LUCIA ZEZZA | DATE 6/7/2025

Artbook at MoMA PS1 Bookstore presents Jeanette Spicer launching 'To the Ends of the Earth'

Saturday, June 7 at 4 PM, Artbook @ MoMA PS1 Bookstore presents a conversation about Jeanette Spicer’s To the Ends of the Earth. The event will include a discussion between Jeanette Spicer, her mother Marcia Buckley, and partner Sara Duell, moderated by contributor to the publication Keren Moscovitch.

Q&A followed by a book signing.

Event livestreamed on Instagram at @artbookps1.

Please RSVP for the event and pre-order a signed copy here.

To the Ends of The Earth depicts the relationships between Jeanette Spicer, her mother Marcia Buckley, and her partner Sara Duell through photographs that span a period of 12 years. Initially, Spicer’s work focused on staged scenes with her mother dealing with a Western perspective on familial boundaries. Over the years, Spicer came into an awareness of her lesbian sexuality, and her work shifted its focus to the lived relational dynamics she experiences from that perspective. The photographs in To the Ends of the Earth capture Spicer, her mother, and her partner in activities such as bathing, assembling puzzles, painting toenails, and braiding hair. Through cropping, fragmentation, shadow, and light, Spicer creates visual ambiguities that evoke a continuous negotiation of identity and intimacy as a woman and a lesbian, offering a layered perspective on love, family, and self-discovery.

Jeannette Spicer received her MFA from Parsons The New School in 2013. She has attended Vermont Studio Center, The Wassaic Project, and Benaco Arte in Italy, among other residencies. Her first monograph, Sea(see) was published in 2018 by Kris Graves Projects, the second, To the Ends of the Earth was published by GOST Books, in Fall 2024. Spicer has shown work in various exhibitions, and has had photographs shown in some publications such as The New York Times, New York Magazine, The New Yorker, GAYLETTER, and Vogue. She is co-editor of a dyke publication (2019-current), WMN, showcasing art and poetry by marginalized communities of lesbians.

Marcia Buckley lives in Maryland where she has worked as a school librarian for thirty-two years. She is passionate about and advocates for access to books, and information to support students’ interests and needs. She has recently self-published a short story for children.

Sara Duell has a decade of experience designing for educational, civic and cultural institutions. She holds an MFA in Graphic Design from Yale University where she received the Phelps Berdan Memorial Award and the FLAGS Research Award. She teaches design at Rutgers University Mason Gross School of Art.

Keren Moscovitch is an artist, philosopher and curator based in Brooklyn, NY, and the Shenandoah Valley. Her practice explores radical intimacy through psychoanalytic, ontological and ecological lenses. Her book Radical Intimacy in Contemporary Art: Abjection, Revolt, and Objecthood was published by Bloomsbury Academic in 2023. Her film One More Way to Sink Into My Heart celebrated its world premiere in 2019 at the Sydney International Film Festival, where it won Best Documentary Feature. Her work has been exhibited internationally, most recently at Penumbra Foundation, Experimental Forum and BEAVER the book project. She serves on the faculty at the School of Visual Arts, and Parsons School of Design at the New School.

Artbook @ MoMA PS1 Bookstore
Jeanette Spicer Book Discussion
Saturday, June 7 at 4 PM
22-25 Jackson Ave (at 46th Ave.)
Long Island City, NY 11101
(718) 433-1088
RSVP and pre-order a signed book at artbookstores.com