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Ep.199 Luke Agada is a Nigerian artist living and working in Chicago. His practice examines themes of globalization, migration and cultural dislocation within the framework of a postcolonial world, as he reflects on the African diaspora and its impact on neo-cultural evolution. He obtained an MFA in Painting and drawing at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago in 2023. In recent years, Agada has participated in shows in Lagos, New York, Chicago, Beijing, Accra, Berlin, Casablanca. His work has been featured in several publications including Newcity Magazine, Culture type, The Pinch Journal publication at the University of Memphis, Tennessee, Nigeria Art archives, Juxtapoz, Whitewall. He has also been a recipient of various awards and fellowship including the Global warming international art prize, AII, New Yorkin 2020, Janet and Russell Doubleday Award at The Art Students league of New York in 2022, The Helen Frankenthaler Award in 2022 and The James Nelson Raymond Fellowship Award in 2023. Agada was Resident Fellow at the Massachusetts Museum of Contemporary Art in 2023. He was recently named a 2024 Breakout Artist by NewCity Magazine and is currently a Teaching Fellow at the Painting and Drawing Department at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago, IL.
Photo: Courtesy The Artist and moniquemeloche Chicago, IL.
Artist https://lukeagada.com/
moniquemeloche https://www.moniquemeloche.com/artists/208-luke-agada/biography/
Newcity 2024 https://art.newcity.com/2024/04/02/breakout-artists-2024-chicagos-next-generation-of-image-makers/
Newcity 2023 https://www.newcity.com/2023/10/04/today-in-culture-october-4-2023-report-says-arts-sector-not-so-healthy-equity-jeffs-love-goodman-chicago-is-still-the-best-says-conde-nast-traveler/
School of The Art Institute of Chicago https://sites.saic.edu/gradshow2023/artists/luke-agada/
Culture Type https://www.culturetype.com/2023/10/12/latest-news-in-black-art-luke-agada-joined-monique-meloche-gallery-new-atlanta-art-fair-black-studies-x-art-history-more/
La voce di New York https://lavocedinewyork.com/en/new-york/2023/09/16/luke-agada-arms-feet-and-fitful-dreams-at-monique-meloche-gallery/
Artsy https://www.artsy.net/article/artsy-editorial-6-rising-artists-discovered-galleries-summer-group
The Artists Feature https://theartistsfeature.com/features/luke-agada -
Ep.198 Allison Janae Hamilton (b. 1984 in Kentucky, raised in Florida) has exhibited widely across the U.S. and abroad. Her work has been the subject of institutional solo exhibitions at the Georgia Museum of Art, the Joslyn Art Museum, Massachusetts Museum of Contemporary Art (MASS MoCA), and Atlanta Contemporary, as well as a commissioned solo project with Creative Time. Her sculpture, Love is like the sea… (2023) is currently on view in the Poydras Corridor Sculpture Exhibition, presented by The Helis Foundation in New Orleans, LA. Select recent group exhibitions include The Dirty South: Contemporary Art, Material Culture, and the Sonic Impulse, Virginia Museum of Fine Arts; Shifting Horizons, Nevada Museum of Art; Enunciated Life, California African Art Museum; More, More, More, TANK Shanghai; and Indicators: Artists on Climate Change, Storm King Art Center. Work by the artist is held in public collections such as the Studio Museum in Harlem, the Hood Museum of Art, The Menil Collection, Nasher Museum of Art, Nevada Museum of Art, and Speed Museum of Art, among others. Hamilton has participated in a range of fellowships and residencies, including at the Whitney Independent Study Program, New York, NY; the Studio Museum in Harlem, New York, NY; and Fundación Botín, Santander, Spain. She is the recipient of the Creative Capital Award and the Rema Hort Mann Foundation Grant. Hamilton holds a PhD in American Studies from New York University and an MFA in Visual Arts from Columbia University. She lives and works in New York.Portrait: Heather StenArtist https://www.allisonjanaehamilton.com/ Marianne Boesky Gallery https://marianneboeskygallery.com/artists/60-allison-janae-hamilton/press/Storm King Art Center https://indicators.stormking.org/allison-janae-hamilton/Georgia Museum of Art https://georgiamuseum.org/exhibit/allison-janae-hamilton-between-life-and-landscape/University of Georgia https://www.wuga.org/show/museum-minute/2022-10-28/museum-minute-allison-janae-hamiltonNasher Museum of Art https://nasher.duke.edu/stories/allison-janae-hamilton-floridawater-ii-sisters-wakulla-county-fl-and-when-the-wind-has-teeth/Helis Foundation https://www.thehelisfoundation.org/pcse/love-is-like-the-sea...Pippy HouldsworthGallery https://www.houldsworth.co.uk/exhibitions/140-tales-of-soil-and-concrete-brett-goodroad-allison-janae-hamilton-yun-fei-ji-arturo/works/The Highline https://www.thehighline.org/art/projects/allison-janae-hamilton/Contemporary Art Library https://www.contemporaryartlibrary.org/artist/allison-janae-hamilton-6327Artpil https://artpil.com/allison-janae-hamilton/The Clark https://www.clarkart.edu/microsites/humane-ecology/about-the-artists/allison-janae-hamiltonUGA Today https://news.uga.edu/nature-is-at-the-center-of-allison-janae-hamiltons-work/Rema Hort Mann Foundation https://www.remahortmannfoundation.org/allison-janae-hamilton/Ogden Museum https://ogdenmuseum.org/event/florida-stories-a-conversation-with-author-lauren-groff-and-visual-artist-allison-janae-hamilton/Kids Kiddle https://kids.kiddle.co/Allison_Janae_HamiltonWWD https://wwd.com/feature/allison-janae-hamilton-marianne-boesky-gallery-art-exhibition-1234792142/Whitewall Art https://whitewall.art/art/allison-janae-hamilton-interrogates-myths-around-landscape-and-stories-of-paradise/Whitewall Art https://whitewall.art/whitewaller/allison-janae-hamilton-a-romance-of-paradise/Where y’at https://www.whereyat.com/allison-janae-hamilton-lauren-groff-florida-new-orleansThe Bitter Southerner https://bittersoutherner.com/summer-voices/aunjanue-ellis/allison-janae-hamiltonC& https://contemporaryand.com/exhibition/allison-janae-hamilton-a-romance-of-paradise/The University of Texas at Austinhttps://repositories.lib.utexas.edu/items/3f37e356-f2a7-4f3b-a9d4-7614ddfac848Urban Milwaukee https://urbanmilwaukee.com/people/allison-janae-hamilton/
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Ep.197 Peter Uka (b. 1975,Nigeria; lives and works in Cologne, Germany) devises figurative paintings which draw from his childhood memories of Nigeria. With a classical training in realistic figuration Uka combines various image references of time specific objects with images from his memory to convey innate and timeless human emotion. Scenes of growing up in Nigeria, including elements like afro hair styles and bell-bottom jeans, bright mannerisms, and local customs are captured in vibrant, visual narrative. His compositions also capture international trends from the late 20th century and the ways globalization connects countries around the world. These narratives uncover historical precedents of globalization and dynamic cultural signifiers connecting two countries that Uka calls home, while reminding the rest of the world of collective reciprocity, closeness, and connection. Uka completed his studies in2017 at the Kunstakademie in Düsseldorf (Germany) and has exhibited at National Museum Onikan(Lagos, Nigeria), Haus der Kunst (Munich, Germany), Kunsthaus Mettman (Germany) and DIDI Museum(Lagos, Nigeria). His work has been shown at the Flag Art Foundation and is included in collections such as the Long Museum.
Portrait of Peter Uka by Kai Schmidt. Courtesy of Mariane
Marian Ibrahim https://marianeibrahim.com/press/247-peter-uka-galerie-magazine/
Financial Times https://marianeibrahim.com/press/115-peter-uka-financial-times-weekend/
Long Museum https://marianeibrahim.com/news/89-being-in-the-world-peter-uka-i-long-museum/
Flag Art Foundation https://marianeibrahim.com/news/68-peter-uka-remembrance-peter-uka-the-flag-art-foundation/
Colossal https://www.thisiscolossal.com/2024/03/peter-uka-portraits/
Culture Type https://www.culturetype.com/2022/01/12/longing-new-paintings-by-peter-uka-channel-fond-memories-of-nigeria-this-for-me-is-a-moment-in-time-a-time-when-all-was-well-all-was-good/
Newcity Art https://art.newcity.com/2022/01/10/unapologetically-authentic-a-review-of-peter-uka-at-mariane-ibrahim/
It’s Nice That https://www.itsnicethat.com/articles/peter-uka-art-080421
African Digital Art https://www.africandigitalart.com/on-painting-nigerian-contemporary-artist-peter-uka/
Galerie Magazine https://galeriemagazine.com/5-must-see-exhibitions-see-paris-month/
The Jealous Curator https://thejealouscurator.substack.com/p/art-delivery-112323
WhiteWall https://whitewall.art/art/best-paris-exhibitions-art-imitating-life/
Juxtapoz https://www.juxtapoz.com/news/magazine/features/peter-uka-abc-to-xyz/
Metal Magazine https://metalmagazine.eu/en/post/peter-uka
W Magazine https://www.wmagazine.com/culture/peter-uka-longing-mariane-ibrahim-gallery-interview
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Ep.196 Jacob Mason-Macklin lives and works in Queens, New York. Mason-Macklin graduated from the Columbus College of Art & Design in 2017. He is a 2016 alumnus of the Yale-Norfolk Summer School of Art and a 2019 alumnus of the Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture. In 2021-2022, Mason-Macklin was an Artist-in Residence at The Studio Museum in Harlem, Harlem, New York, USA. Recent exhibitions include: “Underground” at Mamoth Gallery in London, UK (2023), “The Future Won't Be Long Now” at SOMEDAY, Lower Manhattan, New York, USA (2023), and “It’s Time For Me To Go” at MOMA PS1, Long Island City, New York, USA (2022-2023). A dou-exhibition with artist Ryan Huggins at Page gallery, New York, USA (2021). “Soul Procession” at Interstate Projects, Brooklyn, New York, USA (2020). “Pure Hell” at No Place Gallery in Columbus, Ohio, USA (2020); “Bounty” with Cudelice Brazelton at the Jeffrey Stark Gallery in New York, USA. Curated by Amanda Hunt (2017).Photo credit for headshot: Ally CapleStudio Museum Harlem https://www.studiomuseum.org/artists/jacob-mason-macklinMoMA https://www.moma.org/slideshows/626MAMOTH https://www.mamoth.co.uk/exhibitions/42/installation_shots/image1586/MAMOTH https://www.mamoth.co.uk/blog/47-watch-jacob-mason-macklin-s-residency-journey-in-london/Art Rabbit https://www.artrabbit.com/events/jacob-masonmacklin-undergroundArtfacts https://artfacts.net/exhibition/jacob-mason-macklin:-underground/1143681Art Viewer https://artviewer.org/jacob-mason-macklin-at-mamoth/Page NYC https://page-nyc.com/exhibitions/jacob-mason-macklinJeffrey Stark https://www.jeffreystark.nyc/project/cudelice_brazelton_jake_mason_macklin/
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Ep.195 Connie Butler is the Director of MoMA PS1 in New York. Prior to her arrival in September 2023, since 2013, she was Chief Curator at the Hammer Museum in Los Angeles where she organized numerous exhibitions including the biennial of Los Angeles artists Made in LA (2014); Mark Bradford: Scorched Earth (2015); Marisa Merz:
The Sky Is a Great Space (2017); Lari Pittman: Declaration of Independence (2019); and Witch Hunt (2021). She also co-organized with MoMA, Adrian Piper: A Synthesis of Intuitions which opened at the Hammer in October 2018. From 2006-2013 she was the Robert Lehman Foundation Chief Curator of Drawings at The Museum of Modern Art, New York where she co-curated the first major Lygia Clark retrospective in the United States (2014) and On Line: Drawing Through the Twentieth Century (2010) in addition to Greater New York (2010) and Mike Kelley (2013) at MoMA PS1. Butler also organized the groundbreaking survey WACK! Art and the Feminist Revolution (2007) at the Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles where she was curator from 1996-2006. In 2020 Butler received the Bard College Audrey Irmas Award for Curatorial Excellence.
Photo credit: Tag Christof
MoMA https://press.moma.org/news/moma-ps1-announces-new-director/
Wikipedia https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cornelia_Butler
NYTimes https://www.nytimes.com/2023/05/08/arts/design/moma-ps1-new-director-connie-butler.html
The Art Newspaper https://www.theartnewspaper.com/2023/05/10/connie-butler-moma-ps1-director-hammer-museum
Art Review https://artreview.com/connie-butler-to-direct-moma-ps1/
Whitewalls https://www.widewalls.ch/news-feed/moma-ps1-connie-butler-director
Hyperallergic https://hyperallergic.com/873871/moma-ps1-workers-urge-director-connie-butler-to-settle-a-fair-contract/
Hyperallergic https://hyperallergic.com/820809/who-is-connie-butler-the-new-director-of-moma-ps1/
Sun Valley Museum of Art https://svmoa.org/events/lectures-talks/2023-07-20/on-collecting-three-conversations-collector-as-curator
LA Times https://www.latimes.com/entertainment-arts/story/2023-05-08/commentary-staff-changes-at-the-ucla-hammer-museum
Center for Curatorial Leadership https://www.curatorialleadership.org/participants/ccl-program/cornelia-butler/
ARTnews https://www.artnews.com/art-news/news/connie-butler-moma-ps1-director-1234667070/
WACK! Art and the Feminist Revolution https://www.moca.org/exhibition/wack-art-and-the-feminist-revolution
Mark Bradford Exhibition https://hammer.ucla.edu/exhibitions/2015/mark-bradford-scorched-earth
UCLA/ Hammer Museum https://newsroom.ucla.edu/stories/hammer-museum-connie-butler -
Ep.194 Tiana Webb Evans is the Founder ESP Group LLC, a brand strategy and communications consultancy supporting international clients across art, design, and hospitality industries. She is also the founder and creative director of Yard Concept, a cultural platform comprised of a digital journal, gallery, and ‘happenings’ dedicated to fostering consciousness through the engagement of art, design, and community; and most recently the founder of Jamaica Art Society an initiative designed to support Jamaican art professional and celebrate its visual arts legacy.Tiana’s experience includes branding, communications, strategic planning, business development and cultural programming. Before launching ESP in 2014, Tiana served as the Communications Director at Phillips Auctioneers, a global corporation focused on the sale of Contemporary Art. As Vice President of the Hospitality and Real Estate group at Nadine Johnson & Associates she was responsible for a portfolio of clients working at the intersection of art, culture and business. Prior establishing a career in communications she was the Business Director of Studio Sofield, a celebrated architecture and design firm known for its work with Gucci Group and a host of notable luxury good brands.In addition to her professional endeavors Tiana, writes about culture, advises and supports emerging artists, and shares her expertise by serving on the boards of Project for Empty Space, the Female Design Council, and Atlanta Art Week, and is on advisory committees for the Laundromat Project, Photo Fairs, and Art at a Time Like This.ESP Group https://espgroup.global/Yard Concept https://www.yard-concept.com/Jamaica Art Society https://www.jamaicaartsociety.com/Foundwork https://foundwork.art/guest-curators/tiana-webb-evansBrooklyn Rail https://brooklynrail.org/contributor/Tiana-Webb-EvansArtnet https://news.artnet.com/art-world/art-world-at-home-tiana-webb-evans-1972157LinkedIn https://www.linkedin.com/in/tianawebbevans/Photo Fairs https://www.photofairs.org/newyork/tiana_webb_evans/WhiteWall https://whitewall.art/art/art-mamas-community-essential-tiana-webb-evans/Apartment Therapy https://www.apartmenttherapy.com/design-changemakers-2021-tiana-webb-evans-36866078POW Arts https://www.powarts.org/events/2021/5/3/may-colleagues-amp-friendsPin-Up Magazine https://archive.pinupmagazine.org/articles/tiana-webb-evans-on-african-american-home-life-in-art
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Ep.193 Helina Metaferia is an interdisciplinary artist working across collage, assemblage, video, performance, and social engagement. Her work integrates archives, somatic studies, and dialogical practices, creating overlooked narratives that amplify BIPOC/femme bodies.
Metaferia received her MFA from Tufts University’s School of the Museum of Fine Arts and attended the Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture. Recent solo exhibitions and projects include RISD Art Museum (2022-2023); Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, MA (2021-2022); New York University's The Gallatin Galleries, New York, NY (2021); Michigan State University's Scene Metrospace Gallery, East Lansing, MI (2019); and Museum of African Diaspora, San Francisco, CA (2017). Metaferia's work was included in the Sharjah Biennial in the United Arab Emirates (2023), the Tennessee Triennial through the Frist Art Museum and Fisk University Art Gallery (2023). Her work is in the permanent collection of institutions including Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles, CA; Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, MA; Sharjah Art Foundation, United Arab Emirates; Kadist, San Francisco, CA and Paris, France; and the Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, New York, NY.
Metaferia’s work has been supported by several residencies including MacDowell, Yaddo, Bemis Center for Contemporary Art, and MASS MoCA. She is currently a 2021-2023 artist-in-residence at Silver Art Projects at the World Trade Center in New York City. Her work has been written about in publications including The New York Times, Financial Times, The Washington Post, The Boston Globe, Artnet News, The Art Newspaper, and Hyperallergic. Metaferia is an Assistant Professor at Brown University in the Visual Art department, and lives and works in New York City.
Photo credit: Tommie Battle
Artist https://www.helinametaferia.com/
NYTimes https://www.nytimes.com/2021/06/24/arts/things-to-do-this-weekend.html
Artsy Helina Metaferia Honors the Activist Legacies of Black Women across Collage and Performance | Artsy
Artnet News https://news.artnet.com/art-world/how-do-you-judge-the-value-of-social-practice-art-artist-helina-metaferia-developed-metrics-to-determine-if-a-project-is-successful-2181336
Vanity Fair Leisure, Adornment, and Beauty Are Radical Acts in “Resting Our Eyes” | Vanity Fair
The Cut ‘Resting Our Eyes’: 10 Black Artists at ICA San Francisco (thecut.com)
Chicago Tribune 4 female artists mount a Chicago exhibit on climate issues: ‘Activism work is care work’ – Chicago Tribune
Sugarcane Magazine Ritual and Remembrance in Sharjah Biennial 15 - Sugarcane Magazine ™| Black Art Magazine
Interior Design Magazine Artist Helina Metaferia Celebrates Black Women Activists in Two Solo Shows - Interior Design
The Art Newspaper https://www.theartnewspaper.com/2021/06/16/black-artists-and-performers-take-over-fort-greene-park-for-juneteenth-jubilee
Financial Times ( First) https://www.ft.com/content/9b75fdcd-9f1a-4c3f-ae70-b1140fc9cdad
Financial Times (Second) https://www.ft.com/content/e8030f71-2925-4fbb-8e0a-96d6ce1cf774
Contemporary And https://contemporaryand.com/magazines/helina-metaferia-weaving-and-resisting-in-more-than-a-few-ways/ -
Ep.192 Allison Glenn is a New York-based curator and writer focusing on the intersection of art and public space, through public art and special projects, biennials and major new commissions by a wide range of contemporary artists. She is a Visiting Curator in the Department of Film Studies at the University of Tulsa, organizing the Sovereign Futures convening, and Artistic Director of The Shepherd, a three-and-a-half-acre arts campus part of the newly christened Little Village cultural district in Detroit.
Previous roles include Co-Curator of Counterpublic Triennial 2023, Guest Curator at the Speed Art Museum, and Associate Curator of Contemporary Art at Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art. In this role, Glenn shaped how outdoor sculpture activates and engages Crystal Bridges' 120-acre campus through a series of new commissions, touring group exhibitions, and long term loans. She has also acted as the Curatorial Associate + Publications Manager for Prospect New Orleans’ international art triennial Prospect.4: The Lotus in Spite of the Swamp.
Her writing has been featured in catalogues published by The Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Counterpublic Triennial, Prospect New Orleans triennial, Princeton Architectural Press, Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art, Scottsdale Museum of Contemporary Art, Kemper Museum, Studio Museum in Harlem, and she has contributed to Artforum, ART PAPERS, Brooklyn Rail, Hyperallergic, and ART21 Magazine, amongst others.
Glenn sits on the Board of Directors for ARCAthens, a curatorial and artist residency program based in Athens, Greece, New Orleans, LA and The Bronx, New York. She received dual Master’s degrees from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago in Modern Art History, Theory and Criticism and Arts Administration and Policy, and a Bachelor of Fine Art Photography with a co-major in Urban Studies from Wayne State University in Detroit.
Photograph by Grace Roselli
Allison Glenn https://www.allisonglenn.com/
Artnet https://news.artnet.com/art-world/valuations-allison-glenn-2395989
NYTimes https://www.nytimes.com/2023/05/09/arts/design/counterpublic-st-louis-public-art.html
ARTnews https://www.artnews.com/art-news/artists/qa-david-adjaye-on-his-first-permanent-sculpture-1234670283/
e-flux https://www.e-flux.com/criticism/537239/counterpublic-2023
NPR https://www.stlpr.org/arts/2023-03-07/massive-public-art-exhibition-will-highlight-historical-injustices-in-st-louis
The Architects Newsletter https://www.archpaper.com/2022/04/david-adjayes-first-permanent-public-artwork-among-art-and-architectural-commissions-for-2023-counterpublic-triennial-in-st-louis/
Artnet https://news.artnet.com/art-world/counterpublic-2023-2106157
ARTnews https://www.artnews.com/list/art-news/artists/shaping-art-2022-deciders-1234612406/naomi-beckwith/
NYTimes https://www.nytimes.com/2021/12/07/arts/design/best-art-2021.html
Observer https://observer.com/power-series/2021-arts-power-50/
Artforum https://www.artforum.com/features/huey-copeland-and-allison-glenn-on-promise-witness-remembrance-249992/
SAIC https://www.saic.edu/news/alum-allison-glenn-and-the-power-of-listening
NYTimes https://www.nytimes.com/2021/03/11/arts/design/speed-museum-breonna-taylor-curator.html
Art Newspaper https://www.theartnewspaper.com/2021/02/25/speed-art-museum-will-reflect-on-the-death-of-breonna-taylor-in-an-exhibition
Surface https://www.surfacemag.com/articles/breonna-taylor-exhibition-speed-art-museum-other-news/#taylor
Culture Type https://www.culturetype.com/2021/02/22/the-week-in-black-art-february-22-28-2021-cameron-shaw-named-executive-director-of-california-african-american-museum-aperture-names-seven-new-trustees/
Artnet https://news.artnet.com/art-world/louisville-speed-art-museum-breonna-taylor-1945823
Observer https://observer.com/2021/02/breonna-taylor-speed-art-museum-louisville/
88.9 WEKU https://www.weku.org/post/new-speed-exhibition-honor-life-legacy-breonna-taylor#stream/0 -
Ep.191 Christine Berry earned her Bachelors of Art in Art History from Baylor University and her Masters in Art History and Museum Studies from the University of North Texas. She began her career at the Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth and continued on to the Whitney Museum of American Art. Twenty years ago, she shifted from the non-profit sector to the commercial art world.
In 2013, Christine Berry and Martha Campbell founded Berry Campbell Gallery in Chelsea. The gallery has a fine-tuned program representing artists from Postwar American art, who have been overlooked due to age, race, gender, or geography. This unique perspective has been increasingly recognized by curators, collectors, and the press.
Over the last ten years, Berry Campbell has doubled its roster, staff, and
footprint. In 2022, the gallery moved from its original venue to its current
9,000 square foot gallery space at 524 West 26th Street. The gallery represents 34 artists and estates including Lynne Drexler, Perle Fine, Bernice Bing, Frederick Brown, Lilian Thomas Burwell, Nanette Carter, Beverly McIver, and Frank Wimberley.
Photo credit: Blaine Davis
Gallery https://www.berrycampbell.com/
Frieze https://www.frieze.com/gallery/berry-campbell
Frieze Masters https://berrycampbell.com/exhibition/169/
Art Basel https://www.artbasel.com/catalog/gallery/24703/Berry-Campbell?lang=en
The Armory https://www.berrycampbell.com/exhibition/166/
Palm Beach Modern+Contemporary https://www.berrycampbell.com/exhibition/157/
NYT https://www.nytimes.com/2020/04/02/arts/design/art-galleries-virtual-tour.html
Observer https://observer.com/2021/06/best-gallery-exhibitions-summer-2021-from-salon-94-to-nancy-hoffman-gallery/
Brooklyn Rail https://brooklynrail.org/2020/05/artseen/Ida-Kohlmeyer-Cloistered
Artsy https://www.artsy.net/article/berry-campbell-gallery-berry-campbell-announces-new-location
Surface https://www.surfacemag.com/articles/berry-campbell-gallery-interview/
Widewalls https://www.widewalls.ch/venue/berry-campbell-gallery/artworks
Artnet https://www.artnet.com/galleries/berry-campbell/
Galleries Now https://www.galleriesnow.net/shows/judith-godwin-modern-woman/
Art in America https://artinamericaguide.com/listings/berry-campbell-gallery/
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Ep.190 Uman’s dazzling visual vocabulary reflects her life and expansive cross-cultural experiences. Born in Somalia and raised in Kenya, she migrated to Denmark as a teenager and later to New York NY as a young adult. Now, with a home and studio in Upstate New York, Uman paints richly-hued worlds replete with gesture, geometry and the sublime. An intuitive artist, her influences abound from memories of East African childhood, a rigorous education in traditional calligraphy and a fascination with kaleidoscopic color and design. With nods to self-portraiture and fictional topographies, Uman’s paintings speak fluently of liminal navigation. Her work contemplates both the physical and spiritual, intertwining abstraction, figuration, meditative patterning and a reverence for the natural world.Uman has had solo exhibitions at Hauser & Wirth, London, England; Nicola Vassell, New York NY; Eleni Koroneou Gallery, Athens, Greece; Fierman, New York NY; Anne De Villepoix, Paris, France; and White Columns, New York NY. She has been featured in group exhibitions at the Aga Khan Museum, Toronto, Canada; For-Site Foundation at Fort Mason Chapel, San Francisco CA; Institute of Contemporary Arts, London, UK; Karma, New York NY; and Ramiken Crucible, New York NY.In 2022, she was the recipient of the inaugural grant for The Cube at TRIADIC’s FORMAT Festival in Bentonville AR.Headshot Copyright: Uman. Courtesy of the artist, Hauser & Wirth and Nicola Vassell Gallery Photo credit: Luigi Cazzaniga Nicola Vassell Gallery https://www.cnn.com/2024/02/18/style/uman-artist-hauser-wirth/index.html#:~:text=In%20December%202023%2C%20Uman's%20work,the%20spirit%20of%20the%20show.Hauser & Wirth https://www.hauserwirth.com/news/welcoming-uman-to-hauser-wirth-in-partnership-with-nicola-vassell/https://www.hauserwirth.com/hauser-wirth-exhibitions/uman-darling-sweetie-sweetie-darling/CNN https://www.cnn.com/2024/02/18/style/uman-artist-hauser-wirth/index.html#:~:text=In%20December%202023%2C%20Uman's%20work,the%20spirit%20of%20the%20show.Artnet https://news.artnet.com/art-world/umans-painting-hauser-wirth-2426374Brooklyn Rail https://brooklynrail.org/2023/05/art/Uman-with-Chris-MartinElephant Magazine https://elephant.art/umans-studio-in-the-hudson-valley-is-a-portal-to-a-kaleidoscopic-world/Artforum https://www.artforum.com/events/uman-250558/ArtNews https://www.artnews.com/art-news/artists/uman-artist-profile-best-practices-1234685155/The New Yorker https://www.newyorker.com/goings-on-about-town/art/umanCulturetype https://www.culturetype.com/2023/12/06/nicola-vassell-and-hauser-wirth-galleries-announce-partnership-and-co-representation-of-artist-uman/#:~:text=On%20view%20at%20Nicola%20Vassell,made%20in%202022%20and%202023.Dream Idea Machine https://www.dreamideamachine.com/?p=94536Art Plugged https://artplugged.co.uk/hauser-wirth-teams-up-with-nicola-vassell-gallery-to-represent-artist-uman/Meer https://www.meer.com/en/74374-uman-i-want-everything-nowLavocedi https://lavocedinewyork.com/en/new-york/2023/05/09/uman-i-want-everything-now-exhibit-at-nicola-vassell-gallery/Art Rabbit https://www.artrabbit.com/events/uman-darling-sweetie-sweetie-darlingWhitewall https://whitewall.art/art/mark-bradford-senga-nengudi-uman-and-more-must-see-shows-in-new-york/Cultured Magazine https://www.culturedmag.com/article/2023/05/01/fred-eversley-sarah-morris-umanFad Magazine https://fadmagazine.com/2024/01/30/uman-darling-sweetie-sweetie-darling/What We Adore https://www.whatweadore.com/uman-darling-sweetie-sweetie-darling/
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Ep. 189 Cierra Britton (b.1996, Baltimore, MD) is a curator and art dealer living and working in New York City. As the director of the Cierra Britton Gallery, her mission is to make space for artists who are creating exploratory work across all mediums.
Founded in 2021, the Cierra Britton Gallery is the first NYC-based gallery dedicated to representing BIPOC womxn artists whose work contributes to the contemporary cultural dialogue across the globe. The gallery’s mission is to make space for artists who are creating exploratory work inclusive of all mediums such as painting, photography, drawing, and performance. Starting as a nomadic and online gallery, our programming has focused on a diverse roster of artists making work that is rooted in storytelling, exploration, and cultural commentary.
Cierra Britton Gallery is creating a safe and much-needed space for BIPOC womxn artists who have historically been marginalized from the mainstream art world. We aim to uphold artists and create community through dialogue and support for the arts.
Photo Credit : Katherine Pekala
Cierra Britton Gallery http://cierrabritton.com/
Abigail Ogilvy https://abigailogilvy.com/exhibitions/64-deja-vu-in-collaboration-with-cierra-britton-gallery-los-angeles/
Essence Magazine https://www.essence.com/of-the-essence/young-gifted-black-essence-creators-class/
Hamptons Fine Art Fair 2024 https://hamptonsfineartfair.com/gallery/cierra-britton-gallery/
Artsy https://www.artsy.net/article/artsy-editorial-meet-26-year-old-gallerist-championing-women-artists-color
Artnet News https://news.artnet.com/market/cierra-britton-gallery-supported-by-power-of-community-2214681
Galerie Magazine https://galeriemagazine.com/9-artists-watch-future-fair-independent-nada-new-york-2023/
Art News Africa https://galeriemagazine.com/9-artists-watch-future-fair-independent-nada-new-york-2023/
Art Plugged https://artplugged.co.uk/cierra-britton-the-visionary-curator-supporting-the-new-era-of-bipoc-womxn-artists/
Newsbreak https://www.newsbreak.com/new-york-city-ny/3187187256496-cierra-britton-is-the-nyc-gallerist-exploring-new-color-theories
Realty Collective https://realtycollective.com/cierra-britton-brooklyn-art-curator/
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Ep.188 Demetrio "Dee" Kerrison. Born in Harlem, NY, he now resides in Los Angeles. In 2001 after a visit to the Studio Museum of Harlem to view an exhibition titled “Freestyle” and curated by Thelma Golden and Christine Y. Kim, he decided to begin building an art collection with a particular focus on African Diasporic artists.
Since then, Dee and his wife Gianna Drake Kerrison have built an eclectic contemporary art collection which foregrounds emerging and ultra contemporary figurative painters. Abstract, sculpture, conceptual, and photographic works are also featured in the collection.
They are active patrons, and they site on many art focused boards both past and present to include William H. Johnson Foundation, Mistake Room, Noah Purifoy Foundation, the Hammer Museum Board of Advisors and Mike Kelly Foundation.
Image ~ Photo credit Dania Maxwell/ Los Angeles Times
Demetrio Dee Kerrison https://www.linkedin.com/in/deekerrison/
Gianna Drake Kerrison https://www.linkedin.com/in/gianna-drake-kerrison-76685a34/
Hammer Museum https://hammer.ucla.edu/
Cultured Magazine https://www.culturedmag.com/article/2021/11/05/dee-kerrison-life-was-forever-changed-by-art-so-what-comes-next
Future Fairs https://archive.futurefairs.com/journal-posts-2/demetrio-kerrison
LA Times https://www.latimes.com/entertainment-arts/story/2023-02-17/faces-of-frieze-los-angeles-2023-opening-day-photos
NY Times https://www.nytimes.com/2023/12/08/arts/design/los-angeles-art-galleries.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare
Hyperallergic https://hyperallergic.com/557471/gallery-platform-la/
Gallery Platform LA https://galleryplatform.la/editorials/demetrio-kerrison
KPCC https://www.kpcc.org/show/take-two/2018-01-15/why-these-art-collectors-in-orange-county-are-focusing-on-artists-of-color
Noah Purifoy Foundation https://www.noahpurifoy.com/board-of-trustees -
Ep.187 February James currently lives and works in Washington, D.C., where she was born, after living in Los Angeles for fifteen years. She received her BFA from the Art Center College of Design in Pasadena, CA. James has exhibited in New York, Los Angeles, Chicago, London, Berlin and Turin, Italy.
Her work is currently included in Singular Views: 25 Artists at the Rubell Museum in Washington, D.C., following her inclusion in What’s Going On, the museum’s inaugural exhibition in 2022-2023. In 2021, James was invited by Mickalene Thomas and Racquel Chevremont to create a room size installation in Set It Off, an exhibition they organized for the Parrish Art Museum in Watermill, NY. She has been featured in multiple other group shows, including Punch, curated by Nina Chanel Abney at Jeffrey Deitch in Los Angeles, Face-to-Face at the Sugar Hill Children’s Museum of Art and Storytelling, New York and BodyLand, curated by Lauren Taschen at Galerie Max Hetzler in Berlin.
She was invited to contribute watercolors to a feature in The New York Times Style Magazine in February 2021.
James has been represented by Tilton Gallery since 2020.
Photo credit Mariah Miranda
Artist https://www.februaryjames.com/
Tilton Gallery https://www.jacktiltongallery.com/artists/february-james/biography
Galerie Max Hetzler https://www.maxhetzler.com/exhibitions/bodyland-2023
Los Angeles Magazine, September 9, 2021.
https://www.lamag.com/culturefiles/february-james-wilding-cran/
Platform Art https://www.platformart.com/editorial/february-interview/
NYTimes Roberta Smith
https://www.nytimes.com/2021/09/01/arts/design/art-gallery-shows-reviews.html
The NY Times Style Magazine, February 18, 2021.
https://www.nytimes.com/2021/02/18/t-magazine/female-monuments-women.html?referringSource=articleShare
Sixty Inches from Center
https://sixtyinchesfromcenter.org/the-artist-as-changemaker-a-conversation-with-february-james/
New City Art
https://art.newcity.com/2020/08/07/emotive-states-a-review-of-chase-hall-and-february-james-at-monique-meloche/
Monique Meloche https://www.moniquemeloche.com/exhibitions/12-february-james-we-laugh-loud-so-the-spirits/overview/
ARTSKOP https://www.artskop.com/artmedia/en/february-james-1-54-art-fair-exhibition/
Artsy https://www.artsy.net/article/artsy-editorial-5-artists-radar-march
Artsy https://www.artsy.net/article/casey-lesser-4-curators-artists-celebrating-black-history-month
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Ep.186 Loie Hollowell was born in 1983 and raised in Woodland, California. She currently lives and works in New York City. She received a BFA at University of California Santa Barbara in 2005 and an MFA inpainting from Virginia Commonwealth University in 2012. Her work has been exhibited at museums and galleries worldwide including Jan Shrem and Maria Manetti Shrem Museum of Art, University of California, Davis; Pace Gallery; Long Museum West Bund, Shanghai; Feuer/Mesler, New York; White Cube Gallery, Paris; Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Washington, D.C.; Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles; The Flag Art Foundation, New York; Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art, Bentonville, Arkansas; Victoria Miro, London; and Ballroom Marfa, Texas.
Her work is in public collections including the Albertina Museum, Vienna; Centre Pompidou, Paris; Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art, Bentonville; Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Washington, D.C.; ICA, Miami; Long Museum, Shanghai; Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles; M+Museum, Hong Kong; Stedjelijk Museum, Amsterdam; and Zentrum Paul Klee, Switzerland.
Her work has been exhibited at museums and galleries worldwide including Pace Gallery, The Aldrich Contemporary Art Museum, Ridgefield, CT; Jessica Silverman, San Francisco, CA.
Photo by Melissa Goodwin
Artist https://www.loiehollowell.com/
Pace Gallery https://www.pacegallery.com/online-exhibitions/loie-hollowell/
The Aldrich Contemporary Art Museum https://thealdrich.org/exhibitions/loie-hollowell-a-survey
Jessica Silverman https://jessicasilvermangallery.com/online-shows/loie-hollowell-in-transition/-
Urist, Jac. Loie Hollowell Abstracts the Female Body, W Magazine / January 18, 2024-
Dafoe, Taylor. Loie Hollowell’s New Move From Abstraction to Realism Is Not a One-Way Journey, Artnet / January 19, 2024
Thornton, Sarah. Loie Hollowell on Frottage, Fantasy and Feminist Erotica, Interview Magazine / January 23, 2024
Greenberger, Alex. 33 Must-See Exhibitions to Visit This Winter, ARTnews / December 3, 2023
Knupp, Kristen. Loie Hollowell: The Third Stage, Art Vista / September 4, 2023
Woodcock, Victoria. The Cosmic Heirs of Hilma af Klint, Financial Times / May 26, 2023
Lesser, Casey. Loie Hollowell on Abstraction, Making the Grotesque Beautiful, and Her Latest Work, Artsy / March 14, 2023
Gómez-Upegui, Salomé. The New Generation of Transcendental Painters, Artsy / February 28, 2023
Belcove, Julie. How a New Generation of Women Painters Is Creating Dreamy Kaleidoscopic Works, Robb Report / February 26, 2023
Compton, Nick. Generative art: the creatives powering the AI art boom Wallpaper* / December 12, 2022
Binlot, Ann. At the Aldrich, Revisiting a Groundbreaking Show forFeminist Art, New YorkMagazine’s The Cut / June 7, 2022
Yerebakan, Osman Can. Loie Hollowell on Painting, Pain, and her Second Birth, Artforum / May 26, 2021
Wilco, Hutch. Loie Hollowell's Shanghai Recalibration, Ocula / May 26, 2021
New York Up Close. Loie Hollowell's Transcendent Bodies, Video by Art21 / April 14, 2021
Giles, Oliver. Artist Loie Hollowell On How Motherhood Inspired Her Paintings, Tatler Asia /April 11, 2021
Donoghue, Katy. Art Mamas: Loie Hollowell on ‘Going Soft’, Whitewall / July 17, 2020
The A-List: The Best Culture To Catch From Home This Week, Vanity Fair / July 5, 2020
Urist, Jacoba. Artists Share the Most Inspiring Books They’re Reading Right Now, Galerie Magazine/ March 30, 2020 -
Ep.185 features Tariku Shiferaw, a New York based artist who explores mark-making through painting and installation art, addressing issues around space-making within art and societal structures. Select museum exhibitions include The Culture: Hip Hop and Contemporary Art in the 21st Century at Baltimore Museum of Art (2023); You’d Think By Now at Smack Mellon (2022); Men of Change, organized by The Smithsonian Institution, and held at the California African American Museum (CAAM), (2021); Unbound at the Zuckerman Museum of Art (ZMA), (2020); What’s Love Got to Do with It? at The Drawing Center (2019); A Poet*hical Wager at the Museum of Contemporary Art Cleveland (2017-2018); and the 2017 Whitney Biennial at the Whitney Museum of American Art, New York.
Shiferaw has participated in the Independent Study Program at the Whitney Museum of American Art (2018-2019), in Open Sessions at The Drawing Center (2018-2020) and has been an artist-in-residence at the LES Studio Program in New York City, at the World Trade Center through Silver Art Projects, and at ARCAthens in Greece.
Photo credit Christopher Garcia 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" -
Ep.184 Courtney Willis Blair the US Senior Director in White Cube’s first public gallery in New York City. She joined in 2023.
Courtney will be responsible for shaping the gallery’s curatorial programme and brand both in the region and across the US. A member of the White Cube’s Global Board of Directors, she will play a key role in shaping the strategy for the gallery internationally.
She was formerly a Partner and Senior Director at Mitchell-Innes & Nash, where she led artist canonical strategy and institutional engagement in the US and internationally, from projects at documenta and São Paulo Biennial, to exhibitions at Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art, the Jewish Museum, Museum of Modern Art, the Whitney Museum of American Art, and the Speed Art Museum.
As a writer and journalist, she has profiled some of the world’s leading artists, architects, and curators. She is the founder of Entre Nous, an international body of Black women art dealers established in 2016, and serves on the boards of The Kitchen, Triple Canopy, and the International Studio & Curatorial Program.
Photo by Myesha Evon Gardner
White Cube https://www.whitecube.com/news/courtney-willis-blair-to-join-white-cube-as-us-senior-director
Whitewall https://whitewall.art/art/courtney-willis-blair-lets-artists-lead-at-white-cubes-first-new-york-space/
Apollo Magazine https://www.apollo-magazine.com/courtney-willis-blair-40-under-40-usa-the-business/
Curbed https://www.curbed.com/2020/10/the-art-stars-of-entre-nous.html
Culture Type https://www.culturetype.com/2022/11/21/appointment-courtney-willis-blair-will-lead-white-cube-gallery-in-new-york/
Cultured Magazine https://www.culturedmag.com/article/2023/09/28/theaster-gates-david-hammons-tiona-nekkia-mcclodden-white-cube
Frieze https://www.frieze.com/article/courtney-willis-blair-interview-2022
Galerie https://galeriemagazine.com/women-changing-the-art-world-2023/
Widewalls https://www.widewalls.ch/news-feed/white-cube-new-york-courtney-willis-blair
NPR https://www.npr.org/2023/10/06/1203274188/londons-white-cube-shows-fresh-and-new-art-at-first-new-york-gallery
Gotham Magazine https://gothammag.com/nyc-women-of-style-2023
ARTnews https://www.artnews.com/art-news/news/white-cube-courtney-willis-blair-1234645902/
The Art Newspaper https://www.theartnewspaper.com/2020/12/09/courtney-willis-blair-becomes-partner-at-mitchell-innes-and-nash
Art Forum https://www.artforum.com/news/mitchell-innes-nash-promotes-courtney-willis-blair-to-partner-249045/
Issuu https://issuu.com/frieze.com/docs/frieze_week_ny_2023/s/24501279
New York Times https://www.nytimes.com/2020/06/21/arts/design/art-basel-black-owned-galleries.html -
Ep.183 features Leasho Johnson. Born in 1984, he is a visual artist working primarily in painting, installation, and sculpture. He was born in Montego Bay, Jamaica, and raised in Sheffield, a small town on the outskirts of Negril. Johnson uses his experience growing up Black, gay, and male to explore concepts around identity within the post-colonial condition. Working at the conjunction of painting and drawing, Leasho combines charcoal, homemade paints, and dyes straddling the line between fluidity and chance, as well as precision and improvisation. Johnson makes characters that live on the edge of perception, visible and invisible simultaneously. His work's intent is to disrupt historical, political, and social expectations of the Black queer experience.
Leasho Johnson was a fellow of the Jamaica Art Society in 2022 and a Leslie Lohman Museum fellow in 2021. He was recipient of the New Artist Society Scholarship from the School of Art Institute Chicago (SAIC) 2018 - 2020.
His recent residencies include Ruby Cruel in London, 2023 and Fountainhead Residency, Miami, 2022.
Leasho has shown his work in his home country at several National Gallery of Jamaica exhibitions, including the Jamaica Biennial 2012, 2014, 2017, and 2022.
His recent solo exhibitions include “Somewhere between the eyes and the heart”, Western Exhibitions, 2023 “The Love of Men and the Fear of Stones,” Harpers Gallery, New York, 2022 “A Deep Haunting,” TERN Gallery, Nassau Bahamas, 2022
Internationally, Leasho has exhibited in ‘Fragments of Epic Memory’ at the Art Gallery of Ontario, Canada 2021, ’Resisting Paradise’, Puerto Rico and Montreal, 2019, ‘Jamaican Pulse: Art and Politics from Jamaica and the Diaspora’, Bristol, UK 2016, ‘Jamaican Routes’, Oslo, Norway 2016, ‘Jamaica Jamaica’, Philharmonie, Paris France and Brazil, 2017 and 2018.
His work is in the Public Collections of the Pérez Art Museum Miami, the Art Gallery Ontario, and ON National Gallery of Jamaica, Kingston Jamaica
Leasho is currently based in Chicago, where he works and Lectures at the School of Art Institute Chicago part-time. His work is also part of various notable private collectors, as well as museum permanent collections.
Photo credit: TERN Gallery Bahamas
Artist https://www.leashojohnson.com/
Western Exhibitions Somewhere between the eyes and the heart – Western Exhibitions
Chicago Reader https://chicagoreader.com/arts-culture/unveiling-the-depths-leasho-johnson-western-exhibitio ns/
Frieze https://www.frieze.com/article/leasho-johnson-interview-2023
Tern Gallery https://www.terngallery.com/exhibitions/a-deep-haunting
Vogue On The Importance Of Social Revolutions: How Three Black Creatives Are Straddling Culture And Craft | Vogue Italia
AMFM http://www.amfm.life/?p=2288
Marsha Pearce http://marshapearce.com/qanda/anansi-as-the-path-home/
Contemporary Art Matters https://contemporaryartmatters.com/leasho-johnson/
Kavi Gupta https://kavigupta.com/artists/159-leasho-johnson/
Artist Alliance https://www.artistsallianceinc.org/leasho-johnson/
University of Chicago https://afterlives.hum.uchicago.edu/leasho-johnson/
Repeating Islands https://repeatingislands.com/2022/06/17/art-exhibition-leasho-johnsons-a-deep-haunting/
Art Plugged https://artplugged.co.uk/leasho-johnson-a-deep-haunting/
Anthurium https://anthurium.miami.edu/articles/10.33596/anth.496
AXA Art Prize https://www.axaartprize.com/johnson -
Ep.182 features MICHAELA YEARWOOD-DAN. Throughout paintings, works on paper, ceramics, and site-specific mural and sound installations, Michaela Yearwood-Dan (b. 1994; London, UK) endeavors to build spaces of queer community, abundance, and joy. Yearwood-Dan’s singular visual language draws on a diverse range of influences, including Blackness, queerness, femininity, healing rituals, and carnival culture. Moving freely between media, Yearwood-Dan embeds botanical motifs and diaristic meditations within brushy abstract forms and heavy drips of paint. From the monumental scale of her paintings to the more intimate scale of her ceramics and works on paper, Yearwood-Dan’s practice frequently reflects an inviting domesticity. Resisting any singular definition of identity, the artist explores the possibilities of creating spaces—physical, pastoral, metaphorical—that allow for unlimited and unbounded ways of being. Lush and brightly hued, Yearwood-Dan’s work is at once personal and political. She often engages colors and materials for their symbolic associations—from the hints of the oranges, pinks, purples, and blues of the lesbian and bisexual pride flags mingling through the compositions to the queer histories of the ceramic carnation and pansy petals collaged into her recent paintings. Language intertwines with botanical motifs throughout Yearwood-Dan’s work: abstract habitats teem with painted plant life while live houseplants grow out of wall-mounted ceramics. Within the paintings, she inscribes lines of text—pulled from song lyrics, poetry, or her own diaristic writings. These meditations, appearing at various scales and degrees of legibility, are at once insightful and funny, confident, and questioning. Her words beckon the viewer into a vivid, welcoming world of paradox, play, and contemplation formed within an atmosphere of swirling forms and brilliant chromaticity.
Yearwood-Dan’s work has been shown at the Contemporary Arts Center, Cincinnati, OH; Scottsdale Museum of Contemporary Art, AZ; the Green Family Art Foundation, Dallas, TX; Palazzo Monti, Brescia, Italy; and the Museum of Contemporary African Art, Marrakesh, Morocco, among others. Her work is in the permanent collections of the Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Washington D.C.; Institute of Contemporary Art Miami, FL; the Crocker Art Museum, Sacramento, CA; the Jorge M. Perez Collection, Miami, FL; and the Columbus Museum of Art and the Pizzuti Collection, Columbus, OH. In 2022, she produced her first public mural installation for Queercircle, London, UK. She has participated in a range of fellowships and residencies, including the Palazzo Monti Residency, Brescia, Italy, and Bloomberg New Contemporaries in Partnership with Sarabande: The Lee Alexander McQueen Foundation, London, UK. The artist received her B.A. from the University of Brighton in 2016. Yearwood-Dan lives and works in London.
Please visit cerebralwomen.com for her expanded bio. Thank you.
Photo credit: Sam Hylton
Marianne Boesky https://marianneboeskygallery.com/artists/448-michaela-yearwood-dan/biography/
Artnet https://news.artnet.com/art-world/rising-artist-michaela-yearwood-dans-lavish-flora-filled-visions-make-beauty-political-2291399
Artnet https://news.artnet.com/art-world/studio-visit-michaela-yearwood-dan-2141292
Cultured Magazine https://www.culturedmag.com/article/2021/12/08/beyond-their-lavish-aesthetic-michaela-yearwood-dans-paintings-make-you-feel
Flaunt https://www.flaunt.com/post/michaela-yearwood-dan-the-cocoon-issue
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Ep.181 features Lily Wong, a figurative painter whose nuanced narratives invoke a sense of complex yearning and curiosity around the conditions that inscribe and complicate memory. Often engaged in acts of close looking and intimate contact, the subjects of her work move through dreamlike space and disoriented time. Wong’s paintings probe at the way that literal and metaphorical fracturings influence the body’s relationship to loss, intimacy, and desire. Their stories are never linear, but circular and eternal – a constant arrival and departure from the site of fracture. Her work has been exhibited at Lyles& King, New York (2023); Various Small Fires, Los Angeles (2022); Harper’s, New York, NY (2021); Kapp Kapp, Philadelphia, PA (2021) and New York, NY(2020); Ramp Gallery, London, UK (2020); The Wunderwall, Antwerp, BE (2020);HVW8 Gallery, Berlin DE (2018); and Underdonk, Brooklyn, NY (2018). Wong currently lives and works in Brooklyn, NY. Portrait credit Ian Lewandowski Artist https://www.lilylilywongwong.com/Lyles and King https://lylesandking.com/artists/lily-wongVarious Small Fires https://www.vsf.la/exhibitions/120-lily-wong-i-will-wade-out/overview/Hauser & Wirth https://www.hauserwirth.com/viewing-room/lily-wong/Kapp Kapp https://www.kappkapp.com/exhibitions/built-for-loveOffice Magazine https://officemagazine.net/lily-wong-navigates-selfJuxtapose https://www.juxtapoz.com/news/magazine/features/lily-wong-the-lightseeker/Artsy https://www.artsy.net/article/artsy-editorial-lily-wongs-cinematic-paintings-filled-suspense-longingFondazionei Magomundi https://fondazioneimagomundi.org/en/webdoc/lily-wong/Meer https://www.meer.com/en/75176-lily-wong-own-vortexArt Rabbit https://www.artrabbit.com/events/lily-wong-own-vortexArtillery Magazine https://artillerymag.com/pick-of-the-week-lily-wong/Visual Flood https://visualflood.com/post/figurative-portrait-paintings-by-lily-wongNew America Paintings https://www.newamericanpaintings.com/artists/lily-wong
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Ep.180 features KAVERI RAINA (b.1990, New Delhi, India). She received an MFA from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago and a BFA from Maryland Institute College of Art. Select solo and group exhibitions include: The Big Picture (2023) Night Gallery, Los Angeles, CA; A soft place to land (2023), Museum of Contemporary Art Cleveland, Cleveland, OH; Deep! Down! Inside! (2023) Hales Gallery, New York, NY; Kaveri Raina and Coral Saucedo Lomelí: What Do You Remember About the Earth (2023), Lighthouse Works, NY; image as a burden, death as a womb (2022), Chapter NY, New York, NY; Heft (2022), PATRON, Chicago, IL; E/Merge: Art of the Indian Diaspora (2021), National Indo-American Museum, Lombard, IL; Partings, Swaying to the Moon (2020), PATRON, Chicago, IL; NO LACKS, ME AND MY SHADOW (2020), M+B Gallery, Los Angeles, CA; A Space for Monsters (2021), Twelve Gates Arts, Philadelphia, PA; Hildur Ásgeirsdóttir Jónsson and Kaveri Raina (2020), Abattoir Gallery, Cleveland, OH; Linger to Gaze (2019), Annarumma Gallery, Naples, Italy; Linger Still (2019), Assembly Room, New York, NY; Here or There (2019), Paolo Arao, Rata Projects, New York, NY; Sarah.Canright / Kaveri.Raina (2019), Permanent Collection/Co-Lab Projects, Austin, TX; spaceless (2019), Deli Gallery, Brooklyn, NY; Paint School (2019), Shandaken Projects, Klaus von Nichtssagend, New York, NY; garcia, raina, shore, tossin (2019) at Luhring Augustine, New York; Pleasure at a Distance (2018), Irvine Fine Arts Center, Irvine, CA. Raina has received several fellowships and awards including the James Nelson Raymond Fellowship, the Ox-bow Residency Award, and the Skowhegan School of Painting & Sculpture Fellowship Award.Photo credit Terrance James Jr.Patron Gallery https://patrongallery.com/artist/kaverirainaPatron Gallery "Songs of Silence yet bluebirds hum" https://patrongallery.com/exhibition/413/songs-of-silence-yet-bluebirds-humPatron Gallery "Heft" https://patrongallery.com/exhibition/323/heftCasey Kaplan Gallery https://caseykaplangallery.com/artists/kaveri-raina/Chicago Gallery News https://www.chicagogallerynews.com/events/kaveri-raina-songs-of-silence-yet-bluebirds-humMOCA Cleveland "A soft place to land" https://www.mocacleveland.org/a-soft-place-to-landNight Gallery "the big picture" https://www.nightgallery.ca/exhibitions/the-big-picture/press-releaseChapter "image as burden, death as womb" https://chapter-ny.com/exhibitions/image-as-a-burden-death-as-a-womb/Artforum Review https://www.artforum.com/events/kaveri-raina-2-250873/Lighthouse workshttps://lighthouseworks.us/exhibitions/kaveri-raina-coral-saucedo-lomeli-what-do-you-remember-about-the-earthOffice "The wistful edge of silence" https://officemagazine.net/wistful-edge-silence-kaveri-rainaNewCIty https://art.newcity.com/2020/03/16/ambiguity-of-form-a-review-of-kaveri-raina-at-patron/Maake Magazine https://www.maakemagazine.com/issue-14
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