Miller Oberman is the author of Impossible Things, from Duke University Press, 2024 and The Unstill Ones, Princeton Series of Contemporary Poets, 2017. He has received a number of awards for his poetry, including a Ruth Lilly Fellowship, the 92Y Discovery Prize, a NYSCA/NYFA Artist Fellowship, and Poetry magazine’s John Frederick Nims Memorial Prize for Translation. His poems appeared in The New Yorker, Poetry, The Hopkins Review, Poem-a-Day, Foglifter, London Review of Books, and The Nation. Miller is an editor at Broadsided Press, which publishes visual-literary collaborations and teaches at and serves on the board of Brooklyn Poets. He teaches writing at Eugene Lang College at The New School in New York, and in the MFA program at Sarah Lawrence College. Miller is a trans Jewish anti-Zionist committed to the liberation of all. He lives with his family in New York. You can find Miller at millerwolfoberman.com and on IG @millerwolf8. 

Golnar Adili is an Iranian American artist, designer, and educator based in Brooklyn, New York. Adili holds a master’s degree in architecture from the University of Michigan and has participated in residencies with the Rockefeller Foundation for the Arts (Bellagio, Italy), Center for Book Arts (NYC), Smack Mellon (Brooklyn, NY), Fine Arts Work Center (Provincetown, MA), MacDowell (NYC), Ucross Foundation for the Arts (Clearmont, WY), Lower East Side Printshop (NYC), Women’s Studio Workshop (Rosendale, NY), and Lower Manhattan Cultural Council Workspace (NYC), among others. Her work has been presented internationally in solo and group exhibitions organized by institutions such as: the Victoria and Albert Museum (London, UK), The Cue Art Foundation (New York, NY), The Walters Art Museum (Baltimore, MD), and the Craft Contemporary (Los Angeles, CA). She is the recipient of major grants from the Pollock-Krasner Foundation, NYFA, and the Jerome Foundation. In 2021, Adili was a finalist for the Jameel Prize, sponsored by the Victoria & Albert Museum and Art Jameel. Her artist books are in over 50 collections, including the Library of Congress, the Smithsonian, the Walker Art Center, Yale University, and the Metropolitan Museum of Art’s Thomas J. Watson Library.

Kate Teale is a British born artist living and working in Brooklyn. Her work spans painting, drawing, and installation. She received NYFA/NYSCA Artist Fellowships in Drawing (2023) and in Painting (2008), and a Joan Mitchell Foundation artist development grant (2018). Teale has shown with Studio10 Gallery, and her work can be seen in Pierogi Gallery’s flat files. Recent exhibitions in DUMBO include “Window Window” at Main Windows (2025), “Hole” at Undercurrent (2022), and “Blurr” at Platform (2022). She has written feature articles for the UK art magazine Contemporary Art, and has curated exhibitions at Platform Project Space, and the Kerr Gallery, Western Michigan University, and as founder/director of Big&Small/Casual Gallery. Kate has a studio in DUMBO, as part of the Two Trees Cultural Space Subsidy Program. Her IG is @katetealestudio and her website is www.kateteale.com