Women As/In Art

Artist, model, and curator Maxine Hoover shares her recent projects, discusses the power of women self-representing on Instagram, and explores the dynamics of her various roles. Maxine Hoover is an artist and curator, best known for her semi weekly curated shows at Landmark Art Space in Chelsea, many focused heavily on elevating female emerging and established artists. Maxine's work as a curator has been recognized by AM New York, The Village Sun and Strauss News. She was recently honored by Schneps Media as a Power Woman of Manhattan. A lifelong artist, Maxine's paintings explore the concept of self and the relationship between the physical and spiritual world, primarily executed with acrylic, oil paint and mixed materials, inspired by out-of-body experiences, meditative visions and dreams. Instagram:www.instagram.com/maxinehooverart Mentioned Shows: Nouveau Surrealism: https://www.instagram.com/p/C4ZdVG8sxIw/.

Emerald Gruin and Leah Interview Alexandra Goldman, managing director of Barro New York. Alexandra Goldman is a writer, curator, and art dealer living in New York. She is Founder of the art publishing platform Artifactoid, and Managing Director of Barro New York, a contemporary art gallery with locations in New York and Buenos Aires. Goldman writes for Artifactoid, Whitehot Magazine, Cultbytes, ArteFuse, Vice-Versa, and Revista Jennifer. She received her M.A. in Art History from Hunter College and received her bachelor's degree from NYU in Media, Culture, and Communications. Her Instagram is @Artifactoid.

Melissa Coote is an artist based in Sydney, Australia.  Melissa studied photography in the early stages of her practice and this still underpins the majority of her art making. Melissa works with sculpture, varying types of photography and painting techniques ranging from the earliest form of Daguerrotypes to modern day photography. Melissa is a highly skilled drawer, painter, and photographer and the sculpting of light with feeling is the essence of her work. Coote hopes those living with her pieces have the opportunity to enjoy them in a variety of light conditions as details recede or are revealed. The alchemy of light is at the core of Coote's practice. Melissa's exhibition opened at my gallery in March 2024 in Los Angeles and we are very excited about bringing these unique works to the United States. http://www.melissacoote.com/ https://www.instagram.com/melissa_coote_artist/

Jasmine is a professional practicing artist whose work is best described as the meeting of exploration and refinement. Jasmine has taken her art to a number of mediums – sculpture, large-scale public works and intimate paintings for private collection. She is not afraid to venture outside an established comfort zone. Whatever her choice of art form, Mansbridge brings a refined and meticulous hand to the work; her deliberation and contemplation are evident at all times.  The work provokes thought and wonder and gives the viewer the chance to apply their personal storytelling, as they unpack the geometry and portals of Mansbridge's imagined world. Jasmine's exhibition POETRY BURIED IN GEOMETRY is now open at Michael Reid Northern Beaches in Australia. Website

Jiayin Chen shares her very contemporary and fascinating knowledge of our new world with NFTs, Web3, and the blockchain, as well as many other topics. Website: https://jiayinchen.com/ Bio: Jiayin Chen is a writer, curator, and entrepreneur working at the intersection of art and technology. With a strong track record in digital art and entrepreneurship, she has also written extensively about NFTs and the art market for global publications including Financial Times China, Initium, The Art Newspaper (TANC), Artnet News, and many more. Having worked in both museums and art fairs, she has extensive experience working with artists and designers from different disciplines, ranging from traditional media to moving image and immersive technologies. Her curatorial projects have showcased artists in New York, Miami, Taipei, Busan, Beijing and Berlin. She won the Digital Art Open Call by the National Taiwan Museum of Fine Arts in 2015 and curated the group exhibition “The Real Thing”. Jiayin is the co-founder of the online art bilingual magazine SCREEN, a platform focusing on art, technology, and beyond. SCREEN was featured in various interviews and articles internationally and has collaborated with major art institutions including Art 021, Asia Contemporary Art Week, Art Taipei, as well as top galleries and art foundations. In 2016, SCREEN was a finalist of the NYFA (New York Foundation for the Arts) Art Business Incubator. Her op-ed articles have appeared in multiple publications including The Financial Times China, artnet News, The Art Newspaper China (TANC), Taipei Biennial, the Art Trade Journal, etc.

Scosha is a jewelry designer that has evolved her collections as wearable art as a way to tell story, by collecting and collaging the body through intricate, playful and colorful decoration. This acts as a celebration of ones personal connection to nostalgia and linking us to our our past. She finds the common thread that we so long for, that identifies where you fit and belong while passing down traditions. Scosha's designs find beauty in the imperfect, the kooky, and the one-off. Where others see an inclusion in a diamond as a blemish, Scosha sees a unique birthmark to be celebrated. The Scosha aesthetic is a colorful, creative combustion of Art meets Artifact. Blending the raw with the refined is a Signature Scosha. Scosha moved from Sydney Australia to New York in 2005 after traveling extensively through Brazil, Turkey, Italy, India and many other places and still to this day plus from those experiences and draws inspiration for her eclectic jewelry design pieces. https://www.instagram.com/scosha https://scosha.com

Kurt McVey takes us on an insightful journey through the search for fresh art amidst staid institutions. He also asks Leah some wonderfully poignant questions about pregnancy and the transition into motherhood as an artist. Look for some of the artists he mentions in our conversation - Junyu Liu, Alex and Allison Grey, and Jennifer Elster - as well as events he's involved with coming up at Ma's House on the Shinnecock Reservation & Little Beach Harvest in July. Kurt McVey is a writer, artist, curator, producer, and performer living in New York City. He has contributed to The New York Times, T Magazine, Interview Magazine, Vanity Fair, PAPER Magazine, Rolling Stone, ArtNet News, Whitehot Magazine, Architectural Digest, Forbes, and many more. He is now a partner in the Venture Capital Studio, Radiical Systems. Website: https://radiical.systems/ Instagram: @whyankombone X: @kurtmcvey

This WAIA Wednesday, the inspiring and incredibly thoughtful curator Olivia Miller discusses de Kooning's 'slashed' women, opportunities and challenges of working in a smaller city, the inspirational significance of women-led art organizations, the contextual power of a museum, the return to craft and fiber arts in this age of AI, and an artist's original intentions versus the ever-changing meaning of their work itself. Olivia Miller is the Interim Director and Curator at the University of Arizona Museum of Art (UAMA) where she has worked since 2012, curating or co-curating more than 30 exhibitions. She has contributed scholarship for exhibition catalogues and regularly presents her research at academic conferences. As an arts educator, she has taught at the University of Arizona's Humanities Seminars Program, the Arizona State Prison Complex, Osher Life-Long Learning Institute, and Pima Community College. Her most recent exhibition is Restored: The Return of Woman-Ochre, which traces the incredible story of Willem de Kooning's stolen, recovered, and recently conserved painting. She is currently co-curating a solo exhibition of Diné weaver and painter, Marlowe Katoney, which is supported by a grant from the Terra Foundation for American Art and will open at UAMA in October, 2023.

This week artist-activist Emma Shapiro talks with us about the exhausting liberation of being an art model, art censorship in social media, the belated recognition of women artists, the "original sin" of linking nudity with sex, and finding inspiration in a Walmart. Emma Shapiro is an American artist, writer, and activist. After graduating from The Rhode Island School of Design in 2010 with a degree in painting, she moved to New York City where she worked full-time for 6 years as an art model. Inspired by her experience, she eventually began using her own body as her primary tool alongside photography, video, and layered projection. However, regular censorship of her artwork online and offline has driven Emma to become an activist against art censorship and censorship of the female-presenting body, and an advocate for visual artists' involvement in digital rights. In 2017, in response to sexist censorship of her artwork, Emma created the Exposure Therapy Project which has since reached over 45 countries and promotes awareness and activism for body equality. Her writing has been published in the US and Europe, including regularly with Hyperallergic and The Art Newspaper, and since 2021, she has been the Editor-At-Large for the Don't Delete Art campaign which fights against art censorship on social media. The Don't Delete Art campaign is a collaboration between artists, the National Coalition Against Censorship's Arts and Advocacy Program, Freemuse, and PEN America's Artists at Risk Connection -- they have recently released their manifesto which demands that social media companies include artists in decision-making, and calls on powerful art institutions to speak out for the equal treatment of artists online. The manifesto has received over 2400 signatures from leading artists, organizations, and art workers. Emma lives in Valencia, Spain, and collaborates with The Liminal Gallery. She recently won the Primer Premio d'Llibros Artisticas in Spain for her artists' book "Cut Out" Show Addendum: The original podcast was recorded in April 2023, so I have recorded this addendum below to catch listeners up on what Emma has been up to! See some of her recent articles below: https://www.theartnewspaper.com/2023/09/12/nvisible-by-numbers-artists-must-remain-vigilant-to-escape-censorship-loop-created-by-social-media-shadowbans

This week we dig in with Andréa Stanislav, covering the inspirational cross-fertilization of narrative film and fine art, the erotic yet imperial power of horses, the artist's role in the face of genocide, avoiding and accepting identity, and the axiom of 'practice practice practice.' Andréa Stanislav (b. 1968, Chicago) is a contemporary American artist based in New York City. Her hybrid practice spans sculpture, complex multimedia installations, collage, and public art and performance interventions. Through spectacle or experiential immersion, her work questions how histories re-contextualize in the present — focusing on themes of genocide, migration and space exploration. She holds a BFA from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago and an MFA from Alfred University, NY. Stanislav's work has been exhibited and collected internationally. Select solo exhibitions and projects include NART, Narva, Estonia; The Mattress Factory Museum of Contemporary Art, Pittsburgh; Saint Louis Art Museum; The Museum of Russian Art, Minneapolis; Minneapolis Institute of Arts; Museum of Cosmonautics, Moscow, Russia; Weisman Art Museum, Minneapolis; 21c Museum, Louisville; Bemis Center for Contemporary Arts, Omaha; thisisnotashop, Dublin, Ireland; Melissa Morgan Fine Art, Palm Desert, CA; Bruno David Gallery, St. Louis; Ca'D'Oro Gallery, NYC; Cynthia Corbett Gallery, London, UK; Packer Schopf Gallery, Chicago; and Socrates Sculpture Park, NYC. Her work has also has been featured in exhibitions at The State Hermitage Museum, SPB, Russia; Center for Digital Art, Holon; Israel; Kuryokhin Center for Modern Art, SPB; CYLAND, NYC/SPB; Museum of Non-Conformist Art, SPB; Smack Mellon, NYC; Art Ii Biennial, Finland; Alvar Aalto City Library, Vyborg; Museum of the Defense and Siege of Leningrad, SPB; 5th Moscow Biennial; U.S (Ambassador's) Residence, Stockholm, Sweden; Fieldgate Gallery, London; Al Sabah Gallery, Kuwait City; Ormeau Baths Gallery, Belfast, Northern Ireland; Delaware Center for Contemporary Art, Wilmington; John Michael Kohler Arts Center, Sheboygan, WI; Kentucky Museum of Arts and Craft, Louisville; Dumbo Arts Center, NYC; Catalyst Arts, Belfast; Garis and Hahn Gallery, NYC; House of the Nobleman, NYC. Selected awards include Foundation for Foundation for Contemporary Arts Grant - NYC; Bemis Center for Contemporary Art Alumni Artist-in-Residents Award, Freund Fellowship for Visual Arts , Washington University; IUPAH Presidential Award, Target Studio Grant, Weisman Art Museum; Lower Manhattan Cultural Council Residency; McKnight Artists Fellowship; and the Jerome Artist Fellowship. For the past decade, Andréa has worked extensively in St. Petersburg, Russia on projects and research focused on the creative production during the Siege of Leningrad and Soviet and Russian space exploration. Andréa Stanislav is an Associate Professor at the Eskenazi School of Art, Architecture + Design, and affiliate faculty in the Russian and Eastern European Institute (REEI) at Indiana University, Bloomington

This week, the brilliant Alexandra Schwartz considers pay equity in arts institutions, craft traditions' roles in art history, the re-evaluation of feminism post-Hillary Clinton, cultural determinism in fashion, the parallels between podcasting and curation, and if a selfie can ever be considered craft art. Alexandra Schwartz, Ph.D., is Curator of Modern & Contemporary Art, Craft, & Design at the Museum of Arts and Design, New York, and Adjunct Professor in the MA Program in Art Market Studies, SUNY Fashion Institute of Technology. Her exhibitions include Garmenting: Costume as Contemporary Art at MAD (2022); 52 Artists: A Feminist Milestone at the Aldrich Contemporary Art Museum (2022–23); Ed Ruscha: OKLA at the Oklahoma Contemporary (2021); As in Nature: Helen Frankenthaler Paintings at The Clark Art Institute (2017), and Come as You Are: Art of the 1990s (Montclair Art Museum and national tour, 2015-16), all with scholarly catalogues. She is the author of and Ed Ruscha's Los Angeles (MIT Press, 2010) and the co-editor of Modern Women: Women Artists at The Museum of Modern Art (MoMA, 2010). Schwartz previously held curatorial positions at The Museum of Modern Art and the Montclair Art Museum, and teaching positions at Columbia University, Fordham University, the University of Michigan, and the Whitney Museum of American Art, among other institutions.

Ona meets OONA, as Leah gets to know the anonymous artist's ideas on the value of female artists, applying the tenets of cryptocurrency to fine art, wallet washing, manipulating social value, faceless performance art, CCTV's complicity in the male gaze, misgendering, and the innocence (or not) of lambs being led to slaughter in the era of social media. About OONA. OONA doesn't really exist, but she takes herself very seriously, so you should too. OONA is an anonymous conceptual artist whose practice explores the intersections of technology, finance, gender, and identity. Through moving image and performance art, OONA exposes the collision between progressive technologies and socially regressive ideas, offering a critical perspective on the contemporary cultural landscape. OONA was born on November 1st, 2021 in the Holy See. She has exhibited her works internationally at prestigious venues, including Art Basel Miami 2022, the Metropolitan Museum of New York, Proof of People London, Proof of People New York, and Avalanche Summit Barcelona. OONA's performances and exhibitions have garnered critical acclaim and attention from collectors and curators. She has been featured in numerous publications and her work is held in private and public collections. OONA is important.

Margaret Murphy breaks down hyperfemininity as rebellion, the surprisingly in-person community around NFTs, existing as both surveyor and surveyed, the capitalism inherent in face filters, narcissism versus self-observation, dressing for other women, and the algorithm that gazes right into your soul. Margaret Murphy is a visual artist based in Los Angeles, California. Her work focuses on topics like femininity, sexuality, and identity in a post-social media culture. Murphy's art uses bright colors, lighting, props, and aesthetic accents to create visceral responses in the viewer. Be it a negative or positive reaction to her work, Murphy hopes her art prompts dialogues around gender, the male gaze, and contemporary beauty standards. Murphy's use of photography spans over 15 years; however, she also creates image and text collages and most recently, digital art made with AI. Murphy earned her MFA from the University of Hartford's Limited Photography Residency in 2021 and her work has been included in curated group exhibitions in Berlin, Los Angeles, New York City, and the Washington, DC, area. Murphy currently works as Head of Community for the Berlin-based gallery and online art platform, EXPANDED.ART, and she is an active member of the NFT community in Los Angeles.

We talk with the fantastically talented, warm-hearted Jeanette Hayes about commonalities for women in history, looking at stuff, where Bratz intersects with Picasso, and the fact that sometimes hard drives just die. Jeanette Hayes (b. 1988) is a painter/multimedia artist based in New York. Originally from Chicago, Hayes moved to NYC and received a BFA from Pratt Institute. Her work addresses the traditional preservation of non-traditional technological and pop imagery through painting, video, digital manipulation, and Internet collages. Hayes' interests include cultural phenomena and the confrontation of conventionality and subject matter. Her fascination with the imagery we each navigate through everyday and their correlations to civilization and ownership. With international solo shows in Italy, France and Belgium, Hayes has also been included in an exhibition at the Spirit Museum in Stockholm and shown at various galleries in New York and Los Angeles including: Half Gallery, M+B Gallery, Allouche Gallery, The Hole, The National Arts Club and more. In 2019, Hayes was curated by the Culture Corps to create a public art installation at the Hudson Yards in New York, which was on view for one year. Jeanette Hayes has made animated GIFs and videos for Proenza Schouler, CHANEL, Alexander Wang, Cynthia Rowley, Vogue and Opening Ceremony. She has won artist sponsorships from BlackBerry and Blick Art and was chosen by Purple magazine to create their artist book in 2016, which she titled "five". Hayes has been featured in the New York Times, Vogue Japan, i-D, Complex Magazine, Interview Magazine, Dazed, Purple Magazine, Paper Magazine, Playboy and TimeOut New York chose Hayes as one of the “5 most important new artists in New York City.” Jeanette Hayes lives and works in New York City.

Serwah Attafuah, an Indigenous Australian artist, tells us about her journey of creating digital art in the 2010s and now selling her stunning 3D work via NFT. She offers insight into the importance of conquering fear, the relative speeds of digital and traditionally painted work, small networks of women artists, Zoom's empowering of international collaboration, anti-colonial death metal, authenticity, and being a native digital artist creating images of women's empowerment and beauty. Bio: Serwah Attafuah is a multidisciplinary artist and musician based on Dharug land/West Sydney, Australia. She creates surreal cyber dreamscapes and heavenly wastelands, populated by Afrofuturistic abstractions of self with strong ancestral and contemporary themes. Serwah has collaborated with and been commissioned by clients, including Mercedes Benz, Nike, GQ, Adobe, Paris Hilton and Charli XCX. Recent notable achievements include her participation in Sotheby's 'Natively Digital': A Curated NFT auction and 'Apotheosis': a live motion capture experience with Soft Centre at The Sydney Opera House.

This week on WAIA, we sit down with Ariana Page Russell and muse over the power balance between model and artist, the line between beauty and disgust, embracing imperfect birth stories, making the private public, feminism in and out of the work, the ability to exist artfully, and... kelp! Ariana Page Russell is a visual artist with dermatographia. She creates images that explore the skin as a document of human experience, using her own hypersensitive flesh to illustrate the ways we expose, express, adorn and articulate ourselves. You can find out more about Ariana and dermatographia at Skintome.com and ArianaPageRussell.com Russell has exhibited internationally and currently resides in Los Angeles, California. Recent exhibitions include Shrine Empire Gallery in New Dehli, India; the Royal Hibernian Academy in Dublin; Magnan Metz in New York City; Platform Gallery in Seattle; Town Hall Gallery in Australia; the Luminato Festival in Toronto; and Museo de Arte Contemporáneo in Bolivia. Her work has appeared in Art in America, the Huffington Post, Wired, The Atlantic, VISION Magazine: China, and the monograph ‘Dressing' published by Decode Books. She was featured on ABC News 20/20 and was a recent participant in the Sexto Encuentro Mundial de Arte Corporal in Caracas, Venezuela. She received her MFA from the University of Washington, Seattle in 2005.

Elena Zavelev discusses digital art in physical spaces, finding the right collectors, reproduction vs value, opportunities for women artists in Web3, art as a trace, AR art, the ethic of sharing in the metaverse, and details on CADAF's exciting partnership with LiveArt! Elena Zavelev is a Co-Founder & CEO at CADAF & New Art Academy. She is a Web3 expert with a focus on digital art and education. Elena has successfully built and curated projects and products for artists, curators & collectors since 2017. Elena teaches Art and Technology courses at Christie's Education and Sotheby's Institute. Her articles are published in Forbes, Observer, esp cultural magazine, Deloitte Art & Finance Report, and more. Elena is on the International Selectors Committee for The Lumen Prize and Digital Innovation in Art Award.

Penny Slinger sits down with us to discuss multimedia as cross-fertilization, the changing fashions of art and digital collage, the danger of the addiction to "Like"s and the power in choosing our own worth, hidden artists, tantric book burnings, the expression of the feminine, and Frida Kahlo's ruthless honesty. Penny Slinger (b. 1947, London, UK) is a Los Angeles-based artist who has been exploring feminism, eroticism and mysticism in her art for over fifty years. At the end of the 1960s, she decided to become her own muse and has embodies that concept over her long artistic career. Her early work was inspired by Surrealism, she went on to study and incorporate Tantra into her life and work. She continues to work in many mediums including collage, photography, drawing, sculpture/assemblage, performance arts and video, focusing on the liberation of the feminine. She is currently represented by Blum and Poe, LA and Richard Saltoun, UK.

Grace Graupe-Pillard speaks with us about ambition, showing work in the internet era, activism in art, body acceptance in your 70s, and windows as vaginas. Bio: Grace Graupe-Pillard has exhibited her artwork throughout the USA with one-person exhibitions in Hartford, CT., Jackson MS., Chicago Ill., Newark, NJ, in addition in NYC at The Untitled Space,The Proposition, Bernice Steinbaum, Donahue/Sosinski, Hal Bromm, The Frist Center in Nashville, TN, The NJ State Museum, NJ Center for Visual Arts, Carl Hammer Gallery in Chicago, Payne Gallery at Moravian College, PA., Aljira Gallery, Newark, NJ., Rupert Ravens Contemporary in Newark, NJ, and Rider University, NJ, and Bernard Heller Museum, NYC. She will be having a solo show at David Richard Gallery, Chelsea, NYC in the Fall of 2023. Grace Graupe Pillard has participated in Group Exhibitions at Arsenal Gallery, NYC, Cheim & Read Gallery, NYC., Ringling Gallery of Art and Design, Sarasota, Fla., Hebrew Union College Museum, NYC., Hal Bromm Gallery, NYC., P.S. 1, NYC., Bass Museum, Miami Beach, Fl., Indianapolis Museum, Indianapolis, Ind., The Maier Museum, Lynchburg, VA., The Aldrich Museum, Ridgefield Ct., The Drawing Center, NYC., The Hunterdon Art Museum, Hunterdon, NJ., The National Academy Museum NYC., Editions/Artists' Book Fair, NYC., Puffin Cultural Forum, NJ., Project for Empty Spaces, Newark, NJ, Art Chicago, Scope London, Carl Hammer, Chicago, ILL., The Untitled Space, NYC, and Kunstpakhuset, Ikast, Denmark, Museum of Rheda-Wiedenbruck, Westphalia, Germany. Graupe-Pillard has also been the recipient of many grants including four from The NJ State Council on the Arts, and one from The National Endowment for the Arts. She has received Public Art commissions from Shearson Lehman /American Express, AT&T, KPMG, Wonder Woman Wall at The Port Authority Bus Terminal, Robert Wood Johnson Hospital, New Brunswick, NJ and the City of Orange, NJ. Commissions from NJ Transit for the Hudson-Bergen Light Rail Transit System at Garfield Station in Jersey City, and 2nd Street Station in Hoboken, and Aberdeen-Matawan Station in Aberdeen, NJ. Her work has been written about in The Village Voice, The NY Times, Art News, The StarLedger, Newsday, Flash Art, ArtForum, Art in America, Arts, and Tema Celeste. On-line publications include Women's Voices for Change, Hyperallergic, Daily Beast, Vice Creator's Project, Paste Magazine, Persimmons, Yahoo Voices, and Huffington Post. Wikipedia Page: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grace_Graupe-Pillard

The legendary Ann Hirsch brings her usual directness and keen observations to our conversation! She explains what makes a selfie by an artist different from a selfie taken by "just anyone," discusses the female body as a performance versus painting, and explains her "sex-friendly" stance. She says her title statement of Body Anxiety (an online show from 2015) remains true: "Whenever you put your body online, in some way you are in conversation with porn." Even though half the traffic on the internet is porn related, we still don't see porn in art. Enjoy this amazing Ann Hirsch experience as she touches on not perfect behavior, post-internet art, her NFT Project "Ugly Bitches," and ugly propaganda, among other things!

Jennifer Mien Mien Lin on woman as muse, what is TOO feminine, and the challenges growing up a Taiwanese woman. Jennifer Mien Mien Lin is a Taiwanese-Canadian visual artist based in New York. Her mixed media work is an investigation into what it means to be a woman in this world. Her artworks lift the veil of the conventional visual canon to uncover the more furtive and subtle realities of femininity and sensuality. Her works explores universal female archetypes; they reveal an aesthetic fascination with the female body and its relationship to nature. The intersections between sexual identity, nature, biomimicry and narratives generated in private and public spaces are conceptually explored throughout her 14 years as a practicing artist. Her artworks and documentary films has been exhibited in solo and group exhibitions in internationally.

Robert Adanto is a documentary film maker who had made 5 films about art, many of them featuring female artists, including "The F-Word," a documentary on fourth wave feminist artists in Brooklyn, which he started making 10 years ago. Particularly when women are both the artist and the muse, and where women use their body in their art, we come to the challenge of taking women seriously and fitting in the art world. A fellow of the Sundance Institute Documentary Program, Robert Adanto is interested in exploring how artists respond to rapid, sometimes catastrophic change. His award-winning films have looked at China's explosive contemporary art scene (The Rising Tide 2008), the lives and works of Iranian female artists (Pearls on the Ocean Floor 2010), the impact of Hurricane Katrina on the lives of New Orleans-based artists (City of Memory 2014), and radical "4th wave" feminist performance in Brooklyn (The F Word 2015). His most recent project - Born Just Now, explores the art and life of the Serbian artist Marta Jovanovic. The film received the Dziga Vertov Award for Best Documentary Feature at the Chicago International Arthouse Film Festival and was also named Best Feature Documentary at Arte NonStop Film Festival in Bueno Aires, Argentina. Robert's films have enjoyed screenings at over 40 international film festivals and have been presented at the Smithsonian Institution's Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden in Washington D.C., the National Center for Contemporary Art in Moscow, The MFA Boston, LACMA, and the National Museum of Australia in Canberra, amongst others. He earned his M.F.A. at NYU Tisch School of the Arts. Click here for the transcript. Show notes: "The F-Word" Trailer

Episode 4 interviews Laura Weyl on motherhood, photography, feminism, and all the juicy stuff! Laura Weyl aka Metagasm is a New York City based filmmaker, photographer, and multi-media artist. Her art explores sexuality, the urban landscape, and analog image manipulations to create visceral, poetic visual worlds. She been exhibited in galleries and event spaces including Art Basel Miami/ HG Contemporary, Mana Contemporary, Karst Gallery, Untitled Space, Franklin Street Works, Superchief Gallery NYC, and Domicile Gallery LA. She has large scale public murals in London and has served as Director of Visual Identity for The Box NYC and London since 2016. Laura studied Media Arts at Wellesley college.

Episode 3 interviews Ana Finel Honigman on leaving NYC, MLM scams, hot girl art, Richard Prince, Emily Ratajkowski, and much more. Ana FInel Honigman has been writing about art, with a focus on sexuality, sex work, mental health, and gender, for twenty years. She's been published in Artforum, ArtReview, Frieze, Art in America, the New York Times, the Guardian, and Vogue. She received her doctorate in 2013 from Oxford on a topic that's much discussed now; how female celebrities' vulnerabilities were exploited and abused in popular media but treated with empathy by their contemporaries in the art-world. Her recent books have been about cult artists and fashion designer, Akexander McQueen. Several years ago, she moved from her home in Berlin to Baltimore to complete a Masters in Mental Health counseling at Johns Hopkins and now works part-time as a therapist in DC, alongside art reviewing and related work. Find the transcript here: https://womenasinart.com/ana-finel-honigman-transcript/

Emerald Gruin, owner of Gruin Gallery, has had an exciting career of showing new, emerging, and mid-career artists in LA and NYC. We chat in her living room the week after Frieze LA '23. She shares her thoughts on Frieze LA, how motherhood has changed her, and her current show up (Dale Frank's Artist!). Photo Credit: Emerald Gruin by Laura Weyl

Kathy Battista is a writer, curator, and educator. We discuss the increase in representation of women in the art world since Kathy first started writing in the 1990s about feminist art, how older female artists are having their selling heyday, and much more. Image credit: Martine Gutierrez, Girl Friends (Anita and Marie), 2019. © Martine Gutierrez; Courtesy of the artist and RYAN LEE Gallery, New York. Read the transcript here: https://womenasinart.com/kathy-battista-transcript/