Welcome to our fifth episode of Y2K GROUP CHAT featuring artist Anjuli Rathod. We recorded in late September 2020. We talk with Anjuli about her studio practice, making art at a young age, the space in-between worlds, communicating with the passed, creating a character named Red, life and death cycles, and ideas of grieving in her work. Anjuli Rathod is an emerging artist working in Brooklyn. Follow us on Instagram: @y2kgroup Subscribe to our YouTube channel for more content about contemporary art. Stay up-to-date with out Y2K Blog on our website for more news. Coinciding with this new episode release is Y2K-NOW presenting recent works on paper by Anjuli Rathod on our website to buy now. Audio timestamps below: 0:00 - Intro Music 0:15 - Y2K GROUP CHAT introduction 0:34 - Anjuli Rathod introduction and bio 0:56 - Rathod exhibition history 1:44 - Y2K-NOW + Anjuli Rathod 2:10 - Hello and Happy Fridays 2:40 - Name 3:05 - What are you working on? 3:37 - Where’s your studio? 4:37 - What are your first memories with art? 5:15 - Mr. Miller art teacher 6:10 - What inspired you when you were younger? 7:12 - Statues from parents and small paintings 8:54 - What did your parents think about you pursuing art when you were young? 10:27 - Medical books 11:20 - rotten dot com 12:26 - Where did you grow up? 12:36 - Did you imagine a future in New York? 13:27 - Boston 14:09 - Museum 14:21 - MIT 14:58 - Undergrad in Boston 16:04 - Flexibility and preparing to be an artist while in school 16:33 - Did you explore other mediums? 17:09 - Would you revisit past mediums? 17:29 - Recent ceramic work 18:15 - Spiritual elements in current work 18:53 - Life, death cycles, and grieving 19:33 - Creating Red and her journey 20:21 - Monk 20:59 - Hallucinating the passed 21:56 - Paintings imagining in-between spaces and communing 23:07 - Visions? 23:50 - Dream imagery 24:15 - Moon? 25:36 - Observers 26:09 - Butterfly meaning 27:40 - Illuminations 29:35 - Afterlife? 31:30 - Lost + The Leftovers 32:42 - Interstate Projects 34:37 - Working with acrylic and flashe + watercolor 38:07 - How are your drawings incorporated in your practice? 40:32 - Pandemic 45:05 - Revisiting galleries 47:14 - Sketching and ceramics? 48:48 - The Mystic Spiral 51:10 - Future and ceramics? 53:30 - Spirals in everything 54:02 - Continuing the series and Red’s journey 55:23 - More about Red, Anne Carson, Bhanu Kapil 58:53 - Questions / Astrology 1:00:19 - Animation, film, sci-fi 1:04:12 - Thank you