Cerebral Women Art Talks Podcast: Recent Episodes
Phyllis Hollis
The Cerebral Women media platform presents Cerebral Women Art Talks, a podcast that is an extension of @cerebral_women. Conversations offer insights into the visual art world from artists, mainly artists of color, and female artists who freely articulate what inspires their creativity. In addition, you'll hear interesting perspectives from dedicated art professionals who work with artists and the art institutions that feature them. Art Advisors, Art Critics, Collectors, Curators, Gallerists, Museum Professionals.
Ep.275 Boluwatife Oyediran (b. 1997, Ogbomoso, Nigeria) lives and works in Iowa City, USA. He holds an MFA in painting from the Rhode Island School of Design, where he was awarded the Presidential Fellowship. He is currently an MFA in fiction candidate and Sonny Mehta Fellow at the Iowa Writers’ Workshop. Oyediran’s multidisciplinary practice combines painting, creative writing, and photojournalism. His painting practice is committed to reimagining and reorienting Black identity within the canons of history, religion, and western art. His original, self-devised concept “inverted blackness” features portraits of Black migrants in the United States, depicted in luminous, photonegative paintings, visualizing their mutative and otherness identity. His practice centers on the Black diasporic experience in the United States and his vision is to elevate and insert this experience into the canon of art history. Oyediran’s “inverted blackness” series was the subject of a solo exhibition at the AFIKARIS Gallery, Paris, in 2024, titled “Inverted Blackness” and accompanied by a publication of the same name. In 2025, following his MFA at RISD, Oyediran started Inverted Blackness, a Substack Photoblog that publishes photographs and oral accounts of the experiences of Black migrants in Rhode Island. In 2026, Oyediran’s work was acquired by Mattatuck Museum, and in the same year he becomes the first African writer awarded a Sonny Mehta Fellowship at the Iowa Writers’ Workshop, where he’s at work on a novel.Oyediran’s work has been exhibited at the Kunsthalle Krems Museum, Austria; FLAG Art Foundation, USA; RISD Museum, USA; Fondation Blachère, France; Mattatuck Museum, USA; Gallery 1957, Ghana; UTA Artist Space, USA; Featherstone Center of the Arts, USA; Sotheby’s Tel Aviv, Israel; Twelve Gates, USA; and many more. His works can be found in the collections of Mattatuck Museum, David Adjaye, Fondation Blachère, Kutlesa, Serge Tiroche, Amir Shariat, and so many more. You can find him on Instagram @boluoyediran. Photo credit: Ehsan Ahmed MehediArtist https://www.boluoyediran.com/Substack https://invertedblackness.substack.com/Iowa Writers Workshop https://writersworkshop.uiowa.edu/news/2021/06/iowa-writers-workshop-announces-sonny-mehta-fellowships-creative-writingAFIKARIS https://afikaris.com/exhibitions/44-inverted-blackness-boluwatife-oyediran/Gallery1957 https://www.gallery1957.com/artists/85-boluwatife-oyediran/Overblog https://cultureetplus.over-blog.com/2026/06/boluwatife-oyediran.htmlCollatar. al https://www.collater.al/en/boluwatife-oyediran-inverted-blackness-chromatic-inversion-identity/onart media https://www.onart.media/events-centered-on-contemporary-african-art/chromatic-deconstruction-and-identity-the-nuances-of-african-identity-in-america-through-the-art-of-boluwatife-oyediran/OLYM https://www.olymcollection.art/artists/51-boluwatife-oyediran/biography/r.public https://rpublc.com/author/boluwatife-oyediran
Ep.274 Siri Devi Khandavilli is a multidisciplinary artist whose practice fluidly bridges tradition and innovation, drawing deeply from Indian artistic legacies while engaging in a broader contemporary dialogue. Working across sculpture, painting, and printmaking, she dissolves boundaries between disciplines to explore themes of cultural migration, feminism, ecology, mythology, and the nature of reality. Khandavilli’s artistic foundation was shaped from an early age at the Karnataka Chitrakala Parishath, where she began her artistic journey, learning Mysore Traditional Painting under the tutelage of her aunt, Susheela Devi. She also holds a BFA and an MFA in Intermedia from Arizona State University, as well as another MFA in sculpture from Karnataka Chitrakala Parishath. This diverse education informs a practice that is both meticulous and experimental, embracing elements of chance while also reflecting history, tradition, and transformation. A recurring motif in her work is the act of mirroring, both literally and conceptually. Her pursuit of the “perfect image” led her to invent a mirror finish on her canvases, blurring the distinction between painting and reflection. The image on the canvas is constantly being created in the present yet carries memories and imprints of the past. She also engages in an ongoing exploration of the tension between control and unpredictability, a theme that permeates her sculptural practice. Her methods, mediums, contexts, and surfaces destabilize singular readings, inviting layered interpretations that oscillate between the apparent and the subversive. She believes that an artwork is never about just one thing but rather about everything happening in the world at the time of its creation, as the artist is thinking and experiencing it all.Her works have been shown and are also held in major institutional collections, including the Kiran Nadar Museum of Art, the Nita Mukesh Ambani Private Collection, the Albertina Museum, Durham University Museum, the Fidelity Art Collection, ASU Art Museum, and the Queens Museum, among others. Splitting her time between New Delhi and New York, Khandavilli navigates a transnational space where many experiences overlap, creating a body of work that is both deeply personal and universally resonant.Photo Credit Manoj Kesharwani 2024Lisa Sette Gallery httpswww.lisasettegallery.comartists41-siri-devi-khandavilliworksGallery Ragini httpsgalleryragini.comsiri-devi-khandavilliBOMB Magazine httpsbombmagazine.orgarticles20260311siri-devi-khandavilli-by-melissa-josephArt Centrix Space httpswww.artcentrix.comMeer httpswww.meer.comen88201-40-year-anniversary-exhibition-shaping-a-life-of-curiosityIndia Art Fair httpsindiaartfair.inexhibitorsScale Magazine httpsscalemag.onlinedesignhighlights-from-the-india-art-fair-2025Artwork Archive httpswww.artworkarchive.com
Rosson Crow’s work was featured in important solo exhibitions throughout the US, and Europe. She has a strong presence in prestigious public and private collections. Rosson Crow has been represented by la Galerie Nathalie Obadia, Paris/Brussels, since 2005.Portrait credit Rose EichenbaumGalerie Nathalie Obadia https://www.nathalieobadia.com/artists/37-rosson-crow/biography/Miles McCenery https://www.milesmcenery.com/artists/rosson-crowCNAP https://www.cnap.fr/rosson-crow-la-ruptureArtsHebdoMedias https://www.artshebdomedias.com/agenda/rosson-crow-la-rupture/Arts in the city https://www.arts-in-the-city.com/265337-rosson-crow-a-la-galerie-nathalie-obadiaLe Journal Des Arts https://www.lejournaldesarts.fr/evenement/2026/rosson-crow-la-rupture-182905Actu Arts https://actu.art/event/la-rupture-rosson-crow/Ocula https://ocula.com/artists/rosson-crow/artworks/Art Currently https://artcurrently.com/rosson-crow-on-the-seductive-destruction#:~:text=In%20line%20with%20her%20continued,and%20deconstruction%20of%20current%20America.
Ep.272 David Smalling (b. 1987, Kingston, Jamaica) lives and works in New York. He studied Mathematics at Yale University, where he also trained at the Yale School of Art, and holds a Ph.D. from Harvard University.Smalling’s painting practice examines the invisible architectures through which cultural hierarchies, inherited rituals, and social taboos shape identity. Working through the visual language of Mannerism, Dutch Golden Age still life, and Old Master painting, he approaches the panel as a diagnostic surface: a place where shame, desire, aspiration, and restraint are staged with theatrical precision.His meticulous compositions often unfold within domestic and ceremonial interiors, where silver platters, pearls, ribbons, brass instruments, mattresses, and other charged objects become symbols of belonging and control. These objects appear seductive at first, but gradually reveal systems of pressure: codes of class, gender, decorum, and performance that shape the body before the body itself appears. In Smalling’s paintings, the feast, the bedroom, and the still life become psychological arenas in which access to elite or aspirational spaces is granted only through subtle forms of compliance.Drawing from the tradition of vanitas painting, Smalling reanimates the memento mori for a contemporary world whose inherited codes have aged but not disappeared. The snail, a recurring motif in his work, operates as a quiet agent of entropy: a slow, viscous disruption within otherwise pristine arrangements of wealth and beauty. Its trace becomes a measure of time, decay, and the instability beneath polished surfaces.Smalling’s practice is also shaped by a rigorous computational process. Through proprietary systems developed by the artist, including Autoglaze and Wide Gamut Pigment, he decomposes images into physically realizable layers of translucent oil paint, translating questions of color, optics, and perception into a precise choreography of material execution. This fusion of algorithmic structure and classical craft allows his paintings to inhabit a space between artifice and revelation, where beauty becomes both seduction and evidence.In 2026, TEMPLON New York presented Elizabethan Collar, Smalling’s first exhibition with the gallery. Taking its title from the veterinary device colloquially known as the “cone of shame,” the exhibition explored conditional belonging, the cost of access, and the fragile performance of identity within spaces of prestige. Through lacquered surfaces, artificial light, and meticulously staged symbolic objects, Smalling invites viewers to recognize the systems they inhabit, and the roles they have learned to perform within them.Headshot Photo Credit: Timothy Greenfield-SandersArtist https://www.david-smalling.com/Templon Gallery https://www.templon.com/artists/david-smalling/Impulse Magazine https://www.impulsemagazine.com/articlesGalerie Magazine https://galeriemagazine.com/must-see-solo-gallery-shows-april-2026Whitehot Magazine https://whitehotmagazine.com/articles/elizabethan-collar-at-galerie-templon/7720Ocula https://ocula.com/art-galleries/daniel-templon/exhibitions/elizabethan-collar/Yale University Radio https://museumofnonvisibleart.com/interviews/david-smalling/Heni News https://heni.com/news?artist=David%20SmallingPalo Gallery https://www.palogallery.com/exhibitions/32-david-smalling-wood-and-water/works/ArtRabbit https://www.artrabbit.com/events/david-smalling-wood-and-water
Ep.271 Ruba Katrib is Chief Curator and Director of Curatorial Affairs at MoMA PS1 in New York, where she steers the museum’s program and is a member of the leadership team. At PS1 she has curated exhibitions such as The Gatherers (2025), Ayoung Kim: Delivery Dancers Codex (2025), Sohrab Hura: Mother (2024), Rirkrit Tiravanija: A LOT OF PEOPLE (with Yasmil Raymond, 2023), Jumana Manna: Break, Take, Erase, Tally (2022), Frieda Toranzo Jaeger: Autonomous Drive (2022), Greater New York (2021), Niki de Saint Phalle: Structures for Life (2021), Simone Fattal’s retrospective in 2019, and solo shows by Edgar Heap of Birds (2019), Karrabing Collective (2019), Fernando Palma Rodríguez, and Julia Phillips (2018). From 2012–2018 she was the Curator at SculptureCenter in New York, where she organized over twenty exhibitions including 74 million million million tons (2018, co-organized with artist Lawrence Abu Hamdan) and solo shows by Carissa Rodriguez, Kelly Akashi, Sam Anderson, Teresa Burga, Nicola L., Charlotte Prodger, Rochelle Goldberg, Aki Sasamoto, Cosima von Bonin, Anthea Hamilton, Araya Rasdjarmrearnsook, Magali Reus, Gabriel Sierra, Erika Verzutti, and David Douard. In 2018, Katrib co-curated SITE Santa Fe’s biennial, Casa Tomada, along with José Luis Blondet and Candice Hopkins. She is an advisory board member of CCA Berlin and a board member of Topical Cream, and regularly writes for periodicals and museum catalogues.Photo credit : John KimRuba Katrib https://www.rubakatrib.com/MoMA https://www.moma.org/magazine/authors/92MoMA PS1 https://www.momaps1.org/en/events/663-ayoung-kim-in-conversation-with-dawn-chan-and-ruba-katribMoMA Greater New York Artists https://www.momaps1.org/en/programs/754-greater-new-york-artist-talksVenice Biennale Qatar Pavilion AnnouncementArt Basel Unlimited Announcement Unlimited May 26, 2026 interview https://www.artbasel.com/stories/art-basel-2026-unlimited-ruba-katrib-moma-ps1-curatorBiennial Foundation https://biennialfoundation.org/2026/04/national-pavilion-of-qatar-at-the-61st-venice-biennale-presents-untitled-2026-a-gathering-of-remarkable-people/Qatar Museums https://qm.org.qa/en/calendar/untitled-2026/Art Newspaper https://www.artnewspaper.fr/2025/09/02/ruba-katrib-nommee-commissaire-du-secteur-unlimited-dart-baselDocument Journal https://www.documentjournal.com/2025/10/the-curators-shaping-the-future-of-archives-ruba-katrib/Le Quotidien De l’Art https://www.lequotidiendelart.com/articles/27830-ruba-katrib-commissaire-d-unlimited-%C3%A0-art-basel-2026.htmlAnderson Ranch https://www.andersonranch.org/people/ruba-katrib/Oolite Arts https://oolitearts.org/event/talks-ruba-katrib/Site Santa Fe https://www.sitesantafe.org/en/artists/ruba-katrib/Culturalee https://culturalee.art/art-basel-names-ruba-katrib-as-curator-of-unlimited-sector/Cultured https://www.culturedmag.com/article/2025/09/02/art-basel-unlimited-ruba-katrib-curator/Canvas https://canvasonline.com/ruba-katrib-appointed-curator-of-art-basel-unlimited/Dazed https://www.dazed.me/news/forever-and-always-ruba-katribs-favourite-selection-of-dazed-mena-features
Ep.269 Chidy Wayne (Spain, 1981) is a Spanish-Guinean artist working primarily in painting and sculpture.His practice addresses fundamental questions such as identity and inner conflict through a gestural, material-based figuration that incorporates oils, acrylics, textured surfaces, and sculptures in wood, iron or plaster.Influenced by both the artistic avant-garde and ancestral cultural elements, Wayne revisits the primitive through a contemporary language, building a repertoire of signs with timeless resonance.His work establishes a dialogue between the rational and the instinctive, where matter becomes language and the energy of gesture acquires a spiritual dimension. Each piece confronts the viewer with their own human condition.Wayne’s body of work inhabits the space between the archaic and the contemporary, the intimate and the collective. From this position, he consolidates a practice that connects the force of the ancestral with the forms of the present.Photographed by: Maral FardArtist https://chidywayne.com/Southern Guild https://southernguild.com/artists/chidy-wayneGrege Gallery https://www.gregegallery.com/artists/chidy-wayneFrancis Gallery https://francisgallery.com/exhibitions/ancestral-futuresFrieze 2026 https://www.thecut.com/article/frieze-new-york-2026-art-scene-report-people-watching.htmlImagicasa https://imagicasa.be/en/story/past-and-imagination-chidy-wayne-at-male-castleLuxembourg Art Week https://luxembourgartweek.lu/en/programme/chidy-wayne-solid-ego-005Art Paris https://www.artparis.com/fr/gallery/4204Boon Paris https://boonparis.com/chidy-wayne Sight Unseen https://www.sightunseen.com/2024/02/chidy-wayne-artist/Creative Voyage https://creative.voyage/products/chidy-wayne-in-the-mirror?srsltid=AfmBOoq4pAl2IYXKeU_dEy2nwMNEatrMQteZkTChRRX153i4wMuc4n0GMilk Decoration https://www.milkdecoration.com/los-angeles-le-peintre-chidy-wayne-expose-ses-oeuvres-neo-primitives-a-la-francis-gallery/Artsper https://www.artsper.com/fr/artistes-contemporains/espagne/113865/chidy-wayneArt Shortlist https://artshortlist.com/fr/artiste/chidy-wayneBoon Room https://boon-room.com/talents/42-chidy-wayne/?srsltid=AfmBOopS-37afSKbWM4Jre6mlL7BkYdp1EB7dcb3mED_FfMHWxycAQ1F
Ep.268 Laurena Finéus is a Haitian-Canadian interdisciplinary artist working primarily in painting, performance and social practice. In her practice, Finéus has been concerned with representations of black geographies, maroon thought, and migratory histories through an array of painterly imagined landscapes. The teachings of Haitian scholar Michel-Rolph Trouillot in ‘Silencing the past’ informs her understanding of visual narration in her practice. Finéus’ strategies include the collapsing of history in order to question its production and mechanisms.Finéus is an MFA graduate from Columbia University (2024) and the University of Ottawa with a Bachelor of Fine arts (2020). Her work has been exhibited at the SHED NY (2025), Brooklyn Museum (2024), Hudson River museum (2023), the Ottawa art gallery (2021), and Art mûr (2019) among others . She is part of a range of private and public collections internationally such as the Canada Council Art Bank , the City of Ottawa’s Art Collection and Google. She is the recipient of the Saunderson Prize (2024), the Helen Frankenthaler fund (2023), the Elizabeth Greenshields foundation grant (2022-2023) , the Ottawa arts council IBPOC emerging artist award (2022), and the Ineke Harmina Standish memorial (2019).Finéus is based in Brooklyn, NY.Credit Photo: Avery Savage for SHEER WORLDWIDEArtist https://laurenafineus.com/Fridman Gallery https://fridmangallery.com/2025/07/03/artists-laurena-fineus/Essence https://www.essence.com/art/the-shed-nyc-portals-exhibition/Columbia University https://www.vaexhibitions.arts.columbia.edu/class-of-2024/laurena-finusUniversity of Ottawa https://www.uottawa.ca/fr/toutes-nouvelles/celebrer-lhistoire-culture-haitiennes-travers-lart-laurena-fineusForbes https://www.forbes.com/sites/janelevere/2025/07/27/early-career-nyc-artists-display-new-work-at-the-shed-in-hudson-yards/Hyperallergic https://hyperallergic.com/these-are-the-200-artists-in-the-brooklyn-museum-open-call-show/Juxtapoz https://www.juxtapoz.com/news/magazine/features/laurena-fineus-love-letters-to-haiti/Sheer Worldwide https://www.sheerworldwide.com/art/features/2025/8/7/artists-to-know-laurena-finusJenkins Johnson Gallery https://www.jenkinsjohnsongallery.com/artworks/4308-laurena-fineus-nou-te-gen-yon-paradi-pou-antere-we-2022/Blackcopper https://www.blackcopper.org/featured-artists/lAmbassade-Haiti https://ambassade-haiti.ca/uncategorized/laurena-fineus/Haitian Times https://haitiantimes.com/fr/%C3%89tiquette/laurena-fineus/The Next Contemporary https://thenextcontemporary.com/laurena-fineus/Haiti Cultural Exchange https://haiticulturalx.org/programs/artists-opportunities/lakou-nou/laurena-fineus/
habitat, and the intersection of African and Western cultures. Dieng Yacine references the notion of asymmetrical parallelism (a term from poet/philosopher Léopold Sédar Senghor) to describe rhythmic repetition in time/space, which he applies in his compositions. The structure of the canvas itself often becomes part of the message (e.g., exposing stretcher bars, hollows behind façades) to comment on erasure, grief or absence. Modou Dieng Yacine is represented in numerous collections, among these are the collections of the Studio Museum in New York, the Smithsonian National Museum of African Art in Washington DC, Gervanne and Mathias Lerind Collection in Paris, Kranzberg foundation in St Louis, Fondation Gandur in Geneva and Carlsberg foundation in Copenhagen.Image courtesy of artistArtist as Curator Blackpuffin.co193 Gallery https://www.193gallery.com/fr/artists/62-modou-dieng-yacine/ICI https://curatorsintl.org/collaborators/22963-modou-dieng-yacineSpecta https://www.specta.dk/modou-dieng-yacineDakart News https://dakartnews.com/2025/05/02/modou-dieng-yacines-poetics-of-memory-and-identity-interview/Artsper https://www.artsper.com/fr/artistes-contemporains/senegal/117864/modou-dieng-yacinePovos Chicago https://povoschicago.com/usr/documents/exhibitions/list_of_works_url/33/steve-doc-modou.pdfLaboratório de Actividades Criativas https://lac.org.pt/en/roots-2025-modou-dieng-yacine-sn/Meer https://www.meer.com/en/97714-i-will-go-where-your-music-takes-me-dot-dot-dotArtisanal Metals https://artisanalmetals.com/2025/05/05/from-dakar-to-venice-the-postcolonial-art-journey-of-modou-dieng-yacine/On-Art Media https://www.onart.media/evenements-autour-de-lart-contemporain-africain/black-venezia-une-exploration-artistique-de-modou-dieng-yacine-a-la-193-gallery/Pilchuck https://www.pilchuck.org/workshop-staff/modou-dieng-yacineJuliet Art Magazine https://www.juliet-artmagazine.com/en/the-imaginary-architecture-of-connections-modou-dieng-yacine-and-zoila-andrea-coc-chang-in-venice/
https://contemporaryand.com/fr/collections/tonia-nnejiForbes ForbesAfrica30Under30 list, Class of 2022This Day https://www.thisdaylive.com/2026/03/15/an-artists-haunting-nocturnes-of-lagoss-underbelly/The Lagos Review https://thelagosreview.ng/tonia-nneji-says-you-may-enter-at-rele/Flaunt https://www.flaunt.com/blog/rele-contemporaryHyperallergic https://hyperallergic.com/rele-gallery-opens-in-los-angeles/Vogue https://www.vogue.com/article/tonia-nneji-and-zohra-opoku-narratives-of-healing
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https://www.contemporaryand.com/fr/events/aida-muluneh-the-homeless-wandererAesthetica Magazine https://aestheticamagazine.com/aida-muluneh-an-unparalleled-voice/1-54 https://www.1-54.com/nowness-trailer-water-life-by-ethiopian-photographer-aida-muluneh/Phmuseum https://phmuseum.com/exhibitions/the-homeless-wanderer-by-aida-muluneh-at-galleria-giampaolo-abbondioVOGUE https://www.vogue.com/article/the-homeless-wanderer-a-oneiric-visual-exploration-of-identity-and-belonging-by-aida-mulunehJakopic Gallery https://mgml.si/en/jakopic-gallery/exhibitions/692/aida-muluneh/Textile Museum https://textilemuseum.ca/event/aida-muluneh-water-life/David Krut Projects https://davidkrutprojects.com/artists/35609/aida-muluneh
amp; Style honor. She was named Honorary Co-Chair of the Dance Theatre of Harlem and was recognized at the NYC Health + Hospitals/South Brooklyn Health 150th Anniversary Gala for her monumental mosaic “Freesia on My Mind: The Beauty of Ruth Bader Ginsburg,” on permanent display at the Ruth Bader Ginsburg Hospital in Brooklyn.Mickalene Thomas continues to break boundaries and elevate underrepresented voices through her bold visual storytelling, cultural leadership, and unwavering commitment to justice and representation. Her work not only transforms how we see beauty and identity—it also redefines who gets to be seen, celebrated, and remembered in the world of art and beyond.Photo credit: © Chad Kirkland, 2019
Poe, New York; and James Fuentes, New York. Photo credit: ©Photo Claire Dorn. Courtesy of the artist and PerrotinPerrotin https://www.perrotin.com/fr/artists/kathia_st_hilaire/954#news https://leaflet.perrotin.com/view/1216/the-vocals-of-the-chaotic-burstBeaux Arts https://www.beauxarts.com/expos/a-la-galerie-perrotin-la-jeune-kathia-st-hilaire-regarde-vers-lhistoire-haitienne/Speed Art Museum https://www.speedmuseum.org/exhibitions/current-speed-kathia-st-hilaire-invisible-empires/NYTimes https://www.nytimes.com/2024/10/22/arts/american-museums-galleries-art-guide.htmlNSU Art Museum https://dailyartfair.com/exhibition/17305/kathia-st-hilaire-perrotinCulture Type https://www.culturetype.com/tag/kathia-st-hilaire/Artfrofest https://artfrofest.com/visit/curators-eye-kathia-st-hilaire-vocals-chaotic-burst/?srsltid=AfmBOorzMbsps9gdivbbc0wWqO-1y3muLS93dRuf_UmpHii1rm_-vJ-0Ocula https://ocula.com/art-galleries/perrotin/exhibitions/kathia-st-hilaire/e-flux https://www.e-flux.com/announcements/611610/kathia-st-hilaireinvisible-empiresDaily Art Fair https://dailyartfair.com/exhibition/17305/kathia-st-hilaire-perrotinFrance24 https://www.france24.com/en/tv-shows/arts24/20260113-artist-kathia-st-hilaire-s-deceptively-delicate-visions-of-chaos-and-resistanceSortiraparis https://www.sortiraparis.com/arts-culture/exposition/articles/340085-kathia-st-hilaire-une-exposition-engagee-a-la-galerie-perrotinSlash https://slash-paris.com/critiques/kathia-st-hilaire-galerie-perrotinActuart https://www.actuart.org/2026/01/kathia-st.hilaire-the-vocals-of-the-chaotic-burst.htmlAmelie du Chalard https://www.amelieduchalard.com/Franceinfo https://la1ere.franceinfo.fr/monde/outremer/expo-l-artiste-kathia-saint-hilaire-explore-les-blessures-d-haiti-pour-parler-du-monde-1669956.htmlMudam https://www.mudam.com/collection/kathia-st-hilaire
https://www.contemporaryand.com/fr/events/tiffanie-delune-theres-gasoline-in-my-heartSHOWstudio https://www.showstudio.com/news/frieze-highlights-how-spirituality-and-geometry-coalesce-in-tiffanie-delunes-exhibitionAsakan https://asakan.art/tiffanie-delune-je-ne-cherche-ni-a-plaire-ni-a-menfermer-je-souhaite-uniquement-appeler-au-reve-a-lemotion-a-la-question-et-au-dialogue-entre-les-mondes-et-limaginaire/Artnet https://www.artnet.fr/artistes/tiffanie-delune/Mucciaccia https://mucciaccia.com/it/tiffanie-delune/
Ep.260 Stephanie Sparling Williams is the Andrew W. Mellon Curator of American Art at the Brooklyn Museum. Before coming to the Brooklyn Museum, she was the Associate Curator at the Mount Holyoke College Art Museum, and a Visiting Lecturer in Art History and Africana Studies at Mount Holyoke College. Prior to her appointments at Mount Holyoke, she was the Assistant Curator at the Addison Gallery of American Art, and in 2016-2017, she was the John Walsh Fellow at the Yale University Art Gallery. Sparling Williams has taught interdisciplinary courses on American Art, Art and African Americans, Latinx Art, and Museums and Exhibitions at Phillips Academy, Andover; the University of Massachusetts, Lowell; Eastern Connecticut State University, and Mount Holyoke College. She also holds the 2026 Anschutz Distinguished Fellowship in American Studies at the Effron Center for the Study of America at Princeton University. Her curatorial practice is predicated on interdisciplinary research, writing, and teaching on American art, and foregrounds Black Feminist space-making. Her scholarly work is invested in the space of the museum, with a focus on African American art and culture, and the work of U.S.-based artists of color. Related interests include material histories, cross cultural exchange, strategies of address, and contemporary art that engages with the history of the United States. Sparling Williams holds a M.A. and Ph.D. in American Studies and Ethnicity, and a certificate in Visual Studies from the University of Southern California in Los Angeles. She holds a B.A. in Fine Art and Ethnic Studies from the University of Colorado in Boulder. Sparling Williams has published a monographic study on feminist conceptual artist Lorraine O’Grady, and over two dozen academic articles, reviews, and catalogue essays. Her book on O’Grady, Speaking Out of Turn: Lorraine O’Grady and the Art of Language (UC Press 2021), was awarded 32nd Annual James A. Porter Book Award. Her recent work, Toward Joy: New Frameworks for American Art reimagines how contemporary audiences experience historic American art. Disrupting traditional presentations of art from the Americas and offering a new set of approaches to collection display and interpretation, this groundbreaking reinstallation and accompanying publication reframes 2,000 years of art drawn from the world-renowned holdings of the Brooklyn Museum.
Ep.258 Born in Moscow in 1986, Yulia Bas pursued fine art studies from an early age. After earning her architecture diploma, she made the move to Western Europe. Today, she resides in Barcelona, Spain.In 2008 she and her partner established a successful yacht design studio. Shortly after they relocated to Italy first, then to Spain. Several years ago, after more than a decade in design she rekindled her passion for art, engaging in private study and collaborations with artists, curators, and art historians. Yulia has forged partnerships with international galleries, showcasing her work in solo and group exhibitions, including a display at Christie's London, as well as participating in various art fairs.Her works are being acquired for the collections around the world. Artist https://www.yuliabas.com/Galerie LeRoyer https://www.galerieleroyer.com/fr/artists/35-yulia-bas/Gillian Jason Gallery https://www.gillianjason.com/artists/57-yulia-bas/G.Gallery https://www.g.gallery/aboutGlogauair https://glogauair.net/open-studios/december-2023/yulia-bas/Luisa Catucci Gallery https://www.luisacatucci.com/yulia-bas-2/Art Cat https://www.setmanadelart.cat/esdeveniment/yulia-bas-caminaboires/
Ep.257 Robert Garland is currently the Dance Theatre of Harlem Artistic Director. Mr. Garland was a member of the Dance Theatre of Harlem Company achieving the rank of principal dancer. After creating a work for the DTH School Ensemble, Arthur Mitchell invited Robert Garland to create a work for The Dance Theatre of Harlem Company and appointed him the organization’s first Resident Choreographer. He was also Director of the Professional Training Program of the DTH school, and the organization’s webmaster. In addition to choreographing several ballets for DTH, Mr. Garland has also created works for New York City Ballet, Britain’s Royal Ballet, Oakland Ballet and many others. His commercial work has included music videos, commercials and short films, including the children’s television show Sesame Street, a Nike commercial featuring New York Yankee Derek Jeter, the NAACP Image Awards, a short film for designer Donna Karan, and the “Charmin Cha-Cha” for Proctor and Gamble. Mr. Garland holds a Bachelor of Fine Arts Degree from the Juilliard School in New York City.Photo Credit: Nir ArieliRobert Garland https://www.dancetheatreofharlem.org/people/robert-garland/Dance Theatre of Harlem in Paris https://www.dancetheatreofharlem.org/dthinparis/Pointe Magazine https://pointemagazine.com/robert-garland-dance-theatre-of-harlem/#gsc.tab=0New York Times https://www.nytimes.com/2024/02/24/arts/dance/robert-garland-dance-theater-of-harlem.htmlSan Francisco Classical Voice https://www.nytimes.com/2024/02/24/arts/dance/robert-garland-dance-theater-of-harlem.htmlNational Arts Center https://nac-cna.ca/fr/bio/robert-garlandDance Consortium https://danceconsortium.com/resources/choreographer/robert-garland/Pulse Kenya https://www.pulse.co.ke/story/the-ballet-world-needs-robert-garland-why-isnt-it-calling-2024082008555077311Yale https://schwarzman.yale.edu/artist/robert-garlandBach Track https://bachtrack.com/performer/robert-garlandNews Tank Culture https://culture.newstank.fr/article/view/264305/etats-unis-robert-garland-directeur-artistique-dance-theater-of-harlem.htmlWikipedia https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Garland_(choreographer)
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Kandy G Lopez (b. 1987, New Jersey) is a multidisciplinary artist exploring cultural identity, representation, and power through fiber art, portraiture, painting, and mixed media. Born to Dominican parents, she draws from her experience navigating multiple cultural landscapes.Kandy G Lopez holds a BFA in Painting and a BS in Marketing/Management from the University of South Florida and earned her MFA in Painting from Florida Atlantic University in 2014. Her background in both fine arts and business informs her meticulous material investigations and strategic engagement with art institutions. She is currently an Associate Professor in the Department of Communication, Media, and Arts at Nova Southeastern University, where she integrates critical theory with hands-on material practice.Photo credit: Jade LilyArtist https://www.kandyglopez.com/ACA Gallery https://acagalleries.com/artists/kandy-g-lopez/Hyperallergic https://hyperallergic.com/kandy-g-lopez-situational-identity-new-works-in-fiber-aca-galleries/Armory Art Center https://armoryart.org/event/past-the-eyes-artist-talk-kandy-g-lopez/Colossal https://www.thisiscolossal.com/2025/05/kandy-g-lopez-embroidered-portraits/Fondation Florence https://www.fondationflorence.fr/espacecultVogue https://www.vogue.com/article/kandy-g-lopez-textile-truths-faces-of-resilience-aca-galleriesOrlando Museum of Art https://omart.org/artwork/kandy-g-lopez-installation-view-from-the-florida-prize-in-contemporary-art/Riverside Art Museum https://riversideartmuseum.org/exhibitions/kandy-g-lopez-invisible-threads-2/Out Clique https://www.outclique.com/layers-you-can-see-inside-the-art-of-kandy-g-lopez/Canvas Rebel https://canvasrebel.com/meet-kandy-g-lopez/Bold Journal Magazine https://boldjourney.com/meet-kandy-g-lopez/Meer https://www.meer.com/en/99807-textile-truths-faces-of-resilienceVisual Arts Center of Richmond https://www.visarts.org/blog/blog/2024/a-conversation-with-visiting-artist-in-residence-kandy-g-lopez/Luxe Source https://luxesource.com/article/artist-kandy-g-lopezVR Art Platform https://vrallart.com/artist/kandy_g_lopez/Craft Council https://craftcouncil.org/articles/the-queue-kandy-g-lopez/
Ep.254 Trevyn McGowan is the co-founder of Southern Guild gallery in Cape Town and Los Angeles, representing contemporary artists from Africa and its diaspora. Over the past two decades, she has dedicated her career to provoking and propelling art and design across the continent by empowering makers both creatively and commercially, elevating the production and presentation of work, and fostering an ethos of community. Trevyn and her husband and business partner, Julian McGowan, pioneered Africa’s collectible design category with the establishment of Southern Guild in 2008, specialising in unprecedented modes of making, cross-disciplinary collaborations, and the ingenuity of the human hand. With the gallery as their primary focus, they have expanded Southern Guild’s programme to encompass contemporary art across multiple media and form cross-continental dialogues between artists. Works by the gallery’s artists are in the collections of museums including the Metropolitan Museum of Art, LACMA, Art Institute of Chicago, Philadelphia Museum of Art and National Gallery of Victoria. Born in Johannesburg in 1967, Trevyn graduated with a degree in dramatic arts from London’s Royal Central School of Speech and Drama and pursued a successful stage, film and television actress for 10 years. She founded Site Specific, a creative interiors agency which she ran for seven years before returning to live in South Africa in 2003. The McGowans established a number of brands and platforms to promote Africa’s creative sector, including GUILD Design Fair, the Design Foundation and the export agency Source (now renamed Design Network Africa), which supplies handcrafted homeware to global retailers. Their pioneering vision earned them places on USA Art + Auction magazine’s ‘POWER 100’ list of the most influential players in the global art world, City Press newspaper’s 100 World Class South Africans and Fast Company’s Most Creative People in Business.Headshot Image courtesy of Jorge Meza and Southern GuildGallery https://southernguild.com/Trevyn and Julian McGowan open New location https://southernguild.com/news/southern-guild-announces-new-tribeca-gallery-openingWorld African Artists Unite https://waau-art.com/events/southern-guild-presents-the-artists-kamyar-bineshtarigh-alex-hedison-bonolo-kavula-romeo-mivekannin-zanele-muholi-ziziphonposwa-and-dominique-zinkpe-at-frieze-new-york/Artforum https://www.artforum.com/news/cape-towns-southern-guild-to-launch-first-us-gallery-in-la-252964/Cultured Magazine https://www.culturedmag.com/article/2024/02/22/southern-guild-los-angeles-gallery/
Ep.253 features Jules BE KUTI, a young emerging artist born in 1993. His art reflects his experience as a Black person living in France, as well as his reflections on the challenges faced by Black individuals in society. Growing up in France, Jules was inspired by the richness of Black culture. He uses his art as a vehicle for intimate reflection, allowing him to explore the dynamics of memory and identity in a globalized world where national and cultural boundaries are increasingly blurred. Jules's works highlight archetypes and scenes from everyday life, each capturing emotions, experiences, and stories through the use of multiple colors.Jules's work is a celebration of diversity, offering a unique perspective on exploration and how diversity can be used to express and exalt our common humanity.Photo credit courtesy of the artistArtist ~ https://julesbekutiart.wordpress.com/The Bishop Gallery ~ https://thebishopgallery.com/reminder-the-children-are-our-future/Silent Gallery ~ https://silentgallery.art/artists/34-jules-be-kuti/Artfacts~ https://artfacts.net/artist/jules-be-kutiSugarcane Mag ~ https://sugarcanemag.com/2025/05/what-sold-at-the-11th-annual-1-54-in-new-york/Prazzle ~ https://www.prazzleinc.com/editorial/1-54-art-fair-returns-to-new-york-highlights-and-exhibitions-to-look-out-forMovout Gallery ~ https://movartgallery.com/artist/jules-be-kuti/The Blk Prspctv ~ https://www.theblkprspctv.com/p/jules-be-kuti-untitled-year-unknown
Ep.252 Howardena Pindell was born in 1943 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania and lives and works in New York. She has exhibited extensively, including selected solo exhibitions at Fruitmarket, Edinburgh, UK, touring to Kettle’s Yard, Cambridge, UK, Spike Island, Bristol, UK, and Irish Museum of Modern Art, Dublin (2022–23); Baltimore Museum of Art, Maryland (2022); The Museum of Fine Arts Houston, Texas (2022); The Shed, New York, touring to Oklahoma Contemporary, Oklahoma City (2021–22); Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago, Illinois (2018); Spelman College Museum of Fine Art, Atlanta, Georgia (2015); Cleveland Institute of Arts, Ohio (1994); Wadsworth Atheneum, Hartford, Connecticut (1989); The Studio Museum in Harlem, New York (1986); Birmingham Museum of Art, Alabama (1985); A.I.R Gallery, New York (1983); and Rockefeller Memorial Galleries, Spelman College, Atlanta, Georgia (1971).Selected group exhibitions include The Kitchen, New York (2024); Louisiana Museum of Modern Art, Humlebæk, Denmark (2024); Museum of Modern Art, New York (2023); National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC (2022); Guggenheim Bilbao, Spain, touring to Centre Pompidou, Paris (2021); Tate Modern, London, touring to Brooklyn Museum, New York and Broad Museum, Los Angeles, California (2017–19); Brooklyn Museum, New York (2017); Museum Moderner Kunst Stiftung Ludwig Wien, Austria, touring to Museum Brandhorst, Munich, Germany (2016); Contemporary Arts Museum, Houston, Texas (2013); Seattle Art Museum, Washington (2009); Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, California (2007); and The Studio Museum in Harlem, New York (2006).Credit: Howardena Pindell, 2018, Photo © Nathan KeayWhite Cube https://www.whitecube.com/gallery-exhibitions/howardena-pindell-hong-kong-2024Garth Greenan https://www.garthgreenan.com/artists/howardena-pindellMoMA https://www.moma.org/artists/4625-howardena-pindellNYTimes https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2025/06/09/t-magazine/howardena-pindell.html | https://www.nytimes.com/2020/10/16/arts/design/howardena-pindell-shed-video.htmlFruitmarket https://www.fruitmarket.co.uk/howardena-pindell/Stony Brook University https://www.stonybrook.edu/commcms/art/people/faculty-staff/howardena-pindell
Ep. 251 Cheryl Pope is an interdisciplinary visual artist who questions and responds to issues of identity as it relates to the individual and the community, specifically regarding race, gender, class, history, power, and place. Her practice emerges from the act and politics of listening, and recently introduces a novel material to explore the artist’s memories. Referencing the familiar repertoire of the French Post-Impressionist, Intimist, and Imagist paintings, Pope recreates deeply personal recollections that cinematically compose the silent complexities of beautiful and tragic oscillations between love and loss in our everyday lives. Images of couples are drawn from memory, referencing the artist’s own relationships and moments of disconnect, anxiety, and desire, while beach scenes depicting a mother and child accentuate a tender stillness of caregiving. In these scenes, the figures exist in a nest of choreography–a rotating stage of mystery, tragedy, and poetry of day-to-day living with feelings of presence and absence woven throughout. Pope received her MA in Design (2010) and BFA (2003) from the School of the Art Institute, Chicago, IL, where she is an Adjunct Professor. Pope has had recent solo exhibitions at moniquemeloche, Chicago, IL (2022, 2019); The Ulrich Museum of Art, Wichita, KS (2022); Rockford Art Museum, Rockford, IL (2019); Galleria Bianconi, Milan, Italy (2019); Andres Guerrero Gallery, San Francisco, CA (2018); and Fort Gansevoort, New York, NY (2017). Notable group presentations include Eli and Edythe Broad Art Museum, East Lansing, MI (2023); The FLAG Art Foundation, New York, NY (2023 2021); Everson Museum, Syracuse, NY (2023); Kalamazoo Institute of Arts, Kalamazoo, MI (2022); Weinberg/Newton Gallery, Chicago, IL (2022); Skin in the Gamecurated by Zoe Lukov, Chicago, IL (2022); Fountainhead, Miami, FL (2021); Santa Barbara Museum of Art, Santa Barbara, CA (2021); Virginia MOCA, Virgina Beach, VA (2021); and the Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago, IL (2020). Pope’s work will be included in the upcoming group exhibition Get in the Game: Sport and Contemporary Culture at SFMoMA in 2024. Pope’s work is in the collections of Museum of Contemporary Art Jacksonville, FL; the Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago, IL; UBS Art Collection, New York, NY; Joan Flasche Artists Book Collection, Chicago, IL; Seattle Art Museum, WA; Honolulu Museum of Art, HI; Museum of Contemporary Art, San Diego, CA; Poetry Foundation, Chicago, IL; DePaul University Art Museum, Chicago, IL; Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, Richmond, VA; Baltimore Museum of Art, Baltimore, MD; United States Embassy, Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic; The Jackson West Memorial Hospital, Miami, FL; and The Ulrich Museum of Art, Wichita, KS. She has been the recipient of several awards and fellowships, including the Public Artist Award, Franklin Works, Minneapolis, MN (2017); Selected Artist, Year of Public Art, Chicago Cultural Center, IL (2017); Mellon Fellowship, Kenyon College, Gambier, OH (2016); and 3Arts Award, Chicago, IL (2015). Pope lives and works in Chicago, IL and Miami, FL. Artist https://www.cherylpope.net/monique meloche https://www.moniquemeloche.com/artists/35-cheryl-pope/works/Hyperallergic https://www.moniquemeloche.com/press/492-talking-a-big-game-the-art-of-sports/ | https://www.moniquemeloche.com/press/280-artists-on-basketball-and-its-discontents/Art Daily https://www.moniquemeloche.com/press/451-the-baltimore-museum-of-art-announces-approximately-75/Observer https://www.moniquemeloche.com/press/437-early-sales-and-excitement-at-art-basel-miami/The Guardian https://www.moniquemeloche.com/press/430-strike-fast-dance-lightly-largest-ever-boxing-exhibition/BOMB https://www.moniquemeloche.com/press/420-cheryl-pope-by-carolina-wheat/Chicago https://www.moniquemeloche.com/press/406-fall-fashion-artists-in-their-natural-habitats/Reader https://www.moniquemeloche.com/press/418-chicago-is-a-protest-town/
Ideas https://www.mvartsandideas.com/2024/07/the-road-to-enlightenment-starts-at-knowhere/Vineyard Gazette https://vineyardgazette.com/news/2024/05/05/knowhere-gallery-showcased-venice-biennaleVineyard Visitor https://vineyardvisitor.com/2024/08/08/art-in-oak-bluffs/knowhere-gallery/Martha’s Vineyard Times https://hype.co/@themarthasvineyardtimes/2z7j289w | https://www.mvtimes.com/2024/06/12/meets-eye-knowhere-art-cousen-rose-galleries/Martha’s Vineyard Arts and Ideas https://www.mvartsandideas.com/2024/07/the-road-to-enlightenment-starts-at-knowhere/Artsy https://www.artsy.net/partner/knowhere-art
EP.249 Onay Gutierrez is a multifaceted artist, collector, and preservationist with a rich background that spans education, ceramics, and historic preservation. Born in Veracruz, Mexico in 1977, Gutierrez began his career as an early elementary school teacher in marginalized communities in his home state. After immigrating to the United States, honed his skills as a ceramic artist.Gutierrez has a deep connection to the Penland School of Craft in the mountains of North Carolina, where he has been a student, patron, and now serves as a board member. This connection has likely influenced his artistic growth and commitment to the craft community.In addition to his artistic pursuits, Gutierrez is a passionate advocate for historic preservation. Alongside Jeffrey Childers PhD, he has restored three National Historic Places in Raleigh, NC. His commitment to art and social justice is further evident in their founding of the Gutierrez Collection, a contemporary art collection that explores themes of mental health, LGBTQ+ rights, Latin and Latinx identities, African and African diasporic cultures, women's art, and activism.The Gutierrez Collection has gained significant recognition, with its first museum exhibition currently on view at the Cameron Museum of Art in Wilmington, NC, until September 7th, and set to travel to the NC Museum of Art's Winston-Salem campus this fall. Through his work, Gutierrez continues to make a lasting impact on the art world, historic preservation, and social justice initiatives.Photo credit: Courtesy of the artist Cameron Art Museum https://cameronartmuseum.org/exhibition/we-belong-here-the-gutierrez-collection/The Endowment https://theendowment.org/event/cameron-art-museum-cam-after-dark-conversation-with-the-collectors-onay-gutierrez-and-jeffrey-childers/ArtSuite https://artsuite.com/blogs/community/onay-gutierrez?srsltid=AfmBOopGnj0zCHXUCInnV8PELmUsyhmVUyW0VCdcYlMRTou3JVRDdagMIssuu https://issuu.com/ncartmuseum/docs/spring_24_preview_webNorth Carolina Museum of Art https://ncartmuseum.org/collection/museum-collection/new-acquisitions/Penland School of Craft https://www.givecampus.com/schools/PenlandSchoolofCraft
Ep. 248 Adrienne L. Childs is an independent scholar, art historian, and curator. She is Senior Consulting Curator at The Phillips Collection. Her current book is an exploration of Black figures in European decorative arts entitled Ornamental Blackness: The Black Figure in European Decorative Arts, published by Yale University Press. She is currently co-curator of Vivian Browne: My Kind of Protest for The Phillips Collection. She recently co-curated The Colour of Anxiety: Race, Sexuality and Disorder in Victorian Sculpture at The Henry Moore Institute in Leeds, England. She was the guest curator of Riffs and Relations: African American Artists and the European Modernist Tradition at The Phillips Collection in Washington DC, 2020.In April 2022 The High Museum of Art awarded Childs the 2022 Driskell Prize in recognition of her contribution to African American art and art history.Childs co-curated The Black Figure in the European Imaginary at The Cornell Fine Arts Museum at Rollins College in 2017. She is co-editor of the volume essays Blacks and Blackness in European Art of the Long Nineteenth Century, Routledge. She also contributed an essay on art and activism to Volume V, part II of The Image of the Black in Western Art edited by Henry Louis Gates, Jr. and David Bindman.As former curator at the David C. Driskell Center at the University of Maryland she curated many exhibitions including Her Story: Lithographs by Margo Humphrey; Arabesque: The Art of Stephanie Pogue; Creative Spirit: The Art of David C. Driskell and Tradition Redefined: The Larry and Brenda Thompson Collection of African American Art.Childs holds a BA from Georgetown University, an MBA from Howard University and a PhD in the History of Art from the University of Maryland. Photocredit: Rodrigo Salido Moulinié Website https://www.adriennelchilds.com/Phillips Collection Vivian Browne: My Kind of Protest |The Phillips Collectionhttps://www.phillipscollection.org/sites/default/files/2025-04/phillips-collection-presents-vivian-browne-my-kind-of-protest-press-release.pdf https://www.phillipscollection.org/press/phillips-collection-presents-multiplicity-blackness-contemporary-american-collagehttps://www.phillipscollection.org/event/2020-02-28-riffs-and-relations-african-american-artists-and-european-modernist-traditionOrnamental Blackness https://www.ornamentalblackness.com/The Driskell Center https://driskellcenter.umd.edu/news/former-driskell-center-curator-adrienne-childs-phd-wins-2022-driskell-prizeHigh Museum https://high.org/driskell-prize/adrienne-l-childs/The Clark https://www.clarkart.edu/fellow/detail/adrienne-childs-(1)Courtauld https://courtauld.ac.uk/whats-on/reconsidering-riffs-and-relations/Columbia University https://abolitionism.universityseminars.columbia.edu/people/adrienne-l-childsThe Wadsworth https://www.thewadsworth.org/event/public-lecture-pearl-drops-and-blackamoors-the-black-body-and-pearlescent-adornment-in-european-art-with-adrienne-l-childs/ARTnews https://www.artnews.com/art-news/news/adrienne-l-childs-david-c-driskell-prize-high-museum-1234620561/Culture Type https://www.culturetype.com/tag/adrienne-l-childs/Enfilade https://enfilade18thc.com/2024/09/20/lecture-adrienne-childs-on-pearl-drops-and-blackamoors/MontclairArt Museum https://www.montclairartmuseum.org/press/press-room/montclair-art-museum-presents-landmark-exhibition-century-100-years-black-art-mamPortland Museum https://www.portlandmuseum.org/eventscalendar/2021-bernard-osher-lectureJournal Panorama https://journalpanorama.org/article/riffs-and-relations/AHNCA https://ahnca.org/event/the-colour-of-anxiety-race-sexuality-and-disorder-in-victorian-sculpture/
Ep.247 Jas was born in Hartford CT. His talent for drawing was recognized at an early age. He sold his first painting at age seven and had his first one-man show at the age of eight. He went on to receive numerous awards and later went to study at The University of the Arts in Philadelphia. Jas currently lives and works in Brooklyn, NYC.Photo Credit: Damian Griffiths ~ Fugue 21,2022-2023 Oil on linen 183 x 228.7cmArtist https://www.jasknightfineart.com/White Hot Magazine https://whitehotmagazine.com/articles/solitary-figures-paintings-jas-knight/3231Entrée to Black Paris https://www.entreetoblackparis.com/blog/josephine-baker-portrait-unveiled-at-u-s-ambassadors-residenceStudio Museum in Harlem https://www.studiomuseum.org/artists/jas-knightMetropolitan Museum https://www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/898079 | https://www.metmuseum.org/perspectives/copyist-jas-knightJas Knight books https://www.jasknightfineart.com/trichromatic-book| https://www.jasknightfineart.com/the-art-of-the-master-copySmithsonian Institute https://menofchange.si.edu/exhibit/artist-pairings/jas-knight/ArtRabbit https://www.artrabbit.com/events/jas-knight-terrainYRB Mag https://yrbmag.com/tag/jas-knight/MFA Boston https://www.mfa.org/press-release/fashioned-by-sargentLong Gallery Harlem https://www.long.gallery/Art Facts https://artfacts.net/artist/jas-knight/538698
Ep.246 Kelly Sinnapah Mary (b. 1981, Saint-François, Guadeloupe) creates paintings, sculptures, and installations that draw upon the complex interrelationships between folklore, literature, inheritance, history, and the natural world. Sinnapah Mary’s work is rooted both materially and narratively in the artist’s immediate environment of the Caribbean archipelago of Guadeloupe, a French overseas department, and her own evolving understanding of her ancestral origins. Her work has been shown both in Guadeloupe and internationally at institutions including Kunstinstituut Melly, Rotterdam, Netherlands; Peréz Art Museum Miami, Miami, FL; Kiran Nadar Museum of Art, New Delhi, India; and the Osage Foundation, Hong Kong.Photo © Kelly Sinnapah Mary, 2025. Image courtesy of the artist and James Cohan, New York. Photo by Studio ZaigoArtist https://kellysinnapahmary.wixsite.com/kelly-sinnapah-maryJames Cohan https://www.jamescohan.com/artists/kelly-sinnapah-maryKadist https://kadist.org/program/the-plantation-plot/Hyperallergic https://hyperallergic.com/997002/the-shapeshifting-paintings-of-kelly-sinnapah-mary/Aicon https://www.aicon.art/exhibitions/kelly-sinnapah-maryCultured Mag https://www.culturedmag.com/article/2025/03/06/artist-kelly-sinnapah-mary-paintingICI https://curatorsintl.org/about/collaborators/23413-kelly-sinnapah-maryArtnet News https://news.artnet.com/art-world/rising-artist-kelly-sinnapah-marys-spellbinding-works-take-center-stage-2616158Foyer https://readfoyer.com/article/india-guadeloupe
Ep.245 Natia Lemay (b. 1985 in Toronto, Ontario) was raised in Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada, and is based in Toronto, Ontario, Canada. Her Interdisciplinary autoethnographic practice reflects her lived experience. Through personal stories, she interrogates the intersections between the mind, the body, and space to understand how these experiences relate to a broader cultural context. Natia Lemay has exhibited widely throughout North America. The artist was selected for the 2024 Fountainhead residency in Miami and the 2022 Royal Drawing School Residency in Dumfries, Scotland. She was awarded the National Trust Prize at Expo Chicago 2024, with her work acquired by High Museum in Atlanta in addition to being collected by the Art Gallery of Ontario, The Minneapolis Institute of Art, The Minnesota Museum of American Art, The North Dakota Museum of Art and The Montclair Museum of Art. She received her BFA from Ontario College of Art and Design in 2021 with a minor in Social Sciences and her MFA from Yale School of Art in 2023. Photo Credit is Gesi Schilling: Fountainhead Artist ResidencyArtist https://www.natialemay.com/Whitehot Magazine https://whitehotmagazine.com/articles/her-first-nyc-solo-show/5792Fountainhead Arts https://www.fountainheadarts.org/fhtv/artists/natia-lemayJuxatpoz https://www.juxtapoz.com/news/magazine/features/natia-lemay-the-act-of-being-seen/Perrotin https://www.perrotin.com/artists/natia_lemay/1335#biographyGalerie Nicolas Robert https://www.gallerynicolasrobert.com/natia-lemayHyperallergic https://hyperallergic.com/851029/miami-fountainhead-residency-2024-selected-artists/Ocula https://ocula.com/art-galleries/wilding-cran-gallery/artworks/natia-lemay/these-strange-girls-will-radiate-in-our-darkness/Culture Type https://www.culturetype.com/tag/natia-lemay/New American Paintings https://www.newamericanpaintings.com/artists/natia-lemay
Tomokazu Matsuyama. Born in 1976 in Gifu, Japan, Matsuyama is currently based in Brooklyn, New York. His work spans painting, sculpture, and installation, organically blending and reimagining diverse elements–such as ancient and modern, figurative and abstract, Eastern and Western. His art reflects both his cross-cultural experiences and the evolving nature of contemporary society in our information-driven world. Major public art projects include the Bowery Mural (New York, USA, 2019), Hanao (JR Shinjuku Station East Square, Tokyo, 2020), and Wheels of Fortune (Meiji Shrine, Tokyo, 2020, part of the Jingu Gaien Art Festival). Recent notable exhibitions include Mythologiques (Venice Biennale, 2024), MATSUYAMA Tomokazu: Fictional Landscape (Hirosaki Museum of Contemporary Art, 2023), and MATSUYAMA Tomokazu: Fictional Landscape (Shanghai Powerlong Museum, 2023). His work was also featured in Pop Forever. Tom Wesselmann &… at Fondation Louis Vuitton in Paris (2024–2025).Please visit cerebralwomen.com for his expanded bio.Photo credit: Fumihiko SuginoArtist https://matzu.net/Pen Magazine Taiwan https://www.matzu.net/media/press/pen-4/GQ https://www.matzu.net/media/press/gq/FT https://www.matzu.net/media/press/financial-times/Bazaar https://www.matzu.net/media/press/harpers-bazaar/Legend https://www.matzu.net/media/press/legend/Hypebeast https://www.matzu.net/media/press/hypebeast-4/Hypeart https://www.matzu.net/media/press/hypeart/Juxtapoz https://www.matzu.net/media/press/juxtapoz/Galerie https://www.matzu.net/media/press/galerie-magazine/Artforum https://www.matzu.net/media/press/artforum/Kinari https://www.matzu.net/media/press/kinari/Takashimaya-salon https://www.matzu.net/media/press/takashimaya-salon/Mythologiques https://www.matzu.net/media/tomokazu-matsuyama-mythologiques/Almine Rech https://www.alminerech.com/artists/7720-tomokazu-matsuyamaKavi Gupta https://kavigupta.com/artists/95-tomokazu-matsuyama/First Last https://www.tomokazu-matsuyama-firstlast.jp/english/Wynwood Walls https://thewynwoodwalls.com/artists/tomokazu-matsuyama/Kotaro Nukaga https://kotaronukaga.com/en/artist/tomokazu_matsuyama/Avante Arte https://avantarte.com/artists/tomokazu-matsuyamaHidden Champion https://www.matzu.net/media/press/hidden-champion/BKMag https://www.bkmag.com/2024/08/06/the-art-of-tomokazu-matsuyama-from-the-streets-of-nyc-to-big-shows-in-paris-and-venice/
Jose Duran (b. 1979, Moca, Dominican Republic) is a painter, designer, and sculptor creating fantastical worlds of cosmopolitan opulence and sumptuous, even dangerous foliage. Duran’s practice is anchored in extensive research of practices of survival, celebration, vengeance, sabotage, and aspirational desires in Black communities. He draws from baroque and rococo interiors to create scenes of architectural lavishness and femininity, producing complex compositions anchored in whimsy and play. Duran centers Black feminine figures as a reclamation of their contributions to European markers of taste, and as retribution for their forced labor under colonial rule. Duran’s fantasies retrospectively place Black women at the center of his lavish interiors, where they reap the fruits of their labor. His practice is an ode to the dreams and aspirations of his late mother, who, between the Bronx and the Dominican Republic, would imbue in the artist a taste for cosmopolitanism and beauty. Photo credit: Nelson CastilloArtist https://joseduran.studio/Hannah Traore Gallery https://hannahtraoregallery.com/exhibition/aleluya/James Fuentes https://jamesfuentes.com/exhibitions/elenaNY Times https://www.nytimes.com/2024/05/10/style/roze-traore-hannah-traore-gallery.htmlArt Speak https://www.artspeak.nyc/home/2024/2/13/jose-duranIsland Origins Magazine https://islandoriginsmag.com/dominican-artist-jose-duran-aleluya/Arthap https://arthap.com/hap/opening-jose-duran-aleluya/Idiom Studio https://idiomastudio.com/jose-duran-caught-between-fantasy-reality/
Ep.242 Shaunté Gates (b. 1979) lives and works in Washington, D.C. He studied at Duke Ellington School of the Arts and Bowie State University. Early in his career, Gates trained in oil painting and portraiture. His past experience as a tattoo artist and television motion graphics editor caused a profound shift in his artistic practice. His recent work employs a multidisciplinary approach, layering photography, painting, and found text to create dreamlike landscapes that explore labyrinthine social constructs and the physical sites that house and perpetuate them. Echoing the aesthetics of paper theater, his compositions unfold like intricate stage sets, where layered imagery and shifting perspectives evoke a sense of constructed reality and theatrical illusion. Gates was a participating artist in the Smithsonian Institution’s “Men of Change” four-year traveling exhibition spanning ten museums, including the International African American Museum in Charleston, SC, California African American Museum, Cincinnati Underground Railroad Museum and Washington State History Museum (2019-23). He has been awarded the Louis Comfort Tiffany Biennial Grant (2022) and residencies with The Nicholson Project (2023), The Kennedy Center (2019) and Washington Project for the Arts (2018; 2017). Gates has work in esteemed private collections and institutions such as the Studio Museum in Harlem and Munson, Utica, NY. He has completed many public art commissions including Transcending, a painting commemorating the 140th anniversary of Howard University School of Law. Photo credit: Biko GatesArtist https://www.shauntegates.com/Virginia Tech https://artscenter.vt.edu/exhibitions/shaunte-gates.htmlSperone Westwater https://www.speronewestwater.com/artists/shaunte-gates#tab:slideshowMarc Straus https://marcstraus.com/artists/98-shaunte-gates/FAD Magazine https://fadmagazine.com/2025/03/03/marc-straus-gallery-now-represent-shaunte-gates/Zidoun-Bossuyt https://zidoun-bossuyt.com/artists/shaunte-gates/ | https://zidoun-bossuyt.com/exhibitions/shaunte-gates-poppies-parachutes-iii-we-should-be-flying-by-now/Smithsonian https://menofchange.si.edu/exhibit/artist-pairings/shaunte-gates/The Roanoker https://theroanoker.com/events/shaunt%C3%A9-gates-2025/Phillips Collection https://www.phillipscollection.org/event/2024-08-25-collaging-shaunte-gatesBrooklyn Rail https://brooklynrail.org/2023/10/artseen/Shaunt-Gates-In-Light-of-the-Hunt/Culture Type https://www.culturetype.com/tag/shaunte-gates/Washington Informer Bridge https://wibridgedc.com/the-transformative-power-of-found-objects-with-shaunte-gates/RUSH Philanthropic https://rushphilanthropic.org/artist/shaunte-gates/
Ep.241 Dora Jeridi's work is characterized by a dynamic, expressive approach to painting, blending intense emotion with powerful physicality. She continuously adds to her compositions until they take on a spirit of their own, like painterly symphonies where fragmented forms emerge from a sea of expressive brushstrokes. Jeridi conceals and unveils her forms through the careful layering of various mediums: oil, charcoal, and occasionally ball-point pen or spray paint. Interested in the tension between figuration and abstraction, Jeridi's canvases are marked by a striking use of contrasts—chaotic colors, diverse textures, quiet and violent subjects—reflecting complexities of the human experience. Her paintings evoke narratives that are both enigmatic and visceral, autobiographical and societal, where her figures become universal in their anonymity. Jeridi encourages us to dwell in uncertainty, to explore the spaces where meaning remains both elusive and profound.Portrait Dora Jeridi Courtesy of the artist and PerrotinArtist https://dorajeridi.com/Perrotin https://www.perrotin.com/artists/dora_jeridi/1284#imagesMarianne Boesky Gallery https://marianneboeskygallery.com/exhibitions/315/works/artworks-30770-dora-jeridi-the-escape-2024/Public Gallery https://public.gallery/exhibitions/neck-of-the-woodFrench Morning https://frenchmorning.com/les-artistes-francophones-a-decouvrir-a-la-galerie-perrotin/Art Rabbit https://www.artrabbit.com/events/dora-jeridi-humanityMor-Charpentier https://www.mor-charpentier.com/fr/exhibition/concrete-fear/Daily Art Fair https://dailyartfair.com/exhibition/18755/dora-jeridi-perrotinLouvre https://www.louvre.fr/louvreplus/video-paroles-du-louvre-dora-jeridi?autoplayGalerie Joseph https://galeriejoseph.com/en/2024/01/05/dora-jeridi-harmony-out-of-chaos/Beaux Arts Paris https://beauxartsparis.fr/en/actualite/congratulations-dora-jeridi-and-valentin-rangerArt Limited https://www.artlimited.net/agenda/dora-jeridi-solo-show-exhibition-painting-new-york/en/7586362Shadow Play Magazine https://www.shadowplaymagazine.com/exhibit1/dora-jeridiOverstandard https://overstandard.dk/the-howling-chronicles-of-dora-jeridi/Societe Generale https://collection.societegenerale.com/en/artists/dora-jeridi
Ep.240 Rujeko Hockley is the Arnhold Associate Curator at the Whitney Museum of American Art. She co-curated the 2019 Whitney Biennial. Her current project at the Whitney is Amy Sherald: American Sublime. Other projects include Inheritance (2023), 2 Lizards (2022), Jennifer Packer: The Eye Is Not Satisfied With Seeing (2021), Julie Mehretu (2021), Toyin Ojih Odutola: To Wander Determined (2017) and An Incomplete History of Protest: Selections from the Whitney’s Collection, 1940-2017 (2017). Previously, she was Assistant Curator of Contemporary Art at the Brooklyn Museum, where she co-curated Crossing Brooklyn: Art from Bushwick, Bed-Stuy, and Beyond (2014) and was involved in exhibitions highlighting the permanent collection as well as contemporary artists. She is the co-curator of We Wanted a Revolution: Black Radical Women, 1965-85 (2017), which originated at the Brooklyn Museum and travelled to three U.S. venues in 2017-18. She serves on the Boards of Art Matters, Institute For Freedoms, and Museums Moving Forward, as well as the Advisory Board of Recess.Photograph by Jody RogacWhitney Museum ~ https://whitney.org/2019-biennial-curators ~ https://whitney.org/exhibitions/amy-sherald~ https://whitney.org/exhibitions/amy-sherald-four-ways-of-being~ https://whitney.org/exhibitions/inheritance~ https://whitney.org/exhibitions/2-lizards~ https://whitney.org/exhibitions/jennifer-packer~ https://whitney.org/exhibitions/julie-mehretu~ https://whitney.org/press/protest~ https://whitney.org/exhibitions/toyin-ojih-odutolaTime Magazine https://time.com/7210625/rujeko-hockley-hank-willis-thomas-art-inclusivity/Observer https://observer.com/2025/04/exhibition-amy-sherald-american-sublime-whitney-dinner-opening-party/Ursula https://www.hauserwirth.com/ursula/inside-the-issue-ursula-issue-11/Surface Magazine https://www.surfacemag.com/articles/when-i-call-who-listens-rujeko-hockley-excerpt-for-freedoms/#Forbes https://www.forbes.com/sites/natashagural/2025/04/04/amy-sherald-american-sublime-at-the-whitney-re-imagines-american-realism-with-singular-visual-narratives/M.M.Lafleur https://mdash.mmlafleur.com/most-remarkable-woman-rujeko-hockley/Frieze https://www.frieze.com/article/rujeko-hockleys-top-picks-frieze-los-angeles-viewing-room-2023CCL https://www.curatorialleadership.org/participants/ccl-smh-curators-forum/rujeko-hockley/Artealdia https://www.artealdia.com/News/NEW-APPOINTMENTS-FOR-MARCELA-GUERRERO-AND-RUJEKO-HOCKLEY-AT-THE-WHITNEY-MUSEUMCulture Type https://www.culturetype.com/tag/rujeko-hockley/artnet https://news.artnet.com/art-world/career-stories-rujeko-hockley-1962842Athens Now https://athensnowal.net/sharing-the-spotlight/
Tyler Ballon (b. 1996, Jersey City, NJ) creates monumental works inspired by the lives of people in his community. His artistic journey was shaped early on by his grandmother, a community activist and school lunch lady who embodied service and compassion. Tyler’s grandmother recognized his talent and instilled in him a respect for others, regardless of their circumstances.Though initially torn between sports and art, Tyler chose the latter, dedicating himself to painting with the encouragement of his grandmother and his family. His parents, both pastors, reinforced his faith and sense of purpose. Tyler refined his skills through an advanced art program in his high school—the JC Arts program—and later at the Maryland Institute College of Art, where he earned his BFA in 2018.After graduation, Tyler returned to his community, making its people the focal point of his work. Through large-scale paintings, he honors their lives and experiences, ensuring they are seen and celebrated. His art embodies his faith, principles, and the legacy of his grandmother, offering encouragement and validation to those around him.Headshot credit: Sy BattleArtist https://www.tylerdballon.com/Jeffrey Deitch Gallery https://deitch.com/new-york/exhibitions/tyler-ballon-flying-highColossal https://www.thisiscolossal.com/2025/02/tyler-d-ballon-flying-high/Art Rabbit https://www.artrabbit.com/events/tyler-ballon-flying-highPFF Collection https://pffcollection.com/artists/tyler-ballon/Artefuse https://artefuse.com/tyler-ballon-flying-high-and-sharif-farrag-hybrid-moments-at-deitch-gallery-nyc/Culture Type https://www.culturetype.com/tag/tyler-ballon/Raishad J Glover https://raishadjglover.org/researcharchive/2022/12/4/visual-artist-tyler-ballonThe Living Church https://livingchurch.org/church-life/old-masters-and-black-bodies/eskff https://www.eskff.com/post/meet-tyler-ballon-the-local-artist-tackling-race-in-americaABC https://abc7ny.com/tyler-ballon-the-house-i-live-in-artist-jersey-city/11225018/State of the Arts NJ https://stateoftheartsnj.com/video/tyler-ballon/BOOOOOOOM https://www.booooooom.com/2020/07/08/artist-spotlight-tyler-ballon/NJ.com https://www.nj.com/hudson/2020/06/jersey-city-artists-powerful-images-catch-the-attention-of-snoop-dogg-ice-cube.html
Dr. Monique Y. Wells, A native of Houston, Texas and a 32-year resident of Paris, France. Through her entrepreneurial work as a veterinary pathologist and toxicologist, travel professional, writer, speaker, and mentor, she embraces and harnesses the power of education to change lives.While working in Paris she began researching the history of African Americans there and offered self-guided tours of locations associated with African Americans in Paris.This led to her discovery, in the pauper’s division of a cemetery outside Paris, of the unmarked grave of the distinguished artist Beauford Delaney, an American modernist painter well known for his work with the Harlem Renaissance in the 1930s and ’40s.Delaney moved to Paris in 1953 and continued his production of brilliant figurative and abstract expressionist paintings, including several self-portraits and portraits of James Baldwin. He suffered from mental illness and spent the last four years of his life in a psychiatric institution in the French capital. Fascinated with his story, Monique founded Les Amis de Beauford Delaney, and raised funds for a tombstone to mark his grave. She continues her research and work promoting the legacy of Beauford Delaney.Monique worked for 13 years in the corporate world before combining her passion for life sciences, literacy, STEAM (science, technology, engineering, arts, and mathematics) education, the arts, travel/study abroad, and women’s empowerment under the umbrella of her U.S. non-profit organization, the Wells International Foundation (WIF). She is currently recruiting a select group of high achieving women leaders for membership in WIF’s L³ Alliance.Photo credit: Entrée to Black ParisFounder and CEO, Wells International Foundationhttps://wellsinternationalfoundation.orgFacebook: www.facebook.com/WellsInternationalFoundation (https://www.facebook.com/WellsInternationalFoundation/)Most Charitable Marginalised Community Education & Support Organization - South-Central USA (https://www.acquisition-international.com/winners/wells-international-foundation/) - 2022 - Acquisition International100 Phenomenal Black Women Fundraiser Award - 202110 To Know Global Game Changers in Women's Empowerment - 2018 - The Introducer MagazineBlack Women in Europe Power List (https://blackwomenineurope.com/2016/12/07/monique-wells-black-women-in-europe-power-list-2016-a-list-of-our-own/) - 2016http://walkerslegacy.com/latest-buzz/the-list-12-global-entrepreneurs/?utm_source=12+Global+Entrepreneurs&utm_campaign=OCT-15+Newsletter&utm_medium=emailThe List: 12 Global Entrepreneurs to Watch (http://walkerslegacy.com/latest-buzz/the-list-12-global-entrepreneurs/?utm_source=12+Global+Entrepreneurs&utm_campaign=OCT-15+Newsletter&utm_medium=email) - 2015 - Walker's LegacyVisit our YouTube (https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCPU4szgNs5VG1F_4RF8dLFw) channel!Enjoy highlights of our 2019 International Women's Day event - The Successful Woman (https://the-successful-woman.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/12/Event_Highlights_2019_TSW.mp4)Watch me present WIF during my Talking about Success (https://www.jackcanfield.com/pages/success-tv-talking-about-success-5/) interview with Jack Canfield!
Ep.237 Amanda Coulson has worked for three decades as a scholar, critic, curator and cultural producer, having collaborated with artists and institutions, private and corporate colleagues, in the US, Europe, and various sites in the Caribbean. A dual-national (Bahamas/US), she grew up between London, Nassau, and New York, where she studied for her Master’s Degree at the Institute of Fine Arts (NYU) and started her career at the Old Master dealers, Wildenstein & Sons, going on to work in various art galleries in London, Paris and Milan. Developing as a writer, Coulson spent 2 years as the international Editor of tema celeste, an Italian bi-lingual contemporary art magazine, before consolidating her critical practice writing for a variety of publications (Frieze, Modern Painters, ARTNews, among others) and providing critical texts for monographic gallery and museum shows. Coulson also worked as a freelance curator in Germany, organizing several exhibitions in Berlin, Frankfurt, Wiesbaden, Leipzig and Vienna (Austria), with special attention to Bahamian artists. Noting a lack of platforms for galleries representing emerging art, in 2005 she co-founded the VOLTA art fairs, which take place annually in New York and Basel, Switzerland. In 2011, she was invited home to The Bahamas to be Executive Director at the National Art Gallery of The Bahamas (NAGB), where her focus was on increasing global awareness of the contemporary Caribbean art scene and on expanding the capacity and reach of the NAGB through a rigorous combination of capital works, collaborative projects and the building of strong inter-island, regional and international networks. She served on the Davidoff Art Initiative (now Caribbean Art Initiative) Board from 2012-2018, and on the Board of the Museums Association of the Caribbean (MAC) until she stepped down from the NAGB in 2021, after a decade at the helm. She is the founding partner at TERN, a new Nassau-based gallery operated by three Bahamian women whose aim is to support Bahamian and Caribbean artists in telling their own stories the global stage.Image ~ Photo Credit: Blair MeadowsTern Gallery https://www.terngallery.com/The Armory 2024 https://www.artsy.net/article/artsy-editorial-armory-2024-pommery-prize-awarded-anina-majorThe Armory 2023 https://www.thearmoryshow.com/info/past-exhibitors/2023/presents/ternC& https://amlatina.contemporaryand.com/places/tern-gallery/VOLTA https://www.voltaartfairs.com/journal/volta-voices-amanda-coulsonFestival Bahamar https://festival.bahamar.com/speaker/tern-gallery/Bahamas Local https://www.bahamaslocal.com/showlisting/21880/Tern_Gallery.htmlCarib Voxx https://caribvoxx.com/tern-gallery-revolutionizing-caribbean-art-on-bahamian-terms/Burn Away https://burnaway.org/daily/a-blue-haunting-between-the-caribbean-and-the-carolinas/Culture Type https://www.culturetype.com/2021/06/01/on-view-tern-gallery-of-nassau-bahamas-presenting-slate-of-caribbean-artists-at-online-atlantic-world-art-fair/interlocutorinter https://interlocutorinterviews.com/new-blog/2021/10/19/exhibition-feature-the-other-side-of-the-pentaprism-at-tern-galleryCayman Art Week https://www.caymanartweek.com/amanda-coulsonFrieze https://www.frieze.com/contributor/amanda-coulsonArtForum https://www.artforum.com/news/amanda-coulson-departs-national-art-gallery-of-the-bahamas-to-lead-new-tern-gallery-249206/Our News https://ournews.bs/articles/regional/
Ep.236 Ebony L. Haynes is a writer and curator from Toronto, Canada. She is presently based in New York where she is senior director at David Zwirner and leads the gallery’s 52 Walker space in Tribeca. Haynes sits on the boards of Artists Space (New York) and the New Art Dealers Alliance. She also runs Black Art Sessions, an online “school” that offers free professional practice classes to Black students worldwide.Photo: Ebony L. Haynes, 2020 Photo by Elliott Jerome Brown Jr. Courtesy David Zwirner52 Walker https://www.52walker.com/infoDavid Zwirner https://www.davidzwirner.com/news/2021/52-walker-street-announcementWallpaper https://www.wallpaper.com/art/david-zwirner-52-walker-new-york-ebony-l-haynesArtReview https://artreview.com/artist/ebony-l-haynes/?year=2021Topical Cream https://topicalcream.org/editors-in-residence/ebonylhaynes-is-topicacream-editor-in-residence-2024/New York Times https://www.nytimes.com/2020/09/27/arts/design/zwirner-haynes-black-gallery.htmlICI https://curatorsintl.org/about/collaborators/22961-ebony-haynesCulture Type https://www.culturetype.com/tag/ebony-l-haynes/Cool Hunting https://coolhunting.com/culture/all-black-staff-to-run-david-zwirners-new-gallery/Cultured Magazine https://www.culturedmag.com/article/2023/09/06/downtown-art-dealer-ebony-l-haynes-has-a-tip-for-tourists-who-want-to-look-like-new-yorkersArtNews https://www.artnews.com/art-news/news/ebony-l-haynes-nada-section-1234611558/C& https://contemporaryand.com/magazines/ebony-l-haynes-creates-new-gallery-with-all-black-staff-in-nyc/Document Journal https://www.documentjournal.com/tag/ebony-l-haynes/Elephant Magazine https://elephant.art/how-ebony-l-haynes-curated-raymond-saunders-evolution-through-post-no-bills/ArtForum https://www.artforum.com/news/ebony-l-haynes-to-create-black-run-nyc-gallery-with-support-from-david-zwirner-248569/PIN-UP Magazine https://www.pinupmagazine.org/articles/ebony-l-haynes-interviewCurbed NY Magazine https://www.curbed.com/2022/09/21-questions-writer-and-curator-52-walker-director-ebony-haynes.htmlW Magazine https://www.wmagazine.com/culture/52-walker-ebony-haynes-david-zwirner-interviewWhitewall Art https://whitewall.art/art/ebony-l-haynes-opens-52-walker-this-october/HURS https://hurs-official.com/home/hur-conversations/ebony-haynesOffice Magazine https://officemagazine.net/ebony-l-haynes
Ep.235 Alicia Knock Head curator for the Contemporary Creation and Prospective Department at Centre Pompidou. Alicia Knock seeks to develop a transnational history of art. Her acquisitions and exhibitions – Ernest Mancoba, 2019; Chine-Afrique, Crossing the World Color Line, 2020; Global(e) Resistance, 2020 – focus specifically on post-colonial practices (Modern and contemporary African art and Central European art). Concurrently, she is also exploring exhibition formats through dynamic projects that reflect on the future of museums (Museum On/Off, 2016).In 2023, she co-curated Kaunas Biennial, Survival Kit in Riga and Ljubljana graphic arts Biennial focusing on "Long-distance Friendships" and non aligned solidarities between Africa and Eastern Europe. She curated the Albanian Pavilion at the 58th Biennale, and co-curated an exhibition devoted to Boris Mikhailov at the Pinchuk Art Centre in Kyiv in 2019.Photo credit: Alicia Knock © DRCentre Pompidou Black Paris https://www.centrepompidou.fr/en/program/calendar/event/VRo249Y (English)Paris Noir - Circulations artistiques et luttes anticoloniales, 1950 – 2000 - Centre Pompidou (French)https://www.centrepompidou.fr/en/magazine/article/paris-noir-pour-une-histoire-panafricaine-et-transnationale-de-larthttps://www.centrepompidou.fr/en/program/calendar/event/7OFuMJzhttps://amis.centrepompidou.fr/en/activities/1230Villa Albertine https://villa-albertine.org/va/events/black-paris-talk-series-comes-to-five-us-states/ Les Echos https://www.lesechos.fr/weekend/livres-expositions/alicia-knock-la-tete-chercheuse-du-centre-pompidou-2139352Gagosian https://gagosian.com/quarterly/contributors/alicia-knock/Le Quotidien de l’Art https://www.lequotidiendelart.com/articles/23456-le-centre-pompidou-nomme-alicia-knock-et-claudine-grammont.htmlLawrie Shabibi https://www.lawrieshabibi.com/exhibitions/110-global-e-resistance-nadia-kaabi-linke-at-centre-pompidou-paris/overview/Global Atlanta https://www.globalatlanta.com/event/a-conversation-on-black-paris-and-the-atlanta-connection/ E-flux https://www.e-flux.com/announcements/529604/alicia-knock-and-inga-lce-to-curate-14th-kaunas-biennial-and-survival-kit-festival/Instituto Inclusartiz https://inclusartiz.org/en/midia/instituto-inclusartiz-promove-conversa-entre-os-curadores-do-centro-georges-pompidou-fr-alicia-knock-e-paulo-miyada-2/Cite internationale des arts https://www.citedesartsparis.net/media/cia/183726-pr_chimurenga.pdfKauno Bienale https://bienale.lt/2025/en/curators/Ernest Mancoba https://ernestmancoba.org/2020/05/09/alicia-knock/C& https://contemporaryand.com/exhibition/museum-onoff-group-show/Say Who https://saywho.fr/mondains/alicia-knock/
Ep.234 In a wide-ranging practice that encompasses photography, sculpture and painting, Diana Sinclair (b.2004) probes the material, spiritual and social resonance of water. As a former competitive swimmer, Sinclair experienced the way that pools can become fraught with racial tension; Researching global communities of black surfers, she was inspired to travel to Costa Rica, Santa Cruz and Senegal to take part in the sport that originated in Ghana; and advised by academics Kevin Dawson and Kathie Foley-Meyer, she grasped the way water can preserve legacies, hold the DNA of souls left scattered in the middle passage.Sinclair is a self-taught artist who currently has a studio at the Silver Art Projects Residency in New York, NY. Her work has recently been included in exhibitions at All Street Gallery, New York, NY (2024) and Residency Art Gallery, Los Angeles, CA (2024). Her work was chosen for a year-long public installation at the Rockefeller Center from 2023-2024. She was the recipient of the Gemma Projects Inaugural Curatorial Grant (2023) and the YoungArts Award Finalist in Photography (2021). Sinclair currently lives and works in Jersey City, NJ.Artist https://www.dianasinclair.com/Silver Art Residency https://www.silverart.org/artists/Plato Gallery https://www.platogallery.com/blood-as-thick-as-water-press-release
Ep.233 Mario Joyce’s work is rooted in his genealogical research of his family, going back to the 1600s. Incorporating imagery, memories, and stories from his familial research, Joyce incorporates vintage collage materials and soil from the farm he grew up on into his sumptuously textured paintings, weaving together a rich tapestry of his origins. A self-taught artist, Joyce mines his ancestral lineage as well as his personal experience growing up in rural Ohio as a Queer Black man. His work delves into how memories evolve over time and across generations, transforming into intricate capsules of meaning that convey messages of identity, belonging, and place. Mario Joyce lives and works in Los Angeles. He has participated in several residencies including Sointula House Residency, Sointula, BC (2024); Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture, Skowhegan, ME (2023); Pratt Forward, Pratt Institute, Brooklyn, NY (2022); La Brea Studio Residency, Los Angeles, CA (2021). His work has been the subject of solo exhibitions at UTA Artist Space, Los Angeles, CA (2024); Sakhile&Me, Frankfurt, Germany (2023); UTA Art Space, Atlanta, CA (2022). He has been included in numerous group exhibitions at MUZEO Museum and Cultural Center, Anaheim, CA (2024); F2T Gallery, Milan, Italy (2023); New York Culture Club, New York, NY (2022); Over the Influence, Los Angeles, CA (2022), among others. His work is included in public collections including the Columbia Museum of Art, Columbia, SC and the North Dakota Museum of Art, Grand Forks, ND.Portrait credit: Courtesy of Jeff McLane and Vielmetter LA.Artist http://www.mariojoyce.com/Vielmetter LA https://vielmetter.com/artists/mario-joyce/Good Black Art https://goodblackart.com/collections/all/mario-joyceSakhile&Me https://www.sakhileandme.com/artists/mario-joyce.htmCulture Type https://www.culturetype.com/tag/mario-joyce/Future Fair https://archive.futurefairs.com/journal-posts-2/2024/4/28/future-fair-2024-tastemaker-collections-mario-joyceCampaign Buzz https://campaignbuzz.io/email/vielmetter.com/effea04a-e7f9-4c46-8712-24bb113d1280UTA Space https://utaartistspace.com/press/2022/08/30/transportive-paintings-from-l-a-artist-mario-joyce-distinguish-first-uta-pop-up-show/AJC https://www.ajc.com/things-to-do/transportive-paintings-from-la-artist-mario-joyce-distinguish-first-uta-pop-up-show/IG67TNAF7ZDWFP2FND2BNWU4SI/Meer Art https://www.meer.com/en/78691-mario-joyce-amaryllis-gardenF2T Gallery https://www.f2tgallery.com/mario-joyce/Art Rabbit https://www.artrabbit.com/events/mario-joyce-amaryllis-gardenGallery Platform LA https://galleryplatform.la/galleries/vielmetter-los-angeles/events/in-conversation-mario-joyce-and-dominique-claytonArt| Melanated https://www.artmelanated.com/projects-1/mario-joyceOhio State University https://art.osu.edu/events/visiting-artist-mario-joyceArt Crawl https://arthag.typepad.com/arthag/2021/08/mario-joyce-unearthing-black-joy-on-governors-island.htmlOver the Influence https://overtheinfluence.com/artists/mario-joyce/
Ep.232 Will Maxen (b. Waterbury, CT) is a multi-disciplinary artist living in Houston, Texas, who works primarily in the language of painting. His work blends personal and historical imagery into partially abstracted scenes that explore themes of memory and belonging, navigating both literal and metaphorical spaces. The work delves into the dislocation of identity within these spaces, representing existence as something that teeters on the edge of legibility. This juxtaposition breaks the boundaries between the tangible and the intangible while the painted figures evoke vulnerability, adding a human element to the dialogue. Maxen received his BA in Illustration from Central Connecticut State University, and an MFA in Art Studio at the University of California, Davis. He has had solo exhibitions at Residency Art Gallery, Los Angeles (Felix Art Fair); and UTA Art Space, New York. His work has been featured in group shows at Fridman Gallery, New York; Canepa Selling Gallery, Los Angeles, Marrow Gallery, San Francisco; Chili Art Projects, London. Maxens work is included in the permanent collections of the Jan Shrem and Maria Manetti Shrem Museum of Art, Davis, CA; The Art Galleries at Black Studies, Austin, TX; and the Beth Rudin DeWoody Collection. Maxen has been a resident at Silver Art Projects, New York; a recipient of The New Jewish Culture Fellowship; and an Assistant Professor of Painting and Drawing at Louisiana State University.Photo Credit : Jordan Benton Fridman Gallery https://fridmangallery.com/artists/164-will-maxen/ | https://fridmangallery.com/art-fairs/102/works/artworks-2192-will-maxen-untitled-dreams-2024/Silver Arts Residency https://www.silverart.org/about-program/UTA Artist Space https://utaartistspace.com/exhibitions/and-the-land-stands-still/Good Black Art https://goodblackart.com/collections/will-maxenHyperallergic https://hyperallergic.com/826680/2023-uc-davis-arts-humanities-grads-take-center-stage-wide-ranging-show/New American Paintings https://www.newamericanpaintings.com/artists/william-maxenArtspace https://artspacenewhaven.org/os_contributors/will-maxen/Residency Art https://www.residencyart.com/artists | https://www.residencyart.com/exhibitions/felix-art-fair-2024Highline Nine https://highlinenine.org/nicholaskontaxis-1-1Felix Art Fair https://www.residencyart.com/exhibitions/felix-art-fair-2024UC Davis Art Studio https://arts.ucdavis.edu/announcement/alum-will-maxen-featured-art-blogCool Hunting https://coolhunting.com/culture/notes-returning-to-felix-frieze-los-angeles-and-the-future-perfect/
Ep.231 Lina Iris Viktor is a Liberian- artist who lives and works in Italy. Influenced by architecture, archaeology, West African sculptural traditions, ancient Egyptian iconography, classical astronomy and European portraiture, her paintings, sculptures, performances, photography and water-gilding with 24-carat gold produce a charged materiality that address philosophical ideas of the finite and the infinite, the microcosm and macrocosm, evanescence and eternity. Her use of gold, marble, bronze, wood and volcanic rock establish an intimate and intangible timelessness whilst her focus on black as ‘materia prima’ challenges the sociopolitical and historical preconceptions surrounding ‘blackness’ and its universal implications. By interweaving disparate materials, methods and visual lexicons associated with contemporary and ancient art forms, Viktor authors an idiosyncratic mythology that threads through deep time, knitting together a diasporic past with an expansive present in order to divine future imaginaries. Viktor received her BA in film at Sarah Lawrence College and studied photography at The School of Visual Arts in New York. Solo exhibitions include Sir John Soane’s Museum, London (2024); Fotografiska Museum of Photography, Stockholm & Tallinn(2020); Autograph, London (2019); and New Orleans Museum of Art (2018), among others. Group exhibitions include the Museum of the African Diaspora [MoAD],San Francisco (2024); Hayward Gallery, London (2022); North Carolina Museum of Art, Raleigh (2020); Somerset House, London (2019); Ford Foundation, New York(2019) ); Ford Foundation, New York (2019); Crocker Art Museum, Sacramento (2018); Kentucky Museum of Art and Craft, Louisville (2016); Spelman Museum of Fine Art, Atlanta (2016); and Cooper Gallery, Harvard University, Cambridge (2016). Photo credit ©2024 Courtesy of LVXIX Atelier. Sir John Soane Museum https://www.soane.org/exhibitions/lina-iris-viktor-mythic-time-tens-thousands-rememberings Museum of the African Diaspora (MoAD https://www.moadsf.org/exhibitions/liberatory-living Pilar Corrias https://www.pilarcorrias.com/exhibitions/419-lina-iris-viktor-solar-angels-lunar-lords/ Hayward Gallery https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z1ZHUFirMRM&ab_channel=SouthbankCentre New Orleans Museum of Art https://noma.org/exhibitions/lina-iris-viktor-a-haven-a-hell-a-dream-deferred/ Fotografiska Stockholm https://stockholm.fotografiska.com/en/exhibitions/lina-iris-viktor Autograph https://autograph.org.uk/online-image-galleries/lina-iris-viktor-some-are-born-to-endless-night-dark-matter-exhibition-highlights Elephant https://elephant.art/lina-iris-viktors-distinct-mythology-a-photo-diary-from-the-artists-home-on-the-amalfi-coast/ Apollo Magazine https://www.apollo-magazine.com/lina-iris-viktor-soane-museum-review/ An Other https://www.anothermag.com/art-photography/15758/lina-iris-viktor-interview-mythic-time-sir-john-soane-museum-exhibition Artnet https://news.artnet.com/art-world/lina-iris-viktor-2379189 British Vogue https://www.vogue.co.uk/gallery/lina-iris-viktor-sir-john-soane Something Curated https://somethingcurated.com/2023/03/21/interview-lina-iris-viktor-on-the-libyan-sibyl-beauty-as-a-tool-for-truth/ The Art Newspaper https://www.theartnewspaper.com/2022/08/03/a-brush-with-lina-iris-viktor New York Times https://www.nytimes.com/2022/08/04/arts/design/in-the-black-fantastic-london.html
Ep.230 Carl E. Hazlewood (b. 1951) was born in Guyana, South America. Parallel to his studio practice, Hazlewood co-founded Aljira, a Center for Contemporary Art in Newark, NJ in 1983. Steeped in modest materials, such as polyester, push pins, map pins and metallic string, form is foregrounded and the slippage between drawing, painting and sculpture places his work in a space that challenges the conventions of each medium, and forces the viewer to experience form on its own terms. Hazlewood explains, “Like a sculptor, I work to find 'shapes' and 'volumes', implied or actual. And like painting, the layering becomes an intuitive search for textures, color and form…I define edges, where things begin and end, where they may find relationships and multiple transitions against or into each other. I think of this as 'drawing' the accumulation of parts into active and resonant connections. Then those 'active' parts are pinned into a final configuration, something that feels properly 'evocative' yet stable as plastic form.”Solo exhibitions of his work include BlackHead Anansi: Constellations at Charlotte and Philip Hanes Gallery, Wake Forest University, South Carolina (2023); Racing Thoughts-Fever Dreaming at Art Basel Miami Beach (2022); and BlackHead Lyricism at Welancora Gallery (2022). Hazlewood has been the recipient of fellowships at the MacDowell organization (2023, 2015); the Brown Foundation at the Dora Maar House, Ménerbes, France (2018); and the Bogliasco Foundation, Italy (2018). His fifty-two-foot-tall wall work, TRAVELER (2017), was commissioned by the Knockdown Center, Queens. Collections include: The National Museum of African American History and Culture, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, DC , The Study Center, Bogliasco Foundation, Genova, Italy, The Dora Maar House, Ménerbes, France, Ogden Museum of Southern Art, New Orleans, Louisiana, Museu Brasileiro da Escultura, São Paulo - Brazil, The Schomburg Center Collections, New York, NY, The University of Guyana, South America and The National Collection of Fine Arts, Castellani House, Guyana, South America.Photo credit: Dia Art FoundationArtist https://www.carle-hazlewood.com/Welancora Gallery https://www.welancoragallery.com/artists/71-carl-e.-hazlewood/works/Brattleboro Museum https://www.brattleboromuseum.org/2024/10/21/carl-e-hazlewood-infinite-passage/Sharpe-Walentas https://www.thestudioprogram.com/artists-hp2023/carl-e-hazlewoodOrtega y Gasset Projects https://www.oygprojects.com/swimming-blind-in-a-wine-dark-seaDuck Creek arts https://www.duckcreekarts.org/2024-group-show-raneeWhitewall https://whitewall.art/whitewaller/must-see-shows-in-the-hamptons-on-view-now/Bomb https://bombmagazine.org/articles/2024/07/02/an-oral-history-with-cynthia-hawkins-by-julia-trotta/Art Students League https://www.artstudentsleague.org/events/painters-talking-what-we-talk-about-when-we-talk-about-abstractionWake Forest | Hanes Gallery https://hanesgallery.wfu.edu/blackhead-anansi-constellations/Valentine Museum of Art https://valentinemuseumofart.com/artists/36-carl-hazlewood/works/Art in Dumbo https://dumboopenstudios.com/listings/artist/carl-e-hazlewood/Stabroek news https://www.stabroeknews.com/2024/02/04/sunday/eye-on-art/circling-back-to-carl-e-hazlewood/Macdowell https://www.macdowell.org/artists/carl-e-hazlewoodArt Cake https://artcake.org/artist-carl-e-hazlewoodDavid Richard gallery https://davidrichardgallery.com/news/865-carl-e-hazlewood-demerara-dreaming-triptych-paintings-1996-2003-david-richard-gallery-chelsea-february-17-2022
Ep.229 Na Kim b.1986 Seoul, South Korea Na Kim lives and works in Brooklyn, New York. Known for her mimetic portraits set against polychromatic backgrounds, Na Kim’s paintings depict figures but are conceptually abstract. Her imagined subjects, derivative yet unique, evoke both confrontational and intimate encounters. Kim’s practice centers neither accuracy nor narrative, but rather reflects a deeply meditative character study. Solo exhibitions include Kim’s debut solo presentation at White Columns, New York (2023) and forthcoming show at Nicola Vassell Gallery, New York (2025). Group exhibitions include The Selves, Nicola Vassell Gallery, New York (2024) and the White Columns Benefit Auction, New York (2023, 2024). Kim has shown work at a number of art fairs, including Art Basel Miami Beach, Miami (2024) and Independent Art Fair, New York (2024). In addition to her fine art practice, Kim currently works as the art director of The Paris Review and creative director of the publishing house Farrar, Straus and Giroux. Her designs have been named among The New York Times’ best book covers of the year for the past nine consecutive years.Photo Na Kim: Courtesy of the artistArtist https://www.na-kim.com/Nicola Vassell Gallery https://www.nicolavassell.com/artists/76-na-kim/White Columns https://whitecolumns.org/exhibitions/na-kim/Paris Review https://www.theparisreview.org/about/masthead | https://www.theparisreview.org/blog/2023/06/20/the-cups-came-in-a-rush-an-interview-with-margot-bergman/One Club Organization https://www.oneclub.org/awards/adcawards/-judge/2739/na-kimThe Creative Independent Na Kim – The Creative Independent Drakes https://us.drakes.com/blogs/news/in-the-studio-wth-na-kim?srsltid=AfmBOoqMsvMO6YmKGyt_fJCZkdzWGCsZjEYClN228sX4NQp4dpAGePXXI need a book cover https://ineedabookcover.com/designers/na-kim/Print Magazine https://www.printmag.com/book-covers/best-book-cover-of-the-month-the-copenhagen-trilogy-designed-by-na-kim/Coveteur https://coveteur.com/book-designer-interview-na-kim
Ep.228 ELLIOTT BARNES A Los Angeles native, Elliott Barnes graduated from Cornell University in New York State in 1985 with a Bachelors and a Masters in Architecture and Urban Planning. In 1984 the AIA member architect began his career with Arthur Erickson Architects in Los Angeles. In 1987, he joined the Paris office of renowned designer Andrée Putman, who in 1997 handed over the design management of her firm to him, a position he occupied until 2003.In 2004 Elliott Barnes created his own interior design firm in Paris. His aesthetic talents meant that he was immediately sought-after for exceptional design projects, including private residential properties, retail and institutional spaces, hotels and spa, installations in France and abroad. As his work shows, it is his obsession with detail that characterizes his style, which is both eclectic and demure.His notable projects include a visitors and reception center for Champagne Billecart Salmon in Mareuil-sur-Aÿ, the new Tai Ping showroom in Paris, the five-star Hotel de Montesquieu in Paris, as well as the Ritz Carlton palace in Wolfsburg in Germany. A sterling silver limited edition collection for Christofle around the theme of Champagne now on exhibition at the Musée des Arts Décoratifs in Paris, a chalet in Megève (France), the headquarters and tasting center of Ruinart in Reims, a rug collection for Tai Ping, or a penthouse showcase apartment of the real estate group Mitsui in Tokyo, and a chalet in Verbier (Switzerland). He designed the scenography for the exhibition on Gaby Aghion at the Jewish Museum in New York in October 2023. In 2024 his Endless Summer II bench, was acquired by Le Mobilier National, the French National Furniture Collection.The Elliott Barnes style resides in his elegant handling of light and use of both unusual and noble materials which invest unique, exclusive spaces with an innovative approach to luxury.His design talent has been acclaimed by the magazines AD France-AD 100 since 2014, ELLE Decor USA-A List and Architectural Digest USA-AD100 since 2021. In 2023 he was the winner of the «Talent for Elegance» award from The Centre du Luxe et de la Création, France. Wallpaper magazine selected him as one of the 300 American design creatives to know in 2023 and one of the 400 American creatives to know in the Tastemakers category in 2024.Elliott Barnes is considered one of the top 100 interior designers in the world.Passionate about art, Elliott Barnes is also the founder of The Barnes Contemporary (@thebarnescontemporary), a private collection based upon portraits of his family members by artists from the African diaspora. This collection was initiated 12 years ago.Photo Credit~ Benoit AugusteElliott Barnes www.elliottbarnesinteriors.comElle Décor https://www.elledecor.com/design-decorate/a43727224/christofle-elliott-barnes/Musée des Arts décoratifs https://madparis.fr/Exposition-ChristofleChristofle https://www.christofle.com/us_en/dellipse-elliottbarnes | https://www.christofle.com/us_en/madparis-christofle | https://www.christofle.com/us_en/our-maison/designers/elliott-barnesACH Collection https://achcollection.com/trends/home-world/elliott-barnes-and-his-megeve-ski-chalet-that-you-must-know/
Ep.227 Zohra Opoku examines the politics of personal identity formation through historical, cultural, and socio-economic influences, particularly in the context of contemporary Ghana. Opoku's explorations have primarily been expressed through her photography, which she translates into screen printing. This process has led to a collage art practice that combines hand-stitched embroidery on various pre-dyed natural fabrics. She also incorporates references from West African brass-making traditions into her work, which can be experienced as applications on the textile pieces or as sculptures themselves. While her work relays social commentary and broadly relevant themes around the human experience, each of Zohra's explorations is intimately rooted in personal identity politics. She repeatedly integrates family heirlooms and her own self-image into her visual observations of Ghana's cultural memory. In 2023, she is among the artists exhibited in the 15th edition of Sharjah Biennale ‘Thinking Historically in the Present’ (United Arab Emirates), as Black Rock Sénégal Alumni at 14th edition of DAK’ART ‘Forger/Out Of Fire’ in 2022 and at 7th Athens Biennale ‘Eclipse’(Greece) 2021. She has exhibited internationally such as the Brooklyn Museum (NYC), The Museum for Photography (Chicago), The Cleveland Museum of Art, High Museum of Art (Atlanta), Kunsthaus Hamburg, Kunstmuseum Wolfsburg, Musée de l'Ethnographie (Bordeaux), Guggenheim Museum (Bilbao), Kunsthal Rotterdam, Archaeological Museum of Mykonos, Southbank Centre / Hayward Gallery (London), TATE London, SAVVY Contemporary (Berlin), Palais Populaire (Berlin), National Museum Nairobi, CCA Lagos, Nubuke Foundation (Accra) and RAW Material Company (Dakar). Her work is collected by renowned institutions such as the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles; CCS Bard College Hessel Museum of Art, Annandale-on-Hudson, NY; The Royal Museum of Ontario Toronto, Ontario; The Faurschou Foundation, Copenhagen, Denmark; TATE Modern, London, United Kingdom; The Onassis Collection, Athens, Greece and The Centre Pompidou, Paris, France. Zohra Opoku is born 1976 in Altdöbern (former GDR/ East Germany), lives and works in Accra/ Ghana and is represented by Mariane Ibrahim Gallery Chicago / Paris / Mexico City.Photo credit Nii OdzenmaArtist https://www.zohraopoku.com/Mariane Ibrahim Gallery https://marianeibrahim.com/artists/33-zohra-opoku/Berlin Art Institute https://berlinartinstitute.com/visit-to-zohra-opoku-at-suite-berlin-and-mariane-ibrahim/deCordova Sculpture Park and Museum https://thetrustees.org/exhibit/platform-33-zohra-opoku-self-portraits/Interior Design https://interiordesign.net/designwire/10-questions-with-textile-artist-zohra-opoku/Financial Times https://www.ft.com/content/2d916c9b-fafe-457e-8d21-0b6763430668C& https://contemporaryand.com/magazines/zohra-opoku-empowering-children-of-color-to-love-themselves/The Art Newspaper https://www.theartnewspaper.com/2024/09/10/four-galleries-and-four-artists-team-up-on-collaborative-project-suite-berlinAperture https://aperture.org/editorial/zohra-opokus-evocative-reflections-on-mortality-and-resilience/NYTimes https://www.nytimes.com/2023/07/14/arts/design/african-royalty-tate-modern.htmlThe Guardian https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/2021/nov/01/laced-cut-mix-review-new-art-exchange-nottinghamWikipedia https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zohra_Opoku
Ep.226 Edra Soto (b. 1971) is a Puerto Rican-born artist, educator, and co-director of outdoor project space The Franklin. Soto instigates meaningful, relevant, and often difficult conversations surrounding socioeconomic and cultural oppression, erasure of history, and loss of cultural knowledge. Soto has presented recent solo exhibitions at Comfort Station, Chicago, IL (2024); Hyde Park Art Center, Chicago, IL (2023); Institute of Contemporary Art, San Diego, CA (2023); Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago, IL (2018); Headlands Center for the Arts, Sausalito, CA (2017); The Arts Club of Chicago, IL (2017). Her work has been featured in notable recent group exhibitions including Widening the Lens: Photography, Ecology, and the Contemporary Landscape, Carnegie Museum of Art, Pittsburgh, PA (2024); Entre Horizontes, Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago, IL (2023); no existe un mundo poshuracán, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY (2022); and Estamos Bien, La Trienal 20/21, El Museo del Barrio, New York, NY (2021). She has been awarded the Joan Mitchell Foundation Painters & Sculptors Grant; Bemis Center’s Ree Kaneko Award; the US LatinX Art Forum Fellowship; and MacArthur Foundation International Connections Fund. Soto has received numerous public commissions, for Noor Riyadh, Saudi Arabia (2024); Now & There, Central Wharf Park, Boston, MA (2023); the Chicago Architecture Biennial, IL (2023); and Millenium Park in Chicago, IL (2019). Her work is in the collection of institutions including the Whitney Museum of American Art, New York; Pérez Art Museum Miami and Museum of Contemporary Art of Chicago.Photo Courtesy of Public Art Fund ~ Liz LigonArtist https://edrasoto.com/home.htmlPublic Art Fund https://www.publicartfund.org/exhibitions/view/edra-soto-graft/MSU Broad Art Museum https://broadmuseum.msu.edu/events/artist-talk-edra-soto/por la señal | by a signal at Morgan Lehman Gallery https://www.morganlehmangallery.com/exhibitions/edra-soto4Lazos Terrenales at ICA at MECA&D Maine https://meca.edu/ica/lazos-terrenales-earthly-bonds/La Casa de Todos at Comfort Station https://comfortstationlogansquare.org/calendar/2024/6/1/la-casa-de-todosJohn Michael Kohler Arts Center https://www.jmkac.org/artist/soto-edra/Carnegie Museum of Art https://carnegieart.org/art/hillman-photography-initiative/cycle-4-widening-the-lens/US Latinx Art Forum https://uslaf.org/member/edra-soto/Noor Riyadh https://riyadhart.sa/en/artists/edra-soto/?_program=noor-riyadhCAB5 https://chicagoarchitecturebiennial.org/people/edra-soto/Ree Kaneko Award https://www.e-flux.com/announcements/511285/edra-soto-winner-of-2022-ree-kaneko-award/#:~:text=Established%20in%202019%20at%205%2C000,support%20of%20its%20alumni%20community.The Art Newsletter https://www.theartnewspaper.com/2024/09/05/edra-soto-this-kind-of-architecture-lives-in-the-backgroundTimeOut https://www.timeout.com/newyork/news/this-new-outdoor-sculpture-in-central-park-honors-the-puerto-rican-community-090624Hyperallergic https://hyperallergic.com/946566/new-three-year-arts-series-will-center-nyc-latine-community-clemente/El Nuevo Dia https://www.elnuevodia.com/entretenimiento/cultura/notas/el-arte-de-una-boricua-transforma-el-central-park-de-nueva-york-con-su-obra-de-rejas/Newcity Art https://art.newcity.com/2024/08/26/central-park-state-of-mind-edra-soto-puts-the-home-in-public-art/Chicago Reader https://chicagoreader.com/arts-culture/art-feature/everybodys-home-edra-soto/Forbes https://www.forbes.com/sites/shelbyknick/2023/12/14/the-brilliance-of-noor-riyadh-a-city-wide-canvas-comes-to-life-again/?sh=400c0e4a6a23New York Times https://www.nytimes.com/2023/11/28/arts/design/chicago-architecture-biennial.htmlChicago Tribune https://www.chicagotribune.com/2023/11/14/3arts-awards-50k-unrestricted-grants-to-local-teaching-artists-with-next-level-awards/Artforum https://www.artforum.com/events/susan-snodgrass-edra-soto-513802/
Ep.225 Mario Moore, a Detroit native, received a BFA from the College for Creative Studies, Detroit, MI in 2009 and an MFA in Painting from the Yale School of Art, New Haven, CT in 2013. He is a recent Kresge Arts Fellow (2023) and a recipient of the prestigious Princeton Hodder Fellowship (2018-2019). He also has been awarded residencies at Duke University, Josef and Annie Albers Foundation, Fountainhead, and Knox College. Moore’s work is in the permanent collections of but not limited to the Detroit Institute of Arts, Princeton University Art Museum and The Studio Museum in Harlem. Moore’s work has been widely exhibited, including at the Smart Museum of Art, Chicago, IL; Cranbrook Art Museum, Bloomfield Hills, MI; Jeffrey Deitch Gallery, Los Angeles, CA; Arthur Roger Gallery, New Orleans, LA; The Cleveland Museum of Art, and Colby College Museum of Art. Mario Moore / Enshrined: Presence & Preservation exhibition—Moore’s largest survey of work to date—opened at the Charles H. Wright Museum of African American History, Detroit in June 2021 and traveled to the California African American Museum (CAAM) in March 2022, his first solo exhibition on the West Coast]. Moore’s most recent traveling museum exhibition, Revolutionary Times opened at the Flint Institute of Arts in January 2024 and closed at the Grand Rapids Art Museum in August 2024. Mario Moore currently works and lives in Detroit, MI.Headshot by Danielle Eliska Artist https://www.mariomoorestudio.com/ABC news https://www.abc12.com/video/detroit-native-brings-revolutionary-times-to-the-flint-institute-of-arts/video_1a604728-0a2e-5a4b-969d-f0304557c2a1.htmlHour Detroit https://www.hourdetroit.com/art-topics/two-new-exhibitions-at-cranbrook-art-museum-highlight-detroit-artists/Canvas Rebel https://canvasrebel.com/meet-mario-moore/David Klein Gallery https://www.dkgallery.com/artists/45-mario-moore/Grand Rapids Art Museum https://www.artmuseumgr.org/press-releases/artist-mario-moore-bridges-untold-stories-of-americas-past-and-present-at-the-grand-rapids-art-museumKresege Arts https://kresgeartsindetroit.org/artist/mario-moore/Shondaland https://www.shondaland.com/act/a40458000/detroit-artist-mario-moore-interview/Outlier Media https://outliermedia.org/mario-moore-artist-detroit-painter-interview/LSU Museum of Art https://www.lsumoa.org/mario-moore-responding-to-historyCAA Museum https://caamuseum.org/exhibitions/2022/enshrined-presence-preservationDuke Arts https://arts.duke.edu/projects/mario-moore/Duke Form https://www.dukeform.co/all-content/mario-mooreSakehile & Me https://www.sakhileandme.com/artists/mario-moore.htmCranbrook Art Museum https://cranbrookartmuseum.org/events/artist-led-tour-skilled-labor-mario-moore-sabrina-nelson-richard-lewis/CCS Detroit https://www.ccsdetroit.edu/news/mario-moore-honored-with-ccss-2023-distinguished-alumni-award/Detroit Metro Times https://www.metrotimes.com/arts/mario-moore-tells-detroits-underground-railroad-history-in-new-exhibit-midnight-and-canaan-31303155Cultured Mag https://www.culturedmag.com/article/2022/11/02/mario-moore-painting-black-historyPrinceton University https://www.cnn.com/2020/01/01/us/princeton-university-portraits-workers-trnd/index.htmlThe Art Newspaper https://www.theartnewspaper.com/2020/01/20/princeton-artist-fellow-mario-moore-celebrates-african-american-workers
Ep.224 Anthony Olubunmi Akinbola (b. 1991, Missouri) has had solo exhibitions at Sean Kelly, New York; Night Gallery, Los Angeles; Galerie Krinzinger, Vienna; Carbon 12, Dubai; John Kohler Art Center, Sheboygan; the Queens Museum, New York, and other galleries and institutions. His work has been featured in group shows at the Guggenheim, New York, NY; Hauser & Wirth, New York and Los Angeles; Pace Gallery, New York; and the Bernard A. Zuckerman Museum of Art, Kennesaw, among others. Akinbola's work is included in the permanent collections of the Detroit Institute of Arts, Detroit, MI; The Beth Rudin DeWoody Collection; The Everson Museum of Art, Syracuse, NY; Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York, NY; Ogunquit Museum of American Art, Ogunquit, ME; Pizzuti Collection, Columbus, OH; and Zabludowicz Collection, London, United Kingdom. Akinbola lives and works in New York.Photo Courtesy of SCADSean Kelly https://www.skny.com/news-events/anthony-akinbola-good-hairHauser Wirth https://www.hauserwirth.com/viewing-room/anthony-olubunmi-akinbola/Galerie Krinzinger https://galerie-krinzinger.at/artists/anthony-olubunmi-akinbola-0494f551/Night Gallery https://www.nightgallery.ca/exhibitions/anthony-akinbola/aboutzidoun-Bossuyt https://zidoun-bossuyt.com/worksavailable/anthony-olubunmi-akinbola/SCAD https://www.scad.edu/event/2024-08-23-anthony-olubunmi-akinbola-exhibition-good-hair Contemporary Art Review https://contemporaryartreview.la/anthony-olubunmi-akinbola-at-night-gallery/L’Officiel https://www.lofficielusa.com/art/artists-to-watch-2024Hypebeast https://hypebeast.com/2024/10/anthony-olubunmi-akinbola-western-beef-exhibition-galerie-frinzinger-viennaCultural DC https://www.culturaldc.org/anthony-akinbolaWhitewall https://whitewall.art/art/anthony-akinbola-explores-fetish-camouflage-and-loaded-objects-at-sean-kelly-gallery-in-new-york/Vogue https://www.vogue.com/article/this-nigerian-american-artist-uses-durags-as-his-mediumContemporary Art Review https://contemporaryartreview.la/anthony-olubunmi-akinbola-at-night-gallery/1201 https://www.1202magazine.com/art/anthony-olubunmi-akinbola-scad-good-hairVisionary Artistry Magazine https://visionaryartistrymag.com/2024/06/anthony-akinbola-bridging-identity-through-art/Rivalry Projects https://www.rivalryprojects.com/anthony-olubunmi-akinbolaJohn Michael Kohler Arts Center https://www.jmkac.org/exhibition/magic-city/Silver Arts Project https://www.silverart.org/artists/27-anthony-akinbola/overview/Cultured Magazine https://www.culturedmag.com/article/2022/05/17/anthony-bunmi-akinbola-uses-art-as-social-commentaryC& https://contemporaryand.com/exhibition/anthony%E2%80%AFolubunmi%E2%80%AFakinbola-magic-city/NYTimes https://www.nytimes.com/2021/09/30/arts/design/art-gallery-shows-to-see-right-now.htmlArtnews https://www.artnews.com/art-news/artists/anthony-akinbola-durag-paintings-interview-1234649721/
Ep.223 Pio Abad (b.1983) is an artist whose work is concerned with the personal and political entanglements of objects. His wide-ranging body of work, mines alternative or repressed historical events and offers counter narratives that draw out threads of complicity between incidents, ideologies and people. Deeply informed by unfolding events in the Philippines, where the artist was born and raised, his work emanates from a family narrative woven into the nation’s story.He has exhibited at the Ashmolean Museum, Oxford; 58th Carnegie International; the 5th Kochi-Muziris Biennial; Ateneo Art Gallery, Manila; Museum of Contemporary Art, Tokyo; Kadist, San Francisco; Oakville Galleries, Ontario; the 2nd Honolulu Biennial; 12th Gwangju Biennial; 4A Centre for Contemporary Asian Art, Sydney and Gasworks, London. He was recently nominated for the 2024 Turner Prize.Abad’s works are part of a number of important collections including Tate, UK; Carnegie Museum of Art, Pittsburgh; Hawaii State Art Museum, Honolulu and Singapore Art Museum.Abad is also the curator of the estate of his aunt, the Filipino American artist Pacita Abad. He has co-curated monographic exhibitions on Pacita Abad at the Museum of Contemporary Art and Design Manila and Spike Island, Bristol. Photo Credit: Frances Wadsworth Jones Artist https://www.pioabad.com/Tate Museum https://www.tate.org.uk/art/artists/pio-abad-30636/pio-abad-beautiful-things-can-be-vessels-for-painful-storiesAshmolean Museum https://www.ashmolean.org/exhibition/ashmolean-now-pio-abad-those-sitting-in-darkness | Shortlist Turner Prize https://www.ashmolean.org/press/ashmolean-now-pio-abad-turner-prize-shortlist-press-releasePacita Abad https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pacita_Abad | https://ago.ca/events/pacita-abad-roundtable-conversation | https://tinakimgallery.com/news/205-first-of-its-kind-retrospective-of-filipino-artist-pacita-abad-opens-cbs-news/Frieze https://www.frieze.com/article/frieze-masters-magazine-2024-pio-abad-gerret-willemsz-hedaUniversity of Oxford https://www.glam.ox.ac.uk/article/artist-pio-abads-exhibition-at-the-ashmolean-museum-shortlisted-for-2024-turner-prizeRoyal Academy https://www.royalacademy.org.uk/art-artists/name/pio-abadKadist https://kadist.org/people/pio-abad/Wallpaper https://www.wallpaper.com/art/turner-prize-2024-artistsWidewalls https://www.widewalls.ch/magazine/pio-abad-2024-turner-prizeArtnet News https://news.artnet.com/art-world/who-will-clinch-the-u-k-s-top-art-honor-inside-the-turner-prize-exhibition-2541699Museums Association https://www.museumsassociation.org/museums-journal/news/2024/09/turner-prize-artist-explores-ashmolean-collection/Vogue Philippines https://vogue.ph/lifestyle/art/pio-abad-exhibit-turner-prize/ | Pacita Abad https://vogue.ph/lifestyle/art/pacita-abad-decades-strong-path-of-color-set-ablaze/Tatler Asia https://www.tatlerasia.com/lifestyle/arts/turner-prize-pio-abad-interviewOpen Space Contemporary https://www.openspacecontemporary.com/projects/10-minutes-with-open-space/10-minutes-with-pio-abad/Silver Lens https://www.silverlensgalleries.com/artists/pio-abad
Ep.222 José Parlá (b.1973) creates paintings and multidisciplinary works based on his interest in hybrid forms of abstraction. He draws inspiration from various mediums including music, calligraphy, dance, and the decay of urban architecture and advertisements. His works poetically challenge ideas about language, politics, identity, and how we define places and spaces. Parlá’s relationship with mark-making is physical and textural, incorporating the body’s gestures into a painterly stream of consciousness composed of areas of addition, erasure, and layering that challenge the status quo of visual culture.Parlá was born to Cuban parents in Miami, Florida, and lives and works out of Brooklyn, New York. He studied painting at Savannah College of Art & Design (SCAD) in Savannah, Georgia; the New World School of the Arts, Miami, Florida; and Miami Dade College, Miami, Florida. Solo exhibitions of Parlá’s work have been organized at institutions such as The Bronx Museum, New York (2022); Gana Art Center, Seoul (2022); Istanbul’74, Istanbul (2019); Hong Kong Contemporary Art (HOCA) Foundation, Hong Kong (2019); Neuberger Museum of Art, New York (2018); SCAD Museum of Art, Savannah (2017); Brooklyn Academy of Music (BAM), New York (2017); Goss-Michael Foundation, Dallas (2016); High Museum of Art, Atlanta (2015); amongst others.Public arts projects include permanent large-scale commissions including Far Rockaway Writer’s Library, a collaboration between Snøhetta and Parlá, New York (2023); University of Texas, Austin (2018); ONE World Trade Center, New York (2015); A collaboration with Snøhetta, Hunt Library at North Carolina State University, Raleigh (2013); Barclays Center, New York (2012); Brooklyn Academy of Music (BAM), New York (2012); Concord City Place, Toronto (2010).Select group exhibitions and biennials include The Culture: Hip Hop & Contemporary Art in the 21st Century, Baltimore Museum of Art, Baltimore (2023); Brooklyn Abstraction, Four Artists, Four Walls, Brooklyn Museum, New York (2022); Reflections, Gana Art, Seoul (2019); Glasstress, Fondazione Berengo Art Space, Venice (2019); Beyond the Streets, New York (2019); Yasiin bey: Negus, Brooklyn Museum, New York (2019); Victors for Art, University of Michigan Museum of Art, Ann Arbor (2017); Post No Bills: Public Walls as Studio and Source, Neuberger Museum of Art, New York (2016); Seeing, Saying, Images and Words, Van Every/Smith Galleries, Davidson College, North Carolina (2016); Wrinkles of the City: Havana Cuba: JR & José Parlá, the Havana Biennial, Havana (2012); amongst others.Parlá's work is in several public collections including the Brooklyn Museum, New York; The British Museum, London; Buffalo AKG Art Museum, New York; El Espacio, Miami; POLA Museum of Art, Japan; Pérez Art Museum Miami, Florida; The Gordon Parks Foundation, Pleasantville, NY; The Neuberger Museum of Art, New York; and The National Museum of Fine Arts, Havana.Parlá serves on the board of National YoungArts Foundation. Parlá has received numerous awards, including the Scholastic Art & Writing Awards, Alumni Achivement Award (2024) Gordon Parks Foundation Fellowship (2023), the Hirshhorn Museum Artist x Artist honoree (Hank Willis Thomas x José Parlá) (2023), National Young Arts Foundation Award (2022), Americans for the Arts National Art Award (2022), Americans for the Arts Public Art Network (2019), Miami Dade College Alumni Hall of Fame Award inductee (2016), Brooklyn Arts Council honoree (2014), Institute of Contemporary Arts(ICA) London – Grand Prize (2013), Heartland Film Festival - Best Documentary Short and Best U.S. Premiere for Wrinkles of the City, Havana (2013) Scholastic Art Award.Photographer James Chororos
Ep.221 Shinique Smith. Known for her monumental fabric sculptures and abstract paintings of calligraphy and collage, Smith’s personal histories and belongings intertwine with thoughts of the vast nature of ‘things’ that we consume, cherish, gift, and discard and how these objects resonate on intimate and social scales. Over the last twenty years, Smith has gleaned visual poetry from textiles and explored concepts of ritual using breath, bunding and mark-making as tools toward abstraction. Her layered works range from palm-sized bundled microcosms to monolithic bales to massive chaotic paintings that contain vibrant and carefully collected mementos from her life. Smith’s practice operates at the convergence of consumption and spiritual sanctuary, balancing forces and revealing connections across space and time, race, gender, and place to suggest the possibility of new worlds.Born in Baltimore, MD, currently residing in Los Angeles, California, Smith has received awards and prizes from Joan Mitchell, the Tiffany Foundation, Anonymous Was a Woman and the American Academy of Arts and Letters among others. Her work has gained attention through her participation in celebrated biennials and group exhibitions including the 13th Bienal de Cuenca and 8th Busan Biennale; Frequency at the Studio Museum in Harlem, 30 Americans organized by the Rubell Family Collection, UnMonumental at the New Museum and Hauser + Wirth LA’s Revolution in the Making. Smith’s work has also been exhibited and collected by other prestigious institutions such as the Baltimore Museum of Art; Brooklyn Museum of Art; California African American Museum, Denver Art Museum, the Frist, Indianapolis Museum of Art at Newfields, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Minneapolis Art Institute, MOMA PS1, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, Musée d’art contemporain de Montréal, Nerman Museum of Contemporary Art, SCAD, the Ringling Museum of Art, the Whitney and the Guggenheim. Photo credit: Courtesy of the artistArtist https://www.shiniquesmith.com/moniquemeloche https://www.moniquemeloche.com/artists/207-shinique-smith/biography/https://www.moniquemeloche.com/exhibitions/218-collage-culture/press_release_text/The Phillips Collection https://www.phillipscollection.org/event/2024-07-06-multiplicityThe Ringling Museum https://www.ringling.org/event/shinique-smith-parade/SRQ https://www.srqmagazine.com/srq-daily/2023-12-01/23073_The-Ringling-Presents-Shinique-Smith-ParadeHyperallergic https://hyperallergic.com/552240/meet-las-art-community-sharing-inspiration-with-people-of-color-has-always-been-a-priority-for-shinique-smith/Centure for Maine Contemporary Art https://cmcanow.org/event/shinique-smith-continuous-poem/Newfields https://discovernewfields.org/Shinique-Smith-TorqueGuggenheim https://www.guggenheim.org/exhibition/by-way-of-material-and-motion-in-the-guggenheim-collectionKemper Museum of Contemporary Art https://www.kemperart.org/program/artist-talk-shinique-smithProducts |For Freedoms https://checkout.forfreedoms.com/products/by-the-light-2024 ICASF https://www.icasf.org/exhibitions/16-the-poetics-of-dimensionsSee Great Art https://www.seegreatart.art/shinique-smith-artworks-displayed-with-european-masterpieces-at-ringling-museum/Visit Indy https://www.visitindy.com/event/shinique-smith-torque/158358/Guild Hall https://www.guildhall.org/events/ring-the-alarm-a-conversation-with-shinique-smith-renee-cox/AWARE https://awarewomenartists.com/en/artiste/shinique-smith/Flora Animalia https://floraanimalia.com/blogs/news/shinique-smith?srsltid=AfmBOorqjJTBqroKRSW96gcOjCXK374pQUKNseNnhQ1A0rZNtRrOdoaj
Ep.220 Jake Troyli (b.1990, Boston, MA) received his BFA from Lincoln Memorial University, Harrogate, TN (2013), where he played Division 1 basketball, his MFA from the University of South Florida, Tampa(2019), and attended the Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture, ME (2019).Solo exhibitions include moniquemeloche. Chicago, IL (2024/2022); Tempus Projects, Tampa, FL (2018); and ArtsXchange, St. Petersburg, FL. (2018). Troyli’s work has been featured in group exhibitions at Perrotin Gallery, New York, NY (2024); Galerie Droste, Düsseldorf, DE (2024);Milwaukee Art Museum, Milwaukee, WI (2023-24); Everson Museum, Syracuse, NY(2023); Galerie Droste, Paris, FR (2021); The Ringling Museum, Sarasota, FL(2021); Contemporary Art Museum, Tampa, FL (2019); San Francisco Art Institute, CA (2018). Troyli’s work will be included in the group exhibition Get in the Game: Sports, Art, Culture, curated by Jennifer Dunlop Fletcher, Seph Rodney, and Katy Siegel, at SF MoMA, which travels to the Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art and the Pérez Art Museum Miami and will be accompanied by a scholarly publication. He will have his first solo museum exhibition at the Museum of Fine Arts, St. Petersburg, FL, in 2026. His work is in the permanent collections of the Tampa Art Museum, Tampa, FL; the Ringling Museum, Sarasota, FL; the Nerman Museum of Contemporary Art, Overland Park, KS; and Pierce and Hill Harper Arts Foundation, Detroit, MI. He is the recipient of the Provincetown Fine Arts Fellowship (2019 2020) and the Creative Pinellas Emerging Artist Grant, Largo, FL (2017). Troyli was a 2023 Visual Artist recipient of the Academy of Fine Arts x International City of Arts program in Paris, France. He is resident at Project for Empty Space in Newark, NJ. Photo courtesy of the artist and Monique Meloche Gallery. Photographer Raphael LugassyArtist - https://www.jaketroyli.com/moniquemeloche - https://www.moniquemeloche.com/artists/48-jake-troyli/biography/Perrotin https://leaflet.perrotin.com/view/898/light-of-winterGalerie Droste https://www.galeriedroste.com/exhibitions/92-reading-the-language-of-images-jammie-holmes-andrew-schoultz-jake-troyli/overview/Newcity https://art.newcity.com/2024/10/15/a-bloodline-through-the-histories-a-review-of-peter-and-jake-fagundo-at-m-leblanc/NYTimes https://www.nytimes.com/2024/10/18/arts/sfmoma-exhibit-sports-art.htmlARTnews https://www.artnews.com/art-news/news/for-freedoms-activates-art-installations-democratic-national-convention-chicago-1234714497/WBEZ | NPR https://www.wbez.org/arts/2024/07/22/jake-troyli-artist-chicago-mural-dnc-democratic-national-convention-artCité internationale des arts https://www.citedesartsparis.net/en/jake-troyliChicago Sun Times https://chicago.suntimes.com/murals-mosaics/2024/07/26/chicago-murals-jake-troyli-dnc-democratic-national-convention-skyart-east-garfield-parkChicago Gallery News https://www.chicagogallerynews.com/news/2024/8/anticipating-a-season-of-art-five-to-talk-to-jake-troyliWhite House Magazine https://whitehotmagazine.com/articles/slow-clap-at-monique-meloche/5358It’s Nice That https://www.itsnicethat.com/articles/jake-troyli-art-170222Chicago Reader https://chicagoreader.com/arts-culture/jake-troyli-contains-multitudes/Mana Contemporary https://www.manacontemporary.com/jake-troyli/Kavi Gupta https://kavigupta.com/artworks/10328-jake-troyli-portrait-of-the-artist-with-hors-doeuvre-2020/The Province Town Independenthttps://provincetownindependent.org/arts-minds/2020/03/12/show-and-tell-with-jake-troyli/The TRiiBE https://thetriibe.com/2022/04/painter-jake-troyli-invites-us-into-the-spectacle-of-black-skin-at-expo-chicago/
Ep.219 Vian Sora (b. 1976, Baghdad, Iraq) has lived and worked in Louisville, Kentucky since 2009. She received a BS from Al Mansour University in Baghdad, Iraq in 2000 and studied printmaking at the Istanbul Museum of Graphic Art (IMOGA) in Istanbul, Turkey in 2007. Sora’s work has been presented in solo and group exhibitions nationally and internationally including the Baltimore Art Museum, Baltimore, MD; Santa Barbara Museum of Art, Santa Barbara, CA; Speed Art Museum, Louisville, KY; Contemporary Arts Center (CAC), Cincinnati, OH; Sharjah Biennale, Sharjah, UAE; IMOGA, Istanbul, Turkey; as well as the KMAC Triennial, Louisville, KY; Grinnell Museum of Art, Grinnell, IA; among others. Commencing in 2025, Sora will have a travelling solo museum show at the Santa Barbara Museum of Art, and the Speed Art Museum.Sora's work is included in the collections of the Baltimore Museum of Art, Baltimore, MD; Museum of Contemporary Art, San Diego, CA; KMAC Museum, Louisville, KY; Santa Barbara Museum of Art, Santa Barbara, CA; Speed Art Museum, Louisville, KY; Grinnell College Museum of Art, Grinnell, IA; Ministry of Culture Contemporary Collection, Baghdad, Iraq; the Pizzuti Collection, Columbus, OH; Fidelity Art Collection, Boston, MA; and the Shah Garg Foundation Collection, New York, NY; as well as numerous private collections.Photo Credit: Chad CrewsArtist https://www.viansora.com/David Nolan Galleryhttps://www.davidnolangallery.com/artists/vian-soraArchitectural Digest Middle Easthttps://www.admiddleeast.com/story/vian-sora-the-iraqi-american-painter-explores-the-realities-of-displacement-and-being-a-refugeeObserver https://observer.com/2024/05/interview-artist-vian-sora-independent-new-york/Vogue Arabiahttps://en.vogue.me/culture/iraqi-american-painter-vian-sora-debut-new-york/The Guardianhttps://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/2023/oct/23/vian-sora-exhibition-iraq-invasionArtnet https://news.artnet.com/art-world/vian-sora-david-nolan-2395358Arab News https://www.arabnews.com/node/2352756/lifestyleArab News https://www.arabnews.com/node/2239906/lifestyleCultbyteshttps://cultbytes.com/vian-soras-vibrant-paintings-shine-in-the-darkest-of-times/UnderMain Magazinehttps://undermain.art/visual-arts/in-search-of-bodies-lost-surveying-the-internal-landscapes-of-vian-sora/Hyperallergichttps://hyperallergic.com/721172/joy-and-terror-coexist-in-vian-soras-unsettling-paintings/
Ep.218 Ibrahim Mahama was born in 1987 in Tamale, Ghana. He lives and works in Accra, Kumasi, and Tamale. Solo exhibitions include Fruitmarket Gallery, Edinburgh (2024); Barbican Centre, London (2024); Kunsthalle Osnabrück, Germany (2023); Oude Kerk, Amsterdam (2022); Frac des Pays de la Loire, France (2022); The High Line, New York (2021); University of Michigan Museum of Art (2020); The Whitworth, The University of Manchester, UK (2019); Norval Foundation, Cape Town (2019); Tel Aviv Art Museum, Israel (2016); and KNUST Museum, Kumasi, Ghana (2013). He has participated in numerous group exhibitions including Desert X AlUla, Saudi Arabia (2024); Sharjah Biennial 15, UAE (2023); 18th International Venice Architecture Biennale, Italy (2023); the 35th Bienal de São Paulo, Brazil (2023); Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, Texas (2021); Centre Pompidou, Paris (2020); 22nd Biennale of Sydney, Australia (2020); Stellenbosch Triennale, South Africa (2020); 6th Lubumbashi Biennale, Democratic Republic of the Congo (2019); Ghana Pavilion, 58th Venice Biennale, Italy (2019); Documenta 14, Athens and Kassel, Germany (2017); Broad Art Museum, Michigan State University (2016); Kunsthal Charlottenborg, Copenhagen and Holbæk, Denmark (2016); 56th Venice Biennale, Italy (2015); and Artist’s Rooms, K21, Düsseldorf, Germany (2015). Mahama was also appointed Artistic Director of the 35th Ljubljana Biennale of Graphic Arts, Ljubljana (2023). In 2024, Mahama was selected for the inaugural Sam Gilliam award by the Dia Art Foundation and the Sam Gilliam Foundation, which includes the presentation of a public program at Dia in fall 2024. Photo credit: Carlos Idun-TawiahWhite Cube https://www.whitecube.com/artists/ibrahim-mahamaSam Gilliam Award https://www.diaart.org/about/sam-gilliam-awardDia Art Foundation https://www.diaart.org/program/calendar/sam-gilliam-award-program-ibrahim-mahama-dia-talks-11212024/period/2024-11-02Fruitmarket https://www.fruitmarket.co.uk/about-us/Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam https://www.stedelijk.nl/en/events/artist-talk-ibrahim-mahama-enGhana Remembers https://ghanaremembers.com/stories/people/ibrahim-maham-the-first-ghanaian-artist-to-win-the-inaugural-sam-gilliam-award-in-2024.html#google_vignetteBarbican https://www.barbican.org.uk/whats-on/2024/event/ibrahim-mahama-purple-hibiscusObserver https://observer.com/2024/09/interview-ibrahim-mahama-artist-white-cube-exhibition/Vennice Biennale https://www.labiennale.org/en/architecture/2023/force-majeure/ibrahim-mahamaInstitute for Humanity Activities https://www.humanactivities.org/en/iha-blank/sculpture-workshop-with-ibrahim-mahama/Edinburgh Art Festival https://www.edinburghartfestival.com/event/ibrahim-mahamasongs-about-roses/Wallpaper https://www.wallpaper.com/art/exhibitions-shows/ibrahim-mahama-tells-us-why-he-has-covered-the-barbican-in-pink-fabricReiter Galleries https://www.reitergalleries.com/en/artists/ibrahim-mahama/NYTimes https://www.nytimes.com/2024/09/19/arts/design/ibrahim-mahama-artist-ghana-white-cube.htmlThe Brooklyn Rail https://brooklynrail.org/2024/10/artseen/ibrahim-mahama-a-spell-of-good-things/Bonhams https://www.bonhams.com/press_release/38679/Burlington Contemporary https://contemporary.burlington.org.uk/reviews/reviews/ibrahim-mahama-songs-about-rosesThe Highline https://www.thehighline.org/art/projects/ibrahim-mahama/Desert X AlUla https://desertx.org/dx/dx24-alula/ibrahim-mahamaC& https://whitewall.art/whitewaller/best-of-new-york-exhibitions-ibrahim-mahama-janaina-tschape-and-more/artnet https://news.artnet.com/art-world/ibrahim-mahamas-stunning-textile-installation-blankets-the-barbican-in-london-2476760BBC https://www.bbc.com/news/world-africa-68846770The Art Newspaper https://www.theartnewspaper.com/2024/08/23/saatchi-collection-ibrahim-mahama-auction-bonhamsWhitewall https://whitewall.art/whitewaller/best-of-new-york-exhibitions-ibrahim-mahama-janaina-tschape-and-more/
Ep. 217 Beverly McIver (b. 1962) is a Professor of Art, Art History, and Visual Studies at Duke University, a role she assumed after 12 years of teaching at Arizona State University. Recently, McIver was elected to the 2024 class of the National Academy of Design. In 2017, she was honored with the lifetime achievement award from the Anyone Can Fly Foundation in a ceremony hosted by her mentor, Faith Ringgold. McIver is also the subject in HBO’s Raising Renee—a feature-length documentary film that tells the story of McIver’s promise to care for Renee, her developmentally disabled older sister. In 2022, the Scottsdale Museum of Contemporary Art organized a traveling museum survey of McIver’s work, titled Full Circle, which traveled to the Southeastern Center for Contemporary Art, Winston-Salem, North Carolina, and the Gibbes Museum, Charleston, South Carolina.Beverly McIver’s solo exhibition, Entangled, opens at Berry Campbell Gallery on Thursday, October 17, 2024 and runs through November 16, 2024. The exhibition coincides with McIver’s involvement in People for the American Way’s Artists for Democracy project to promote voter mobilization through art in advance of the 2024 presidential election.Photo credit: Samantha EveretteArtist https://beverlymciverart.com/Book https://www.ucpress.edu/books/beverly-mciver/hardcoverBerry Campbell Gallery https://berrycampbell.com/artists/41-beverly-mciver/biography/Craven Allen Gallery https://www.cravenallengallery.com/beverly-mciver/CAM Raleigh https://camraleigh.org/exhibition/beverly-mciver/National Portrait Gallery https://npg.si.edu/blog/portrait-artist-beverly-mciverSMoCA https://smoca.org/exhibition/beverly-mciver-full-circle/NCMA https://learn.ncartmuseum.org/artists/beverly-mciver/Gibbes Museum https://www.gibbesmuseum.org/exhibitions/beverly-mciver-full-circle/128Raleigh News and Observer https://www.newsobserver.com/entertainment/article290312984.htmlDuke University https://scholars.duke.edu/person/beverly.mciverPeople for the American Way https://www.peoplefor.org/world-renowned-artist-sends-urgent-get-out-vote-message-new-mural-downtown-raleigh-votehttps://peoplefor.shop/products/signed-print-vote-black-beauty-by-beverly-mciver?srsltid=AfmBOoqXeKpzZlFzjDKf0dOvu7OW0P5Z0aie0-setVnAMCykBcVD0AtUKYW Radio https://www.audacy.com/kywnewsradio/news/local/nonprofit-art-initiative-get-out-the-voteThe Guardian https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/2024/apr/10/artists-for-democracy-2024Surface Magazine https://www.surfacemag.com/articles/people-for-the-american-way-artist-campaign/artnet https://news.artnet.com/art-world/artists-for-democracy-2024-pfaw-2462641Rachel Maddow Show, MSNBC https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nl4gqzTV20EForbes https://www.forbes.com/sites/chaddscott/2023/05/09/what-comes-up-comes-out-in-beverly-mciver-paintings/
Ep.216 Kemar Keanu Wynter (b. Brooklyn, NY) holds a BFA from the SUNY Purchase School of Art and Design. His work was the focus of solo exhibitions at Klaus von Nichtssagend Gallery, New York (2023), Encounter, Lisbon, Portugal (2023), and Tiger Strikes Asteroid, Queens (2021). He has exhibited in several group shows including Mama’s in the Kitchen, Anat Ebgi, New York; Visible World, Halsey McKay Gallery, East Hampton; Death of Beauty, Sargent’s Daughters, Los Angeles; and Notes on Ecstatic Unity, OTP Gallery, Copenhagen, Denmark. Wynter was a member of the 2023-24 Sharpe-Walentas Studio Program, and has also been in residence at the AAI-LES Studio Program, The Macedonia Institute, Anderson Ranch Arts Center, as well as ARoS Kunstmuseum in Aarhus, Denmark and Art Quarter Budapest in Budapest, Hungary. His work is held in the collection of the Art Galleries at Black Studies at the University of Texas, Austin. Wynter’s practice has been written about in Hyperallergic, bon appétit, and the Brooklyn Rail, and discussed on Correspondence Archive and Montez Press Radio.Headshot Credit: Courtesy the ArtistArtist https://cowfoot.studio/Klaus von Nichtssagend Gallery https://klausgallery.com/artist/kemar-keanu-wynter/ | https://klausgallery.com/exhibition/kemar-keanu-wynter-rucken-2024-09-6/Brooklyn Rail https://brooklynrail.org/2024/10/artseen/kemar-keanu-wynter-rucken/Hyperallergic https://hyperallergic.com/954814/15-nyc-art-shows-to-see-in-october/ | https://klausgallery.com/press/kemar-keanu-wynter-cooks-up-an-abstract-feast/Cultured Magazine https://www.culturedmag.com/article/2024/09/04/new-york-young-painters-fall-trendsArtforum https://artguide.artforum.com/artguide/klaus-von-nichtssagend-gallery-2985Artists Alliance https://www.artistsallianceinc.org/kemar-keanu-wynter/Encounter https://www.encountercontemporary.com/kemar-keanu-wynterSharpe-Walentas Studio Program https://www.thestudioprogram.com/
Ep.215 María Elena Ortiz is curator at the Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth, where she curated Jammie Holmes: Make the Revolution Irresistible (2023) and Surrealism and Us: Caribbean and African Diasporic Artists Since 1940 (2024). Previously she was curator at the Pérez Art Museum Miami (PAMM), where she curated group shows Allied with Power: African and African Diaspora Art from the Jorge M. Pérez Collection, The Other Side of Now: Foresight in Caribbean Art, and solo exhibitions with Firelei Báez, Ulla von Brandenburg, william cordova,Teresita Fernández, José Carlos Martinat, Carlos Motta, and Beatriz Santiago Muñoz. At PAMM she founded the Caribbean Cultural Institute, a curatorial platform dedicated to Caribbean art, and worked to grow the museum’s collection, securing works by Simone Leigh, Bisa Butler, Bony Ramirez, and others.In October 2024 Maria co-curated Flow States- La Trienal 2024 at El Museo del Barrio with Rodrigo Moura and Susanna Temkin.Photo Credit: Casey Kelbaugh The Museum of Modern Art Fort Worth https://www.themodern.org/program/maria-elena-ortiz | https://www.themodern.org/exhibition/surrealism-and-us-caribbean-and-african-diasporic-artists-1940Caribbean Cultural Institute https://cci.pamm.org/en/author/mariaelena/The Hopper Prize https://hopperprize.org/maria-elena-ortiz/El Museo del Barrio https://www.elmuseo.org/ICI https://curatorsintl.org/about/collaborators/6324-mara-elena-ortizThe Brooklyn Rail https://brooklynrail.org/contributor/maria-elena-ortiz/The Weisman Museum https://wam.umn.edu/maria-elena-ortizARTnews https://www.artnews.com/art-news/news/el-museo-del-barrio-la-trienal-2024-artist-list-1234708729/ArtSpeak https://artspeak.fiu.edu/interviews/maria-elena-ortiz/Culture Type https://www.culturetype.com/tag/maria-elena-ortiz/Rizzoli Books https://www.rizzolibookstore.com/author/maria-elena-ortiz
Ep. 214 Kim Dacres is a first-generation American sculptor of Jamaican descent, who lives in Harlem and practices her studio work in the Bronx. She primarily uses rubber from recycled tires to create sculptures celebrating the influential forces in her life such as family, friends, artists and musicians.Dacres was born in the Bronx and has a Bachelor’s degree from Williams College in Political Science, Art, and Africana Studies as well as a Masters in Teaching English as a Second Language from Lehman College City University of New York. She spent over a decade in New York City public and charter schools working as a teacher and middle school principal. Now, in her second full time career as an artist, Kim has had solo exhibitions in New York, Los Angeles, and Palm Beach, FL as well group exhibitions internationally and within the U.S., including Surrealism and Us: Caribbean and African Diasporic Artists Since 1940 at the Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth, Texas; Black American Portraits at Spelman College Museum of Fine Art and the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Sounds of Blackness at The Metropolitan Museum of Manila in the Philippines, Godhead – Idols in Times of Crisis at Lustwarande in the Netherlands, and Bronx Calling Part I at the Bronx Museum as part of the esteemed AIM – Artist in the Marketplace Program.Kim is the recipient of the Artadia New York Award Grant in 2022 and the Bronx Recognizes Its Own (BRIO) Grant in 2023. Her work is in numerous private and public collections including – The Beth DeWoody Collection, the LACMA collection in Los Angeles, The ICA in Miami, the Nasher Museum at Duke University, and the International African American Museum in South Carolina. Portrait: Max YawneyKim Dacres https://www.kimdacres.com/Colossal https://www.thisiscolossal.com/2023/07/kim-dacres-tire-busts/NYTimes https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2023/06/22/t-magazine/art/kim-dacres-art-exhibit.htmlJuxtapoz https://www.juxtapoz.com/news/installation/we-insist-upon-ourselves-in-perpetuity-throughout-the-universe-april-bey-and-kim-dacres-in-atlanta/Hyperallergic https://hyperallergic.com/871489/bronx-museum-sixth-aim-biennial-is-all-about-knowledge-and-agency/The Hopper Prize https://hopperprize.org/kim-dacres/Gavlak Gallery https://www.gavlakgallery.com/artists/kim-dacresWelancora Gallery https://www.welancoragallery.com/artists/86-kim-dacres/works/The Bronx Museum https://bronxmuseum.org/aim-fellow/kim-dacres/Observer https://observer.com/2023/06/becoming-an-artist-was-a-dream-deferred-for-sculptor-kim-dacres/Artadia https://artadia.org/artist/kim-dacres/Office Magazine https://officemagazine.net/skin-hair-muscles-and-bones-kim-dacresCharles Moffett https://charlesmoffett.com/exhibitions/55-kim-dacres-measure-me-in-rotations/https://charlesmoffett.com/press/65-on-view-bantu-knots-and-braids-sculpted-from/
Ep.213 SARAH LEWIS is the founder of Vision & Justice and the John L. Loeb Associate Professor of the Humanities and Associate Professor of African and African American Studies at Harvard University. She is the author of The Unseen Truth: When Race Changed Sight in America (Harvard University Press), the bestseller, The Rise: Creativity, the Gift of Failure, and the Search for Mastery (Simon & Schuster), and the forthcoming book Vision & Justice (One World/Random House). Lewis is the editor of the award-winning volumes, “Vision & Justice” by Aperture magazine and the anthology on the work of Carrie Mae Weems (MIT Press). She is the organizer of the landmark Vision & Justice Convening at Harvard University, and co-editor of the Vision & Justice Book Series, launched in partnership with Aperture. Her awards include the Infinity Award, the Andrew Carnegie Fellowship, a Cullman Fellowship, the Freedom Scholar Award (ASALH), the Arthur Danto/ASA Prize from the American Philosophical Association, and the Photography Network Book Prize. Her writing has been published in the New Yorker, the New York Times, Artforum, and the New York Review of Books, and her work has been the subject of profiles from The Boston Globe to the New York Times. Lewis is a sought-after public speaker, with a mainstage TED talk that received over 3 million views. She received her BA from Harvard University, an MPhil from Oxford University, an MA from Courtauld Institute of Art, and her PhD from Yale University. She lives in New York City and Cambridge, MA.Portrait Credit: Stu RosnerSarah Lewis https://sarahelizabethlewis.com/Vision and Justice https://visionandjustice.org/The Unseen Truth The Unseen Truth — Harvard University PressNew York Times Welcoming Underexposed Black Photographers Into the Canon - The New York Times (nytimes.com)The Harvard Crimson Curating a Counter Narrative: Sarah E. Lewis on Art, Vision & Justice | Arts | The Harvard Crimson (thecrimson.com)Hyperallergic Portrait Photography Through the Lens of Fredrick Douglass (hyperallergic.com)Boston Globe Frederick Douglass recognized the power of being photographed (bostonglobe.com)The Rise https://www.simonandschuster.com/books/The-Rise/Sarah-Lewis/9781451629248Justice and Vision https://visionandjustice.org/the-unseen-truthHarvard University https://haa.fas.harvard.edu/people/sarah-lewisDemocratic Knowledge Project https://www.democraticknowledgeproject.org/sarah-lewis/
Ep.212 Erika Ranee received her MFA in painting from the University of California, Berkeley. She is the recipient of a New York Foundation for the Arts (NYFA) Fellowship in Painting/1996 and 2021; an AIM Fellowship from the Bronx Museum and was granted artist residence at the Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture and a recipient of “Anonymous Was A Woman” grant in December 2023. She was awarded a studio grant from the Marie Walsh Sharpe Foundation in 2011. Her work has been featured throughout the New York/NYC region in group exhibitions at the Southampton Arts Center, at BRIC/Project Room and at Klaus von Nichtssagend Gallery. In 2019 she exhibited in her first international show at Wild Palms in Dusseldorf, Germany. An encore international group show took place in Paris at the Brigitte Mulholland Galerie, summer 2024. Other selected group shows include The Landing Gallery in Los Angeles, CA, Hollis Taggart Gallery in Southport, CT; the Milton Resnick & Pat Passlof Foundation, NYC and recently at Venus Over Manhattan, NYC. In summer 2024 her work was featured in a solo venture at the Moss Arts Center in Blacksburg, VA. She has been selected by guest co-curator, artist Jeffrey Gibson to participate in the upcoming 200th anniversary exhibition at the Brooklyn Museum, October /2024. Her work has been reviewed in the New York Times and Artforum. She is represented by Klaus von Nichtssagend Gallery and works in New York.Photo credit: Zachary KeetingArtist https://erikaranee.com/Duck Creek Arts https://www.duckcreekarts.org/2024-erika-ranee | https://www.duckcreekarts.org/2024-group-show-raneeAnonymous Was A Woman https://www.anonymouswasawoman.org/2023Cultured Magazine https://culturedmag.com/article/2024/07/22/hamptons-art-shows-exhibitions-guide-summerEast Hampton Star https://www.easthamptonstar.com/arts/2024725/erika-ranee-shows-feelings-duck-creek27East https://www.27east.com/events/all-the-things-curated-by-erika-ranee/Venus Over Manhattan https://www.venusovermanhattan.com/exhibitions/celestial-songsArt Spiel https://artspiel.org/erika-ranee-feelings-at-duck-creek/The Roanoker https://theroanoker.com/events/erika-ranee-how-are-things-on-my-end/Klaus von Nichtssagend Gallery https://klausgallery.com/artist/erika-ranee/Art Rabbit https://www.artrabbit.com/events/erika-ranee-all-naturalCoursicle| NYU https://www.coursicle.com/nyu/professors/Erika+Ranee/
Ep.211 Justine Ludwig currently serves as the Executive Director of Creative Time. Recent curated exhibitions include Nadia Kaabi-Linke: Walk the Line, Pia Camil: Bara, Bara, Bara, Pedro Reyes: For Future Reference, and Laercio Redondo: What ends every day. Her research interests include architecture, economics, and the aesthetics of globalization. Ludwig has an MA in Global Arts from Goldsmiths University of London and a BA in Art with a concentration in Art History from Colby College. Photo credit ~ Scott LudwigJustine Ludwig http://www.justineludwig.com/Creative Time https://creativetime.org/about/staff/justine-ludwig/ http://creativetime.org/givetoday/ Public Art Project commissioned by Creative Time Dream with us! Submit your dreams to Cosmologyscape https://cosmologyscape.com/, a public art project that unfolds as werest by artists Alisha B Wormsley and Kite.The Observer https://observer.com/2024/08/justine-ludwig-interview-creative-times-public-art/Flaunt https://www.flaunt.com/blog/q-amp-a-with-new-yorks-most-stylish-curatorWikipedia https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Justine_LudwigSpace 538 https://space538.org/people/board-of-directors/justine-ludwig/Solondias https://solondais.fr/2024/08/22/news297154/interview-with-justine-ludwig-executive-director-of-creative-time/
Ep.210 For Gerald Lovell (b. 1992), painting is an act of biography. Combining flat and impressionistic painting with thick daubs of impasto, Lovell’s monumental portraits depict loving scenes often lost to the abyss of memory. Lovell’s portraits refuse the notion that all Black figures put down on canvas are somehow political. Rather, his work records a deep commitment to fostering alternative community narratives by imbuing his subjects with social agency and self determinative power, while also revealing individualistic details that lay their essential humanity bare. Born in Chicago to Puerto Rican and Black parents, Lovell began painting at the age of 22 after dropping out of the graphic design program at the University of West Georgia. He has exhibited at P·P·O·W, New York; Jeffrey Deitch, Moore Building, Miami, FL; Anthony Gallery, Chicago, IL; Kohn Gallery, Los Angeles, CA; The Harvey B. Gantt Center for African-American Arts + Culture, Charlotte, NC; MINT, Atlanta, GA; and Galerie Peter Kilchmann, Zurich, Switzerland, among others. In 2022, Lovell’s work was on view in What is Left Unspoken, Love at the High Museum of Art, Atlanta, GA, and is in the museum’s permanent collection. Lovell completed the Fountainhead Artists Residency in October 2023. His second exhibition with P·P·O·W, verde, was held in Spring 2024.Portrait ~ Courtesy of Fountainhead, Miami. Photo, Cornelius TullochPPOW Gallery https://www.ppowgallery.com/artists/gerald-lovell#tab:thumbnailshttps://www.ppowgallery.com/exhibitions/gerald-lovell2#tab:thumbnails;tab-1:slideshowAnthony Gallery https://anthonygallery.com/exhibition/in-the-eye-of-the-beholder/Juxtapoz https://www.juxtapoz.com/news/painting/gerald-lovell-verde-p-p-o-w-gallery-nyc/Culture Type https://www.culturetype.com/2024/03/02/new-york-closing-soon-5-gallery-shows-featuring-works-by-nathaniel-oliver-tuli-mekondjo-theaster-gates-richmond-barthe-christopher-udemezue-and-gerald-lovell/The Atlantic Journal-Constitution https://www.ajc.com/things-to-do/atlanta-painter-gerald-lovell-creates-portraits-of-family-friends-black-life/2PBC7PXW65AGLAGW4EI5U3K5SE/whitewall https://whitewall.art/art/gerald-lovells-exhibition-at-ppow-captures-all-that-he-has/Anderson Ranch https://www.andersonranch.org/people/gerald-lovell/Artrabbit https://www.artrabbit.com/events/gerald-lovell-verde-ppow-390-broadwayBlack Art and Design https://www.blackartanddesign.com/artists/gerald-lovell-artist-overview/The Galllery | Wish https://www.wishatlgallery.com/gerald-lovellOffice Magazine https://officemagazine.net/gerald-lovell-finds-beauty-mundaneArt in NYC https://artinnewyorkcity.com/2021/01/23/all-that-i-have-paintings-by-gerald-lovell-at-p-p-o-w/
Ep.209 Debra Cartwright is an artist interested in depicting the relationship between the black female body and American medical history. She uses paint and mixed media to explore selfhood and her own positioning as the daughter of a gynecologist. Themes around her work include re-embodiment, myth creation, violence, theft and intimacy. She explores a critical understanding of the past while also proposing an examination of the present American healthcare system. Headshot by Elizabeth von StubendorffArtist https://www.debracartwright.com/oilsWelancora Gallery https://www.welancoragallery.com/artists/94-debra-cartwright/works/Artnet https://news.artnet.com/market/frieze-los-angeles-art-advisors-favorite-works-2442126Art and object https://www.artandobject.com/slideshows/7-artists-watch-frieze-laARTnews https://www.artnews.com/list/art-news/market/expo-chicago-2023-best-booths-1234664207/Artsy https://www.artsy.net/article/artsy-editorial-debra-cartwrights-abstract-paintings-examine-history-medical-science-black-womanhoodMontclair Art Museum https://www.montclairartmuseum.org/press/press-room/montclair-art-museum-and-african-american-cultural-committee-announce-debraBode Gallery https://bode.gallery/blog/48-in-conversation-with-debra-cartwright-episode-19/
Ep.208 Dr. Andrea Myers Achi is trained as a Byzantinist, and her curatorial practice focuses on Byzantine art of the Mediterranean Basin and Northeast Africa. She graduated from Barnard College in 2007 with a BA in Ancient Studies. She thought she would become a Classics Professor but fell in love with Byzantine art and archaeology her senior year during a study abroad program on an excavation in Egypt. Dr. Achi went on to receive two Masters’ of Arts degrees from New York University, the first in Ancient Near Eastern and Egyptian Studies with a concentration in archaeology and the second in Byzantine Art. In2018, she earned a Ph.D. in Art History and Archaeology from the Institute of Fine Arts, New York University. Currently, Dr. Achi is the Mary and Michael Jaharis Associate Curator of Byzantine Art in the Department of Medieval Art and The Cloisters at The Metropolitan Museum of Art. In her role, she specializes in the art and archaeology of Late Antiquity and Byzantium, with a particular interest in illuminated manuscripts and ceramics. She has brought this expertise to bear on exhibitions like Art and Peoples of the Kharga Oasis (2017), Crossroads: Power and Piety(2020), The Good Life (2021), Africa& Byzantium (2023), and Afterlives: Contemporary Art in the Byzantine Crypt (2024) at The Met and in numerous presentations and publications. Portrait credit Eileen Travell Metropolitan Museumhttps://www.metmuseum.org/exhibitions/afterlives-contemporary-art-in-the-byzantine-crypt https://www.metmuseum.org/perspectives/articles/2024/05/afterlives-conversationhttps://www.metmuseum.org/about-the-met/collection-areas/medieval-art-and-the-cloisters/staff-listhttps://www.metmuseum.org/met-publications/africa-and-byzantiumYale University Press https://yalebooks.yale.edu/book/9781588397713/africa-and-byzantium/Center for Curatorial Leadershiphttps://www.curatorialleadership.org/participants/ccl-smh-curators-forum/Washington Post https://www.washingtonpost.com/entertainment/art/2024/01/04/africa-byzantium-exhibit-met-review/?_pml=1Barnard Magazine https://www.bgc.bard.edu/about/news/1003/08-feb-2024-exhibiting-africahttps://barnard.edu/magazine/winter-2024/andrea-myers-achi-07Princeton https://humanities.princeton.edu/event/africa-byzantium-at-the-met/Church Times https://www.churchtimes.co.uk/articles/2024/23-february/books-arts/book-reviews/book-review-africa-and-byzantium-edited-by-andrea-myers-achiTiwana Contemporary https://www.tiwani.co.uk/publications/26-africa-and-byzantium-the-museum-of-metropolitan-art/The National Heraldhttps://www.thenationalherald.com/hacf-presented-dr-andrea-achi-lecture-on-africa-and-byzantium-on-feb-1/ Artnet https://news.artnet.com/career-stories/andrea-achi-1933101 National Endowment for the Humanities https://www.neh.gov/article/marvels-byzantine-africahttps://www.neh.gov/news/disorienting-beauty-africa-byzantium Apollo Magazine https://www.apollo-magazine.com/andrea-myers-achi-40-under-40-usa-the-thinkers/ LinkedIn https://www.linkedin.com/in/andrea-myers-achi-9b575168
Ep.206 David Huffman (b. 1963, Berkeley, CA) has work in the collections of SFMOMA, San Francisco; LACMA, Los Angeles; Berkeley Art Museum, CA; Studio Museum, Harlem; Minneapolis Institute of Art, MN; Oakland Museum of California; Crocker Art Museum, Sacramento, CA; San José Museum of Art, CA; Palo Alto Art Center, CA; Eileen Norton Collection, Los Angeles; Birmingham Museum of Art, AL; Frederick R. Weisman Art Museum, Minneapolis, MN, Arkansas Art Center; ASU Art Museum, Tempe, AZ; Lodeveans Collection, London; and the Embassy of the United States of America, Dakar, Senegal, among others. Huffman enjoyed a recent solo exhibition at the Museum of the African Diaspora, San Francisco and has been included in recent group exhibitions at the de Young Museum, San Francisco; Everson Museum of Art, NY; Weatherspoon Museum of Art, NC; and The Write Museum, MI. He is the recipient of numerous awards and residencies including the Eureka Fellowship, ARTADIA San Francisco, Palo Alto Public Arts Commission, and the Barclay Simpson Award. He studied at the New York Studio School and received his MFA at California College of the Arts & Crafts, San Francisco. Huffman lives and works in Oakland, CA; he is currently on the board at SFMOMA. Huffman is represented by Jessica Silverman, San Francisco and Casey Kaplan, New York. Photo credit: Francis BakerArtist http://david-huffman.com/Casey Kaplan https://caseykaplangallery.com/artists/david-huffman/ | https://caseykaplangallery.com/?exhibitions=david-huffmanJessica Silverman https://jessicasilvermangallery.com/online-shows/david-huffman-odyssey/SFMOMA https://www.sfmoma.org/artist/David_Huffman/BAMPFA https://bampfa.org/event/artists-curatorial-gallery-talks-david-huffmanMOAD SF https://www.moadsf.org/exhibitions/david-huffman-terra-incognitaKQED https://www.kqed.org/arts/13911456/at-moad-david-huffmans-terra-incognita-explores-black-trauma-among-the-starsStudio Museum in Harlem https://www.studiomuseum.org/artists/david-huffmanPAFA https://www.pafa.org/museum/collection-artist/david-huffmanHyperallergic https://hyperallergic.com/678893/david-huffman-afro-hippie-berkeley-art-center/Berkeley Side https://www.berkeleyside.org/2021/08/13/david-huffman-berkeley-art-centerU.S. Dept of State https://art.state.gov/personnel/david_huffman/California College of the Arts https://www.cca.edu/newsroom/faculty-spotlight-david-huffman-paintingdrawing-fine-arts/Open-Editions https://open-editions.com/collections/david-huffmanMiles McEnery https://www.milesmcenery.com/exhibitions/david-huffmanTemplon https://www.templon.com/exhibitions/cosmography/Artforum https://www.artforum.com/events/david-huffman-3-250228/ARTnews https://www.artnews.com/art-in-america/aia-reviews/david-huffman-protest-paintings-casey-kaplan-1234707187/Daily Art Fair https://dailyartfair.com/exhibition/18000/david-huffman-casey-kaplan
Ep.206 Andrea Grover is the Executive Director of Guild Hall, the cornerstone cultural institution of East Hampton that combines a museum, theater, and education center. Guild Hall is completing a facility-wide renovation to restore the 1930s-era building and grounds to state-of-the-art performance and functionality. Grover has over 25 years of experience in curatorial and nonprofit leadership, focusing on art/science, moving image art, maritime themes, innovation, and participation. Most recently, she was the curator of the 2021 exhibition Alexis Rockman Shipwrecks, presented at Guild Hall, Peabody Essex Museum, Salem, MA, The Ackland Art Museum at UNC-Chapel Hill, NC, and Princeton University Art Museum, Princeton, NJ. Before joining Guild Hall in 2016, she was the Curator of Special Projects at the Parrish Art Museum, where she was awarded both a Tremaine Foundation and an AADA Curatorial Award for her exhibition, Radical Seafaring. At the Parrish, she established the extremely popular community-driven program PechaKucha Night Hamptons and the exhibition series Parrish Road Show and Platform. Grover founded the nonprofit film center Aurora Picture Show, Houston, Texas, at age 27. This groundbreaking entity focuses on experimental artist-made movies and installations and celebrates its 26th anniversary in 2024.With expertise in artists who work in scientific or technological spaces, she has served as a panelist or advisor for the Pew Foundation for Arts & Heritage, Pulitzer Arts Foundation, Rauschenberg Foundation, and Bogliasco Foundation. She has taught interdisciplinary courses at the University of Houston and Texas Southern University. She has been a guest speaker or juror at SXSW Interactive, Austin, Texas, and Ars Electronica, Linz, Austria, among many others. Grover has received fellowships from the Center for Curatorial Leadership, the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, STUDIO for Creative Inquiry at Carnegie Mellon University, and the Warhol Foundation. She holds an MFA from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago and a BFA from Syracuse University.Photo credit: Lori HawkinsAndrea Grover https://www.andreagrover.com/Guild Hall https://www.guildhall.org/people/andrea-grover/Wikipedia https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andrea_GroverStudio for Creative Inquiry https://studioforcreativeinquiry.org/people/andrea-groverIMAGO https://www.imago-images.com/st/0443350624Hamptons https://hamptons.com/guild-hall-executive-director-andrea-grover-board-chairman-marty-cohen-on-entering-phase-2/AAQ https://aaqeastend.com/bulletins/guild-hall-an-insiders-tour-of-guild-hall-w-executive-director-andrea-grover-annual-appeal/Long Island https://events.longisland.com/executive-directors-choice-with-andrea-grover.html
Ep.205 Kahlil Robert Irving was born in San Diego, in 1992, but spent most of his youth in St. Louis, Missouri. He attended the Kansas City Art Institute, where he received his BFA, and earned his MFA from the Sam Fox School of Design and Visual Art at Washington University in St. Louis. Irving’s work has been featured in numerous group exhibitions at the Whitney Museum of American Art, the Mass MOCA, the New Museum, and the Contemporary Art Museum St. Louis. In February of 2024, Irving opened concurrent exhibitions at the Nerman Museum of Contemporary Art (AnticKS & MOdels + My theater to your eyes) and Archeology of the Present at the Kemper Art Museum in Saint Louis and both will be on view until July.Like many artists today, Irving works in many media, including sculpture, painting, and collage. His collages are largely influenced by contemporary digital culture. He gathers different pieces of digital material ranging from photographs he takes, to items he sees online to assemble these works. While appearing chaotic at times, he uses this method to subtly describe a view of how to navigate being Black in the United States. Irving’s range of ideas and materials shine through his practice—as he combines contemporary memes with evolved ceramic techniques, he shows how different ceramic materials can be fashioned into looking like objects from life. Throughout his practice, Irving focuses on Black joy while also shedding a light on violent white people and their ideologies. Photo credit: Andrew CastañedaArtist https://www.kahlilirving.com/Nerman Museumhttps://nermanstaging.jccc.edu/exhibitions/2024-02-09-kahlil-irving.htmlKemper Art Museumhttps://www.kemperartmuseum.wustl.edu/on-view/on-view/kahlil-robert-irving-archaeology-of-the-present-20232024MoMA https://www.moma.org/calendar/exhibitions/5396Walker Art Center https://walkerart.org/calendar/2023/kahlil-robert-irvingSt. Louis Magazine https://www.stlmag.com/culture/visual-arts/kahlil-robert-irving-returns-to-washington-university-for-ar/Art Review https://artreview.com/kahlil-robert-irving-excavating-the-recent-past-walker-art-center-bold-tendencies/River Front News https://www.riverfronttimes.com/arts/kahlil-robert-irving-reflects-on-the-built-world-in-kemper-exhibition-41948583St. Louis Post Dispatch https://www.stltoday.com/life-entertainment/local/art-theater/art-by-kahlil-robert-irving-gets-a-special-platform-at-mildred-lane-kemper-museum/article_14b149ee-cf92-11ee-b349-3fef347f28cf.htmlARTnews https://www.artnews.com/art-news/artists/kahlil-robert-irving-walker-art-center-interview-1234663240/Culture Type https://www.culturetype.com/2023/10/15/on-view-at-walker-art-center-kahlil-robert-irvings-site-specific-installation-reinterprets-the-notion-of-street-art/Star Tribune https://www.startribune.com/ceramic-artist-kahlil-robert-irving-wants-us-to-stay-in-the-present-walker-art-center-minneapolis/600261276/NPR https://www.stlpr.org/arts/2024-03-13/st-louis-artist-kahlil-robert-irving-explores-modern-life-and-loss
Ep.204 Nina Chanel Abney (b. 1982, Harvey, IL) has been honored with solo exhibitions at the Savannah College of Art and Design, Georgia (2023); the Museum of Contemporary Art, Cleveland (2023); the Institute of Contemporary Art, Miami (2022); the Gordon Parks Foundation, Pleasantville, New York (2022;traveled to Henry Art Gallery, Seattle); the Institute of Contemporary Art, Boston (2019–21); Palais de Tokyo, Paris (2018); and the Contemporary Dayton, Ohio (2021). Additionally, her solo exhibition at the Nasher Museum of Art, Duke University, Durham, North Carolina (2017), toured to the Chicago Cultural Center; Institute of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, and the California African American Museum, Los Angeles; and the Neuberger Museum of Art, Purchase College, State University of New York. Abney was recently commissioned to transform Lincoln Center’s new David Geffen Hall façade in New York, drawing from the cultural heritage of the neighborhood previously known as San Juan hill that comprised African American, Afro-Caribbean, and Puerto Rican families. Abney's recent public mural at the Miami World Center was similarly inspired by Overtown, a historic Black neighborhood in Miami. Abney’s work is held in the collections of the Whitney Museum of American Art, New York; the Museum of Modern Art, New York; the Brooklyn Museum, New York; the Bronx Museum, New York; the Dallas Museum of Art, Texas; the Rubell Family Collection, Florida; the Nasher Museum of Art, North Carolina; and the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts; amongst others. Photo credit: Jesper Damsgaard Lund Artist https://ninachanel.com/Jack Shainman https://jackshainman.com/Chronogram https://www.chronogram.com/hv-towns/review-nina-chanel-abneys-lie-doggo-at-jack-shainman-gallerys-the-school-20807734Blockonomi https://blockonomi.com/super-punk-world-nfts-face-backlash-over-focus-on-race-and-gender/Cultured Mag https://www.culturedmag.com/article/2024/05/16/nina-chanel-abney-jack-shainman-upstate-showAir Jordan 3 Collaboration https://ninachanel.com/news/10-closer-look-at-nina-chanel-abney-s-air-jordan/nft now https://nftnow.com/art/cryptopunks-debut-artist-residency-program-with-nina-chanel-abney/NYTimes https://www.nytimes.com/2024/02/18/arts/design/abney-bey-fordjour-simmons-harlem-renaissance-met.htmlThe Cut https://www.thecut.com/2023/11/where-nina-chanel-abney-gets-her-custom-hats.htmlSurface Magazine https://www.surfacemag.com/articles/scad-museum-of-art-life-affirming-power-of-personhood-fall-2023-exhibitions/Juxtapose https://www.juxtapoz.com/news/in-session/big-butch-energy-synergy-a-conversation-with-nina-chanel-abney/W Magazine https://www.wmagazine.com/culture/nina-chanel-abney-exhibition-big-butch-energy-artist-interviewHyperallergic https://hyperallergic.com/767955/nina-chanel-abney-jacolby-satterwhite-david-geffen-hall-lincoln-center/
Ep.203 Emanuel Aguilar is a gallerist and independent curator living and working in Chicago, IL. In 2015 he founded PATRON, a contemporary art gallery with a focus on emerging artists and conceptual practice. Previously he was a director at Kavi Gupta Gallery in Chicago and Berlin and a founder of the arts and culture magazine Jettison Quarterly. Aguilar serves on the board of Chicago Artist Coalition and is a member of the Society for Contemporary Art at The Art Institute of Chicago.Photo credit: Erin Morgan TaylorPatron https://patrongallery.com/aboutLinkedIn https://www.linkedin.com/in/emanuel-aguilar-9819194/Chicago Gallery News https://www.chicagogallerynews.com/organizations/patronNYTimes https://www.nytimes.com/2024/03/13/arts/design/whitney-biennial-review-museum-art.htmlHyperallergic https://hyperallergic.com/877662/first-impressions-from-the-2024-whitney-biennial/Surface Magazine https://www.surfacemag.com/articles/patron-gallery-chicago-interview/Brooklyn Rail https://brooklynrail.org/2024/04/artseen/Whitney-Biennial-2024-Even-Better-Than-the-Real-ThingBay State banner https://www.baystatebanner.com/2024/03/20/noe-martinez-explores-indigenous-ancestry-and-trauma-of-colonialism-in-the-body-remembers/SETI Org https://www.seti.org/seti-air-newsletter-march-2024e-flux https://www.e-flux.com/criticism/599131/81st-whitney-biennial-even-better-than-the-real-thingAnOther Magazine https://www.anothermag.com/art-photography/15214/chantal-akerman-exhibition-2023-jeanne-dielman-collier-schorr-carmen-winantArt Basel https://www.artbasel.com/catalog/gallery/3688/Patron?lang=en | https://www.artbasel.com/stories/young-voices-from-the-whitney-biennial-2024Frieze https://www.frieze.com/gallery/patron | https://www.frieze.com/article/focus-frieze-new-york-stanley-stellar-reverend-joyce-mcdonald The Art Newspaper https://www.theartnewspaper.com/2024/03/21/whitney-biennial-2024-even-better-than-the-real-thingSix Inches From Center https://sixtyinchesfromcenter.org/the-atmosphere-that-holds-us-an-interview-with-brittany-nelson-on-i-cant-make-you-love-me/Cultured Mag https://www.culturedmag.com/article/2024/03/13/whitney-biennial-new-york-art
Ep.202 Adebunmi Gbadebo (b. 1992 in Livingston, NJ) is a multidisciplinary artist working with paper, ceramics, sound, and film, exploring Gbadebo explores the archival record of her family’s ancestry. Through her research, material selection, and technical process, the artist emphasizes the prejudice of the historical record, activating her practice to restore Black subjectivity. She received a BFA from the School of Visual Art, New York. In 2023, she was the recipient of the Maxwell and Hanrahan Craft Fellowship and the Keynote speaker for the American Ceramic Circle annual conference. In 2022, she was a Pew Fellow at the Pew Center for Arts & Heritage. Gbadebo is currently an Artist in Residence at The Clay Studio and has exhibited across the US and internationally in Africa, Europe, Asia and Australia. Her work is now on view in major exhibitions such as the 24th Sydney Biennale: Ten Thousand Suns; Minneapolis Museum of Art: Collage/Assemblage Part II: 1990-Now; and Hear Me Now: The Black Potters of Old Edgefield, South Carolina, which opened at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, in 2022, and has traveled to the Museum of Fine Arts Boston, University of Michigan Museum of Art, and is now at the High Museum of Art in Atlanta. Gbadebo’s work is in the public collections of the Smithsonian National Museum of African Art, Washington, D.C.; Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture, Washington D.C.; Boston Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, MA; Minnesota Museum of American Art, St. Paul, MN; Minneapolis Institute of Art, Minneapolis MN; Weisman Museum of Art, Minneapolis, MN; Newark Museum of Art, Newark, NJ; and South Carolina State Museum, Columbia, SC. Her public commissions include an ongoing sculpture project in collaboration with students and faculty from Clemson University, SC, and the Harriet Tubman Monument (2021), Newark, NJ. Photo Credit:Tobias TruvillionArticles●Past Present Projects Magazine: Past Present No. 4●The Pew Center For Arts and Heritage: Fellow to Fellow: Adebunmi Gbadebo and Odili Donald Odita on Meaning in Materiality ●WHYY: Philly artist wins $100K craft prize for her work remembering Black ancestors●PBS: Treasures of New Jersey●Penn Today: Ritual and Remembrance ●The Boston Globe At the MFA, enslaved Black potters’ work brings lives into the light in ‘Hear Me Now’●The Post and Courier At the Met, in Harlem and beyond, acclaimed artist honors enslaved SC ancestors●Forbes, Haunting Generational Trauma In “Remains” By Adebunmi Gbadebo At Claire Oliver Gallery In Harlem●Brooklyn Rail, Abstraction in the Black Diaspora●New York Times, Critic’s Pick: The Magnificent Poem Jars of David Drake, Center Stage at the Met●New York Times, New Shows That Widen the Beaten Path
Ep.201 features Lindsay Adams (b. 1990, Washington, D.C.) , an Artist working across traditional mediums. Embracing her intersectional identity, Lindsay’s work serves as both a reflection and extension of self, challenging narratives of both race and representation, reflecting on personal and collective histories and memories, while simultaneously mining through the complexity of the black experience. Lindsay’s current body of work is a visual and conceptual investigation of the balance between certainty and imagination, examining themes of place, liberation, memory, and psychological space. She reflects on personal and collective histories and memories, while simultaneously mining through the complexity of the black experience. Adams’ abstracted florals serve as an index for marking and reclaiming her black ancestral connection to land, embracing both personal and shared narratives while reflecting on the importance of the sites that have accumulated histories of social, cultural, and political life. Drawing connections to place and space, she responds to each mark intuitively while making both formal and narrative considerations. She renders layers of texture and color, alternating between abstracted and defined forms, composing multiple paintings within one. Employing her educational foundation as a social scientist, with a background in foreign relations, sociology, and cultural anthropology, she systematically engages in her work with precise critical analysis and a perceptive understanding of the complex fabric of social dynamics. Lindsay received her B.A. in International Studies: World Politics and Diplomacy and Latin and Iberian Studies from The University of Richmond.Lindsay has been the recipient of the New Artist Society Merit Award at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago where she is currently pursuing an MFA in Painting and Drawing, and she has had solo presentations at Eaton DC, Washington and Riverhill Art Residency, Upstate Art Weekend. Her works were recently exhibited at Baltimore Museum of Art; James Cohan Gallery, New York, NY; Alpha Arts Alliance, Brooklyn; Gavlak Gallery, Los Angeles; Allouche Gallery, New York. Her work is in the collection of the Baltimore Museum of Art and Northwestern Law School. Photo credit: Lana JacksonArtist https://www.lindsay-adams.com/“Lindsay Adams’s Intimate Paintings Explore Place, Self, and Memory”https://www.nga.gov/stories/lindsay-adams-intimate-paintings.htmlBaltimore Museum of Art https://collection.artbma.org/people/32189/lindsay-adamsJames Cohan https://www.jamescohan.com/exhibitions/arcadia-and-elsewhereWashington Post https://www.washingtonpost.com/dc-md-va/2022/05/30/lindsay-adams-dream-day/University of Richmond https://urnow.richmond.edu/features/article/-/21779/an-artist-and-an-advocate.html?utm_source=www&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=features-storyLinkedIn https://www.linkedin.com/in/lindsaybadams/Gavlak https://www.gavlakgallery.com/artists/lindsay-adamsNational Gallery of Art https://www.nga.gov/stories/lindsay-adams-intimate-paintings.htmlDCist https://dcist.com/story/22/04/29/lindsay-adams-debuts-first-solo-exhibit-dc/Green Family Art Foundation https://www.greenfamilyartfoundation.org/exhibitions/22-in-the-know-show/Visionary Projects https://visionaryprojects.org/interviews/lindsay-adamsLoeffler Randall https://loefflerrandall.com/blogs/lr-stories/inthestudiowithlindsayadamsSoho House https://www.sohohouse.com/en-us/house-notes/issue-006/art-and-design/lindsay-adamsMarie Claire Magazine https://www.marieclaire.com/fashion/a36805666/lindsay-adams-artwork/Refinery29 https://www.refinery29.com/en-us/2020/07/9923617/black-disabled-artist-cerebral-palsy-lindsay-adams-interview
EPISODE 200 Pamela J. Joyner has nearly 30 years of experience in the investment industry. She is the Founder of Avid Partners, LLC where her expertise has been the alternative investment arena. Currently, Ms. Joyner is focused on her philanthropic interests in the arts and education.Ms. Joyner is a Trustee of The Art Institute of Chicago, the J. Paul Getty Trust and the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art. In 2020, she joined the board of trustees of the Museum of Modern Art in New York and in 2021 she became the chair of the Painting and Sculpture Committee. In 2020 with several others she also founded the Black Trustee Alliance for Art Museums.Previously, Ms. Joyner’s philanthropic involvements have included serving as: a member of President Obama’s Committee on the Arts and Humanities; a Trustee of Dartmouth College; a Trustee of the New York City Ballet; a Trustee and Co-Chair of the San Francisco Ballet Association; as well as other arts and educational organizations. Photo credit: Drew AltizerMoMA https://www.moma.org/about/trusteesBlack Trustee Alliance https://blacktrusteealliance.org/about/our-team/Art Institute of Chicago https://www.artic.edu/about-us/leadership/board-of-trusteesGetty https://www.getty.edu/news/pamela-j-joyner-joins-j-paul-getty-trust-board/ https://www.getty.edu/about/leadership-governance/board/#current- trusteesSFMOMA https://www.sfmoma.org/press-release/sfmoma-announces-major-gift-from-the-pamela-j-joyner-and-alfred-j-giuffrida-collection-celebrating-black-american-artists-of-the-20th-century/President’s Committee on the Arts and the Humanities https://obamawhitehouse.archives.gov/the-press-office/president-obama-announces-more-key-administration-posts-2510Smart Museum of Art https://smartmuseum.uchicago.edu/exhibitions/solidary-and-solitary/NYTimes 2024 https://www.nytimes.com/2024/04/25/arts/design/may-new-york-art-scene.html " https://www.nytimes.com/2024/04/10/arts/design/adriano-pedrosa-venice-biennale.htmlNYTimes 2023 https://www.nytimes.com/2023/05/25/arts/design/richard-mayhew-painter-gallery-review.htmlNYTimes 2022 https://www.nytimes.com/2022/02/09/arts/design/san-francisco-museum-christopher-bedford-baltimore.htmlNYTimes 2021 https://www.nytimes.com/2021/09/21/arts/art-basel-fair-returns-switzerland.htmlNYTimes 2020 https://www.nytimes.com/2020/10/09/arts/design/black-trustees-art-museums-diversity.htmlThe Art Newspaper https://www.theartnewspaper.com/2020/02/12/championing-african-american-abstraction-inside-the-collection-of-pamela-joynerArchitectural Digest https://www.architecturaldigest.com/story/this-san-francisco-mansion-is-a-stunning-celebration-of-black-artistsARTnews https://www.artnews.com/gallery/art-news/photos/sfmoma-pamela-joyner-gift-1234586626/ https://www.artnews.com/art-news/news/pamela-j-joyner-collector-shaping-art-2020s-1202675034/Artnet https://news.artnet.com/art-world/sfmoma-gift-pamela-joyner-alfred-giuffrida-1950427 https://news.artnet.com/art-world/what-i-buy-and-why-pamela-joyner-1811700First Republic Bank https://www.firstrepublic.com/insights-education/art-collecting-with-purpose-pamela-joyners-mission-to-elevate-african-american-artistsWikipedia https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pamela_JoynerBooks ~ Four-Generations-Giuffrida-Collection http://bit.ly/3WoA19p and https://amzn.to/4aZlGoeArt Collection https://artcollection.io/blog/pamela-j-joyner-an-activist-collector-reframing-art-historyMansion Global https://www.mansionglobal.com/articles/collector-pamela-joyner-made-her-san-fran-home-an-ode-to-black-artists-its-now-selling-for-nearly-15-million-cd1bedcd
Ep.199 Luke Agada is a Nigerian artist living and working in Chicago. His practice examines themes of globalization, migration and cultural dislocation within the framework of a postcolonial world, as he reflects on the African diaspora and its impact on neo-cultural evolution. He obtained an MFA in Painting and drawing at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago in 2023. In recent years, Agada has participated in shows in Lagos, New York, Chicago, Beijing, Accra, Berlin, Casablanca. His work has been featured in several publications including Newcity Magazine, Culture type, The Pinch Journal publication at the University of Memphis, Tennessee, Nigeria Art archives, Juxtapoz, Whitewall. He has also been a recipient of various awards and fellowship including the Global warming international art prize, AII, New Yorkin 2020, Janet and Russell Doubleday Award at The Art Students league of New York in 2022, The Helen Frankenthaler Award in 2022 and The James Nelson Raymond Fellowship Award in 2023. Agada was Resident Fellow at the Massachusetts Museum of Contemporary Art in 2023. He was recently named a 2024 Breakout Artist by NewCity Magazine and is currently a Teaching Fellow at the Painting and Drawing Department at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago, IL. Photo: Courtesy The Artist and moniquemeloche Chicago, IL. Artist https://lukeagada.com/moniquemeloche https://www.moniquemeloche.com/artists/208-luke-agada/biography/Newcity 2024 https://art.newcity.com/2024/04/02/breakout-artists-2024-chicagos-next-generation-of-image-makers/Newcity 2023 https://www.newcity.com/2023/10/04/today-in-culture-october-4-2023-report-says-arts-sector-not-so-healthy-equity-jeffs-love-goodman-chicago-is-still-the-best-says-conde-nast-traveler/School of The Art Institute of Chicago https://sites.saic.edu/gradshow2023/artists/luke-agada/Culture Type https://www.culturetype.com/2023/10/12/latest-news-in-black-art-luke-agada-joined-monique-meloche-gallery-new-atlanta-art-fair-black-studies-x-art-history-more/La voce di New York https://lavocedinewyork.com/en/new-york/2023/09/16/luke-agada-arms-feet-and-fitful-dreams-at-monique-meloche-gallery/ Artsy https://www.artsy.net/article/artsy-editorial-6-rising-artists-discovered-galleries-summer-groupThe Artists Feature https://theartistsfeature.com/features/luke-agada
Ep.198 Allison Janae Hamilton (b. 1984 in Kentucky, raised in Florida) has exhibited widely across the U.S. and abroad. Her work has been the subject of institutional solo exhibitions at the Georgia Museum of Art, the Joslyn Art Museum, Massachusetts Museum of Contemporary Art (MASS MoCA), and Atlanta Contemporary, as well as a commissioned solo project with Creative Time. Her sculpture, Love is like the sea… (2023) is currently on view in the Poydras Corridor Sculpture Exhibition, presented by The Helis Foundation in New Orleans, LA. Select recent group exhibitions include The Dirty South: Contemporary Art, Material Culture, and the Sonic Impulse, Virginia Museum of Fine Arts; Shifting Horizons, Nevada Museum of Art; Enunciated Life, California African Art Museum; More, More, More, TANK Shanghai; and Indicators: Artists on Climate Change, Storm King Art Center. Work by the artist is held in public collections such as the Studio Museum in Harlem, the Hood Museum of Art, The Menil Collection, Nasher Museum of Art, Nevada Museum of Art, and Speed Museum of Art, among others. Hamilton has participated in a range of fellowships and residencies, including at the Whitney Independent Study Program, New York, NY; the Studio Museum in Harlem, New York, NY; and Fundación Botín, Santander, Spain. She is the recipient of the Creative Capital Award and the Rema Hort Mann Foundation Grant. Hamilton holds a PhD in American Studies from New York University and an MFA in Visual Arts from Columbia University. She lives and works in New York.Portrait: Heather StenArtist https://www.allisonjanaehamilton.com/ Marianne Boesky Gallery https://marianneboeskygallery.com/artists/60-allison-janae-hamilton/press/Storm King Art Center https://indicators.stormking.org/allison-janae-hamilton/Georgia Museum of Art https://georgiamuseum.org/exhibit/allison-janae-hamilton-between-life-and-landscape/University of Georgia https://www.wuga.org/show/museum-minute/2022-10-28/museum-minute-allison-janae-hamiltonNasher Museum of Art https://nasher.duke.edu/stories/allison-janae-hamilton-floridawater-ii-sisters-wakulla-county-fl-and-when-the-wind-has-teeth/Helis Foundation https://www.thehelisfoundation.org/pcse/love-is-like-the-sea...Pippy HouldsworthGallery https://www.houldsworth.co.uk/exhibitions/140-tales-of-soil-and-concrete-brett-goodroad-allison-janae-hamilton-yun-fei-ji-arturo/works/The Highline https://www.thehighline.org/art/projects/allison-janae-hamilton/Contemporary Art Library https://www.contemporaryartlibrary.org/artist/allison-janae-hamilton-6327Artpil https://artpil.com/allison-janae-hamilton/The Clark https://www.clarkart.edu/microsites/humane-ecology/about-the-artists/allison-janae-hamiltonUGA Today https://news.uga.edu/nature-is-at-the-center-of-allison-janae-hamiltons-work/Rema Hort Mann Foundation https://www.remahortmannfoundation.org/allison-janae-hamilton/Ogden Museum https://ogdenmuseum.org/event/florida-stories-a-conversation-with-author-lauren-groff-and-visual-artist-allison-janae-hamilton/Kids Kiddle https://kids.kiddle.co/Allison_Janae_HamiltonWWD https://wwd.com/feature/allison-janae-hamilton-marianne-boesky-gallery-art-exhibition-1234792142/Whitewall Art https://whitewall.art/art/allison-janae-hamilton-interrogates-myths-around-landscape-and-stories-of-paradise/Whitewall Art https://whitewall.art/whitewaller/allison-janae-hamilton-a-romance-of-paradise/Where y’at https://www.whereyat.com/allison-janae-hamilton-lauren-groff-florida-new-orleansThe Bitter Southerner https://bittersoutherner.com/summer-voices/aunjanue-ellis/allison-janae-hamiltonC& https://contemporaryand.com/exhibition/allison-janae-hamilton-a-romance-of-paradise/The University of Texas at Austinhttps://repositories.lib.utexas.edu/items/3f37e356-f2a7-4f3b-a9d4-7614ddfac848Urban Milwaukee https://urbanmilwaukee.com/people/allison-janae-hamilton/
Ep.197 Peter Uka (b. 1975,Nigeria; lives and works in Cologne, Germany) devises figurative paintings which draw from his childhood memories of Nigeria. With a classical training in realistic figuration Uka combines various image references of time specific objects with images from his memory to convey innate and timeless human emotion. Scenes of growing up in Nigeria, including elements like afro hair styles and bell-bottom jeans, bright mannerisms, and local customs are captured in vibrant, visual narrative. His compositions also capture international trends from the late 20th century and the ways globalization connects countries around the world. These narratives uncover historical precedents of globalization and dynamic cultural signifiers connecting two countries that Uka calls home, while reminding the rest of the world of collective reciprocity, closeness, and connection. Uka completed his studies in2017 at the Kunstakademie in Düsseldorf (Germany) and has exhibited at National Museum Onikan(Lagos, Nigeria), Haus der Kunst (Munich, Germany), Kunsthaus Mettman (Germany) and DIDI Museum(Lagos, Nigeria). His work has been shown at the Flag Art Foundation and is included in collections such as the Long Museum. Portrait of Peter Uka by Kai Schmidt. Courtesy of Mariane Marian Ibrahim https://marianeibrahim.com/press/247-peter-uka-galerie-magazine/Financial Times https://marianeibrahim.com/press/115-peter-uka-financial-times-weekend/Long Museum https://marianeibrahim.com/news/89-being-in-the-world-peter-uka-i-long-museum/Flag Art Foundation https://marianeibrahim.com/news/68-peter-uka-remembrance-peter-uka-the-flag-art-foundation/Colossal https://www.thisiscolossal.com/2024/03/peter-uka-portraits/Culture Type https://www.culturetype.com/2022/01/12/longing-new-paintings-by-peter-uka-channel-fond-memories-of-nigeria-this-for-me-is-a-moment-in-time-a-time-when-all-was-well-all-was-good/Newcity Art https://art.newcity.com/2022/01/10/unapologetically-authentic-a-review-of-peter-uka-at-mariane-ibrahim/It’s Nice That https://www.itsnicethat.com/articles/peter-uka-art-080421African Digital Art https://www.africandigitalart.com/on-painting-nigerian-contemporary-artist-peter-uka/Galerie Magazine https://galeriemagazine.com/5-must-see-exhibitions-see-paris-month/The Jealous Curator https://thejealouscurator.substack.com/p/art-delivery-112323WhiteWall https://whitewall.art/art/best-paris-exhibitions-art-imitating-life/Juxtapoz https://www.juxtapoz.com/news/magazine/features/peter-uka-abc-to-xyz/Metal Magazine https://metalmagazine.eu/en/post/peter-ukaW Magazine https://www.wmagazine.com/culture/peter-uka-longing-mariane-ibrahim-gallery-interviewArtnet https://www.artnet.com/artists/peter-uka/
Ep.196 Jacob Mason-Macklin lives and works in Queens, New York. Mason-Macklin graduated from the Columbus College of Art & Design in 2017. He is a 2016 alumnus of the Yale-Norfolk Summer School of Art and a 2019 alumnus of the Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture. In 2021-2022, Mason-Macklin was an Artist-in Residence at The Studio Museum in Harlem, Harlem, New York, USA. Recent exhibitions include: “Underground” at Mamoth Gallery in London, UK (2023), “The Future Won't Be Long Now” at SOMEDAY, Lower Manhattan, New York, USA (2023), and “It’s Time For Me To Go” at MOMA PS1, Long Island City, New York, USA (2022-2023). A dou-exhibition with artist Ryan Huggins at Page gallery, New York, USA (2021). “Soul Procession” at Interstate Projects, Brooklyn, New York, USA (2020). “Pure Hell” at No Place Gallery in Columbus, Ohio, USA (2020); “Bounty” with Cudelice Brazelton at the Jeffrey Stark Gallery in New York, USA. Curated by Amanda Hunt (2017).Photo credit for headshot: Ally CapleStudio Museum Harlem https://www.studiomuseum.org/artists/jacob-mason-macklinMoMA https://www.moma.org/slideshows/626MAMOTH https://www.mamoth.co.uk/exhibitions/42/installation_shots/image1586/MAMOTH https://www.mamoth.co.uk/blog/47-watch-jacob-mason-macklin-s-residency-journey-in-london/Art Rabbit https://www.artrabbit.com/events/jacob-masonmacklin-undergroundArtfacts https://artfacts.net/exhibition/jacob-mason-macklin:-underground/1143681Art Viewer https://artviewer.org/jacob-mason-macklin-at-mamoth/Page NYC https://page-nyc.com/exhibitions/jacob-mason-macklinJeffrey Stark https://www.jeffreystark.nyc/project/cudelice_brazelton_jake_mason_macklin/
Ep.195 Connie Butler is the Director of MoMA PS1 in New York. Prior to her arrival in September 2023, since 2013, she was Chief Curator at the Hammer Museum in Los Angeles where she organized numerous exhibitions including the biennial of Los Angeles artists Made in LA (2014); Mark Bradford: Scorched Earth (2015); Marisa Merz:The Sky Is a Great Space (2017); Lari Pittman: Declaration of Independence (2019); and Witch Hunt (2021). She also co-organized with MoMA, Adrian Piper: A Synthesis of Intuitions which opened at the Hammer in October 2018. From 2006-2013 she was the Robert Lehman Foundation Chief Curator of Drawings at The Museum of Modern Art, New York where she co-curated the first major Lygia Clark retrospective in the United States (2014) and On Line: Drawing Through the Twentieth Century (2010) in addition to Greater New York (2010) and Mike Kelley (2013) at MoMA PS1. Butler also organized the groundbreaking survey WACK! Art and the Feminist Revolution (2007) at the Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles where she was curator from 1996-2006. In 2020 Butler received the Bard College Audrey Irmas Award for Curatorial Excellence.Photo credit: Tag ChristofMoMA https://press.moma.org/news/moma-ps1-announces-new-director/Wikipedia https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cornelia_ButlerNYTimes https://www.nytimes.com/2023/05/08/arts/design/moma-ps1-new-director-connie-butler.htmlThe Art Newspaper https://www.theartnewspaper.com/2023/05/10/connie-butler-moma-ps1-director-hammer-museumArt Review https://artreview.com/connie-butler-to-direct-moma-ps1/Whitewalls https://www.widewalls.ch/news-feed/moma-ps1-connie-butler-directorHyperallergic https://hyperallergic.com/873871/moma-ps1-workers-urge-director-connie-butler-to-settle-a-fair-contract/Hyperallergic https://hyperallergic.com/820809/who-is-connie-butler-the-new-director-of-moma-ps1/Sun Valley Museum of Art https://svmoa.org/events/lectures-talks/2023-07-20/on-collecting-three-conversations-collector-as-curatorLA Times https://www.latimes.com/entertainment-arts/story/2023-05-08/commentary-staff-changes-at-the-ucla-hammer-museumCenter for Curatorial Leadership https://www.curatorialleadership.org/participants/ccl-program/cornelia-butler/ARTnews https://www.artnews.com/art-news/news/connie-butler-moma-ps1-director-1234667070/WACK! Art and the Feminist Revolution https://www.moca.org/exhibition/wack-art-and-the-feminist-revolutionMark Bradford Exhibition https://hammer.ucla.edu/exhibitions/2015/mark-bradford-scorched-earthUCLA/ Hammer Museum https://newsroom.ucla.edu/stories/hammer-museum-connie-butler
Ep.194 Tiana Webb Evans is the Founder ESP Group LLC, a brand strategy and communications consultancy supporting international clients across art, design, and hospitality industries. She is also the founder and creative director of Yard Concept, a cultural platform comprised of a digital journal, gallery, and ‘happenings’ dedicated to fostering consciousness through the engagement of art, design, and community; and most recently the founder of Jamaica Art Society an initiative designed to support Jamaican art professional and celebrate its visual arts legacy.Tiana’s experience includes branding, communications, strategic planning, business development and cultural programming. Before launching ESP in 2014, Tiana served as the Communications Director at Phillips Auctioneers, a global corporation focused on the sale of Contemporary Art. As Vice President of the Hospitality and Real Estate group at Nadine Johnson & Associates she was responsible for a portfolio of clients working at the intersection of art, culture and business. Prior establishing a career in communications she was the Business Director of Studio Sofield, a celebrated architecture and design firm known for its work with Gucci Group and a host of notable luxury good brands.In addition to her professional endeavors Tiana, writes about culture, advises and supports emerging artists, and shares her expertise by serving on the boards of Project for Empty Space, the Female Design Council, and Atlanta Art Week, and is on advisory committees for the Laundromat Project, Photo Fairs, and Art at a Time Like This.ESP Group https://espgroup.global/Yard Concept https://www.yard-concept.com/Jamaica Art Society https://www.jamaicaartsociety.com/Foundwork https://foundwork.art/guest-curators/tiana-webb-evansBrooklyn Rail https://brooklynrail.org/contributor/Tiana-Webb-EvansArtnet https://news.artnet.com/art-world/art-world-at-home-tiana-webb-evans-1972157LinkedIn https://www.linkedin.com/in/tianawebbevans/Photo Fairs https://www.photofairs.org/newyork/tiana_webb_evans/WhiteWall https://whitewall.art/art/art-mamas-community-essential-tiana-webb-evans/Apartment Therapy https://www.apartmenttherapy.com/design-changemakers-2021-tiana-webb-evans-36866078POW Arts https://www.powarts.org/events/2021/5/3/may-colleagues-amp-friendsPin-Up Magazine https://archive.pinupmagazine.org/articles/tiana-webb-evans-on-african-american-home-life-in-art
Ep.193 Helina Metaferia is an interdisciplinary artist working across collage, assemblage, video, performance, and social engagement. Her work integrates archives, somatic studies, and dialogical practices, creating overlooked narratives that amplify BIPOC/femme bodies.Metaferia received her MFA from Tufts University’s School of the Museum of Fine Arts and attended the Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture. Recent solo exhibitions and projects include RISD Art Museum (2022-2023); Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, MA (2021-2022); New York University's The Gallatin Galleries, New York, NY (2021); Michigan State University's Scene Metrospace Gallery, East Lansing, MI (2019); and Museum of African Diaspora, San Francisco, CA (2017). Metaferia's work was included in the Sharjah Biennial in the United Arab Emirates (2023), the Tennessee Triennial through the Frist Art Museum and Fisk University Art Gallery (2023). Her work is in the permanent collection of institutions including Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles, CA; Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, MA; Sharjah Art Foundation, United Arab Emirates; Kadist, San Francisco, CA and Paris, France; and the Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, New York, NY.Metaferia’s work has been supported by several residencies including MacDowell, Yaddo, Bemis Center for Contemporary Art, and MASS MoCA. She is currently a 2021-2023 artist-in-residence at Silver Art Projects at the World Trade Center in New York City. Her work has been written about in publications including The New York Times, Financial Times, The Washington Post, The Boston Globe, Artnet News, The Art Newspaper, and Hyperallergic. Metaferia is an Assistant Professor at Brown University in the Visual Art department, and lives and works in New York City. Photo credit: Tommie BattleArtist https://www.helinametaferia.com/NYTimes https://www.nytimes.com/2021/06/24/arts/things-to-do-this-weekend.htmlArtsy Helina Metaferia Honors the Activist Legacies of Black Women across Collage and Performance | ArtsyArtnet News https://news.artnet.com/art-world/how-do-you-judge-the-value-of-social-practice-art-artist-helina-metaferia-developed-metrics-to-determine-if-a-project-is-successful-2181336Vanity Fair Leisure, Adornment, and Beauty Are Radical Acts in “Resting Our Eyes” | Vanity FairThe Cut ‘Resting Our Eyes’: 10 Black Artists at ICA San Francisco (thecut.com)Chicago Tribune 4 female artists mount a Chicago exhibit on climate issues: ‘Activism work is care work’ – Chicago TribuneSugarcane Magazine Ritual and Remembrance in Sharjah Biennial 15 - Sugarcane Magazine ™| Black Art MagazineInterior Design Magazine Artist Helina Metaferia Celebrates Black Women Activists in Two Solo Shows - Interior DesignThe Art Newspaper https://www.theartnewspaper.com/2021/06/16/black-artists-and-performers-take-over-fort-greene-park-for-juneteenth-jubileeFinancial Times ( First) https://www.ft.com/content/9b75fdcd-9f1a-4c3f-ae70-b1140fc9cdadFinancial Times (Second) https://www.ft.com/content/e8030f71-2925-4fbb-8e0a-96d6ce1cf774Contemporary And https://contemporaryand.com/magazines/helina-metaferia-weaving-and-resisting-in-more-than-a-few-ways/
Ep.192 Allison Glenn is a New York-based curator and writer focusing on the intersection of art and public space, through public art and special projects, biennials and major new commissions by a wide range of contemporary artists. She is a Visiting Curator in the Department of Film Studies at the University of Tulsa, organizing the Sovereign Futures convening, and Artistic Director of The Shepherd, a three-and-a-half-acre arts campus part of the newly christened Little Village cultural district in Detroit. Previous roles include Co-Curator of Counterpublic Triennial 2023, Guest Curator at the Speed Art Museum, and Associate Curator of Contemporary Art at Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art. In this role, Glenn shaped how outdoor sculpture activates and engages Crystal Bridges' 120-acre campus through a series of new commissions, touring group exhibitions, and long term loans. She has also acted as the Curatorial Associate + Publications Manager for Prospect New Orleans’ international art triennial Prospect.4: The Lotus in Spite of the Swamp. Her writing has been featured in catalogues published by The Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Counterpublic Triennial, Prospect New Orleans triennial, Princeton Architectural Press, Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art, Scottsdale Museum of Contemporary Art, Kemper Museum, Studio Museum in Harlem, and she has contributed to Artforum, ART PAPERS, Brooklyn Rail, Hyperallergic, and ART21 Magazine, amongst others. Glenn sits on the Board of Directors for ARCAthens, a curatorial and artist residency program based in Athens, Greece, New Orleans, LA and The Bronx, New York. She received dual Master’s degrees from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago in Modern Art History, Theory and Criticism and Arts Administration and Policy, and a Bachelor of Fine Art Photography with a co-major in Urban Studies from Wayne State University in Detroit.Photograph by Grace RoselliAllison Glenn https://www.allisonglenn.com/Artnet https://news.artnet.com/art-world/valuations-allison-glenn-2395989NYTimes https://www.nytimes.com/2023/05/09/arts/design/counterpublic-st-louis-public-art.htmlARTnews https://www.artnews.com/art-news/artists/qa-david-adjaye-on-his-first-permanent-sculpture-1234670283/e-flux https://www.e-flux.com/criticism/537239/counterpublic-2023NPR https://www.stlpr.org/arts/2023-03-07/massive-public-art-exhibition-will-highlight-historical-injustices-in-st-louisThe Architects Newsletter https://www.archpaper.com/2022/04/david-adjayes-first-permanent-public-artwork-among-art-and-architectural-commissions-for-2023-counterpublic-triennial-in-st-louis/Artnet https://news.artnet.com/art-world/counterpublic-2023-2106157ARTnews https://www.artnews.com/list/art-news/artists/shaping-art-2022-deciders-1234612406/naomi-beckwith/NYTimes https://www.nytimes.com/2021/12/07/arts/design/best-art-2021.htmlObserver https://observer.com/power-series/2021-arts-power-50/Artforum https://www.artforum.com/features/huey-copeland-and-allison-glenn-on-promise-witness-remembrance-249992/SAIC https://www.saic.edu/news/alum-allison-glenn-and-the-power-of-listeningNYTimes https://www.nytimes.com/2021/03/11/arts/design/speed-museum-breonna-taylor-curator.htmlArt Newspaper https://www.theartnewspaper.com/2021/02/25/speed-art-museum-will-reflect-on-the-death-of-breonna-taylor-in-an-exhibitionSurface https://www.surfacemag.com/articles/breonna-taylor-exhibition-speed-art-museum-other-news/#taylorCulture Type https://www.culturetype.com/2021/02/22/the-week-in-black-art-february-22-28-2021-cameron-shaw-named-executive-director-of-california-african-american-museum-aperture-names-seven-new-trustees/Artnet https://news.artnet.com/art-world/louisville-speed-art-museum-breonna-taylor-1945823Observer https://observer.com/2021/02/breonna-taylor-speed-art-museum-louisville/88.9 WEKU https://www.weku.org/post/new-speed-exhibition-honor-life-legacy-breonna-taylor#stream/0
Ep.191 Christine Berry earned her Bachelors of Art in Art History from Baylor University and her Masters in Art History and Museum Studies from the University of North Texas. She began her career at the Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth and continued on to the Whitney Museum of American Art. Twenty years ago, she shifted from the non-profit sector to the commercial art world. In 2013, Christine Berry and Martha Campbell founded Berry Campbell Gallery in Chelsea. The gallery has a fine-tuned program representing artists from Postwar American art, who have been overlooked due to age, race, gender, or geography. This unique perspective has been increasingly recognized by curators, collectors, and the press. Over the last ten years, Berry Campbell has doubled its roster, staff, and footprint. In 2022, the gallery moved from its original venue to its current 9,000 square foot gallery space at 524 West 26th Street. The gallery represents 34 artists and estates including Lynne Drexler, Perle Fine, Bernice Bing, Frederick Brown, Lilian Thomas Burwell, Nanette Carter, Beverly McIver, and Frank Wimberley.Photo credit: Blaine DavisGallery https://www.berrycampbell.com/Frieze https://www.frieze.com/gallery/berry-campbellFrieze Masters https://berrycampbell.com/exhibition/169/Art Basel https://www.artbasel.com/catalog/gallery/24703/Berry-Campbell?lang=enThe Armory https://www.berrycampbell.com/exhibition/166/Palm Beach Modern+Contemporary https://www.berrycampbell.com/exhibition/157/NYT https://www.nytimes.com/2020/04/02/arts/design/art-galleries-virtual-tour.htmlObserver https://observer.com/2021/06/best-gallery-exhibitions-summer-2021-from-salon-94-to-nancy-hoffman-gallery/Brooklyn Rail https://brooklynrail.org/2020/05/artseen/Ida-Kohlmeyer-CloisteredArtsy https://www.artsy.net/article/berry-campbell-gallery-berry-campbell-announces-new-locationSurface https://www.surfacemag.com/articles/berry-campbell-gallery-interview/Widewalls https://www.widewalls.ch/venue/berry-campbell-gallery/artworksArtnet https://www.artnet.com/galleries/berry-campbell/Galleries Now https://www.galleriesnow.net/shows/judith-godwin-modern-woman/Art in America https://artinamericaguide.com/listings/berry-campbell-gallery/Easel https://www.eazel.net/venues/76?branchId=95
Ep.190 Uman’s dazzling visual vocabulary reflects her life and expansive cross-cultural experiences. Born in Somalia and raised in Kenya, she migrated to Denmark as a teenager and later to New York NY as a young adult. Now, with a home and studio in Upstate New York, Uman paints richly-hued worlds replete with gesture, geometry and the sublime. An intuitive artist, her influences abound from memories of East African childhood, a rigorous education in traditional calligraphy and a fascination with kaleidoscopic color and design. With nods to self-portraiture and fictional topographies, Uman’s paintings speak fluently of liminal navigation. Her work contemplates both the physical and spiritual, intertwining abstraction, figuration, meditative patterning and a reverence for the natural world.Uman has had solo exhibitions at Hauser & Wirth, London, England; Nicola Vassell, New York NY; Eleni Koroneou Gallery, Athens, Greece; Fierman, New York NY; Anne De Villepoix, Paris, France; and White Columns, New York NY. She has been featured in group exhibitions at the Aga Khan Museum, Toronto, Canada; For-Site Foundation at Fort Mason Chapel, San Francisco CA; Institute of Contemporary Arts, London, UK; Karma, New York NY; and Ramiken Crucible, New York NY.In 2022, she was the recipient of the inaugural grant for The Cube at TRIADIC’s FORMAT Festival in Bentonville AR.Headshot Copyright: Uman. Courtesy of the artist, Hauser & Wirth and Nicola Vassell Gallery Photo credit: Luigi Cazzaniga Nicola Vassell Gallery https://www.cnn.com/2024/02/18/style/uman-artist-hauser-wirth/index.html#:~:text=In%20December%202023%2C%20Uman's%20work,the%20spirit%20of%20the%20show.Hauser & Wirth https://www.hauserwirth.com/news/welcoming-uman-to-hauser-wirth-in-partnership-with-nicola-vassell/https://www.hauserwirth.com/hauser-wirth-exhibitions/uman-darling-sweetie-sweetie-darling/CNN https://www.cnn.com/2024/02/18/style/uman-artist-hauser-wirth/index.html#:~:text=In%20December%202023%2C%20Uman's%20work,the%20spirit%20of%20the%20show.Artnet https://news.artnet.com/art-world/umans-painting-hauser-wirth-2426374Brooklyn Rail https://brooklynrail.org/2023/05/art/Uman-with-Chris-MartinElephant Magazine https://elephant.art/umans-studio-in-the-hudson-valley-is-a-portal-to-a-kaleidoscopic-world/Artforum https://www.artforum.com/events/uman-250558/ArtNews https://www.artnews.com/art-news/artists/uman-artist-profile-best-practices-1234685155/The New Yorker https://www.newyorker.com/goings-on-about-town/art/umanCulturetype https://www.culturetype.com/2023/12/06/nicola-vassell-and-hauser-wirth-galleries-announce-partnership-and-co-representation-of-artist-uman/#:~:text=On%20view%20at%20Nicola%20Vassell,made%20in%202022%20and%202023.Dream Idea Machine https://www.dreamideamachine.com/?p=94536Art Plugged https://artplugged.co.uk/hauser-wirth-teams-up-with-nicola-vassell-gallery-to-represent-artist-uman/Meer https://www.meer.com/en/74374-uman-i-want-everything-nowLavocedi https://lavocedinewyork.com/en/new-york/2023/05/09/uman-i-want-everything-now-exhibit-at-nicola-vassell-gallery/Art Rabbit https://www.artrabbit.com/events/uman-darling-sweetie-sweetie-darlingWhitewall https://whitewall.art/art/mark-bradford-senga-nengudi-uman-and-more-must-see-shows-in-new-york/Cultured Magazine https://www.culturedmag.com/article/2023/05/01/fred-eversley-sarah-morris-umanFad Magazine https://fadmagazine.com/2024/01/30/uman-darling-sweetie-sweetie-darling/What We Adore https://www.whatweadore.com/uman-darling-sweetie-sweetie-darling/
Ep. 189 Cierra Britton (b.1996, Baltimore, MD) is a curator and art dealer living and working in New York City. As the director of the Cierra Britton Gallery, her mission is to make space for artists who are creating exploratory work across all mediums.Founded in 2021, the Cierra Britton Gallery is the first NYC-based gallery dedicated to representing BIPOC womxn artists whose work contributes to the contemporary cultural dialogue across the globe. The gallery’s mission is to make space for artists who are creating exploratory work inclusive of all mediums such as painting, photography, drawing, and performance. Starting as a nomadic and online gallery, our programming has focused on a diverse roster of artists making work that is rooted in storytelling, exploration, and cultural commentary.Cierra Britton Gallery is creating a safe and much-needed space for BIPOC womxn artists who have historically been marginalized from the mainstream art world. We aim to uphold artists and create community through dialogue and support for the arts.Photo Credit : Katherine PekalaCierra Britton Gallery http://cierrabritton.com/Abigail Ogilvy https://abigailogilvy.com/exhibitions/64-deja-vu-in-collaboration-with-cierra-britton-gallery-los-angeles/Essence Magazine https://www.essence.com/of-the-essence/young-gifted-black-essence-creators-class/Hamptons Fine Art Fair 2024 https://hamptonsfineartfair.com/gallery/cierra-britton-gallery/Artsy https://www.artsy.net/article/artsy-editorial-meet-26-year-old-gallerist-championing-women-artists-colorArtnet News https://news.artnet.com/market/cierra-britton-gallery-supported-by-power-of-community-2214681Galerie Magazine https://galeriemagazine.com/9-artists-watch-future-fair-independent-nada-new-york-2023/Art News Africa https://galeriemagazine.com/9-artists-watch-future-fair-independent-nada-new-york-2023/Art Plugged https://artplugged.co.uk/cierra-britton-the-visionary-curator-supporting-the-new-era-of-bipoc-womxn-artists/Newsbreak https://www.newsbreak.com/new-york-city-ny/3187187256496-cierra-britton-is-the-nyc-gallerist-exploring-new-color-theoriesRealty Collective https://realtycollective.com/cierra-britton-brooklyn-art-curator/Indigo Arts Alliance https://indigoartsalliance.me/our-team/
Ep.188 Demetrio "Dee" Kerrison. Born in Harlem, NY, he now resides in Los Angeles. In 2001 after a visit to the Studio Museum of Harlem to view an exhibition titled “Freestyle” and curated by Thelma Golden and Christine Y. Kim, he decided to begin building an art collection with a particular focus on African Diasporic artists. Since then, Dee and his wife Gianna Drake Kerrison have built an eclectic contemporary art collection which foregrounds emerging and ultra contemporary figurative painters. Abstract, sculpture, conceptual, and photographic works are also featured in the collection.They are active patrons, and they site on many art focused boards both past and present to include William H. Johnson Foundation, Mistake Room, Noah Purifoy Foundation, the Hammer Museum Board of Advisors and Mike Kelly Foundation.Image ~ Photo credit Dania Maxwell/ Los Angeles TimesDemetrio Dee Kerrison https://www.linkedin.com/in/deekerrison/Gianna Drake Kerrison https://www.linkedin.com/in/gianna-drake-kerrison-76685a34/Hammer Museum https://hammer.ucla.edu/Cultured Magazine https://www.culturedmag.com/article/2021/11/05/dee-kerrison-life-was-forever-changed-by-art-so-what-comes-nextFuture Fairs https://archive.futurefairs.com/journal-posts-2/demetrio-kerrisonLA Times https://www.latimes.com/entertainment-arts/story/2023-02-17/faces-of-frieze-los-angeles-2023-opening-day-photosNY Times https://www.nytimes.com/2023/12/08/arts/design/los-angeles-art-galleries.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShareHyperallergic https://hyperallergic.com/557471/gallery-platform-la/Gallery Platform LA https://galleryplatform.la/editorials/demetrio-kerrisonKPCC https://www.kpcc.org/show/take-two/2018-01-15/why-these-art-collectors-in-orange-county-are-focusing-on-artists-of-colorNoah Purifoy Foundation https://www.noahpurifoy.com/board-of-trustees
Ep.187 February James currently lives and works in Washington, D.C., where she was born, after living in Los Angeles for fifteen years. She received her BFA from the Art Center College of Design in Pasadena, CA. James has exhibited in New York, Los Angeles, Chicago, London, Berlin and Turin, Italy. Her work is currently included in Singular Views: 25 Artists at the Rubell Museum in Washington, D.C., following her inclusion in What’s Going On, the museum’s inaugural exhibition in 2022-2023. In 2021, James was invited by Mickalene Thomas and Racquel Chevremont to create a room size installation in Set It Off, an exhibition they organized for the Parrish Art Museum in Watermill, NY. She has been featured in multiple other group shows, including Punch, curated by Nina Chanel Abney at Jeffrey Deitch in Los Angeles, Face-to-Face at the Sugar Hill Children’s Museum of Art and Storytelling, New York and BodyLand, curated by Lauren Taschen at Galerie Max Hetzler in Berlin. She was invited to contribute watercolors to a feature in The New York Times Style Magazine in February 2021. James has been represented by Tilton Gallery since 2020.Photo credit Mariah MirandaArtist https://www.februaryjames.com/Tilton Gallery https://www.jacktiltongallery.com/artists/february-james/biographyGalerie Max Hetzler https://www.maxhetzler.com/exhibitions/bodyland-2023Los Angeles Magazine, September 9, 2021.https://www.lamag.com/culturefiles/february-james-wilding-cran/Platform Art https://www.platformart.com/editorial/february-interview/NYTimes Roberta Smithhttps://www.nytimes.com/2021/09/01/arts/design/art-gallery-shows-reviews.htmlThe NY Times Style Magazine, February 18, 2021.https://www.nytimes.com/2021/02/18/t-magazine/female-monuments-women.html?referringSource=articleShareSixty Inches from Centerhttps://sixtyinchesfromcenter.org/the-artist-as-changemaker-a-conversation-with-february-james/New City Arthttps://art.newcity.com/2020/08/07/emotive-states-a-review-of-chase-hall-and-february-james-at-monique-meloche/Monique Meloche https://www.moniquemeloche.com/exhibitions/12-february-james-we-laugh-loud-so-the-spirits/overview/ARTSKOP https://www.artskop.com/artmedia/en/february-james-1-54-art-fair-exhibition/Artsy https://www.artsy.net/article/artsy-editorial-5-artists-radar-marchArtsy https://www.artsy.net/article/casey-lesser-4-curators-artists-celebrating-black-history-monthArtnet https://www.artnet.com/artists/february-james/
Ep.186 Loie Hollowell was born in 1983 and raised in Woodland, California. She currently lives and works in New York City. She received a BFA at University of California Santa Barbara in 2005 and an MFA inpainting from Virginia Commonwealth University in 2012. Her work has been exhibited at museums and galleries worldwide including Jan Shrem and Maria Manetti Shrem Museum of Art, University of California, Davis; Pace Gallery; Long Museum West Bund, Shanghai; Feuer/Mesler, New York; White Cube Gallery, Paris; Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Washington, D.C.; Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles; The Flag Art Foundation, New York; Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art, Bentonville, Arkansas; Victoria Miro, London; and Ballroom Marfa, Texas. Her work is in public collections including the Albertina Museum, Vienna; Centre Pompidou, Paris; Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art, Bentonville; Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Washington, D.C.; ICA, Miami; Long Museum, Shanghai; Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles; M+Museum, Hong Kong; Stedjelijk Museum, Amsterdam; and Zentrum Paul Klee, Switzerland. Her work has been exhibited at museums and galleries worldwide including Pace Gallery, The Aldrich Contemporary Art Museum, Ridgefield, CT; Jessica Silverman, San Francisco, CA. Photo by Melissa Goodwin Artist https://www.loiehollowell.com/Pace Gallery https://www.pacegallery.com/online-exhibitions/loie-hollowell/The Aldrich Contemporary Art Museum https://thealdrich.org/exhibitions/loie-hollowell-a-surveyJessica Silverman https://jessicasilvermangallery.com/online-shows/loie-hollowell-in-transition/- Urist, Jac. Loie Hollowell Abstracts the Female Body, W Magazine / January 18, 2024- Dafoe, Taylor. Loie Hollowell’s New Move From Abstraction to Realism Is Not a One-Way Journey, Artnet / January 19, 2024Thornton, Sarah. Loie Hollowell on Frottage, Fantasy and Feminist Erotica, Interview Magazine / January 23, 2024Greenberger, Alex. 33 Must-See Exhibitions to Visit This Winter, ARTnews / December 3, 2023Knupp, Kristen. Loie Hollowell: The Third Stage, Art Vista / September 4, 2023Woodcock, Victoria. The Cosmic Heirs of Hilma af Klint, Financial Times / May 26, 2023Lesser, Casey. Loie Hollowell on Abstraction, Making the Grotesque Beautiful, and Her Latest Work, Artsy / March 14, 2023Gómez-Upegui, Salomé. The New Generation of Transcendental Painters, Artsy / February 28, 2023Belcove, Julie. How a New Generation of Women Painters Is Creating Dreamy Kaleidoscopic Works, Robb Report / February 26, 2023Compton, Nick. Generative art: the creatives powering the AI art boom Wallpaper* / December 12, 2022Binlot, Ann. At the Aldrich, Revisiting a Groundbreaking Show forFeminist Art, New YorkMagazine’s The Cut / June 7, 2022Yerebakan, Osman Can. Loie Hollowell on Painting, Pain, and her Second Birth, Artforum / May 26, 2021Wilco, Hutch. Loie Hollowell's Shanghai Recalibration, Ocula / May 26, 2021New York Up Close. Loie Hollowell's Transcendent Bodies, Video by Art21 / April 14, 2021Giles, Oliver. Artist Loie Hollowell On How Motherhood Inspired Her Paintings, Tatler Asia /April 11, 2021Donoghue, Katy. Art Mamas: Loie Hollowell on ‘Going Soft’, Whitewall / July 17, 2020The A-List: The Best Culture To Catch From Home This Week, Vanity Fair / July 5, 2020Urist, Jacoba. Artists Share the Most Inspiring Books They’re Reading Right Now, Galerie Magazine/ March 30, 2020
Ep.185 features Tariku Shiferaw, a New York based artist who explores mark-making through painting and installation art, addressing issues around space-making within art and societal structures. Select museum exhibitions include The Culture: Hip Hop and Contemporary Art in the 21st Century at Baltimore Museum of Art (2023); You’d Think By Now at Smack Mellon (2022); Men of Change, organized by The Smithsonian Institution, and held at the California African American Museum (CAAM), (2021); Unbound at the Zuckerman Museum of Art (ZMA), (2020); What’s Love Got to Do with It? at The Drawing Center (2019); A Poet*hical Wager at the Museum of Contemporary Art Cleveland (2017-2018); and the 2017 Whitney Biennial at the Whitney Museum of American Art, New York. Shiferaw has participated in the Independent Study Program at the Whitney Museum of American Art (2018-2019), in Open Sessions at The Drawing Center (2018-2020) and has been an artist-in-residence at the LES Studio Program in New York City, at the World Trade Center through Silver Art Projects, and at ARCAthens in Greece.Photo credit Christopher Garcia ValleArtist https://www.tarikushiferaw.com/The Brooklyn Rail (2023) Art in Conversation: Tariku Shiferaw with Charles M. SchultzArtsy (2022) With Spectacular Installations and Abstractions, Artists Redress... NY Times (2022) These Artists' Hunt for Studio Space Ended at The World Trade...The Washington Post (2022) In The Galleries: Connecting Modern Abstraction...LA Times (2022) The Take: The Faces of Frieze...Artsy (2021) The Artsy Vanguard 2021: Tariku ShiferawBrooklyn Rail (2021) It’s a love thang, it’s a joy thangArtnet (2021) ‘Joy Can Be an Act of Resistance’: Rising-Star Artist Tariku Shiferaw on…Cultured Mag (2021) Five Contemporary Black Artists You Should Know'Art Papers (2020) Tariku ShiferawBrooklyn Rail (2020) Abstraction in the Black DiasporaHyperallergic (2020) Black Artists Claim Their Birthright of AbstractionWallpaper (2020) Five African Artists Demonstrating Creative Resilience in Challenging TimesFinancial Times (2020) Could the Art World’s Experiment with Online Fairs Force A Healthy Rethink?Hyperallergic (2020) What Does It Mean To Exhibit “Black Excellence”?Barron's Penta Magazine (2020) "Contemporary Artists on Art and Society"
Ep.184 Courtney Willis Blair the US Senior Director in White Cube’s first public gallery in New York City. She joined in 2023.Courtney will be responsible for shaping the gallery’s curatorial programme and brand both in the region and across the US. A member of the White Cube’s Global Board of Directors, she will play a key role in shaping the strategy for the gallery internationally.She was formerly a Partner and Senior Director at Mitchell-Innes & Nash, where she led artist canonical strategy and institutional engagement in the US and internationally, from projects at documenta and São Paulo Biennial, to exhibitions at Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art, the Jewish Museum, Museum of Modern Art, the Whitney Museum of American Art, and the Speed Art Museum.As a writer and journalist, she has profiled some of the world’s leading artists, architects, and curators. She is the founder of Entre Nous, an international body of Black women art dealers established in 2016, and serves on the boards of The Kitchen, Triple Canopy, and the International Studio & Curatorial Program.Photo by Myesha Evon GardnerWhite Cube https://www.whitecube.com/news/courtney-willis-blair-to-join-white-cube-as-us-senior-directorWhitewall https://whitewall.art/art/courtney-willis-blair-lets-artists-lead-at-white-cubes-first-new-york-space/Apollo Magazine https://www.apollo-magazine.com/courtney-willis-blair-40-under-40-usa-the-business/Curbed https://www.curbed.com/2020/10/the-art-stars-of-entre-nous.htmlCulture Type https://www.culturetype.com/2022/11/21/appointment-courtney-willis-blair-will-lead-white-cube-gallery-in-new-york/Cultured Magazine https://www.culturedmag.com/article/2023/09/28/theaster-gates-david-hammons-tiona-nekkia-mcclodden-white-cube Frieze https://www.frieze.com/article/courtney-willis-blair-interview-2022Galerie https://galeriemagazine.com/women-changing-the-art-world-2023/Widewalls https://www.widewalls.ch/news-feed/white-cube-new-york-courtney-willis-blairNPR https://www.npr.org/2023/10/06/1203274188/londons-white-cube-shows-fresh-and-new-art-at-first-new-york-galleryGotham Magazine https://gothammag.com/nyc-women-of-style-2023ARTnews https://www.artnews.com/art-news/news/white-cube-courtney-willis-blair-1234645902/The Art Newspaper https://www.theartnewspaper.com/2020/12/09/courtney-willis-blair-becomes-partner-at-mitchell-innes-and-nashArt Forum https://www.artforum.com/news/mitchell-innes-nash-promotes-courtney-willis-blair-to-partner-249045/Issuu https://issuu.com/frieze.com/docs/frieze_week_ny_2023/s/24501279New York Times https://www.nytimes.com/2020/06/21/arts/design/art-basel-black-owned-galleries.html
Ep.183 features Leasho Johnson. Born in 1984, he is a visual artist working primarily in painting, installation, and sculpture. He was born in Montego Bay, Jamaica, and raised in Sheffield, a small town on the outskirts of Negril. Johnson uses his experience growing up Black, gay, and male to explore concepts around identity within the post-colonial condition. Working at the conjunction of painting and drawing, Leasho combines charcoal, homemade paints, and dyes straddling the line between fluidity and chance, as well as precision and improvisation. Johnson makes characters that live on the edge of perception, visible and invisible simultaneously. His work's intent is to disrupt historical, political, and social expectations of the Black queer experience.Leasho Johnson was a fellow of the Jamaica Art Society in 2022 and a Leslie Lohman Museum fellow in 2021. He was recipient of the New Artist Society Scholarship from the School of Art Institute Chicago (SAIC) 2018 - 2020.His recent residencies include Ruby Cruel in London, 2023 and Fountainhead Residency, Miami, 2022.Leasho has shown his work in his home country at several National Gallery of Jamaica exhibitions, including the Jamaica Biennial 2012, 2014, 2017, and 2022.His recent solo exhibitions include “Somewhere between the eyes and the heart”, Western Exhibitions, 2023 “The Love of Men and the Fear of Stones,” Harpers Gallery, New York, 2022 “A Deep Haunting,” TERN Gallery, Nassau Bahamas, 2022Internationally, Leasho has exhibited in ‘Fragments of Epic Memory’ at the Art Gallery of Ontario, Canada 2021, ’Resisting Paradise’, Puerto Rico and Montreal, 2019, ‘Jamaican Pulse: Art and Politics from Jamaica and the Diaspora’, Bristol, UK 2016, ‘Jamaican Routes’, Oslo, Norway 2016, ‘Jamaica Jamaica’, Philharmonie, Paris France and Brazil, 2017 and 2018.His work is in the Public Collections of the Pérez Art Museum Miami, the Art Gallery Ontario, and ON National Gallery of Jamaica, Kingston JamaicaLeasho is currently based in Chicago, where he works and Lectures at the School of Art Institute Chicago part-time. His work is also part of various notable private collectors, as well as museum permanent collections.Photo credit: TERN Gallery BahamasArtist https://www.leashojohnson.com/Western Exhibitions Somewhere between the eyes and the heart – Western ExhibitionsChicago Reader https://chicagoreader.com/arts-culture/unveiling-the-depths-leasho-johnson-western-exhibitio ns/Frieze https://www.frieze.com/article/leasho-johnson-interview-2023Tern Gallery https://www.terngallery.com/exhibitions/a-deep-hauntingVogue On The Importance Of Social Revolutions: How Three Black Creatives Are Straddling Culture And Craft | Vogue ItaliaAMFM http://www.amfm.life/?p=2288Marsha Pearce http://marshapearce.com/qanda/anansi-as-the-path-home/Contemporary Art Matters https://contemporaryartmatters.com/leasho-johnson/Kavi Gupta https://kavigupta.com/artists/159-leasho-johnson/Artist Alliance https://www.artistsallianceinc.org/leasho-johnson/University of Chicago https://afterlives.hum.uchicago.edu/leasho-johnson/Repeating Islands https://repeatingislands.com/2022/06/17/art-exhibition-leasho-johnsons-a-deep-haunting/Art Plugged https://artplugged.co.uk/leasho-johnson-a-deep-haunting/Anthurium https://anthurium.miami.edu/articles/10.33596/anth.496AXA Art Prize https://www.axaartprize.com/johnson
Ep.182 features MICHAELA YEARWOOD-DAN. Throughout paintings, works on paper, ceramics, and site-specific mural and sound installations, Michaela Yearwood-Dan (b. 1994; London, UK) endeavors to build spaces of queer community, abundance, and joy. Yearwood-Dan’s singular visual language draws on a diverse range of influences, including Blackness, queerness, femininity, healing rituals, and carnival culture. Moving freely between media, Yearwood-Dan embeds botanical motifs and diaristic meditations within brushy abstract forms and heavy drips of paint. From the monumental scale of her paintings to the more intimate scale of her ceramics and works on paper, Yearwood-Dan’s practice frequently reflects an inviting domesticity. Resisting any singular definition of identity, the artist explores the possibilities of creating spaces—physical, pastoral, metaphorical—that allow for unlimited and unbounded ways of being. Lush and brightly hued, Yearwood-Dan’s work is at once personal and political. She often engages colors and materials for their symbolic associations—from the hints of the oranges, pinks, purples, and blues of the lesbian and bisexual pride flags mingling through the compositions to the queer histories of the ceramic carnation and pansy petals collaged into her recent paintings. Language intertwines with botanical motifs throughout Yearwood-Dan’s work: abstract habitats teem with painted plant life while live houseplants grow out of wall-mounted ceramics. Within the paintings, she inscribes lines of text—pulled from song lyrics, poetry, or her own diaristic writings. These meditations, appearing at various scales and degrees of legibility, are at once insightful and funny, confident, and questioning. Her words beckon the viewer into a vivid, welcoming world of paradox, play, and contemplation formed within an atmosphere of swirling forms and brilliant chromaticity.Yearwood-Dan’s work has been shown at the Contemporary Arts Center, Cincinnati, OH; Scottsdale Museum of Contemporary Art, AZ; the Green Family Art Foundation, Dallas, TX; Palazzo Monti, Brescia, Italy; and the Museum of Contemporary African Art, Marrakesh, Morocco, among others. Her work is in the permanent collections of the Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Washington D.C.; Institute of Contemporary Art Miami, FL; the Crocker Art Museum, Sacramento, CA; the Jorge M. Perez Collection, Miami, FL; and the Columbus Museum of Art and the Pizzuti Collection, Columbus, OH. In 2022, she produced her first public mural installation for Queercircle, London, UK. She has participated in a range of fellowships and residencies, including the Palazzo Monti Residency, Brescia, Italy, and Bloomberg New Contemporaries in Partnership with Sarabande: The Lee Alexander McQueen Foundation, London, UK. The artist received her B.A. from the University of Brighton in 2016. Yearwood-Dan lives and works in London.Please visit cerebralwomen.com for her expanded bio. Thank you.Photo credit: Sam HyltonMarianne Boesky https://marianneboeskygallery.com/artists/448-michaela-yearwood-dan/biography/Artnet https://news.artnet.com/art-world/rising-artist-michaela-yearwood-dans-lavish-flora-filled-visions-make-beauty-political-2291399Artnet https://news.artnet.com/art-world/studio-visit-michaela-yearwood-dan-2141292Cultured Magazine https://www.culturedmag.com/article/2021/12/08/beyond-their-lavish-aesthetic-michaela-yearwood-dans-paintings-make-you-feelFlaunt https://www.flaunt.com/post/michaela-yearwood-dan-the-cocoon-issueCulture Type https://www.culturetype.com/2021/10/31/latest-news-in-black-art-michaela-yearwood-dan-joins-marianne-boesky-gallery-colin-powell-portrait-on-display-at-smithsonian-plus-chef-bryant-terrys-new-book-on-art-stories-and-recipes-more/NEO2 https://www.neo2.com/dior-lady-art-bolsos-moda-arte-lujo/
Ep.181 features Lily Wong, a figurative painter whose nuanced narratives invoke a sense of complex yearning and curiosity around the conditions that inscribe and complicate memory. Often engaged in acts of close looking and intimate contact, the subjects of her work move through dreamlike space and disoriented time. Wong’s paintings probe at the way that literal and metaphorical fracturings influence the body’s relationship to loss, intimacy, and desire. Their stories are never linear, but circular and eternal – a constant arrival and departure from the site of fracture. Her work has been exhibited at Lyles& King, New York (2023); Various Small Fires, Los Angeles (2022); Harper’s, New York, NY (2021); Kapp Kapp, Philadelphia, PA (2021) and New York, NY(2020); Ramp Gallery, London, UK (2020); The Wunderwall, Antwerp, BE (2020);HVW8 Gallery, Berlin DE (2018); and Underdonk, Brooklyn, NY (2018). Wong currently lives and works in Brooklyn, NY. Portrait credit Ian Lewandowski Artist https://www.lilylilywongwong.com/Lyles and King https://lylesandking.com/artists/lily-wongVarious Small Fires https://www.vsf.la/exhibitions/120-lily-wong-i-will-wade-out/overview/Hauser & Wirth https://www.hauserwirth.com/viewing-room/lily-wong/Kapp Kapp https://www.kappkapp.com/exhibitions/built-for-loveOffice Magazine https://officemagazine.net/lily-wong-navigates-selfJuxtapose https://www.juxtapoz.com/news/magazine/features/lily-wong-the-lightseeker/Artsy https://www.artsy.net/article/artsy-editorial-lily-wongs-cinematic-paintings-filled-suspense-longingFondazionei Magomundi https://fondazioneimagomundi.org/en/webdoc/lily-wong/Meer https://www.meer.com/en/75176-lily-wong-own-vortexArt Rabbit https://www.artrabbit.com/events/lily-wong-own-vortexArtillery Magazine https://artillerymag.com/pick-of-the-week-lily-wong/Visual Flood https://visualflood.com/post/figurative-portrait-paintings-by-lily-wongNew America Paintings https://www.newamericanpaintings.com/artists/lily-wong
Ep.180 features KAVERI RAINA (b.1990, New Delhi, India). She received an MFA from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago and a BFA from Maryland Institute College of Art. Select solo and group exhibitions include: The Big Picture (2023) Night Gallery, Los Angeles, CA; A soft place to land (2023), Museum of Contemporary Art Cleveland, Cleveland, OH; Deep! Down! Inside! (2023) Hales Gallery, New York, NY; Kaveri Raina and Coral Saucedo Lomelí: What Do You Remember About the Earth (2023), Lighthouse Works, NY; image as a burden, death as a womb (2022), Chapter NY, New York, NY; Heft (2022), PATRON, Chicago, IL; E/Merge: Art of the Indian Diaspora (2021), National Indo-American Museum, Lombard, IL; Partings, Swaying to the Moon (2020), PATRON, Chicago, IL; NO LACKS, ME AND MY SHADOW (2020), M+B Gallery, Los Angeles, CA; A Space for Monsters (2021), Twelve Gates Arts, Philadelphia, PA; Hildur Ásgeirsdóttir Jónsson and Kaveri Raina (2020), Abattoir Gallery, Cleveland, OH; Linger to Gaze (2019), Annarumma Gallery, Naples, Italy; Linger Still (2019), Assembly Room, New York, NY; Here or There (2019), Paolo Arao, Rata Projects, New York, NY; Sarah.Canright / Kaveri.Raina (2019), Permanent Collection/Co-Lab Projects, Austin, TX; spaceless (2019), Deli Gallery, Brooklyn, NY; Paint School (2019), Shandaken Projects, Klaus von Nichtssagend, New York, NY; garcia, raina, shore, tossin (2019) at Luhring Augustine, New York; Pleasure at a Distance (2018), Irvine Fine Arts Center, Irvine, CA. Raina has received several fellowships and awards including the James Nelson Raymond Fellowship, the Ox-bow Residency Award, and the Skowhegan School of Painting & Sculpture Fellowship Award.Photo credit Terrance James Jr.Patron Gallery https://patrongallery.com/artist/kaverirainaPatron Gallery "Songs of Silence yet bluebirds hum" https://patrongallery.com/exhibition/413/songs-of-silence-yet-bluebirds-humPatron Gallery "Heft" https://patrongallery.com/exhibition/323/heftCasey Kaplan Gallery https://caseykaplangallery.com/artists/kaveri-raina/Chicago Gallery News https://www.chicagogallerynews.com/events/kaveri-raina-songs-of-silence-yet-bluebirds-humMOCA Cleveland "A soft place to land" https://www.mocacleveland.org/a-soft-place-to-landNight Gallery "the big picture" https://www.nightgallery.ca/exhibitions/the-big-picture/press-releaseChapter "image as burden, death as womb" https://chapter-ny.com/exhibitions/image-as-a-burden-death-as-a-womb/Artforum Review https://www.artforum.com/events/kaveri-raina-2-250873/Lighthouse workshttps://lighthouseworks.us/exhibitions/kaveri-raina-coral-saucedo-lomeli-what-do-you-remember-about-the-earthOffice "The wistful edge of silence" https://officemagazine.net/wistful-edge-silence-kaveri-rainaNewCIty https://art.newcity.com/2020/03/16/ambiguity-of-form-a-review-of-kaveri-raina-at-patron/Maake Magazine https://www.maakemagazine.com/issue-14
Ep.179 features Basil Kincaid (b. 1986, St. Louis, Missouri) an American artist who honors and evolves traditional practices through quilting, collaging, photography, installation and performance. Implementing materials vested with emotional and memorial content, Kincaid allows these mediums to function as spiritual technology that forward various wisdoms born from Kincaid's greatest values: family, imagination, rest, and experience. Kincaid studied drawing and painting at Colorado College, graduating in 2010. Kincaid has exhibited works with Hauser & Wirth, Mindy Solomon, Kravets Wehby, Kavi Gupta, Carl Kostyal and others. In 2019, Kincaid debuted a first museum performance, “The Release,” at the Pulitzer Arts Foundation in St. Louis MO. In 2020 Kincaid received the Regional Arts Commission Fellowship. In 2021, Kincaid became a United States Artist Fellow and joined the Collection of the Smithsonian American Art Museum. In 2022, Kincaid exhibited new quilt works in both the Legacy Russell-curated show, “The New Bend” at Hauser & Wirth’s New York and Los Angeles locations, and the Ekow Eshun-curated exhibition, “New African Portraiture” at the Kunsthalle Krems in Austria. Kincaid also produced a ceremonial installation at Laumeier Sculpture Park in St. Louis, wrapping a Manuel Neri figure in a quilt entitled “Take Me Home” just days after Neri’s passing. Kincaid opened 2023 with “Dancing the Wind Walk”, a semi-permanent fabric monument during Frieze LA, with support from the Art Production Fund; before the end of the year, he will reveal a new quilt as part of “The Threads We Follow” at SECCA, North Carolina Museum of Art, and will have a solo exhibition, “Spirit in the Gift”, at the Rubell Museum, where he was the 2023 Artist in Residence. Basil Kincaid has been awarded the Great Rivers Biennial Prize and will have a solo exhibition at the Contemporary Art Museum St. Louis in Fall 2024.Photo courtesy of Basil KincaidArtist https://basilkincaid.art/Rubell Museum https://www.rubellmuseum.org/miami-exhibitions-2/2023-24-miami-2/2023-basil-kincaidKavi Gupta https://kavigupta.com/artists/76-basil-kincaid/Mindy Solomon https://mindysolomon.com/artist/basil-kincaid/Hauser Wirth https://www.hauserwirth.com/viewing-room/basil-kincaid/Carl Kostya https://kostyal.com/basil-kincaid-refraction-new-photography-of-africa-and-its-diaspora-surface-design-association/Smithsonian SAAM https://americanart.si.edu/artist/basil-kincaid-32186Artnet News https://news.artnet.com/art-world/meet-basil-kincaid-miami-beach-2402768Artnet News https://news.artnet.com/art-world/basil-kincaids-studio-visit-2323227Rockefeller Center https://www.rockefellercenter.com/magazine/arts-culture/artist-basil-kincaid-at-rockefeller-center/Art Production Fund https://www.artproductionfund.org/eventsblog/basil-kincaid-art-sundaeWhitewall https://whitewall.art/whitewaller/new-exhibitions-basil-kincaid-spirit-in-the-gift-and-more/Lensculture https://www.lensculture.com/basil-kincaidUTA https://www.unitedstatesartists.org/fellow/basil-kincaid/Cultured Magazine https://www.culturedmag.com/article/2022/09/15/2022-09-15-basil-kincaid-quilts-exhibitionThe Art Newspaper https://www.theartnewspaper.com/2023/02/16/quilt-covered-airplane-at-frieze-los-angeles-has-many-stories-to-tellFrieze https://www.frieze.com/event/now-playing-basil-kincaid-dancing-wind-walk
Ep.178 features Deborah Roberts (American, b. 1962) a mixed media artist whose work challenges the notion of ideal beauty. Her work has been exhibited internationally across the USA and Europe. Roberts' work is in the collections of the Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, New York; Brooklyn Museum, New York, New York; The Studio Museum in Harlem, New York, New York; LACMA, Los Angeles, California; the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, Richmond, Virginia, Guggenheim Museum, New York, New York, and the Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth, Fort Worth, Texas, among several other institutions. She was selected to participate in the Robert Rauschenberg Residency (2019) and was a finalist for the 2019 Outwin Boochever Portrait Competition, as well as the recipient of the Anonymous Was A Woman Grant (2018), and the Pollock-Krasner Foundation Grant (2016). Texas Metal of Arts Award (2023) Roberts received her MFA from Syracuse University, New York. She lives and works in Austin, Texas. Roberts is represented by Stephen Friedman Gallery, London and Susanne Vielmetter Los Angeles Projects, CA.Photo by Moyo OyelolaArtist https://www.deborahrobertsart.com/Current Book https://www.radiusbooks.org/all-books/p/deborah-roberts-twenty-years-of-art-workStephen Friedman Gallery https://www.stephenfriedman.com/artists/51-deborah-roberts/Vielmetter https://vielmetter.com/artists/deborah-roberts/The Contemporary Austin https://thecontemporaryaustin.org/exhibitions/deborah-roberts/MCA Denver https://mcadenver.org/exhibitions/deborah-robertsGalerie Mitterrand https://galeriemitterrand.com/en/exhibitions/189-deborah-roberts-niki-de-saint-phalle-the-conversation-continues/Culture Type https://www.culturetype.com/2023/10/16/on-view-deborah-roberts-is-presenting-mixed-media-collages-that-consider-black-boyhood-at-site-santa-fe/The Guardian https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/2023/feb/06/black-kids-collage-legend-deborah-roberts-tyre-nicholsEssence https://www.essence.com/art/deborah-roberts-artist/University of Texas https://www.galleriesatut.org/gallery-showings/blog-post-title-one-nh7cz-ph2z8-efkhg-6gsdp-f2emz-r4g45-djdhw-28dfc-74hc7-x8z3h-jd46nAmpersand Art https://ampersandart.com/blog-full-article/featured-artist-deborah-roberts27East https://www.27east.com/arts/artist-talk-with-deborah-roberts-2175350/Artnews https://www.artnews.com/art-in-america/features/deborah-roberts-collage-defiance-black-children-1234591645/Vogue https://www.vogue.com/article/deborah-roberts-artistTexas Monthly https://www.texasmonthly.com/arts-entertainment/deborah-roberts-has-exhibited-art-worldwide-she-hasnt-had-a-solo-museum-show-in-her-hometown-until-now/Artnet News https://news.artnet.com/news/anti-trump-art-us-elections-1918311Harpers Bazaar https://www.harpersbazaar.com/uk/culture/bazaar-art/a34244410/bazaar-art-covers-2020/Wikipediahttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deborah_Roberts_(visual_artist)Sightline shttps://sightlinesmag.org/seeing-and-being-seen-in-a-solo-museum-deborah-roberts-asks-us-to-look
Ep.177 features gallerist Kendra Jayne Patrick. Her art gallery operates between Switzerland and the USA. Its programming is focused on the twenty-first century avant-garde, specializing in sculpture, painting, digital, and photography from a post-conceptual and post-internet posture.The program operates from a brick-and-mortar location in Bern, Switzerland and then spare spaces within established New York art galleries; art fairs; and unusual exhibition sites. Adventure, scholarship, and the pleasure of looking govern the gallery’s programming and ethos, and all are reflected in its fluid exhibition model.Kendra Jayne Patrick artists and exhibitions have been featured in The New York Times, Vice’s GARAGE magazine, Artsy, Vulture, Artnet, ARTnews, Barron’s, the San Francisco Chronicle, and DAZED Magazine, Art in America, Cultured, The Guardian, Gallery Talk magazine, PHILE Magazine, Document Journal, Office Magazine, The Art Newspaper, and The New Yorker.Kendra Jayne Patrick artists are represented in collections at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY; The Museum of Fine Arts Houston, Houston, TX; The Studio Museum in Harlem, New York, NY; The Dallas Museum of Art, The National Museum of African American History and Culture, Washington, DC.Photo credit: Ernst Fischer Kendra Jayne Patrick https://gallerykendrajaynepatrick.com/Art Basel https://www.artbasel.com/catalog/gallery/30253/Kendra-Jayne-Patrick https://www.artbasel.com/stories/lambdalambdalambda-kendra-jayne-patrick-hua-international-young-galleries?lang=enNY Times https://www.nytimes.com/2021/12/04/arts/design/art-basel-miami-diversity.html https://www.nytimes.com/2023/09/27/t-magazine/starting-galleries-art-dealers.htmlCultured Magazine https://www.culturedmag.com/article/2023/06/12/art-basel-dealers-debutArt Forum https://www.artforum.com/news/art-basel-miami-beach-reveals-2023-exhibitors-list-252980/Art Newspaper https://www.theartnewspaper.com/2023/02/23/galleries-making-their-art-basel-debuts-this-yearand-what-theyre-bringingArt Dependence Magazine https://artdependence.com/articles/what-to-expect-at-art-basels-2023-edition-in-switzerland/Artnet https://news.artnet.com/news-pro/where-art-basel-headed-recession-2318140EXPO Chicago https://www.expochicago.com/exhibitors/exposure/2023-exposureYard Concept https://www.yard-concept.com/journal/kendra-jayne-patrickVice https://garage.vice.com/en_us/article/4ad37p/kendra-jayne-patricks-seating-chart-for-a-fall-dinner-party-in-a-pandemicHalsey McKay https://www.halseymckay.com/kendra-jayne-patrick-presents-david-jeremiah-play-press-releaseGallery Girls https://gallerygurls.net/art-convos/2021/7/18/art-convo-with-kendra-jayne-patrickNADA https://www.newartdealers.org/programs/nada-miami-2020/presentations/75Ada Friedman https://www.adafriedmanstudio.com/recent-exhibitions/kendra-jayne-patrick--fall-2022LinkedIn https://www.linkedin.com/in/kendra-jayne-patrick-247001180/Glasstire https://glasstire.com/2023/07/27/top-five-july-27-2023/
Ep.176 Gisela McDaniel is a diasporic, Indigenous Chamorro artist who explores the effects of trauma, displacement and colonisation through portraiture and oral histories. Interweaving audio interviews, assemblage and oil painting, she intentionally incorporates the portrait sitters' voices in order to subvert the traditional power relations of artist and sitter. Working primarily with women and non-binary people who identify as Black, Micronesian, Indigenous to Turtle Island, Asian, Latinx, and/or mixed-race, her work disrupts and responds to the systemic silencing of subjects in fine art, politics and popular culture.McDaniel received her BFA from the University of Michigan in 2019.Recent solo and group shows include: The inescapable interweaving of all lives, Kunsthalle Düsseldorf, Düsseldorf (2023); Tender Loving Care, Museum of Fine Arts Boston, Boston (2023); Thinking of You, FLAG Art Foundation, New York (2023); Manhaga Fu’una, Pilar Corrias, London (2022); A Place for Me: Figurative Painting Now, ICA Boston (2022); The Regional, Kemper Museum of Contemporary Art, Kansas City (2022); Sakkan Eku LA, The Mistake Room, Los Angeles (2021); How Do We Know the World?, Baltimore Museum of Art, Baltimore (2021); The Regional, CAC Contemporary Art Centre Cincinnati (2021); Dual Vision, MOCAD (2021); Making WAY/FARING Well, Pilar Corrias, London (2020); Dhaka Art Summit, Dhaka, Bangladesh (2020); On the Road II, Oolite Arts, Miami (2019); Save Art Space, Playground Detroit, Detroit (2019); Lush P(r)ose, Playground Detroit, Detroit (2019); Virago, Detroit Art Babes Collective, Detroit (2019) and Theotokos: New Visions of the Mother God, The Schvitz, Detroit (2018). Photo Credit: Gisela McDaniel in her studio, 2023, Photo by Rachel Stern. Courtesy the artist and Pilar Corrias, London Artist https://www.giselamcdaniel.com/Pilar Corrias https://www.pilarcorrias.com/artists/53-gisela-mcdaniel/Perez Art Museum Miami https://www.pamm.org/en/artwork/2020.216/MFA Boston https://www.mfa.org/article/2022/tiningo-si-sirena-a-conversation-with-gisela-charfauros-mcdaniel-and-antoinettei.D Vice https://i-d.vice.com/en/article/akvywb/gisela-mcdaniel-art-interviewElephant https://elephant.art/gisela-mcdaniel-gauguins-paintings-of-pacific-islanders-felt-like-theft-to-me-18022022/Artnet https://news.artnet.com/art-world/chamorro-painter-gisela-mcdaniel-interview-2064002Playground Detroit https://playgrounddetroit.com/portfolio/gisela-mcdaniel/Galleries Now https://www.galleriesnow.net/shows/gisela-mcdaniel-manhaga-fuuna/Washington Informer https://www.washingtoninformer.com/armory-week-contemporary-art-dc/Wikipedia https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gisela_McDanielKresge Arts in Detroit https://kresgeartsindetroit.org/artist/gisela-mcdaniel/Kadist https://kadist.org/people/gisela-mcdaniel/She Curates https://www.she-curates.com/interviews/artists/gisela-mcdaniel/Metro West https://metrowestcle.org/community-art/Guam Pacific Daily News https://www.guampdn.com/lifestyle/gisela-mcdaniels-portraits-of-chamoru-diaspora-shown-in-london-gallery/article_c149e9ac-8e05-11ec-8f91-333179b3d301.htmlThe Hopper News https://hopperprize.org/gisela-mcdaniel/Seen https://www.seenthemagazine.com/culture/arts_entertainment/the-power-of-a-paintbrush-gisela-mcdaniel-transforms-trauma-into-art/article_c071f946-0477-5e8a-a116-6e6adc2605cf.html
Ep 175~ The paintings of Calida Rawles (b. 1976, Wilmington, DE; lives and works in Los Angeles, CA) merge hyper-realism with poetic abstraction. Situating her subjects in dynamic spaces, her recent work employs water as a vital, organic, multifaceted material, and historically charged space. Ranging from buoyant and ebullient to submerged and mysterious, Black bodies float in exquisitely rendered submarine landscapes of bubbles, ripples, refracted light and expanses of blue. For Rawles, water signifies both physical and spiritual healing as well as historical trauma and racial exclusion. She uses this complicated duality as a means to envision a new space for Black healing, and to reimagine her subjects beyond racialized tropes. Enhancing the seductive nature of water, the work tempers heavier subjects with aquatic serenity and geographic and temporal ambiguities, inviting multiple readings. Embedded in her titles and topographical notations in the compositions, Rawles’ canvases represent an expansive vision of strength and tranquility during today’s turbulent times, while insisting on the triumph of humanity.Rawles received a B.A. from Spelman College, Atlanta, GA (1998) and an M.A. from New York University, New York, NY (2000). Solo exhibitions of her work have been organized at Lehmann Maupin, New York, NY (2021); Various Small Fires, Los Angeles, CA (2020); and Standard Vision, Los Angeles, CA (2020). Her work has been featured in numerous group exhibitions including Generation*. Jugend trotz(t) Krise, Kunsthalle Bremen, Bremen, Germany (2023); Rose in the Concrete, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco, CA (2023); 12th Berlin Biennale for Contemporary Art, Berlin, Germany (2022); Black American Portraits, Los Angeles County Museum of Art (LACMA), Los Angeles, CA (2021), Spelman College Museum of Fine Art, Atlanta, GA (2023); A Shared Body, FSU Museum of Fine Arts, Tallahassee, FL (2021); View From Here, Los Angeles County Museum of Art (LACMA), Los Angeles, CA (2020); Art Finds a Way, Norton Museum of Art, West Palm Beach, FL (2020); Visions in Light, Windows on the Wallis, Beverly Hills, CA (2020); Presence, Fullerton College Art Gallery, Fullerton, CA (2019); With Liberty and Justice for Some, Walter Maciel Gallery, Los Angeles, CA (2017); Sanctuary City: With Liberty and Justice for Some, San Francisco Arts Commission, San Francisco, CA (2017); LACMA Inglewood + Film Lab, Inglewood, CA (2014); and Living off Experience, Rush Arts Gallery, New York, NY (2002). Rawles created the cover art for Ta-Nehisi Coates’s debut novel, “The Water Dancer,” and her work is in numerous public and private collections, including Dallas Museum of Art, Dallas, TX; Los Angeles County Museum of Art (LACMA), Los Angeles, CA; Pérez Art Museum Miami, Miami, FL; Spelman College Museum of Fine Art, Atlanta, GA; and Studio Museum in Harlem, New York, NY.Photo credit: Marten ElderArtist https://www.lehmannmaupin.com/artists/calida-rawles/featured-worksLehmann Maupin https://www.lehmannmaupin.com/exhibitions/calida-rawles2Various Small Fires https://www.vsf.la/exhibitions/35-calida-rawles-a-dream-for-my-lilith/overview/Cultured Magazine https://www.culturedmag.com/article/2023/02/08/calida-rawles-painter-spelman-college-black-portraiture-exhibitionGagosian https://gagosian.com/quarterly/contributors/calida-rawles/NYTimes https://www.nytimes.com/2021/04/09/t-magazine/calida-rawles-portrait.htmlThe Cut https://www.thecut.com/2020/03/the-artist-whose-paintings-have-captivated-ta-nehisi-coates.htmlThe Art Newspaper https://www.theartnewspaper.com/2022/02/19/calida-rawless-mural-makes-waves-at-new-inglewood-stadiumThis is Colossal https://www.thisiscolossal.com/2023/11/calida-rawles-a-certain-oblivion/ARTnews https://www.artnews.com/art-news/artists/calida-rawles-water-paintings-lehmann-maupin-1234584059/
Ep.174 Yvette Mayorga is a multidisciplinary artist based in Chicago, Illinois. Her work links feminized labor and the aesthetics of celebration to colonial art history and racialized oppression through the guise of using pink as a weapon of mass destruction. Mayorga holds an MFA in Fiber and Material Studies from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago.Mayorga’s first solo museum exhibition What a Time to be at the Momentary, Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art, is on view through October 2023. Mayorga’s first East Coast solo museum exhibition Dreaming of You at The Aldrich Contemporary Art Museum, is on view through March 2024. Her work has been exhibited at the Museum of Art and Design, New York, NY; Vincent Price Art Museum, Monterey Park, CA; El Museo del Barrio, the Center for Craft, Asheville, NC; Museo Universitario del Chopo, Mexico City, MX; and Los Angeles Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, CA. Currently, Mayorga is working on a large-scale installation for the City of Chicago’s permanent public art collection at O’Hare International Airport’s Terminal 5.Mayorga has been featured in Artforum, Artnet, Art in America, Art News, Cultured Magazine, DAZED, Galerie Magazine, Hyperallergic, Latina Magazine, Teen Vogue, The Guardian, The New York Times, Vogue, W Magazine, and Women’s Wear Daily. Her works are in the permanent collections of 21c Museum Hotels, Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art, DePaul Art Museum, El Museo del Barrio, John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation, Museum of Fine Arts Boston, and New Mexico State University Art Museum.Photo credit : Kevin PenczakArtist https://www.yvettemayorga.com/The Aldrich https://thealdrich.org/exhibitions/yvette-mayorga-dreaming-of-youMAZ https://maz.zapopan.gob.mx/sala-abierta-20/Hyperallergic https://hyperallergic.com/790993/decolonizing-rococo-yvette-mayorga/Latinx Project https://www.latinxproject.nyu.edu/intervenxions/in-her-bag-yvette-mayorgas-first-solo-museum-exhibition-what-a-time-to-be-is-a-declaration-of-latina-artist-autonomyW Magazine https://www.wmagazine.com/culture/yvette-mayorga-interview-artistCultured Mag https://www.culturedmag.com/article/2023/09/07/women-artist-exhibitions-new-york-armoryVogue https://www.vogue.com/article/must-see-american-art-exhibitions-fall-2023Art For Change https://artforchange.com/collections/yvette-mayorgaThe Momentary https://themomentary.org/calendar/yvette-mayorga-what-a-time-to-be/Invisible Culture Journal https://www.invisibleculturejournal.com/pub/yvettemayorga/release/1Fondazione Imago Mundi https://fondazioneimagomundi.org/en/webdoc/yvette_mayorga/SAIC https://www.saic.edu/news/alum-yvette-mayorga-highlighted-in-wwdUniversity of Illinois https://art.illinois.edu/about-us/news/alumna-yvette-mayorga-feature-in-vogue/Chicago Gallery News https://www.chicagogallerynews.com/events/the-politics-of-desire-yvette-mayorgaDavid b Smith Gallery https://www.davidbsmithgallery.com/cn/artists/65-yvette-mayorga/works/4182-yvette-mayorga-smile-now-from-the-vase-of-the-century-2023/Geary https://geary.nyc/yvette-mayorga3Arts https://3arts.org/artist/Yvette-Mayorga/Hyde Park Art https://www.hydeparkart.org/directory/yvette-mayorga/
Ep.173 features Austrian-born and based in Los Angeles where she relocated in 2017, Katherina Olschbaur (b. 1983) was emboldened by her move to push the boundaries in the tenuous relationship between representation and abstraction, creating the distinct viewpoint in her painting practice for which she is recognized. She graduated from the University of Applied Arts, Vienna, Austria. Recent exhibitions include Sirens, Dangxia, Beijing (solo);Midnight Spill, Perrotin, Hong Kong (2023, solo); Somatic Markings, Kasmin, NewYork (2022); Prayers, Divinations, Nicodim, New York (2022, solo); Dak'Art:African Contemporary Art Biennale, Dakar (2022); Live Flesh, Nicodim, Los Angeles (2021–2022, solo); Dominique Fung and Katherina Olschbaur: My Kingdom and a Horse, Galeria Nicodim, Bucharest (2021, two-artist); Night Blessings, Union Pacific, London (2021, solo), Tortured Ecstasies, Nicodim Upstairs, Los Angeles(2020, solo); Dirty Elements, Contemporary Arts Center Gallery, UC Irvine, Irvine (2020, solo); Hollywood Babylon: A Re-inauguration of the Pleasure Dome, Jeffrey Deitch, Nicodim, AUTRE Magazine, Los Angeles (2020); The Divine Hermaphrodite, GNYP Gallery, Berlin (2019, solo); and Horses, Nicodim, Los Angeles (2018, solo). In 2021, she was selected for the second year of Kehinde Wiley’s Black Rock residency in Dakar, Senegal. Portrait image courtesy of Georgianna Chang Artist http://www.katherinaolschbaur.com/Nicodim https://www.nicodimgallery.com/artists/katherina-olschbaurPerrotin https://leaflet.perrotin.com/view/464/midnight-spillDangixia https://dangxia.artPerrotin film https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rjgt0n9j0cgBazaar https://mp.weixin.qq.com/s/A-rasX0j8q0Zuy7U3VFiIwW Magazine https://mp.weixin.qq.com/s/MM2ak-JZTnFvuGGpU-USSAWhitehot Magazine https://whitehotmagazine.com/articles/live-flesh-at-nicodim-gallery/5272Blackrock Senegal https://blackrocksenegal.org/katherina-olschbaur-2/Repaint History https://repainthistory.com/blogs/artists/katherina-olshbaurContemporary Art Friday https://contemporaryaf.com/katherina-olschbaur/
Ep.172 features Leslie Smith. He lives and works in Madison, Wisconsin. | He was a 2022 Joan Mitchell Foundation Fellow and earned a BFA at the Maryland Institute College of Art and an MFA at the Yale School of Art. | Smith’s interests lie in our conscious effort to alter personal perception. | Recent works explore Abstraction’s inherent personal and political properties as they relate to broadening notions of Black representation, with a mindset that it’s possible to present a new interpretation of contemporary abstraction. His work can be found in the permanent collections of the High Museum of Art, Atlanta; the Virginia Museum of Fine Art, Richmond; the Birmingham Museum of Art; the Abroms-Engel Institute for the Visual Arts, Birmingham; and the FRAC Auvergne, France. Smith is a Full Professor of Painting and Drawing at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. Photo by Jim EscalanteArtist http://www.lesliesmith3.com/Chart Gallery https://chart-gallery.com/exhibitions/49-leslie-smith-iii-reaching-for-something-high/Joan Mitchell 2022 https://www.joanmitchellfoundation.org/leslie-smith-iiiJoan Mitchell 2023 https://www.joanmitchellfoundation.org/journal/in-the-studio-leslie-smith-iiiUniversity Wisconsin–Madison https://art.wisc.edu/2022/09/23/leslie-smith-iii-wins-joan-mitchell-fellowship/Two Coats of Paint https://twocoatsofpaint.com/2023/10/leslie-smith-iii-poignantly-off-balance.htmlMaus Contemporary https://mauscontemporary.com/artists/leslie-smith-iii/Art Daily https://artdaily.com/news/162053/-Leslie-Smith-III--Reaching-for-Something-High--solo-exhibition-opening-at-CHART-Art New City https://art.newcity.com/2021/01/08/abstracting-lived-experience-a-review-of-leslie-smith-iii-at-hawthorn-contemporary/M+B Photo https://www.mbphoto.com/artworks/17654/Wide Walls https://www.widewalls.ch/maus-contemporary-expo-chicago-2019-leslie-smith-iii-interview/Wikipedia https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leslie_Smith_III
Ep.171 features Demetrius Wilson. His work stems from a place of personal biography and collectively shared experience. Finding both moments of stillness and activity, his work constantly adapts while it moves through pockets of the whole. Flirting with the idea of location, there is a feeling of impermanence and abstraction in Wilson’s paintings, while the colors tell stories of figures and landscapes that have yet to be concretized or revealed. Wilson describes his paintings as working through a process of displacement and is interested in how time can be handled. His paintings do not take on the task of blending time, specifically past and present, but rather distort it so as to challenge one's visual field and comprehensive capacity to identify breaks in time. Adaptation is therefore a major theme in the artist’s current body of work. Specifically, Wilson adapts through the linguistic and interpretative relationships set up by color. Color alludes to persons, but also other things, other contexts like the environment itself. Demetrius Wilson (B.1996, Boston) currently lives and works in New York City. Wilson is also currently completing his MFA at Hunter College, ’24. Photo Credits: Demetrius Wilson StudioT293 https://www.t293.it/studiovisit/from-the-studio-demetrius-wilson/?fbclid=PAAaZgZP5_Cl_jx-vYZMERBAhs_X0jVNr_nf6_ba3k8BVyqzBgKtdTVgx-e88Hunter College https://www.huntermfastudio.org/student/demetrius-wilsonBODE https://bode.gallery/blog/50-in-conversation-with-demetrius-wilson-episode-21/Taymour Rahne https://taymourgrahne.com/exhibitions/demetrius-wilson-curated-by-bill-powersSite: Brooklyn Gallery https://www.sitebrooklyn.com/contemporary-colorGalleries Now https://www.galleriesnow.net/shows/demetrius-wilson-its-not-love-but-its-glam/Jonathan Ferrara gallery https://www.jonathanferraragallery.com/exhibitions/26th-annual-no-dead-artists/selected-works?view=sliderLinkedIn https://www.linkedin.com/in/demetrius-wilson/Art Facts https://artfacts.net/exhibition/demetrius-wilson/1116806
Ep.170 MAREN HASSINGER (b. 1947) has built an interdisciplinary practice that articulates the relationship between nature and humanity. Carefully choosing materials for their innate characteristics, Hassinger has explored the subject of movement, family, love, nature, environment, consumerism, identity, and race. The artist uses her materials to mimic nature, whether bundling it to resemble a monolithic sheaf of wheat or planting it in cement to create an industrial garden. Within the past five years, the artist has executed commissions for Dia Bridgehampton, Socrates Sculpture Park, the Hirshhorn Museum, and the Aspen Art Museum. Work is currently installed on the terrace of the Art Institute of Chicago, along the Schuylkill River in Philadelphia, at Longhouse Reserve in East Hampton, and in Ugo Rondinone's Sculpture Milwaukee. Hassinger will be included in the upcoming exhibition Groundswell: Women of Land Art at the Nasher Sculpture Center, Dallas and will be honored with an upcoming two-person survey alongside Senga Nengudi at IVAM, Valencia as well as an exhibition focused on their work in performance at the Cooley Gallery, Reed College, Portland, OR. She is the recipient of the Women’s Caucus for the Arts Lifetime Achievement Award. Her work can be found at the Art Institute of Chicago; the Hirshhorn Museum; the Los Angeles County Museum of Art; the Museum of Modern Art, NYC; the San Francisco Museum of Art; the Walker Art Center, and the Whitney Museum, among others. Photo credit ~ Museum Associates/LACMA Susan Inglett Gallery https://www.inglettgallery.com/artists/255-maren-hassinger/overview/Smithsonian | Hirshhorn Museum https://hirshhorn.si.edu/explore/maren-hassinger-hirshhorn-artist-diaries/Getty https://www.getty.edu/news/getty-acquires-maren-hassinger-archive/Dia Art https://www.diaart.org/exhibition/exhibitions-projects/maren-hassinger-exhibition-301LongHouse Reserve https://longhouse.org/products/artist-maren-hassingerMICA https://www.mica.edu/graduate-programs/rinehart-school-of-sculpture-mfa/maren-hassinger/Inquirer https://www.inquirer.com/arts/schuylkill-river-public-art-steel-bodies-philadelphia-20230623.htmlBrooklyn Rail https://brooklynrail.org/events/2023/06/02/maren-hassinger-process/Culture Type https://www.culturetype.com/2023/09/05/latest-news-in-black-art-sonia-boyce-now-represented-by-hauser-wirth-getty-acquires-maren-hassinger-archive-tomashi-jackson-wins-rappaport-prize-more/The Grio https://thegrio.com/2023/09/08/getty-acquires-archive-of-renowned-artist-maren-hassinger/Sculpture Milwaukee https://www.sculpturemilwaukee.com/nature-doesnt-know-about-us/maren-hassingerMCAD https://www.mcad.edu/events/visiting-artist-lecture-maren-hassingerArt Pil https://artpil.com/announcements/maren-hassinger-process/MICA https://www.mica.edu/graduate-programs/rinehart-school-of-sculpture-mfa/maren-hassinger/Wikipedia https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maren_HassingerMoMA https://www.moma.org/artists/41280Hammer https://hammer.ucla.edu/now-dig-this/artists/maren-hassingerSocrates Sculpture Park https://socratessculpturepark.org/artist/maren-hassinger/Artic https://www.artic.edu/exhibitions/10139/maren-hassinger-this-is-how-we-growAssociation For Public Art https://www.associationforpublicart.org/apa-now/news/the-association-for-public-art-brings-maren-hassingers-steel-bodies-to-philadelphia/The Great Northern Festival https://thegreatnorthernfestival.com/2023/maren-hassinger-love-for-minneapolisThe Art Newspaper https://www.theartnewspaper.com/2023/08/30/maren-hassinger-archive-acquired-getty-research-instituteBeverly Press https://beverlypress.com/2023/09/hassinger-works-added-to-getty-archive/
Ep.169 features Alexis McGrigg, a contemporary artist who examines themes of Blackness, space, spirituality, identity, and collective consciousness. Her artwork utilizes the mediums of painting, drawing, and interdisciplinary media to explore the multiplicity of Blackness through figurative abstraction and conceptual narratives. She integrates poetry, sound, and performance in her arts practice and research.Her artwork is included in several private collections and has been featured in exhibitions across the U.S. and internationally in New York, NY, Chicago, IL, Miami, FL, New Orleans, LA, and Oakland, CA – most recently in her solo exhibitions In The Beloved at Almine Rech Gallery, Brussels, Belgium, The Labour of Being at Almine Rech Gallery, Paris, France, and The Ether - Journey In Between at Richard Beavers Gallery, NYC; group exhibitions, SAY IT LOUD at Christie’s Auction House, Salon de Peinture at Almine Rech, NY, and LIGHT at the Czong Institute for Contemporary Art (CICA) in South Korea.Alexis earned her Bachelor of Fine Art in Painting from Mississippi State University in 2012 and a Master of Fine Art with a concentration in Painting and Transmedia from Texas Tech University in 2017.Photo Credit~ Trenton SteeleArtist https://www.alexismcgrigg.com/Almine Rech https://www.alminerech.com/artists/352-alexis-mcgriggSouth Arts https://www.southarts.org/grant-fellowship-recipients/alexis-mcgrigg-2023Ohr-O’Keefe Museum of Art https://georgeohr.org/david-houston-on-southern-fellow-recipients-in-honor-of-wim-roefs/South Carolina Arts Commission https://www.scartshub.com/upstate-sculpture-artist-recognized-with-south-arts-state-fellowship/Vanity Fair https://www.vanityfair.com/london/2021/05/june-sarpong-on-the-power-of-black-art and-visual-storytellingMississippi Public Broadcasting http://msartshour.mpbonline.org/episodes/the-mississippi-arts-hour-alexis-mcgriggArtnet https://news.artnet.com/market/say-loud-show-christies-1901685The Art Newspaper https://www.theartnewspaper.com/news/christie-s-say-it-loud-exhibitionCulture Type https://www.culturetype.com/2020/08/04/say-it-loud-curator-destinee-ross-sutton-partnered-with-christies-to-help-emerging-artists-showcase-and-sell-their-work/Artnet https://www.artnet.com/galleries/almine-rech-galerie/alexis-mcgrigg-in-the-belovedMississippi Arts Hour https://arts.ms.gov/events/mississippi-arts-hour-alexis-mcgrigg/alexis-mcgrigg-web-arts-hour/Widewalls https://www.widewalls.ch/events/almine-rech-paris-alexis-mcgrigg-in-the-beloved-2023-01-19
Ep. 168 features Chase Hall’s (b. 1993, St. Paul, Minnesota). His paintings and sculptures respond to generational celebrations and traumas encoded throughout American history. Responding to a variety of social and visual systems, each of which intersects with complex trajectories of race, hybridity, economics, and personal agency, Hall generates images whose materiality is as crucial to their compositional makeup as their indelible approach to representation. A central body of paintings, made with drip-brew techniques derived from coffee beans and acrylic pigments on cotton supports, is notable for both its conceptual scope and its intimacy. The use of brewed coffee carries powerful symbolic weight since it evokes centuries-old geopolitical systems associated with the commodification of a plant native to Africa, but in Hall’s hands, it also becomes a means of achieving subtle visual textures, a range of brown skin tones, and a mark-making vocabulary precipitated on the closeness of touch. Above all, however, it is his improvisational willingness to immerse himself in the indefinable personal hieroglyphics of each picture that gives his work its resonance and impact.Chase Hall was the subject of a solo exhibition at the SCAD Museum of Art, Savannah, Georgia in 2023. In 2022, Hall was commissioned by the Metropolitan Opera to produce a large-scale artwork, the monumental diptych Medea Act I & II, for its opera house in New York, on view through June 2023. Hall has been included in group exhibitions including Together in Time: Selections from the Hammer Contemporary Collection, Hammer Museum (2023), Los Angeles; Black American Portraits, Los Angeles County Museum of Art (2021); Young, Gifted and Black: The Lumpkin-Boccuzzi Family Collection of Contemporary Art, University of Illinois Chicago (2021); and This Is America | Art USA Today, Kunsthal KAdE, Amersfoort, the Netherlands. Hall has been an artist-in-residence at The Mountain School of Arts, Los Angeles; Massachusetts Museum of Contemporary Art (MASS MoCA), North Adams, Massachusetts; and Skowhegan School for Painting and Sculpture, Maine. Hall’s work is in the permanent collections of institutions including the Los Angeles County Museum of Art; Dallas Museum of Art; Institute of Contemporary Art, Miami; Fondation Louis Vuitton, Paris; Baltimore Museum of Art; Brooklyn Museum, New York; Hammer Museum, Los Angeles; High Museum of Art, Atlanta; Montreal Museum of Fine Arts; Walker Art Center, Minneapolis; The Studio Museum in Harlem, New York; and Whitney Museum of American Art, New York. Hall lives and works in New York.Artist https://chasehallstudio.com/David Kordansky Gallery https://www.davidkordanskygallery.com/exhibitions/chase-hall2Pace Prints https://paceprints.com/2023/chase-hall-melanoidinGalerie Eva Presenhuber https://www.presenhuber.com/selected-public-exhibitions/chase-hall#tab:slideshowAspen Art Museum https://www.aspenartmuseum.org/artcrush/live-auction/chase-hallMet Opera https://www.metopera.org/visit/exhibitions/current-exhibition/Whitney Museum of Art https://whitney.org/artists/20278Document Journal https://www.documentjournal.com/2023/03/chase-hall-the-close-of-the-day-scad-moa-art-exhibition-painting-black-culture-savannah-american-south/New York Times https://www.nytimes.com/2022/06/02/arts/television/the-wire-20th-anniversary.htmlNew York Times Opinion https://www.nytimes.com/2021/04/16/opinion/sunday/george-floyd-daunte-wright-minnesota.htmlNew York Magazine https://nymag.com/author/chase-hall/Cultured Mag https://www.culturedmag.com/article/2023/06/20/painter-chase-hall-met-operaThe Art Newspaper https://www.theartnewspaper.com/2023/07/13/curator-playing-matchmaker-emerging-artists-aspen-collectorsHollywood Reporter https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/lifestyle/arts/frieze-week-2023-artists-shows-los-angeles-1235325588/
Ep.167 features Ayana V. Jackson, (b. 1977 in East Orange, New Jersey; lives and works between Brooklyn, NY and Johannesburg, South Africa) she uses archival impulses to assess the impact of the colonial gaze on the history of photography. By using her lens to deconstruct 19th and early 20th century portraiture, Jackson questions photography’s authenticity and role in perpetuating socially relevant and stratified identities.
Jackson’s practice maps the ethical considerations and relationships between the photographer, subject, and viewer, in turn exploring themes around race, gender and reproduction. Her work examines myths of the Black diaspora and re-stages colonial archival images as a means to liberate the Black body. The various titles of her series nod to the stories she is reimagining. Jackson often casts herself in the role of historical figures to guide their narrative and directly access the impact of photography and its relationship to the human body.
Jackson’s work is collected by major local and international institutions including The Studio Museum in Harlem (New York, New York), The Newark Museum (Newark, New Jersey), J. P. Morgan Chase Art Collection (New York, New York), Princeton University Art Museum (Princeton, New Jersey), The National Gallery of Victoria (Melbourne, Australia), The Museum of Contemporary Photography (Chicago, Illinois) and the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation (Seattle, Washington). Jackson was a 2014 New York Foundation for the Arts Fellow for Photography and the recipient of the 2018 Smithsonian Fellowship.
In 2022, Jackson founded Still Art, an artist residency program focused on emerging Southern African contemporary artists of all disciplines in Johannesburg. In April 2023, Jackson opened her first major institutional exhibition at the National Museum of African Art - Smithsonian Institution.
Photographed by Andile Buka. Courtesy of Mariane Ibrahim
Artist https://www.ayanavjackson.com/ Mariane Ibrahim Gallery https://marianeibrahim.com/artists/27-ayana-v.-jackson/works/ Smithsonian https://www.si.edu/newsdesk/releases/deep-wake-drexciya-ayana-v-jackson-opens-april-29-national-museum-african-art Smithsonian Magazine https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smithsonian-institution/meet-the-inhabitants-of-the-mythic-world-of-drexciya-180982287/ Washington Post https://www.washingtonpost.com/arts-entertainment/2023/05/17/national-museum-of-african-art-from-the-deep/ Andy Warhol Foundation https://warholfoundation.org/grants/archive/from-the-deep-in-the-wake-of-drexciya-with-anyana-v-jackson/ The Guardian https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/2023/may/09/from-the-deep-drexciva-smithsonian-washington Bomb Magazine https://bombmagazine.org/articles/a-conversation-between-ayana-v-jackson-and-brad-fox/ Art News Africa https://artnewsafrica.com/from-the-deep-ayana-v-jacksons-immersive-aquatopia-exhibition-honors-survivors-and-envisions-a-resilient-future/ The Art Newspaper https://www.theartnewspaper.com/2023/05/09/smithsonian-national-museum-african-art-ngaire-blankenberg-resigned Elephant https://elephant.art/double-encounter-john-akomfrah-and-ayana-v-jackson-interview-each-other-10082022/ Ocula https://ocula.com/magazine/art-news/fnb-art-joburg-partners-with-smithsonian/ Katherine E. Nash Gallery https://cla.umn.edu/art/news-events/news/picture-gallery-soul Aspire https://www.aspireart.net/auction/lot/76-ayana-vellissia-jackson-united-states-of-america-1977-/?lot=11964&sd=1 Montclair Art Museum https://www.montclairartmuseum.org/Charting-Path Georgetowner https://georgetowner.com/articles/2023/05/18/from-the-deep-afrofuturistic-aquatopia-at-national-museum-of-african-art/ DJ Mag https://djmag.com/news/drexciya-inspired-immersive-exhibition-deep-opens-washington-dc NGV https://www.ngv.vic.gov.au/ayana-v-jackson-intimate-justice-in-the-stolen-moment/ Resident Advisor https://ra.co/news/79053 FashionEVO https://fashionevo.style/tag/ayana-v-jackson/
Ep.166 features Lari Pittman. Over the course of his decades-long career, Lari Pittman (b. 1952, Los Angeles, CA, lives and works in Los Angeles, CA) has developed a unique visual aesthetic that has established him as one of the most significant painters of his generation. Pittman’s signature, densely-layered painting style includes a lexicon of signs and symbols (such as bells, eggs, animals, and ropes), a compilation of varied painting techniques, and a clear homage to the handmade, craft, and the decorative. Pittman creates complex compositions that mediate the tension between color, text, and imagery; landscape and decoration; and chaos and order with remarkable dexterity and often on a large scale, and the artist has an innate ability to create compositions in which each element within a painting is given equal space and significance. In the mid-1970s, Pittman attended California Institute of the Arts in Valencia, California, completing a B.F.A. and an M.F.A. The Institute’s strong feminist arts program challenged the devaluation of art forms traditionally associated with women, and it was partially as a result of his engagement with this program that Pittman developed an interest in undermining aesthetic hierarchies and embracing the decorative arts. Pittman’s strong affinity for the decorative can be seen throughout his numerous bodies of work, and it has contributed to his singular visual style. While Pittman’s early works were informed by the socio-political struggle resulting from the peak of the AIDS epidemic, racial discord, and LGBTQ+ civil rights struggles that defined the last two decades of the 20th century, his later paintings evince a shift in focus towards interior spaces, including domestic and psychological subjects. Solo exhibitions of his work have been organized at Museo Jumex, Mexico City, Mexico (2022); Hammer Museum, Los Angeles, CA (2019). Select group exhibitions featuring Pittman’s work include Kistefos Museum, Jevnaker, Norway (2023); Chapter Three, Amore Pacific Museum of Art, Seoul, South Korea (2021); Invisible Sun, The Broad, Los Angeles, CA (2021); Duro Olowu: Seeing Chicago, Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago, IL (2020); 50 + 50: A Creative Century from Chouinard to CalArts, REDCAT, Los Angeles, CA (2020); Waking Dream, Ruby City, San Antonio, TX (2019).Pittman’s work is in numerous public and private collections. Please visit cerebralwomen.com for his expanded bio.Portrait by Brian Guido 2022Lehmann Maupin https://www.lehmannmaupin.com/exhibitions/lari-pittman2Brooklyn Rail https://brooklynrail.org/events/2023/09/11/lari-pittman-sparkling-cities-with-egg-monuments/ Hyperallergic https://hyperallergic.com/839454/lari-pittman-paints-cities-of-the-future/Art Institute of Chicago https://www.artic.edu/artworks/188866/the-senseless-cycle-tender-and-benign-bring-great-comfortCultured Mag https://www.culturedmag.com/article/2022/11/10/lari-pittman-mexico-cityElle Décor https://www.elledecor.com/design-decorate/house-interiors/a42748497/lari-pittman-roy-dowell-los-angeles-house/Mousse Magazine https://www.moussemagazine.it/magazine/lari-pittman-museo-jumex-mexico-city-2023/Fundacion Jumex https://www.fundacionjumex.org/en/exposiciones/247-lari-pittman-lo-que-se-ve-se-preguntaWide Walls https://www.widewalls.ch/events/lehmann-maupin-new-york-lari-pittman-sparkling-cities-with-egg-monuments-2023-09-07Orange County Museum of Art https://ocma.art/pittman-lari/Davis Art https://www.davisart.com/blogs/curators-corner/hispanic-heritage-month-2022-lari-pittman/The Hammer https://hammer.ucla.edu/exhibitions/2019/lari-pittman-declaration-of-independenceThe Broad https://www.thebroad.org/art/lari-pittmanNYTimes https://www.nytimes.com/2022/11/30/arts/design/lari-pittman-art-basel-museo-jumex.htmlMoMA https://www.moma.org/artists/7616
Ep.165 features Harmonia Rosales. Born in Chicago, Illinois, she is an Afro-Cuban American artist currently based in Los Angeles, California. Her exquisite canvases navigate, and question received narratives from ancient myths, Biblical stories, classical antiquity, and AfroCuban culture, while challenging Eurocentric perceptions of beauty. Her work has been shown in various group and solo exhibitions including Femme Touch (2020) at the Andy Warhol Museum in Pittsburgh, Miss Education: Reclaiming Our Identity (2020) at the Museum of Contemporary African Diasporan Art in Brooklyn, and most recently Harmonia Rosales: Entwined (2022) at the Art, Architecture & Design Museum at the University of California, Santa Barbara. Harmonia Rosales: Master Narrative is organized by the Memphis Brooks Museum of Art, in collaboration with the Art, Design & Architecture Museum at UC Santa Barbara. Harmonia Rosales’ first major traveling museum exhibition opened at Spelman College Museum of Fine Art in August 2023. ‘Harmonia Rosales: Master Narrative, an exhibition of twenty paintings and a large scale sculptural installation. The artist seamlessly entwines the tales and characters of the Yorùbá religion, Greco-Roman mythology, and Christianity with the canonical works and artistic techniques of European Old Masters.’
Artist https://www.harmoniarosales.art/ Spellman College https://www.spelman.edu/about-us/news-and-events/news-releases/2023/05/08/harmonia-rosales-first-major-traveling-museum-exhibition-to-open-at-spelman-college-museum-of-fine-art NPR https://www.npr.org/2022/12/30/1145559044/visualizing-the-virgin-shows-mary-in-the-middle-ages UTA https://utaartistspace.com/press/2022/11/21/artist-harmonia-rosales-reinterprets-genesis-through-a-stunning-subversion-of-the-sistine-chapel/ Forbes https://www.forbes.com/sites/chaddscott/2023/03/14/harmonia-rosales-renaissance-at-memphis-brooks-museum-of-art/?sh=350c8b6c45d3 Colossal https://www.thisiscolossal.com/2022/11/harmonia-rosales-garden-of-eve/ Atlanta Journal Constitution https://www.ajc.com/things-to-do/atlanta-fall-arts-galleries-highlight-history-hip-hop-and-afro-caribbean-culture/UG5N2OFQVNDZLAXSUOBYB4EGP4/ ArtNews https://www.artnews.com/art-news/news/atlanta-university-center-black-art-history-scholarship-1234676015/ Boston Globe https://www.bostonglobe.com/2023/06/18/metro/kings-chapel-reckons-with-its-racial-history/ Memphis Flyer https://www.memphisflyer.com/harmonia-rosales-master-narrative-at-the-brooks The Atlanta Voice https://theatlantavoice.com/master-narratives-by-harmonia-rosales-is-at-the-spelman-museum-of-fine-art/ Arts Atl https://www.artsatl.org/master-narrative-at-spelman-reimagines-creation-story-through-yoruba-gods/ GBH https://www.wgbh.org/news/local/2023-06-15/on-bostons-freedom-trail-kings-chapel-plans-a-dramatic-facelift-to-recognize-its-ties-to-slavery Commercial Appeal https://www.commercialappeal.com/story/entertainment/arts/2023/04/10/memphis-brooks-museum-exhibits-harmonia-rosales-master-narrative/69991313007/ Daily Memphian https://dailymemphian.com/section/arts-culture/article/35169/memphis-brooks-museum-master-narrative-harmonia-rosales-exhibit-review Vogue https://www.voguescandinavia.com/articles/birth-of-oshun-watch-the-exclusive-video
Ep.164 features Chidinma Nnoli (b. 1998 Enugu), a visual artist working primarily with painting. Her practice contemplates the importance of a single subject’s embodied experience(s), often overlaying the past unto the present while insisting on the emotional link between body and space in conflict with self and a background mostly saturated with religion and gendered obligations. Growing up within a conservative Catholic home, Nnoli’s work moves between enclosed structures and ethereal landscapes where ideas of freedom and entrapment continuously overlap. Inspired by self-written poems, Nnoli empathetically captures women in paintings that feel like a hazy yet vivid memory. These figures—with their enigmatic expressions—find solitude and introspection within themselves. The same eerie atmosphere is consistent across the paintings, blurring, splattering and piling up paint in creating textures that reference efforts made at reaching or uncovering healing. Nnoli earned a Bachelor of Fine Arts from the University of Benin and has been invited to participate in residencies through PM/AM, London (2023), Atlantic centre for the Arts, Florida (2023) and Oxbow School of Art, Michigan (2023). Her paintings have been presented in solo and group exhibitions at Marianne Boesky Gallery, NewYork (2022), Rele gallery, Lagos (2021) and PM/AM gallery, London (2023), among others. She currently lives and works in Lagos.
Rele Gallery https://www.rele.co/artists/30-chidinma-nnoli/art-fairs/ Marianne Boesky Gallery https://marianneboeskygallery.com/exhibitions/288-chidinma-nnoli-when-will-my-feet-catch/overview/ PM/AM https://www.pmam.org/online Fowler at UCLA https://fowler.ucla.edu/world-arts-local-lives-march/ Art Facts https://artfacts.net/exhibition/chidinma-nnoli-to-wander-untamed/963003 Art News Africa https://artnewsafrica.com/ana-podcast-in-studio-visits-nigeria-presents-chidinma-nnoli/ Juxtapoz https://www.juxtapoz.com/news/painting/radio-juxtapoz-ep-69-chidinma-nnoli-and-the-great-escape/ Document Women https://documentwomen.com/sisterhood-in-family-and-friendships-chidinma-nnoli-paints-experiences Populist Magazine https://populistmagazine.com/post/chidinma-nnoli-interview/ The Huts Magazine https://thehutsmagazine.com/issue-8/ She Curates https://www.she-curates.com/interviews/artists/chidinma-nnoli/ Vogue https://www.vogue.com/article/nigerian-artists-challenging-gender-norms-chidinma-nnoli-renike-olusanya-chigozie-obi
Ep. 163 features Jammie Holmes. Born and raised in Thibodaux, Louisiana, Jammies Holmes (b. 1984) is known for his paintings that portray intimate and poignant scenes of distinctly American communities, families, and traditions. Holmes draws heavily on his own recollections to depict the stories and experiences of Black life in the deep American South, capturing moments of celebration and struggle. The artist, who works intuitively and without formal artistic training, creates expressive tableaux that incorporate portraiture, symbols, text, and objects to reveal universal truths through personal narratives.
Jammie Holmes is a self-taught painter. Following his graduation from high school, Holmes spent more than a decade working in an oil field. He relocated to Dallas in 2016. His work has most recently been presented in exhibitions at Library Street Collective, Detroit; Deitch Projects, Los Angeles; Marianne Boesky, New York; Nassima-Landau Projects, Tel Aviv; Dallas Museum of Art; and Dallas Contemporary, among others. His work is also included in the permanent collections of the Aïshti Foundation, Brooklyn Museum, Dallas Museum of Art, Hammer Museum, ICA Miami, Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, Nasher Museum of Art at Duke University, New Orleans Museum of Art, Perez Museum of Art, X Museum, and The Xiao Museum of Contemporary Art.
Artist https://www.jammieholmes.com/ The Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth https://www.themodern.org/exhibition/jammie-holmes-make-revolution-irresistible e-flux https://www.e-flux.com/announcements/510210/jammie-holmesmake-the-revolution-irresistible/ Library Street Collective https://lscgallery.com/artists/jammie-holmes The Gordon Parks Foundation https://www.gordonparksfoundation.org/grants/fellowships-in-art/jammie-holmes2 Various Small Fires https://www.vsf.la/exhibitions/127/works/artworks-5351-jammie-holmes-somewhereinamerica-2023/ ARTNews https://www.artnews.com/art-news/artists/jammie-holmes-paintings-various-small-fires-1234657924/ Artnet News https://news.artnet.com/art-world/wet-paint-in-the-wild-jammie-holmes-2300880 Hyperallergic https://hyperallergic.com/795017/jammie-holmes-and-jose-parla-named-gordon-parks-fellows/ Mousse Magazine https://www.moussemagazine.it/magazine/jammie-holmes-various-small-fires-los-angeles-2023/ Dallas News https://www.dallasnews.com/event/c2c3bb5b-f7c7-edc0-7329-f9f9bf48d4e1/ Contemporary Art Daily https://www.contemporaryartdaily.com/project/jammie-holmes-at-various-small-fires-los-angeles-27148 Dallas Contemporary https://www.dallascontemporary.org/jammie-holmes
Ep.162 features Hank Willis Thomas (b. 1976 Plainfield, NJ). He lives and works in Brooklyn, NY as a conceptual artist working primarily with themes related to perspective, identity, commodity, media, and popular culture. His work has been exhibited throughout the United States and abroad including the International Center of Photography, Guggenheim Museum Bilbao, Musée du quai Branly, Hong Kong Arts Centre and the Witte de With Center for Contemporary Art.
His collaborative projects include Question Bridge: Black Males; In Search Of The Truth (The Truth Booth); The Writing on the Wall; The Gun Violence Memorial Project; and For Freedoms, an artist-led organization that models and increases creative civic engagement, discourse & direct action.
Thomas is a recipient of the Gordon Parks Foundation Fellowship (2019), The Guggenheim Fellowship (2018), AIMIA | AGO Photography Prize (2017), Soros Equality Fellowship (2017), Aperture West Book Prize (2008), Renew Media Arts Fellowship from the Rockefeller Foundation (2007), and the New York Foundation for the Arts Fellowship Award (2006). He is a former member of the Public Design Commission for the City of New York.
Thomas’s public artworks include the permanent installation of “The Embrace” (2023) was unveiled at the Boston Commons in Boston, MA, symbolizing love and unity the statue pays hommage to the King family; Dr. Martin Luther King and Coretta Scott King, in the city where they met. “REACH,” (2023 made in collaboration with Coby Kennedy, is permanently installed at O’Hare International Airport in Chicago, IL. In 2019, Thomas unveiled his permanent work "Unity" in Brooklyn, NY. In 2017, “Love Over Rules” permanent neon was unveiled in San Francisco, CA and “All Power to All People” in Opa Locka, FL.
Thomas holds a B.F.A. from New York University, New York, NY (1998) and an M.A./M.F.A. from the California College of the Arts, San Francisco, CA (2004). He received honorary doctorates from the Maryland Institute of Art, Baltimore, MD and the Institute for Doctoral Studies in the Visual Arts, Portland, ME in 2017.
Headshot~ Hank Willis Thomas, Wide Awakes, 2020 Photo Credit: Jeff Vespa
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Ep.161 features Charles Gaines. A pivotal figure in the field of Conceptual Art, Charles Gaines’ body of work engages formulas and systems that interrogate relationships between the objective and the subjective realms. Using a generative approach to create series of works in a variety of mediums, he has built a bridge between the early conceptual artists of the 1960s and 1970s and subsequent generations of artists pushing the limits of conceptualism today. Born in 1944 in Charleston, South Carolina, Gaines began his career as a painter, earning his MFA from the School of Art and Design at the Rochester Institute of Technology in 1967. In the 1970s, Gaines’ art shifted dramatically in response to what he would later call ‘the awakening.’ Gaines’ epiphany materialized in a series called Regression (1973 – 1974), in which he explored the use of mathematical and numeric systems to create soft, numbered marks in ink on a grid, with each drawing built upon the calculations of the last. This methodical approach would carry the artist into the subsequent decades of his artistic journey. Working both within the system and against it, Gaines points to the tensions between the empirical objective and the viewers’ subjective response. The concept of identity politics has played a central role within Gaines’ oeuvre, and the radical approach he employs addresses issues of race in ways that transcend the limits of representation. His recent work continues to use this system with sociopolitical motivations at the forefront. ‘Faces 1: Identity Politics’ (2018) is a triptych of colorful portraits of historical icons and thinkers, from Aristotle to Maria W. Stewart and bell hooks. Gaines reduces the images to pixelated outlines, layered among the faces of the preceding portraits to create a palimpsest of faces, employing this system in a critique of representation and the attachment of meaning to images. Gaines lives and works in Los Angeles. He recently retired from the CalArts School of Art, where he was on faculty for over 30 years and established a fellowship to provide critical scholarship support for Black students in the M.F.A. program. A survey exhibition of his work will be on view at the Institute of Contemporary Art, Miami in the fall of 2023. His work has also been the subject of numerous other exhibitions in the United States and around the world, most notably at Dia:Beacon, San Francisco Museum of Art, The Studio Museum, Harlem NY, and Hammer Museum, Los Angeles CA. His work has also been presented at the 1975 Whitney Biennial and the Venice Biennale in 2007 and 2015. In 2022, Gaines produced a new public art project with Creative Time, entitled ‘Moving Chains,’ on Governors Island, New York, along with a music performance and a sculptural installation in Times Square. In addition to his artistic practice, Gaines has published several essays on contemporary art, including ‘Theater of Refusal: Black Art and Mainstream Criticism’ (University of California, Irvine, 1993) and ‘The New Cosmopolitanism’ (California State University, Fullerton, 2008). In 2019, Gaines received the 60th Edward MacDowell Medal. He was inducted into the National Academy of Design’s 2020 class of National Academicians and the American Academy of Arts and Letters in May 2022.
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Ep.160 features Tunji Adeniyi-Jones (b. 1992, London, United Kingdom), an artist living and working in New York, NY. Adeniyi-Jones received a BFA from The Ruskin School of Art, University of Oxford, Oxford, United Kingdom, in 2014, and an MFA from Yale University School of Art, New Haven, CT, in 2017. Recent solo exhibitions include Deep Dive, White Cube, Hong Kong, China (2023); Tranquil Dive, Morán Morán, CDMX, Mexico (2023); Emergent Properties, Nicelle Beauchene Gallery, New York, NY (2022); Voix Intérieures, White Cube, Paris, France (2022) among others. His work has been included in numerous group exhibitions, including When We See Us: A Century of Black Figuration in Painting, Zeitz MOCAA, Cape Town (2022); In Our Time: Selections from the Singer Collection, Scottsdale Museum of Contemporary Art, AZ (2022); Out of the Fire: The 14th Dakar Biennale, Senegal (2022); Fire Figure Fantasy: Selections from the ICA Miami’s Collection, ICA Miami, FL (2022); All Things Bright and Beautiful, Birmingham Museum of Art, AL (2022); among others. Adeniyi-Jones’s work is included in the permanent collections of the Aishti Foundation, Lebanon; the Dallas Museum of Art, TX; the Nasher Museum of Art, Durham, NC; Institute of Contemporary Art, Miami, FL; The Studio Museum, Harlem, NY; among others.
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Ep.159 features Oscar yi Hou, an artist and writer based in Brooklyn, NY. He was born and raised in Liverpool, England. He received his BA from Columbia University, New York. He has also studied at The Sorbonne Art School (École des arts de la Sorbonne). Alongside his solo exhibition East of sun, west of moon at the Brooklyn Museum, yi Hou was recipient of the third annual UOVO Prize in 2022. Previously, he has exhibited at James Fuentes, New York; New-York Historical Society; Asia Society, New York; Royal Academy, UK; T293 Gallery, Rome; Kohn Gallery, Los Angeles; and Sprüth Magers Online. His work is included in the collections of the Brooklyn Museum; Columbus Museum of Art; Grinnell College Museum of Art; ICA Miami; M+ Museum; and the New-York Historical Society.
Photo credit: Vincent Tullo for The New York Times (2022)
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Ep.158 features Thomas (T.) Jean Lax, Curator, Department of Media and Performance at The Museum of Modern Art. T. is a writer and curator specializing in Black art and performance. They recently prepared the exhibition Just Above Midtown: 1974 to the Present (2022) with Lilia Rocio Taboada in collaboration with JAM’s founder, Linda Goode Bryant. Their other collaboratively organized exhibitions at MoMA include Judson Dance Theater: The Work Is Never Done (2018), with Ana Janevski and Martha Joseph; the Projects Series for emerging artists, co-led with Lanka Tattersall; Unfinished Conversations (2017), inspired by John Akomfrah’s installation on the cultural theorist Stuart Hall; and the contemporary art survey Greater New York (2015). Previously, they worked at the Studio Museum in Harlem. A native New Yorker, Lax holds degrees in Africana studies and art history from Brown and Columbia universities and is a PhD candidate in performance studies at New York University, where they are working on a project about mothers. They were the inaugural recipient of the Cisneros Research Grant, traveling to Brazil in 2020.
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Vogue https://www.vogue.com/article/interview-with-thomas-t-jean-lax-by-domenica-bucalo
Ssense https://www.ssense.com/en-us/editorial/culture/play-time-with-moma-curator-thomas-lax
Ep.157 Karen Navarro is an Argentinian-born multidisciplinary artist currently living and working in Houston. Navarro works on a diverse array of mediums that include photography, collage, the use of text and sculpture. Her image-based work and multimedia practice investigate the intersections of identity, representation, race, and belonging in reference to her migrant experience, her Indigenous identity and the history of colonization and its influence. Her constructed portraits are known for pushing the boundaries of traditional photography and the use of color. Navarro has won numerous awards and grants for her mixed-media photography, among them the Artadia Fellowship and the Top Ten Lensculture Critics' Choice Award, and has been shortlisted for several more, including the Photo London Emerging Photographer of the Year Award and The Royal Photographic Society, IPE 163. Her work has been exhibited in the US and abroad. Selected shows include Contemporary Arts Museum Houston (CAMH), USA; Galerija Upuluh, Zagreb, Croatia; FAR Center for Contemporary Arts, Bloomington, USA; Holocaust Museum Houston, USA; Artpace, San Antonio, USA and Melkweg Expo, Amsterdam, The Netherlands. Navarro’s work has been featured in numerous publications, including ARTnews, The Guardian, Observer, Rolling Stone Italia, and Photo Vogue Festival Italia.
Photo credit: Self portrait
Karen Navarro www.karennavarroph.com
Dovetail https://dovetailmag.com/karen-navarro/
Lenscratch http://lenscratch.com/2023/01/karen-navarro-somos-millones-foto-relevance/
Aesthetica https://aestheticamagazine.com/the-constructed-self/
Houstonia Magazine https://www.houstoniamag.com/arts-and-culture/2021/09/houston-women-artists-radical-portraits
OBSERVER https://observer.com/2020/03/spring-museum-exhibitions-2020-moma-guggenheim/
ARTnews https://www.artnews.com/art-news/news/artadia-1202680318/
The Guardian https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/gallery/2020/oct/15/best-of-photo-london-digital-2020-in-pictures
Harper's Magazine https://harpers.org/archive/2020/05/diary-of-a-foreigner-in-paris-katherine-jackson-french-on-lighthouses/
Rolling Stone Italia https://blackcamera.it/karen-navarro-la-fotografia-ai-confini-dellidentita/
PaperCity https://www.papercitymag.com/society/contemporary-arts-museum-houston-art-ladies/#374810
Ep.156 features Thaddeus Mosley (b. 1926, New Castle, PA), a Pittsburgh-based artist whose monumental sculptures are crafted with the felled trees of Pittsburgh’s urban canopy, via the city’s Forestry Division. Using only a mallet and chisel, Mosley reworks salvaged timber into biomorphic forms. With influences ranging from Isamu Noguchi to Constantin Brâncuși—and the Bamum, Dogon, Baoulé, Senufo, Dan, and Mossi works of his personal collection—Mosley’s sculptures mark an inflection point in the history of American abstraction. These “sculptural improvisations,” as he calls them, take cues from the modernist traditions of jazz. “The only way you can really achieve something is if you’re not working so much from a pattern. That’s also the essence of good jazz,” Mosley says of his method. Mosley is the recipient of the 2022 Isamu Noguchi Award. His work has been exhibited and acquired by major museums and foundations since 1959, including the Mattress Factory Museum, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania (2009); the Carnegie Museum of Art, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania (2018); Harvard Business School, Boston, Massachusetts (2020); Sculpture Milwaukee, Milwaukee, Wisconsin (2020); Baltimore Museum of Art, Baltimore, Maryland (2021); Bergen Kunsthall, Bergen, Norway (2022) and Art + Practice, Los Angeles, California (2022). His work is held in public collections including the Baltimore Museum of Art, Baltimore, Maryland; the Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois; High Museum of Art, Atlanta, Georgia; Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, New York; Brooklyn Museum, New York, New York; Carnegie Museum of Art, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania; and the Colby College Museum of Art, Waterville, Maine. His traveling solo exhibition Forest, previously at the Baltimore Museum of Art, Baltimore, and Art+Practice, Los Angeles, will continue on to the Nasher Sculpture Center, Dallas May 2023.
Photo credit: the gallery Karma
karmakarma https://karmakarma.org/artists/thaddeus-mosley/ NYTimes https://www.nytimes.com/2023/02/17/arts/design/thaddeus-mosley-photographer.html Dallas News https://www.dallasnews.com/arts-entertainment/visual-arts/2023/05/25/thaddeus-mosleys-rugged-wooden-sculptures-explore-balances-of-forces-at-the-nasher/ Artforum https://www.artforum.com/picks/thaddeus-mosley-82787 Sculpture Magazine https://sculpturemagazine.art/thaddeus-mosley-2/ Touchstone Center for Crafts https://touchstonecrafts.salsalabs.org/mosleystudiotour/index.html Pitt Magazine https://www.pittmag.pitt.edu/news/wood-work WSJ https://www.wsj.com/articles/a-modern-vision-henri-matisse-etta-cone-claribel-cone-collecting-thaddeus-mosley-forest-sculpture-baltimore-museum-of-art-11636142617 Carnegie Museums (1997) https://carnegiemuseums.org/magazine-archive/1997/mayjun/feat3.htm Noguchi Museum https://www.noguchi.org/museum/support/special-events/benefit/2022-11-17/ Nasher Sculpture Center https://www.nashersculpturecenter.org/press/press-releases/news/id/221 https://www.nashersculpturecenter.org/art/exhibitions/exhibition/id/1981?thaddeus-mosley-forest United States Artist https://www.unitedstatesartists.org/fellow/thaddeus-mosley/ Colby Museum https://museum.colby.edu/2022/08/05/art-break-directional-by-thaddeus-mosley-2/ Baltimore Museum of Art https://artbma.org/exhibition/thaddeus-mosley-forest ARTnews https://www.artnews.com/list/art-news/artists/paris-plus-sites-best-installations-1234643842/alicja-kwade/ A+P https://artandpractice.org/exhibitions/exhibition/thaddeus-mosley-forest/ Ocula https://ocula.com/art-galleries/karma/exhibitions/thaddeus-mosley-recent-sculpture/ Wikipedia https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thaddeus_Mosley Mattress https://mattress.org/works/sculpture-studio-home/
Ep.155 features Shannon T. Lewis (b. 1981 in Toronto, Canada; lives and works in Berlin, Germany). She is an artist of Caribbean descent who reconfigures human forms and the spaces they inhabit within her complex and vivid paintings. Lewis begins with assemblage — the forefront of her practice — utilizing fragments of form and space. Particularly inspired by social cues of ethnicity, whimsical aspects in the work evoke a notion of freedom by examining marginalized identities. The use of architectural elements is a recurring element, oftentimes inspired by ornate iconography. Painted and interlaced limbs reconnoiter the history of femininity and its relation to Blackness. Lewis offers a window into freedom and body politics as the figurative compositions explore surrealism. Haunting portraits derived from archival and personal sources, Lewis imbues the past and the present to construct a utopian future. Lewis has exhibited in Canada, the United States, Trinidad, Switzerland, England, and Germany. She has a Bachelor of Arts from OCADU in Toronto (Canada) and a Master of Fine Arts from Goldsmiths, University of London (UK). Portrait of Shannon T. Lewis, 2022. Photographed by Evan Jenkins. Courtesy of Mariane IbrahimArtist https://www.shannontamaralewis.com/Mariane Ibrahim Gallery https://marianeibrahim.com/artists/60-shannon-t.-lewis/biography/Elephant Art https://elephant.art/shannon-t-lewis-i-could-stare-at-it-for-20-years-20062022/UTA Artist Space https://utaartistspace.com/artists/shannon-t-lewis/NADA https://www.newartdealers.org/programs/in-the-studio-with-shannon-lewisGalerie Magazine https://galeriemagazine.com/shannon-t-lewis/Juxtapoz https://www.juxtapoz.com/news/magazine/features/shannon-t-lewis-a-performance-of-many-lifetimes/Contemporary& https://contemporaryand.com/magazines/the-fantasy-of-aspiration-in-the-paintings-of-shannon-tamara-lewis/
Ep. 154 features Eto Otitigbe. He recovers buried narratives and gives form to the unseen. He is a polymedia artist whose interdisciplinary practice includes sculpture, performance, installation, and public art. His public art intersects history, community, and biophilic design by using parametric modeling and generative design to transform historical and cultural references into biomorphic forms. Otitigbe’s public works include temporary installations in Socrates Sculpture Park (Queens, NY) and Randall’s Island Park (New York, NY). His current public commissions include: Peaceful Journey (Mt. Vernon, NY, 2022); Cascode (Philadelphia, PA); Emanativ (Harlem, NY); Invasive Species (Philadelphia, PA). He was a member of the Design Team for the Memorial to Enslaved Laborers at UVA (Charlottesville, VA) where he contributed to the creative expression on the memorial’s exterior surface. Otitigbe’s work has been in solo and group exhibitions that include 2013 Bronx Calling: The Second AIM Biennial, organized by the Bronx Museum and Wave Hill; Abandoned Orchestra, Sound Sculpture installation and performance with Zane Rodulfo, Guggenheim Museum, New York, NY; The Golden Hour, Oakland Cemetery, Atlanta, GA, curated by Oshun D. Layne; and Bronx: Africa, Longwood Gallery, Bronx, NY, curated by Atim Oton and Leronn P. Brooks. Otitigbe’s fellowships and awards include the CEC Artslink Project Award for travel and cultural projects in Egypt and the Smithsonian Artist Research Fellowship at the National Museum of African Art where he explored the intersection of Urhobo language and historical objects. His curatorial projects include directing the es ORO Gallery in Jersey City, NJ (2007-09) and co-curating, alongside Amanda Kerdahi, the Topophilia Exhibition in Nees, Denmark (2017) as part of the ET4U Meetings Festival in Denmark. He is the founder of eo Studio, which received the Creative Capital Grant in 2023 for the project Tankugbe Incubation Lab. He is an Assistant Professor of Sculpture in the Art Department at Brooklyn College. He received a B.S. in Mechanical Engineering from MIT, an M.S. in Product Design from Stanford University (M.S.) and an MFA in Creative Practice from the University of Plymouth.Photo credit: Anthony ArtisArtist https://www.etootitigbe.com/Cascode https://www.dashboard.us/cascodeTransart Institute https://www.transartinstitute.org/people/eto-otitigbeBrooklyn Botanic Garden https://www.bbg.org/feature/birdhouses/eto_otitigbeSurface Magazine https://www.surfacemag.com/articles/eto-otitigbe-morton-fine-art-materiel-remains/Morton Fine art https://www.mortonfineart.com/artist/eto-otitigbeCreative Capital https://creative-capital.org/artists/eo-studio-tankugbe-incubation-lab/eto-otitigbe/Brooklyn. Cuny http://www.brooklyn.cuny.edu/web/academics/schools/mediaarts/undergraduate/art/faculty_details.php?faculty=1372Slippage https://slippage.org/eto-otitigbeArts Westchester https://artswestchester.org/art-matters/artist-eto-otitigbe-wins-sculpture-commission-in-mount-vernon/
Ep.153 features Sadaf Padder, a Brooklyn-based independent curator and creative coach. After 8 years in the public school system as a teacher and administrator, Sadaf left her job to found Alpha Arts Alliance (A3), a hyperlocal arts collective.Sadaf has curated exhibitions across the country including New York City, Los Angeles, San Francisco, Martha's Vineyard and Philadelphia. She amplifies artists of the global majority, especially women, through connective themes such as mythology, eco-activism and social justice. Her writing and curation has been featured in LA Weekly, ARTSY and Hyperallergic. Sadaf also serves as board-member for the Chickweed Alliance and ArtBridge, a lead fundraiser for Grown in Haiti where she is building a community center and artist retreat in Jacmel, Haiti, and is also a member of Phoenix Community Garden where she runs community events and youth programs. She is a Create Change alumna with the Laundromat Project as well as a 2022-2023 Emily Hall Tremaine Fellow with Hyperallergic where she recently presented initial research on South Asian futurisms.Photo by Rashida ZagonSadaf Padder www.sadafpadder.comAlpha Arts Alliance www.alphaartsalliance.comHyperallergic https://hyperallergic.com/author/sadaf-padder/Associated Artists Pittsburgh https://www.aapgh.org/artist-opportunities/2023/5/3/saveartspace-this-place-meant-open-call-due-june-19Brattleboro Museum https://www.brattleboromuseum.org/2023/05/15/artist-curator-conversation-anina-major-and-sadaf-padder/Create Magazine https://www.createmagazine.com/blog/memory-garden-curated-by-sadaf-padder-opens-at-swivel-gallery-may-13thRoc Arts United https://rocartsunited.org/events/call-for-art-this-place-meant/LinkedIn https://www.linkedin.com/in/sadafpadder/Art Bridge https://art-bridge.org/page/sadaf-padder-board-member/City Parks Foundation https://cityparksfoundation.org/events/phoenix-flow/
Ep.151 features Layo Bright. Mining personal archives and collective experiences, her sculptural practice interrogates how materials shape perception, culture, and politics. Bright’s work explores specific themes of migration, inheritance, legacy and identity through hybrid portraits, textiles, and mixed media that call on natural forms and ancestral memory. Employing a range of materials such as glass, clay, wood and textiles, these forms mirror fragile yet complex relationships with the personal, natural, and built environment. Bright’s work with plastic, checkered bags—often linked to migrants around the world—combines the material with crushed glass to critically address the inevitability of migration and loss in our current global climate. In fusing these and other materials, Bright’s practice carefully considers the legacy of suppressed histories within inequitable class structures. Bright (b.1991, Lagos, Nigeria) received her LL. B (Hons.) from Babcock University (2014), was called to the Nigerian Bar Association (2015) and received her MFA in Fine Art (Hons.) from the Parsons School of Design (2018). Bright has exhibited work both internationally and nationally. Solo and group exhibitions include: Rockhaven, moniquemeloche, Chicago, IL (2022); Undercurrents, Sean Kelly Gallery, New York, NY (2022); Lubeznik Center for the Arts, Michigan City, IN (2022); Bode Projects, Berlin, Germany (2022); Phillips, New York, NY (2021); Welancora Gallery, New York, NY (2021); Mike Adenuga Centre, Lagos, Nigeria (2021); Anthony Gallery, Chicago, IL (2021); Parts & Labor, New York, NY (2020); Meyerhoff Gallery at MICA, Baltimore, MD (2020); Untitled AWCA, Lagos, Nigeria (2019); Mana Contemporary, Chicago, IL (2019); and Smack Mellon, New York, NY (2019), among others. In fall of 2023 Bright’s work will be included in A Two Way Mirror: Double Consciousness in Contemporary Glass by Black Artists, Museum of Glass, Tacoma, WA. She is the recipient of honors and awards including the UrbanGlass Winter Scholarship Award (2021/2020), the International Sculpture Center’s 2018 Outstanding Student Achievement in Contemporary Sculpture Award (2018), and the Beyoncé Formation Finalist Scholarship (2017). Previous residencies include Tyler School of Glass, Philadelphia, PA; Art Cake Residency in Brooklyn, NY; NXTHVN Fellowship in New Haven, CT; Triangle, Brooklyn, NY; Flux Factory, Queens, NY; The Studios at Mass MoCA, North Adams, MA; Tritryagain Studio Residency, Brooklyn, NY; International Studio Center Sculpture Residency at Grounds for Sculpture, Hamilton Township, NJ. Bright lives and works in New York, NY. Photo credit: Daniel GreerArtist https://layobright.com/moniquemeloche https://www.moniquemeloche.com/Welancora Gallery https://www.welancoragallery.com/artists/38-layo-bright/works/Superposition Gallery http://superpositiongallery.com/layo-brightMuseum of Glass https://www.museumofglass.org/a-two-way-mirrorARTnews https://www.artnews.com/list/art-news/market/art-basel-hong-kong-2023-best-booths-1234661821/ArtReview https://artreview.com/discover-arcuals-pioneering-blockchain-technology/Artsy https://www.artsy.net/article/artsy-editorial-10-best-booths-art-basel-miami-beach-2022okayafrica https://www.okayafrica.com/layo-bright-interview/Bode Gallery https://bode.gallery/artists/109-layo-bright/overview/
Ep.150 features Melissa Joseph (b. 1980, Saint Marys PA), a New York based artist and independent curator. Her work addresses themes of memory, family history, and the politics of how we occupy spaces. She intentionally alludes to the labors of women as well as her experiences as a second generation American and the unique juxtapositions of diasporic life. Her work has been shown at the Delaware Contemporary, Woodmere Art Museum, Utah Museum of Contemporary Art, Brattleboro Museum and Art Center, Jeffrey Deitch Projects, MOCA Arlington, and List Gallery at Swarthmore College. She has been featured in Hyperallergic, Artnet, New American Paintings, Le Monde, CNN, and Architectural Digest and participated in residencies at Dieu Donné, Fountainhead, BRIC, the Archie Bray Foundation for Ceramic Arts, and will be in residence at the Museum of Arts and Design and Greenwich House Pottery in 2023.Headshot is by Samantha CasolariArtist https://www.melissajoseph.net/Swarthmore https://www.swarthmore.edu/list-gallery/conflicting-truths-works-melissa-josephThe Utah Review https://www.theutahreview.com/exhibitions-about-identity-body-positivity-best-of-utah-design-arts-a-tribute-to-a-beloved-grandmother-artistic-reflection-on-human-mortality-and-realism-highlight-summer-shows-at-utah-museum-of-c/Bomb Magazine https://bombmagazine.org/articles/melissa-joseph-interviewed/MAD Museum https://madmuseum.org/learn/melissa-josephHyperallergic https://hyperallergic.com/640357/melissa-joseph-nee-regular-normal/Culture Magazine https://www.culturedmag.com/article/2023/02/17/artists-frieze-los-angeles-focus-2023Architectural Digest https://www.architecturaldigest.in/magazine-story/artist-melissa-josephs-felt-art-responds-to-her-biracial-identity/Fondazione Imago Mundi https://fondazioneimagomundi.org/en/webdoc/melissa-joseph-eng/Arte Realizzata https://www.arterealizzata.com/interviews/a-refreshing-conversation-with-melissa-josephTextile Art Center https://textileartscenter.com/feature/air-artist-highlight-melissa-joseph/Le Monde https://www.lemonde.fr/m-styles/article/2022/12/24/melissa-joseph-tissage-et-metissage_6155572_4497319.htmlMaake Magazine https://www.maakemagazine.com/melissa-joseph
Ep.149 features Grimanesa Amorós. Throughout her career, Peruvian-born American artist Grimanesa Amorós has harnessed the medium of light to create immersive monumental sculptures that engage visitors in contemplation of their cultural heritage, community, and relationship to technology. In the art of Amorós, the past is meeting the future. Her childhood fascination with light began on the shores of her homeland in Lima. The tumultuous waters of the immense pacific ocean would create iridescent sculptural foam. Amorós sites watching bubbles deflate and inflate, as if breathing, for the formal decisions in her later work. Describing her work as a "constant romance with the unknown", Amorós first incorporated light into her practice following a fated trip to Iceland. While there, she saw the northern lights and realized the powerful ephemeral magic light held. She discusses light's ability to transcend social and geographic boundaries "we all connect to light." Drawing upon critical cultural legacies and landscapes, Amorós is inspired by the communities she creates within. Installing and programming each piece on-site, direct interaction with the surrounding architecture is key to creating her work. "Ultimately, the piece connects the viewers, space, and light sculpture, merging them into one." Jane Farver writes, "A joyful and generous spirit, Amorós views her art as a gift to others." Amorós has connected cultures and viewers through the medium of light in the United States, Europe, Asia, the Middle East, and a Latin America as a guest speaker at TED Global 2014 and as a part of the Art in Embassies Program of the US. Photo credit : Chiara-CusssattArtist https://www.grimanesaamoros.com/Artist interviews https://www.grimanesaamoros.com/interviews/LinkedIn https://www.linkedin.com/in/grimanesa-amorós-ab0a285/Leila Heller Gallery http://www.leilahellergallery.com/exhibitions/grimanesa-amoros-scientiaCurbed https://www.curbed.com/article/grimanesa-amors-tribeca-loft-tour.htmlHyperallergic https://hyperallergic.com/688431/an-artist-brings-light-to-mumbai/Ted Global https://www.grimanesaamoros.com/press/ted-global-oct-2014-2/BBC https://www.bbc.com/storyworks/culture/noor-riyadh/grimanesa-amorsWellbeing Project https://wellbeing-project.org/grimanesa-amoros-journey-in-the-arts/A Women’s Thing https://awomensthing.org/blog/grimanesa-amoros/Arte & Lusso https://arte8lusso.net/art/grimanesa-amoros/Arab News https://www.arabnews.com/node/2143986/lifestyleArte Realizzata https://www.arterealizzata.com/interviews/a-fascinating-conversation-with-grimanesa-amorosBrooklyn Museum https://www.brooklynmuseum.org/eascfa/about/feminist_art_base/grimanesa-amorosArt Summit https://www.art-summit.com/grimanesa-amoros/Arc Magazine https://www.arc-magazine.com/grimanesa-amoros/Arab News https://www.arabnews.com/node/2222456/saudi-arabiaBazaar https://ar.harpersbazaararabia.com/hbanewsArtforum https://www.artforum.com/artguide/azkuna-zentroa-12869/scientia-207490Art Nexus https://www.artnexus.com/en/news/62ed3a99b426d929471ca150/grimanesa-amoros-scientiaArtists Studios https://artists-studios.com/grimanesa-amoros
Ep.148 features Celeste Rapone (b. 1985, New Jersey). She is known for her narrative paintings that blur the boundaries between figuration and abstraction. At the core of Rapone’s practice are formalist concerns such as surface, pattern, and color that shape the artist’s inventive figures and scenes. The protagonists of these paintings – often female – are shown in varying moments of repose and activity, their bodies unapologetically spilling towards the edges of the canvas. Emphasizing the act of observation in her work, Rapone layers autobiographical and art historical sources that transcend appropriation. Celeste Rapone received her BFA from the Rhode Island School of Design in 2007 andher MFA from The School of the Art Institute of Chicago in 2013 where she is an adjunct professor in painting and drawing. Rapone’s work has been exhibited widely across the U.S. and abroad at Josh Lilley Gallery, London; Marianne Boesky Gallery, NY; Corbett vs. Dempsey, Chicago; Roberts Projects, Los Angeles; Julius Caesar, Chicago; The Hyde Park Art Center, Chicago; Georgia Museum of Art; and the Institute of Contemporary Art, Boston. Rapone was the 2018 recipient of a Pollock-Krasner Foundation Grant. Her most recent solo exhibition House Sounds is currently on view at Josh Lilley Gallery in London, and her work will be included in the Bemis Center’s upcoming exhibition Presence in the Pause: Interiority and its Radical Immanence, opening May 20, 2023. Rapone lives and works in Chicago, IL and is represented by Corbett vs.Dempsey (Chicago), Marianne Boesky Gallery (New York), and Josh Lilley Gallery(London).Photo credit Whitney BradshawArtist http://www.celesterapone.com/Josh Lilley Gallery https://joshlilleygallery.com/exhibitions/house-soundsBemis Center https://www.bemiscenter.org/Marianne Boesky Gallery https://marianneboeskygallery.com/press/242-forbes-celeste-rapone-crosses-the-river-to/Corbett vs Dempsey Gallery https://corbettvsdempsey.com/artists/celeste-rapone/ICA Boston https://www.icaboston.org/art/celeste-rapone/pack-animalsBoston Globe https://www.bostonglobe.com/2022/05/12/arts/ica-place-me-breathes-new-life-into-an-old-art-form/Frieze https://www.frieze.com/article/celeste-rapone-house-sounds-2023-reviewArtnet https://news.artnet.com/buyers-guide/7-questions-celeste-rapone-josh-lilley-2274616ARTnews https://www.artnews.com/art-news/news/breaking-art-industry-news-april-2021-week-3-1234590255/Luxembourg Times https://www.luxtimes.lu/en/culture/artists-who-travel-through-time-602d71e0de135b9236bfa5bcHyde Park Art Center https://www.hydeparkart.org/directory/celeste-rapone-2/
Ep.147 features Titus Kaphar, an artist whose paintings, sculptures, and installations examine the history of representation by transforming its styles and mediums with formal innovations to emphasize the physicality and dimensionality of the canvas and materials themselves. His practice seeks to dislodge history from its status as the “past” in order to unearth its contemporary relevance, and to reveal something of what has been lost and to investigate the power of a rewritten history. Kaphar’s commitment to social engagement has led him to move beyond traditional modes of artistic expression to establish NXTHVN, a new national arts model that empowers emerging artists and curators of color through education and access. Through intergenerational mentorship, professional development and cross-sector collaboration, NXTHVN accelerates professional careers in the arts. https://www.nxthvn.com/Titus Kaphar (b. 1976, Kalamazoo, Michigan) lives and works in New Haven, CT. Kaphar received an MFA from the Yale School of Art and is a distinguished recipient of numerous prizes and awards including a 2018 MacArthur Fellowship, a 2018 Art for Justice Fund grant, a 2016 Robert R. Rauschenberg Artist as Activist grant, and a 2015 Creative Capital grant. Kaphar’s work, Analogous Colors, was featured on the cover of the June 15, 2020 issue of TIME. His work is included in the collections of Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art, Bentonville, AR; the 21C Museum Collection; Detroit Institute of Arts, Detroit, MI; The Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, IL, The Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY; Brooklyn Museum, Brooklyn, NY; Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY; and Yale University Art Gallery, New Haven, CT, amongst others.Photo credit: @mariosorrentiArtist Book release kapharstudio.comNXTHVN nxthvn.comGagosian Titus Kaphar | GagosianTed Talks https://www.ted.com/speakers/titus_kapharMacArthur Foundation https://www.macfound.org/fellows/class-of-2018/titus-kapharNYTimes https://www.nytimes.com/2019/04/12/arts/design/yale-new-haven-titus-kaphar.htmlNew Haven Register https://www.nhregister.com/entertainment/article/documentary-New-Haven-CT-Oscars-shut-up-and-paint-17696612.phpArt for Justice Fund https://artforjusticefund.org/grantee/titus-kaphar/PBS POV | POV Shorts: Shut Up and Paint | Season 35 | Episode 501 | PBSMetropolitan Museum Titus Kaphar | Contour of Loss | The Metropolitan Museum of Art (metmuseum.org)Kennedy Center https://www.kennedy-center.org/whats-on/explore-by-genre/hip-hop/2022-2023/black-thought-streams-of-thought/MoMA https://www.moma.org/artists/48017Brooklyn Museum https://www.brooklynmuseum.org/exhibitions/titus_kapharC& https://contemporaryand.com/exhibition/one-titus-kaphar/Surface Magazine https://www.surfacemag.com/articles/titus-kaphar-film-shut-up-and-paint/Whitewall https://whitewall.art/art/titus-kaphar-taps-into-history-and-intuition-in-new-alters-at-gagosianHyperallergic https://hyperallergic.com/tag/titus-kaphar/Ocula https://ocula.com/artists/titus-kaphar/Artnet https://news.artnet.com/market/gagosian-titus-kaphar-nxthvn-1901048Deadline https://deadline.com/2022/12/shut-up-and-paint-dctv-short-documentary-directors-titus-kaphar-alex-mallis-interview-news-1235200025/Tribeca Film Festival https://tribecafilm.com/films/shut-up-and-paint-2022Short of the Week https://www.shortoftheweek.com/2022/12/11/shut-up-and-paint/KGBH https://www.wgbh.org/news/arts/2022/11/11/open-studio-artist-titus-kaphar-takes-on-mass-incarcerationWikipedia https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Titus_KapharCulture Magazine https://www.culturedmag.com/article/2020/09/23/nxthvn-is-a-new-kind-of-space-built-to-uplift-artists-and-curators-of-colorAVANews https://avanewsblog.com/2021/04/supporting-inclusive-art/Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum https://www.gardnermuseum.org/calendar/exhibition/titus-kaphar
Ep.146 features Hannah Traore, born and raised in Toronto, she developed an affinity for art and an appreciation for diverse perspectives from a young age. Her mother, an art collector and fiber artist, infused art into every part of her life while her father, a Malian immigrant, immersed her in his culture, which introduced her to issues of representation in the art world and beyond. After obtaining a BA in Art History from Skidmore College, Traore became the Painting and Sculpture Curatorial Intern at the Museum of Modern Art and later served as Project Manager to Isolde Brielmaier – Deputy Director of the New Museum, NYU Professor and Independent Curator. Through an exploration of her eclectic heritage - Canadian, West African, Jewish and Muslim - she has gained an appreciation for what makes every person unique. Hannah Traore Gallery aims to celebrate the things that make each of us extraordinary. Hannah was celebrated for her work with Hannah Traore Gallery by being included on the 2023 Forbes 30 under 30 list in Arts and Culture.Photo credit: Jacq Harriet Gallery https://hannahtraoregallery.com/The Cut https://www.thecut.com/2022/03/hannah-traore-art-gallery-interview.htmlKinfolk https://www.kinfolk.com/hannah-traore/Forbes https://www.forbes.com/profile/hannah-traore/?sh=6bdf91424ef1Vogue https://www.vogue.com/article/hannah-traore-new-york-gallerist-styleFinancial Times https://www.ft.com/content/f5c8dd76-c2e4-499c-87d5-78deb3274f0aStandard Hotel https://www.standardhotels.com/culture/hannah-traore-interviewWMagazine https://www.wmagazine.com/culture/hannah-traore-gallery-curator-interviewhttps://www.wmagazine.com/culture/antwaun-sargent-helmut-lang-hannah-traore-galleryInto the Gloss https://intothegloss.com/2022/05/hannah-traore-beauty-routine/Harpers Bazaar https://www.harpersbazaar.com/culture/art-books-music/a38830995/gallerist-hannah-traore-is-remaking-the-art-world-for-creatives-of-color/HypeBeast https://hypebeast.com/tags/Hannah-Traore-GalleryDocument Journal https://www.documentjournal.com/2023/01/30-under-30-nominee-hannah-traore-is-the-new-york-gallerist-bringing-marginalized-voices-into-the-mainstream-at-hannah-traore-gallery-2/Surface https://www.surfacemag.com/articles/hannah-traore-gallery-anniversary-party/
Ep.145 features RoseLee Goldberg, world-renowned art historian, critic and curator and Founding Director and Chief Curator of Performa. Launched in 2004 to create a highly visible public platform for contemporary art and performance by artists, Performa, has changed public and academic perception of performance art with its exciting city-wide Biennial, ground-breaking commissions, publications, and original arts-broadcasting platform. Performa has inspired the establishment of performance departments in cultural institutions around the globe. Goldberg’s many publications include her pioneering book, Performance Art: from Futurism to the Present, first published in 1979 and now in fourteen languages; Laurie Anderson (2000), and Performance Now; Live Art for the 21st Century (2018). Former director of the Royal College of Art Gallery in London and curator at The Kitchen in New York, Goldberg has organized performance series at the Museum of Modern Art, The Guggenheim and Garage in Moscow. Her many awards include Chevalier of the Order of Arts and Letters from the French Government, Yoko Ono’s Courage Award for the Arts, the Agnes Gund Curatorial Award, and the title of Honorary Advisor to the Ministry of Culture, Taiwan. A graduate of the Courtauld Institute, Goldberg has taught at NYU Steinhardt since 1987. Photo Credit: BFAPerforma https://www.performa2021.org/Wikipedia https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roselee_GoldbergOcula https://ocula.com/magazine/art-news/tschabalala-self-on-her-play-for-performa/NYU https://steinhardt.nyu.edu/people/roselee-goldbergICI https://curatorsintl.org/about/collaborators/4327-roselee-goldberge-flux https://www.e-flux.com/announcements/510183/fellowships-at-performa-in-new-york/Copenhagen Contemporary https://copenhagencontemporary.org/en/event/roselee-goldberg/Book https://www.amazon.com/Performance-Art-Futurism-Present-Third/dp/0500204047Harvard Books https://www.harvard.com/book/performance_art_from_futurism_to_the_present_world_of_art/
Ep.144 features Dr. Tiffany E. Barber is a prize-winning, internationally-recognized scholar, curator, and critic whose writing and expert commentary appears in top-tier academic journals, popular media outlets, and award-winning documentaries. Her work spans abstraction, dance, fashion, feminism, film, and the ethics of representation, focusing on artists of the Black diaspora working in the United States and the broader Atlantic world. Her latest curatorial project, a virtual, multimedia exhibition for Google Arts and Culture, examines the value of Afrofuturism in times of crisis.Dr. Barber is currently Assistant Professor of African American Art at the University of California-Los Angeles as well as curator-in-residence at the Delaware Contemporary. Prior to joining the faculty at UCLA, she was Assistant Professor of Africana Studies and Art History at the University of Delaware. She has completed fellowships at ArtTable, the Delaware Art Museum, the University of Virginia’s Carter G. Woodson Institute for African-American and African Studies, and the Getty Research Institute. Dr. Barber is the recipient of the Smithsonian’s 2022 National Portrait Gallery Director’s Essay Prize.Photo credit: Jawara KingWebsite Tiffany E. Barber – Scholar/Curator/Writer (tiffanyebarber.com)National Portrait Gallery https://www.si.edu/newsdesk/releases/national-portrait-gallery-announces-winner-2022-directors-essay-prize-scholarsUCLA https://arthistory.ucla.edu/faculty-profiles/tiffany-barber/University of Delaware https://www.arthistory.udel.edu/people/barberHyperallergic https://hyperallergic.com/738214/national-portrait-gallery-directors-essay-prize-winner-2022/Culture Type https://www.culturetype.com/tag/tiffany-e-barber/Southern Cultures https://www.southerncultures.org/article/looking-for-abolition/LinkedIn https://www.linkedin.com/in/tiffanyelizabethbarber/Frieze https://www.frieze.com/article/blondell-cummings-moving-pictures-2022-reviewBook Print Collective https://www.bookprintcollective.com/tiffany-e-barberMixed Race Studies https://mixedracestudies.org/?tag=tiffany-barberQuarantine Public Library https://www.quarantinepubliclibrary.com/how-to-break-up-with-white-supremacy-by-tiffany-barber
Ep.143 features Mary Rozell. She is the Global Head of the UBS Art Collection. She is responsible for the strategic direction and management of UBS’s art collection of over 30,000 works of art, considered to be one of the most important collections of its kind. An art lawyer and art historian, Mary is also the author of The Art Collector's Handbook: The Definitive Guide to Acquiring and Owning Art published in 2020. She has acted as an advisor to collectors, artists and estates on all issues relating to the acquisition, management and deaccessioning of private art collections, and is a recognized leader in the field.Photo Credit: Flavio Karrer 2022Collecting with Purpose https://www.artnews.com/art-news/market/mary-rozell-art-collectors-handbook-interview-1234573848/Reimagining New Perspectives https://www.ubs.com/global/en/our-firm/art/art-collection/reimagining-new-perspectives-book.htmlArt Collectors Handbook https://www.amazon.com/Art-Collectors-Handbook-Definitive Acquiring/dp/184822401X/ref=sr_1_1?qid=1678233706&refinements=p_27%3AMary+Rozell&s=books&sr=1-1Gagosian https://gagosian.com/quarterly/2022/06/09/interview-an-eye-on-the-market-mary-rozell/#:~:text=New%20York%20City.-,Mary%20Rozell%20is%20the%20global%20head%20of%20the%20UBS%20Art,at%20Sotheby's%20Institute%20of%20Art.Artnews https://www.artnews.com/art-news/market/mary-rozell-art-collectors-handbook-interview-1234573848/APAA https://www.artadvisors.org/art-advisor-directory/p/template-executive-62xhlArt Art https://art.art/blog/mary-rozell-presented-russian-edition-art-collectors-handbook-moscow-saint-petersburgArtsy https://www.artsy.net/article/artsy-editorial-mary-rozell-art-market-changedThe Genuis List https://www.thegeniuslist.com/interview/mary-rozell/LinkedIn https://www.linkedin.com/in/mary-rozell-19974b/
Ep.142 features Evita Tezeno. A Port Arthur, Texas native and graduate of Lamar University, she lives and works in Dallas. Tezeno's collage paintings employ richly patterned hand-painted papers and found objects in a contemporary folk-art style. Her work depicts a cast of characters in harmonious everyday scenes inspired by her family and friends, childhood memories in South Texas, personal dreams and moments from her adult life—and influenced by the great 20th century modernists Romare Bearden, Elizabeth Catlett, and William H. Johnson—scenes of joy animate her vision of a Black America filled with humanity.As the recipient of the prestigious Elizabeth Catlett Award for The New Power Generation, Tezeno has built a career as an acclaimed multi-disciplinary female artist. Her work is included in the permanent collection of the African American Museum of Dallas and the Embassy of the Republic of Madagascar, the Pizzuti Collection, Columbus, OH; Bill and Christy Gautreaux Collection, Kansas City; and Beth Rudin DeWoody Collection, Palm Beach; among others. In addition, her work has been acquired by prominent collectors, entertainers, media personalities and athletes, including Esther Silver-Parker, Samuel L. Jackson, David Hoberman, Denzel Washington, Star Jones, Laurie David, and Susan Taylor, among others. She has been awarded commissions by the Essence Music Festival in New Orleans, The Deep Ellum Film Festival in Dallas, and the legendary New Orleans Jazz & Heritage Festival ("Jazz Fest"), where in 1999 she became the first female artist to design its celebrated poster.Recent solo exhibitions include Better Days (2021) at Luis De Jesus Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA; Evita Tezeno and Jas Mardis: Sharing Memories (2021) at ArtCentre of Plano, Plano, TX; Memories Create Our Yesterdays and Tomorrows (2019) at Thelma Harris Gallery, Oakland,CA; Memories That Speak To My Soul (2018) at Stella Jones Gallery, New Orleans, LA; and Thoughts of Time Gone By (2017) at Peg Alston Gallery, New York, NY.Selected group exhibitions include Réinterprétation (2020) at C.O.A. Contemporary Art Gallery, Montreal, Canada; Phenomenal Women #UsToo (2019) at the African American Museum, Dallas, TX; Love in the Time of Hysteria (2019) at Prism Art Fair, Miami, FL; Flagrant Rules of Ensued Emancipation 2019 at John Milde Gallery, Dallas, TX; Modern Day Muse (2019) at ArtCenter of Plano, Plano, TX; Arts Past & Present (2018) at George Bush Library, Dallas, TX; Daughter of Diaspora – Women of Color Speak (2018) at Hearne Fine Art, Hot Springs, AR; and New Power Generation 2012, curated by Myrtis Bedolla at Hampton University Museum, Hampton, VA. Her work has been published and featured in numerous publications and media outlets, including Artforum, Artillery Magazine, Art Matters with Edward Goldman, Document Journal, Black Art in America, Collective Arts Network Journal, Culture Type, The Dallas Examiner, D Magazine, Dallas Woman, North Dallas Gazette, Fort Worth Star Telegram, Dallas Morning News, Eclipse Magazine, ONYX Magazine, The Shreveport Times, Visionary Art Collective, Visual Art Source, NBC 5 - DFW (video), and MAG-RAW Creations (video).Photo credit: Henry MinerArtist https://evitatezeno.com/Luis de Jesus Gallery https://www.luisdejesus.com/artists/evita-tezenoArtillery Mag https://artillerymag.com/gallery-rounds-luis-de-jesus-los-angeles/Art Now LA https://artnowla.com/2022/05/14/evita-tezeno-my-life-my-story/Glasstire https://glasstire.com/2022/04/22/dallas-museum-of-art-announces-2022-art-fair-acquisitions-including-three-texas-artists/Thelma Harris Gallery https://www.thelmaharrisartgallery.com/evita-tezenoPlatform Art https://www.platformart.com/artists/evita-tezenoBlack Art in America https://www.blackartinamerica.com/products/tezeno-evita-pookieTown and Country https://www.townandcountrymag.com/leisure/arts-and-culture/a39981945/dallas-art-fair-2022/Two x Two https://twoxtwo.org/catalogue/2022/i-am-proud/
Ep.141 features Jahkori Dopwell Hall, an African American Visual Artist, Illustrator, Poet, Entrepreneur and Teacher whose artwork highlights black life, beauty, history, heritage, and culture. With instruction from the Ringling College of Art and Design, Jahkori was able to master his own unique artistic style, while becoming a professional in the field of fine arts. Through his themes of black identity and the black experience, Jahkori's artwork takes viewers on a journey through the African diaspora, with the purpose of raising awareness. While living in New York, his artwork was exhibited at Christie's Young Visions Exhibit and Lincoln Center’s Abstract Art Exhibit. After moving to Florida, Jahkori’s work has been featured and sold in numerous private art collections, including Art Center Sarasota, as well as the Fogartyville Community Media and Arts Center. In 2019, Jahkori completed an abstract mural commission titled “Stripes of the Seven Diamonds.” During his early career as a Volunteer Teaching Artist, Jahkori realized the importance of black representation in the arts. Working with students from minority backgrounds, including underprivileged and underrepresented at-risk youth has prompted Jahkori to become an Elementary Art Teacher, encouraging the next generation of black artists. In 2020, Jahkori compiled his art portfolio into a series known as the Black Empowerment Collection - a collection of empowering art pieces created with different mediums. Many illustrations in this collection were included as part of his “Black History Year Calendar" business project which combines his visual art talents with his skills in graphic design and poetry.Photo Credit Leonard's PhotographyArtist https://www.jahkoridopwellhall.org/Artist Calendar Black History Year 2023 - Jahkori Dopwell HallThe Glaucoma Foundation https://glaucomafoundation.org/TGF Art Challenge https://glaucomafoundation.org/art-challenge-2022/Shark Tank Winner ‘Emerging CEOs’ https://smygbm.net/emerging-ceos/Art Works Anywhere https://artworksanywhere.org/meet-our-team/SRQ Magazine https://www.srqmagazine.com/srq-daily/2019-04-24/10555_Once-Upon-a-Time-in-Southside-Elementary?fbclid=IwAR0GXdaJ9VMWw53fZxCXPXjm5Ut25e4BucK9rWTuKwGQGHw0KfC1X86LkhsSarasota SCENE Magazine http://www.scenesarasota.com/magazine/halliday-financial-announces-the-opening-of-new-southern-headquarters/?fbclid=IwAR0tfFPgZsM5GvEMD1HdUA20ZK1l37Hk3CVUJ5zgQXNMH8N2aZJ6su9ht08
Ep.140 features Elliot Perry. He is a native Memphian... graduate of Treadwell HighSchool (1987) and the University of Memphis (1991) where he also playedbasketball. After graduating with a degree in marketing in 1991, Perry was drafted in the second round of the 1991 NBA Draft by the Los Angeles Clippers and went on to play 10 years. After retirement, Elliot served as a player representative with the NBA Players Association in (2004). On October 8th, 2005he began a new chapter in his life when he joined the Memphis Grizzlies ownership team. Elliot lives in Germantown, TN with his wife, Kimberly and daughter Morgan. He enjoys golf and spending time with his mentees. Perry is currently working for the Poplar Foundation which support educational opportunities for underserved communities in Memphis, as well as; serving ast he board chair of the Memphis Grizzlies Charitable Foundation, which provides mentorship opportunities for Memphis youth. He also serves on several other boards including National Civil Rights museum (NCRM), Memphis Athletic Ministries (MAM), and New Hope Christian Academy. Elliot and his wife are avid art collectors and have amassed one of the top contemporary collections of African American and African artist in the country. They have been collectingfor over twenty (20) and continues to support not only artist, but arts organizations that are helping build a stronger and more diverse arts community in Memphis. Their collection has been written about extensively and exhibited several times and in 2014 showed at the Charles H. Wright Museum of AfricanAmerican History and the Flint Institute of Arts. In 2022 he was honored by MoMa and the Blacks Arts Council. Perry said “The mission of our collection is to encourage dialogue, while also creating a platform for inquiry and exploration.All the artist within our collection have the common denominator of being some of the most powerful and visually impactful voices of their generation. As collectors, we aim to compile works that allow for the convergence of these voices and the conversations they instigate. Our enthusiasm is not just simply about a collection; it is in some way our attempt at documenting and preserving African American culture and history for the next generation”. Elliot PerryFoundation https://www.elliotperry.org/MoMA Black Arts Council Gala https://press.moma.org/news/momas-2022-black-arts-council-benefit/Artsy https://www.artsy.net/article/artsy-editorial-black-collectors-shaping-future-artNBA https://www.nba.com/grizzlies/mikecheck-elliot-perry-showcases-extensive-passion-african-american-art-grizzlies-players-loungeHyperallergichttps://hyperallergic.com/509611/sondra-perry-offers-viewers-a-drone-perspective/Vanity Fair https://www.vanityfair.com/style/2020/05/meghan-and-harry-tyler-perry-art-collectionFort Wayne Museumof Art https://fwmoa.blog/2022/08/03/what-were-reading-playing-to-the-gallery-by-grayson-perry/Andy WarholFoundation https://warholfoundation.org/2022/06/07/current-art-fund-2022-application-now-open/Tri-StarArts https://tristararts.org/current-art-fundLarry’s List http://www.larryslist.com/artmarket/the-talks/former-nba-star-on-why-the-work-of-artist-of-color-is-vital-to-art-institutions/Andscape https://andscape.com/features/next-chapter-retired-nba-player-elliot-perry/C& https://contemporaryand.com/magazines/the-elliot-and-kimberly-perry-collection/BrooksMuseum https://www.brooksmuseum.org/post/the-art-of-collectingWikipedia https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elliot_Perry
Ep.139 features Storm Ascher, an artist, curator, writer and founder of Superposition Gallery. Ascher has a BFA in Visual & Critical Studies from the School of Visual Arts and an MA in Art Business from Sotheby’s Institute and Claremont Graduate University. She worked at various galleries and institutions prior to starting her own curatorial program, such as LAXART under Hamza Walker, David Lewis Gallery, and Spruth Magers. In 2018, Ascher founded Superposition Gallery as a nomadic gallery and curatorial platform with a mission to subvert gentrification tactics used in urban development through art galleries. Storm is a Forbes 30 Under 30 2022 Art & Style Honoree and was named in The New Generation of Black Women Gallerists by Artsy. She has curated for the Eastville Museum in Sag Harbor, Phillips New York, Phillips Los Angeles, and is slated to curate OOLITE Residency's Annual Miami Art Basel show in 2023. She contributed the foreword for The Brilliance of the Color Black Through the Eyes of Art Collectors (2021) and has contributed writing to Cultured, PHILLIPS, Tilt West, the Getty Archives, Foundwork and the Melinda Camber Porter Archive. She has been featured in The New York Times, The Los Angeles Times, W Magazine, Artsy and more. Photo credit ~ 9th Annual PAMM Art + SoulPhotography by World Red Eye, Kyle McLaughlin, Daniel Rodriguez on February 5th, 2022 in Arts, LifestyleStorm Ascher https://stormascher.com/Superposition Gallery https://superpositiongallery.com/Phillips Los Angeles https://www.phillips.com/article/113465292/nine-questions-for-artists-in-a-love-letter-to-la-storm-ascher-superposition-gallery-art-exhibition-los-angeles Images - https://superpositiongallery.inventory.gallery/superpositionlashow2023?docKey=iluuct&statusKey=6k4fgf&vatKey=mu22p0Phillips New York City https://www.phillips.com/article/88172558/phillips-x-house-of-crownsArtsy https://www.artsy.net/article/artsy-editorial-new-generation-black-women-nonbinary-gallerists-redefining-gallery-modelForbes https://www.forbes.com/profile/storm-ascher/?sh=4f9cbf5950baNYTimes https://www.nytimes.com/2021/12/07/arts/design/sag-harbor-black-artists-long-island.htmlCultured https://www.culturedmag.com/@/storm-ascherW Magazine https://www.wmagazine.com/culture/resilience-sag-harbor-art-exhibition-eastville-community-historical-society-superposition-gallery-interviewSVA https://sva.edu/features/storm-ascher-in-the-new-york-times-and-phillips-x-house-of-crownsFoundwork https://foundwork.art/guest-curators/storm-ascherIssuu https://issuu.com/svavisualartsjournal/docs/f21_journal_issuu/s/13610322Medium https://medium.com/@curate.LA/curator-storm-ascher-on-bringing-black-art-to-the-hamptons-12e0b1962062
Ep.138 features Jerrell Gibbs. His work is often sourced from albums he finds of Black American families in the 70’s-90’s that capture moments of intimacy, leisure and elegance. Gibbs highlights subtle adornments found in these domestic spaces, which represent cultural symbols in an era where Black folks created beauty with whatever means they had. He leans into a method of painting that supports the duality of Black people who may not have resources, and yet are active in creating world-renowned culture and style that are both beautiful and classic. In Gibbs’ work, he asks the viewer to come closer to witness imperfection in brushstroke and color, as well as other artistic choices that seem misaligned. This contrasts to the illusion of a cohesive image that he creates from afar. Gibbs celebrates this dichotomy because it portrays chance as integral to the process of creation, a principle found in the masters of Impressionism, Abstract Expressionism, Divisionism and the abstract movement.Gibbs graduated with an MFA from the Maryland Institute College of Art, Baltimore, MD in 2020. His work is in the permanent collection of the Columbus Museum of Art, CC Foundation, X Museum, Baltimore Museum of Art, and the Los Angeles Museum of Art. Gibbs is represented by Mariane Ibrahim Gallery.Photo Credit - Mike Jon PhotographyArtist http://www.jerrellgibbs.com/Marianne Ibrahim https://marianeibrahim.com/artists/49-jerrell-gibbs/biography/Baltimore Magazine Jerrell Gibbs Aimed to Capture Elijah Cummings’ “Presence and Aura” in Official Portrait (baltimoremagazine.com)New York Times Painter of Elijah Cummings Portrait Finds It’s a Career-Changer - The New York Times (nytimes.com)Washington Post https://www.washingtonpost.com/local/baltimore-museum-to-unveil-elijah-cummings-portrait/2021/12/08/929458ca-56b7-11ec-a808-3197a22b19fa_story.htmlFrederick News Post https://www.fredericknewspost.com/news/arts_and_entertainment/guest-artist-lecture-jerrell-gibbs/article_9412cfde-b3d3-556b-ac92-ce58db9476fb.htmlFox News Baltimore https://foxbaltimore.com/news/local/portrait-of-late-us-representative-elijah-cummings-now-at-the-baltimore-museum-of-artCulture Type https://www.culturetype.com/2021/12/12/latest-news-in-black-art-eric-pryor-named-president-of-pennsylvania-academy-of-the-fine-arts-jarrell-gibbs-painted-portrait-of-late-congressman-elijah-cummings-more/Full-Bleed We Are Enough: An Interview with Jerrell Gibbs — Full Bleed (full-bleed.org)Bmore Art Art AND: Jerrell Gibbs - BmoreArtArt of Choice Jerrell Gibbs Regards Authentic, Everyday Life - Art of Choice
Ep.137 features Hayv Kahraman. She was born in Baghdad, Iraq in 1981 and lives and works in Los Angeles. Recent solo exhibitions include Gut Feelings, The Mosaic Rooms, London (2022); Touch of Otherness, SCAD Museum of Art, Savannah (2022); Not Quite Human: Second Iteration, Pilar Corrias, London (2020); Shangri La Museum of Islamic Art, Culture, and Design, Honolulu, HI (2019); De La Warr Pavilion, Sussex, UK (2019); Pomona College Museum of Art, Claremont, California (2018); and Contemporary Art Museum St, Louis, St. Louis, Missouri (2017). Recent group exhibitions include Reflections: Contemporary Art of the Middle East and North Africa, British Museum, London (2021); Blurred Bodies, San Jose Museum of Art, San Jose (2021); New Time: Art and Feminisms in the 21st Century, Berkeley Art Museum, Berkeley (2021); Henry Art Gallery, Seattle (2019); ICA Boston (2019); and MASS MoCA, North Adams, (2019). Kahraman’s work is in several important international collections including the British Museum, London, UK; Museum of Contemporary Art, San Diego, California, US; Los Angeles County Museum of Art (LACMA), California, US; Birmingham Museum of Art, Alabama, US; The Rubell Family Collection, Florida, US; The Barjeel Art Foundation Sharjah, UAE; MATHAF: Arab Museum of Modern Art Doha, Qatar; Pizzuti Collection of Columbus Museum of Art, Ohio, US; North Carolina Museum of Art, Raleigh, US; Pérez Art Museum Miami, Miami, US. Photo ~ Courtesy the artist and Pilar Corrias, LondonArtist https://hayvkahraman.com/Book https://www.rizzoliusa.com/book/9780847862627/Pilar Corrias Gallery https://www.pilarcorrias.com/artists/hayv-kahraman/2/Jack Shainman https://jackshainman.com/artists/hayv_kahramanVielmetter https://vielmetter.com/artists/hayv-kahramanThe Third Line https://thethirdline.com/ICASF https://www.icasf.org/exhibitions/7-hayv-kahramanHyperallergic https://hyperallergic.com/tag/hayv-kahraman/Financial Times https://www.ft.com/content/ba61f731-e007-4c6c-922f-bc93dd4ad4c8Perez Art Museum Miami https://www.pamm.org/en/artwork/2020.093/Rubell Museum https://rubellmuseum.org/nml-hayv-kahramanArt Forum https://www.artforum.com/print/reviews/201909/hayv-kahraman-81120SCAD https://www.scadmoa.org/exhibitions/the-touch-of-othernessNPR https://www.npr.org/2019/11/27/770452266/iraqi-american-artist-hayv-kahraman-is-building-an-army-of-fierce-womenArt Review https://artreview.com/hayv-kahraman-gut-feelings-review/The Guardian https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/2022/feb/21/hayv-kahraman-i-was-brainwashed-into-thinking-anything-euro-american-centric-is-the-idealWikipedia https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hayv_Kahramanjdeed Magazine http://jdeedmagazine.com/hayv-kahraman-exhibits-gut-feelings-at-the-mosaic-rooms/Mosiac Rooms https://mosaicrooms.org/event/hayv-kahraman/
Ep.136 features Isimeme "Easy" Otabor. Born and raised in Chicago, IL, Easy is a multi-hyphenate creative + entrepreneur. A self-taught art collector turned gallery owner, Easy has taken an innovative approach to his curatorial practice in the fashion and art space.Easy rose through the ranks at local Chicago and global cultural hub; RSVP Gallery, a concept and experiential retail space founded by Virgil Abloh + Don Crawley in the late 2000s. He quickly became operator + buyer of the location and was known as the go-to resource for his knowledge in the music, art, fashion + retail spaces. Otabor is the founder of the apparel brand Infinite Archives, known for its unique mix of cultural history and storytelling. The brand chronicles a different year and era each calendar year, resulting in a new take and an educative approach to applying the past to the new zeitgeist. Today, Easy is focused on his expanding vision for the future of the art space; acting as collector, dealer, enthusiast and in demand curator for brands at the intersection of art, music + fashion. In 2019, he founded Anthony Gallery, his contemporary art gallery focused on emerging and established artists from around the world. “Photo credit: Ian VecchiottiAnthony Gallery https://www.anthony.gallery/what-it-could-be/Re-Build Foundation https://www.rebuild-foundation.org/projects-6Mosaiko Magazine https://www.mosaikomagazine.com/blog/easy-otabor-and-the-cultural-impact-of-anthony-galleryHenry Swanson http://www.henryswansonart.com/new-events-2Nike https://www.nike.com/launch/t/unite-easy-otabor7-eleven https://corp.7-eleven.com/corp-press-releases/drop-it-like-it-s-haute-7-and-8209-eleven-releases-limited-edition-apparel-collection-with-overtime-and-easy-otaborArtnet https://news.artnet.com/art-world/valuations-easy-otabor-2213292Chicago Gallery News https://www.chicagogallerynews.com/news/2022/1/world-renown-artist-theaster-gates-and-celebrated-gallerist-easy-otabor-team-up-to-showcase-black-artists-yearlongUSAArtnews https://usaartnews.com/news/valuations-gallerist-and-entrepreneur-easy-otabor-on-his-wardrobe-the-wickedly-smart-art-of-david-leggett-and-other-things-he-holds-deari-D https://i-d.vice.com/en/article/wxnqn5/theaster-gates-easy-otabor-interviewArtnews https://www.artnews.com/art-news/news/easy-otabor-shaping-art-2021-1234577352/Hypebeast https://hypebeast.com/tags/easy-otaborGOAT https://www.goat.com/editorial/easy-otabor
Ep. 135 features Suchitra Mattai (b.1973 Georgetown, Guyana) , a multi-disciplinary artist of Indo-Caribbean descent. Her work explores how collective and individual memory and the space of myth and folklore allow us to unravel and re-imagine colonial histories and narratives. Using both her own family’s history and her research of colonial indentured labor during the 19th century, Mattai seeks to expand our sense of “history.” Suchitra received an MFA in painting and drawing and an MA in South Asian art from the University of Pennsylvania. Recent and upcoming projects include a commission for the Sharjah Biennial 14, solo exhibitions at the ICA San Francisco and Kavi Gupta Gallery (Chicago) and group exhibitions at the MCA Chicago, Crystal Bridges Museum, the Art Gallery of Ontario, the San Antonio Museum of Art, the Sarasota Museum of Art and the John Michael Kohler Arts Center. Her works are represented in collections which include Crystal Bridges Museum of Art, the Denver Art Museum, and the Tampa Museum of Art. Suchitra is represented by Kavi Gupta Gallery.Photo credit: Kendra CusterMaximiliano Duron, The Best Booths at Art Basel Miami Beach 2022(Arghavan Khosravi and Suchitra Mattai at Kavi Gupta), FromDazzling Abstractions to Urgent Protest ArtHTTPS://WWW.ARTNEWS.COM/LIST/ART-NEWS/MARKET/ART-BASEL-MIAMI-BEACH-2022-BEST-BOOTHS-1234648390/Emann Odofu, Suchitra Mattai’s Guyana exists in the gaps of thewestern archive, Document Journal, March 08, 2022,https://www.documentjournal.com/2022/03/suchitra-mattais-guyana-exists-in-the-gaps-of-the-western-archive/Aron Mok, Suchitra Mattai Probes the Monstrous MisperceptionsAround Immigrant Identity, Hyperallergic, March 8, 2022,https://hyperallergic.com/715678/suchitra-mattai-probes-the-monstrous-misperceptions-around-immigrant-identity/Salomé Gómez-Upegui, Artsy, Suchitra Mattai’s Soulful WorksConvey Unspeakable Truths, February 4, 2022https://www.artsy.net/article/artsy-editorial-suchitra-mattais-soulful-works-convey-unspeakable-truthsSammi Lee, Plinth UK, Monstering with Suchitra Mattai, January, 2,2022 https://plinth.uk.com/blogs/in-the-studio-with/monster-suchitra-mattai-unit-londonSadaf Padder, A Tale of Two Countries: Finding Indo-CaribbeanShakti in Colorado, Hyperallergic, January 23, 2022https://hyperallergic.com/705864/a-tale-of-two-countries-finding-indo-caribbean-shakti-in-colorado/ArtNet News, Looking for the Next Big Thing? Here Are 6 ExcitingArtists to Watch From Miami Art Week 2021, December 7, 2021https://news.artnet.com/market/looking-for-the-next-big-thing-here-are-6-artists-to-watch-from-miami-art-week-2021-2043675Alison S. Cohn, Harpers Bazar, Art Returns to Miami After a Two-Year Hiatus, Dec. 2, 2021https://www.harpersbazaar.com/culture/art-books-music/a38402593/art-returns-to-miami-december-2021-january-2022/Salome Gomez-Upegui, Artsy , Nov. 30, 2021https://www.artsy.net/article/artsy-editorial-10-best-booths-untitled-art-miami-beach-2021Stewart Lee, “Touched by the Hand of Ithell-My fascination with aforgotten surrealist, The Guardian, October 11, 2021https://www.theguardian.com/culture/2021/oct/11/touched-ithell-colquhoun-forgotten-surrealist-stewart-lee
Ep.134 features Kimberli Gant, the Curator of Modern & Contemporary Art at the Brooklyn Museum of Art. She was previously the McKinnon Curator of Modern & Contemporary Art at the Chrysler Museum in Norfolk, VA, and has also worked as the Mellon Doctoral Fellow at the Newark Museum, and Director of Exhibitions at the Museum of Contemporary African Diasporan Art (MoCADA). She has curated numerous exhibitions and gallery reinstallations including Black Orpheus: Jacob Lawrence & the Mbari Club (2022), Journey’s Across the Border: U.S. & Mexico (2021-22), Tuan Andrew Nguyen: The Boat People (2021), Brendan Fernandes: Bodily Forms (2020), and John Akomfrah: Tropikos (2019). Gant received her PhD in Art History from the University of Texas Austin (2017) and holds both a MA and BA in Art History from Columbia University (2009) and Pitzer College (2002). Gant has published scholarly work in academic books, such as Anywhere But Here: Black Intellectuals in the Atlantic World and Beyond (2015), art publications such as NKA: Journal of Contemporary African Art, Art Lies and African Arts, and exhibition catalogues for The Newark Museum, The Contemporary Austin, the Studio Museum of Harlem, MoCADA, Paris Photo, and the Centre for Contemporary Art Lagos. Photo credit: Andar Sawyer Black Orpheus: Jacob Lawrence & the Mbari Club (2022) https://yalebooks.co.uk/page/detail/black-orpheus/?k=9780300263176 Chrysler Museum https://chrysler.org/exhibition/jacob-lawrence/ Brooklyn Museum https://www.artnews.com/art-news/news/brooklyn-museum-hires-stephanie-sparling-williams-kimberli-gant-1234610507/ NY Times https://www.nytimes.com/2022/10/20/arts/design/black-artists-african-art.html University of Texas https://art.utexas.edu/news/dr-kimberli-gant-selected-2022-curatorial-fellow ICI https://curatorsintl.org/about/collaborators/7950-kimberli-gant Artnews https://www.artnews.com/art-news/news/brooklyn-museum-hires-stephanie-sparling-williams-kimberli-gant-1234610507/ Brooklyn Eagle https://brooklyneagle.com/articles/2022/12/07/brooklyn-museums-23-exhibition-schedule-leaps-across-artistic-categories/ C& https://contemporaryand.com/magazines/brooklyn-museum-appoints-stephanie-sparling-williams-and-kimberli-gant-as-curators/ Artadia https://artadia.org/news/join-us-for-art-and-dialogue-new-york-with-kimberli-gant/ Culture Type https://www.culturetype.com/2021/11/18/latest-news-in-black-art-curator-essence-harden-joins-caam-new-curatorial-hires-at-brooklyn-museum-arthur-jafa-guest-edited-i-d-magazine-michael-c-thorpe-and-jammie-holmes-gain-new-gallery-repres/ Africa Center https://www.theafricacenter.org/events/becoming-in-america-a-conversation-with-fitsum-shebeshe-and-kimberli-gant/ The Herald News https://www.heraldnews.com/story/entertainment/2022/01/29/newport-art-museum-biennial-2022-featured-artist-exhibition-view-now/6595612001/ Live Auctioneers https://www.liveauctioneers.com/news/people/brooklyn-museum-appoints-two-new-art-curators/
Ep.133 features Kevin Claiborne, a multidisciplinary conceptual artist whose work examines intersections of identity, social environment, & mental health within the Black American experience. Moving between collage, silkscreen, photography, painting, and sculpture, while frequently using language as material, Claiborne is interested in finding new ways to look at history and its connection to the present. Claiborne holds a B.S. in Mathematics from the historically Black college North Carolina Central University (2012), an M.S. in Higher Education from Syracuse University (2016), and an MFA in Visual Arts from Columbia University (2021).Claiborne is currently living and working in Harlem, New York City.Artist StatementCurrently, my work focuses primarily on intergenerational trauma and memory, mental health within the Black experience, and psychological burdens related to or around identity development. I am interested in using history to find new ways of looking at and understanding the present. Starting with the gaps in my own family history, and the space between ‘what I know vs. what I should know’, the missing information between where my ancestors come from and where I am today, I am digging and mining the sediment of histories, passed down, erased, and avoided.I often use image and text together, using language as material, constructing and deconstructing sentences into new poems and formations, playing with legibility to change the ways in which the images and text function, both together and individually.In practice, I use found images from my family archive and my personal book collection, reappropriating text from sociological essays and textbooks, and incorporate several different mediums such as collage, photography, silkscreen, and painting; conceptually, my work joins broader conversations about the reframing of history, and the importance of narrative ownership as a means for survival.Photo credit: Gioncarlo ValentineArtist www.kevinclaiborne.comOSMOS Gallery https://www.osmos.online/The Print Center https://printcenter.org/95thsoloexhibitions/kevinclaiborne/Columbia University https://www.vaexhibitions.arts.columbia.edu/class-of-2021-thesis-exhibition/kevin-claiborneThierry Goldberg https://thierrygoldberg.com/Kevin-ClaiborneMFA Index https://www.mfaindex.art/students/kevin-claiborne/AXnxqvzJOi4gjC8Ii9qmKg
Ep.132 features Rico Gatson, a multimedia visual artist whose work explores themes of history, identity, popular culture and spirituality, through sculpture, painting, drawing, video, and public art projects. Over the course of almost two decades, he has been celebrated for politically layered artworks, often based on significant moments in black history. From the Watts Riots, the formation of the Black Panthers, to the election of President Barack Obama are a few subjects touched upon in his work. His work has been exhibited nationally and internationally, including exhibitions at The Studio Museum in Harlem, NY; The Whitney Museum of American Art, NY; The Essl Museum, Austria, Vienna and The Smithsonian American Art Museum in Washington, DC. In 2019 completed a large commission for MTA Arts and Design in titled “Beacons”; eight permanent large-scale mosaics of prominent figures associated with and installed in a subway station in the Bronx. His work is featured in the permanent collections of The Smithsonian American Art Museum, The Studio Museum in Harlem, The Denver Art Museum, The Cheekwood Museum, The Kempner Museum and The Yale University Art Gallery. His work is also included in numerous private collections.Headshot photo courtesy of the ArtistArtist https://ricogatson.com/Miles McEnery https://www.milesmcenery.com/artists/rico-gatsonIssuu Nov 2022 Publication https://issuu.com/amy-nyc/docs/rico_gatson_pages_22581d0e587ad7Art Rabbit https://www.artrabbit.com/events/rico-gatson-spectral-visionsFeldman Gallery https://feldmangallery.com/artist-home/rico-gatsonStudio Museum of Harlem https://studiomuseum.org/artist/rico-gatsonOcula https://ocula.com/art-galleries/miles-mcenery-gallery/artworks/rico-gatson/untitled-triple-consciousness/SVA https://sva.edu/faculty/rico-gatsonChristies Real Estate https://www.christiesrealestate.com/blog/creative-spirit-in-the-studio-with-artist-rico-gatson/Anderson Ranch https://www.andersonranch.org/people/rico-gatson/Sugar Hill Museum https://www.sugarhillmuseum.org/rico-gatsonArtnet https://www.artnet.com/artists/rico-gatson/eventsArt for Change https://artforchange.com/collections/rico-gatsonWikipedia https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rico_Gatson
Ep.131 features Clotilde Jiménez, (b. Honolulu, Hawaii, 1990). He is a visual artist based in Mexico City. Jiménez received his BFA from the Cleveland Institute of Art, Cleveland, OH (2013) in Printmaking, and an MFA from the Slade School of Fine Art, London, UK (2018) in Painting.Jiménez references intricate aspects of his life using strategically cut and arranged layers of multimedia collage that activate a dynamistic viewing of the visual narratives presented. “Most of my work is autobiographical, so collage allows me to tell several stories at the same time”, Jiménez states. Through a kaleidoscope lens, composite portraits within montaged vignettes, offer a dream-like gaze into the artist’s inner thoughts. Emotions triggered from vivid dreams and memories take form, as the artist sketches daily. From this cathartic exercise, a singular visual language has emerged, resulting in thought provoking cannon of motifs: tropical fruits, pink painted fingernails, lingerie, and boxing gear.Close readings of Jiménez’s work change initial evocations of whimsical frolic, and carefree simplicity, to varying interpretations that are dependent on the viewer’s point of view, regarding gender performance, sexuality, social justice, and racial equality. Nonetheless, Jiménez utilizes quotidian, relatable childhood experiences that present the question, “What is so queer about queerness?”His work is featured in noted collections including; The Ford Foundation, Orlando Museum of Art, Hessel Museum of Art, and the Beth Rubin DeWoody collection.Photo credit: Vanessa Carbajal de NovaArtist website https://www.clotildejimenez.art/Mariane Ibrahim Gallery https://marianeibrahim.com/artists/34-clotilde-jimenez/biography/Galerie Magazine https://galeriemagazine.com/artist-clotilde-jimenezs-poignant-collages-explore-themes-reflection-spirituality/Elephant Dine Art: Why are Dinner Plates Suddenly on the Menu for Galleries? - ELEPHANTElephant https://elephant.art/clotilde-jimenezs-collages-explore-the-rigid-definitions-of-blackness-17072020/Hypebeast https://hypebeast.com/tags/clotilde-jimenezArtforum https://www.artforum.com/print/reviews/202008/clotilde-jimenez-83999Brooklyn Rail https://brooklynrail.org/2020/09/artseen/Clotilde-Jimnez-The-ContestHarpers Bazaar https://www.harpersbazaararabia.com/culture/art/why-we-love-visual-artist-clotilde-jimenezs-brand-new-works
Ep.130 features Devin B. Johnson (b. 1992,Los Angeles). He obtained his BA in Fine Arts from the California State University of Channel Islands (2015) and received a Masters of Fine Arts at Pratt Institute (2019). He was selected for Forbes 30 Under 30 Art and Design(2022), was included in Cultured’s “Young Artists 2021,” and was one of sixteen artists from around the world selected for the inaugural year of the Black Rock Senegal residency (2020). His work is collected by the Columbus Museum of Art; Hammer Museum, Los Angeles; Longlati Foundation, Shanghai; the Los Angeles County Museum of Art; the Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles; Pond Society, Shanghai; the Rubell Museum, Miami; and many others. Recent exhibitions include Between Ground and Sky, Nicodim, New York(2022), My Heart Cries, I Set Out an Offering for You, Nicodim, Los Angeles(2021, solo); Long Walk, Galeria Nicodim, Bucharest (2021,solo); Melody of a Memory, Nicodim, Los Angeles (2020, solo); When You Waked Up the Buffalo, Nicodim, Los Angeles (2020); Hollywood Babylon: ARe-Inauguration of the Pleasure Dome, Jeffrey Deitch, Nicodim, AUTRE Magazine, Los Angeles (2020); Atmosphere of Certain Uncertainty, Residency Gallery, Inglewood (2019, solo); and Incognito, ICA LA, Los Angeles (2019). Nicodim https://www.nicodimgallery.com/artists/devin-b-johnsonBlack Rock Senegal https://blackrocksenegal.org/devin-johnson/Forbes https://www.forbes.com/pictures/61a6674fc9fb30bf6703d8c8/devin-johnson-29-artist-n/?sh=32c97536d46cThe Cut https://www.thecut.com/2020/11/they-seem-cool-artist-devin-b-johnson.htmlArtillery Mag https://artillerymag.com/pick-of-the-week-devin-b-johnson/Artsy https://www.artsy.net/article/artsy-editorial-artsy-vanguard-2022-devin-johnsonSiena Art Institute https://www.sienaart.org/News/Devin-B-Johnson-resident-artist/Residency Art Gallery https://www.residencyart.com/exhibitions/the-atmosphere-of-certain-uncertaintyCurate https://curate.la/event.php?id=17686WE AND THE COLOR https://weandthecolor.com/paintings-by-artist-devin-b-johnson/125331Art and Practice https://www.artandpractice.org/public-programs/program/artist-talk-devin-b-johnson/Teeth Magazine http://www.teethmag.net/interview-devin-b-johnson/Just Smile Magazine https://justsmilemagazine.com/home/devin-b-johnson-my-heart-cries
Ep.129 features Myrtis Bedolla. She is the owner and founding director of Galerie Myrtis, an emerging blue-chip gallery and art advisory specializing in twentieth and twenty-first-century American art with a focus on primary and secondary works created by African American artists. Bedolla possesses over 30 years of experience as a curator, gallerist, and art consultant. She provides professional curatorial services, lectures, and educational programming to corporate, civic, and arts organizations.Established in 2006, the mission of Galerie Myrtis is to utilize the visual arts to raise awareness for artists who deserve recognition for their contributions in artistically portraying our cultural, social, historical, and political landscapes; and to recognize art movements that paved the way for freedom of artistic expression.Bedolla’s curated The Afro-Futurist Manifesto: Blackness Reimagined, currently on view at the 59th Venice Biennale in Venice, Italy, until November 27, 2022. The exhibit, hosted by Personal Structures, pays tribute to the resiliency, creativity, and spirituality that have historically sustained Black people.In September 2022, Bedolla collaborated with Christie’s NY to bring diversity and equity to the art world. The relationship is highlighted in the NY Times article Christie’s and a Baltimore Gallery to Sell Work by Black Artists by Robin Pogrebin and Artnet News editorial A Black-Owned Baltimore Gallery Aims to Change the Game by Partnering Directly with Christie’s by Vittoria Benzine.In June 2020, Bedolla gained national press in the New York Times article Black Gallerists Press Forward Despite a Market That Holds Them Back, by Robin Pogrebin and the self-authored article Why My Blackness is not a Threat to your Whiteness for Cultured Magazine in July 2020. Bedolla holds a Bachelor of Science degree in Business Administration from the University of Maryland, University College, received her curatorial training at the Maryland Institute College of Art in Baltimore, Maryland, and earned online certificates in Cultural Theory for Curators and Curatorial Procedures from the Node Center for Curatorial Studies, Berlin, Germany.Board appointments: Association of Art Museum Curators & AAMC Foundation Trustee; University of Maryland Global Campus, Arts Program Chair; and the Municipal Art Society of Baltimore City Board.Professional memberships: ArtTable; and the Association of African American Museums (AAAM).Image courtesy photographer Grace Roselli, “Pandora’s BoxX Project”Galerie https://galeriemyrtis.net/NYTimes https://www.nytimes.com/2020/06/21/arts/design/art-basel-black-owned-galleries.htmlhttps://www.nytimes.com/2022/09/14/arts/design/christies-baltimore-gallery-black-artists.htmlBaltimore Beat https://baltimorebeat.com/baltimores-galerie-myrtis-beautiful-and-the-damned/Artnet https://news.artnet.com/market/galerie-myrtis-christies-sale-partnership-2176802Christies https://www.christies.com/about-us/press-archive/details?PressReleaseID=10623&lid=1Smithsonian https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smithsonian-institution/how-black-men-changed-the-world-180979710/Washington Post https://www.washingtonpost.com/magazine/2022/02/08/painter-who-surrounds-her-black-subjects-with-gold/Culture Type https://www.culturetype.com/2020/06/10/on-view-renaissance-noir-curated-by-myrtis-bedolla-at-uta-artist-space/New York Public Library https://www.nypl.org/blog/2022/06/29/tribute-afrofuturist-deity-schomburg-center-artist-educator-m-scott-johnsonBmore Art https://bmoreart.com/2022/05/parallels-and-meaningful-difference-activating-the-renaissance.htmlArtlyst https://artlyst.com/features/eight-best-collateral-events-59th-venice-biennale-lee-sharrock/Issuu https://issuu.com/patriciaandrews-keenan/docs/pigment_international_magazine_2022_layoutArt Critique https://www.art-critique.com/en/2019/07/smithsonian-highlights-men-of-colour-in-new-exhibition/
Ep.128 features Arcmanoro Niles (b. 1989, Washington, D.C.; lives and works in New York, NY). He makes vivid, brightly hued paintings that expand our understanding of traditional genre painting and portraiture. Niles offers a window into seemingly mundane moments of daily life―a child seated at the table for breakfast, a man about to get into his car, a couple in their bedroom―with subjects drawn from photographs of friends and relatives and from memories of his past. The paintings, though intensely personal and autobiographical, engage in universal subjects of domestic and family life while also making reference to numerous art historical predecessors, including Italian and Dutch baroque, history painting, Color Field painting, and ancient Egyptian sculpture. Though drawing from many styles and genres, Niles is particularly inspired by the paintings that 16th-century Italian painter Caravaggio created of daily life through representations of his family and friends. In depicting not only people close to him but the places and times they inhabit, Niles creates his own record of contemporary life. Photo credit: Arcmanoro Niles in his studio, 2022Photo by Daniel KuklaCourtesy the artist and Lehmann Maupin, New York, Hong Kong, Seoul, and LondonArtist http://www.arcmanoro.com/Lehmann Maupin Gallery Arcmanoro Niles - Hey Tomorrow, Do You Have Some Room For Me: Failure Is A Part Of Being Alive - Exhibitions -Lehmann Maupin November2022 Exhibitionhttps://www.lehmannmaupin.com/exhibitions/arcmanoro-niles2Long Gallery https://www.long.gallery/the-arena-exhibition-pageHypebeast https://hypebeast.com/2020/2/arcmanoro-niles-i-guess-by-now-im-supposed-to-be-a-man-uta-artist-space-exhibitionUTA Artist Spacehttp://utaartistspace.com/press/2020/02/18/arcmanoro-niles-first-solo-show-on-the-west-coast-at-uta-artist-space-in-los-angeles/PAFA Org https://www.pafa.org/news/arcmanoro-niles-bfa-13-featured-current-exhibit-bacchanal-110821GuildHall https://www.guildhall.org/people/arcmanoro-niles/Louis Comfort Tiffany Foundation https://www.louiscomforttiffanyfoundation.org/2019/arcmanoro-nilesRachel Uffnerhttps://www.racheluffnergallery.com/exhibitions/detail/arcmanoro-niles/installation-stillsWikipedia Arcmanoro Niles - WikipediaOcula https://ocula.com/artists/arcmanoro-niles/Galerie Magazine https://galeriemagazine.com/arcmanoro-niles-lehmann-maupin/SAIC Arcmanoro Niles (saic.edu)Elephant Glitter and Ghosts in the Paintings of Arcmanoro Niles - ELEPHANTICA Boston https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8g_0nAeWcF0The Artist Profile Archive https://www.theartistprofilearchive.com/artist-profiles/arcmanoro-niles/#video
Ep. 127 features Miles Greenberg (b. 1997 in Montreal, Canada). He is a New York-based performance artist and sculptor. His work consists of large-scale, sensorially immersive and often site-specific environments revolving around the physical body in space. These installations are activated with often extreme durational performances that invoke the body as sculptural material. These performances are then captured in real time before the audience to generate later video works and sculptures. Rigorous and ritualistic in its methodology, Greenberg’s universe relies on slowness and the decay of form to heighten the audience’s sensitivities. The work follows self-contained, non-linear systems of logic that are best understood in relation to one anotherAt age seventeen, Greenberg left formal education, launching himself into four years of independent research on movement and architecture, which spanned a number of residencies in Paris, northern Italy, Beijing and New York. He has worked under the mentorship of Édouard Lock, Robert Wilson and Marina Abramović, and has since exhibited extensively internationally.Photo Credit: Stephen VelasteguiArtist https://www.milesgreenberg.com/No intermission | October 2022 https://mai.art/projects/nointermissionNew Museum | November 2022 https://www.newmuseum.org/exhibitions/view/vivian-caccuri-and-miles-greenberg-the-shadow-of-spring-1Cultured Magazine https://www.culturedmag.com/article/2022/06/23/miles-greenberg-lets-his-audience-choose-their-art-adventurei-D https://i-d.vice.com/en/article/7kbg3g/miles-greenberg-is-embracing-the-surreal-through-performanceNuvo Magazine https://nuvomagazine.com/magazine/spring-2022/performance-artist-miles-greenbergDocument Journal 2022https://www.documentjournal.com/2022/01/performance-artists-marina-abramovic-and-miles-greenberg-are-testing-the-limits-of-body-and-mind/Document Journal 2021 https://www.documentjournal.com/2021/10/performance-artist-miles-greenberg-explores-the-creative-capacity-of-the-body/Art In America https://www.artnews.com/art-in-america/features/antwaun-sargent-letter-1234591468/NYTimes https://www.nytimes.com/2021/03/05/t-magazine/miles-greenberg-art.htmlKunstkritikk https://kunstkritikk.com/22-december-2/Dazed https://www.dazeddigital.com/art-photography/article/51350/1/miles-greenberg-marina-abramovic-institute-takes-over-sky-interviewDocument Journal 2020 https://www.documentjournal.com/2020/11/miles-greenberg-is-creating-spaces-to-transcend/Garage https://garage.vice.com/en_us/article/k7q34x/watch-the-premiere-of-miles-greenbergs-alphaville-noirHypebeast https://hypebeast.com/2020/4/miles-greenberg-interview-perrotin-galleryDocument Journal 2020 https://www.documentjournal.com/2020/04/performance-art-from-isolation-10-artists-share-a-microcosm-of-their-immediate-world/The Artnewspaper https://www.theartnewspaper.com/2020/02/12/miles-greenbergmentee-of-marina-abramovicstages-visually-absorbing-performance-in-new-york
Ep.126 features Shuli Sadé. Her cross-disciplinary artwork blends theory and practice with a focus on memory, space, and urbanism. work creates maps of urban memory, reflecting the DNA of a city. Sadé mixes mediums including photography, videography, augmented reality, site-specific installations, sculpture, and drawing. Sadé received the Pollock Krasner Foundation Grant, (2014), and the National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship (1991) among other grants. She has taught and lectured at the University of Pennsylvania School of Architecture, Parsons School of Design, Columbia University, Barnard College, and Bezalel Academy of Art and Design. Her work is represented by Galleria Ethra, Mexico City. She lives in NYC and works at her studio at Mana Contemporary, NJ. She had collaborated with neural scientists at the Neurobiology of Cognition Laboratory, New York University, and with architects and designers across the US. Sadé's recent site-specific murals artworks are permanently installed in several locations in Manhattan, Philadelphia, Boston, North Carolina, New Jersey, and others. Currently, she won a competition to create a mural for City Hall in Huntsville, Alabama. Her recent exhibitions include Bird's Eye View, an AR Public Art Installation sponsored by Battery Park City, NYC, 2022, Upstream Downstream, an AR Public Art Installation sponsored by Riverside Park, NYC, Fluid Formations at Gensler DC, (2019), Wild Heterotopias, AR installation at the High Line Nine Galleries and along the High Line, (2019), Solid Red, Galleria Ethra, Mexico City, (2018) Day Dreams, AR installation at Montefiore Medical Center, the Bronx, NY (2017).Artist https://www.shulisade.com/ Mana Contemporaryhttps://www.manacontemporary.com/editorial/the-art-of-shuli-sade/ https://www.manacontemporary.com/artists/shuli-sadeGaleria Ethra http://galeriaethra.com/ Hyperallergic https://hyperallergic.com/727467/shuli-sade-augmented-reality-reveals-birds-battery-park-city-waterfront/Time Out https://www.timeout.com/newyork/news/an-interactive-art-installation-is-virtually-transforming-battery-park-city-into-a-bird-paradise-042222Riverside Park NYC https://riversideparknyc.org/meet-the-regrowth-artists-shuli-sade/ New York Times https://www.nytimes.com/2019/11/27/arts/augmented-reality-exhibitions.html Fenton Lab https://capitel.humanitas.edu.mx/la-joya-de-singapur-2/ https://www.fentonlab.com/the-space Bird’s Eye View https://calendar.aiany.org/2022/09/23/installation-tour-birds-eye-view-ar-with-shuli-sad%C3%A9/Montefiore https://montefiorefineartprogram.squarespace.com/shuli-sadeAICF https://aicf.org/artist/shuli-sade/LinkedIn https://www.linkedin.com/in/shulisadeDowntown NY https://downtownny.com/event/public-art-opening-shuli-sade-birds-eye-view/CODAworx https://www.codaworx.com/projects/evolving-formations/
Ep.125 features Danielle Mckinney. Born 1981 in Montgomery, Alabama, she completed her BFA at Atlanta College of Arts in 2005 and her MFA at Parsons School of Design in 2013. Her work is in private and public collections including the Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Washington DC; Dallas Museum of Art, Dallas, TX; Institute of Contemporary Art, Miami, FL; The Israel Museum, Jerusalem, Israel; and the Hessel Foundation Collection at Bard, Annandale-on-Hudson, NY. Her work has been included in the exhibitions Heroic Bodies at the Rudolph Tegners Museum, Dronningmølle, Denmark, IN A DREAM YOU SAW A WAY TO SURVIVE AND YOU WERE FULL OF JOY at The Contemporary Austin, Uncanny Interiors at Nicola Vassell Gallery, and Black Melancholia at Hessel Museum of Art. She is represented by Marianne Boesky Gallery in New York and Night Gallery in Los Angeles. Mckinney lives and works in Jersey City, NJ. Portrait credit Pierre Le Hors Artist https://daniellejmckinney.com/Marianne Boesky Gallery https://marianneboeskygallery.com/artists/453-danielle-mckinney/biography/Night Gallery https://www.nightgallery.ca/artists/danielle-mckinneyJuxtapoz https://www.juxtapoz.com/news/magazine/features/danielle-mckinney-comfort-and-quietude/C& https://contemporaryand.com/exhibition/danielle-mckinney-golden-hour/W Magazine https://www.wmagazine.com/culture/danielle-mckinney-interview-marianne-boesky-studio-visitVogue https://www.vogue.com/article/danielle-mckinney-artist-profile-october-2022Culture Type https://www.culturetype.com/2021/06/02/danielle-mckinneys-portraits-are-self-reflective-sometimes-theyre-me-sometimes-theyre-an-emotion-im-feeling/Mousee Magazine https://www.moussemagazine.it/magazine/danielle-mckinney-alison-gingeras-2021/Fortnight Institute https://fortnight.institute/exhibitions/51-danielle-mckinney-saw-my-shadow/Art of Choice https://www.artofchoice.co/experience-the-poetic-solitude-in-danielle-mckinneys-body-of-work-saw-my-shadow-at-fortnight-institute-ny/Elephant Magazine https://elephant.art/why-danielle-mckinney-abandoned-photography-in-favour-of-painting-04062021/Honestly WTF https://honestlywtf.com/art/danielle-mckinney/ARTPIL https://artpil.com/danielle-mckinney/GothamToGo https://gothamtogo.com/marianne-boesky-gallery-presents-danielle-mckinney-golden-hour-in-fall-2022/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=marianne-boesky-gallery-presents-danielle-mckinney-golden-hour-in-fall-2022
Ep. 124 features Larissa De Jesús Negrón. She is a multidisciplinary artist who yearns for introspection and finds self evaluation through her intimate and often otherworldly spaces and portraits. Her stylistically varied and neo-surreal imagery is linked to the artist’s curiosity of the subconscious and psychoanalysis. Through her work, Larissa has a profound interest in healing and addressing her childhood and adult trauma. Her pieces give light to profound moments in her life where she’s felt despair, shame, fear and also positive emotions like excitement, optimism and faith. These scenes are brought to the eyes of the viewer as a cathartic way to connect through shared experiences. Existential themes such as gender roles, the vitality of nature, using humor as a coping mechanism and the power of storytelling as a tool for healing are all present in her work. Larissa was born and raised in Puerto Rico. Throughout nineteen years, she lived in several municipalities such as Guaynabo, Trujillo Alto and Caguas. Her commitment to art making began as early as nine years old, where she excelled in the drawing classes her mother signed her up for. Larissa went on to study middle school and high school at Central High, the most well regarded specialized art school in Puerto Rico. Graduating with the highest honor the school has to offer, Larissa continued her education at The School of Plastic Arts in Old San Juan where she began majoring in Drawing and Painting. After two years, she transferred to Hunter College in NYC where she got her BFA degree with high honors in 2017. The artist is now based in Forest Hills, Queens, New York. Studio shot by Carolina Isabel Artist https://www.larissadejesus.com/Lorin Gallery https://www.loringallery.com/larissadejesusartistpageL21 https://www.l21gallery.com/It’s Nice That https://www.itsnicethat.com/articles/larissa-de-jesus-negron-art-050122Idioma Studio https://idiomastudio.com/island-nostalgia-larissa-de-jesus/Conceptual fine arts https://www.conceptualfinearts.com/cfa/2021/05/17/larissa-de-jesus-negron/https://selenasmountain.com/These-Opalescent-Dreams-of-MineGhetto Gastrohttps://www.culturedmag.com/article/2020/10/06/larissa-de-jesus-negrons-debut-solo-exhibition-enages-the-many-meanings-of-interior-lifehttps://www.harkawik.com/larissa-negron
Ep.123 features Raphaël Barontini(born in France in 1984, and currently lives and works in Saint-Denis, France. He has developed a singular and bold pictorial work, moving from a classical practice on canvas to large-scale textile and volume pieces that can be performative. He questions the portrait and the symbolism of representations in an aesthetic of collage that combines photography, silk-screen prints and digital prints. His works take the form of flags, banners, hangings, tapestries or even ceremonial costumes such as capes. His large scenographies and performances allow us to apprehend the different faces of his production. Barontini's work has been exhibited in institutions around the world, including the SCAD Museum of Art(Savannah, USA), MAC VAL (Vitry-sur-Seine, France), MO.CO (Montpellier, France), Museum of African Diaspora (San Francisco, USA), New Art Exchange Museum (Nottingham, USA).He has also participated in the international biennials of Bamako, Mali, Casablanca, Morocco, Lima, Peru, and Thessaloniki, Greece. In 2020, he was chosen by LVMH Métiers d'Art to complete a residency in Singapore. Phot by Jalil Ourguedi. Courtesy of Mariane IbrahimArtist https://www.raphaelbarontini.art/CV https://marianeibrahim.com/usr/library/documents/main/artists/50/raphael-barontinin-cv-pdf-2022.pdfMariane Ibrahim Gallery https://marianeibrahim.com/artists/50-raphael-barontini/biography/Metal Magazine https://metalmagazine.eu/en/post/interview/raphael-barontinii-D https://i-d.vice.com/fr/article/epn8pa/lart-du-collage-selon-raphael-barontiniLVMH https://www.lvmh.com/news-documents/news/lvmh-metiers-dart-exhibits-the-works-of-raphael-barontini-at-the-studio-des-acacias-in-paris/Hyperallergic https://hyperallergic.com/627173/raphael-barontini-mariane-ibrahim-purple-moon/CNN https://edition.cnn.com/style/article/mariane-ibrahim-paris-gallery-nomad/index.htmlLe Monde https://www.lemonde.fr/m-le-mag/article/2021/07/09/les-gens-s-arretent-a-ma-couleur-l-art-metisse-de-raphael-barontini_6087734_4500055.htmlNumero https://www.numero.com/fr/art/exposition-raphael-barontini-studio-acacias-lvmh-parisConnaissance des arts https://www.connaissancedesarts.com/artistes/nouveau-talent-raphael-barontini-createur-de-ponts-entre-les-mythes-et-les-cultures-11155995/Whitewall https://whitewall.art/art/raphael-barontini-shares-work-from-the-lvmh-metiers-dartVilla-Albertine https://villa-albertine.org/residents/raphael-barontiniRadio France https://www.radiofrance.fr/franceculture/podcasts/affaires-culturelles/raphael-barontini-est-l-invite-d-affaires-culturelles-8062563Montpellier3m https://www.montpellier3m.fr/evenement-agenda/exposition-raphael-barontini-jhabite-un-long-silenceFrench Cultural Services French Embassy US https://frenchculture.org/events/12876-raphael-barontini-mariane-ibrahim-gallerySurface Magazine https://www.surfacemag.com/events/raphael-barontini-the-night-of-the-purple-moon/Artnet http://www.artnet.com/artists/rapha%C3%ABl-barontini/Galerie Magazine https://galeriemagazine.com/gallerist-mariane-ibrahim-artist-raphael-barontini-found-inspiration-quarantine/Say Who https://saywho.co.uk/mondains/raphael-barontini/Reiffers Art Initiatives https://www.reiffersartinitiatives.com/en/artistes/raphael-barontini-artist-reiffers-art-initiatives/NYTimes https://www.nytimes.com/2019/11/29/arts/design/frederick-douglass-savannah.html
Ep.122 features Tschabalala Self (b.1990 Harlem, USA) lives and works in the New York Tri-State. Self builds a singular style from the syncretic use of both painting and printmaking to explore ideas about the Black body. She constructs depictions of predominantly female bodies using a combination of sewn, printed and painted materials, traversing different artistic and craft traditions. The formal and conceptual aspects of Self’s work seek to expand her critical inquiry into selfhood and human flourishing. Recent solo exhibitions and performances include Le Consortium, Dijon (2022); Performa 2021 Biennial New York City, New York (2021); Baltimore Museum of Art, Baltimore (2021); ICA, Boston (2020); Hammer Museum, Los Angeles and Frye Art Museum, Seattle (2019). Photo credit:Tschabalala Self at Le Consortium, 2022. Photo by Daniel GurtonArtist https://tschabalalaself.com/Pilar Corrias https://www.pilarcorrias.com/artists/tschabalala-self/2/NewExhibitions https://newexhibitions.com/e/59842Le Consortium https://www.leconsortium.fr/en/make-roomGalerie Eva Presenhuber https://www.presenhuber.com/artists/tschabalala-selfPerforma2021 https://www.performa2021.org/artists/tschabalala-selfKings Cross https://www.kingscross.co.uk/event/tschabalala-self-sculpture-installationFT https://www.ft.com/content/2cdecb28-d7cc-4820-8667-91610f210ab8Christian Defonte https://christiandefonte.us/Tschabalala-Self-x-Avant-Arte-2022The Guardian https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/2022/oct/03/hip-hop-honeys-sitting-political-sought-after-tschabalala-selfExhibition en France at Consortium Museumhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fd0Icd3ehFUAvant Arte https://avantarte.com/story/seatedNYTimes https://www.nytimes.com/2022/04/21/t-magazine/tschabalala-self.htmlStudio Museum Harlem https://studiomuseum.org/article/tschabalala-selfVogue https://www.vogue.com/article/tschabalala-self-ugg-collaboration-first-lookARTnews https://www.artnews.com/list/art-news/artists/frieze-los-angeles-2022-best-booths-1234619515/tschabalala-self-at-galerie-eva-presenhuber/ Bard https://www.bard.edu/news/tschabalala-self-12-talks-sewing-collage-and-the-creative-life-with-t-the-new-york-times-style-magazine-2022-04-26Brooklyn Museumhttps://www.brooklynmuseum.org/calendar/event/artists_eye_tschabalala_selfFrieze https://www.frieze.com/article/tschabalala-self-sounding-board-performa-2021Brooklyn Rail https://brooklynrail.org/2022/04/art/Faith-Ringgold-with-Tschabalala-SelfWhitewall https://whitewall.art/art/avant-arte-and-tschabalala-self-debut-a-public-art-programArtnet http://www.artnet.com/artists/tschabalala-self/
Ep.121 features Sylvia Maier, a Brooklyn-based painter known for her portraiture. Much of her work focuses on depicting residents of the Flatbush area of Brooklyn, where she has lived for three decades. Maier graduated with a Bachelor’s in Fine Arts from the School of Visual Arts in NYC and also attended the National Academy of Design and the New York Academy of Art. Maier also studied extensively at the Art Student’s League under the tutelage of Ron Sheer and as a protege of the influential figurative painter Harvey Dinnerstein. Maier is a recipient of the Greenshield Award. Previous exhibitions included solo presentations at the Parrish Art Museum (Southampton, New York); Bernaducci Gallery (New York, NY); Forum Gallery (Frankfurt, Germany); and Fairleigh Dickinson University (Teaneck, NJ).
July – November 2020, Sylvia Maier had her inaugural exhibition, titled Sangomas and Soothsayers and Mischief, with Malin Gallery. In November 24-December 4, 2021, her exhibition titled ‘Circle of Mothers’, was an OVR with Malin Gallery - UNTITLED Miami 2021.
Her work is included in the bestselling book ‘Young, Gifted and Black: A New Generation of Artists’ and in the Lumpkin-Boccuzzi Family Collection of Contemporary Art. She lives in the Flatbush area of Brooklyn with her family and dogs. Visit cerebralwomen.com for expanded bio.
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Ep.120 features Tammy Nguyen, a multimedia artist whose work spans painting, drawing, printmaking and book making. Intersecting geopolitical realities with fiction, her practice addresses lesser-known histories through a blend of myth and visual narrative. She is the founder of Passenger Pigeon Press, an independent press that joins the work of scientists, journalists, creative writers, and artists to create politically nuanced and cross-disciplinary projects.
Born in San Francisco, Nguyen received a BFA from Cooper Union in 2007. The year following, she received a Fulbright scholarship to study lacquer painting in Vietnam, where she remained and worked with a ceramics company for three years thereafter. Nguyen received an MFA from Yale in 2013 and was awarded the Van Lier Fellowship at Wave Hill in 2014 and a NYFA Fellowship in painting in 2021. She was included in Greater New York 2021 at MOMA PS1 and has also exhibited Smack Mellon, Rubin Museum, The Factory Contemporary Arts Centre in Vietnam, and the Bronx Museum, among others. Her work is included in the collections of Yale University, the Philadelphia Museum of Art, MIT Library, the Seattle Art Museum, the Walker Art Center Library, and the Museum of Modern Art Library, among others. She is an Assistant Professor of Art at Wesleyan University and represented by Lehmann Maupin, New York, Seoul, London.
Photo by Annie Ling Courtesy the artist and Lehmann Maupin, New York, Hong Kong, Seoul, and LondonPhoto by Annie Ling Courtesy the artist and Lehmann Maupin, New York, Hong Kong, Seoul, and London
Photo by Annie Ling Courtesy the artist and Lehmann Maupin, New York, Hong Kong, Seoul, and London
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Ep.119 features Sarah Arison. Born and raised in Miami, Arison is President of the Arison Arts Foundation, a private grant-making organization that supports emerging artists and the institutions that foster them. She was immersed in the arts from a young age by her grandparents, visionary philanthropists Ted and Lin Arison, who founded Arison Arts Foundation, YoungArts, and the New World Symphony, among their many philanthropic endeavors.
Arison is active across a broad cross-section of national arts organizations. She is Chair of the Board of YoungArts, where she has developed strategic partnerships with the Center for the Art of Performance at UCLA, Jacob’s Pillow, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Sundance Film Festival and more to provide aspiring talent with presentation and mentorship opportunities. Arison is also the Chair of the board of MoMA PS1; a trustee of MoMA; Board President of American Ballet Theatre; a trustee of Lincoln Center; a trustee of the Brooklyn Museum and Chair of the Education Committee; a trustee at New World Symphony; a member of the Board of Directors of Americans for the Arts; and a trustee of the Americas Foundation of the Serpentine Galleries.
Arison has also ventured into film producing, supporting projects that shed light on lesser-known aspects of the arts. In 2015, she produced her first feature film, Desert Dancer, starring Freida Pinto. She later went on to co-produce The First Monday in May, a documentary film chronicling the creation of The Metropolitan Museum of Art’s Costume Institute blockbuster exhibition China: Through the Looking Glass. She co-produced The Price of Everything which was acquired by HBO and she most recently served as an executive producer for the film Aggie, which premiered at the Sundance Film Festival.
Photo by Nick Garcia | Provided courtesy of National YoungArts Foundation
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MoMA PS1 https://press.moma.org/news/moma-ps1-announces-new-board-leadership/
NYTimes https://www.nytimes.com/2018/12/26/arts/design/show-us-your-wall-sarah-arison.html
WSJ https://www.wsj.com/articles/a-day-in-the-life-of-philanthropist-sarah-arison-1527612533
Cultured Magazine https://www.culturedmag.com/article/2021/11/10/on-its-40th-anniversary-youngarts-is-just-getting-started
Observer https://observer.com/2016/03/young-collectors-showed-their-apetite-for-art-last-night-at-the-bowery-hotel/
Anderson Ranch https://www.andersonranch.org/blog/summer-series-2019-in-review-sarah-arison-in-conversation-with-anne-pasternak/
Miami Herald https://account.miamiherald.com/paywall/subscriber-only?resume=259706365&intcid=ab_archive
Aspen Art Museum https://www.aspenartmuseum.org/summermagazine2022/young-patrons/
Galerie Magazine https://galeriemagazine.com/creative-minds-sarah-arison/
White Wall https://whitewall.art/art/sarah-arison-returns-as-guest-editor-of-whitewaller-miami-2021
Modern Luxury Miami https://digital.modernluxury.com/publication/?i=732871&article_id=4185630&view=articleBrowser
Social Miami SocialMiami - Sarah Arison
Northern Trust Sarah Arison When Passion Meets Purpose | Northern Trust
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Americans for the Arts https://www.americansforthearts.org/about-americans-for-the-arts/board-of-directors/sarah-arison
Larry’s List https://www.larryslist.com/artmarket/features/16-next-gen-women-collectors-influencing-the-art-scenes/
Episode 117 features Gio Swaby, a Bahamian visual artist whose practice is an exploratory celebration of Blackness and womanhood. Her work centres on Black joy as a radical act of resistance. It works through the philosophy of love as liberation and explores pathways of healing and empowerment. It allows space for both the strong and soft to coexist.
Swaby is a graduate of Emily Carr University of Art + Design in Vancouver, Canada. She is currently an MFA candidate at OCAD University in Toronto, where she currently resides.
Photo courtesy of Claire Oliver Gallery
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Art Institute Chicago https://www.artic.edu/artists/117638/gio-swaby
Forbes https://www.forbes.com/sites/chaddscott/2022/07/05/gio-swabys-love-letters-to-black-women-at-museum-of-fine-arts-st-petersburg/?sh=7e908506a54a
Artnet https://news.artnet.com/art-world/gio-swaby-1973064
WWD https://wwd.com/eye/people/gio-swaby-fresh-up-solo-debut-museum-fine-arts-st-petersburg-textile-art-1235177744/
Harpers Bazaar https://www.harpersbazaar.com/culture/art-books-music/a39629027/gio-swaby-textile-portraits-are-a-love-letter-to-black-womanhood/
Orlando Magazine https://www.orlandomagazine.com/gio-swaby-fresh-up/
Ep.116 features Cameroon-born artist Ludovic Nkoth. For him, displacement and deferral occupy a familiar place at the margins of the stories he tells. With swirled and meandering brushstrokes, Nkoth’s practice in figurative painting broaches the ongoing negotiation of transatlantic migration--a direct rumination on diaspora history and on his own expatriation to the US at the age of 13. Melding Cameroonian aesthetic motifs and vivid coloration with postcolonial allegory, Nkoth explores the formation and fragmentation of identity. Throughout his work, Nkoth’s figures participate in the fictions and lived experiences that comprise his own identity synthesis; each muddled expression and porous boundary imbues his paintings with the tender incandescence of a distant memory. The navigation of both belonging and outsider hood in African and American spaces underscores much of Nkoth’s work, and informs the future building of kinship, solidarity, and self-determination that is central to his practice. Ludovic Nkoth was born in Yaoundé, Cameroon in 1994, and lives and works in New York City. Nkoth completed his BFA at the University of South Carolina and holds an MFA in painting from Hunter College. Recent solo exhibitions include Transferred Memories (Work No Dey) (2022) at Massimo de Carlo Gallery in London, and Don’t Take This Too (2021) at François Ghebaly in Los Angeles. Nkoth was featured in the group exhibition Fire, Figure Fantasy (2022) at ICA Museum in Miami, as well as in group exhibitions at Ross+Kramer, New York and Jeffrey Deitch, LA. His work is held in the collection of the High Museum of Art in Atlanta and the ICA Museum in Miami.
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Luce Gallery Installation Views Ludovic Nkoth You Sea Us 168 1 Galleria d'Arte Contemporanea a Torino Luce Gallery
Francois Ghebaly Gallery - LA Don’t Take This Too – François Ghebaly Gallery, LA 2021
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Juxtapoz https://www.juxtapoz.com/news/magazine/features/ludovic-nkoth-a-dear-statement-to-the-soul/
Ross Kramer https://rkgallery.com/artist/ludovic-nkoth
Art of choice https://www.artofchoice.co/converse-with-the-expressive-style-of-ludovic-nkoth/
Christies https://www.christies.com/features/9-intriguing-portraits-of-family-members-10998-1.aspx
Superposition Gallery http://superpositiongallery.com/conversations/2020/4/11/interview-with-ludovic-nkoth
Francois Ghebaly http://ghebaly.com/work/ludovic-nkoth-dont-take-this-too/
Ep.115 features Beverly Semmes. She is a sculptor whose work incorporates painting, drawing, film, photography, and performance. These complementary elements adhere in surprising ways, probing the paradoxes and complexities of the female body and its representation. Current exhibitions include inclusion in a group show at Canada gallery curated by Kahlil Robert Irving titled SUMMER Nights, which opened on July 8th, 2022. Semmes recently participated in an exhibition titled Process on view at the Alexander McQueen flagship location on Old Bond Street in London. For this presentation 12 visual artists from around the world were invited to respond to the upcoming Alexander McQueen collection. In May 2022 Semmes created Pool in collaboration with Jennifer Minniti and Emily Mast at JOAN exhibition space in Los Angeles. Pool was on view through mid June 2022. Semmes’ paintings and sculptures were also recently on view in Witch Hunt at the Hammer Museum in Los Angeles; a Hammer Museum billboard announcing the Witch Hunt exhibition continues to loom over the historic corner of Hollywood and Sunset Boulevards. The artist has had dozens of solo exhibitions at institutions such as MoMA PS1, ICA Philadelphia, Sculpture Center, the MCA Chicago, the Wexner Center for the Arts, Artist’s Space, the Fabric Workshop and Museum, the Irish Museum of Modern Art, the Frances Tang Teaching Museum and Art Gallery at Skidmore College, and the Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden. A solo exhibition of paintings titled Pot Peek was on view at Susan Inglett Gallery in New York through mid March 2022.
Semmes received her M.F.A. in Sculpture from the Yale School of Art (1987). She also studied at the New York Studio School, the Boston Museum School, and at the Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture where she now serves on the Governors Board. Semmes is represented by Susan Inglett Gallery in New York and Shoshana Wayne Gallery in Los Angeles. She was born in Washington, D.C.
Photo Credit: Ross Collab
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Ep.114 features Dawn Williams Boyd, She was born in 1952 in Neptune, New Jersey. She earned her BFA at Stephens College in Columbia, MO in 1974. The artist’s self-described “cloth paintings” masterfully reinterpret the traditional craft of quilt-making in a contemporary context. Working on a monumental scale, Boyd employs a collage-like technique, stitching together scraps of fabric into intricate compositions. Utilizing art historical references, current events, and religious tropes as narrative frameworks, her cloth paintings chronicle seminal moments in African American history and quotidian scenes of Black American life. Inventively combining textures and patterns, Boyd’s compositions weave together history and allegory to create multivalent meanings from disparate sources.
Boyd’s work is included in the collections of the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York, NY; Equal Justice Initiative in Montgomery, AL; Birmingham Museum of Art in Birmingham, AL; Columbus Museum in Columbus, GA; Everson Museum of Art in Syracuse, NY; and the Richardson Family Art Museum at Wofford College in Spartanburg, SC. Her art has been exhibited at Wofford College in Spartanburg, SC; Southwest Art Center in Atlanta, GA; Hammonds House Museum in Atlanta, GA; Bulloch Hall in Roswell, GA; Agnes Scott College in Decatur, GA; Callanwolde Fine Arts Center in Atlanta, GA; and Contemporary Craft in Pittsburgh, PA.
A multi-venue solo exhibition of the artist’s work, Dawn Williams Boyd: Woe, was recently on view at the Lamar Dodd School of Art’s Dodd Galleries, at the University of Georgia and at the Everson Museum in Syracuse, NY and will be on view at Sarah Lawrence College in Bronxville, NY in September 2022.
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Ep.113 features Chris Watts, an interdisciplinary artist working primarily in painting and installation. Within his work, he seeks to revise, interrogate, and re-examine social and personal narratives. This re-examination is not to simply supplement a new narrative, but to create a project of disruption. Watts attended graduate studies at Yale School of Art, New Haven, CT, after attending the College of Arts and Architecture, University of North Carolina, Charlotte, NC, and the Academy of Fine Arts and Design, Wroclaw, PL. The artist has held various artist residencies, among them the Marek Maria Pienkowski Foundation, Chelm, PL; McColl Center for Art + Innovation, Charlotte, NC; the Art & Law Fellowship Program, at Cornell University Art Architecture Planning, New York, NY; and the Lower Manhattan Cultural Council Workspace Program, New York, NY. His work has been exhibited in national and international institutions and exhibitions. Watts lives and works in New York, NY, and North Carolina, NC, US. Watts is a featured artist in the documentary film, The Art of Making It, directed by Kelcey Edwards, and from the Emmy-nominated producer Debi Wisch (The Price of Everything). The film had its world premiere at the 2021 Hamptons International Film Festival and won an Audience choice award at 2022 SXSW Film Festival.
Welancora Gallery https://www.welancoragallery.com/artists/34-chris-watts/overview/ Galerie Lelong https://www.galerielelong.com/exhibitions/open-doors-june-edmonds-carl-e-hazlewood-helen-evans-ramsaran-chris-watts The Art of Making It https://www.ifccenter.com/films/the-art-of-making-it/ Bode https://www.bode-projects.com/artists/42-chris-watts/overview/ Monica King projects https://monicakingprojects.com/artists/45-chris-watts/biography/ QC Exclusive https://qcexclusive.com/fine-arts/chris-watts-redefines-southern-art/ LinkedIn https://www.linkedin.com/in/chris-watts-510236a9/
Ep.112 features BETHANY COLLINS (b. 1984 Montgomery, AL). She lives and works in Chicago, IL. Collins is a multidisciplinary artist whose conceptually driven work is fueled by a critical exploration of how race and language interact. Collins received an MFA from Georgia State University in Atlanta GA, and a BA from the University of Alabama in Tuscaloosa, AL. Recent solo exhibitions include: Cadence (2022), PATRON, Chicago, IL; America: A Hymnal (2021), Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art, Bentonville, AK; Evensong (2021) Frist Art Museum, Nashville, TN; My destiny is in your hands (2021), Montgomery Museum of Fine Arts, Montgomery, AL; Chorus (2019), Contemporary Art Museum St. Louis, St Louis, MO; Benediction (2019) The University of Kentucky Art Museum, University of Kentucky, Lexington, KY; A Pattern or Practice (2019), University Galleries of Illinois State University, Normal, IL; The Birmingham News 1963 (2018-2019), Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago IL; The Litany, Locust Projects (2018), Miami, FL; Undersong (2018), PATRON, Chicago IL; and Occasional Verse (2018), The Center for Book Arts, New York, NY.
Image courtesy of the artist and PATRON Gallery, Chicago. Photography by Evan Jenkins
Additional information~ Artist https://bethanyjoycollins.com/home.html Patron Gallery https://patrongallery.com/exhibition/285/cadence https://patrongallery.com/artist/bethanycollins Montgomery Museum of Fine Art Bethany Collins - MMFA Brooklyn Rail https://brooklynrail.org/2022/02/artseen/Seize-the-Time WSJ https://www.wsj.com/articles/collectors-eye-they-built-a-world-class-collection-of-black-artists-work-who-are-they-acquiring-now-11594828483 Artspace https://www.artspace.com/artist/bethany-collins Richard Gray Gallery Bethany Collins - Artists - Richard Gray Gallery Block Museum https://www.blockmuseum.northwestern.edu/events/2022/artist-talk-laylah-ali-and-bethany-collins.html Chicago Gallery https://www.chicagogallerynews.com/events/bethany-collins-cadence Crystal Bridges https://crystalbridges.org/calendar/bethany-collins-america-a-hymnal/ Frist Art Museum https://fristartmuseum.org/exhibition/bethany-collins-evensong/ https://burnaway.org/daily/collins-frist/ The Phillips Collection https://www.phillipscollection.org/event/2021-06-25-jacob-lawrence-american-struggle Speed Art Museum https://www.promisewitnessremembrance.org/ Art in America https://www.artnews.com/art-in-america/aia-reviews/breonna-taylor-promise-witness-remembrance-speed-art-museum-1234594195/ Hyperallergic https://hyperallergic.com/641634/amy-sherald-bearing-witness-to-breonna-taylor-life-and-death/ NYTimes https://www.nytimes.com/2021/04/11/arts/design/breonna-taylor-review-museum-louisville.html PBS https://www.pbs.org/newshour/show/what-breonna-taylors-name-and-image-is-teaching-america-about-black-lives The Guardian https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/2021/apr/01/remembering-breonna-taylor-through-art-it-keeps-her-alive Artforum https://www.artforum.com/print/reviews/202202/the-dirty-south-contemporary-art-material-culture-and-the-sonic-impulse-87629 Smart Museum https://smartmuseum.uchicago.edu/exhibitions/take-care/ Renaissance Society https://renaissancesociety.org/exhibitions/540/nine-lives/ Hirshhorn https://hirshhorn.si.edu/explore/bethany-collins-part-1-hirshhorn-artist-diaries-2/
Ep.111 features Darryl Westly. He received his BFA from the Cooper Union in 2014. Upon graduation Westly began an apprenticeship at the Jeff Koons studio, concluding in 2016 whereupon he participated in the Beirut Art Residency Program in Beirut, Lebanon.
Solo presentations include A Dream Deferred at 1969 Gallery, Interior/Exterior at ParisTexasLA Gallery, LA.
Group exhibitions include Everyday is Sunday at UTA Artists Space, Beverly Hills CA, Animal Kingdom at Alexander Berggruen Gallery, New York NY, Vanquishing Ocular curated by David Salle and Nicole Wittenberg ,Rental Gallery, East Hampton & Ways To Die by The Bruce High Quality Foundation.
Collections include the Rema Hort Foundation, The Portland Museum of Art, The Fidelity Collection, among many others.
Westly lives and works in New York, New York.
Artist https://www.darrylwestly.com/ Kavi Gupta Kavi Gupta https://kavigupta.com/exhibitions/364-forthcoming-skin-masks-decolonizing-art-beyond-the-kavi-gupta-elizabeth-street/
Introspective Magazine https://www.1stdibs.com/introspective-magazine/black-artist-fund/
Creative Boom https://www.creativeboom.com/inspiration/darryl-westly/
Collater.al Darryl https://www.collater.al/en/darryl-westly-a-dream-deferred-painting
Authority Magazine https://medium.com/authority-magazine/darryl-westly-5-things-i-wish-someone-told-me-when-i-first-became-an-artist-b93c858dd9a8
Medium https://medium.com/@kenyondunscomb/darryl-westly-paints-the-disorienting-experience-of-current-events-f592542b 1734
Booooooom https://www.booooooom.com/2021/12/16/artist-spotlight-darryl-westly/
Off-Kilter https://offkilter.co/contemporaryart/darryl-westly
The BrooklynRail https://brooklynrail.org/2020/11/artseen/Interiors-hello-from-the-living-room
White Hot Magazine https://whitehotmagazine.com/articles/interiors-at-1969-gallery/4779
The Brooklyn Circus https://thebkcircus.com/culture/digital-impressionism
Office Magazine http://officemagazine.net/7x
Q With Tom Power https://www.cbc.ca/radio/q/friday-june-5-2020-darryl-westly-brandy-and-more-1.5599743
Artnet https://news.artnet.com/art-world/artists-protests-george-floyd-testimonials-1876254
Whitewall https://whitewall.art/art/darryl-westly-painting-a-representational-abstract-world
Interview Magazine https://www.interviewmagazine.com/culture/darryl-westly-vic-mensa-chicago-interior-exterior-paristexasla
Ep.110 features Alisa Sikelianos-Carter. She earned her BA and MA in Painting and Drawing from SUNY Albany. She is a recent NXTHVN Fellow, a 2022 Headlands Artist in Residence, and in 2021 was awarded the inaugural fellowship at Foreland, a six-month studio residency in the Catskills conferred biennially on an outstanding artist of color.
Recent exhibitions of her work include Realms of Refuge, Kavi Gupta, Chicago, IL; Un/Common Proximity, James Cohan, New York, NY; In the Eye of Belonging, Mandeville Gallery, Union College, Schenectady, NY; and Never Done: 100 Years of Women in Politics and Beyond, Tang Teaching Museum at Skidmore College, Saratoga Springs, NY.
Sikelianos-Carter was featured in New American Paintings, No. 146, Northeast Issue, and received the Sustainable Arts Foundation Grant.
She has been awarded residencies at the Millay Arts, Austerlitz, NY; Vermont Studio Center, Johnson, VT; Wassaic Project, Wassaic, NY; Yaddo, Saratoga Springs, NY; Fountainhead Residency, Miami, FL and Headlands Center for the Arts, Sausalito, CA.
Photo credit: Kyle Flubacke
Artist https://www.alisasikelianoscarter.com/
Kavi Gupta Gallery https://kavigupta.com/exhibitions/368-alisa-sikelianos-carter-stars-are-born-in-darkness-kavi-gupta-elizabeth-st-fl.-2/ https://kavigupta.com/exhibitions/368/works/artworks-10261-alisa-sikelianos-carter-a-godx-of-sky-and-mud-2022/
NXTHVN https://www.nxthvn.com/residents/alisa-sikelianos-carter/
Smithsonian https://www.aaa.si.edu/collections/interviews/oral-history-interview-alisa-sikelianoscarter-22020
Curated By Girls https://www.curatedbygirls.com/alisa-sikelianos-carter/
Kristin Hjellegjerde https://kristinhjellegjerde.com/artists/256-alisa-sikelianos-carter/overview/
Chicago Gallery News https://www.chicagogallerynews.com/events/in-conversation-artists-devan-shimoyama-and-alisa-sikelianos-carter-and-curator-rikki-byrd
Mandeville Gallery https://muse.union.edu/mandeville/project/alisa-sikelianos-carter/ Galerie Magazine https://galeriemagazine.com/kavi-gupta-alisa-sikelianos-carter/
Ocula https://ocula.com/art-galleries/kavi-gupta-gallery/artworks/alisa-sikelianos-carter/to-hide-in-the-light/ https://ocula.com/art-galleries/kavi-gupta-gallery/artworks/alisa-sikelianos-carter/to-be-held/
Sugarcane Magazine https://sugarcanemag.com/2022/05/survival-where-the-sea-meets-the-sky-alisa-sikelianos-carters-stars-are-born-in-darkness-by-julia-mallory/
Ep.109 features Yashua Klos, a visual artist who employs a unique process of collaging his own woodblock printed textures to engage ideas about Blackness as an adaptive material for survival strategies. Klos’ work has been shown in museums and galleries across the U.S. and abroad, including the Studio Museum of Harlem; What If The World Gallery in Johannesburg, South Africa; Tilton Gallery in New York City; and UTA Artist Space in Los Angeles. Klos’ first solo museum show is slated to open in February, 2022 at the Wellin Museum in Clinton, New York.
Klos’ works have been featured in publications such as the New York Times, and he’s been awarded artist residences at Skowhegan, The Vermont Studio Center, and Bemis.
He is the recipient of a Joan Mitchell Fellowship and a NYFA Grant.
Klos Was born and raised on the South-Side of Chicago. He now works and resides in New York City, with studios in Brooklyn and the Bronx.
Photo credit : GQ Media
Artist http://www.yashuaklos.net/
Wellin Museum https://www.hamilton.edu/wellin/exhibitions/detail/yashua-klos-real-gone
See Great Art https://www.seegreatart.art/wellin-museum-of-art-hosts-yashua-klos-first-solo-museum-exhibit/
Jack Tilton Gallery https://www.jacktiltongallery.com/artists/yashua-klos
Joan Mitchell Foundation https://www.joanmitchellfoundation.org/yashua-klos
Bomb Magazine https://bombmagazine.org/articles/essential-focus-yashua-klos-interviewed/
NY Times https://www.nytimes.com/2022/05/12/arts/design/dna-yashua-klos-art-wellin-museum.html
CMCA https://cmcanow.org/event/yashua-klos-2022/
Brooklyn Rail https://brooklynrail.org/2022/04/artseen/Yashua-Kloss-Our-Labor
OPEN:FORMAT https://openformat.space/YASHUA-KLOS
Wikipedia https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yashua_Klos
Ep.108 features Nanette Carter was born in Columbus, Ohio, and grew up in Montclair, New Jersey. She majored in art history and studio art at Oberlin College, Ohio, and spent her junior year in Perugia, Italy. Carter graduated from Oberlin in 1976 and received her MFA from the Pratt Institute in Brooklyn in 1978.
Nanette Carter has received many grants, fellowships, and awards throughout her career. Most recently in 2021, Carter was granted The Anonymous was a Woman Award. She has exhibited nationally and internationally with solo exhibitions in Cuba, Syria, Italy, and Japan. In 2017, Carter was featured in Magnetic Fields: Expanding American Abstraction: 1960s to Today, a traveling museum exhibition featuring African American women artists that was organized by the Kemper Museum of Contemporary Art, Kansas City. In 2021, Carter was the program curator and a participant in Creating Community: Cinque Gallery Artists at the Art Students League, New York. Last summer, Carter was included in the Parrish Art Museum’s exhibition, Affinities for Abstraction: Women Artists on the Eastern End of Long Island curated by Alicia Longwell. Her solo exhibition at the Hunterdon Museum of Art, Clifton, New Jersey, Forms Follow Function: The Art of Nanette Carter recently closed.
Currently, Carter has a solo exhibition featuring her most recent work at Berry Campbell Gallery in Chelsea. The exhibition features collages from three series, including several large-scale examples. This summer Carter will be in group exhibitions at the Eric Firestone Gallery, East Hampton, the Featherstone Gallery, Martha’s Vineyard, and the Hudson River Museum, Yonkers.
Carter’s work is in numerous corporate and museum collections including, the Perez Museum, Miami, The National Museum of Fine Arts Museum in Havana, Cuba, The Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts, Saint Louis Art Museum, The Studio Museum in Harlem, and Yale University Art Gallery.
Carter recently retired from the Pratt Institute, Brooklyn, where she was a professor of art for over 20 years.
Photo Credit: Kenneth Laidlow
Artist https://nanettecarter.com/ Work https://www.berrycampbell.com/artist/Nanette_Carter/works/ Berry Campbell https://www.berrycampbell.com/ Anonymous Was a Woman https://www.anonymouswasawoman.org/ ArtForum https://www.artforum.com/artguide/berry-campbell-11828/shape-shifting-203752 Culturetype https://www.culturetype.com/?s=nanette+carter Hyperallergic https://hyperallergic.com/650425/cinque-gallery-another-chapter-of-black-art-history/ Detroit Art Review https://detroitartreview.com/2021/11/nanette-carter-contemporaries-nnamdi/ 27 East https://www.27east.com/arts/lets-talk-art-abstract-artist-nanette-carter-1775638/
Ep.107 features Marisol Teresa Martinez. Uncommon as her expression, her story begs telling. After cutting her media teeth on the moving picture, the former Vice President of Video at Atlantic Records is now finding her pulse as a visual artist whose use of color reflects a complicated, exuberant life. She is a painter who contrasts both thru color and subject matter, often spatial as well as prismatic. The unguided stillness of each shape is a meditative process individually created to compliment the other. The interconnection of shapes and colors offer insight into Martinez unique experience of the world creating a visually spiritual vocabulary. She confronts the curious, the heartbreaking and the maddening experiences of living life so close to death. Daughter of a funeral director, Martinez inherited her father’s business after his passing in 2017. This familial legacy, combined with daily glimpses at the face of death, has allowed Martinez to tap into a spirituality that’s become the mystical centerpiece of her work. Martinez has lived and studied in Paris, Miami and Los Angeles. Her works emerge from mornings spent at the funeral home, and afternoons and evenings spent in the studio—and their constant mingling of presences. Broader inspiration follows a family lineage of women whose creativity encouraged Martinez to express herself visually. Artist influences such as Carmen Herrera, Agnes Martin, Alma Thomas, Luchita Hurtado & Josef Albers are deeply faceted components in her process and work. In addition to painting, She earned her BBA in Design/Art Marketing from Parsons School of Design, having attended both New York and Paris campuses.
Photo Credit - Alfonso Sjogreen
Artist - https://marisolmartinezstudio.com
Kates Ferri Projects https://www.katesferriprojects.com/marisol-martinez
Latinx Project https://www.latinxproject.nyu.edu/search?q=marisol%20martinez
Hudson Hall https://hudsonhall.org/event/look-again/
Future Fairs https://archive.futurefairs.com/journal-posts-2/holiday-market-2021-exhibitors
Flaunt https://flaunt.com/content/latchkey-gallery-xx
Terremoto https://terremoto.mx/en/online/xx-seis-artistas-mujeres-latinxs-en-latchkey-gallery-eua/
Forbes https://www.forbes.com/sites/abinlot/2020/07/02/support-black-artists-by-placing-a-bid-in-artnoirs-artsy-auction/?sh=4c688fff7510
Episode 106 features Bony Ramirez (b. 1996, Tenares, Salcedo, Dominican Republic). He is a New Jersey-based artist whose work draws inspiration from Caribbean iconography and Renaissance style. In bold portraits of contorted, often nude figures, drawn on paper and then adhered to painted wooden backdrops that evoke the Caribbean tropics, Ramirez’s work meditates on the legacy of colonialism in his native Dominican Republic. He cites Renaissance tropes like romanticized gore as influence: references recontextualized by afro-caribbean elements (a plantain tree, a durag) and reclaimed by the Black and Brown figures who inhabit them. Layers of material evoke the vestiges of Euro-colonialism that continue to inhabit the Caribbean psyche — a “double consciousness” that is occasionally, violently, interrupted. Ramirez’s work has been featured in solo exhibitions at Bradley Ertaskiran, Montréal and Thierry Goldberg Gallery, New York, as well as recent group exhibitions at Jeffrey Deitch, Los Angeles; Company Gallery, New York; Nino Mier Gallery, Los Angeles; Regular Normal, New York; Zürcher Gallery, New York and Anna Zorina Gallery, New York.
Photo credit: Frenel Morris
Artist https://bonyramirez.com/
Artsy https://www.artsy.net/article/artsy-editorial-best-booths-new-york-art-week-2022
Artsy https://www.artsy.net/article/artsy-editorial-artsy-vanguard-2021-bony-ramirez?fbclid=IwAR3O8p4iBIPzvZnL9tmda1b7dA75DU_2oKD6Jb1ymwnL8FZU9hvD79pXir0
Fountainhead Arts https://www.fountainheadarts.org/upcoming/residency-open-house-february
Hyperallergic https://hyperallergic.com/692777/miami-fountainhead-arts-announces-2022-artists-in-residence/
Bradley Ertaskiran https://bradleyertaskiran.com/en/exhibition/bony-ramirez/
Perth Amboy Now https://perthamboynow.com/perth-amboy-artist-bony-ramirez-recognized-as-top-artist-working-today/
Thierry Goldberg https://thierrygoldberg.com/Bony-Ramirez-MUSA-X-PARADISIACA-Images
Thierry Goldberg https://thierrygoldberg.com/Bony-Ramirez-Grass-Under-The-Wood-Images
Deitch https://deitch.com/los-angeles/exhibitions/shattered-glass-curated-by-melahn-frierson-and-aj-girard
Mier Gallery https://www.miergallery.com/exhibitions/group-show-gest
Thierry Goldberg https://thierrygoldberg.com/And-The-Sun-Left
Artnet https://news.artnet.com/buyers-guide/bony-ramirez-art-of-americas-2098781
Art Break Out https://artbreakout.com/self-taught-artist/self-taught-dominican-american-artist-bony-ramirez-at-thierry-goldberg-gallery-through-december-20/
It’s Nice That https://www.itsnicethat.com/articles/bony-ramirez-art-270720
Art Maze Mag https://artmazemag.com/pre-colonisation-caribbean-luxury-bony-ramirezs-multimodal-artworks-draw-on-the-opulence-of-traditional-portraiture-to-exalt-underrepresented-narratives/
Ep.105 features Frank Wimberley. His abstract painting is a continuous adventure. Born in 1926 in New Jersey, Wimberley currently divides his time between Corona, Queens, and Sag Harbor, New York. Wimberley is a well-known presence in the art scene on the Eastern End of Long Island and an important figure in African American art since the 1960s. Acclaimed for his dynamic, multi-layered, and sophisticated paintings, Wimberley is among the leading contemporary artists to continue in the Abstract Expressionist tradition. In 2013, Wimberley had a solo exhibition at Guild Hall Museum, East Hampton; in 2018, Wimberley was included in Acts of Art and Rebuttal, an exhibition revisiting the 1971 exhibition Rebuttal to the Whitney Museum Exhibition: Black Artists in Rebuttal at the Hunter College Art Galleries; and in 2021, Wimberley was included in Creating Community: Cinque Gallery Artists at the Art Students League, New York. Wimberley is included in numerous public and private collections, including the Art Institute of Chicago; Metropolitan Museum of Art; Smithsonian American Art Museum, Washington, D.C.; and the Studio Museum in Harlem, New York.
In 1969, when few African American artists were able to exhibit their work, Wimberley was included in a group exhibition at CW Post College, in Brookville, New York. This constituted the first time he displayed his work publicly. However, in the next decade, he took advantage of many opportunities to display his art, participating in shows at The Hudson River Museum, Yonkers, New York (1971) and the Penthouse Gallery, Museum of Modern Art, New York (1972). His first solo exhibitions were in 1973, at The Black History Museum, Hempstead, New York, which opened in 1970 (now the African American Museum of Nassau County), and at Acts of Art Gallery, in downtown New York. Owned by artists Nigel L. Jackson and Pat Grey, the gallery was an important part of the Black Arts Movement in the 1970s. In 1974, Wimberley had solo shows at Union Theological Seminary, New York City, and again at Acts of Art, where he displayed collages, drawings, and paintings. In February 1979, he participated in a show at Guild Hall Museum of the Eastville Artists, an informal council of African American artists on Long Island’s East End devoted to promoting the arts. Other members were Alvin Loving, Robert Freeman, Nanette Carter, and Gaye Ellington (Duke Ellington’s granddaughter). Reviewing the show, Helen Harrison noted that Wimberley had “embraced a cool, formal vocabulary in his assemblages of paper and found objects.” She observed that several of the works included “scraps of used canvases, suggesting the rejection of a previous mode of expression.” She felt that Wimberley was searching “but cautiously.” That summer, when Wimberley was included in an exhibition at Peter S. Loonam Gallery in Bridgehampton, Harrison felt that his collages were “busier but just as controlled in their composition.”
Frank had a solo exhibition at Duck Creek Art Center in May 2022 and recently had a solo exhibition of his collages at Berry Campbell. Paintings were recently acquired by the Studio Museum in Harlem and the Smithsonian Museum.
Frank Wimberley is currently represented by the Berry Campbell gallery located in Chelsea, New York City. Please visit the gallery website for additional information and an expanded bio.
Photo credit: Laurie Lambrecht
Artist website https://www.frankwimberleyart.com/
Berry Campbell Gallery https://www.berrycampbell.com/artist/Frank_Wimberley/works/
Expanded Bio https://www.berrycampbell.com/artist/Frank_Wimberley/info/
ABC News https://abcnews.go.com/Lifestyle/artist-frank-wimberley-94-full-surprises/story?id=76184787
27east https://www.27east.com/arts/frank-wimberley-stratum-at-duck-creek-1931943/
Rafael Contemporary https://www.rafaelcontemporary.com/artists-frank-wimberley
Wikipedia https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frank_Wimberley
Episode 104 features painter Lavar Munroe (b. 1982, Nassau, Bahamas). He earned his BFA from Savannah College of Art and Design in 2007 and his MFA from Washington University in 2013. In 2014, Munroe was awarded a postdoctoral research fellowship at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. He was included in Prospect.4: The Lotus in Spite of The Swamp, the New Orleans triennial curated by Trevor Schoonmaker, and the 12th Dakar Biennale, curated by Simon Njami, in Senegal. In 2015, Munroe's work was featured in All the World's Futures, curated by Okwui Enwezor as part of the 56th Venice Biennale. His work has been included in museums such as the Nasher Museum of Art in Durham; Perez Art Museum, Miami; National Gallery of Bahamas, Nassau; MAXXI Museum of Art, Rome; Museum of the African Diaspora, San Francisco; Virginia Museum of Modern Art, Virginia Beach; Ichihara Lakeside Museum Ichihara, Japan; and The Drawing Center, New York. Munroe was awarded residencies at the Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture, MacDowell Colony, the Headlands Center for the Arts, Joan Mitchell Center, Thread: Artist Residency & Cultural Center (a project of the Josef and Anni Albers Foundation), a recipient of the Joan Mitchell Foundation Painters and Sculptors Grant. and was an inaugural Artists in Residence at the Norton Museum of Art. He is included in upcoming exhibitions at The Centre Pompidou-Metz (France) , The Zeitz Museum of Contemporary Art Africa (South Africa) and a solo exhibition in London, among others things. Lavar Munroe lives and works between Baltimore, Maryland and Nassau, Bahamas.
Headshot photo credit: Thomas Towles
Artist https://lavar-munroe.com/home.html Joan Mitchell foundation https://www.joanmitchellfoundation.org/lavar-munroe M+B https://www.mbart.com/exhibitions/216/overview/ Jack Bell Gallery https://www.jackbellgallery.com/artists/64-lavar-munroe/works/7963-lavar-munroe-today-the-last-boy-2020/ ArtForum https://www.artforum.com/picks/lavar-munroe-84697 Artnet http://www.artnet.com/artists/lavar-munroe/ Wikipedia https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lavar_Munroe Baltimore Art News https://bmoreart.com/2021/06/lavar-munroe-2021-sondheim-finalist.html Kampala Art Biennale 2020 https://kampalabiennale.org/artists-3/masters2020/ Culture VOLT https://www.culturevolt.co/thebusinessofart/2020/9/15/lavar-munroe
Episode 103 features Rakeb Sile. In 2016, she co-founded Addis Fine Art with Mesai Haileleul, creating the first white-cube gallery space for modern and contemporary art in Ethiopia. Since then, the business has grown to become one of the leading galleries in Africa establishing a prominent international platform for artists from the Horn of Africa. The gallery has spaces in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia and London, having recently moved into expanded premises in London, opening a two-storey gallery space in the heart of Fitzrovia.
With her background in management consulting, Sile was well placed to take charge of the gallery’s commercial operations; since 2016, they have participated in fairs in Africa and beyond, among them Frieze London and New York, the Armory Show and Art Basel. Rakeb was also recently chosen as one of Apollo Magazine's 40 Under 40 Africa in 2020, a project dedicated to 40 of the most influential and talented people in the art world born or based in Africa.
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Gallery https://addisfineart.com/ The Art Newspaper https://www.theartnewspaper.com/2022/04/11/a-world-of-possibility-cecilia-alemani-the-curator-of-the-2022-venice-biennale-discusses-the-show NYTimes https://www.nytimes.com/2022/01/31/arts/design/uffizi-contemporary-art.html Alt A Review https://alt-africa.com/2021/11/09/this-winter-addis-fine-art-london-presents-ermias-kifleyesus-new-solo-show-cascade-of-knowledge/ Amaka https://amaka.studio/explore/articles/rakeb-sile-profile-career-woman Art Africa https://www.artafricamagazine.org/programme-announced-for-african-art-in-venice-forum-2022/ Art Breath https://artbreath.org/interviews/selome-muleta Artnet https://news.artnet.com/art-world/venice-biennale-challenge-white-men-2067142 La Biennale di-Venezia https://www.labiennale.org/en/news/la-biennale-di-venezia-presents-piazza-ucraina-giardini-della-biennale-spazio-esedra
Episode 102 Jamel Robinson is a self-taught multidisciplinary artist working in the mediums of abstract expressionist painting, sculpture, writing, and performance. His work ponders itself alongside maker and audience while serving as a time-stamp of the experiences shaping his life and creative practice. Jamel’s works have gained him notoriety at home and abroad, attracting a variety of prominent collectors. Jamel has most recently been celebrated by the New York Times and CBS News for his “Beauty from Ashes,” solo exhibition and teaching artist residency at the Hudson River Museum in New York. The body of work was curated in response to “African American Art in the 20th Century,” the Smithsonian American Art Museum’s traveling exhibition of select permanent works which opened at the Hudson River Museum at the start of Jamel’s residency in the fall of 2021. Jamel Robinson lives and works in Harlem, New York City where he was born and raised.
Photo Credit: Alex Bershaw
Artist www.jamelrobinson.com New York Times https://www.nytimes.com/2021/10/19/arts/hudson-river-museum-black-artists.html CBS News https://newyork.cbslocal.com/2022/01/07/african-american-art-in-the-20th-century-hudson-river-museum-yonkers/
A Hug From the Art World https://www.ahugfromtheartworld.com/jamel-robinson-the-scream-paintings
Hudson River Museum https://www.hrm.org/exhibitions/jamel-robinson/
Established Gallery https://arthag.typepad.com/arthag/2020/06/jamel-robinson-unfettered-established-gallery.html
Rivertowns Enterprise https://www.rivertownsenterprise.net/region/museum-features-artist-s-mix-of-media-and-metaphor/article_f5983e02-4d9b-11ec-adda-5f2c9a218ec3.html
Lapera Projects Art https://www.laperaprojects.art/jamel-robinson
Hired Ninja http://www.hired.ninja/nyc-abstract-expressionists-artist.html
Ep. 101 features Stephen Towns. Based in Baltimore, MD, he is a painter and fiber artist whose work explores how American history influences contemporary society. Originally from South Carolina, Towns received a Bachelor of Fine Art in painting from the University of South Carolina. His work has been exhibited in several venues including the National Museum of African American History, Baltimore Museum of Art, Westmoreland Museum of American Art, Art+ Practice, York College of PA and is in the private collection of The Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture, Baltimore Museum of Art, The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Westmoreland Museum of American Art, Flint Institute of Arts, Petrucci Family Foundation, Art + Practice and private collections nationally and abroad. His work has been featured in publications such as the New York Times, Artforum, Cultured Magazine, American Craft Council Magazine, and The Baltimore Sun.
Photo credit: Jermaine T. Bell
Artist https://www.stephentowns.com/
The Westmoreland Museum https://thewestmoreland.org/exhibitions/declaration-and-resistance/
North American Reciprocal Museum Association https://narmassociation.org/stephen-towns-declaration-resistance/
De Buck Gallery https://www.debuckgallery.com/artist/stephen-towns/
Forbes https://www.forbes.com/sites/chaddscott/2022/02/06/stephen-towns-spotlights-workers-at-bottom-of-americas-economic-ladder/?sh=73fe085f726e
1-54 https://www.1-54.com/london/artists/towns-stephen/
See Great Art https://www.seegreatart.art/stephen-towns-explores-the-american-dream-through-black-americans/
Pittsburgh City Paper https://www.pghcitypaper.com/pittsburgh/stephen-towns-exhibit-at-the-westmoreland-spotlights-black-workers-throughout-history/Content?oid=21164878
C& https://contemporaryand.com/exhibition/stephen-towns-declaration-resistance/
Episode 100!!! Proudly features Dr. Eugenie Tsai. She is the John and Barbara Vogelstein Senior Curator, Contemporary Art, at the Brooklyn Museum. In 2021, she organized “KAWS: WHAT PARTY,” “The Slipstream: Reflection, Resilience, and Resistance in the Art of Our Time,” and coordinated the Brooklyn Museum’s presentation of “The Obama Portraits,” She’s currently working on “Guadalupe Maravilla: Tierra Blanca Joven,” and an exhibition of Oscar yi Hou, the 2022 Ouvo Prize recipient.
Photo: courtesy Eugenie Tsai
Brooklyn Museum https://www.brooklynmuseum.org/community/blogosphere/author/tsaie/ Brooklyn Museum – The Slipstream https://www.brooklynmuseum.org/exhibitions/the_slipstream Brooklyn Museum – Oscar Yi Hou https://uovo.art/news_articles/the-brooklyn-museum-awards-third-annual-uovo-prize-to-oscar-yi-hou/ Brooklyn Museum – Kaws https://www.brooklynmuseum.org/exhibitions/kaws_what_party Brooklyn Museum – Obama Portraits https://www.brooklynmuseum.org/exhibitions/obama_portraits WWD Kaws Party https://wwd.com/eye/lifestyle/the-brooklyn-museum-joins-the-kaws-party-1234753706/ Artforum https://www.artforum.com/news/eugenie-tsai-heads-to-brooklyn-museum-african-american-museum-online-17943 Walker Art https://walkerart.org/calendar/2020/virtual-collectors-council-institutional-diversity-with-eugenie-tsai Parsons https://amt.parsons.edu/finearts/visitingcritics/eugenie-tsai/ Station wNYC - https://www.wnyc.org/people/eugenie-tsai/ Sothebys Institute https://www.sothebysinstitute.com/why-sothebys/our-faculty-and-guest-speakers/eugenie-tsai Ulrich Wichita https://ulrich.wichita.edu/program/eugenie-tsai/ Authored - Kehinde Wiley https://prestelpublishing.penguinrandomhouse.de/book/Kehinde-Wiley/Eugenie-Tsai/Prestel-com/e476924.rhd
Episode 99 features NICOLA VASSELL. She is the founder of Nicola Vassell Gallery, a contemporary art gallery committed to discourse that widens the lens of the history and future of art. Its focus is on developing an inter-generational, cross-disciplinary program of international artists and thinkers. Prior to the gallery, Nicola was Principal at Concept NV, an art consultancy, established in 2013, specialized in exhibitions and debate on cultural phenomena. Vassell has organized numerous exhibitions and developed a number of important collections. She is an editor of books, whose past publications include, Jean-Michel Basquiat 1981: The Studio of the Street; Francesco Clemente: Works 1971-1979 and Kehinde Wiley: Black Light. Vassell was a Director at Deitch Projects and Pace Gallery, NY. She is a member of New Museum’s Artemis Council.
Image courtesy Nicola Vassell. Photo Luigi Cazzaniga
Artist https://nicolavassell.com/ Conceptnv https://conceptnv.com/ Gagosian https://gagosian.com/quarterly/contributors/nicola-vassell/ Surface https://www.surfacemag.com/articles/moses-sumney-blackalachia-screening-nyc/ Jamaica Gleaner https://jamaica-gleaner.com/article/social/20210530/her-way-art-former-jamaican-model-nicola-vassell-opens-gallery-new-york Cultured https://www.culturedmag.com/article/2021/01/26/art-whisperer-nicola-vassell-to-open-a-space-of-her-own The Art Newspaper https://www.theartnewspaper.com/2021/05/19/unity-is-survival-former-pace-director-nicola-vassell-to-open-a-gallery-in-new-york New York Times https://www.nytimes.com/2021/05/18/arts/design/nicola-vassell-gallery-chelsea.html Barrons https://www.barrons.com/articles/20-minutes-with-art-dealer-and-curator-nicola-vassell-01635793577 ARTNews https://www.artnews.com/art-news/news/nicola-vassell-donna-de-salvo-conversation-1234609764/ Artnet https://news.artnet.com/art-world/nicola-vassell-gallery-1969733 Grazia https://graziamagazine.com/us/articles/nicola-vassell-gallery-nyc/ Sothebys https://www.sothebysinstitute.com/why-sothebys/our-faculty-and-guest-speakers/nicola-vassell Vogue https://www.vogue.com/slideshow/basel-vassell-dinner-2021
Ep.98 features Dr. Nicole Fleetwood. She is an art historian and curator exploring how the art of incarcerated people is essential to our understandings of contemporary art, the carceral state, and the humanity it contains. Fleetwood’s earlier work focused on representations of Blackness in art, performance, and popular culture, particularly how assumptions within American culture about Blackness are disrupted or reinforced by Black artists and public figures. In part motivated by her experiences visiting imprisoned family members, Fleetwood turned her keen curatorial vision to artistic production in and around the United States prison system. In the book Marking Time: Art in the Age of Mass Incarceration (2020), and an accompanying museum exhibition of the same name, Fleetwood investigates the cultural, personal, and aesthetic significance of incarcerated people’s art. The book is the most extensive work to apply the interpretive methods of art history to study the art people make within prison. Drawing on interviews with over seventy currently and formerly incarcerated artists and hundreds of paintings, photos, collages, and other forms of art, Fleetwood develops a concept of “carceral aesthetics” to understand both the works of art produced by incarcerated individuals and the constrained conditions under which they were created. She pays particular attention to the ways people build a sense of themselves and community through creative connection despite the circumstances of imprisonment. For example, the artists Gilberto Rivera, Jesse Krimes, and Jared Owens established a conceptual art workshop focused on multiracial collaboration while serving time at the Fairton Federal Correctional Institution in New Jersey. Another artist, Tyra Patterson, created multimedia portraits inspired by other incarcerated women.
Fleetwood’s emphasis on both the artworks’ aesthetic value and the artists’ ingenuity in finding ways to convey their creative vision is a powerful testament to the humanity of all those impacted by the criminal justice system. In both the book and exhibition, she takes a deeply collaborative approach and centers the lived experiences of the artists themselves, many of whom participated in conferences, panel discussions, and other opportunities for public engagement that informed and emerged from the years of work that went into Marking Time. Fleetwood is demonstrating that art and imagery produced and used by incarcerated individuals is a critically important form of human expression, and her work sheds new light on the toll the criminal justice system in the United States takes on human lives.
Photo credit: Sara Bennett | John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation
MacArthur Foundation https://www.macfound.org/fellows/class-of-2021/nicole-fleetwood
NYU https://steinhardt.nyu.edu/people/nicole-r-fleetwood
National Endowment for the Arts https://www.arts.gov/stories/podcast/dr-nicole-fleetwood
NY Times https://www.nytimes.com/2021/12/13/books/review/the-fortune-men-nadifa-mohamed.html Rikers Rikers Murals: What Will Happen to Artwork at the Jail? (curbed.com)
Harvard University Press https://harvardpress.typepad.com/hup_publicity/2021/10/nicole-fleetwood-and-monica-mu%C3%B1oz-martinez-awarded-macarthur-fellowships.html
MoMA Magazine https://www.moma.org/magazine/articles/454
Marking Time https://markingtimeart.com/
Troubling Vision https://press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/book/chicago/T/bo10184159.html
On Racial Icons https://www.rutgersuniversitypress.org/on-racial-icons/9780813565156
Arts Journal https://www.artsjournal.com/measure/2022/01/27/art-historian-and-2021-macarthur-fellow-dr-nicole-fleetwood-discusses-the-profound-significance-of-the-art-created-by-incarcerated-people/
ACLS https://www.acls.org/news/nicole-fleetwood-f16-named-a-2021-macarthur-fellow/
Youtube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=76Z_hu9wymI
Ep. 97 features Claire Oliver. She founded her first gallery thirty years ago in Florida before moving to Philadelphia and then in 2000, moving to the Chelsea district of Manhattan, and finally establishing her flagship in Harlem in 2019. Claire has honed a unique place in the international art ecosystem with a focus on showcasing and celebrating artwork by women and people of color, which transcends and challenges the traditional art historical canon. Claire studied architecture and interior design at the University of Utah where she advanced her love for visual art through her study of design with teachers from the German art school commonly known as the Bauhaus. A Southern California native, Claire is an avid equestrian and cross-country skier. She lives and works in Harlem with her husband and her two chihuahuas. Claire Oliver Gallery's forward-thinking program and exclusive commitment to the primary market allows for an intensive focus that has nurtured and grown the careers of her artists. Many of the gallery’s artists have been included in The Venice Biennale, The Whitney Biennial, and biennales in Sydney, Pittsburgh, and Lyon and have exhibited works in major international museums including the Smithsonian American Art Museum, The Art Institute of Chicago, Center Georges Pompidou, The Philadelphia Museum of Art, and The Los Angeles County Museum of Art amongst others. Claire Oliver Gallery artists are included in the permanent collections of many important museums worldwide including The Smithsonian American Art Museum, The Art Institute of Chicago, The Tate Britain, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, The State Hermitage Museum, MoMA, and the Museum of Arts and Design amongst many others. Claire Oliver Gallery held the first American exhibition for the Russian collaborative AES+F, whose work went on to twice represent Russia in the Russian pavilion of the Venice Biennale. Gallery artists have received prestigious fellowships including Fulbright, Guggenheim, USArtist and National Endowment for the Arts.
Artist https://www.claireoliver.com/
Whitehot Magazine https://whitehotmagazine.com/articles/at-claire-oliver-gallery-/4899
Avenue Magazine https://avenuemagazine.com/harlem-gallery-miami-art-week-digital-show-claire-oliver/
MutualArt http://www.mutualart.com/ExternalArticle/Claire-Oliver-Gallery-Opens--A-Contempor/D9A421CF84D2711D?source_page=Gallery\Articles
Fad Magazine https://fadmagazine.com/2020/06/18/claire-oliver-gallery-launches-an-online-sales-room-limited-edition-poster-series-called-art-is-for-everyone/
NYC Arts https://www.nyc-arts.org/organizations/154181/claire-oliver-gallery-2
Ep.96 features Barbara Earl Thomas. She is a visual artist with numerous national exhibits to her credit. She is a maker who builds tension-filled narratives through papercuts and prints, placing silhouetted figures in social and political landscapes. Thomas is known for her large-scale installations that use light as the animating force and invites her viewers to step inside her illuminated scenographies. Barbara’s works are included in the collections of the Seattle, Tacoma and Portland Art Museums, Chrysler Museum of Art, Minneapolis Institute of Art, Microsoft, and the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, Washington State and Seattle City public collections. Barbara has art projects for Seattle’s Sound Transit stations and Yale University. She received her BA and MFA from the University of Washington School of Art. She currently has two major exhibits on view; Geography of Innocence at the Seattle Art Museum, and a collaborative exhibit with New York based artist, Derrick Adams, Packaged Black at the Henry Art Gallery at the University of Washington.
Photo credit: Jovelle Tamayo
Artist https://barbaraearlthomas.com/ Seattle Art Museum https://thomas.site.seattleartmuseum.org/ Claire Oliver Gallery https://www.claireoliver.com/artists/barbara-earl-thomas/ Seattle Met https://www.seattlemet.com/arts-and-culture/2021/03/barbara-earl-thomas-jacob-lawrence-sam-seattle-art-museum-shows-2021-american-struggle-geography-of-innocence Bomb Magazine https://bombmagazine.org/articles/between-fragility-and-strength-barbara-earl-thomas-interviewed/ Henry Art https://henryart.org/exhibitions/packaged-black University of Washington https://artsci.washington.edu/news/2022-02/poetics-barbara-earl-thomas Seattle Times https://www.seattletimes.com/entertainment/visual-arts/barbara-earl-thomas-the-geography-of-innocence-exhibit-at-sam-invites-transformation/ Wikipedia https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barbara_Earl_Thomas
Episode 95 features Kent Kelley. His interest in the arts was formed from fond memories observing his mother, an artist who died when he was 14. A decade later he acquired his first works of art and in 2015 began building an art collection with the express goal of documenting and preserving the culture of the African diaspora. His support for the arts includes increasing the awareness of artists of color whether they be emerging artists, mid-career artists or mid-20th Century masters excluded from the historical art canon because of their race and gender.
Kent is also a finance professional and currently serves as the Chief Financial Officer of a fast growing SaaS software company.
His collection includes works by Nate Lewis, Tariku Shiferaw, Genevieve Gaignard, Vaughn Spann, Nathaniel Murray Quinn, Mickalene Thomas, Kehinde Wiley, Norman Lewis, Bettye Saar, Ed Clark, Frank Bowling and Benny Andrews.
Kent is also a patron of the Arts. He is a Director's Circle member at his local High Museum of Art, a Director Council member at the Studio Museum of Harlem and a member of MoMA PS1's, "Greater New Yorkers", a community of forward thinking individuals dedicated to supporting MoMA PS1's ability to be artist centric, artist driven and artist focused.
Kent and his wife were funders for the High Museum of Art, in Atlanta, Obama Portraits Exhibition on view until March 20, 2022. https://high.org/obama-tour/
Artsy https://www.artsy.net/article/artsy-editorial-collector-kent-kelley-supporting-brilliance-black-emerging-artists
High Museum https://high.org/Press-Release/high-museum-of-art-presents-the-obama-portraits-tour-featuring-portraits-by-artists-kahinde-wiley-and-amy-sherald/
J News https://jnews.uk/collector-kent-kelley-on-supporting-the-brilliance-of-black-emerging-artists/
Newsbreak https://www.newsbreak.com/news/2481869378970/collector-kent-kelley-on-supporting-the-brilliance-of-black-emerging-artists
Photo credit: Slingshots Photography
Ep.94 features Delita Martin, an artist currently based in Huffman, Texas. She received a BFA in drawing from Texas Southern University and a MFA in printmaking from Purdue University. Formally a member of the fine arts faculty at the University of Arkansas at Little Rock, Martin is currently working as a full-time artist in her studio, Black Box Press. Primarily working from oral traditions, along with vintage and family photographs as a source of inspiration; Martin’s work explores the power of the narrative impulse. Her finished works combine collaging, drawing, painting, printmaking, and sewing techniques, placing her figures amid patterns to visually represent what it looks like when we become the spiritual other: when we pray or meditate … we enter the veilscape.” Martin's layering of technique and material, as well as her use of pattern and color, signifies a liminal space – the space between the waking life and the spirit life. By fusing this visual language with oral storytelling in this different space she offers other identities and other narratives for women of color. Martin’s work has been exhibited both nationally and internationally. Most recently Martin’s work was shown at the National Museum for Women in the Arts in Washington, DC and welcomed into the Library of Congress. She served as 2020 Keynote speaker for the Mid America Print Council. Artist https://blackboxpressstudio.com/Black Box Press Foundation https://www.blackboxpressfoundation.org/ NMWA https://nmwa.org/exhibitions/delita-martin-calling-down-spirits/ Galerie Myrtis http://galeriemyrtis.net/delita-martin-bio/ Crystal Bridges https://stateoftheart.crystalbridges.org/blog/project/delita-martin/ Wikipedia https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Delita_Martin Nicole Longnecker Gallery https://longneckergallery.com/artist/delita-martin
Ep.93 features Sculptor, Printer, Conceptual and Visual Artist Willie Cole. He lives and works in New Jersey. “Willie Cole: On-Site” opened at the David C. Driskell Center, University of Maryland and traveled to the Museum of Art at the University of New Hampshire, and Arthur Ross Gallery, Philadelphia in 2016. The following year, Cole had solo exhibitions at the Snite Museum of Art at the University of Notre Dame and at the College of Architecture and Design Gallery at the New Jersey Institute of Technology. In 2019, “Willie Cole: Beauties” opened at the Radcliffe Institute at Harvard University as well as “Willie Cole: Bella Figura” at Alexander and Bonin, New York. His recent special projects and collaborations in 2021 include Mosaic with Tod’s, Salone de Mobile, Milan, Italy and Darkroom, with Comme des Garcon, Tokyo Japan. Group exhibitions in 2021 include: Before Yesterday We Could Fly, Metropolitan Museum of Art, The Shadow We Create at The Cameron Museum, Contemporary Print: 20 Years at Highpoint Editions Minneapolis Institute of Art and There’s There There, Hauser & Wirth, Southampton. In 2020, Junque, Massimo de Carlo, London. His work has been the subject of several one-person museum exhibitions that include the Museum of Modern Art, the Bronx Museum of the Arts, Miami Art Museum and College of Wooster Art Museum. Visit the artist’s website for a peek into his 2021 collaboration with Tod’s.
Artist website https://www.williecole.com/ Artist + Tod’s collaboration https://www.williecole.com/tods Milwaukee Art Museum https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=591ks7LYhA4 Kavi Gupta https://kavigupta.com/artists/58-willie-cole/ Highpoint printmaking https://www.highpointprintmaking.org/editions/willie-cole https://www.highpointprintmaking.org/highpoint-news/2020/3/2/willie-cole-in-personal-space-at-museum-of-fine-arts-boston Willie Cole’s Black Art Matters https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=591ks7LYhA4 MoMA https://www.moma.org/collection/works/66215 Metropolitan Museum https://www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/495572 Bomb Magazine https://bombmagazine.org/articles/willie-cole/
Episode 92 features vanessa german. vanessa was born in Milwaukee, WI and currently lives and works in Pittsburgh, PA. She is a self-taught citizen artist working across sculpture, performance, communal rituals, immersive installation, and photography, in order to repair and reshape disrupted systems, spaces, and connections. The artist’s practice proposes new models for social healing, utilizing creativity and tenderness as vital forces to reckon with the historical and ongoing catastrophes of structural racism, white supremacy, heteropatriarchy, resource extraction, and misogynoir.
A visual storyteller, vanessa utilizes assemblage and mixed media, combining locally found objects to build protective ritualistic structures known as her power figures or tar babies. Modeled on Congolese Nkisi sculptures and drawing on folk art practices, they are embellished with materials including beading, glass, fabric, and sculpted wood, and come into existence at the axis on which Black power, spirituality, mysticism and feminism converge.
Kasmin Gallery https://www.kasmingallery.com/artist/vanessa-german The Art Newspaper https://www.theartnewspaper.com/2021/12/01/handmade-tales-collage-textile-and-assemblage-pieces-abound-at-art-basel-in-miami-beach 90.5 WESA https://www.wesa.fm/arts-sports-culture/2021-02-19/artist-vanessa-germans-homewood-arthouse-looks-to-rebuild-after-fire Studio Museum https://www.studiomuseum.org/event/lea-k-green-artist-talk/vanessa-german Youtube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E5Lbtots9HI State of the art | Crystal Bridges https://stateoftheart.crystalbridges.org/blog/project/vanessa-l-german/ Wikipedia https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vanessa_German Transformative Now https://transformativenow.org/vgerman Fort Gansevoort https://www.fortgansevoort.com/artists/vanessa-german/cv School of Art | Carnegie Mellon University http://www.art.cmu.edu/news/school/vanessa-german-diploma-ceremony-2021/ Museum of West Virginia University https://arts.wvu.edu/news/2021/10/29/vanessa-german-piece-finds-its-home-at-wvu NPR https://www.npr.org/2016/01/24/463859455/young-artists-find-home-and-healing-at-a-pittsburgh-art-house
Ep.91 features Ivy N. Jones. She founded the Welancora Gallery, based in Brooklyn, New York in 2002. Ivy holds a B.A. in political science from Hampton University and a M.A. in public administration from Clark Atlanta University. She is a native of Brooklyn, New York. The gallery name is an amalgam of the names of Ivy's parents and older brother.
In 2014, the gallery mission and programming were updated to reflect a greater focus on contemporary art and criticism. The broader mission of the gallery is to represent artists from around the world by placing their work with individual collectors and institutions, publishing scholarly exhibition catalogues and monographs. From time to time, guest curators and writers of color are invited to mount exhibitions and contribute essays about the shows on view. The gallery is located in a 19th century brownstone in Bedford Stuyvesant in Brooklyn, New York.
The gallery had a booth at The Armory Show in 2021 and Art Basel Miami in 2021.
Photo of Ivy Taken by Elliot Jerome Brown, Jr.
Welancora Gallery https://www.welancoragallery.com/ NY Times https://www.nytimes.com/2021/12/04/arts/design/art-basel-miami-diversity.html The Art Newspaper https://www.theartnewspaper.com/2020/09/03/three-exhibitions-to-see-in-new-york-this-weekend The New Yorker https://www.newyorker.com/goings-on-about-town/art/anita-thacher Hyperallergic https://hyperallergic.com/692295/the-coexistence-of-beauty-and-evocations-of-race-and-power/ Cultured magazine https://www.culturedmag.com/article/2020/10/17/ivy-n-joness-welancora-gallery-advances-the-african-diaspora Nico Wheadon Projects https://www.nicowheadon.com/writer/2021/6/17/red-catalogue-essay-welancora-gallery
Ep.90 features Writer, curator, lecturer, artist, NFT evangelist Kenny Schachter. He has been curating contemporary art exhibits in museums and galleries and teaching (art history and economics) for more than thirty years; presently in the graduate department of the University of Zurich (appointed to advisory board January 2021) professorships at the School of Visual Arts (NY) and New York University.
He has lectured internationally, been the recipient of a Rockefeller supported grant in Mexico, and contributed to books on Paul Thek, Zaha Hadid, Vito Acconci and Sigmar Polke/Gerhard Richter.
Schachter has a regular column on Artnet.com in addition to writing widely for various international publications including most recently New York Magazine and The Times Magazine (UK). He had a retrospective of his art at Joel Mesler’s Rental Gallery in New York in the summer of 2018, curated an exhibit at Simon Lee Gallery in London, fall 2018 and a one person show at Kantor Gallery, LA, February 2019.
He recently staged the first phygital NFT group exhibit at Nagel-Draxler Gallery in Cologne, and participated in a two-person show with Eva Beresin at Galerie Charim in Vienna (both in May 2021) Schachter participated in Art Basel 2021 with Nagel Draxler Gallery. In addition, another one person show is scheduled at Blum & Poe Gallery in Tokyo in 2022.
Schachter is presently the subject of a documentary being produced and directed by Chris Smith (Tiger King/Fyre Festival), and a Hulu/ABC NFT film, and has been profiled in The New York Times Magazine (cover story, September, 1996), and London's Observer, Independent and Telegraph.
After having made digital art for decades, Schachter has spearheaded the traditional art world’s adaptation of Non Fungible Tokens in 2021 by lecturing from Yale to the Hirschhorn Museum and written 8 feature articles for Artnet on the subject. He has curated wide-ranging NFTism exhibitions (which term he trademarked) at Nagel Draxler in Cologne, Institut in London and Nagel Draxler’s booth in Art Basel Switzerland. Kenny is currently based in New York.
The Nagel Draxler gallery has launched in Berlin a space dedicated to NFTs and blockchain related art. The inaugural and current exhibition at the gallery is titled METADADA at Nagel Draxler CRYPTO KIOSK, a solo exhibition featuring Kenny Schachter, thru 12 March 2022
Artist https://www.kennyschachter.art/ https://www.kennyschachter.art/category/interviews-lectures-talks/ https://www.kennyschachter.art/2022/01/kenny-schachter-art-above-all/
Crypto Mutts https://cryptomutts.io Galerie Nagel Draxler https://nagel-draxler.de/
SVA https://sva.edu/events/kenny-schachter-on-nfts-in-the-art-world
Coindesk https://www.coindesk.com/business/2021/09/25/art-collectors-swoon-over-nfts-at-elite-basel-gathering/
Observer https://observer.com/2021/06/kenny-schachter-nft-cryptocurrency-rarible/
Artnet http://www.artnet.com/
Unit London https://unitlondon.com/content/feature/998/detail/artworks8704/
Col\ecteurs https://www.collecteurs.com/article/kenny-schachter-on-transparency-in-the-art-world
Gallerie Magazine https://galeriemagazine.com/kenny-schachter-manhattan-home/
Vulture https://www.vulture.com/2020/03/inigo-philbrick-art-dealer.html
Episode 89 features Antwaun Sargent. He is a writer, curator, art critic and director at Gagosian Gallery in New York City. He is the author of “The New Black Vanguard: Photography between Art and Fashion” (Aperture 2019) and the editor of “Young, Gifted and Black: A New Generation of Artists” (DAP 2020).
Mr. Sargent was the guest editor of “Art In America” magazine’s, New Talent Issue, May/June 2021. His writing has appeared in the New York Times, The New Yorker, and in museum and gallery publications for artists Mickalene Thomas, Arthur Jafa, Meleko Mokgosi, Nick Cave, Yinka Shonibare and Ed Clark, among many others.
In mid-2021, Gagosian New York City, presented Social Works I, a group exhibition curated by Antwaun with participating artists David Adjaye, Zalika Azim, Allana Clarke, Kenturah Davis, Theaster Gates, Linda Goode Bryant, Lauren Halsey, Titus Kaphar, Rick Lowe, Christie Neptune, Alexandria Smith, and Carrie Mae Weems. In late 2021, Antwaun curated the sequel, Social Works II, Gagosian located in Grosvenor Hill, London.
“The New Black Vanguard” and “Young, Gifted and Black” are currently on view.
Photo credit: Chase Hall
Gagosian https://gagosian.com/exhibitions/2021/social-works-curated-by-antwaun-sargent/ Gagosian Quarterly https://gagosian.com/quarterly/2021/06/25/interview-social-works-rick-lowe-and-walter-hood/ Vulture https://www.vulture.com/2020/08/young-gifted-and-black-artists-book.html New York Times https://www.nytimes.com/2021/06/23/arts/design/gagosian-antwaun-sargent-social-works.html Culture Type https://www.culturetype.com/2021/09/05/on-view-social-works-curated-by-antwaun-sargent-at-gagosian-in-new-york-exhibition-will-have-a-sequel-in-london-in-october/ Forbes https://www.forbes.com/sites/chaddscott/2020/10/18/antwuan-sargent-curated-just-pictures-exhibition-proves-to-be-much-more/?sh=e2e8b1d15b3c ARTnews https://www.artnews.com/art-news/news/antwaun-sargent-artnews-live-interview-1234579985/ Projects+Gallery http://www.projects-gallery.com/just-pictures-antwaun-sargent i-D https://i-d.vice.com/en_uk/article/5dmwdd/antwaun-sargent-bernard-lumpkin-young-gifted-black-davey-adesida Fad Magazine https://fadmagazine.com/2021/10/05/social-works-ii-curated-by-antwaun-sargent/ DAZED https://www.dazeddigital.com/art-photography/article/48097/1/antwaun-sargent-bernard-lumpkin-on-curating-for-the-black-community
Episode 88 features Kate Fowle, the Director of MoMA PS1. From 2013-2019 she was the inaugural chief curator at Garage Museum of Contemporary Art in Moscow and director-at-large of Independent Curators International (ICI) in New York, where she was the executive director from 2009-13. Prior to this she was the inaugural international curator at the Ullens Center for Contemporary Art in Beijing (2007-08). In 2002 she co-founded the Master’s Program in Curatorial Practice for California College of the Arts in San Francisco, for which she was the Chair until 2007. Before moving to the United States, Fowle was co-director of Smith + Fowle in London from 1996-2002. From 1994-96 she was curator at the Towner Art Gallery and Museum in Eastbourne, East Sussex.
Fowle’s recent projects include solo exhibitions with David Adjaye, Rasheed Araeen, John Baldessari, Sammy Baloji, Louise Bourgeois, Marcel Broodthaers, Urs Fischer, Rashid Johnson, Irina Korina, Robert Longo, Anri Sala, Taryn Simon, Juergen Teller, and Rirkrit Tirivanija, as well as extended essays on Ilya Kabakov, Sterling Ruby, and Qiu Zhijie, and numerous extended articles on curating and exhibition histories. Fowle has written three books: Exhibit Russia: The New International Decade 1986-1996 (2016); Rashid Johnson: Within Our Gates (2016); and Proof: Francisco Goya, Sergei Eisenstein, Robert Longo (2017)
Photo by James Hill
MoMA Bio https://www.moma.org/about/senior-staff/kate-fowle
PS1 https://www.moma.org/ps1
NYTimes https://www.nytimes.com/2021/09/14/arts/design/greater-new-york-new-museum-performa-biennial.html
Artnet News https://news.artnet.com/art-world/art-world-works-home-kate-fowle-1892064
Architect Magazine https://www.architectmagazine.com/practice/kate-fowle-appointed-director-of-moma-ps1_o
Call for Curators https://callforcurators.com/blog/kate-fowle-appointed-director-of-moma-ps1/
Auckland Art Gallery https://www.aucklandartgallery.com/page/judge-announced-for-the-walters-prize-2021-opening-this-weekend-at-auckland-art-gallery-toi-o-tamaki
Episode 87 features Allana Clarke (b. 1987) is a Trinidadian-American artist whose practice is built upon a foundation of uncertainty, curiosity, a will to heal, and an insistence upon freedom. Fluidly moving through photography, sculptural and text-based works, video and performance, her research-based practice incorporates socio-political and art historical texts, to contend with ideas of Blackness, the binding nature of bodily signification, and of the possibility to create non-totalizing identifying structures. Clarke received her BFA in photography from New Jersey City University in 2011 and an MFA in Interdisciplinary Practice from MICA’s Mount Royal School of Art in 2014. She is an assistant professor at Wayne State University in Detroit. Clarke has been an artist in residence at the Skowhegan School of Painting & Sculpture, The Vermont Studio Center, Lighthouse Works, and Yaddo. She has received several grants including the Toby Devan Lewis Fellowship, Franklin Furnace Fund, and a Puffin Foundation Grant. Her work has been screened and performed at Gibney Dance in NY, Invisible Export NY, New School Glassbox Studio NY, FRAC in Nantes, France, SAVVY Contemporary in Berlin and was featured in the Bauhaus Centennial edition Bauhaus Now: Is Modernity an Attitude. She recently completed a 2020-21 NXTHVN fellowship, a mentorship program co-founded by artist Titus Kaphar. Clarke is represented by Galerie Thomas Zander in Cologne and Kavi Gupta Gallery in Chicago 2023 Forthcoming solo exhibition with Kavi Gupta Gallery, Chicago, IL 2022 An Infinitive Breath, Galerie Thomas Zander, Cologne, Germany (Forthcoming, March) A Particular Fantasy, Solo companion exhibitions, Art Omi. Ghent, NY and Bennington College. Bennington, VT
Artist website https://allanaclarke.com/ Galerie Zander www.galeriezander.com Kavi Gupta Gallery https://kavigupta.com/artists/89-allana-clarke/ Culture Magazine https://www.culturedmag.com/article/2021/12/03/tomorrows-stars-are-on-display-at-art-basel-miami-beach-2021 The Armory https://www.thearmoryshow.com/armory-live/reads/features/interview-with-the-2021-gramercy-international-prize-winner NXTHVN https://www.nxthvn.com/residents/allana-clarke/ Wayne State University https://cfpca.wayne.edu/news/artist-allana-clarke-joins-art-department-faculty-40791 M|I|C/A https://www.mica.edu/art-articles/details/allana-clarke/ Ocula https://ocula.com/art-galleries/kavi-gupta-gallery/artworks/allana-clarke/aftermaths/
Episode 86 features Coady Brown. She is a painter from Baltimore, MD. She received her BFA from Tyler School of Art, Temple University in 2012 and her MFA from Yale University in 2016. Her recent solo exhibitions include Only In The Darkness Can You See The Stars at Shulamit Nazarian in Los Angeles and Electric Bloom at Taymour Grahne in London. She has exhibited both nationally and internationally with 1969 Gallery, Carl Kostyál, Richard Heller, and Francios Ghebaly, among others. She is the recipient of several fellowships and residencies including The Fine Arts Work Center, Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture, Fountainhead, Vermont Studio Center, and the Yale/Norfolk School of Art. Her work has been written about in The New York Times, The Village Voice, Juxtapoz, and New American Painting. Brown’s works are in the permanent collections of the Institute of Contemporary Art, Miami, the Columbus Museum of Art, and the X Museum in Beijing, China. Brown currently lives and works in Philadelphia, PA. Brown’s work examines how groups, couples, and solitary figures explore self-presentation in both private and public life. Bodies inhabit tightly framed, intimate spaces in paintings that expose our vulnerabilities and the tenuous nature of our connections and relationships. Figures become reflections of their environments, mirroring these heightened, surreal, frenetic, sexy, and sorrowful states. Patterns are painted in contrasting, high-chroma colors. Flowers, faces, and geometric shapes adorn jackets and t-shirts, allowing clothing to become an extension of the psyche. In their contrasting flatness and opticality, bodies are trapped in a world that is both familiar and strange. Figures tend to be androgynous, understanding gender fluidly and that femininity can be a site of both strength and extreme vulnerability. Caught in various states of harmony, anxiety, ecstasy, and anguish, figures navigate the world and uncertainty of the everyday, from intimate boundaries in bars and bedrooms to the unknown that awaits outside. It is a world fraught with the instability and paranoia of contemporary life.
Artist website https://www.coadybrown.com/
Richard Heller Gallery http://www.richardhellergallery.com/dynamic/artist.asp?ArtistID=229
Shulamit Nazarian https://www.shulamitnazarian.com/exhibitions/47-coady-brown-only-in-the-darkness-can-you-see-the/
New Art Dealers https://www.newartdealers.org/programs/nada-miami-2021/presentations/329/artworks/1659
It's Nice That https://www.itsnicethat.com/articles/coady-brown-art-040621
Stems Gallery https://stemsgallery.com/artists/coady-brown
New American Paintings https://www.newamericanpaintings.com/artists/coady-brown
BOOOOOOO https://www.booooooom.com/2021/02/08/artist-spotlight-coady-brown/
Episode 85 features Pat Phillips. He was born in Lakenheath, England in 1987. His work was featured in the 2019 Whitney Biennial at the Whitney Museum of American Art in New York. Solo exhibitions include ROOTS (Antenna Gallery, New Orleans), Told You Not to Bring That Ball (Masur Museum of Art, Monroe), SubSuperior (Catinca Tabacaru Gallery, New York) and Summer Madness (M+B, Los Angeles). In 2017, he received a Joan Mitchell Painters & Sculptors Grant. Phillips has also participated in residencies at the Vermont Studio Center and Skowhegan School of Painting & Sculpture. His work can be found in the collections of the Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY; Albright-Knox Art Gallery, Buffalo, NY; Block Museum of Art, Evanston, IL; and New Orleans Museum of Art, New Orleans, LA, among others.
Phillips’ paintings combine personal and historical imagery into surreal juxtapositions, drawing on his experience living in America to meditate on complex questions of race, class, labor and a militarized culture. Phillips, who grew up primarily in a small town in Louisiana, found his way to art through painting and photographing boxcars. He embraces this entry point, creating paintings that discuss the Americana subculture, as well as the current social and political threads running through American culture. His works often contain references to confederate flags, fences, and guns—all objects that suggest the violent underpinnings of this country and its institutions.
Phillips currently has a solo exhibition titled 'Consumer Reports' at the Jeffrey Deitch Gallery, Wooster Street in NYC, November 13th - January 8th, 2022.
Headshot Photo credit Nicholas Calcott
Artist ~ http://www.patphillipsart.com/paintings-2021
Jeffrey Deitch ~ https://deitch.com/new-york/exhibitions/pat-phillips-consumer-reports
M+B ~ https://www.mbart.com/exhibitions/194/
Juxtapoz ~ https://www.juxtapoz.com/news/painting/pat-phillips-intricate-layered-works-on-paper-m-b-gallery-los-angeles/
Joan Mitchell Foundation ~ https://www.joanmitchellfoundation.org/pat-phillips
Art of Choice ~ https://www.artofchoice.co/pat-phillips-calls-on-his-own-history-to-spotlight-systemic-inequities/
Hyperallergic ~ https://hyperallergic.com/488557/subsuperior-pat-phillips-catinca-tabacaru-gallery/
Episode 84 features sculptor and painter Leonardo Benzant, a Dominican-American artist with Haitian heritage born and raised in Brooklyn. His practice is informed by his studies of the Kongo, Yoruba and his spiritual beliefs shaped by research into African and Caribbean religion, art, history, culture, rituals and informed by modern and contemporary art. He deploys a wide variety of media and found objects to create dynamic overhanging (or suspended) beaded sculptures and he is an impressive painter.
Leonardo received a Joan Mitchell Foundation Painters and Sculptors Grant, attended Pratt Institute and the Galveston Artist Residency in Texas. He has also participated in select exhibitions including Coffee, Rhum, Sugar & Gold, A Postcolonial Paradox, at MoAD in California, The Burke Prize, The Future of Craft Part 2, the Museum of Arts and Design, New York, Visionary Aponte: Art & Black Freedom at King Juan Carlos of Spain Center at NYU. He also participated in Untitled in Miami Beach in 2019 and 2020, Expo Chicago, Pulse contemporary, and the Claire Oliver Gallery.
His work is included in several important private and public collections including the Weisman Museum, Minneapolis Institute of Art, The Bunker Artspace, and the Harvey B. Gantt Center for African American Arts + Culture, Charlotte North Carolina.
In this episode the artist will share with us ‘Notes’ to himself.
Leonardo is currently exhibited by the Claire Oliver Gallery in Harlem. His first solo exhibition at the gallery titled Across Seven Ruins & Redemptions_Somo Kamarioka, opened on November 11th and will close on January 8th, 2022.
Claire Oliver Gallery https://www.claireoliver.com/artists/leonardo-benzant/ Joan Mitchell Foundation https://www.joanmitchellfoundation.org/leonardo-benzant Museum of Arts and Design https://madmuseum.org/exhibition/burke-prize-2018 Museum of the African Diaspora San Francisco https://www.moadsf.org/blog/profile-leonardo-benzant/ San Francisco Examiner https://www.sfexaminer.com/entertainment/museum-of-african-diaspora-hosts-artists-in-studios/ In the Trove https://inthetrove.com/leonardo-benzant-interview Gotham To Go https://gothamtogo.com/leonardo-benzant-across-seven-ruins-redemptions-somo-kamarioka-to-open-at-claire-oliver-gallery/ Taubman Museum of Art https://www.taubmanmuseum.org/calendar/24585/virtual-conversation-with-artist-leonardo-benzant and interview on YouTube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tNjBgpCIY2M
Ep.83 features Lilian Garcia-Roig, a Cuba born, Texas raised artist living in Tallahassee, Florida whose works landscape-themed works have always explored the complex propositions of sense of place and belonging which so influence the construction of personal identity While she is most known for her perceptually-based, large-scale, “all-day” cumulative paintings that underscores the complex nature of trying to capture first-hand the multidimensional and ever-changing experience of being in that specific location. Recently she has embarked on a conceptual investigation of the idea of the Cuban landscape and how her American Bauhausian education has colored her relationship to place and space. These new works are part of the Hecho con Cuba and Hyphenated[1]Nature Series. She has shown at such places as the Chopo Museum in Mexico City, Americas Society Gallery in NYC, the National Museum of Women in the Arts, Art Museum of the Americas and extensively in many museums throughout the southeast. In 2017 she had a large work included in “Relational Undercurrents: Contemporary Art of the Caribbean Archipelago” one of the Getty funded Pacific Standard Time LA/LA Initiative shows that opened at the Museum of Latin American Art and traveled to various museums across the US. In 2019 she was in the Florida Prize Exhibition at the Orlando Museum, the Florida Contemporary at the Baker Museum in Naples, FL and the 2020 Florida Biennial at the Hollywood Art Center in Miami. Most recently she had a large work acquired by Perez Art Museum Miami (PAMM.) Her MFA is from the University of Pennsylvania (1990) and her BFA is from Southern Methodist University (1988). Major awards include a 2021 Guggenheim Fellowship, Joan Mitchell Foundation Award in Painting, Mid-America Arts Alliance/NEA Fellowship Award in Painting, State of Florida Individual Artist Fellowship Award in painting & a Kimbrough Award from the Dallas Museum of Art. Residencies include a Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture Fellowship, Vermont Studio Center Artist’s Fellowship, Hambidge Arts Center, MacDowell Colony Milton & Sally Avery Fellowship, Joan Mitchell Center A-I-R and as a visiting artist at the Ludwig Foundation in Havana, Cuba.
Photo credit: Alec Kercheval
Artist website http://www.liliangarcia-roig.com/ Artist's Studio News https://liliangarciaroig.wordpress.com/2021/07/18/2021/ Guggenheim Foundation https://www.gf.org/fellows/all-fellows/lilian-garcia-roig/ Joan Mitchell Foundation https://www.joanmitchellfoundation.org/lilian-garcia-roig Valley House https://www.valleyhouse.com/bio.asp?artistid=70 Wikipedia https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lilian_Garcia-Roig Florida Contemporary http://www.liliangarcia-roig.com/florida-contemporary-2020/
Episode 82 features Khalif Tahir Thompson. He is best recognized for his powerful work concentrated in portraiture and figuration. Incorporating painting, drawing, collage, printmaking, and paper-making into his practice, he explores notions of self through varied subjectivity concerning identity, race, iconography, as well as family, and relationships. Recently he graduated from Purchase College with his Bachelors in Fine arts degree and completed a fellowship at the EFA Robert Blackburn Printmaking Workshop in NYC, the Vermont Studio Center, and The Jerome Emerging Artist Residency at The Anderson Center. He is currently represented by Black Art In America.
Headshot credit: Jairo Serna
Artist Website https://khaliftthompson.wixsite.com/tahir Black Art in America https://shopbaiaonline.com/collections/khalif-thompson-collection FoundWork https://foundwork.art/artists/khaliftahirthompson Sugarcane Magazine https://sugarcanemag.com/2020/04/artist-spotlight-khalif-tahir-thompson/ Kunstmatrix https://art.kunstmatrix.com/en/artwork/khalif-tahir-thompson/oh-heart
Episode 81 features Delphine Desane. She is a Brooklyn-based artist born and raised in Paris, France by Haitian parents. She began her career as a stylist in the fashion industry. After becoming a mother, she began to paint during her maternity leave. Delphine was soon discovered and commissioned to create the cover image for Vogue Italia January 2020 Sustainability Issue. In April 2021, Vogue US featured her painting titled “Bittersweet” in a story about Black Motherhood. Since then, her work has been exhibited in both solo and group exhibitions in the US, Europe and the UK. Delphine had her first solo show at Luce Gallery in Turin, Italy in early 2021. Group exhibitions include: MOMU Fashion Museum in Antwerp, Belgium, CFHIll Sweden and a public installation featuring six Haitian visual artists at the Brooklyn Academy of Music titled, “A Return: Liberation as Power.” amongst others. In 2021 Delphine was commissioned by Fela Kuti’s sons Femi and Made, to paint album covers, released by Partisan Records, of two albums packaged together titled “Legacy +.” Jacquemus, a fashion brand selected Delphine to paint its Impossibly French SS21 Campaign ‘L’amour’.
Her work is in the collections of the Studio Museum of Harlem, MACAAL museum in Morocco and amongst others.
Delphine was recently in a group show in NYC at the Pace Gallery, September 10th-October 23rd 2021
Vogue https://www.vogue.com/article/high-risk-pregnancy-black-maternal-health-week Elephant Art https://elephant.art/women-painting-women-the-essential-artists-to-watch/ The New Yorker https://www.newyorker.com/goings-on-about-town/art/black-femme-sovereign-of-wap-and-the-virtual-realm Observer https://observer.com/2021/03/black-femme-canada-gallery-wap-virtual-realm-art-review/ Vogue https://www.vogue.co.uk/fashion/article/delphine-desane-jacquemus-ss21-campaign Drift Records https://driftrecords.com/products/femi-kuti-and-made-kuti-legacy Artnet https://news.artnet.com/art-world/delphine-desane-1916431 Artnet https://news.artnet.com/art-world/maestro-dobel-tequila-pocoapoco-delphine-desane-1928503 1-54 https://www.1-54.com/paris/artists/desane-delphine/ Vogue https://www.vogue.com/article/nikuyah-walker-mayor-of-charlottesville-virginia-conversation
Episode 80 features Suzanne McFayden. Born and raised in Kingston, Jamaica, she is a writer, and leading collector of contemporary art. Ms. McFayden holds a BA in French Literature from Cornell University and an MFA in Writing from Mills College. Her philanthropic investments beyond the art world address food insecurity. Ms. McFayden is the current Board Chair of The Blanton Museum of Art at The University of Texas at Austin. She is a Trustee of the Studio Museum of Harlem in NYC and also serves on Pratt Institute's DEIA Committee. As a black female art collector, McFayden’s collection focuses on works that reflect who she is: woman, black, mother, immigrant, traveler, survivor, writer, other.
Photo credit: Kara Marie Collective
Website https://www.suzannemcfayden.com/
Artnews https://www.artnews.com/art-news/news/suzanne-macfayden-collector-to-watch-1234607370/
https://www.artnews.com/art-news/news/suzanne-mcfayden-board-chair-blanton-museum-1234604601/
Financial Times https://www.ft.com/content/5e4503d7-aabf-4461-bdbe-b587eff662a7
Culture Magazine https://www.culturedmag.com/cultured-collections-with-suzanne-mcfayden/
Architectural Digest https://www.architecturaldigest.com/story/suzanne-mcfayden-austin-home
Art Austin https://artaustin.org/reviews/
Anthea Missy https://www.antheamissy.com/collector-to-watch-suzanne-macfayden-is-building-a-collection-centered-on-black-joy/
Episode 79 features painter Ronald Jackson. Growing up in the rural South of the Arkansas Delta, Jackson was the youngest of eleven kids born to a farmer and a community organizer. His Mother and Father left a legacy of challenging and reshaping the norms of the racial status quo in their surrounding home communities.
Jackson came from a lineage of black landowners farming in the South. In the mid-sixties, his parents led communities in the organization of multiple boycotts against the establishment of local racial injustices. Despite suffering continual threats, harassments, and organized retaliations, efforts eventually led to a successful lawsuit against their local school district and a subsequent US Court of Appeal’s decision, ruling in the favor of forcing the area school districts into full desegregation.
Jackson studied Architecture at Saddleback College in Mission Viejo CA before joining the US Army. He served 21 plus years in the Army and retired in 2014. Midway his military career, He began a pursuit of becoming a professional artist. With no access to art school, Jackson engaged himself on a journey of self-disciplines and personal discovery to realize this goal as an artist. The military afforded him the experience of living in places such as South Korea, Belgium, Italy, Germany, Iraq, and Kuwait; He believes that his childhood upbringing and the adult experiences of being immersed into other societies has given him an appreciation and broad perspective on life amidst the complex challenges that we all face.
Photo credit: Ian Maddox
Artist website https://www.ronaldjacksonartworks.com/ Artnet https://news.artnet.com/art-world/renaissance-noir-at-uta-1885608 The Hollywood reporter https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/lifestyle/lifestyle-news/la-art-galleries-sell-works-benefit-black-lives-matter-movement-1298602/ Galerie Magazine https://www.galeriemagazine.com/arkansas-crystal-bridges-momentary/ Bmore Art https://bmoreart.com/2018/07/black-portraiture-fabric-face-and-form.html KC STUDIO https://kcstudio.org/pulse-nerman-museum-of-contemporary-art/?fbclid=IwAR0A6meEwJJB0e5XQRuHzgeBuCiKV7DbDAgS7-ldV_V7u6OY6gw31gW65ek&fbclid=IwAR0A6meEwJJB0e5XQRuHzgeBuCiKV7DbDAgS7-ldV_V7u6OY6gw31gW65ek Hercules and Old Doll https://farmersanddistillers.com/about/artwork/ronald-jackson/ The Spirit of James Hemings https://www.wearefoundingfarmers.com/artist/ronald-jackson/
Episode 78 features Alina Zamanova Her paintings are centered around the representation of modern reality, where women’s bodies are embraced in all shapes and focused to portray their distortions without societal norms labeled on them. Being inspired by muses around the world, Zamanova recently draws from her own experience on a psychological level of upbringing to expose both physical and mental sides of humanity. The female bodies in her paintings occupy the dramatic landscapes from her dreams, memories and real-life places that have a strong connection to the artist. The concepts that the artist investigates involve human relationships and hidden stereotypical behaviours, how societal norms’ ability distort the perception of our existence, views on our bodies and the connection of humans to nature. Zamanova was born in Ukraine (1993) and has had a strong connection to nature since a young age. The artist investigates her own existence within the earth’s creations, by experiencing the landscapes and textures of nature with her own body, distorting the shape of it, exploring the silence. Since ancient times, art has been dedicated to the depiction of beauty and belonged to men. Accordingly, the image of women in this was subordinated to the desires and needs of one of the sexes. The theme of the female gaze is often associated with the destruction of bodily and other stereotypes towards women generated by the male gaze. The female gaze confronts the created ideal of beauty, which imposes specific standards that she must meet. Zamanova’s paintings depict precisely the women who are both confident and vulnerable in their chosen environment and portray the shift of power that women take back over their image and body. "
Photographer Roman Zubarev
Artist website https://alinazamanova.com/
i-d Vice https://i-d.vice.com/en_uk/article/akdvv5/alina-zamanova-surreal-paintings-celebrate-all-body-types
Metal Magazine https://metalmagazine.eu/en/post/interview/alina-zamanova-ugliness-as-the-new-paradigm
Glass Magazine https://www.theglassmagazine.com/glass-interviews-artist-alina-zamanova/
Show Studio https://www.showstudio.com/contributors/alina_zamanova
Episode 77 features Adrienne Elise Tarver, an interdisciplinary artist, educator, and administrator with a practice that spans painting, sculpture, installation, photography, and video. Her work addresses the complexity and invisibility of the black female identity in the Western landscape--from the history within domestic spaces to the fantasy of the tropical seductress.
She has exhibited nationally and abroad, including solo or two-person exhibitions at the Aldrich Museum of Contemporary Art in Connecticut; Atlanta Contemporary in Atlanta, Georgia; Victori+Mo (now Dinner Gallery) in New York; Ochi Projects in Los Angeles; Hollis Taggart in New York; Wedge Curatorial in Toronto, Canada; Wave Hill in the Bronx, NY; BRIC Project Room in Brooklyn; and A-M Gallery in Sydney, Australia. She has been commissioned for projects through the New York MTA, the Public Art Fund, Google, Art Aspen, and Pulse Art Fair and has been featured in online and print publications including the New York Times, Brooklyn Magazine, ArtNet, Blouin ArtInfo, Whitewall Magazine, and Hyperallergic, among others.
She is currently the Director of Programs at the National Academy of Design. Previously she was the Associate Chair of Fine Arts at SCAD Atlanta, and prior to that was the Director of Art & Design for the Harlem School of the Arts. She received her MFA from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago and BFA from Boston University. Portrait photo credit Eley photo
Artist website http://www.adriennetarver.com/
The Aldrich https://thealdrich.org/exhibitions/adrienne-elise-tarver
Atlanta Contemporary https://atlantacontemporary.org/exhibitions/adrienne-elise-tarver
The Armory https://www.thearmoryshow.com/
Culture Type https://www.culturetype.com/2021/09/07/on-view-adrienne-elise-tarver-the-sun-the-moon-and-the-truth-at-aldrich-contemporary-art-museum-in-ridgefield-conn/
Dinner Gallery https://dinnergallery.com/adrienne-elise-tarver
White Wall https://whitewall.art/art/art-aspen-awards-adrienne-elise-tarver-with-inaugural-artist-commission
Hollis Taggert Youtube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wft8TmSFnvE
See Great Art https://www.seegreatart.art/adrienne-elise-tarver-the-sun-the-moon-and-the-truth/
Boston University https://www.bu.edu/articles/2020/gallery-adrienne-elise-tarver/
Episode 76 features New York based David Shrobe. He creates multi-layered portraits and assemblage paintings made in part from everyday materials that he finds in multiple geographies, and especially from around his familial home. He disassembles furniture, separating wood from fabric and recombines them as supports for collage, painting, and drawing. Through these various modes of production his work brings notions of identity, history, and memory into question, while challenging conventions of classical portraiture. Shrobe produces new narratives, fragmented and nonlinear, that feel intimate and personal without being anchored to a specific time or place.
David Shrobe (b.1974, New York) lives and works in New York. He holds an MFA and a BFA in painting from Hunter College. He is an alumnus of the Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture and was a Joan Mitchell Artist Teaching Fellow. His work was recently included in group shows such as, PUNCH at Jeffrey Deitch Gallery, Los Angeles, and New York; Embody at Mandeville Gallery at Union College, New York; Bronx Calling: The Fourth AIM Biennial, at the Bronx Museum, and in Harlem Postcards at the Studio Museum in Harlem. He has had solo exhibitions at Thierry Goldberg Gallery in New York; Jenkins Johnson Gallery in San Francisco, and The Sugar Hill Children’s Museum in New York, among others. He has shown at numerous art fairs including EXPO Chicago, Untitled Miami Beach, and most recently, a solo booth at The Armory Show. Shrobe’s work is held in the Permanent Collections of The Brooklyn Museum, New York; The Studio Museum in Harlem, New York; The Block Museum, Evanston, Illinois; Union College, Schenectady, New York; Jordan Schnitzer Museum of Art at the University of Oregon, Eugene, Oregon; and NSU Art Museum, Fort Lauderdale.
Monique Meloche Gallery is pleased to present a solo exhibition of new work by New York born artist David Shrobe. Riding the Wind’s Back, meticulously carved and painted assemblage structures investigate the coexistence of hybrid identities and notions of a collective remembrance reimagined. This is the artist’s first exhibition with the gallery and first in Chicago thru October 30th.
Artist website https://www.davidshrobe.com/ Monique Meloche Gallery https://www.moniquemeloche.com/exhibitions/192-david-shrobe-riding-the-winds-back/press_release_text/ Art of Choice https://www.artofchoice.co/david-shrobe-repurposes-detritus-to-reimagine-history/ Art Market Monitor https://www.artmarketmonitor.com/2020/09/24/david-shrobes-new-pandemic-era-assemblage-works-draw-buyers-museum-interest/ Brooklyn Museum https://www.brooklynmuseum.org/opencollection/objects/224550 Fountainhead | Artist Statement https://www.fountainheadresidency.com/dave-shrobe
Photo credit: Michael Palma
Episode 75 features New York-based artist Wardell Milan. He works in mixed media, combining elements of photography, drawing, painting, and collage. Milan’s practice is conceptually grounded in photography, often using photographs as initial inspiration behind composition of drawings and collages. Referencing artists such as Robert Mapplethorpe, Diane Arbus, Andres Serrano, Alec Soth, and Eugene Richards, Milan appropriates, and in some cases re-appropriates the photographs, and thus the bodies depicted. Milan also uses images and objects to establish allegorical connections between history and contemporary events. Milan’s ongoing series “Death, Wine, Revolt,” which combines photography, drawing, painting, collage, and sculpture to explore themes of over-indulgence, destruction, and revolution. While earlier series such as “Parisian Landscapes” looked inward, to personal questions of freedom and desire, Milan made the works on view in response to the turmoil of the global moment. Works by the artist may be found in the collections of The Art Institute of Chicago; Museum of Contemporary Photography, Chicago; Denver Art Museum; Brooklyn Museum, New York; Hessel Museum of Art, Bard College, New York; The Museum of Modern Art, New York; The Morgan Library & Museum, New York; The Studio Museum in Harlem, New York; Whitney Museum of American Art, New York; UBS Art Collection; Daniel & Florence Guerlain Contemporary Art Foundation, Paris; Hall Art Foundation; and San Francisco Museum of Modern Art. Milan lives and works in New York.
Artist website ~ https://wardellmilan.com
Bronx Museum - http://www.bronxmuseum.org/exhibitions/wardell-milan-amerika-god-bless-you-if-itand39s-good-to-you
Culture Type - https://www.culturetype.com/2021/07/14/on-view-wardell-milan-amerika-god-bless-you-if-its-good-to-you-at-bronx-museum-of-the-arts-in-new-york/
Musee Magazine - https://museemagazine.com/features/2020/10/22/exhibition-review-wardell-milan-at-fraenkel-gallery
The Brooklyn Rail - https://brooklynrail.org/2020/02/criticspage/Pentimenti
Hyperallergic - https://hyperallergic.com/502980/a-disruptor-of-race-and-sex/
ArtForum - https://www.artforum.com/picks/wardell-milan-78442
Wikipedia - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wardell_Milan
Episode 74 features Ashley James, Ph.D., Associate Curator, Contemporary Art at the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum. She is the curator of Off the Record (2021) and co-curator of The Hugo Boss Prize: Deana Lawson, Centropy (2021). Prior to joining the Guggenheim, James served as Assistant Curator of Contemporary Art at the Brooklyn Museum, where she was the curator for the museum’s presentation of Soul of a Nation: Art in the Age of Black Power (2018–19), organized Eric N. Mack: Lemme walk across the room (2019), and co-curated John Edmonds: A Sidelong Glance (2020-21). James also served as a Mellon Curatorial Fellow in Drawing and Prints at the Museum of Modern Art, where her work focused on the groundbreaking retrospectives of Adrian Piper (2018) and Charles White (2018–19), and has held positions at the Studio Museum in Harlem and at the Yale University Art Gallery, where she co-organized the exhibition Odd Volumes: Book Art from the Allan Chasanoff Collection (2015). James holds a BA from Columbia University and a Ph.D. from Yale University in English literature and African American studies, with a certificate in Women's, Gender, and Sexuality studies.
Guggenheim https://www.guggenheim.org/staff/ashley-james Yale https://afamstudies.yale.edu/news/ashley-james-named-guggenheim-curator-makes-history Yale https://gsas.yale.edu/news/guggenheim-curator-ashley-james-sees-certain-kind-possibility-new-role NY Times https://www.nytimes.com/2019/11/15/arts/design/guggenheim-black-curator.html Forbes https://www.forbes.com/sites/dominiquefluker/2019/11/30/meet-guggenheims-first-black-curator-ashley-james/ NBC News https://www.nbcnews.com/news/nbcblk/guggenheim-curator-ashley-james-sees-certain-kind-possibility-new-role-rcna1260 Essence https://www.essence.com/culture/ashley-james-want-us-to-look-off-the-record/ W Magazine https://www.wmagazine.com/culture/guggenheim-curator-ashley-james-culture-diet-interview Marie Claire https://www.marieclaire.com/fashion/a34691447/ashley-james-guggenheim-museum/ Artnews https://www.artnews.com/art-news/news/ashley-james-curator-guggenheim-museum-13581/ Brooklyn Museum – Soul of a Nation https://www.brooklynmuseum.org/exhibitions/soul_of_a_nation
Episode 73 features painter Rebecca Brodskis (b. 1988 in France) lives and works in Paris. She spent most of her childhood travelling and living between France and Morocco. Brodskis studied painting at the Ateliers des Beaux Arts de la Ville de Paris and at Central St. Martins College of Art and Design in London,graduating in 2010. In 2015, she also completed a Master’s degree in Sociology,focusing her research on the themes of vulnerabilities and social crisis.Exploring the borders of the sensible world, Brodskis’ work evolves betwee nconscious and unconscious spaces, leading to a reflection on the existence, the self and the otherness. The idea of being in an in-between is very prominent in Brodskis work, this intermediate space at the cross-roads of empirical reality and imagination, order and disorder, materialism and spirituality, determinism and freedom. Solo exhibitions include Arrêt Sur Image, Kristin Hjellegjerde Gallery, London (2021); Tomorrow Is Another Day, Steve Turner LA (2020); Fragments of Life, Kristin Hjellegjerde Gallery, Berlin (2020);Galeriste with Hors Cadre, Paris (2019); Septième Galerie, Paris (2019);Unsettled disorders, Canopy Gallery, Netanya (2019); Dépendance, Gallery Mario Kreuzberg, Berlin (2019) and Drifting Singularities, Sputnik Gallery, Tel Aviv(2017). Group exhibitions include All the Days and Nights, Kristin Hjellegjerde Gallery, London (2020); Constellations, Galerie du 6b- St-Denis, France (2019);Where we once were, Yngspc (2019); Interférence, Le Studio, Paris (2018); Five French artists, Primitive Showroom, Tel Aviv (2017); Human factor, Ori artspace, Berlin (2016) and Disfiguring, figuring the unfigurable KelenföldiErömü, Budapest (2015). Highlights and Collections Her work is held in important private and public collections which include Alan Lo Collection (Hong Kong); Museum Azman Collection (Malaysia);Pamela and David Hornik Collection (USA); Selebe Yoon Collection (Senegal); The Beth Rudin Dewoody Collection (USA); Tiroche DeLeon Collection (Israel);Zeifang Collection (Germany) Hercurrent solo show ~ ‘Effet Miroir’, is on view at the Septieme Gallery in Paris through July 10th.
Artist website ~ http://www.rebeccabrodskis.com/ SeptiemeGallery ~ https://septiemegallery.com/en/rebecca-brodskis-en/ Kristin_Hjellegjerde_Gallery~https://kristinhjellegjerde.com/exhibitions/133/overview/ She_Curates~ https://www.she-curates.com/interviews/artists/rebecca-brodskis/ Cassina Projects ~ https://www.cassinaprojects.com/rebecca-brodskis Wall Street International Magazine ~ https://wsimag.com/art/62982-rebecca-brodskis-tomorrow-is-another-day Interlocutor ~https://interlocutorinterviews.com/new-blog/2021/2/1/rebecca-brodskis-interview-kristin-hjellegjerde-gallery-arret-sur-image
Episode 72 features scholar and curator Isolde Brielmaier, an Assistant Professor in the Department of Photography, Imaging and Emerging Media at New York University’s Tisch School of the Arts where she focuses on contemporary art, global visual culture, as well as media and immersive technology as platforms within which to re-think storytelling and the politics of representation. She is also the inaugural Curator-at-Large at the International Center of Photography (ICP) and previously oversaw the arts and cultural programming at the Oculus at Westfield World Trade Center. Isolde has written extensively on contemporary art and culture and is the author of Culture as Catalyst (2020). She has served as curator at several institutions including the Guggenheim Museum and the Bronx Museum. Among her distinctions, she has received fellowships from the Mellon and Ford foundations as well as the Social Science Research Council (SSRC). She serves on the Board of Trustees of the New Museum as well as the Women’s Prison Association. She holds a Ph.D. from Columbia University and lives in Brooklyn, New York.
Artist website https://www.isoldeb.com/ Wikipedia https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Isolde_Brielmaier ICP https://www.icp.org/news/the-international-center-of-photography-names-isolde-brielmaier-curator-at-large Book https://tang.skidmore.edu/shop NYU/ Tisch talk https://tisch.nyu.edu/photo/news/dpi-prof-isolde-brielmaier-talks-to-whitewall LinkedIn https://www.linkedin.com/in/isolde-brielmaier-phd-92021b77
Episode 71 features painter Che Lovelace. Based in Port of Spain, Trinidad, Che’s art originates primarily from his experience of living and working in Trinidad and Tobago. His paintings which are rendered in a vivid assortment of acrylic and dry pigment on combined board panels, are strongly rooted in depicting the dense, highly charged layers of the Trinidadian landscape which he sees as physical, social and spiritual. The subjects of his paintings emerge from and flow freely between the streets of Port of Spain, to the rural natural vegetation, to the human form and back to the interior of his studio. His recent one person exhibitions have been at Various Small Fires, Los Angeles in 2021, Galerie Eric Hussenout, Paris and Half Gallery, New York, Recent group exhibitions have been “Resting Point of Accommodation” Almine Rech, Brussels, "Get Up, Stand Up Now”, Somerset House, London and “Still-Life: An Ongoing Story”, Galerie Sebastien Bertrand, Geneva.
Che Lovelace was born 1969 in San Fernando, Trinidad and grew up in the east coast village of Matura. He received his fine art training at l’Ecole Régionale des Beaux-Arts de la Martinique. He has been a principal collaborator on several arts, Carnival and entertainment projects including the Studio Film Club and the recently established Friends For The Road J’Ouvert…a traditional Carnival project. His practice increasingly includes elements of performance which he absorbs into his painting process. Lovelace currently lecturers at the University of the West Indies Creative Arts department.
Artist https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Che_Lovelace W Magazine https://www.wmagazine.com/culture/che-lovelace-various-small-fires-trinidad Very Small Fires http://www.vsf.la/artist_post/che-lovelace/ Galerie Hussenot https://www.galeriehussenot.com/exposition/2347/ Vigo Gallery https://www.vigogallery.com/artists/13 Half Gallery https://halfgallery.com/che-lovelace New Yorker https://www.newyorker.com/goings-on-about-town/art/che-lovelace Pree https://preelit.com/category/che-lovelace/
Ep.70 features Maria Guzman Capron. Born in Milan, Italy to Colombian and Peruvian parents, she lives and works in Oakland, CA. She received an MFA from California College of the Arts in 2015 and her BFA from the University of Houston in 2004. Recent exhibitions include Snail Shell — pt.2 Gallery, Oakland, CA; Female Trouble 2 — CULT Aimee Friberg Exhibitions, San Francisco, CA; Body Spray — Buffalo Institute for Contemporary Art, Buffalo, NY; Don’t Eat Me — Deli Gallery in Brooklyn, NYC; and Through Her Eye — Mana Contemporary in Chicago, IL. In addition, she is a parent and works at NIAD Art Center as a part-time facilitator. Enjoy this interview. Photo credit courtesy of the artist.
Artist website http://mariaaguzman.com/ Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Art https://www.pafa.org/events/maria-guzman-capron-032421 Roll Up Project http://rollupproject.com/exhibitions/maria-guzman-capron/ Juxtapoz https://www.juxtapoz.com/news/painting/guerrero-gallery-s-october-exhibitions-with-maria-guzman-capron-and-hilary-pecis/ Premiere Jr. https://premierejr.space/Maria-Guzman-Capron Between us, about them https://www.between-us-about-them.cca.edu/maria-guzman-capron Variable West https://variablewest.com/event/snail-shell-maria-guzman-capron-rachel-hayden/
Ep.69 features Alvin Armstrong, a painter whose work explores the social and political landscape of Black American culture. His paintings are often filled with real and fictional subjects, culled from archival material, his community and lived experiences. He’s lived in Hawaii, Japan, and California all of which have informed his art practice. Armstrong received an MS in Eastern Medicine and is a licensed acupuncturist. The self-taught artist currently has a solo show at Anna Zorina Gallery titled, ‘To Give and Take’ and his work has been featured in the New York Times, Juxtapoz and Something Curated. He will be a Fall 2021 Visual Arts Resident at Pioneer Works in Brooklyn.
Alvin’s solo exhibition at the Anna Zorina Gallery is open thru June 19th. Chelsea NYC
Anna Zorina Gallery https://www.annazorinagallery.com/artists/alvin-armstrong/biography
Hyperallergic https://hyperallergic.com/648122/alvin-armstrong-black-bodies-in-motion/
Medium Tings https://www.mediumtingsbk.com/alvinarmstrong
Pioneer Works https://pioneerworks.org/residency/alvin-armstrong
Something Curated https://somethingcurated.com/2021/04/16/interview-painter-alvin-armstrong-questions-societys-expectations-of-black-bodies/
Juxtapoz https://www.juxtapoz.com/news/painting/preview-alvin-armstrong-to-give-and-take/
Brooklyn Rail https://brooklynrail.org/2020/10/artseen/Alvin-Armstrong-This-Place-Looks-Different
Photo credit Jordan Lee
Episode 68 features artist and archivist Alanna Fields (b. 1990, Upper Marlboro, MD) is a lens-based mixed media artist and archivist whose work investigates and challenges representations of Black queer identity and history through the lens of photography. Fields' work has been featured in exhibitions including Felix Art Fair, LA, UNTITLED Art Fair, Miami, MoCADA, and Pratt Institute. Fields is a Gordon Parks Foundation Scholar, 2020 Light Work AIR and Baxter St. CCNY Workspace AIR. She received her MFA in Photography from Pratt Institute and has given talks at the Aperture Foundation, Stanford University, NYU Tisch School of the Arts, Parson's New School, Syracuse University, and Rutgers University. Fields lives and works in New York City and is represented by Assembly.
DON’T MISS ~ Alanna Fields in her solo exhibition debut titled ‘Mirages of Dreams Past’ thru June 9th, Baxter Street at Camera Club of NY.
Artist website www.alannafields.com Baxter Street https://www.baxterst.org/alanna-fields/ Yancey Richardson Gallery https://www.yanceyrichardson.com/ Lightwork https://www.lightwork.org/archive/alanna-fields/ Aperture https://aperture.org/editorial/alanna-fields-audacious-gaze-on-the-black-queer-archive/ Lenscratch http://lenscratch.com/2020/08/photographers-on-photographers-nick-drain-in-conversation-with-alanna-fields/
Episode 67 features Mosie Romney (b. 1994, New York) They live and work in Ridgewood, Queens, New York. A Jamaican-American artist, they received their education from SUNY Purchase, obtaining a Bachelor of Science in Visual Arts in 2016. They have been an artist in residence at the Home School,Hudson in 2018 and at Pocoapoco, Oaxaca City in 2021 (upcoming). Exhibitions include Mosie Romney, Nicodim Gallery, Los Angeles (3/25-May 1st 2021,solo); Evening Lark, Y2K Group, New York (2020, solo); PAPA RAGAZZE!, Nicodim Gallery, Los Angeles (2020); Mosie Romney and Juan Guiterrez, Meredith Rosen Gallery, New York (2020); and Materia Prima, Gern en Regalia, New York (2019).
Mosie is currently in a group show at the Almine Rech gallery in Manhattan thru June 05.2021.
Artist Website ~ https://www.mosieromney.com/Almine Rech ~ https://www.alminerech.com/ Artnews ~ https://www.artnews.com/art-news/news/breaking-art-industry-news-january-2021-week-1-1234580739/ Protochic ~ https://www.protochic.com/stories/2020/9/8/what-were-watching-amoako-boafo-in-chicago-and-mosie-romney-in-new-york Hyperallergic ~ https://hyperallergic.com/572862/mo-romney-archiving-black-art-history/ Y2K – studio visit https://www.y2kgroup.nyc/y2k-group-blog/2020/6/23/studio-visit-with-mosie-romney https://www.y2kgroup.nyc/373-broadway
Ep.66 features Khari Turner, an emerging painter from Milwaukee, Wisconsin, and a current MFA graduate student at Columbia University. He is in multiple collections including his alma mater Austin Peay State University, where he received his BFA. He has been featured in Artnews, Whitehot magazine, Hyperallergic, to name a few. He grew up with many works of art from black artists that his grandparents collected. His grandfather was also a draftsman which inspired Khari at an early age to create. Growing up in Milwaukee, he was exposed to a connection to vast nature and dense cityscapes fighting amongst a city well known for its continued segregation. This created a connection to Black people and his environment over time. Blackness and Black people are the ocean to Khari. He currently takes water directly from the Ocean and his hometown, Lake Michigan and the Milwaukee River, incorporating them in the work either mixing the water with paint or pouring directly on the surface of the work. His aims are to eventually start a non-profit to create art programs directed at improving neighborhoods like the one he grew up in. Khari Turner has a solo show opening May 21,2021 at Voss Gallery in San Francisco and a solo show opening July 10th at the Ross Sutton Gallery in NYC.
Artist website ~ www.khariturner.com Artnews~ www.artnews.com/art-news/artists/khari-turner-artist-artnews-live-interview-1234577381/ Juxtapoz ~ https://www.juxtapoz.com/news/painting/khari-turner-the-sea-s-own-children-iris-project-venice-beach/ Columbia University ~ https://arts.columbia.edu/news/khari-turner-21-what-are-you-thinking-about-now Whitehot Magazine ~ https://whitehotmagazine.com/articles/turner-or-joy-in-struggle/4797 Kourosh Mahboubian Fine Art ~ https://mahboubianfineart.com/forget-what-you-know-khari-turner
Headshot credit - Folasade Ologundudu
Episode 65 features Doron Langberg. Born in 1985 in Yokneam Moshava, Israel, he currently lives and works in New York City. He received his MFA from Yale University School of Art, holds a BFA from the University of Pennsylvania, a Certificate from PAFA, and attended the Yale Summer School of Music and Art, Norfolk. Langberg has attended the EFA Studio Program, Sharpe Walentas Studio Program, Yaddo artist residency, and the Queer Art Mentorship Program. He is the recipient of the American Academy of Arts and Letters John Koch award for painting, the Elizabeth Greenshields Foundation Grant, and the Yale Schoelkopf Travel Prize. Langberg’s first solo exhibition at Yossi Milo Gallery, New York, was held in 2019. Works by the artist will feature in the forthcoming exhibitions: Intimacy: New Queer Art from Berlin and Beyond, at the Schwules Museum, Berlin (27 November 2020–25 February 2021); and Breakfast Under the Tree, curated by Russell Tovey and Robert Diament, at Carl Freedman Gallery, Margate, Kent (8 November 2020–17 January 2021). Langberg’s work will be included in a major group exhibition at the Institute of Contemporary Art/Boston in 2022. Previously, his work has been shown at institutional venues including the LSU Museum, American Academy of Arts and Letters, Leslie-Lohman Museum and The PAFA Museum. His work is in the collections of The PAFA Museum and RISD Museum. In the public realm, a reproduction of Langberg’s Joe and Edgar, 2020, can currently be seen in New York as part of Public Art Fund’s Art on the Grid, a city-wide initiative featuring 50 emerging artists. Doron has a solo exhibition with Victoria Miro Gallery opening September 2, 2021.
Doron’s favorite quotes include ‘Practice is a means of inviting the perfection desired’ ~ Martha Graham
Artist website ~ http://www.doronlangberg.com/ Victoria Miro Gallery ~ http://www.doronlangberg.com/ Artforum ~ https://www.artforum.com/print/202009/the-artists-artists-84359 https://www.artforum.com/picks/intimate-companions-83828 Artsy ~ https://www.artsy.net/article/artsy-editorial-14-artists-portraying-queer-love Artdrunk ~ https://www.artdrunk.art/doron-langberg Art of Choice ~ https://www.artofchoice.co/experience-physical-sensation-through-color-in-doron-langbergs-paintings/ Hyperallergic ~ https://hyperallergic.com/521769/a-dreamy-debut-of-paintings-queer-in-subject-and-form/ The Georgia Review ~ https://thegeorgiareview.com/posts/kaleidoscopic-consciousness/
Episode 64 features Chaz Guest. From his initial start in 1986, in a very creative NYC, he forged his Artistic life. He specializes in painting with a concentration on portraiture and cultural narratives. After moving to Paris in 1986 he worked as a freelance fashion illustrator for Joyce Magazine. It was while working at Joyce that he met Christian Lacroix who encouraged him to apply his illustrator skills to painting. Guest later left Joyce magazine and moved to Dax, France where he started painting. His practice has since soared. His works are now in some of the world’s most prominent art collections which include Michelle and Barack Obama’s who own two: one of Supreme Court Justice Thurgood Marshall and a portrait of Obama himself. Other collectors include Stevie Wonder, Ambassador Nicole Avant and Ted Sarandos Netflix COO, Angelina Jolie, Oprah Winfrey, and Tyler Perry purchased five of his paintings. Chaz is currently represented by Night gallery in Los Angeles and recent collectors this year include the Bob Rennie collection , Beth Rudin DeWoody and the Museum of Art Zuzeum in Latvia. In April Qingdao City Art Museum acquired his largest painting to date "The Tenth".
His current show with Night Gallery in Los Angeles closes May, 15, 2021
For expanded bio please visit links below.
Artist website http://www.chazguest.com/ NPG https://www.npg.org.uk/blog/in-conversation-with-chaz-guest Weareageist https://www.weareageist.com/profile/chaz-guest-58-painting-to-unite-humanity/ Night Gallery https://www.nightgallery.ca/exhibitions/promised-land Wikipedia https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chaz_Guest Monarch Magazine https://www.monarchmagazine.com/article/chaz-guest-soul-immortalized/
Episode 63 features Jade Alexis Thacker. She is originally from Boston Massachusetts, currently living in Brooklyn, New York. She received her BFA in printmaking from Massachusetts College of Art and Design in 2014. Her work explores anxiety, discomfort, self image, identity and perception through figuration. Often her paintings are self reflective and an attempt to better understand her own disposition and psychology as well as an evaluation of her relationship with her own body and existence. She had her first solo show ‘Embarrassment Safe Word’ in 2020 at Kravets Wehby Gallery in New York, and in 2021 she was an artist in residence at the Fountainhead Residency in Miami.
Group Exhibitions include 2020 Kravets Wehby Gallery, “Rentrée,” New York, NY Haul Gallery, “LOOKS,” Brooklyn, NY 2019 198 Allen Street, "Swimming Pools," New York, NY 2018 Superchief Gallery, "No Joke," Queens, NY 2015 Museum of Sex, "Dirty: The Lovers Hangover," New York, NY 2014 Student Life Gallery, Mass Art, "Walking While Woman," Boston, MA 2013 Mass Art, "The MassArt All-School Show: Printmaking," Boston, MA 2013 Boston Arts Academy, "Shine," Boston, MA Selected Bibliography 2020 Saam Niami, “The Contemplations of Jade Thacker,” Office Magazine, October 5, 2020. Jade is represented by the Kravets Wehby Gallery in NYC.
Artist Website https://jadethacker.com/home.html Fountainhead Residency https://www.fountainheadresidency.com/artists/jade-thacker https://www.fountainheadresidency.com/fountainhead-stories/february-2021 Kravets Wehby Gallery https://www.kravetswehbygallery.com/jade-alexis-thacker Office Magazine October 2020 http://officemagazine.net/contemplations-jade-thacker
Ep.62 features William Villalongo. He received his B.F.A. from The Cooper Union School of Art, NYC and his M.F.A. from the Tyler School of Art at Temple University, Philadelphia.
Recent exhibitions include Yesterday’s Tomorrow: Selections from the Rose Collection, 1933-2018 at the Rose Art Museum, Brandeis University, Waltham, MA; Living in America, curated by Assembly Room, at the International Print Center, NYC; Afro cosmologies: American Reflections, Wadsworth Atheneum Museum of Art, Hartford, CT; Young, Gifted, and Black: The Lumpkin-Boccuzzi Family Collection of Contemporary Art, OSilas Gallery, Concordia College, Bronxville, NY, travelling to Lehman College Art Gallery, Lehman College, Bronx, NY; New Mythologies: William Villalongo, The Harvey B. Gantt Center for African-American Arts and Culture, Charlotte, NC; Greater New York, MoMA PS1, Long Island City, NY; and the online exhibition, Life During Wartime, curated by Christian Viveros-Fauné, University of South Florida Contemporary Art Museum, Tampa, FL, among others.
In 2023, Villalongo will have a solo museum exhibition originating at the Grinnell College Museum of Art, Grinnell, IA.
He is the recipient of the Louis Comfort Tiffany Award and the Joan Mitchell Foundation Painters & Sculptor's Grant. His work is included in the permanent collections of the Baltimore Museum of Art; Denver Art Museum; Grinnell College Museum of Art, Grinnell, IA; Princeton University Art Museum; the Studio Museum in Harlem, NYC; the Whitney Museum of American Art, NYC; and the Yale University Art Gallery, New Haven, CT, among others.
He is an Associate Professor at The Cooper Union School of Art, NYC.
In January 2021, William presented his sixth solo exhibition with the Susan Inglett Gallery, titled 'Sticks & Stones', which highlighted the artist’s signature black velvet cut paper work.
Artist Website https://villalongostudio.com/ Cooper-Union https://cooper.edu/art/people/william-villalongo Gallery - https://www.inglettgallery.com/ Wikipedia - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Villalongo Creative Independent https://thecreativeindependent.com/people/william-villalongo-on-discovering-materials-that-mean-something-to-you/ Life During War Time Exhibition Time https://lifeduringwartimeexhibition.org/william-villalongo
Episode 61 features Franklin Sirmans. He has been the director of the Pérez Art Museum Miami (PAMM) since fall 2015. Since coming to PAMM, he has overseen the acquisition of more than a thousand works of art by donation or purchase. At PAMM, Sirmans has pursued his vision of PAMM as “the people’s museum,” representing a Miami lens, by strengthening existing affiliate groups such as the PAMM Fund for African American Art and creating the International Women’s Committee and the Latin American and Latinx Art Fund. Sirmans has organized Toba Khedoori (2017) and he was cocurator of The World’s Game: Futbol and Contemporary Art (2018). Prior to his appointment he was the department head and curator of contemporary art at Los Angeles County Museum of Art (LACMA) from 2010 until 2015. At LACMA Sirmans organized Toba Khedoori; Noah Purifoy: Junk Dada; Variations: Conversations in and around Abstract Painting; Fútbol: The Beautiful Game; and Ends and Exits: Contemporary Art from the Collections of LACMA and The Broad Art Foundation. From 2006 to 2010 he was curator of modern and contemporary art at The Menil Collection in Houston where he organized several exhibitions including NeoHooDoo: Art for a Forgotten Faith; Maurizio Cattelan: Is Their Life Before Death?; and Vija Celmins: Television and Disaster, 1964–1966. From 2005 to 2006 Sirmans was a curatorial advisory committee member at MoMA/PS1. He was the artistic director of Prospect.3 New Orleans from 2012 until 2014. He was awarded the 2007 David C. Driskell Prize, administered by the High Museum of Art, Atlanta.
Photo credit: 2013 Museum Associates LACMA
Perez Art Museum Miami https://www.pamm.org/blog/2015/09/franklin-sirmans-named-director-p%C3%A9rez-art-museum-miami https://www.pamm.org/ Wikipedia https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Franklin_Sirmans The Warhol https://www.warhol.org/jessica-beck-and-franklin-sirmans-in-conversation-about-jean-michel-basquiat/ Brooklyn Rail https://brooklynrail.org/2017/06/art/Franklin-Sirmans-with-Laila-Pedro Linkedin https://www.linkedin.com/in/franklin-sirmans-b116041ab/detail/recent-activity/ Basquiat and the Bayou https://www.amazon.com/Basquiat-Bayou-Franklin-Sirmans/dp/3791354043
Episode 60 features Candida Alvarez. She is the 2021 recipient of the FCA Helen Frankenthaler award for painting and visual arts. Her works include drawings, paintings, prints, and collages that are created with materials as diverse as acrylic paint, colored pencils, enamel, and embroidery thread on cloth, on various supports ranging from canvas to PVC, cotton napkins to vellum. Alvarez’s solo exhibitions include Mambomountain, Hyde Park Art Center, Chicago, IL (2012); Candida Alvarez: Here, Chicago Cultural Center, Chicago, IL (2017); DeColores, GAVLAK, Palm Beach, FL (2019); and Estoy Bien, Monique Meloche Gallery, Chicago, IL (2020). Her many group exhibitions include Brooklyn Museum, NY; Contemporary Arts Museum, Houston, TX; DePaul Art Museum, Chicago; El Museo del Barrio, New York ; High Museum of Art, Atlanta, GA; Kemper Museum of Contemporary Art, Kansas City, MO; Museo de Arte de Puerto Rico, San Juan; Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago; National Museum of Women in the Arts, Washington, D.C.; Queens Museum, NY; and Taubman Museum of Art, Roanoke, VA, among others. Her work is in the collections of El Museo del Barrio, the Studio Museum in Harlem, the Whitney Museum of American Art, the Addison Gallery of American Art, the DePaul Art Museum, and the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts. Prior to her FCA award, Candida received a Joan Mitchell Foundation Painters and Sculptors Grant (2019), a Regional Fellowship from the Mid Atlantic Arts Foundation (1988), New York State Council on the Arts/New York Foundation for the Arts Artist Fellowship (1986), and a Pollock-Krasner Foundation Grant (1994). In 1980, she participated in the International Studio and Workspace Program at MoMA PS1, and in 1985, she was an Artist-in-Residence at the Studio Museum in Harlem, the Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture (1981) and was a resident artist at MacDowell (1986). Alvarez received her B.F.A. from Fordham University and her M.F.A. from Yale School of Art. She is the F.H. Sellers Professor in Painting at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago.
Candida Alvarez is represented by Monique Meloche, Chicago and GAVLAK Palm Beach/Los Angeles.
Artist website https://www.candidaalvarez.com https://www.candidaalvarez.com/news
Monique Meloche Gallery https://www.moniquemeloche.com/artists/33-candida-alvarez/works/
Foundation for Contemporary Arts https://www.foundationforcontemporaryarts.org/recipients/candida-alvarez
WSJ https://www.wsj.com/articles/el-museo-del-barrio-hosts-first-triennial-exhibition-11615325292
Wikipedia https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Candida_Alvarez
El Museo del Barrio https://www.elmuseo.org/la-trienal/
Art News `https://www.artnews.com/art-news/news/breaking-art-industry-news-january-2021-week-4-1234582112/
Hyde Park Art Center https://www.hydeparkart.org/exhibition-archive/candida-alvarez-mambomountain/
Episode 59 features Hiba Schahbaz. Born in Karachi, Pakistan she is a Brooklyn-based figurative painter who works primarily with paper, black-tea, and water-based pigments. Her subjects, largely drawn from her lifelong practice of self-portraiture, inhabit a dreamlike, all-female world. Schahbaz initially trained in Indo-Persian miniature painting at Lahore’s National College of Arts, and later earned a Master’s in Painting from Pratt Institute in New York. Her work addresses issues of personal freedom, destruction, sexuality and censorship by unveiling the beauty, fragility and strength of the female form. Her solo shows include Dreaming (De Buck Gallery 2020) In Solitude (De Buck Gallery, 2020), The Garden (Spring/ Break Art Show, 2018), Hiba Schahbaz: Self-Portraits (Project for Empty Space, 2017), Hanged With Roses (Thierry Goldberg Gallery, 2015), and In Memory (Noire Gallery, 2012). Schahbaz has participated in numerous group exhibitions, including a recent show curated by Jasmine Wahi in Tokyo, “all the women. in me. are tired.”, at THE CLUB, as well as exhibitions at NiU Museum of Art, The Untitled Space, and Center for Book Arts; and has shown at art fairs such as Pulse Art Fair, Untitled Art Fair, Art Fair Cologne, and Vienna Fair. Her work has been written about in Vice, Hyperallergic, The Huffington Post, Coveteur, Vogue, NY Magazine, Art Critical, ArtForum, Bomb Mag, Paper, and others. Schahbaz has curated painting exhibitions in Pakistan and India, and she was an artist-in-residence at Mass MoCA, The Wassaic Project, Vermont Studio Center, and the Alfred Z. Solomon Residency at the Tang Museum. She teaches miniature painting at the Art Students League in New York, and her work is held in private collections around the world. —adapted from De Buck Gallery press release, 2020
'In My Heart'. Rockefeller Center. Art Production Fund. Thru May 1st, 2021
Headshot credit: Louise Kim_Edited
ARTIST WEBSITE http://www.hibaschahbaz.com/
ART PRODUCTION FUND http://www.artproductionfund.org/projects/hiba-schahbaz-at-rockefeller-center
WHITEWALL https://whitewall.art/art/hiba-schahbazs-in-my-heart-in-the-heart-of-nyc
HYPERALLERGIC https://hyperallergic.com/591100/hiba-schahbaz-dreaming-debuck-gallery/
BOMB MAGAZINE https://bombmagazine.org/articles/hiba-schahbaz-studio-visit/
DEBUCK GALLERYhttps://www.debuckgallery.com/exhibitions/hiba-schahbaz-dreaming/
COEUR & ART https://coeuretart.com/hiba-schahbaz/
EAZEL https://eazel.net/magazine/100
Episode 58, the fourth during Women’s History Month, features Lava Thomas, an American artist and arts advocate who tackles issues of race, gender and representation through a multidisciplinary practice that spans drawing, painting, and site-specific installations.
Drawing from her family's southern roots, intersectional feminism, and current and historical sociopolitical events, Thomas's practice amplifies visibility, resilience, and empowerment in the face of erasure, trauma, and oppression.
Thomas is a recipient of the 2020 San Francisco Artadia Award, the Joan Mitchell Grant for Painters and Sculptors, and the Lucas Artist Fellowship in Visual Arts.
She was recently awarded the commission to create a sculpture to honor Dr. Maya Angelou for the San Francisco Main Library. She has participated in residencies at Headlands Center for the Arts, Facebook LA, and the Djerassi Resident Artists Program. Venues where Thomas's work has been exhibited nationally include the National Portrait Gallery, Washington, DC; the International Print Center, NY, NY; the Museum of the African Diaspora, San Francisco, CA; the CA African American Museum in Los Angeles, CA, and the Montgomery Museum of Fine Arts, Montgomery, AL.
Her work is held in the permanent collections of the Smithsonian American Art Museum, Washington, DC; the United States Consulate General in Johannesburg, South Africa; The Studio Museum in Harlem, New York, NY; San Francisco Museum of Modern Art; the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts, Philadelphia, PA; the M.H. De Young Museum, San Francisco, CA, and the Berkeley Art Museum & Pacific Film Archive. Her work has been written about in Artforum, The New York Times, Hyperallergic, The Art Newspaper, The Guardian, SF Chronicle and LA Weekly. Thomas studied at UCLA's School of Art and received a BFA from California College of the Arts. She is represented by Rena Bransten Gallery in San Francisco.
Photo Credit: Drew Altzier
ARTIST WEBSITE http://www.lavathomas.com/ ARTADIA https://artadia.org/artist/lava-thomas/ RENA BRANSTEN GALLERY https://renabranstengallery.com/artists/lava-thomas/ AMERICAN ART https://americanart.si.edu/artist/lava-thomas-31178 NEW YORK TIMES https://www.nytimes.com/2020/11/03/arts/design/san-francisco-maya-angelou-monument.html? HYPERALLERGIC https://hyperallergic.com/524415/in-san-francisco-a-design-for-maya-angelou-monument-is-approved-then-suddenly-scrapped/
https://hyperallergic.com/tag/lava-thomas/
Episode 57 features Cheryl Finley. She is Director of the Atlanta University Center Art History + Curatorial Studies Collective and Distinguished Visiting Professor of Art History at Spelman College. A visionary leader committed to engaging strategic partners to transform the art and culture industry, she leads an innovative undergraduate program at the world’s largest HBCU consortium in preparing the next generation of African American museum and visual arts professionals. She holds a Ph.D. in African American Studies and History of Art from Yale University. She is a curator, contemporary art critic and award-winning author noted for Committed to Memory: the Art of the Slave Ship Icon (Princeton UP, 2018), the first in depth study of the most famous image associated with the memory of slavery--a schematic engraving of a packed slave ship hold--and the art, architecture, poetry, and film it has inspired since its creation in Britain in 1788. On leave from Cornell University, where she is Associate Professor of Art History, Dr. Finley’s current book project, Black Market: Inside the Art World, aims to diversify the global art economy, focusing on the relationship among artists, museums, biennials and migration.
A conversation with Fred Wilson https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bg4cGK7t8qg Cornell bio https://arthistory.cornell.edu/cheryl-finley Wikipedia https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cheryl_Finley Book - https://press.princeton.edu/books/hardcover/9780691136844/committed-to-memory https://www.amazon.com/Committed-Memory-Slave-Ship-Icon/dp/069113684X Atlanta University Center Collective for the Study of Art History & Curatorial Studies - https://aucartcollective.org/about/faculty-staff/cheryl-finley/ Wellesley Magazine https://magazine.wellesley.edu/fall-2018/iconic-image-slavery-reclaimed
Photo credit: Gediyon Kife
Episode 56 features painter/sculptor Ana Benaroya. She is an artist born in New York City, raised in New Jersey. Ana graduated with her MFA in Painting and Printmaking from the Yale School of Art in 2019. From a queer perspective, Benaroya's work explores notions of power and desire by exaggerating and distorting the human body, playing with its form and its relationship to other bodies. She draws from the visual languages of comics, caricature, and pop culture and is influenced by images of bodybuilders, cartoons, gig-posters, and artists such as Tom of Finland, Robert Colescott, the Chicago Imagists as well as children's artwork. Benaroya's solo show, "The Softest Place on Earth" opened in NYC at Ross + Kramer Gallery in November 2020 and she has an upcoming solo with Carl Kostyal in London opening April 2021.
Photo credit Laura June Kirsch
http://www.anabenaroya.com/ https://rkgallery.com/exhibitions/the-softest-place-on-earth https://www.juxtapoz.com/news/magazine/features/ana-benaroya-poetic-justice/ https://www.kostyal.com/ https://artmazemag.com/excess-and-extraness-talking-subversive-humour-and-macho-bodies-with-ana-benaroya/ https://thecreativeindependent.com/people/visual-artist-ana-benaroya-on-allowing-for-the-unexpected/
Episode 55 features Courtney J. Martin. In 2019, she became the sixth director of the Yale Center for British Art. Previously, she was the deputy director and chief curator at the Dia Art Foundation; an assistant professor in the History of Art and Architecture department at Brown University; an assistant professor in the History of Art department at Vanderbilt University; a chancellor’s postdoctoral fellow in the History of Art at the University of California, Berkeley; a fellow at the Getty Research Institute; and a Henry Moore Institute research fellow. She also worked in the media, arts, and culture unit of the Ford Foundation in New York. In 2015, she received an Andy Warhol Foundation Arts Writers Grant.
In 2012, Martin curated the exhibition Drop, Roll, Slide, Drip . . . Frank Bowling’s Poured Paintings 1973–1978 at Tate Britain. In 2014, she co-curated the group show Minimal Baroque: Post-Minimalism and Contemporary Art at Rønnebæksholm in Denmark. From 2008 to 2015, she co-led a research project on the Anglo-American art critic Lawrence Alloway at the Getty Research Institute and was co-editor of Lawrence Alloway: Critic and Curator (Getty Publications, 2015, winner of the 2016 Historians of British Art Book Award). In 2015, she curated an exhibition at the Dia Art Foundation focusing on the American painter Robert Ryman. At Dia, she also oversaw exhibitions of works by Dan Flavin, Sam Gilliam, Blinky Palermo, Dorothea Rockburne, Keith Sonnier, and Andy Warhol. She was editor of the book Four Generations: The Joyner Giuffrida Collection of Abstract Art (Gregory R. Miller & Co., 2016), surveying an important collection of modern and contemporary work by artists of African descent.
As a graduate student in 2007, Martin contributed to the Center’s exhibition and publication Art and Emancipation in Jamaica: Isaac Mendes Belisario and his Worlds. She received a doctorate from Yale University for her research on twentieth-century British art and is the author of essays on Rasheed Araeen, Kader Attia, Rina Banerjee, Frank Bowling, Lara Favaretto, Leslie Hewitt, Asger Jorn, Wangechi Mutu, Ed Ruscha, and Yinka Shonibare CBE (RA).
Yale News April 2019 https://news.yale.edu/2019/04/10/courtney-j-martin-09-phd-named-director-ycba
The Art Newspaper September 2020 https://www.theartnewspaper.com/interview/yale-center-for-british-art-embraces-a-global-framework
ARTnews April 2019 https://www.artnews.com/art-news/news/yale-center-british-art-courtney-martin-director-12328/
culture type June 2019 https://www.culturetype.com/2019/06/20/courtney-j-martin-appointed-director-of-yale-center-for-british-art-an-opportunity-the-yale-alum-called-too-good-to-pass-up/
Dia Art February 2017 https://diaart.org/about/press/courtney-j-martin-to-join-dias-curatorial-department-as-deputy-director-and-chief-curator/type/text
Courtney Martin image credit Angelis Apolinario
Episode 54 features contemporary artist Ron Hicks. His works have been described as a blend of multiple disciplines ranging from impressionistic and representational to non-objective and abstract and everything in between. This idea, coupled with his intrinsically inspired brushwork, contributes to his ultimate goal – painting his truth.
Ron was born in Columbus, OH, but spent most of his childhood growing up in the modest and friendly neighborhood of Park Hill in Denver, Colorado. Encouraged by his mother who was an accomplished artist, he knew at an early age that he too, was destined to be an artist and was subsequently encouraged by his mother and teachers in his artistic endeavors.
His family later relocated back to Columbus, OH where, during high school, he was awarded several accolades and honors for various art shows and competitions. His obvious talent became noted throughout his high school career and consequently Ron was awarded a full scholarship to the Columbus College of Art and Design in Columbus, OH. He later returned to Denver, earning a degree in Advertising Design. After college, Hicks applied his degree and natural talent to working for ad agencies, magazines and as a Freelance Illustrator.
In the late 90’s, Ron decided the commercial art world was not for him and gravitated back to his true passion, painting. Figurative painting, in particular. Hicks believes,” You can always tell a lot about a person by paying attention to their gesture or expression”. Ron's exploration into abstract dialogue, his eye for beauty and his natural talent has been the driving force behind many of his paintings. See links below.
http://www.ronhicks.com/ https://www.artsy.net/artist/ron-hicks https://www.gallery1261.com/artist/ron-hicks http://www.thenewyorkoptimist.net/ron-hicks-fine-art.html
Episode 53 features photographer Tawny Chatmon. The primary theme that drives her art practice today is celebrating the beauty of black childhood. She is currently devoted to creating portraits that are inspired by art works spanning various art periods in Western Art with the intent of bringing to the forefront faces that were often under-celebrated in this style of work. The camera remains Tawny’s primary tool of communication, while her constant exploration of diverse ways of expression moves her to add several different layers using a variety of mediums. After a portrait session is complete, she typically digitally manipulates her subjects and unites them with other components to achieve a work that is a new expression. Often lending to them the eyes of someone their elder and more wise and almost always exaggerating their hair and features in a celebratory way. Thereafter, Tawny may superimpose antique patterns and textures, collage vintage botanical and wildlife illustrations, or add hand-drawn digital illustration. If she feels she is not yet complete, after each portrait is refined and printed, Tawny may combine paint and gold leaf adding ornamental elements inspired by 19th-century artworks. By experimenting with various art practices, she allows herself to follow no set of rules while creating instinctually and fluidly. Each layer serves it's very own meaningful purpose. It is her hope that with each theme she explores and with each portrait she creates, something vital is etched into the memory of the viewer.
Upcoming Solo and Group exhibitions
· “Truth Be Told” group exhibition w/ Art Lead Her x Artsy March 2021 (NYC)
· Solo exhibition April 2021 at Galerie Myrtis (Baltimore, MD)
· Expo Chicago w/ Galerie Myrtis April 2021 (Chicago)
· "Beyond the Looking Glass" group exhibition at UTA June 25 - July 31, 2021 (Los Angeles)
· Solo exhibition at Joan Hisaoka Healing Arts Gallery (Washington, DC)
http://tawnychatmon.com https://www.focuscamera.com/wavelength/10-black-photographers-on-instagram-you-should-be-following/ https://www.thisiscolossal.com/2020/06/tawny-chatmon-redemption-klimt/ http://galeriemyrtis.net/tawny-chatmon-biography/ https://www.photoawards.com/tawny-chatmon/
Episode 52 features Reginald Van Lee. He is the Chief Transformation Officer at the Carlyle Group, helping ensure that the firm is maximizing its market competitiveness and operating most effectively and efficiently as an institution. From his 32 years at Booz Allen Hamilton,where, before he retired as Executive Vice President, he led numerous businesses, including the US Telecommunications Practice, the US Computers and Electronics Practice, the global Media & Entertainment Practice, the US Federal Health Practice and the Commercial Solutions business, Reggie brings decades of experience driving growth and best-in-class performance. At Carlyle, he leads the development of new and innovative ways to enhance the firm’s business processes, drive faster decision making and contribute to continued profitable growth. Prior to Booz Allen, he served as a research engineer with Exxon’s production research company. Reggie is a member of the board of directors of Fortitude Re, ProKarma, Gallup Inc, the Women’s Venture Capital Fund II Advisory Board, Washington Performing Arts, National CARES Mentoring Movement, John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts,Washington Nationals Philanthropies, Studio Museum in Harlem, the Public Theater, and the Juilliard School. He formerly sat on the boards of the Evidence Dance Company, Dance Theatre of Harlem, and the Washington Ballet. He was named one of the top 25 consultants in the world by Consulting Magazine, selected as a Washington Minority Business Leader by the Washington Business Journal and named Black Engineer of the Year by Black Engineer magazine. He holds both a Bachelor of Science and a Master of Science in Civil Engineering from MIT and an MBA from Harvard University. Enjoy!
http://www.reggievanlee.com/ https://www.carlyle.com/about-carlyle/team/reginald-reggie-van-lee https://www.nytimes.com/2019/03/06/arts/design/reginald-van-lee-show-us-your-wall.html http://www.hbs-atlanta.org/s/1738/cc/index2.aspx?sid=1738&gid=12&pgid=69584&crid=0&calpgid=13&calcid=1392 https://www.chron.com/life/home/design/article/Family-compound-Man-builds-luxurious-home-for-11290126.php www.garrygrantstudio.com
Episode 51 features Guyanese-American artist Theresa Chromati (b. 1992). She has garnered critical and institutional attention for figurative paintings that are shaped by fragmented forms of desire and constant motion. Bursts of complex color, sensual protrusions, and texture deploy abstraction to explore various contemporary realities of black woman. These bodies are at once imaginative, bordering on grotesque, and celebratory as they convey a variety of emotional and spiritual states of being. Chromati was born and raised in Baltimore, attended the Pratt Institute, and is now based in New York City. Recently, her work was on view at The Baltimore Museum of Art, The Pérez Art Museum Miami, and The Moscow Museum of Modern Art. She has been featured in The New York Times, i-D, Interview Magazine, Juxtapoz, Architectural Digest, and Vogue.
Photo credit: Elliott Jerome Brown Jr.
https://www.theresachromati.black/ https://bmoreart.com/2020/06/stepping-out-to-step-in-theresa-chromati.html https://www.kravetswehbygallery.com/theresa-chromati https://www.nytimes.com/2019/08/07/t-magazine/theresa-chromati-artist.html https://www.documentjournal.com/2019/06/theresa-chromatis-technicolor-portraits-of-women-being-as-loud-as-they-want/ https://i-d.vice.com/en_uk/article/bv84zd/theresa-chromati-ive-been-going-back-and-forth-attempting-to-settle-on-a-thought-for-this-time https://www.architecturaldigest.com/story/this-museum-found-an-ingenious-way-to-open-an-exhibition-during-lockdown https://www.decontemporary.org/theresa-chromati
Episode 50 features abstract painter, writer, activist, Halim A. Flowers. In the year of 1997, he was arrested at the age of 16 and sentenced to two life sentences in the District of Columbia. His experiences were filmed in the Emmy award-winning documentary “Thug Life In DC”. In 2005, he started his own publishing company SATO Communications, through which he published eleven books. In 2019, Halim was released from prison after serving 22 years imprisoned. Since his release, Halim has worked with Kim Kardashian for her documentary The Justice Project, collaborated with Kanye West on a spoken word performance and was awarded the Halcyon Arts and Echoing Green fellowship awards. In 2020, he signed to be represented by DTR Modern Gallery and Stella Jones Gallery for his visual art practice.
Halim’s work is currently on view at MoMA PS1, in a major exhibition based on Nicole Fleetwood’s book ‘Marking time: Art in the Age of Mass Incarceration’ (Harvard University Press, 2020). A powerful document of the inner lives and creative visions of men and women rendered invisible by America’s prison system. He uses his art, writings, motivational speeches, and fitness routines to inspire people towards revolutionary love.
Please visit links for additional information
https://www.halim-flowers.com https://halcyonhouse.org/halim-flowers https://www.dtrmodern.com/portfolio/halim-flowers/ TEDx talk: https://youtu.be/9O8OBzsOvMI https://www.artsy.net/show/stella-jones-gallery-halim-flowers-as-a-man-thinketh-a-dc-black-crashes-the-art-world?sort=partner_show_position https://www.moma.org/magazine/articles/454 https://www.sothebys.com/buy/2f656d4f-c0f9-4a58-8159-fe86f161e7ea/lots/985a3c43-a1be-43cc-84f5-d8fbd1752021
Halim Headshot by Francis Shad
Episode 49 features abstract painter Jared Owens. He was born in Queens and raised in Rockland County, New York. His art practice started inside federal prison, where he taught himself how to draw, paint, and sculpt using “found” or discarded materials. While imprisoned, he mentored others and taught multiple disciplines, including ceramics, painting, and drawing.
Since his release, he has continued to mentor and teach system-impacted young people. He is currently a fellow at Mural Arts Philadelphia and is working on a public art project for Philadelphia in partnership with youth under court supervision. His work is currently included in Marking Time: Art in the Age of Mass Incarceration at MoMA PS1, rendering justice at The African American Museum , Philadelphia, and has been featured in publications such as Artforum, 4Columns, and Social Text.
Jared also designed a program which The Lyric Theatre, in Lexington, Kentucky, hosted titled 'The Artist's Eye, a one week intensive art class led by nationally renowned artists, teaching youth how to express and progress with art. See Youtube link.
https://www.muralarts.org/artist/jared-owens/ http://www.jcostellogallery.com/artists/jared-owens https://mitchellhillgallery.com/artisan/jared-owens/ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zI93Z9bU-Hg&feature=youtu.be https://www.moma.org/calendar/exhibitions/5208 https://www.hup.harvard.edu/catalog.php?isbn=9780674919228 https://www.artforum.com/print/202007/project-jared-owens-83685
Episode 48 features Art Collector Frederick Hutson, the CEO and co-founder of Pigeonly, a platform that makes it easy for people to search, find, and communicate with an incarcerated loved one. A born entrepreneur, he launched and sold his first business at the age of 19 while on active duty in the Air Force. After an honorable discharge in 2005, he went on to build and sell his second business. Though his entrepreneurial spirit often led him to new opportunities, his desire to attain the American Dream on his terms took him down the wrong path. At 23, he was sent to federal prison for the illegal distribution of 3,000 kg of marijuana. It was this life-changing experience that motivated him to build a solution that would positively impact the lives of people no one else was paying attention to – inmates and their families. The idea of Pigeonly was born. Launched in 2012, Pigeonly makes it possible for subscribers to easily send printed photos, letters, greeting cards, postcards, and even online articles from any cell phone, tablet or computer within a few clicks. One of Pigeonly’s most successful products is a low-cost VoIP phone solution, similar to Google Voice, for notoriously expensive prison phone calls. This product alone helps families save over $2MM/year in predatory phone fees per year. Pigeonly’s accomplishments in the space have not gone unnoticed and have allowed Hutson’s voice to be a part of the overall criminal justice reform conversation. Hutson’s work has been featured in numerous national and international media outlets, including CNN Money, Forbes, New York Times, Vice, Fast Company, and Complex, et al. With his success, Frederick Hutson has built an impressive art collection.
https://frederickhutson.com/ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frederick_Hutson https://www.linkedin.com/in/frederickhutson/ https://www.globestats.com/frederick-hutson-hutsons-success-story/ https://www.nytimes.com/2013/11/07/business/smallbusiness/released-from-prison-and-starting-a-company.html https://www.fastcompany.com/90523510/the-most-important-startup-rule-play-the-long-game https://www.forbes.com/sites/columbiabusinessschool/2019/12/09/why-prominent-silicon-valley-investors-trusted-an-ex-con-with-over-5m-to-fund-his-multimillion-dollar-company-part-1-of-2/?sh=1a336b303d87
Episode 47 features Sherrill Roland, an artist who spent too many months in prison for a crime he did not commit. Sherrill Roland is an interdisciplinary artist who creates art that challenges ideas around controversial social and political constructs, and generates a safe space to process, question, and share. He was born in Asheville, NC, and received an MFA in Studio Art from the University of North Carolina at Greensboro. Inspired by his experience in prison for a crime he did not commit, he founded The Jumpsuit Project to raise awareness around issues related to mass incarceration. Roland’s socially-engaged art project has been presented at Open Engagement Chicago, Oakland City Hall, and the Michigan School of Law. He was awarded the Center for Documentary Studies Post-MFA Fellowship in the Documentary Arts at Duke University in Durham, NC, and the Rights of Return USA Fellowship. After completing the Fountainhead Residency in Miami, Florida, Roland returned to North Carolina as an artist-in-residence at the McColl Center of Art + Innovation. In December, Sherrill was a recipient of the 2021 Creative Capital Award and the South Arts 2020 State Fellowship Award last May. Please see links for additional information.
https://www.sherrillroland.com/ https://www.jumpsuitproject.com/ https://www.southarts.org/grant-fellowship-recipients/sherrill-roland https://creative-capital.org/2020/12/08/the-2021-creative-capital-awards/ https://www.hup.harvard.edu/catalog.php?isbn=9780674919228 http://www.numberinc.org/return-and-revisit-a-conversation-with-sherrill-roland/ https://www.charlotteobserver.com/entertainment/arts-culture/article235666932.html https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sherrill_Roland https://qcitymetro.com/2019/09/06/sherrill-roland-sheds-light-on-mass-incarceration-through-art-residency/
Episode Forty-Six features Wole Lagunju. He is a 1986 graduate of Fine arts and graphic design at the University of Ife, now Obafemi Awolowo University, Nigeria. Lagunju’s hybrid paintings of traditional Gelede masks which are juxtaposed with images of the modern woman in the Western world redefine the forms and philosophies of Yoruba visual art and design. He reimagines and transforms cultural icons appropriated from the Dutch Golden, Elizabethan as well as the fifties and sixties, Euro-American eras. Lagunju’s cultural references, mined from the eras of colonization and decolonization of the African continent critique the racial and social structures of the 19th century whilst evoking commentaries on power, femininity and womanhood. Wole Lagunju has exhibited widely in Nigeria, United States, Trinidad and Germany. Recent exhibitions include: Yoruba Remixed, Ebonycurated Gallery, Cape Town (Solo Exhibition) 2018, Wole Lagunju: African Diaspora Artist and Transnational Visuality, James Madison University, Harrisonburg, Virginia (Solo Exhibition) 2014, Womanscape: Race, Gender and Sexuality in African Art, University of Texas, Austin Texas, 2011. Wole was awarded a Phillip Ravenhill Fellowship by the UCLA in 2006 and a Pollock Krasner award in 2009. He lives in the United States.
Photo credit Tony Hegwood
http://www.wolelagunju.com/ https://www.artsy.net/article/artsy-editorial-art-advisors-guide-collecting-londons-fair-week https://thecuratormag.com/wole-lagunjus/ https://thecuratormag.com/painting-back-to-the-empire/ https://www.christiesrealestate.com/blog/5-contemporary-african-artists-to-know-about-now/ https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.forbes.com/sites/joanneshurvell/2020/10/09/1-54-contemporary-african-art-fair--the-only-international-art-fair-to-open-in-london-this-autumn/amp/ https://www.contemporaryand.com/exhibition/wole-lagunju-we-all-live-here/ https://mailchi.mp/ec036343e8da/the-debrief-september-issue-wole-lagunju
Episode Forty-Five features Alina Perez, an artist from Miami, Florida who works with charcoal and pastel to create large-scale drawings on paper. Perez received her BFA in Painting at the Rhode Island School of Design, and was a participant at the Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture in 2017. From 2018-2019, Perez was a visual arts fellow at the Fine Arts Work Center in Provincetown, MA. Perez has attended multiple residencies including the OxBow School of Art in Saugatuck, MI and the Vermont Studio Center in Johnson, VT. Her work was recently exhibited at Arcadia Missa Gallery in London, Blum & Poe Gallery in Los Angeles, CA, and Anna Zorina Gallery in NY. Perez was also included in the 2019 Atlanta Contemporary Biennial in Atlanta, GA and the New Prints Program at the International Print Center of New York. Perez is currently attending Yale University in New Haven, CT as a 2021 Painting & Printmaking MFA candidate.
Headshot courtesy of Danielle De Jesus
https://alinaperez.com/ https://www.culturedmag.com/artist-alina-perez-reconsiders-her-audience/ https://deligallery.com/Alina-Perez-Bio https://artviewer.org/diana-sofia-lozano-and-alina-perez-at-deli-gallery/
Episode Forty-Four features Stan Squirewell. He was born and raised in Washington, DC and currently lives and works in New York, NY. His artistic training began at the Duke Ellington School of the Arts. Since graduating he has continued his tutelage under many of DC’s legends including artists Michael Platt and Lou Stovall.
Mr. Squirewell, is a painter, photographer, installation and performance artist. His work is multilayered and his subject matter tackles themes such as: race and memory through mythology, sacred geometry and science. He draws his inspiration from theory books, science fiction movies and novels, avant-garde jazz and indigenous storytelling.
He is a (2007 MFA) graduate of the Hoffberger School of Painting where he studied with the late, Grace Hartigan. Mr. Squirewell is the first winner of the Rush Philanthropic and Bombay Sapphire Artisan series. He has performed with Nick Cave (SoundSuits) at the National Portrait Gallery and Jefferson Pinder with G-Fine Arts. He is privately and publicly collected, his works are in the Reginald Lewis Museum, the Robert Steele Collection and recently acquired by the Smithsonian for the African American Museum (2015.)
http://www.stansquirewell.com/ https://www.hungertv.com/editorial/stan-squirewell-is-the-harlem-artist-creating-regal-portraits-of-black-history/ https://createmagazine.com/read/2019/4/1/solo-show-of-harlem-artist-stan-squirewell-at-gallery-8-london-april-1-13-2019 http://www.foleygallery.com/talent/stan-squirewell/featured-works?view=slider
Episode Forty-Three features gallerist Monique Meloche. She founded her eponymous gallery in Chicago’s West Loop in 2001 with an international roster of emerging artists working in all media. Her programming has been diverse and inclusive since its inception, and the gallery continues to be a bellwether for artistic talents early or under-recognized in their careers like Rashid Johnson, Amy Sherald, Ebony G. Patterson, Sanford Biggers and Brendan Fernandes. She has consistently presented conceptually challenging programming in Chicago and at art fairs internationally with an emphasis on institutional outreach. Canadian born Meloche holds a BA from the University of Michigan, and Masters of Art History and Theory from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. She spent six years at the Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago as an assistant curator, then went on to direct both Rhona Hoffman and Kavi Gupta galleries before striking out on her own and will celebrate the gallery’s 20th anniversary in 2021. The Monique Meloche gallery will feature six artists during the ‘OVR: Miami Beach’, Art Basel’s upcoming Online Viewing Rooms initiative running December 2-6, 2020 Below are links to the gallery website and recent article/interview for the 6 artists.
Monique Meloche http://moniquemeloche.com/ https://news.artnet.com/art-world/monique-meloche-1312325
Candida Alvarez - https://brooklynrail.org/2020/03/art/CANDIDA-ALVAREZ-with-Phong-H-Bui Sanford Biggers - https://www.contemporaryand.com/magazines/the-many-faces-of-sanford-biggers/ David Antonio Cruz - https://www.documentjournal.com/2019/10/david-antonio-cruz-the-artist-giving-lgtbq-victims-of-violence-a-place-in-art-history/ Maia Cruz Palileo - https://www.artnews.com/art-in-america/aia-reviews/maia-cruz-palileo-62676/ Ebony G. Patterson - https://news.artnet.com/exhibitions/ebony-g-patterson-nasher-museum-1805721 Cheryl Pope - https://sixtyinchesfromcenter.org/in-conversation-with-cheryl-pope/
Monique Meloche, photographed by Heidi Norton.
Episode Forty-Two features figurative painter Margaret Bowland. She creates work that confronts contemporary issues of identity through probing and deeply personal pictures that question Western societal expectations of gender, race, power, and beauty. She has lived and worked in Brooklyn, New York for more than 25 years, creating spellbinding and psychologically charged paintings and pastels that explore contentious subject-matter while affirming the resilience and fierceness of humanity. Margaret Bowland’s work is included in many important private and public collections including The Patricia & Phillip Frost Art Museum, Miami, FL. In 2009, she received major recognition as the People’s Choice Award Winner in the Outwin Boochever Portrait Competition at the Smithsonian National Portrait Gallery in Washington, D.C. In 2011, the Greenville County Museum of Art, Greenville, SC featured the solo exhibition, Margaret Bowland: Excerpts from the Great American Songbook. In 2014, Bowland was awarded the Florence Gaskins Harper Chair in Art Education at the Maryland Institute and College of the Arts. Bowland is currently an adjunct faculty member at the New York Academy of Art where she has taught painting for over ten years. Her solo exhibition, Margaret Bowland: Painting The Rose Red, was on view at Contemporary Art Museum (CAM) Raleigh in North Carolina in 2018. Margaret Bowland is working with the Jenkins Johnson Gallery and Dexter Wimberly, an independent curator and entrepreneur who has organized exhibitions and developed programs with galleries and institutions throughout the world.
http://www.margaretbowland.com/ https://www.jenkinsjohnsongallery.com/artists/50-margaret-bowland/overview/ https://dexterwimberly.com/ https://www.huffpost.com/entry/margaret-bowland-they-say_b_6249226 https://www.artistaday.com/?p=9256
Episode Forty-one features painter Dominic Chambers. He is an African-American artist from St. Louis, MO. Chambers received his BFA from the Milwaukee Institute of Art and Design and received his MFA from the Yale University School of Art. Chambers creates large scale paintings and drawings that reference literary narratives cited in books he’s read, various mythologies, and African-American history. His current work is invested in exploring moments of contemplation and meditation through reading and leisure. Chambers has exhibited his work in both solo and group exhibitions regionally and internationally. Chambers also has been the curator of exhibitions at the Kravets Wehby Gallery in New York and the Pitch Project in Milwaukee, WI. He has also participated in a series of residences including – The Yale Norfolk summer residency and the New York Studio Residency Program in Brooklyn, NY.
http://www.dominic-chambers.com/ https://www.juxtapoz.com/news/magazine/features/dominic-chambers-magical-realism/ https://www.culturedmag.com/painter-dominic-chambers-opens-up-about-his-process-and-what-hes-been-making-in-quarantine/ https://www.lucegallery.com/work/dominic_chambers.html https://aacc-awc.org/
Photo credit: Joey Kennedy
Episode Forty features Peg Alston. For nearly four decades since establishing Peg Alston Fine Arts, she has emerged as this country’s foremost private dealer specializing in works by African American artists and other artists of African descent, as well as select pieces of traditional African sculpture. In addition to handling art created by gifted emerging and mid-career artists, Peg Alston has sold works by some of the most renowned 20th Century Black masters, including Aaron Douglas, William H. Johnson, Laura Wheeler Waring, William T. Williams, Horace Pippen, Charles White, and Elizabeth Catlett. She has also sold works by some of the leading names on the contemporary scene, among them: Sam Gilliam, Richard Yarde, Betye Saar, Howardena Pindell, Frank Bowling, Ronald Burns, Edward Clark, David Driskell, Al Loving, Lubaina Himid, Oliver Johnson, Faith Ringgold, and Raymond Saunders. Peg Alston emerged on the New York art scene in 1972, a time when art by African Americans was limited. Early giants such as Romare Bearden and Norman Lewis generously served as informal mentors during the beginning stages of her career. Thanks to her keen eye and tastes, commitment to her specialty, and dedication to educating the public through lectures and activism, she has played a pivotal role in cultivating an interest all around the country for investing in African American fine art, and formed close associations with many of today’s most important African American artists. Long active with theStudio Museum in Harlem and many other major New York City cultural institutions, Peg Alston organized some of the first seminars on collecting, appraising and cataloguing African American art. Today, Peg Alston is a member of the Private Dealer’s Association (PADA) and ArtTable, and recently had the honor of being interviewed by History Makers for their visual and oral archival collection.
http://www.pegalstonfinearts.com/ https://www.thehistorymakers.org/biography/peg-alston-41 https://www.instagram.com/pegalston/?hl=en
Episode Thirty-Nine features artist Jules Arthur. Born in St. Louis, Missouri and based in New York City, his artistic focus is rooted in the discoveries of triumphant moments within the African and African American experience. Classically trained in sculpture and the study and representation of the human form, Arthur received his BFA from the School of Visual Arts. His work has been amongst many public exhibitions and collections that include The Studio Museum of Harlem, The African American Museum in Dallas, Texas, Schomburg Cultural Center for Research in New York, and the Hutchins Center for the African and African American Research at Harvard University. Arthur's creativity extends to art work for Rolling Stone Magazine, music album cover art, and motion movie posters.
www.julesarthur.com https://www.blackartinamerica.com/index.php/2019/07/31/5-quick-questions-artist-jules-arthur/ https://www.pinterest.com/pin/706642997768759658/ http://www.nccsc.net/studio-visits-allison/studio-jules-arthur
Photo Credit Jonathan Mannion
Episode Thirty-Eight features Paris-born, internationally acclaimed artist and author Lilianne Milgrom. She holds two degrees from Melbourne University and an associate degree from the Academy of Art in San Francisco. She exhibits her artwork around the world and is the recipient of multiple awards and artist residencies. In 2011, she became the first authorized copyist of Gustave Courbet’s controversial 19th century painting L’Origine du Monde (The Origin of the World), which hangs in the Orsay Museum in Paris and draws over a million visitors a year. The experience inspired her to spend close to a decade researching and writing L’Origine.
Since being released just over two months ago, her novel L’Origine hit the Number One bestseller spot in two categories on amazon. Lilianne currently lives in the greater Washington, DC, area with her husband while her grown children have spread their wings and are exploring the world. Enjoy.
Available on Amazon, Barnes & Noble, Goodreads and Bookshop.
www.liliannemilgrom.com http://liliannemilgrom.wordpress.com https://www.littlefrenchgirlpress.com/ https://www.huffpost.com/author/lilianne-milgrom https://bonjourparis.com/author/lilianne-milgrom/
Episode Thirty-Seven features Bianca Nemelc, a figurative painter whose work explores the connection between the female form and the natural world. Born and raised in New York City, Bianca’s work is inspired by her own investigative journey into her identity, paying homage to her heritage through the use of many hues of brown that make up the figures in her work. The world within her paintings are loosely inspired by the tropical and carribean landscapes where her families are originally from and her roots can be traced back to. Through her work, Bianca aims to highlight the beautiful and symbiotic relationship between nature and the female body.
https://ancestralallchemy.com/blog/2020/7/interview-bianca-nemelc https://hypebeast.com/2020/7/bianca-nemelc-artist-new-york-interview https://www.itsnicethat.com/articles/bianca-nemelc-art-240620
Episode Thirty-Six features Francks Francois Deceus. He was born in Cap-Haitian, Haiti 1966. He currently resides and maintains a studio in Brooklyn, NY. Deceus received a B.A. in Sociology from Long Island University, NY in 1992 and studied Printmaking at Atlantis Arts Atelier, Gentily, France in 2007. His solo exhibitions include the Pounder-Kone Art Space, Los Angeles; Tilford Art Group, Los Angeles, CA. Group exhibitions include the Brooklyn Museum, NY; Museum of Contemporary African Diaspora Arts (MOCADA), Brooklyn, NY; The National Civil Rights Museum, Memphis TN; Hampton University, Hampton, VA; Aljira Center for Contemporary Art, Newark, NJ; Mana Contemporary, Jersey City, NJ; Prizm Art Fair Miami FL; Fridman Art Gallery, NY, NY; Gallery M, NY, NY. The works of Deceus have entered numerous public collections, including Xavier University, New Orleans, LA and the Schomburg Center, New York Public Library, NY. His work has been featured in publications such as Artillery Magazine, the International Revue of African-American Art, and The Village Voice.
www.deceusart.com https://mocada.org/2020/04/28/digital-gallery-francks-deceus/ https://catalogue.swanngalleries.com/Lots/auction-lot/FRANCKS-DECEUS-(1966----)-Pilgrimage-14?saleno=2535&lotNo=181&refNo=767372 https://www.instyle.com/lifestyle/girls-in-the-window-recreated?utm_source=emailshare&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=email-share-longform&utm_content=20200809
Episode Thirty-Five features Lisa Corinne Davis, an abstract painter exploring themes of racial, social and psychological identity. Born in Baltimore, MD, currently living and working in Brooklyn, NY, Davis received her BFA from Pratt Institute in 1980, and her MFA from Hunter College in 1983. Her paintings have been exhibited across the United States and in Europe, including one person shows at June Kelly Gallery (New York), Gerald Peters Gallery (New York), Zolla/Lieberman Gallery (Chicago), Spanierman Modern (Miami), and The Mayor Gallery (London). Her work is included in the collections of The Museum of Modern Art, the J. Paul Getty Museum, The Philadelphia Museum of Art, and the Victoria and Albert Museum. Davis is the recipient of numerous awards, including The Louis Comfort Tiffany Foundation Grant, a National Endowment for the Arts Visual Artist Fellowship,and three Artist Fellowships from The New York Foundation for the Arts. In 2017, she was inducted as a National Academician at the National Academy Museum & School. Her essays on art and culture have been published in the Brooklyn Rail and Art Critical. Davis has previously taught painting at the Cooper Union School of Art and Yale University; she is currently Professor of Art and Head of Painting at Hunter College in New York.
http://www.lisacorinnedavis.com/ https://huntercollegeart.org/studio-art-faculty/lisa-corinne-davis/ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lisa_Corinne_Davis https://www.jenkinsjohnsongallery.com/artists/80-lisa-corinne-davis/works/
Episode Thirty-Four features Amalia Mesa-Bains. She is an educator, artist and cultural critic. Her works, primarily interpretations of traditional Chicano altars, resonate both in contemporary formal terms and in their ties to her Chicano community and history. As an author of scholarly articles and a nationally known lecturer on Chicano art, she has enhanced understanding of multi-culturalism and reflected major cultural and demographic shifts in the United States. Throughout her cross-disciplinary career, she has worked to define a Chicano and Latino aesthetic in the U.S. and in Latin America. She has pioneered the documentation and interpretation of long Chicano traditions in Mexican-American art, both through her cultural activism and through her own altar-installations. As an artist her works have been exhibited in both national and international venues and her publications include “Homegrown-Engaged Cultural Criticism, a collaboration with bell hooks reissued by Routledge Press 2017. She is a recipient of a distinguished MacArthur Fellowship. Currently she is Professor Emerita at the Visual and Public Art Department at California State University at Monterey Bay.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amalia_Mesa-Bains
https://www.artnews.com/artnews/news/icons-amalia-mesa-bains-9988/
https://www.amazon.com/Homegrown-Cultural-Criticism-bell-hooks/dp/089608759X
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wKAyFLgKJ14
Episode Thirty-Three features Derrick Adams. He was born in Baltimore, Maryland in 1970. He received his MFA from Columbia University and BFA from Pratt Institute. Adams has been the subject of numerous solo shows, including exhibitions at the Museum of Arts and Design, NY, the Museum of Contemporary Art, Denver, the California African American Museum, LA, and the Brooklyn Academy of Music. Adams’ work has been presented in public exhibitions, including Men of Change: Power. Triumph. Truth. (2019) by the Smithsonian Institution; PERFORMA (2015, 2013, 2005); The Shadows Took Shape (2014) and Radical Presence (2013–14) at The Studio Museum in Harlem. His work resides in the permanent collections of The Metropolitan Museum of Art, The Studio Museum in Harlem, the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, and the Whitney Museum of American Art.
www.derrickadams.com https://madmuseum.org/exhibition/derrick-adams-sanctuary https://studiomuseum.org/press-release/derrick-adams-patrick-kelly-journey https://www.hrm.org/exhibitions/derrick-adams/
Episode Thirty-Two features Barbara T. Hoffman. She is principal, and pre-eminent arts, cultural heritage and cultural institution lawyer in New York City providing transactional advice and litigation services to the domestic and international arts and cultural community. Her more than thirty-five years in the field of art law, representing artists, museums, collectors, artist and other charitable foundations, galleries and foreign governments has given her wide expertise on matters involving art, antiques and cultural property transactions, including art gallery and auction house consignments, gifts of art, copyright and artist's rights, and non-profit issues of governance and conflict of interest. She is a pioneer in the field of public art and developed, for the New York City Bar Association, the model contract for the field. She has represented a majority of renowned artists working in the public realm with projects worldwide involving large scale private and public scales from memorials to AIA award-winning artist-architect collaborations from Battery Park to Shanghai and points in between. She is included in New York Magazine's Best Lawyers for 2010 - 2011, 2012, Marquis Who's Who and Super Lawyers (2010-2016), and the Wall Street Journal Best Women Lawyers in New York (2016). She is a Fellow of the American Bar Association. Contact: Barbara Hoffman - artlaw@hoffmanlaw.org
https://www.hoffmanlawfirm.org/about/ https://www.hoffmanlawfirm.org/representing-artists-and-creatives/ https://www.bestlawyers.com/lawyers/barbara-t-hoffman/119895
Episode Thirty-One features Grace Lynne Haynes. She is a California born visual artist currently based in New Jersey. She creates lusciously composed paintings containing bright textures and patterns. Intricate moments are juxtaposed against flat, black swaths of paint shaped to represent black female bodies. The artist’s painterly devices lead the viewer to question the very nature of color and how historically symbolic meanings surrounding colors and shades, especially black, are constructed. In Haynes’s work, black appears aspirational, dignified, and sublime. The result is a network of images addressing complex topics and stereotypes surrounding black femininity.
Formally, Lynne is a master of color play and conveying textural details. She showcases young women lounging in luxuriously painted patterns against washes of color. Grace portrays tender moments as the hands of her figures rest on swaths of delicately layered areas of patterning and puffy tufts of material that compose of clothing.
Grace Lynne Haynes, an inaugural member of Kehinde Wiley’s Black Rock Senegal residency, is included in the 2020 edition of Forbes 30 Under 30 in Art & Style. Her first international solo exhibition is with Luce Gallery in Italy in April 2022. Haynes has exhibited at the Ontario Museum of History and Art, Untitled Art Miami, Dallas Art Fair and Paul Robeson Gallery of Rutgers University, Newark. She was a selected artist in Daily Collector’s online article “20 Painter’s Who Are Shaping the Next Decade”, and her work has been published in Vogue, LA Weekly, New American Paintings, WhiteWall Magazine, Culture Type and on the cover of The New Yorker.
https://www.booooooom.com/2020/07/28/artist-spotlight-grace-lynne-haynes/ https://www.lucegallery.com/work/grace_lynne-haynes.html https://www.bygracelynne.com https://www.bandofvices.com/grace-lynne-haynes https://www.1-54.com/new-york/artists/haynes-grace-lynne/ https://www.newyorker.com/culture/cover-story/cover-story-2020-08-03 https://www.cnn.com/style/article/grace-lynne-haynes-new-yorker-cover-sojourner-truth/index.html
Episode Thirty features Nicole Awai. She earned her Master’s Degree in Multimedia Art from the University of South Florida in 1996. She attended the Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture residency in 1997 and was artist in residence at the Studio Museum in Harlem in 2000. Awai was a featured artist in the 2005 Initial Public Offerings series at the Whitney Museum of American Art and was awarded the Joan Mitchell Foundation Painters and Sculptors Grant in 2011 and an Art Matters Grant in 2012. Her work has been included in seminal museum exhibitions including Greater New York: New Art in New York Now, at P.S. 1/ MOMA (2000), the Biennale of Ceramic in Contemporary Art, Italy (2003), Open House: Working in Brooklyn (2004), Infinite Island: Contemporary Caribbean Art (2007) both at the Brooklyn Museum; the 2008 Busan Biennale in Korea; The Pacific Standard Time: LA/LA II, A Getty Initiative exhibitions Circles and Circuits I: History and Art of the Chinese Caribbean at the California African American Museum and Circles and Circuits II: Contemporary Art of the Chinese Caribbean at the Chinese American Museum, along with Relational Undercurrents: Contemporary Art of the Caribbean Archipelago at the Museum of Latin American Art and the High Line Network exhibition New Monuments for New Cities. Her work has also been exhibited at the Queens Museum, Kemper Museum of Contemporary, Portland Museum of Art, Delaware Art Museum, Philip Frost Art Museum FIU, the Vilcek Foundation and the Biennale of the Caribbean in Aruba(2013). Other recent exhibitions include Splotch at Sperone Westwater, NY. Figuring the Floral, Wave Hill, NY; Summer Affairs at Barbara Davis Gallery, Houston, TX and Nicole Awai: Envisioning the Liquid Land at Lesley Heller Gallery, NY. Awai was a Critic at the Yale School of Art in the Department of Painting and Printmaking from 2009-2015 and is currently faculty in the Department of Art and Art History at the University of Texas at Austin. Awai is represented by Barbara Davis Gallery in Houston, TX.
Episode Twenty-Nine features contemporary artist, painter Ferrari Sheppard. He spends his time working on contemplative, timeless paintings. A sense of movement can often be found in his work, allowing the viewer to feel immersed in an active moment. Stylistically, the artist brings forth a sense of meditative stillness. The paintings organically blur the line between figuration and abstraction.
Sheppard is a contemporary artist based in Los Angeles. He has travelled extensively and lived in various cities in Africa. His paintings reflect a dimension of time and space that gracefully shuttles between otherworldly yet familiar, nostalgic, yet present. The artist has been featured as a guest lecturer at various universities and cultural institutions across the United States, Canada, and Ethiopia, including The African Union in Addis Ababa (2014), and Harvard Law (2015). His highly anticipated solo exhibition titled. Heroines of Innocence is set to open to the public on September 12 2020 at Wilding Cran Gallery in Los Angeles.
https://www.ferrarisheppard.com/ https://www.cfhill.com/ferrari-sheppard https://outlet.fyi/2020/04/06/artnoir-presents-virtual-visits-w-ferrari-sheppard/
Episode Twenty-Eight features Nigel Freeman. He is the director of the African-American Fine Art department at Swann Auction Galleries. He founded the department in the fall of 2006, and since then has set numerous auction records for important African-American artists, including John Biggers, Elizabeth Catlett, Beauford Delaney, Sargent Johnson, Hughie Lee-Smith, Faith Ringgold and Carrie Mae Weems. Many were the result of significant institutional purchases. The department has also held the single-owner auctions of the estate of Dr. Maya Angelou and the collections of the Golden State Mutual Life Insurance Company and the Johnson Publishing Company, Swann's first white glove auction. Swann is the only major auction house with a department dedicated to African-American Fine Art.
Outside of Swann, Nigel is a print appraiser on the PBS television show Antiques Roadshow. He has lectured on the subject of African-American art at the Detroit Institute of Arts, the Rhode Island School of Design Museum, the Studio Museum in Harlem and the South Side Community Art Center in Chicago. He has also been interviewed by such magazines as The New Yorker, The Wall Street Journal, Art+Auction, Art and Antiques, The Art Newspaper and on the BBC and National Public Radio. Nigel entered the auction world in 1997 with a background in fine art as a painter and printmaker after earning a Master of Fine Arts degree from Columbia University in 1991, and a Bachelor of Arts degree in History and Art from Brown University in 1989. Previously, Nigel was the associate director of Swann’s Prints & Drawings department. Enoy.
https://www.swanngalleries.com/ https://www.swanngalleries.com/news/african-american-fine-art/2019/12/african-american-art-from-the-johnson-publishing-company/ https://news.artnet.com/market/johnson-publishing-white-glove-auction-1766616 https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/roadshow/appraisers/nigel-freeman/ https://www.culturetype.com/2014/02/11/culture-talk-swanns-nigel-freeman-on-early-african-american-art/
Episode Twenty-Seven features narrative painter Philemona Williamson. She’s exhibited her work for over 25 years at the June Kelly Gallery in NYC and recently, at her mid-career retrospective at the Montclair Art Museum in NJ. Her narrative paintings deal with gender, race and adolescence. Philemona is the recipient of numerous awards and residencies including the Joan Mitchell Foundation, Pollock Krasner, National Endowment For The Arts, New York Foundation For The Arts and Millay Colony. Her work has been shown in solo and group exhibitions throughout the USA and abroad, She is represented in numerous private and public collections, including The Montclair Art Museum; The Kalamazoo Art Institute The Mint Museum of Art; Smith College Museum of Art; Hampton University Museum;
Sheldon Art Museum; Mott-Warsh Art Collection, and AT&T. Her public work is part of the MTA Arts For Transit Program, the MTA Poetry In Motion and — for the NYC School Authority — a mosaic mural in the Glenwood Campus School. She currently teaches painting at Pratt Institute and Hunter College in NYC. Philemona also created a series of paintings for the children’s book “Lubaya’s Quiet Roar” coming out in October from Penguin Random House.
Please review links below.
https://www.philemonawilliamson.com/ http://www.junekellygallery.com/williamson/ http://origin.www.annazorinagallery.com/exhibitions/sit-still-self-portraits-in-the-age-of-distraction/slideshow?view=slider#26
https://www.montclairartmuseum.org/exhibition/philemona-williamson-metaphorical-narratives https://baristanet.com/2020/06/look-inside-the-artists-studio-as-montclair-art-museum-launches-mam-conversations-series/ http://web.mta.info/mta/aft/permanentart/permart.html?agency=nyct&line=L&artist=1&station=3
Episode Twenty-Six features Mexican-French emerging artist Alexis de Chaunac. He was born in New York City and raised in Mexico City and Paris. As a child living in Mexico, he grew up surrounded by his mother’s family and his grandparent’s friends which included Mexican artists, intellectuals, historians, poets, diplomats, and writers.
These brilliant minds had a profound impact on Alexis at an early age and as a result he draws from subjects such as literature, religion, art history and politics which overlap with his interests that include natural sciences, biology and botany.
In April 2019, he exhibited at Sargent’s Daughters Gallery in New York. Alexis has also exhibited through group and solo shows in major museums in Mexico (Museo Carrillo Gil, Pinacoteca Diego Rivera) and at Zona MACO art fair in Mexico City.
After receiving his BA from Sarah Lawrence College, Alexis is currently pursuing his MFA in the Painting and Drawing department at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago.
Below are several links about Alexis de Chaunac’s work and those that influenced him as a child. Also included is the Jerry Saltz New York Magazine story stating that the exhibition “Vida Americana: Mexican Muralists Remake American Art, 1925–1945” at the Whitney Museum was one of the most relevant shows of the 21st century.
Enjoy.
https://www.alexisdechaunac.com/ http://columbiajournal.org/years-friendship-alexis-de-chaunac/ https://www.artsy.net/article/artsy-editorial-how-trilingual-painter-alexis-de-chaunac-wrestles-with https://www.whitewall.art/art/alexis-de-chaunac-a-dance-with-life-death https://www.vulture.com/2020/02/vida-americana-the-most-relevant-show-of-the-21st-century.html Influencers include https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jos%C3%A9_Luis_Cuevas https://www.nytimes.com/1971/05/08/archives/cuevas-displays-his-mastery-of-line.html https://hammer.ucla.edu/radical-women/artists/ximena-cuevas https://www.imdb.com/name/nm7533624/ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Octavio_Paz https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Homero_Aridjis
Episode Twenty-Five features Jasmine Wahi, the Holly Block Social Justice Curator at the Bronx Museum, an Activist, TEDx Speaker, and a Founder and Co-Director of Project for Empty Space. Her practice predominantly focuses on issues of femme empowerment, complicating binary structures within social discourses, and exploring multipositional cultural identities through the lens of intersectional feminism. In 2010, Ms. Wahi Co-Founded Project For Empty Space, a not-for-profit organization that creates multidisciplinary art exhibitions and programming that encourage social dialogue, education, and systemic change through the support of both artists and communities. Though she does not consider herself to be an artist, Ms. Wahi has organized numerous interventions and happenings as part of her social activist work. In 2018, she served as the Co-Chair “Rape, Radicality, and Representation” for the College Art Association's "Day of Panels" with The Feminist Art Project (TFAP). organizing a day of intersectional feminist based performances, films, and conversations. In 2019, she spoke at TEDxNJIT on the idea of Resilience. In 2020, she curated the two part exhibition Abortion Is Normal, which received wide critical acclaim, and will be touring cross country as part of a campaign to get out the vote. Ms. Wahi’s curatorial work has been featured in the New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, Art News, Art Forum, Hyperallergic, Bloomberg, VICE, and NOWTHIS, to name a few.
http://www.jasminewahi.com/ https://www.artnews.com/art-news/news/jasmine-wahi-bronx-museum-of-the-arts-1202678209/ http://www.projectforemptyspace.org/team https://www.artforum.com/news/bronx-museum-hires-jasmine-wahi-as-holly-block-social-justice-curator-82212 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jasmine_Wahi http://gallerygurls.net/art-convos/2017/9/24/in-conversation-with-jasmine-wahi?rq=jasmine%20wahi https://hyperallergic.com/539075/an-art-exhibition-reminds-us-that-abortion-is-normal/
Episode Twenty – Four features Marcus Jansen. Over the last twenty-five years he has pioneered a raw concentrated reality in his often socially and politically charged critical landscape works. His unique oeuvre serves as an emotive and insightful critique of the contemporary American and global political and sociological landscape.
A former U.S. Army soldier turned combatant for the avant-garde, Jansen, the child of a West Indian mother and raised by a German father, spent his youth between New York City and Monchengladbach, Germany. Influenced early on by the rebellious gestures of the 1980s graffiti movement in America, it was the Desert Storm offensive which permanently altered the artist’s mode of perception and manner of expression. “Painting,” states Jansen, “is the most intimate act of war “. Admiring those who valiantly rejected oppression through the action of marking space in paint, he would make his start peddling his paintings on the sidewalks of Manhattan’s SoHo district after his military discharge in 1997.
Jansen’s paintings have been included in several international and solo exhibitions. His work is also in private and public collections and several corporations have commissioned work.
He founded the Marcus Jansen Foundation Fund, which assists low-income community organizations in South West Florida by enhancing their cultural awareness through art and music, as well as support organizations that help veterans diagnosed with PTSD seeking art as a way to express. Jansen works from his studio Headquarters in Port Morris, South Bronx, New York and Fort Myers, Florida.
A 2016 documentary film by John Scoula features Marcus Jansen – ‘Examine and Report’ is available on Amazon. Please share this link and episode with veterans who may be struggling with their wounds of war.
Links for details below about the artist and upcoming exhibitions.
www.marcusjansen.com https://www.amazon.com/Marcus-Jansen-Examine-Report/dp/B077YR9ZCQhttps://fortmyers.floridaweekly.com/articles/hes-big/ https://charlottecounty.floridaweekly.com/articles/hes-big/ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marcus_Jansen https://www.rollins.edu/cornell-fine-arts-museum/exhibitions/2020/marcus-jansen-e-pluribus-unum.html
Episode Twenty-Three features Brittney Leeanne Williams a Chicago-based artist, originally from Los Angeles. Her work has been exhibited in New York, Los Angeles, San Francisco, Miami (Untitled Art Fair), and Venice, Italy (Venice Biennale), as well as in Chicago and throughout the Midwest. Williams attended Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture (2017) and The School of the Art Institute of Chicago (2008-09). She is a Joan Mitchell Foundation grant recipient. Williams was a 2017-2018 artist-in-residence at University of Chicago (CSRPC/Arts + Public Life) and has held residencies at Chicago Artists Coalition (HATCH Projects) and Hyde Park Art Center (The Center Program). Her set design for the short film Self-Deportation has been featured at film festivals nationwide and internationally, including Anthology Film Archives (NYC) and the Pineapple Underground Film Festival (Hong Kong).
Brittney is currently in a group show at the Anna Zorina Gallery titled 'Sit Still: Self Portraits in the Age of Distraction' curated by Patty Horing and Deborah Brown. Welcome and Enjoy!
Image credit: Chris Edwards
http://www.brittneyleeannewilliams.com/ https://joanmitchellfoundation.org/artist-programs/artist-grants/painter-sculptors/2018/brittney-leeanne-williams https://www.hydeparkart.org/directory/brittney-leeanne-williams-2/ https://elephant.art/brittney-leeanne-williams-deep-red-paintings-signal-female-trauma-01052020/
Episode Twenty-Two features Sean Green. Born in Jamaica and raised in Toronto, Sean Green holds a BA in Computer Science from York University. Since graduating in 2011, Sean has been the consummate entrepreneur following his instincts, which eventually lead him to the business of art. Based in Los Angeles, Sean oversees all aspects of ARTERNAL’s evolution, in partnership with his co-founders.
Founded in 2015, ARTERNAL, was the first technology company to focus exclusively on bringing Client Relationship Management (CRM) technology to the art world. Sean’s goal was simple: to provide a unified resource that allows the art professional to focus on what they do best - sell art and deepen relationships with their clients. ARTERNAL is now an all-in-one platform providing Revenue & Relationship Management; Tracking client engagement streamlined with inventory management tools to optimize workflow and drive sales.
Recent global events have forced dealers to revisit their model, focusing on digital platforms to sell art. As an entrepreneur in the Art + Technology industry, Sean is dedicated to providing leading software solutions to develop alongside the art market’s demands.
https://arternal.com/
Behind the White Wall by ARTERNAL
https://news.artnet.com/art-world/entrepreneur-sean-green-explores-artnet-galleries-1889210?utm_medium=email&_hsmi=90074078&_hsenc=p2ANqtz-_eRhpg_Vv9RLcUTcjLiS1e7dxROB77iuJ8rxXREbnuZFarjTwq9BM2k-gTweF2zSCiOErxoBfV6UW65quqrxgNmRN3kg&utm_content=90074078&utm_source=hs_email https://www.linkedin.com/in/seanartgreen/
Image credit: Greyson Tarantino
Episode Twenty-one features Sarah Workneh. 2020 marks her 10th year as Co-Director at Skowhegan. Prior to her tenure, Sarah was the Associate Director of Ox-Bow for 9 years. Primarily focused on the educational program, and off-season programming with Alumni, Sarah leads all efforts to support artists in the expansion of their practices. Understanding the holistic nature of the program, Sarah oversees the admissions process, facilities usage and expansion under Skowhegan’s Master Plan, as well as the educational daily life on campus. Sarah has published a variety of texts -- most recently an essay on participatory education and a catalog essay on radical education published by the New Museum. She serves on the boards of Colby College Museum of Art, RAIR in Philadelphia, and the Somerset County Cultural Planning Commission. She is currently partnering with Linda Goode Bryant & Project Eats to convert an urban farm to a food pantry in Brownsville, NYC. Please see additional information about Sarah Workneh. Welcome and Enjoy.
https://www.skowheganart.org/ https://www.wassaicproject.org/events/2020-05-28-ask-a-residency-director-with-sarah-workneh http://amt.parsons.edu/finearts/visitingcritics/sarah-workneh/ https://www.portlandmuseum.org/magazine/sarah-workneh-storiesofmaine http://projecteats.org/
Episode Twenty features David Antonio Cruz, a multidisciplinary artist and a Professor of the Practice in Painting and Drawing at the School of the Museum of Fine Arts at Tufts University. Cruz fuses painting and performance to explore the visibility and intersectionality of brown, black, and queer bodies. Cruz received a BFA in painting from Pratt Institute and an MFA from Yale University. He attended Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture and completed the AIM Program at the Bronx Museum. Recent residencies include the LMCC Workspace Residency, Project For Empty Space’s Social Impact Residency, and BRICworkspace. Cruz’s work has been included in notable group exhibitions at the Smithsonian National Portrait Gallery, El Museo del Barrio, BRIC, Performa 13, and the Bronx Museum of Art. His fellowships and awards include the Joan Mitchell Foundation Painters & Sculptors Grant, the Franklin Furnace Fund Award, the Urban Artist Initiative Award, the Queer Mentorship Fellowship, and the Neubauer Faculty Fellowship at Tufts University. Recent press includes The New York Times, Wall Street Journal, WhiteHot Magazine, W Magazine, Bomb Magazine, and El Centro Journal.
http://www.cruzantoniodavid.com/ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Antonio_Cruz http://moniquemeloche.com/artists/david-antonio-cruz/ https://whitehotmagazine.com/articles/antonio-cruz-return-dirty-boys/3384 https://www.chicagogallerynews.com/events/david-antonio-cruz-one-day-i-ll-turn-the-corner-and-i-ll-be-ready-for-it https://www.documentjournal.com/2019/10/david-antonio-cruz-the-artist-giving-lgtbq-victims-of-violence-a-place-in-art-history/
Photo Credit: "Photograph by Lia Clay for the 2018 Queer|Art Community Portrait Project."
Episode Nineteen features June Edmonds, a west coast based abstract painter that was awarded the AWARE prize during the 2020 Armory show in NYC. AWARE, an acronym for Archives of Women Artists, Research and Exhibitions is a Paris based non profit that this year debuted an award for a Solo Exhibition of Work by a Woman Artist. June’s work was exhibited by the Luis De Jesus Los Angeles Gallery. She was recognized for a never seen before body of work, her new Flag paintings. Each flag is associated with the narrative of an African American, past or present, a current event, or a chapter from American history. Her application of color incorporates an intellectual perspective reflecting on systematic disenfranchisement, emotions, and power. June has participated in several residency programs, has received many grants from well-known organizations and her paintings are held in collections throughout the United States. It gives me pleasure to highlight AWARE, the gallery for having the courage to present a solo female artist at the Armory and most of allthe talented artist June Edmonds.
https://juneedmonds.com/home.htmlhttps://awarewomenartists.com/en/?s=june+edmonds https://www.luisdejesus.com/artists/june-edmonds https://hyperallergic.com/263478/we-ask-some-art-world-luminaries-to-pick-the-best-worst-of-2015/ https://autre.love/interviewsmain/2019/6/27/a-conversation-with-june-edmonds-and-luis-de-jesus
Episode Eighteen features Brooklyn based painter-sculptor Kennedy Yanko. Kennedy’s practice is profound, and her work is unique. She has redefined her paintings as skins and combines these unconventional paintings with metal and other hard found objects and creates beautiful, unexpected sculptures. “Since debuting sculptures from her "Elements and Skin" collection as part of a Derrick Adams-curated group show, "Hidden in Plain Sight" (Jenkins Johnson Project Space. Brooklyn, NY. 2017),” Kennedy has exhibited her work in several solo and group shows and has been the recipient of several prestigious awards. Upcoming and current exhibitions include the following: Solo Show, SALIENT QUEENS, Vielmetter. Los Angeles, CA. Fall 2020. Group show, SITE: Art and Architecture in the Digital Space, Library Street Collective. May 1-July 2020. Group show, PARALLELS AND PERIPHERIES, Anna Marra Galleria. Fall 2020. Public sculpture, 3 WAYS, Sculpture for New Orleans. New Orleans, LA. 2019-2021 I look forward to following her for years to come. Her work is aesthetically beautiful. Links to Kennedy Yanko’s expanded bio are provided. Enjoy.
https://kennedyyanko.com/ http://kavigupta.com/artist/kennedy-yanko/ http://www.jenkinsjohnsongallery.com/artists/kennedy-yanko https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/evmw3a/how-artist-kennedy-yanko-went-from-bodybuilding-to-metalworking
Episode Seventeen features Odili Odita. He is an abstract painter whose work explores color both in the figurative historical context, and in the sociopolitical sense. He is best known for his large-scale canvases with kaleidoscopic patterns and vibrant hues, which he uses to reflect the human condition. Born in Nigeria and raised in the American Midwest, Odita’s work is also heavily inspired by a sense of dual identity, combining aspects of Western modernity with African culture. His practice speaks to a contrast of cultures and a desire to create something new from a set of distinct parts. In this sense, his paintings, like a stitched or quilted textile, are weavings from different spaces, times and various temperaments, which convey the complexity of culture, identity, and being.’ Odita has had several solo exhibitions in museums and institutions, has exhibited extensively in the United States and internationally and has been commissioned to paint many large-scale wall installations. Included are links to Odili Odita’s complete bio and many accomplishments. He is currently represented by the Jack Shainman Gallery, NYC. Please enjoy this reflective discussion about Art and Humanity.
Photo credit: Jide Alakija
https://jackshainman.com/viewing_room/odili_donald_odita_mirror https://www.odilidonaldodita.com/ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Odili_Donald_Odita https://www.forbes.com/sites/adamlehrer/2016/02/10/artist-odili-donald-odita-emphasizes-human-discrepancies-through-color-and-lines-at-jack-shainman/#3f3bca66d8ed https://hyperallergic.com/269432/painted-colors-in-conflicted-motion/
Episode Sixteen features Nathaniel Mary Quinn. 'Quinn’s passion for drawing began at a young age, while he was growing up on the South Side of Chicago. In ninth grade, he received a scholarship to attend Culver Academies boarding school in Indiana—but a month after arriving at the school, Quinn received news from his father that his mother had suddenly passed away. He returned to Chicago for Thanksgiving the following month, only to find that the rest of his family—his father and brothers—had abandoned his childhood home without a trace. This jarring experience further propelled Quinn’s art, and he decided to commit himself to his education, adding his mother’s name, Mary, to his name so that she would appear on all of his degrees. He received a BA in art and psychology from Wabash College, Crawfordsville, Indiana, in 2000, and an MFA from New York University in 2002.' Quinn is currently represented by Gagosian. You will enjoy this fun and invigorating talk.
Photo Kyle Dorosz. Courtesy the artist.
https://gagosian.com/artists/nathaniel-mary-quinn/
https://www.wsj.com/articles/the-deadpan-world-of-nathaniel-mary-quinn-11567600802
https://hyperallergic.com/484547/portraits-that-feel-like-chance-encounters-and-hazy-recollections/
https://www.rhoffmangallery.com/artists/nathaniel-mary-quinn2
https://www.vogue.com/slideshow/gagosian-quarterly-anderson-cooper-and-nathaniel-mary-quinn
https://hypebeast.com/2020/2/nathaniel-mary-quinn-soil-seed-and-rain-rhona-hoffman-gallery-exhibition
https://www.artnews.com/art-in-america/aia-reviews/nathaniel-mary-quinn-soil-seed-rain-rhona-hoffman-1202682453/
https://www.juxtapoz.com/news/painting/soil-seed-and-rain-nathaniel-mary-quinn-returns-to-rhona-hoffman-gallery/
Episode Fifteen features Carrie Mae Weems (b. 1953 Portland, OR; lives and works in Syracuse, NY). She is widely renowned as one of the most influential contemporary American artists living today. Over the course of nearly four decades, Weems has developed a complex body of work employing text, fabric, audio, digital images, installation, and video, but she is most celebrated as a photographer. Activism is central to Weems’ practice, which investigates race, family relationships, cultural identity, sexism, class, political systems, and the consequences of power. Over the last 30 years of her prolific career, Weems has been consistently ahead of her time and an ongoing presence in contemporary culture.
Her work is organized into cohesive bodies that function like chapters in a perpetually unfolding narrative, demonstrating her gift as a storyteller. The Kitchen Table Series (1990), for instance, is one of Weems’ most seminal works, and widely considered one of the most important bodies of contemporary photography. The series, for which Weems herself posed as the main subject, is set at a woman’s kitchen table—a domestic stage—revealing intimate moments of her life as the story unfolds. The protagonist, though in many ways seemingly commonplace, is a multifaceted woman encompassing a variety of roles such as lover, parent, friend, and breadwinner. Through her work, Weems tackles a number of complex contemporary issues, demanding reconsideration of predominant narratives throughout our history.
This is an intriguing and mentally stimulating conversation. Enjoy.
http://carriemaeweems.net/ https://jackshainman.com/artists/carrie_mae_weems https://www.macfound.org/fellows/905/ https://news.syr.edu/blog/2020/01/15/internationally-renowned-artist-carrie-mae-weems-named-university-artist-in-residence-at-syracuse-university/ https://www.christies.com/features/Carrie-Mae-Weems-Change-Requires-2020-Vision-10437-1.aspx
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mary_Lovelace_O'Neal https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barbara_Chase-Riboud https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hung_Liu
Episode Fourteen features Paula Crown, a multimedia artist with a practice encompassing drawing, painting, video, and sculpture. She incorporates cutting-edge technology, social activism, collaboration, and a commitment to sustainability in her studio practice.
Crown has had several solo exhibitions including the Aspen Institute, Dallas Contemporary, Marlborough Gallery, New York, Venice concurrent with the 16th Venice Architectural Biennale, and Fort Gansevoort, New York, to name a few. She has also participated in various group exhibitions nationally, including For Freedoms, Jack Shainman Gallery, New York, Mount Analogue, Aspen, and the Elmhurst Museum of Art, Illinois.
Crown's Public Art Installations include being featured during EXPO Chicago 2014, the Miami Design District several years and Thoughts & Prayers, with For Freedoms, Chicago in 2018. Most recently, she had a public art installation at the For Freedoms Congress in LA (2020).
In 2009, President Barack Obama appointed Paula to the President’s Committee on the Arts and the Humanities. She is a trustee of the Museum of Modern Art and serves on the Aspen Institute Committee of the Arts. Upcoming projects in 2020 include large-scale installations in the United States, the United Kingdom, and India. Crown's works are in numerous public and top-100 private collections. Please read more about Paula Crown in links provided below.
https://www.atelierpaulacrown.com/ https://www.aspenideas.org/speakers/paula-crown https://www.galeriemagazine.com/paula-crown-venice-dallas-contemporary/ https://hauteliving.com/2014/03/paula-crown-shares-journey-wall-street-art-world/457891/ https://forfreedoms.org/partners/for-freedoms/
Episode Thirteen features Monique Long, an independent curator of contemporary visual art and performance. Her interests include interdisciplinary practices, popular culture, and art that addresses political and social issues. Her forthcoming exhibition, Elegies: Still Lifes in Contemporary Art at the Museum of African Diaspora in San Francisco, will showcase works by contemporary artists who primarily portray the figure but have turned to still lifes in order to recast the style of painting into an existential exploration. Her first project as an independent curator was a critically acclaimed solo exhibition and book for painter Elizabeth Colomba. The focus of the exhibition, titled The Moon is my only luxury, was a survey of her portraits of women from 1997 to the present. Prior, Monique held curatorial positions at New York institutions including The Studio Museum in Harlem and the Museum of Arts and Design. Monique is also a contributor to ArtNews, Document Journal, and Ubikwist Magazine. She lives and works in New York City.
https://www.documentjournal.com/2019/09/torkwase-dyson-tells-the-history-of-black-liberation-through-cartographic-art/
https://www.thecut.com/2019/11/the-new-black-vanguard-opening-lookbook.html
http://www.fortgansevoort.com/events/2019/12/6/vanessa-german-in-conversation-with-monique-long
Image credit ~ Kyle Dorosz for New York Magazine November11, 2019 http://www.ubikwistmag.com/issue-no9-woman/
Episode Twelve features John E. Dowell, Jr., a nationally recognized artist. His work captures the pulse of cities and agricultural landscapes of America in his large-scale photographs. Working primarily from sunset until dawn, he focuses on the surface of buildings, the reflections of their exteriors and, quietly, their interior spaces. Illuminating the unseen, he brings awareness to a single moment. In this episode we focus on 'COTTON: THE SOFT, DANGEROUS BEAUTY OF THE PAST' and the history of slavery in New York City. An artist and master-printer for more than four decades, Dowell’s fine art prints, paintings and photographs have been featured in more than 50 one-person exhibitions, and represented in the permanent collections of 70 museum and public collections. Among them are the Museum of Modern Art and the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York City, the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, and the Bibliothèque Nationale in Paris, France. Dowell’s photographs are in the Houston Museum of Fine Arts and have been added to his work in the collections of the Fogg Museum of Harvard University, the Museum of the Rhode Island School of Design and the Lehigh University Museum. John Dowell is a Philadelphia native and Professor Emeritus of Printmaking at the Tyler School of Art at Temple University.
https://johndowell.com/ http://www.laurencemillergallery.com/exhibitions/john-dowell https://hyperallergic.com/485798/cotton-the-soft-dangerous-beauty-of-the-past/
Episode Eleven is the first episode discussing COVID-19 and how its arrival has impacted one of many communities within the art world.
Featured is Nico Wheadon, the executive director of NXTHVN, a multidisciplinary arts incubator in New Haven, Connecticut. She is an adjunct assistant professor of Art History and Africana Studies at Barnard College, and Professional Practices at Hartford Art School within the interdisciplinary MFA program. Wheadon is an independent writer and regular contributor to The Brooklyn Rail, Artnet and C&, with her first manuscript slated for publication by Rowman & Littlefield in 2021.
She is the former director of public programs and community engagement at the Studio Museum in Harlem, where she was celebrated for the pioneering artist projects, community engagement initiatives, and strategic partnerships she delivered during her five-year tenure.
She has lectured internationally at universities, conferences and symposia, and currently serves on the advisory boards for More Art, and the John Nicholas Brown Center for Public Humanities and Cultural Heritage. Through her highly collaborative and experimental practice, Wheadon mines the rich intersections of contemporary art, dialogic pedagogy and social practice. She holds an MA in Creative & Cultural Entrepreneurship from Goldsmith's College, University of London, and a BA in Art-Semiotics from Brown University. Nico is a dynamic intellectual, an artist and an advocate for the art community.
https://www.nxthvn.com/ https://www.nxthvn.com/about/ https://www.contemporaryand.com/magazines/seeing-deeply/
Episode Ten features Marcus Brutus. He is a self-taught artist, who currently resides outside of Washington, DC and New York City. He holds a BS from St. John's University in Queens, New York, and previously worked in public relations positions in the fashion industry. Being unfulfilled Marcus decided to pursue a career as an artist and has clearly proven to be a talented figurative painter. Marcus began exhibiting his work and quickly attracted the attention of collectors and institutions alike, with two solo exhibitions, a monograph entitled The Uhmericans, and a solo presentation at EXPO Chicago 2019.
I met him a few summers ago during an exhibition at Harbors Books in Easthampton. I appreciated his work and his demeanor, and I have followed his journey since. I could easily live with his paintings which are a reflection of his personality. Easy and mellow.
You will find his journey compelling and refreshing. Enjoy.
https://www.harpersbooks.com/exhibitions/76/marcus-brutus-go-to-work-get-your https://www.juxtapoz.com/news/painting/go-to-work-get-your-money-and-come-home-you-don-t-live-there-marcus-brutus-harper-s-books/ https://www.culturetype.com/2019/08/06/marcus-brutus-paints-portraits-of-black-life-that-connect-contemporary-narratives-to-generations-of-culture-and-history/
Episode Nine features photographer Michael Halsband. He grew up in Manhattan and at age ten became interested in photography as a hobby after learning how to produce a print from start to finish. Michael pursued his passion and was accepted into the School of Visual Arts (SVA). Before graduating in 1981 he began photographing portraits for several magazines and thereafter worked with Interview, Avenue and Rolling Stone Magazine. This led to his becoming the tour photographer for The Rolling Stones.
During Michael's career he worked with well know fashion brands, photographed icons and celebrities, published books, and documented the making of films. He continues to work with an 8 x 10 camera and personally processes and prints his work.
This episode shares with us a chapter in Michael’s interesting life. In 1985, while working for ArtNews magazine, Michael was assigned the job of photographing four artists, one being Andy Warhol. It was that friendship that led him on a journey traveling to Paris and Lisbon with Jean-Michel Basquiat. This story must be shared.
http://www.michaelhalsband.com/ https://www.interviewmagazine.com/art/michael-halsband-national-arts-club https://www.freundevonfreunden.com/interviews/michael-halsband/
Episode Eight features Pauline Willis, the CEO and director of the American Federation of Arts. The AFA is the leader in traveling exhibitions internationally and is an important institution that introduces the visual arts to communities that may not otherwise be exposed to them. In her role Pauline has the unique opportunity to work with prestigious art institutions, esteemed collectors and amazing artists. She is an art aficionado. In 2011, during her first year at the helm of the organization, she significantly multiplied the number of traveling exhibitions on the AFA’s schedule and generated new connections with museums in South America, Asia and the Middle East. Since then Pauline has worked with various art institutions with the purpose of enhancing the lives of people around the world by exposing them to the visual arts. She has a passion for putting great works in seemingly incongruous settings, so that they may be enjoyed by as many people as possible. In this episode she shares her enviable adventures with us.
https://www.amfedarts.org/ https://observer.com/2019/05/pauline-willis-director-of-the-american-federation-of-arts-is-bringing-masterworks-to-the-masses/
Episode Seven features emerging artist and painter Anastasiya Tarasenko. Born in Kiev Ukraine, Anastasiya moved to New York City with her family at six years of age and has resided in the city ever since. She attended art schools early on and ultimately received her MFA from the New York Academy of Art in 2017.
Her work is influenced by artists such as Hieronymus Bosch, Albrecht Durer, Jean Fouquet and Van Der Weyden, to name a few. Also, worth mentioning, Anastasiya uniquely paints on enameled copper. After being featured in New American Paintings, Steven Zevitas, the publisher and gallerist, invited Anastasiya to participate in a show in Boston that runs thru March.
She recently exhibited her work during the 2020 Spring Break Art show and this summer artists Deborah Brown and Patty Horing are curating a group show of self-portraits that will include paintings by Anastasiya. Most exciting, she will have her New York City solo debut in the fall.
http://www.atarasenko.com http://stevenzevitasgallery.com/anastasiya-tarasenko-the-thumb-of-our-pa https://whitehotmagazine.com/articles/tarasenko-at-steven-zevitas-gallery/4511
In Episode Six I interview visual artist M.Florine Démosthène. She was born in the United States and raised between Haiti and New York. At times she resides in Ghana where she moved after abruptly deciding to build her practice without the drama of being an artist in New York City.
Florine earned her Bachelor of Fine Arts from Parsons School for Design in New York and her Master of Fine Arts from Hunter College in New York.She has exhibited extensively through group and solo exhibitions in the USA, Caribbean, UK, Europe and Africa
She has shown with the Mariane Ibrahim Gallery in both a solo booth and group show at the The New York Armory Fair in 2019 and 2020 She is the recipient of a Tulsa Artist Fellowship, Arts Moves Africa Grant and a Joan Mitchell Foundation Grant. Florine has participated in residencies in the USA, UK, Slovakia, Ghana and Tanzania. Her work can be seen at the University of South Africa (UNISA), Lowe Museum of Art, PFF Collection of African American Art and in various private collections worldwide.
Our interview was fun. You will enjoy.
Additional information:
https://florinedemosthene.com/home.html https://www.nytimes.com/2019/03/06/arts/design/armory-show-art-piers.html https://marianeibrahim.com/artists/29-florine-demosthene/biography/ https://florinedemosthene.com/links.html
In Episode Five we feature Chela Mitchell, an art advisor based in Harlem who has extensive knowledge of the emerging black contemporary art market. She has a deep appreciation of the industry, particularly supporting black artists. Chela started collecting during her late twenties and founded her art advisory business in 2016. She provides art advisory services to private, public, and new collectors needing assistance navigating the contemporary art market. Her clients include collectors and luxury brands looking for guidance diversifying their collections. In early 2020 The Los Angeles Times featured Chela in ‘Faces of Frieze 2020: Picturing the art crowd at Los Angeles Premier’ fair.’ In December 2019, Forbes highlighted her as ‘Making Waves In The Elite Art World: Meet The Black Millennial Art Advisory Disrupting The Status Quo.’ During this interview Chela shares with us her upcoming and exciting project titled Komuna House. Chela Mitchell has successfully established herself as a major figure in art advisory.
https://www.chelamitchellart.com/ https://www.forbes.com/sites/katetalbot/2019/12/05/making-waves-in-the-elite-art-world-meet-the-black-millennial-art-advisor-disrupting-the-status-quo/#715130572cdd https://www.latimes.com/entertainment-arts/story/2020-02-15/faces-of-frieze-los-angeles-2020-photos https://www.komunahouse.com/
Episode four features Nigerian American artist Ike Ude. He is a photographer, a performance artist and author of several books and founder and publisher of aRude magazine. In 2017 Ike spoke during a Global Ted Talk in Tanzania to discuss his book ‘Nollywood Portraits: A Radical Beauty a stunning publication depicting major Nigerian’s in the media. His work is in the permanent collections of the Guggenheim Museum, the Smithsonian Museum of Art, The Museum of Fine Arts Houston, Sheldon Museum, RISD Museum, New Britain Museum of American Art, Minneapolis Institute of Arts and in many private collections. Artsy, ranked Ike -- along with Rembrandt, van Gogh, Warhol -- among the top 10 "Masters of the Self-Portrait." He was included on the Vanity Fair’s International Best Dressed List in 2009, 2012 and 2015. Commenced during Art Basel Miami 2019, Ike has a one year exhibition at The Betsy Hotel on Ocean Drive.
This interview offers listeners a rare peek into Ike Ude’s intellect.
In Episode Three we feature visual artist Nate Lewis. His first solo exhibition is opening March 1, 2020 at the Fridman Gallery in Manhattan. He is currently in several group shows including the Smithsonian Institution Group traveling show and 21 c Museum Hotel in Cincinnati. For further details see links provided. ‘Nate Lewis explores history through patterns, textures, and rhythm, creating meditations of celebration and lamentations.’ His work is complex and layered, compelling the viewer to study it more closely. Before pursuing his art practice Nate was a nurse working with patients in various intensive care units. While feeding his passion to support the life of humans he discovered his passion to create art. Listening to his interview you will be entertained and intrigued by his journey from nurse to artist and the initial challenges of creating his work.
https://www.fridmangallery.com/latent-tapestries http://natelewisart.com/
In an inaugural episode of the Cerebral Women Podcast, we interview Brooklyn based figurative painter Deborah Brown. Her many accomplishments as an artist are impressive, as is her unrelenting advocacy and support of artists. Her paintings are in many museum, private and corporate collections. She has been a visiting artist and lecturer at several universities including Hunter College, Pace University, Columbia University, among others. She has been acknowledged in several publications including the New York Times, The New Yorker, Art Forum, Art in America and Juxtapose Magazine. In 2020, Deborah was accepted into the prestigious Shandaken Projects fellowship where she will spend six months in a series of group discussions between faculty and fellows. Her passion to support other artists both financially and intellectually is sincere and consistent. In this podcast Deborah shares with us her insightful perspectives on the art world.
http://www.shandakenprojects.org/paint-school/fellows https://www.juxtapoz.com/news/painting/dirt-s-the-only-animal-who-will-sleep-with-you-deborah-brown-in-review/
In an inaugural episode of the Cerebral Women Podcast, we interview artist, photographer and lecturer Renee Cox. She shares her opinion on several topics revealing her critical views on female sexuality, beauty, power and humanity. Her current body of work includes her provocative photography uniquely manipulated by technology. The New York Times recently invited Renee to photograph Nick Cave for one of the four covers of ‘T’s 2019 Greats Issue’ and published a story about her in the Style Magazine titled ‘An Artist Shares Her Most Striking Images of the Decade’. Among many of her distinguished accomplishments, Renee is known for using her naked body as the subject matter which has sometimes been considered controversial and politically incorrect. In 2001 her “YO Mama’s Last Supper” (1996), at the Brooklyn Museum prompted former Mayor Rudy Giuliani to support implementation of “decency standards” at New York City art institutions. This candid and direct discussion sheds light on the sharp tone of her narrative and her ability to instill a lasting impression on students and audiences. Renee is a full time Professor of Photography at Columbia University.
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/12/23/t-magazine/renee-cox.html https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2019/10/15/t-magazine/nick-cave-artist.html