New Social Environment: SR Lejeune & Joshua Chee Sanford: The Brooklyn Rail

We are pleased to share an upcoming installment of The Brooklyn Rail’s conversation series, featuring artist SR Lejeune in conversation with Rail contributor Joshua Chee Sanford. The conversation accompanies Lejeune’s exhibition, Hold me up, currently on view at HESSE FLATOW.

Join the conversation on Tuesday, November 3, at 1:00 PM via Zoom.

Hold me up is on view at HESSE FLATOW through December 5, 2026.

SR Lejeune (b. 1994, Boston, MA) received a BA with High Honors from Oberlin College (2015), was a Core Fellow at the Penland School of Craft (2017-19) and holds an MFA in Sculpture from the Yale School of Art (2023). SR was the 2023 West Bay View Foundation Fellow at Dieu Donné and a 2025 Windgate Artist-in-Residence at the School of Art + Design at SUNY Purchase. They have additionally completed residencies at the Dirt Palace, lower_cavity, the Helene Wurlitzer Foundation, Women’s Studio Workshop and Bemis Center for Contemporary Arts. Their recent solo exhibitions include "Witness Marks" at HESSE FLATOW (NYC, NY), “contributing structure” at Turchin Center for the Visual Arts (Boone, NC), and “tilt” at the Richard and Dolly Maass Gallery (Purchase, NY). They have taught workshops at the Penland School of Craft, Women’s Studio Workshop, SUNY Purchase, Dieu Donné, Bard College, Appalachian State University and the Yucca Valley Materials Lab. SR is currently based in Pine Plains, NY where they are (slowly) building out a manual machine shop.

Joshua Chee Sanford is a writer, curator, and arts worker based in Brooklyn, New York. He holds a BA in Asian American Studies from Northwestern University. His writing has been published in the Brooklyn Rail, IMPULSE, and The Kitchen's ON MIND magazine.