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Artist Pam Glick is the quintessential gritty New York artist. Born in Albany and raised partly on an aristocrat's estate in England, she spent her rebellious teen years smoking pot and hitchhiking in search of Woody Guthrie while her glamorous laissez-faire parents imbued her with the confidence and optimism that has seen her through the many chapters in her extraordinary life, including living and working in New York - where she would hang out in cafes chatting to the likes of Quentin Crisp, and where she had a basement studio next to Richard Prince - to raising kids, divorce and surviving cancer. Through it all, she has never stopped creating. Known for her instinctive use of colour and emotionally resonant abstraction, Glick studied Painting at the Rhode Island School of Design, where she received the Florence Leif Award, and later earned her MFA from the University of Buffalo. Her work was widely shown throughout the 1980s and 1990s, with solo exhibitions in New York and Los Angeles. Her paintings have also featured in group exhibitions at Pat Hearn Gallery, the Drawing Center, and the Buffalo AKG Art Museum. More recently, she has held solo exhibitions at White Columns (2016) and The Journal Gallery, New York (2021). For this conversation, Danielle Radojcin met Pam at the Maruani Mercier gallery in Brussels, which is holding an exhibition of her work.
Author and curator Dan Nadel is a hero of mine and a bit of a renaissance man. He was the publisher of the brilliant and influential PictureBox for decades and was a champion of much of what Juxtapoz was founded on but took it to a whole new level of intricate historical research and creating a voice of record for so many artists who time wasn't given them a needle to etch their name in the vinyl, so to speak. We are talking comic book legends, graphic novelists, outsider artists who might have created some of the most recognizable art of the 20th century that the history books hadn't given the full retrospective for. And Dan was going to do it. This year in paricular, Dan is busy. From publishing his newest book, Crumb: A Cartoonist's Life on the career and life of the controversial figura that is Robert Crumb, to co-curator for Sixties Surreal, a rethinking survey the art history of the 1960s at the Whitney Museum of American Art (opening September 24, 2025) and Curator-at-Large for Geroge Lucas' new Lucas Museum of Narrative Art, we had a lot to catch up on The Unibrow's Radio Juxtapoz podcast. We talk about undergrround comic's new resurgence into contemporary art, the making of the Crumb biography and the incredibly pivotal moment of KAWS' collection show at the Drawing Center in 2024.But more than that, I got to speak with someone I admire on his dedication to print, to words, to creating narratives in a world that needs to understand it's visual history. —Evan PriccoThe Unibrow's Radio Juxtapoz podcast is hosted by Juxtapoz editor, Evan Pricco. Episode 165 was recorded in Los Angeles and Brooklyn on May 14th, 2025.
Greg Chann has shown his work with Denise Bibro Fine Art, NYC; Dorsky Gallery, NYC; Margaret Thatcher Projects, NYC; The Drawing Center, NYC; among other spaces around the country. His work has appeared in The New Yorker, NY Arts, and Time Out New York. He has received a NY Foundation of the Arts Fellowship, and the NY Foundations of the Arts/Felissimo Award and lives and works in New York. Greg Chann, Stack XVI, 2024 Acrylic and ink 7 x 6 x 4 in. Greg Chann, Vertegres, 2024 Acrylic and ink 20 x 30.5 x 1.25 in. Greg Chann, Wall Stack IX, 2024 Acrylic and ink 15 x 13 x 3 in.
Ep. 310: Amy Taubin on Dying for Sex, The Shrouds, Adolescence, Marina Zurkow, Hoberman Book, Black Bag, Zero Day, Mickey 17, plus Warfare Welcome to The Last Thing I Saw, with your host, Nicolas Rapold. What better way to begin the glorious spring than a deluxe episode with the one and only Amy Taubin! The legendary critic returns to the podcast to talk about what she's been watching, seeing, and reading. Among the works discussed: Dying for Sex, Adolescence, Black Bag, The Shrouds, J. Hoberman's new book Everything Is Now, Marina Zurkow's Whitney show, shows of John Zorn and Ericka Beckman at the Drawing Center, Zero Day, Mickey 17, and more. I chime in with some thoughts on Warfare and 2,000 Meters to Andriivka and some recent reading. Please support the production of this podcast by signing up at: rapold.substack.com Photo by Steve Snodgrass
David Anaya Maya was born in Bogot. D.C., raised in rural Colombia, and currently lives and works in New York City. After graduating as ‘Maestroʼ from Los Andes University in 2004, Anaya Maya has shown their work internationally and has explored an extensive range of materials, mediums and concepts. As an artist, curator, writer, teacher and art collective organizer, Anaya Maya has expanded seminal interconnections between peoples, bodies, identities, species, and ecosystems. They have been awarded with fellowships and residencies in Colombia, The Banff Centre in Canada, The Drawing Center in New York, and the New York Foundation for the Arts. Four of their drawings are part of the collection of the Leslie Lohman Museum of Art. Providentia installation, High Noon “Kikuyu,” 2023, oil on linen reinforced with epoxy resin, 10” x 7.5” “Coat of Arms,” 2023, oil and bronze powder on linen reinforced with epoxy resin, 10” x 17” x 2" “National Flower,” 2023, oil paint on dried linseed oil reinforced with epoxy resin, 1.25” x 1.75”
Joana Valsassina é curadora do Museu de Arte Contemporânea de Serralves, onde coordena o Programa Nacional de Itinerâncias da Coleção de Serralves. Formada em museologia pelaNew York University e em arquitetura pela Universidade de Lisboa, trabalhou anteriormentecomo curadora independente e integrou equipas curatoriais de instituições como o MAAT, em Lisboa, o MoMA e o The Drawing Center em Nova Iorque.Ao longo do seu percurso profissional tem trabalhado com artistas portugueses e internacionais como Leonor Antunes, Julião Sarmento, Cabrita, Silvestre Pestana, Rui Chafes, Pope.L, Susana Mendes Silva, Ana Guedes, Claire Santa Coloma, Sara Chang Yan, Joanna Piotrowska, Horácio Furtuoso, Gabriela Salazar ou Jennifer May. Links: https://momsgallery67.com/whats-motherly-about-moms-gallery https://umbigomagazine.com/pt/blog/2018/06/20/remain-alert-and-have-a-safe-day/ https://www.moma.org/calendar/exhibitions/3931 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6dLRkjFcCcA https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5bGpSNzIwV0 Episódio gravado a 22.03.2024 Música final: Capicua, Quadrado Perfeito, Universal Music Portugal SA http://www.appleton.pt Mecenas Appleton:HCI / Colecção Maria e Armando Cabral / A2P / MyStory Hotels Apoio:Câmara Municipal de Lisboa
Welcome to Art is Awesome, the show where we talk with an artist or art worker with a connection to the San Francisco Bay Area. Today, Emily chats with NorCal based artist Tucker Nichols as he shares stories about his spontaneous move to Taiwan, where he immersed himself in a vibrant artistic community. He discusses his extensive body of work, including children's books and the initiative 'Flowers for Sick People.' He reflects on his background, including his mother's influence and his intense study of East Asian art. Tucker's journey includes struggling with Crohn's disease and a career shift to become a full-time artist, supported by his wife. He talks about influential works and places, emphasizing his lifelong passion for art. The podcast concludes with three thought-provoking questions Emily asks every guest.About Artist Tucker Nichols:Tucker Nichols is an artist based in Northern California. His work has been featured at the Drawing Center in New York, the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, the Denver Art Museum, Den Frie Museum in Copenhagen, and the Asian Art Museum in San Francisco. A show of his sculpture, Almost Everything On The Table, was recently on view at the Aldrich Contemporary Art Museum. He is currently an Artist Trustee at SFMOMA.His drawings have been published in The New Yorker, The New York Review of Books, McSweeney's, The Thing Quarterly, and the Op-Ed pages of The New York Times. He is co-author of the books, Crabtree (with Jon Nichols) and This Bridge Will Not Be Gray (with Dave Eggers). Flowers for Things I Don't Know How to Say was released in March 2024. Flowers for Sick People, his ongoing multimedia project, can be viewed here.Visit Tucker's Website: TuckerNichols.comFollow Tucker on Instagram: @TuckerNichols--About Podcast Host Emily Wilson:Emily a writer in San Francisco, with work in outlets including Hyperallergic, Artforum, 48 Hills, the Daily Beast, California Magazine, Latino USA, and Women's Media Center. She often writes about the arts. For years, she taught adults getting their high school diplomas at City College of San Francisco.Follow Emily on Instagram: @PureEWilFollow Art Is Awesome on Instagram: @ArtIsAwesome_Podcast--CREDITS:Art Is Awesome is Hosted, Created & Executive Produced by Emily Wilson. Theme Music "Loopster" Courtesy of Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com)Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 4.0 LicenseThe Podcast is Co-Produced, Developed & Edited by Charlene Goto of @GoToProductions. For more info, visit Go-ToProductions.com
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 Valle Artist https://www.tarikushiferaw.com/ The Brooklyn Rail (2023) Art in Conversation: Tariku Shiferaw with Charles M. Schultz Artsy (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 Shiferaw Brooklyn Rail (2021) It's a love thang, it's a joy thang Artnet (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 Shiferaw Brooklyn Rail (2020) Abstraction in the Black Diaspora Hyperallergic (2020) Black Artists Claim Their Birthright of Abstraction Wallpaper (2020) Five African Artists Demonstrating Creative Resilience in Challenging Times Financial 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"
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
Natalie Frank was born in Austin, TX and received her Master of Fine Arts in 2006 from Columbia University, New York, NY and her Bachelor of Arts in 2002 from Yale University, New Haven, CT. In 2004, Frank was awarded a Fulbright Scholarship to the National Academy of Fine Art, Oslo, Norway. Natalie has been the subject of recent solo exhibitions at Miles McEnery Gallery, New York, NY; the Kemper Museum of Contemporary Art, Kansas City, MO; Brattleboro Museum & Art Center, Brattleboro, VT; Madison Museum of Contemporary Art, Madison, WI; Salon 94, New York, NY; Lyles & King, New York, NY; Half Gallery, New York, NY; Lora Reynolds Gallery, Austin, TX; Rhona Hoffman Gallery, Chicago, IL; University of Kentucky Art Museum, Lexington, KY; ACME., Los Angeles, CA; Galleria Marie-Laure Fleisch, Rome, Italy; Blanton Museum of Art, University of Texas, Austin, TX; and The Drawing Center, New York, NY. She has been included in group exhibitions at numerous international institutions including the Bowdoin College Museum of Art, Brunswick, ME; Brattleboro Museum of Art, Brattleboro, VT; The Corcoran, Washington, D.C.; FLAG Art Foundation, New York, NY; London Museum of Design, London, United Kingdom; The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY; Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth, Fort Worth, TX; National Academy Museum, New York, NY; New York Academy of Art, New York, NY; Wellin Museum of Art, Hamilton College, Clinton, NY; Tang Teaching Museum, Skidmore College, Saratoga Springs, NY; Weatherspoon Art Museum, University of North Carolina, Greensboro, NC; and the Yale University Art Gallery, New Haven, CT, among others. Her work may be found in the collections of the Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, IL; Blanton Museum of Art, University of Texas, Austin, TX; Bowdoin College Museum of Art, Brunswick, ME; Brooklyn Museum of Art, Brooklyn, NY; The Bunker, Beth Rudin DeWoody Collection, Palm Beach, FL; Everson Museum of Art, Syracuse, NY; Tang Teaching Museum, Skidmore College, Saratoga Springs, NY; Kemper Art Museum, St. Louis, MO; Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, Philadelphia, PA; Weatherspoon Art Museum, University of North Carolina, Greensboro, NC; Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY; Williams College Museum of Art, Williamstown, MA; the Yale University Art Gallery, New Haven, CT, and elsewhere.
Artist and educator from Smoketown, Louisville, Kentucky. She is the Cofounder of @calliopearts studio and a teacher at @kcdschool Susanna Crum conducts research-led projects that investigate maps and printed ephemera as social artifacts at the intersection of the past, present, and future. With cyanotype, lithography, video, and sculpture, she merges digital and analog technologies and emphasizes print media's roles in maintaining relationships – and erasures – between people and place. Her multilayered images combine community-based research with archival materials like letters, maps, newspapers, and oral histories and propose an interpretation of a place in which past and present are concurrent and vital. Susanna received her MFA and MA in Printmaking with minors in Sculpture and Intermedia from the University of Iowa, Iowa City, and her BFA from the College of Architecture, Art and Planning at Cornell University, Ithaca, NY. Her work has been featured in international and national exhibitions at venues such as Museu do Douro in Portugal, Nicole Longnecker Gallery in Houston, 1078 Gallery in Chico, Manifest Creative Research Gallery and Drawing Center in Cincinnati, the Kentucky Museum of Art and Craft in Louisville, and the Liu Haisu Art Museum in Shanghai, China. Recent artist residencies include Frontera: Together Apart, Proyecto'ace, Buenos Aires, Argentina (remote residency); Kunstnarhuset Messen, Ålvik, Norway; Mildred's Lane, Beach Lake, PA; Edinburgh Printmakers, Edinburgh, Scotland; and Kala Art Institute, Berkeley, CA. Susanna is cofounder and Associate Director of Calliope Arts, a a shared workspace that supports artists working in print media. She and fellow artist Rodolfo Salgado manage an urban live/work property built in 1885 that includes their residence, Calliope's studio, a wet plate collodion photography studio, and a large kitchen garden. Susanna teaches visual art at Kentucky Country Day and leads workshops at universities and arts organizations across the US. In recent years, she was President of Mid America Print Council and Associate Professor at Indiana University Southeast, New Albany, IN. https://www.susanna-crum.com @susannacrum@calliopearts @kcdschool --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/borntocreatepodcast/message
In this episode, Caitlin Woolsey (Assistant Director of the Research and Academic Program at the Clark) speaks with Mary Lum, a visual artist based in North Adams, Massachusetts, about how her intricate collages, paintings, and photographs explore the margins of city life, constructed geographies, and her use of text as image. The recipient of a Guggenheim Fellowship, a Radcliffe Fellowship for Advanced Study, and several MacDowell Fellowships, Lum taught at Bennington College from 2005 to 2022. Her work has been exhibited in and commissioned by MASS MoCA, The Drawing Center, and Oxford University, among numerous other venues.
Born in Manchester, England, Jane South worked in experimental theater before moving to the United States in 1989. She has a BFA in Theater from Central St. Martins, London, UK, and an MFA in Painting & Sculpture from UNC Greensboro. Solo exhibitions include Shifting Structures: Survey (2019), Mills Gallery, Central College, Pella, IA; Raked (2014), Spencer Brownstone Gallery, NY; Floor/Ceiling (2013), Aldrich Contemporary Art Museum, CT; Box (2011), Knoxville Museum of Art, TN and Shifting Structures: Stacks (2010), the New York Public Library, NY. Selected group exhibitions include the Invitational Exhibition of Visual Arts at the American Academy of Arts & Letters, NY, SLASH: Paper Under the Knife, Museum of Arts & Design (MAD), NY; Burgeoning Geometries: Constructed Abstractions, Whitney Museum of American Art, Altria; The Drawing Center, NY; Williams College Museum of Art, Williamstown, MA; Albright-Knox Art Gallery, Buffalo, NY, Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts, Philadelphia, PA and the Baltimore Museum of Art, MD. Southʼs work has been reviewed in The New York Times, the LA Times, Artforum, Art in America, Sculpture Magazine, New York Magazine, Frieze, ArtNews, NY Arts Magazine, and The New Yorker. She is a contributor to the book “The Artist as Cultural Producer: Living and Sustaining a Creative Life” (editor: Sharon Louden). Grants and residencies include the Guggenheim Fellowship (2021); Brown/RISD Mellon Foundation Fellowship (2015); Joan Mitchell Foundation Painters and Sculptors Grant (2009); Dora Maar House, Menérbes, France (2010); Camargo Foundation, Cassis, France (2010); Pollock-Krasner Foundation (2001 & 2008); New York Foundation for the Arts (2007); Rockefeller Foundation Bellagio Center, Italy (2008); MacDowell Colony, NH (2002 & 2004); Yaddo, NY (2001 & 2002). In 2018 South was elected to the National Academy of Design. Jane South is currently Chair of Fine Arts at Pratt Institute.
Art has long been a lever for working class solidarity and social justice. It's also a collaborative form of labor that props up some workers and devalues others. This week, we're taking a long, hard look at two works of art: Rodrigo Valenzuela: New Works for a Post Worker's World, an exhibition on view at BRIC House through December 23rd, and 7 MINUTES, a play produced by Waterwell that premiered at HERE Arts Center last spring. • Brooklyn, USA is produced by Emily Boghossian, Shirin Barghi, Charlie Hoxie, Khyriel Palmer, and Mayumi Sato. If you have something to say and want us to share it on the show, here's how you can send us a message: https://bit.ly/2Z3pfaW• Thank you to Justin Bryant, Elizabeth Ferrer, Marc Enette, Waterwell, Lee Sunday Evans, Arian Moayed, Andrew Tilson, and Matthew Munroe aka Superlative Sain. • LINKSBorn in 1982, Santiago, Chile; based in Los Angeles, CA Rodrigo Valenzuela has presented solo exhibitions at the New Museum and Asya Geisberg Gallery, both NY; Light Work, Syracuse, NY; University of South Florida, Tampa, FL; Santa Cruz Museum of Art and History, CA; Orange County Museum of Art, Santa Ana, CA; Museum of Art and History, Lancaster, CA; Luis de Jesus, Los Angeles, CA; Jordan Schnitzer Museum of Art, Eugene, OR; and the Portland Art Museum and UPFOR, both Portland, OR. He has participated in group exhibitions at The Kitchen, The Drawing Center, Wave Hill, and CUE Art Foundation, all NY; Museum of Contemporary Art North Miami, FL; Bemis Center for Contemporary Arts, Omaha, NE; Frye Art Museum, Seattle, WA; and The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, TX, among others. He has also exhibited his work in solo shows internationally at Arróniz Arte Contemporáneo, Mexico City; Peana Projects, Monterrey, NL, Mexico; Galería Patricia Ready and Museo de Arte Contemporàneo, Universidad de Chile, Santiago, Chile; and Galerie Lisa Kandlhofer, Vienna, Austria. Valenzuela has participated in residencies at Dora Maar, Fountainhead, Light Work, MacDowell, Glassell School of Art, Bemis Center for Contemporary Arts, Kala Art Institute, Vermont Studio Center, Center for Photography at Woodstock, and the Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture. He is the recipient of the 2021 John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation Fellowship in Photography, the Smithsonian Artist Research Fellowship, and the Joan Mitchell Fellowship. His work is included in numerous public and private collections, including those of the Whitney Museum of American Art, J. Paul Getty Museum, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Frye Art Museum, Tacoma Art Museum, and The Center for Photography at Woodstock. He is an Associate Professor and Head of the Photography Department at UCLA. Valenzuela received his BFA in Art History and Photography from the University of Chile, his BA in Philosophy from Evergreen State College, and his MFA in Photo/Media from the University of Washington.Ebony Marshall-Oliver is an actress, singer, and storyteller. She began singing in church as a little girl. After being cast in her first musical- Bubbling Brown Sugar- in her mid twenties, she decided that acting would be her career. She enrolled in the Integrated Program at AMDA NY. Her first professional job after graduating was Seussical the Musical with TheatreWorksUSA. With this role, she became a member of Actors Equity Association. Broadway credits include Ain't No Mo' and Chicken and Biscuits. Off Broadway theaters she's worked at are Waterwell, Clubbed Thumb, The Public Theater, to name a few. She can be seen on season 2 of The Ms. Pat Show (BET+) and season 3 of Evil (Paramount+).Mei Ann Teo (they/she) is a queer immigrant from Singapore making theatre & film at the intersection of artistic/civic/contemplative practice. Their critically-acclaimed work has been seen at The Bushwick Starr, Waterwell, The Shed, Shakespeare's Globe, Woolly Mammoth, Theaterworks Hartford, Belgium's Festival de Liege, the Edinburgh Fringe, Beijing Int'l Festival, among others. Awards include LPTW Josephine Abady award and the inaugural Lily Fan Director Lilly Awards. They are an Associate Artistic Director and Director of New Work at Oregon Shakespeare Festival.Sarah Hughes has played many roles in her short time in the labor movement, including steward, officer, organizer, and workshop facilitator. She has worked for the National Education Association (NEA), the Professional Staff Congress at the City University of New York (AFT), and university labor studies programs, including CUNY's NY Union Semester. She has also taught a variety of workshops to city workers, electricians, women workers, and others. She holds a masters in labor studies from UMass Amherst. Prior to joining the Labor Notes staff in 2021, Sarah had been a long time fan, subscriber, volunteer trainer and donor. She attended her first Labor Notes conference in 2008, and is excited for many more. She lives in Flatbush with her labor lawyer husband and their toddler, who also loves picket lines. Waterwell is a group of artists, educators and producers dedicated to telling engrossing stories in unexpected ways that deliberately wrestle with complex civic questions. Founded by Andrew Tilson, the Workers Unite Film Festival, now in its 11th season, is a celebration of Global Labor Solidarity. The Festival aims to showcase student and professional films from the United States and around the world which publicize and highlight the struggles, successes and daily lives of all workers in their efforts to unite and organize for better living conditions and social justice.Superlative, meaning the best of, and Sain meaning to bless, is a multi-talented creative, born in the UK (United Kingdom, England) and raised in Hollis Queens, New York. Born Matthew Munroe, Sain always connected with music by singing with his mother, a vocalist in a church choir who grew up singing. As a child, art was always a passion of Sain's life. Art was always a staple in his life, from drawing full-length comic books to designing logos. Picking up the art of rapping in his early college years, Sain continued with his love of the arts and always wanted to bring his friends with Him wherever he went. Co-creating the creative collective group OGWN with long-time friend Diverze Koncept, he began expanding his ever-growing catalog simply because he loved making music. While pursuing music, he also manages his visual company MMunroeMedia, directing, filming, and editing music videos for other artists, capturing the moment and enhancing the vision with graphics and photography. Superlative Sain takes the term "Artist" to an entirely new level by designing his merch/clothing line, "Be|SUPERLATIVE," Check out this talented artist and be a part of his Rise.• MUSIC and CLIPSThis episode featured clips from “Why Work?” (1996) by Bill Moyers.• TRANSCRIPT: ~coming soon~• Follow us on Twitter and Instagram @BRICTV Visit us online at bricartsmedia.org/Brooklyn-USA
Katie checks in with former director of public engagement at the Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, former public relations director for The Drawing Center, former director of development and communications for Socrates Sculpture Park, and current Executive Director of the Asian American Arts Alliance, Lisa Gold.
Andrew Ross received his BFA from The Cooper Union in 2011, where he was awarded the Gelman Trust Award for Excellence in Sculpture. He attended Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture in 2011. He's been a resident and/or fellow of programs including The Triangle Arts Association, The Drawing Center's Open Sessions, LMCC's Swing Space, The Macedonia Institute, The Bruce High Quality Foundation, and he is a current awardee of Two Trees' Cultural Space Subsidy Program. Ross has exhibited in group exhibitions at The Hessel Museum, The Drawing Center, The Studio Museum in Harlem, Artists Space, Center for the Humanities at CUNY, White Columns, and Greene Naftali. He has staged solo exhibitions at Signal (Brooklyn, NY), American Medium (NY, NY), Clima Gallery (Milan, Italy), and False Flag (Long Island City, NY). Ross' work has been reviewed in Artforum, Art in America, Cultured, Flash Art, Mousse, and the Brooklyn Rail. Ross is a sculptor and new media artist who creates fragmentary constructions with figurative elements and everyday objects. With attention to metaphoric associations that his imagery elicits Ross' tableau scenes oscillate between speculative fiction and cartoonish satire. His figures are chimeric and mythical in appearance yet typically occupied with some form of work and juxtaposed with commonplace detritus. Joining traditional sculpture, assemblage and digital imaging, Ross's works capture existential issues regarding the conundrum of representation in our age of many avatars.
Episode No. 559 of The Modern Art Notes Podcast features artists Esteban Cabeza de Baca and Jess T. Dugan. The Momentary in Bentonville, Ark. is presenting "Esteban Cabeza de Baca: Let Earth Breathe" through September 25. Across the exhibition, Cabeza de Baca deconstructs the colonial European-American landscape tradition by re-considering painting and sculpture as a collaboration with nature. It was curated by Kaitlin Garcia-Maestas with Taylor Jasper. Cabeza de Baca's work is also included in "Plein Air" at the Museum of Contemporary Art Tucson. The exhibition was curated by Aurora Tang and will be on view through February 5, 2023. Cabeza de Baca's work has been shown at the Southeastern Center for Contemporary Art, Winston-Salem, NC, The Drawing Center, New York City. Jess T. Dugan's work is included within "Designing Motherhood: Things That Make and Break Our Births," which is at the MassArt Art Museum through December 18. This conversation previously aired on Episode No. 468 when photographs from Dugan‘s “To Survive on This Shore: Photographs and Interviews with Transgender and Gender Nonconforming Older Adults” project were at the Minneapolis Institute of Arts. Dugan produced “To Survive on This Shore” with their partner, Vanessa Fabbre, a social worker and professor at Washington University in St. Louis. The book related to the project was published by Kehrer Verlag in 2018. It is available from Amazon and from Indiebound. Instagram: Cabeza de Baca, Dugan, Tyler Green.
I Like Your Work: Conversations with Artists, Curators & Collectors
Amy Sacksteder is an artist and curator whose work explores personal and collective relationships to landscape and artifact. She works across media, most commonly in painting, collage, drawing, cut paper, installation, and ceramics. She has participated in exhibitions nationally and internationally. Recent solo venues include Divisible Projects (Dayton, OH) and Alma College (Alma, MI). Recent group venues include Ortega y Gasset Projects (Brooklyn, NY); BasBlue via Belle Isle Viewing Room (Detroit, MI); Buckham Gallery (Flint, MI); Contemporary Art Matters Gallery (on Artsy and in NY); Scene Metrospace (Lansing, MI); and Western Illinois University (Macomb, IL). Sacksteder has completed artist residencies at SÍM (Reykjavík, Iceland); Takt (Berlin, Germany); The Hungarian Multicultural Center (Budapest, Hungry); and the Ragdale Foundation (Lake Forest, IL); among others. In 2012 she was awarded a Gallery-as-Studio Residency and solo exhibition at the University of Nevada, Reno. Her work has been featured and reviewed in journals such as The Offing, Flint Magazine, New American Paintings and the Chicago Tribune and is included in the curated online registries of The Drawing Center and White Columns and in the Flat File 2022 Program at Ortega y Gasset Projects. In 2021, Sacksteder was invited to join the Long Island City Studio Collective in New York, where she maintains a selected inventory of artwork. Her work can also be viewed at Belle Isle Viewing Room in Detroit and on ArtFare. She is now represented by IBIS Contemporary Art Gallery in New Orleans. Amy Sacksteder has curated and co-curated the national and international exhibitions Island: 22 Artists on Iceland in 2011 (co- hosted at 'CAVE Gallery, Detroit, MI); Atmosphere: Artists' Responses to Space(s) in 2015; and Vitrine in 2018, all at Eastern Michigan University. Sacksteder and her family live in Ypsilanti, Michigan, outside of Detroit. Sacksteder works from her studios in Ypsilanti and Long Island City, and is a professor in the School of Art + Design at Eastern Michigan University. Artist Shout outs: https://www.bock-nelson.com/ http://www.kellyannemueller.com/ http://www.yaseminkackar.com/ https://www.kristendroz.com/ http://www.markjoshuaepstein.com/ https://www.hannahburr.com/ https://www.joesacksteder.com/ https://www.emich.edu/art/index.php https://www.nicole-pietrantoni.com/ LINKS: https://amysacksteder.com/ https://www.instagram.com/amysacksteder_studio/ www.instagram.com/object_affinity https://www.nyccritclub.com/ https://go.sunlighttax.com/ilyw https://www.tjwalshcoaching.com/ I Like Your Work Links: Exhibitions Studio Visit Artists I Like Your Work Podcast Instagram Submit Work Observations on Applying to Juried Shows Studio Planner
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
Photo Courtesy Perrotin and the artist. Gabriel de la Mora, born in 1968 in Mexico City where he currently lives and works, is best known for constructing visual works from found, discarded, and obsolete objects. In an obsessive process of collecting and fragmenting materials - eggshells, shoe soles, speaker screens, feathers - the Mexican artist creates seemingly minimal and often monochrome-looking surfaces that belie great technical complexity, conceptual rigor, and embedded information. De la Mora has exhibited at the Drawing Center, New York, and the Museo Amparo, Puebla, Mexico. His work is part of collections including the Albright-Knox Art Gallery, Buffalo, New York; El Museo del Barrio, New York; Colección Jumex, Mexico City; the Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles; the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston; and Pérez Art Museum Miami. Gabriel de la Mora 720 I - M.D, 2021 Mosaico de alas de mariposa Morpho didius sobre cartulina de museo / Morpho didius butterfly wings mosaic on museum cardboard. Framed Dimensions: 35 x 35 x 6 cm 13.78 x 13.78 x 2.36 inches. Image Dimensions: 30 x 30 x 2 cm 11.81 x 11.81 x .79 inches. Signed backwards and dated backwards firmada al reverso y fechada al reverso *The butterfly wings used in this new Lepidoptera series come from butterflies raised in butterfly farms in Peru, Indonesia and Madagascar, dying naturally when released, they are collected by local communities. Photo Courtesy Perrotin and the artist. Gabriel de la Mora 1,240 - H. L., 2021, Mosaico de alas de mariposa Hebomoia leucippe sobre cartulina de museo / Hebomoia leucippe butterfly wings mosaic on museum cardboard. Framed Dimensions: 35 x 35 x 6 cm 13.78 x 13.78 x 2.36 inches. Image Dimensions: 30 x 30 x 2 cm 11.81 x 11.81 x .79 inches. *The butterfly wings used in this new Lepidoptera series come from butterflies raised in butterfly farms in Peru, Indonesia and Madagascar, dying naturally when released, they are collected by local communities. Photos Courtesy Perrotin and the artist.
Stylist/Creative director: Rebekka Fellah Photographer: Enrique Leyva © Hugo McCloud Courtesy: Sean Kelly, New York Born in Palo Alto California in 1980, Hugo McCloud is one of the most prolific young artists working today. In a career that has now spanned fifteen years, Hugo McCloud's work has quickly evolved through a process of restless experimentation, bringing inventiveness and fearlessness to the act of making. The artist is engaged in an ongoing quest to elevate and master diverse methodologies and the array of subjects his work addresses. An abiding, unifying theme is Hugo's preoccupation with finding beauty in the everyday. Self-taught with a background in industrial design, McCloud's practice is unrestricted by classical, academic tenets. He has gravitated toward materials that could be considered abject – roofing materials, solder, and presently, single-use plastic bags. Drawing inspiration from the rawness of the urban landscape, McCloud creates rich, large-scale abstract paintings and by fusing unconventional industrial materials with traditional pigment and woodblock printing techniques. McCloud's newest body of figural work touches on notions of class, particularly through his use of plastic bags. His investigation into plastic began approximately five years ago after traveling to India and seeing multi-color polypropylene plastic sacks everywhere. Observing the downcycle of these bags from their creation, to the companies that purchased them for the distribution of products, to the trash pickers in Dharavi slums, McCloud saw how this ubiquitous material passed through the hands of individuals at every level of society. These representational works address issues concerning the economics of labor, geopolitics and the environmental impact of plastic. McCloud continues his practice of incorporating industrial materials using plastic as a tool to better understand our similarities and differences as a human race; to connect to our environment; and to contribute to reversing the negative impact of our carbon footprint. McCloud has been the subject of solo exhibitions at The Aldrich Contemporary Art Museum in Ridgefield, Connecticut, The Arts Club, London and Fondazione 107, in Turin, Italy. He has also been featured in group exhibitions at the Studio Museum in Harlem, New York, and The Drawing Center, New York. His work is in the collections of the National Museum of African American History and Culture in Washington, D.C., the North Carolina Museum of Art, the Detroit Institute of the Arts, The Margulies Collection at the Warehouse, the Nasher Museum of Art at Duke University, the Brooklyn Museum, the Mott Warsh Collection, and The Joyner/Giuffrida Collection. Hugo McCloud lives and works in Brooklyn, New York and Tulum, Mexico. Hugo McCloud upcycled, 2021 single use plastic mounted on panel panel: 65 x 94 inches (165.1 x 238.8 cm) framed: 66 1/2 x 95 1/2 x 2 7/8 inches (168.9 x 242.6 x 7.3 cm) © Hugo McCloud Courtesy: Sean Kelly, New York Hugo McCloud evening stroll, 2022 single use plastic mounted on panel panel: 76 x 66 inches (193 x 167.6 cm) framed: 77 1/2 x 67 1/2 x 2 1/8 inches (196.8 x 171.4 x 5.4 cm) © Hugo McCloud Courtesy: Sean Kelly, New York
Amy Reidel, Independent Artist, and Margaret Rieckenberg, Associate Curator for Barrett Barrera Projects stopped by to speak about the happenings at the various galleries of BBP, and specifically about the exhibition "Stretch Marks" which has been extended through November 27th. Amy Reidel is a St. Louis-based artist who has exhibited work regionally and nationally. She has been a resident artist at ACRE (Artists' Cooperative Residency and Exhibitions) based out of Chicago, the David and Julia White Artists' colony in Ciudad Colon, Costa Rica and at the Luminary Center for the Arts in St. Louis. She has exhibited work at venues including the Contemporary Art Museum-St. Louis, ACRE projects gallery in Chicago, and the Amarillo Museum of Art. Her work can be viewed online in the curated artist registries and viewing programs at White Columns and the Drawing Center in New York City. In 2014, 2019 and 2020 Reidel was awarded Artists' Support and COVID-19 relief grants from the Regional Arts Commission of St. Louis and the Washington University/Mildred Lane Kemper Art Museum. In 2016 she received the Critical Mass Creative Stimulus award. Reidel is currently a faculty member at Washington University and St. Louis Community College as well as Co-Founder of All the Art: The Visual Art Quarterly of St. Louis (2015-2020). Stretch Marks is an exhibition that highlights expressive mark-making as a means to explore the material in the maternal and the experience of having a body and therefore a mother. Representations in painting, drawing, photography, fiber, sculpture, and ceramics reveal bodies in transitional states, stretching themselves, often reaching through time toward other bodies that precede or continue their own material existence. The artists in this exhibition investigate subjects that include the experience of being a mother; our relationship to the Earth; materiality and tactility; abjection and the grotesque; portraiture and self-portraiture; domestic space; familial relationships; cultural identities; and feelings of love, horror, faith, and loss as they relate to maternal bodies. With many references to the landscape—and trees in particular—the images in these artworks allude to the longstanding conceit of nature and the Earth as a mother, as well as how we often envision family lineages as both branches of a tree and roots. Another repeating motif in the exhibition is images of hands, suggesting tactile manipulation and the presence of touch. Connecting these many images and ideas is a critical attention to generation—both as an act of creation and a form of inheritance—with works that reflect on time, family, birth, and making in their myriad incarnations. One of Amy Reidel's Mombies Natalie Baldeon: Reminders or Loss
Episode No. 518 features artist Hugo McCloud and curator Erin Christovale. McCloud's work is on view in "In Relation to Power: Politically Engaged Works from the Collection" at the Nasher Museum of Art at Duke University, which was curated by Marshall Price and Adria Gunter, and is on view through February 13, 2022; and in "Hugo McCloud: from where I stand" at the Aldrich Contemporary Art Museum, which was curated by Richard Klein and is on view through January 2, 2022. McCloud's work engages questions around labor, environmental impacts and global markets and politics often through materials that relate to the people, histories and issues he addresses. He has been featured in group shows at the Studio Museum in Harlem and at The Drawing Center in New York. His work is in the collection of museums such as the Detroit Institute of Arts, the Smithsonian's National Museum of African American History and Culture, and the North Carolina Museum of Art. On the second segment, Christovale discusses the retrospective "Ulysses Jenkins: Without Your Interpretation," which is at the Institute of Contemporary Art, Philadelphia through December 30, 2021. Christovale co-curated the exhibition with Meg Onli. Jenkins is an influential video and performance artist whose work has examined how cultural iconography and history have informed representation.The exhibition will travel to the Hammer Museum, Los Angeles next year. The exhibition catalogue was published by the two museums. Indiebound and Amazon offer it for about $40. The museums will also republish Jenkins's memoir, "Doggerel Life: Stories of a Los Angeles Griot."
Kimia Ferdowsi Kline earned an M.F.A. at the San Francisco Art Institute and holds a B.F.A. in painting from Washington University in St. Louis, where she was named a Danforth Scholar. She has mounted solo exhibitions at Turn Gallery (New York), Marrow Gallery (San Francisco), The Elaine L. Jacobs Gallery at Wayne State University (Detroit) and 68 Projects (Berlin). Select group shows include Ceysson & Bénétière, The Museum of Contemporary Art Detroit, CANADA Gallery, PACE University, and The Drawing Center. In 2015 she was awarded a grant and residency through the New York Foundation for the Arts. In 2018 she was honored to be nominated for a Rema Hort Mann Emerging Artist Grant. Most recently, she is thrilled to be working on a monograph with Radius Books, set to release in 2022. Guest lectures and teaching include Yale University, Tyler School of Art and Architecture, SUNY Purchase, Lipscomb University, The Fashion Institute of Technology, Brooklyn College, Wayne State University, and Chautauqua Institute. As a freelance curator, she consults for various private collectors and corporations. Select press includes, The New York Times, Hyperallergic, Cultured Magazine, New American Paintings, Architectural Digest, The Harvard Advocate, Departures Magazine, & Travel + Leisure. She splits her time between Nashville and New York. Since Covid she has spent most of her time in her hometown of Nashville. I caught up with Kimia for a chat about parenthood, jewelrymaking, bluegrass, music city, materiality and much more. S&V is sponsored by Fulcrum Coffee Roasters. Fulcrum Coffee Roasters is a place of discovery, surprise, and delight, inspired by the Pacific Northwest’s beauty, people, and stories. They are a Seattle-based, full-service wholesale coffee roaster and retailer with over 25 years of experience. Their deeply personal relationships, collaborations, and services provided, transform how customers experience and enjoy coffee. Fulcrum’s three unique brands are unified in simple, earnest, and grounding principals.
Nate and Benjamin have a quick chat on the news of the day covering passover seder, the stunning David Hammons show at The Drawing Center, how Frieze is trying to stage a safe in-person art fair in New York next month and Nate's profile of market phenom Robert Nava. In the second half we are joined by the artist and gallerist Joel Mesler who--hot on the heels of his sold out exhibition at David Kordansky Gallery in Los Angeles--breaks down his personal and artistic history. We cover his wayward youth in Los Angeles, his college years and (brief) move to Israel, graduate school in San Francisco, his place at the center of the all important Chinatown (LA) art scene of the early aughts, his gallery move to New York and later East Hampton and how he pivoted to becoming a fulltime (and highly in-demand) artist. You won't want to miss this legendary recontour and his insightful take on what his long and varied journey has taught him about the contemporary art world and life in general. --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/benjamin-godsill/support
Francisco Lopez is an artist, designer and filmmaker living in Brooklyn. He grew up in Caracas, Venezuela and in 1995, he moved to Boston where he graduated from the School of the Museum of Fine Arts. In 2004 he founded the internationally renown and multidisciplinary creative studio Mogollon in New York City. Mogollon has created work for both art and commerce; experimenting with virtually every media. He has produced and exhibit work for renown institutions and personalities such as PS1 MOMA, The Drawing Center, Centre Pompidou, Ferran Adria, ElBulli Foundation, Ellen Berkenblit, Nike, Katy Perry, Madonna, Alicia Keys, Nelly Furtado, MAD Museum, Phillip Glass, American Ballet Theater, Terry Riley, Universal Records, Interscope Records, among many others. Check out his work at franciscolopezstudio.com.
Hans Op de Beeck (BE) produces large installations, sculptures, films, drawings, paintings, photographs and texts. His work is a reflection on our complex society and the universal questions of meaning and mortality that resonate within it. He regards man as a being who stages the world around him in a tragi-comic way. Above all, Op de Beeck is keen to stimulate the viewers’ senses, and invite them to really experience the image. He seeks to create a form of visual fiction that delivers a moment of wonder, silence and introspection. Hans Op de Beeck was born in Turnhout in 1969. He lives and works in Brussels, Belgium. Op de Beeck has shown his work extensively in solo and group exhibitions around the world. He had substantial institutional solo shows at the GEM Museum of Contemporary Art, The Hague, NL (2004); MUHKA Museum of Contemporary Art, Antwerp, BE (2006); Centraal Museum, Utrecht, NL (2007); Towada Art Center, Towada, JP (2008); Smithsonian’s Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Washington, US (2010); Kunstmuseum Thun, CH (2011); Centro de Arte Caja de Burgos, Burgos, ES (2011); Butler Gallery, Kilkenny, IE (2012); Kunstverein Hanover, DE (2012); Tampa Museum of Art, Tampa, US (2013); Harn Museum of Art, Gainesville, FL, US (2013); FRAC Paca, Marseille, FR (2013); MIT List Visual Arts Center, Cambridge, US (2014); MOCA, Cleveland, US (2014); Sammlung Goetz, Munich, DE (2014); Screen Space, Melbourne, AU (2015); Château de Chimay, Chimay, BE (2015); Espace 104, Paris, FR (2016); Kunstmuseum Wolfsburg, Wolfsburg, DE (2017); Fondazione Pino Pascali, Polignano a Mare, IT (2017); Kunstraum Dornbirn, DE (2017); Museum Morsbroich, Leverkusen, DE (2017); Galleria Continua, Boissy-le-Châtel, FR (2018); Scheepvaartmuseum, Amsterdam, NL (2018); Kunsthalle Krems, Krems an der Donau, AT (2019); … Op de Beeck participated in numerous group shows at institutions such as The Reina Sofia, Madrid, ES; Scottsdale Museum of Contemporary Art, Arizona, US; ZKM, Karlsruhe, DE; MACRO, Rome, IT; Whitechapel Art Gallery, London, GB; PS1, New York, US; Musée National d’Art Moderne, Centre Pompidou, Paris, FR; Wallraf-Richartz Museum, Köln, DE; Hangar Bicocca, Milano, IT; Hara Museum of Contemporary Art, Tokyo, JP; 21C Museum, Louisville, Kentucky, US; The Drawing Center, New York, NY, US; Kunsthalle Wien, Vienna, AT; Shanghai Art Museum, Shanghai, CN; MAMBA, Buenos Aires, AR; Haus der Kunst, Munich, DE; Museo d’Arte Moderna di Bologna, Bologna, IT; Kunstmuseum Bonn, Bonn, DE; Den Frie Center of Contemporary Art, Copenhagen, DK; Royal Museum of Fine Arts, Brussels, BE; Frankfurter Kunstverein, Frankfurt am Main, DE; Museum Kunstpalast Düsseldorf, DE; … His work was invited for the Venice Biennale, Venice, IT; Shanghai Biennale, Shanghai, CN; Aichi Triennale, Aichi, JP; Singapore Biennale, Singapore, SG; Art Summer University, Tate Modern, London, GB; Kochi-Muziris Biennale, Kochi, IN, Art Basel Miami Beach, Miami, US; Art Basel Unlimited, Basel, CH, Setouchi Triennale, Shodoshima, JP, and many other art events. --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app
Gianna Commito is an artist who earned a BFA from The New York State College of Ceramics at Alfred University, Alfred, NY and an MFA from the University of Iowa. She has been included in exhibitions at Fleisher/Ollman Gallery, Philadelphia, PA; The Akron Art Museum, Akron, OH; Lehman College Art Department, New York, NY; Webster State University, Ogden, UT; MOCA Cleveland, Cleveland, OH; National Academy, New York, NY; and the Drawing Center, New York, NY; among others. Gianna is the recipient of numerous awards and fellowships, including the Ohio Arts Council Award; the Cleveland Art Prize; Artist in Residence at Yaddo, Saratoga Springs, NY; and the Pollock-Krasner Foundation Grant. In 2018, her work was featured in the inaugural edition of the FRONT International: Cleveland Triennial for Contemporary Art in Cleveland, OH. She lives and works in Kent, OH, where she is a Professor of Painting at Kent State University and is represented by Rachel Uffner Gallery in New York, NY.
Anna Park is an artist that lives and works in Brooklyn, New York. Originally from South Korea, she moved to the United States to pursue a formal art education. For eight years she lived in Utah and studied at the Visual Art Institute. She then came to New York to attend Pratt Institute for her undergraduate degree. After attending two years there, she went to the New York Academy of Art to complete the Certificate of Fine Arts Program. She has shown at T293 in Rome, Ross Kramer Gallery in Long Island, The Drawing Center, Blum and Poe in LA, Half Gallery in NYC, Anna Zorina in NYC, The Hole, The Garage in Amsterdam amongst many other venues, Her work has been covered in Juxtapoz and Hi Fructose and others.
In this week's edition of the ArtTactic Podcast, Laura Hoptman, executive director at The Drawing Center, joins us to discuss how she has managed the museum throughout the pandemic. First, Laura introduces us to The Drawing Center, including the museum's history and mission. Then, she describes what it was like to have the museum close abruptly due to the pandemic and how she managed the museum throughout COVID. Also, Laura explains how the museum was able to continue to interact with visitors despite being physically closed. Further, Laura addresses how The Drawing Center has and is continuing to address the racial inequality discussions that have dominated society. Lastly, Laura previews their current exhibition, 100 Drawings from Now, a large group exhibition featuring drawings available for sale to raise funds for the museum.
Episode No. 464 of The Modern Art Notes Podcast features artist Torkwase Dyson and historian Dennis Reed. The New Orleans Museum of Art is showing "Torkwase Dyson: Black Compositional Thought, 15 Paintings for the Plantationocene," a series of works made for the museum. These new paintings were inspired by Dyson's interest in the systems that underlay water delivery, energy infrastructure and by the physical impacts of climate change. Through this and other work, Dyson investigates the legacy of agriculture enabled by slave economies and its relationship to the environmental and infrastructural issues of the present, a relationship known as the “plantationocene.” The exhibition is on view through December 31, 2020. Dyson is an artist-in-residence at the Wexner Center for the Arts at The Ohio State University. She is preparing work that will be included in "Climate Changing: On Artists, Institutions, and the Social Environment," which is scheduled to debut at the Wexner on January 30, 2021. Dyson's previous solo museum exhibitions have been at the Arthur Ross Architecture Gallery at Columbia University, at the Irwin S. Chanin School of Architecture at Cooper Union, at the Colby College Museum of Art, The Drawing Center, Eyebeam, and more. Her work is in the permanent collections of the Smith College Museum of Art, the Smithsonian National Museum of African American History & Culture, and the Studio Museum in Harlem. On the second segment, historian and curator Dennis Reed discusses the J. Paul Getty Museum's acquisition of 79 pictures made by Japanese-American photographers between 1919 and 1940. Reed's collection and the Getty's acquisition of it is a result of 35 years of work Reed and his students at Los Angeles Valley College did to learn about Japanese-American photographers who made work before the war. Reed and his students built a list of 186 names from photography catalogues at UCLA's Charles E. Young Research Library and painstakingly cold-called the photographers and their relatives in an effort to build knowledge related to an art-making community that was disappeared by the illegal American internment of Japanese-Americans. Reed's collection -- which includes the only surviving work by several of the artists -- has been exhibited in venues such as the Whitney Museum of American Art in New York, and the Corcoran Gallery of Art in Washington. The Getty, which remains closed due to the pandemic, will be exhibiting work from the acquisition at a date to be announced. In addition to the images below, the Getty and Google created this slideshow.
"Tariku Shiferaw is a New York–based artist who explores “mark-making” through painting and installation art in order to address the physical and metaphysical spaces of art and social structures. He was raised in Los Angeles, California and currently lives and works in New York City. Shiferaw’s most recent exhibitions include Men of Change, a three-year nationally traveling exhibition with the Smithsonian Institution (2019 - 2022), as well as Unbound, a group exhibition at the Zuckerman Museum of Art (2020). His solo exhibitions include Erase Me, Addis Fine Art, London (2017); and This Ain’t Safe, Cathouse Proper, Brooklyn (2018). Shiferaw’s group exhibitions include but are not limited to the 2017 Whitney Biennial as part of Occupy Museum’s Debtfair project; A Poet*hical Wager, Museum of Contemporary Art Cleveland, OH (2017); What’s Love Got to Do With It?, The Drawing Center, NY (2019); He 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 the LES Studio Program in New York City (2019-2020). He is a current artist in residence at the World Trade Center through Silver Art Projects (2020). Shiferaw’s works have been written about in the New York Times, the Washington Post, Hyperallergic, and Financial Times, among many other publications. All images courtesy of the artist Money (Cardi B), 2018 spray paint, wood, price tags, screws, 45"x31"x31" Installation shot of This Ain't Safe, March 2018 A Solo exhibition at Cathouse Proper, Brooklyn, NY Installation shot of This Ain't Safe, March 2018 A Solo exhibition at Cathouse proper “Blue Notes (Meek Mill),” 2019 Spray paint, vinyl 60”x48” “Vocab (Fugees),” 2019 Acrylic on canvas 24”x20” Trip (Ella Mai), 2018 Spray paint, mylar, vinyl. 40"x30" “A Boy is a Gun (Tyler, the Creator),” 2020 Lacquer, wood, wall paint 106” x 140” * currently on view at Zuckerman Museum of Art in Kennesaw, Georgia (January 2020 - December 2020). 00:00 - Podcast Introduction 00:37 - Episode Introduction 01:27 - 8th Avenue - Cults 01:52 - Interview with Tariku Shiferaw (pt 1) 11:58 - Mic Break 12:32 - Interview with Tariku Shiferaw (pt 2) 30:59 - Ya Know - Marques Martin 33:20 - Outro 33:42 - Finish "
Claire Weisz, Principal at WXY Architecture + Urban Design describes the process of designing the Drawing Center.
Manifest Drawing Center in Walnut Hills and has been able to maintain many of their classes online through the pandemic, and at the same time, expanded their reach throughout the states and around the globe. Founder and Executive Director Jason Franz joins Anne Arenstein to talk about Manifest’s programming and plans for reopening.
Wednesday Reading Series: Youmna Chlala & Jennifer Firestone— January 29th, 2020 Hosted by Kyle Dacuyan. Youmna Chlala is an artist and a writer born in Beirut based in New York. She is the author of the poetry collection, The Paper Camera (Litmus Press, 2019). She is the recipient of a 2018 O. Henry Award, a Joseph Henry Jackson Award and the Founding Editor of Eleven Eleven {1111} Journal of Literature and Art. Her writing appears in BOMB, Guernica, Prairie Schooner, Bespoke, Aster(ix), CURA and MIT Journal for Middle Eastern Studies. She has exhibited at the Hayward Gallery, The Drawing Center, Art In General, Rotterdam International Film Festival, Dubai Art Projects, Hessel Museum of Art, and MAK Center for Art and Architecture. She participated in the 33rd Bienal de Sao Paulo, 2017 LIAF Biennial in Norway and the 11th Performa Biennial. She is co-editing a new series for Coffee House Press entitled Spatial Species (2021). She is a Professor in Humanities and Media Studies and Writing at the Pratt Institute. Jennifer Firestone is the author of five books of poetry and four chapbooks including Story (Ugly Duckling Presse), Ten, (BlazeVOX [books]), Gates & Fields (Belladonna Collaborative), Swimming Pool (DoubleCross Press), Flashes (Shearsman Books), Holiday (Shearsman Books), Waves (Portable Press at Yo-Yo Labs), from Flashes and snapshot (Sona Books) and Fanimaly (Dusie Kollektiv). She co-edited (with Dana Teen Lomax) Letters To Poets: Conversations about Poetics, Politics and Community (Saturnalia Books) and is collaborating with Marcella Durand on a book entitled Other Influences about feminist avant-garde poetics. Firestone has work anthologized in Kindergarde: Avant-Garde Poems, Plays, Songs, & Stories for Children and Building is a Process / Light is an Element: essays and excursions for Myung Mi Kim. She won the 2014 Marsh Hawk Press' Robert Creeley Memorial Prize. Firestone is an Associate Professor of Literary Studies at the New School's Eugene Lang College and is also the Director of their Academic Fellows pedagogy program.
Steffani Jemison lives and works in Brooklyn, New York. She earned an MFA from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago (2009) and a BA in Comparative Literature from Columbia University (2003). Her work is in the public collections of the Museum of Modern Art, the Whitney Museum, the Brooklyn Museum, the Studio Museum in Harlem, and Kadist, among others. Her work was included in the Whitney Biennial 2019 as well as in the touring group exhibition Black Refractions: Highlights from The Studio Museum in Harlem (2019-2020). Other collaborative and group exhibitions include the Drawing Center (2014), the Brooklyn Museum (2014), and the New Museum of Contemporary Art (2011), and many others. She has served as a visiting artist at many institutions, including the University of Pennsylvania, Brown University, the School of the Art Institute of Chicago, Hampshire College, the Evergreen State College, and Georgia State University. She has taught fine art at Columbia University, Parsons The New School for Design, Wellesley College, Trinity College, Rice University, the Cooper Union, and other institutions, and is currently an Assistant Professor in the Department of Art and Design at Mason Gross School of the Arts, Rutgers University New Brunswick.
Curtis Talwst Santiago is a multi-disciplinary artist that makes sculpture, drawings and paintings, performance and video. Curtis talks about pivoting from music to visual art, navigating the COVID-19 pandemic, his recent show Can’t I Alter at The Drawing Center in New York, genetic trauma and ancestry as concepts, intuition as an important tool, the complexities of Kanye West, honesty during studio visits and learning to be patient with the process of making art.
Let’s be honest, how many of us buy a new sketchbook or journal every other month, draw in a page or two, and then just let it pile dust on desks? Well in this weeks episode Miriam and Marissa discuss all things Sketchbooks! Why we love them, why they intimidate us, and what we’d like to start drawing in them. We also discuss artist Louise Despont, her recent show at The Drawing Center, and her thoughts on Sketchbooks. Hopefully you will feel encouraged to pick one up and make marks again! Also, check out Sarah’s solo show up now at the UTEP Glass Gallery. :-)
Mie Yim is an artist born in South Korea based in NYC. She has a BFA in Painting from Philadelphia College of Art as well as a year abroad at Tyler School of Art in Rome, Italy. She has had a number of solo exhibitions including Ground Floor Gallery, Brooklyn, NY, Lehmann Maupin, NY, and Michael Steinberg, NY and Gallery in Arco, Turin, Italy. Numerous group exhibitions include the Drawing Center, Feature, Ise Cultural Foundation, Mitchell Algus Gallery, BRIC art center, Mark Borghi Gallery, all in New York. Other places such as Johnson County Community College, and the Weatherspoon Art Museum, Marcia Wood Gallery, Atlanta, The Arts Center at Western Conn. University. She is a recipient of The Lillian Orlowsky and William Freed Grant 2018, The New York Foundation of the Arts Painting Fellowship 2015 and Artist in the Market Place, Bronx Museum. Sound & Vision is sponsored by Golden Artist Colors and the New York Studio School.
Suzanne Song is an artist born in Grand Rapids, MI who lives and works in New York. She received her B.F.A. from Clemson University in Clemson and an M.F.A. from Yale. She has had solo exhibitions at Gallery Baton in Seoul, Korea; Doosan Gallery, Michael Steinberg Gallery, and Caren Golden in New York. She has participated in group exhibitions at Debuck Gallery, Foley Gallery, Mixed Greens, The Drawing Center, Smack Mellon Gallery. Her work has recently been acquired by the RISD Museum. She is a recipient of the Smack Mellon Fellowship and the NYFA fellowship. Currently, Song is a member of the Elizabeth Foundation of the Arts Studio Program. Sound & Vision is sponsored by Golden Artist Colors. Golden is made in Upstate NY by an employee owned company. You can find their artist supplies in almost every art store and on goldenpaints.com.
I Like Your Work: Conversations with Artists, Curators & Collectors
Hannah is a painter living in Asheville. She studied at Yale University and Boston University and has exhibited internationally. She is represented by Tracey Morgan Gallery in Asheville, NC and Slag Gallery in New York. Her work was shown recently at The Drawing Center and at Volta, Basel. Last year she had her fourth solo show in New York at The Lodge Gallery and her first solo museum show at the University of Maine Museum of Art. Hannah is a tax expert who specializes in working with creative people and their businesses. Though she’s worked at a couple “buttoned-up” tax firms in New York, she loves bringing her tax skills to the aid of the creative world. Her passion for helping creative businesses began when she was an Account Executive and Interactive Producer for a New York interactive design agency, where she saw the struggles and triumphs from the inside. A long-time working artist with a high-level exhibition history, the financial challenges of freelancers and small creative businesses are both relevant and personal to Hannah. And she knows that describing tax concepts in jargon-free language is always a good thing. If you want to learn more about taxes for creative people, you can read her column in Hyperallergic. And you can sign up here if you want it delivered to your inbox. LINKS Susan Crile Blog Money Mastery Bootcamp Honest Guide to Artist Taxes Hannah Cole Art Tracey Morgan Gallery, Asheville Slagg Gallery
From a young age, Nathaniel Mary Quinn learned how to draw from his father sitting at the kitchen table. His natural ability allowed him to befriend many tough guys in his Chicago neighborhood. Quinn earned a positive reputation access to subjects who felt comfortable around him. This powerful and insightful interview takes you in the world of this artist. A graduate of Wabash College and NYU, this artist uses acrylic, charcoal, gouache, oil and gold leaf to convey his fractured style. Quinn is one of three featured artists in his first museum show For Opacity at the Drawing Center in SoHo. The artists were selected to spotlight relationships in their works.
From a young age, Nathaniel Mary Quinn learned how to draw from his father sitting at the kitchen table. His natural ability allowed him to befriend many tough guys in his Chicago neighborhood. Quinn earned a positive reputation access to subjects who felt comfortable around him. This powerful and insightful interview takes you in the world of this artist. A graduate of Wabash College and NYU, this artist uses acrylic, charcoal, gouache, oil and gold leaf to convey his fractured style. Quinn is one of three featured artists in his first museum show For Opacity at the Drawing Center in SoHo. The artists were selected to spotlight relationships in their works.
Aspen Art Museum Nancy and Bob Magoon CEO and Director Heidi Zuckerman interviews artist Rashid Johnson. Rashid Johnson was born in Chicago, in 1977, and lives and works in New York. A critical theory framework extends across his paintings, sculptures, photography, and video work, investigating legacies of and possibilities for African American intellectual and cultural life. His work has been the subject of recent solo exhibitions at the Milwaukee Art Museum, the Kemper Museum of Contemporary Art, Kansas City, the Garage Museum of Contemporary Art, Moscow, the Grand Palais, Paris, the Drawing Center, the High Line, and the Museum of Contemporary Art, Denver. He is the recipient of the 2018 Aspen Award for Art. American Sign Language interpretation provided by the Aspen Camp for the Deaf and Hard of Hearing. AAM education programs are made possible by the Questrom Education Fund. AAM talks and lectures are presented as part of the Questrom Lecture Series and made possible by the Questrom Education Fund.
Ellen Berkenblit is a painter who was born in Paterson, New Jersey and graduated from the Cooper Union in 1980. She received an Arts and Letters grant from the American Academy of Arts and Letters in 2013, and a Guggenheim Fellowship in the following year. She has solo shows at the Anton Kern Gallery, The Drawing Center, Rodolphe Janssen, Susanne Vielmetter, White Columns and group exhibitions at many venues including Gladstone Gallery, MOMA, Brand New Gallery, the MCA in Chicago, the Centre Pompidou, Derek Eller, Essex Flowers and the New Museum. Her work has been covered in just about every art publication and she’s in the collections of the Aspen Art Museum, the Brooklyn Museum, MoMa, the Whitney Museum and many more. Brian went to Ellen’s Gowanus studio to talk to her about early East Village days, punk rock, fabrics, process and physicality in painting and much more. Sound & Vision is sponsored in part by Charter Coffeehouse located on Graham Avenue in East Williamsburg, Brooklyn, one block from the Graham L Stop. Charter combines dedication and skill, refined over a decade in some of the most detail-oriented dining experiences in the world, and applies them to your daily coffee experience. Find out more at www.chartercoffee.com or follow them on Instagram at @charter_bk Sound & Vision is also sponsored by Kensington Panel and Stretcher who offers high quality custom surfaces for painting and mixed media artwork. All products are hand made and designed to meet the highest standards of strength and stability. To learn more or place an order, visit them online at kensingtonpanels.com.
In Jonathan T.D.Neil’s decades long career, he’s been an art critic, an art educator, an art consultant, an art historian, and even an architect. His diverse background makes him uniquely suited to comment on macro trends in the art world, and lead him to start a brand new interdisciplinary MA in Art Business, and Information Systems and Technology at Sotheby’s Institute of Art, Los Angeles; where he is the Director, and Head of Global Business Development. In today’s episode, he and Ethan chat about what makes Sotheby’s different from other art schools, what his hopes are for graduates of his new MA program, and where he sees the art world going in the near future.- About Jonathan T.D. Neil -Jonathan T. D. Neil is head of Global Business Development for Sotheby’s Institute of Art and founding Director of Sotheby’s Institute of Art – Los Angeles, a partnership with Claremont Graduate University, the Getty Leadership Institute, the Peter F. Drucker and Masatoshi Ito Graduate School of Management and CGU’s School of Arts and Humanities. He also serves as Associate Editor for ArtReview magazine.From 2011-2015 he was editor of the Held Essays on Visual Art for The Brooklyn Rail, and from 2008 until 2014 he was Executive Editor at The Drawing Center in New York. In 2005 he co-founded Boyd Level LLC, a private curatorial firm and consultancy that specializes in contemporary art.Jonathan has a PhD in 20th-century Art History from Columbia University and a B.Arch from Cornell University. He has taught courses on modern and contemporary art and architectural history, the international art market, critical writing, critical theory, and the history of photography at Columbia University, Parsons The New School for Design, and the Sotheby’s Institute of Art in New York. He is a member of the New York Chapter of the International Association of Art Critics (AICA).Jonathan can be contacted directly at jonathan.neil@cgu.edu. You can follow him on Twitter or Instagram @jtdneil.- About Sotheby’s Institute of Art -Evolving from a small connoisseurship program begun by Sotheby's Auction House in 1969 Sotheby's Institute is now the leader in art business education and object based learning.- About Vango Studio - Vango Studio makes the entrepreneurial side of being an artist easy and efficient, saving artists an average of 4 hours per week. In addition to powering artists with an award winning marketplace, we offer artists the ability to create their own website with little to no maintenance, distribute work across platforms, and access detailed insights about their collectors and what is selling across platforms.Follow Vango on Instagram @vango and @art, and visit www.vangoart.co .
Lisa Sigal is an artist living and working in Brooklyn, New York. She was born in Philadelphia and received her BFA from Tyler School of Art. She then attended Skowhegan and went on to get her MFA in apinting from Yale University. She has has solo shows at the Mattress Factory in Pittsburgh, LAX Art in LA, Samson Projects in Boston, the Aldrich Museum in Connecticut, White Columns in NYC and many more. She’s been in group shows too numerous to name, but a few include the New Museum, P.S.1, the Brooklyn Museum of Art, Artists Space, Painting Center, Art i n General and many more. Her work has been covered in Art News, Art in America, Artforum, Time Out, The New York Times and many others. She has won the Anonymous Was A Woman Grant, a Guggenheim Fellowship, a NYFA Grant, amongst others. Lisa is also the co-founder and co-curator, with Nova Benway, of Open Sessions, a program for artists run by The Drawing Center. Brian met up with Lisa at her Gowanus studio and they spoke about public art, old Soho days, gentrification, music and her current show at Miller Contemporary.
Franklin Evans creates painting installations with his studio as his subject. He was born in Reno, Nevada and has degrees from Stanford University, the University of Iowa where he got an MFA in painting and Columbia University where he received an MBA. Since 2005, he has had twenty solo exhibition in the United States and Europe and numerous group exhibitions at venues, which include, among others: MoMA PS1, New York, NY; Nevada Museum of Art, Reno, NV; deCordova Sculpture Park and Museum, Lincoln, MA; DiverseWorks, Houston, TX; RISD Museum, Providence, RI; Weatherspoon Art Museum, Greensboro, NC, The Drawing Center, New York, NY; amongst many others. His work has been featured and reviewed in The New York Times, The Boston Globe, Art in America, New York Magazine, Artforum, The New Yorker, Modern Painters, Brooklyn Rail, Flash Art, Hyperallergic, among other publications. Awards and grants include the Pollock- Krasner Foundation Grant a NYFA Fellowship in Painting, the PM Foundation, Yaddo, The Marie Walsh Sharpe Art Foundation Space Program and LMCC Workspace Program. Franklin’s work is included in the public collections of the Orlando Museum of Art, the Yale Univesity Art Gallery, the Museo del Barrio, the Weatherspoon Art Museum, and many others. He is represented by Ameringer McEnery Yohe in New York, FL Gallery in Milan, and Steven Zevitas Gallery. Brian stopped by Franklin’s Lower East Side studio and they talked about the speed of society, the realization of being an artist, Robert Smith hair and art as work and art as play.
On today's THE FOOD SEEN, curator Brett Littman, after a 37 course, 6+ hour meal at elBulli in Roses, Spain, took a chance and sent chef Ferran Adriá an email, inquiring whether or not he drew. A few weeks later, a response … and now after more than two years of sorting through decades of archives, The Drawing Center (NYC) is proud to present “Notes on Creativity”, a show about thought process and analytical evolution, raising the question, can a chef be an “artist”? Let's see what 1846 original dishes, without copying, or just one, like the Spanish Tortilla, have to say about what's considered culinary “art”. Thanks to our sponsor, The International Culinary Center. “I go to a lot of museums and galleries, and Ferran's drawings really stand up to a lot that I see. They're not far off from the general aesthetic.” [29:10] “Since the beginning, Ferran has been all about sharing.” [43:15] — Brett Littman on The Food Seen
This week: Live from Miami, well it was broadcast live at the time, whatever, anyways, Sharon Louden!! Sharon M. Louden graduated with a BFA from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago and an MFA from Yale University, School of Art. Her work has been exhibited in numerous venues including the Aldrich Contemporary Art Museum, the Drawing Center, Carnegie Mellon University, Birmingham Museum of Art, Weatherspoon Art Museum and the Kemper Museum of Contemporary Art. Louden's work is held in major public and private collections including the Neuberger Museum of Art, Whitney Museum of American Art, National Gallery of Art, Arkansas Arts Center, Yale University Art Gallery, Weatherspoon Art Museum, and the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, among others. Sharon Louden's work has also been written about in the New York Times, Art in America, Washington Post, Sculpture Magazine and the Philadelphia Inquirer, as well as other publications. She has received a grant from the Elizabeth Foundation for the Arts and has participated in residencies at Tamarind Institute, Urban Glass and Art Omi. Louden's animations continue to be screened and featured in many film festivals and museums all over the world. Her animation, Carrier, premiered in the East Wing Auditorium of the National Gallery of Art in Washington, DC in March, 2011 in a historical program of abstract animation since 1927. Sharon also premiered a new animation titled, Community, at the National Gallery of Art in the program, "Cine Concert: Abstract Film and Animation Since 1970" on September 8, 2013. Louden was commissioned by the Weisman Art Museum to make a site-specific work in dialogue with Frank Gehry's new additions to the museum. Entitled Merge, this solo exhibition consisted of over 350,000 units of aluminum extending over a 3,000 square foot space and was on view from October 2011 through May 2012. This piece was then reconfigured and permanently installed in Oak Hall at the University of Connecticut in Storrs, CT and completed in January, 2013. Also in 2013, Louden received a New York Foundation for the Arts Artist Fellowship in the category of Architecture/Environmental Structures/Design. Recent exhibitions include a solo exhibition of new work including Community (the animation that premiered at the National Gallery of Art), as well a site-specific installation, painting, drawing and sculpture at Morgan Lehman Gallery in New York in October through November, 2013. Currently on view is a solo exhibition of Louden's paintings and drawings at Beta Pictoris/Maus Contemporary Art in Birmingham, Alabama, which will run through February 16, 2014. Sharon Louden has taught for more than 20 years since graduating from Yale in 1991. Her teaching experience includes studio and professional practice classes to students of all levels in colleges and universities throughout the United States. Colleges and universities at which she has lectured and taught include: Kansas City Art Institute, College of Saint Rose, Massachusetts College of Art, Vanderbilt University and Maryland Institute College of Art. Sharon currently teaches at the New York Academy of Art in New York City. Last summer, Sharon taught experimental drawing and collage in the School of Art at Chautuaqua Institution in Chautauqua, New York. In addition to teaching at the New York Academy of Art, Sharon also conducts a popular Lecture Series where she interviews luminaries and exceptional individuals in the art world and from afar. Louden is also the editor of Living and Sustaining a Creative Life: Essays by 40 Working Artists published by Intellect Books and distributed by the University of Chicago Press. The book is already on its fourth printing since the first run sold out before its official release on October 15th, and has been #1 on Amazon.com's Bestseller List of Business Art References. It was also on Hyperallergic's List of Top Art Books of 2013. Recent press includes an interview in Hyperallergic blogazine, "How do Artists Live?". A book tour started on November 2, 2013 which includes Sharon Louden and other contributors visiting cities across the United States and in Europe through 2015. Highlights include an event in the Salon at the Art Basel Miami Beach Art Fair this past December, 2013 as well as a discussion and book event at the 92nd St Y in New York and a panel discussion at the Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden in Washington, DC in January, 2014. For more information on the book tour, please click here. In addition, she continues to conduct Glowtown workshops in schools and not-for-profit organizations across the country. Louden is also active on boards and committees of various not-for-profit art organizations and volunteers her time to artists to further their careers. Sharon is a full-time practicing, professional artist who lives and works in Brooklyn, NY.
Belgium-based Pierre Bismuth is best known in the popular culture world for writing hit films such as Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, and in the art world for his stunning exhibitions at such important venues as the 11th Lyon Biennial, the Institute of Contemporary Art in London and the New Museum and the Drawing Center in New York City. He discusses his work Flashback, installed in front of the Museum for this night of the Summer Salon Series, including how it differs from the version he presented in Los Angeles last year. www.TheSanDiegoMuseumofArt.org Video produced by The Balboa Park Online Collaborative
This week: Duncan and Abigail talk to Sam Gould. Sam Gould is co-founder of Red76, a collaborative art practice which originated in Portland, Oregon in 2000. Along with his work as the instigator and core-facilitator of many of the groups initiatives, Gould is the acting editor of its publication, the Journal of Radical Shimming. He full-time visiting faculty within the Text and Image Arts Department of the School of the Museum of Fine Arts Boston, as well the Director of Education for the Institute of Contemporary Art at the Maine College of Art in Portland, ME. Formerly Gould was a senior lecturer at the California College of the Arts in San Francisco, Ca. within the Graduate Fine Arts Dept. for Social Practice. He is a frequent guest lecturer at schools and spaces around the United States and abroad, and has activated projects and lectures on street corners, in laundromats, bars, and kitchen tables, as well as through collaborations with museums and institutions such as SF MoMA; the Walker Arts Center; the Drawing Center; the Bureau for Open Culture; Institute for Art, Religion, and Social Justice at Union Theological Seminary; ArtSpeak; Printed Matter; the Cooper Union; the New Museum/Rhizome; Manifesta8; and many other institutions and spaces worldwide. He was one of nine nominees for the de Menil Collection's 2006 Walter Hopps Award for Curatorial Achievement, is a founding "keyholder" of MessHall in Chicago, IL., and was the 2008 Bridge Resident at the Headlands Center for the Arts.
Lisa Metcalf, Acting Executive Director of the Drawing Center, is very proud to be a part of the center's 30 years. We will discuss some of the exhibits and the challenges of running a space that promotes emerging artists. You can visit www.drawingcenter.org for more information.