Matt Connors in Conversation with MoMA PS1 Curator, Peter Eleey

On the occasion of the publication of A Bell is a Cup coinciding with Matt Connors’ exhibition at MoMA PS1, the artist holds a conversation with Curator Peter Eleey. Alongside texts by Eleey, Michel Leiris, Gertrude Stein and Jack Spicer, the book presents the first comprehensive gathering of Connors' work to date. In his essay, Eleey writes that Connors’ paintings “bear traces of one another, but they also sometimes prop each other up or lean into each other, as if to physically reinforce, in painterly terms, Jack Spicer’s ideas about the interdependence of poems. ‘There is really no single poem,’ Spicer came to believe; he argued that ‘poems should echo and re-echo against each other.’”