Talking About Handbags

Sun Nov 23 2025 at 05:00 pm to 06:00 pm

1364 Sterling Pl apt 6 | Brooklyn

Iowa
Publisher/HostIowa
Talking About Handbags
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Iowa is excited to present Talking About Handbags, a conversation between Amy Stober and Audrey Wollen.
About this Event

In March of 2025, Wollen published “A Unified Theory of the Handbag,” an essay that explored the history, symbolism, and power of the carrier bag and its influence on evolution, literature, and social hierarchy. Stober has been making cast sculptures of bags since 2019, using the form to explore material culture, inherited aesthetics, and personal and collective histories and fictions.


Audrey Wollen is a writer from Los Angeles, living in New York City. Her work has appeared in The New Yorker, The Yale Review, The New York Review of Books, The New York Times, Harper's Magazine, The Nation, Bookforum, and elsewhere.

Amy Stober (b. 1994, New Jersey) is an artist who lives and works in Brooklyn, NY. Stober’s recent solo exhibitions include Hand in My Pocket at PAGE (NYC) (New York, NY), Self Storage at A.D. Gallery (New York, NY), and Holding Patterns at Springsteen Gallery (Baltimore, MD). Recent group and two-person exhibitions include Fad infinitum at Iowa Projects (Brooklyn, NY), Three Sides Enclosed, The Fourth Open to a Wash of the Weather at Ensemble (New York, NY), Ditto with Emma Schwartz at Hesse Flatow (New York, NY), The Artificial Silk Girl at Brunette Coleman (London, UK), Elective Affinities at Chapter NY (New York, NY), May My Fiction Rule at Chris Andrews (Montreal, QC) and Electric Affinities at T293 Gallery (Rome, IT).


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1364 Sterling Pl apt 6, 1364 Sterling Place, Brooklyn, United States

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