Genesis Baez & Christine Kelly: Book Launch & Reception

Genesis Báez’s visual work merges fiction, personal narratives, and social histories of modern colonization in a conversation around placemaking. Báez’s debut monograph, Blue Sun (Capricious Publishing, 2025) spans a decade of photographic work made in Puerto Rico and its diaspora. Blue Sun offers a glimmering examination of matriarchal kinship through images of the elemental and generational.

Christine Kelly’s Allow Me to Slip on Something a Little More Hypocycloid puts geometry to shame. Like a curve rolling on the inside of a circumference, “my dispersal is at your disposal,” Kelly writes. Hypocycloids aren’t just graphical representations—they’re spatial unsystems, vibed-out significations, sites of performance.

About the Authors:

Genesis Báez’s works are represented in the permanent collections of the Museum of Modern Art, New York; Whitney Museum of American Art, The Detroit Institute of Art; and Yale University Art Gallery, New Haven, Connecticut. Born in Massachusetts to Puerto Rican migrants, Báez studied at Massachusetts College of Art & Design, the Yale School of Art and Skowhegan and currently teaches photography at Williams College and Sarah Lawrence College.

Christine Kelly is a poet and artist based in North Adams, Massachusetts. Her work takes the form of slapstick powerpoint presentations, textiles, bibliomancy, drawings, and more. She is the author of Allow Me to Slip on Something a Little More Hypocycloid (PRROBLEM, 2025) and the chapbooks Food Gas Lodging Liquid Solid (Creative Writing Department, 2023), Dopamine Agonist Destiny Forest (Theme Can Print Editions, 2018), and Pudding Time (DoubleCross Press, 2015). She holds an MFA from the Milton Avery Graduate College of Arts at Bard College and a BFA from the Cleveland Institute of Art.