Cerebral Women Art Talks Podcast

Dr. Monique Y. Wells, A native of Houston, Texas and a 32-year resident of Paris, France. Through her entrepreneurial work as a veterinary pathologist and toxicologist, travel professional, writer, speaker, and mentor, she embraces and harnesses the power of education to change lives. While working in Paris she began researching the history of African Americans there and offered self-guided tours of locations associated with African Americans in Paris. This led to her discovery, in the pauper’s division of a cemetery outside Paris, of the unmarked grave of the distinguished artist Beauford Delaney, an American modernist painter well known for his work with the Harlem Renaissance in the 1930s and ’40s. Delaney moved to Paris in 1953 and continued his production of brilliant figurative and abstract expressionist paintings, including several self-portraits and portraits of James Baldwin. He suffered from mental illness and spent the last four years of his life in a psychiatric institution in the French capital. Fascinated with his story, Monique founded Les Amis de Beauford Delaney, and raised funds for a tombstone to mark his grave. She continues her research and work promoting the legacy of Beauford Delaney. Monique worked for 13 years in the corporate world before combining her passion for life sciences, literacy, STEAM (science, technology, engineering, arts, and mathematics) education, the arts, travel/study abroad, and women’s empowerment under the umbrella of her U.S. non-profit organization, the Wells International Foundation (WIF). She is currently recruiting a select group of high achieving women leaders for membership in WIF’s L³ Alliance. Photo credit: Entrée to Black Paris Founder and CEO, Wells International Foundation https://wellsinternationalfoundation.org Facebook: www.facebook.com/WellsInternationalFoundation (https://www.facebook.com/WellsInternationalFoundation/) Most Charitable Marginalised Community Education & Support Organization - South-Central USA (https://www.acquisition-international.com/winners/wells-international-foundation/) - 2022 - Acquisition International 100 Phenomenal Black Women Fundraiser Award - 2021 10 To Know Global Game Changers in Women's Empowerment - 2018 - The Introducer Magazine Black Women in Europe Power List (https://blackwomenineurope.com/2016/12/07/monique-wells-black-women-in-europe-power-list-2016-a-list-of-our-own/) - 2016 http://walkerslegacy.com/latest-buzz/the-list-12-global-entrepreneurs/?utm_source=12+Global+Entrepreneurs&utm_campaign=OCT-15+Newsletter&utm_medium=emailThe List: 12 Global Entrepreneurs to Watch (http://walkerslegacy.com/latest-buzz/the-list-12-global-entrepreneurs/?utm_source=12+Global+Entrepreneurs&utm_campaign=OCT-15+Newsletter&utm_medium=email) - 2015 - Walker's Legacy Visit our YouTube (https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCPU4szgNs5VG1F_4RF8dLFw) channel! Enjoy highlights of our 2019 International Women's Day event - The Successful Woman (https://the-successful-woman.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/12/Event_Highlights_2019_TSW.mp4) Watch me present WIF during my Talking about Success (https://www.jackcanfield.com/pages/success-tv-talking-about-success-5/) interview with Jack Canfield!

3/22/25 • 33:48

Ep.237 Amanda Coulson has worked for three decades as a scholar, critic, curator and cultural producer, having collaborated with artists and institutions, private and corporate colleagues, in the US, Europe, and various sites in the Caribbean. A dual-national (Bahamas/US), she grew up between London, Nassau, and New York, where she studied for her Master’s Degree at the Institute of Fine Arts (NYU) and started her career at the Old Master dealers, Wildenstein & Sons, going on to work in various art galleries in London, Paris and Milan. Developing as a writer, Coulson spent 2 years as the international Editor of tema celeste, an Italian bi-lingual contemporary art magazine, before consolidating her critical practice writing for a variety of publications (Frieze, Modern Painters, ARTNews, among others) and providing critical texts for monographic gallery and museum shows. Coulson also worked as a freelance curator in Germany, organizing several exhibitions in Berlin, Frankfurt, Wiesbaden, Leipzig and Vienna (Austria), with special attention to Bahamian artists. Noting a lack of platforms for galleries representing emerging art, in 2005 she co-founded the VOLTA art fairs, which take place annually in New York and Basel, Switzerland. In 2011, she was invited home to The Bahamas to be Executive Director at the National Art Gallery of The Bahamas (NAGB), where her focus was on increasing global awareness of the contemporary Caribbean art scene and on expanding the capacity and reach of the NAGB through a rigorous combination of capital works, collaborative projects and the building of strong inter-island, regional and international networks. She served on the Davidoff Art Initiative (now Caribbean Art Initiative) Board from 2012-2018, and on the Board of the Museums Association of the Caribbean (MAC) until she stepped down from the NAGB in 2021, after a decade at the helm. She is the founding partner at TERN, a new Nassau-based gallery operated by three Bahamian women whose aim is to support Bahamian and Caribbean artists in telling their own stories the global stage. Image ~ Photo Credit: Blair Meadows Tern Gallery https://www.terngallery.com/ The Armory 2024 https://www.artsy.net/article/artsy-editorial-armory-2024-pommery-prize-awarded-anina-major The Armory 2023 https://www.thearmoryshow.com/info/past-exhibitors/2023/presents/tern C& https://amlatina.contemporaryand.com/places/tern-gallery/ VOLTA https://www.voltaartfairs.com/journal/volta-voices-amanda-coulson Festival Bahamar https://festival.bahamar.com/speaker/tern-gallery/ Bahamas Local https://www.bahamaslocal.com/showlisting/21880/Tern_Gallery.html Carib Voxx https://caribvoxx.com/tern-gallery-revolutionizing-caribbean-art-on-bahamian-terms/ Burn Away https://burnaway.org/daily/a-blue-haunting-between-the-caribbean-and-the-carolinas/ Culture Type https://www.culturetype.com/2021/06/01/on-view-tern-gallery-of-nassau-bahamas-presenting-slate-of-caribbean-artists-at-online-atlantic-world-art-fair/ interlocutorinter https://interlocutorinterviews.com/new-blog/2021/10/19/exhibition-feature-the-other-side-of-the-pentaprism-at-tern-gallery Cayman Art Week https://www.caymanartweek.com/amanda-coulson Frieze https://www.frieze.com/contributor/amanda-coulson ArtForum https://www.artforum.com/news/amanda-coulson-departs-national-art-gallery-of-the-bahamas-to-lead-new-tern-gallery-249206/ Our News https://ournews.bs/articles/regional/

3/16/25 • 35:43

Ep.236 Ebony L. Haynes is a writer and curator from Toronto, Canada. She is presently based in New York where she is senior director at David Zwirner and leads the gallery’s 52 Walker space in Tribeca. Haynes sits on the boards of Artists Space (New York) and the New Art Dealers Alliance. She also runs Black Art Sessions, an online “school” that offers free professional practice classes to Black students worldwide. Photo: Ebony L. Haynes, 2020 Photo by Elliott Jerome Brown Jr. Courtesy David Zwirner 52 Walker https://www.52walker.com/info David Zwirner https://www.davidzwirner.com/news/2021/52-walker-street-announcement Wallpaper https://www.wallpaper.com/art/david-zwirner-52-walker-new-york-ebony-l-haynes ArtReview https://artreview.com/artist/ebony-l-haynes/?year=2021 Topical Cream https://topicalcream.org/editors-in-residence/ebonylhaynes-is-topicacream-editor-in-residence-2024/ New York Times https://www.nytimes.com/2020/09/27/arts/design/zwirner-haynes-black-gallery.html ICI https://curatorsintl.org/about/collaborators/22961-ebony-haynes Culture Type https://www.culturetype.com/tag/ebony-l-haynes/ Cool Hunting https://coolhunting.com/culture/all-black-staff-to-run-david-zwirners-new-gallery/ Cultured Magazine https://www.culturedmag.com/article/2023/09/06/downtown-art-dealer-ebony-l-haynes-has-a-tip-for-tourists-who-want-to-look-like-new-yorkers ArtNews https://www.artnews.com/art-news/news/ebony-l-haynes-nada-section-1234611558/ C& https://contemporaryand.com/magazines/ebony-l-haynes-creates-new-gallery-with-all-black-staff-in-nyc/ Document Journal https://www.documentjournal.com/tag/ebony-l-haynes/ Elephant Magazine https://elephant.art/how-ebony-l-haynes-curated-raymond-saunders-evolution-through-post-no-bills/ ArtForum https://www.artforum.com/news/ebony-l-haynes-to-create-black-run-nyc-gallery-with-support-from-david-zwirner-248569/ PIN-UP Magazine https://www.pinupmagazine.org/articles/ebony-l-haynes-interview Curbed NY Magazine https://www.curbed.com/2022/09/21-questions-writer-and-curator-52-walker-director-ebony-haynes.html W Magazine https://www.wmagazine.com/culture/52-walker-ebony-haynes-david-zwirner-interview Whitewall Art https://whitewall.art/art/ebony-l-haynes-opens-52-walker-this-october/ HURS https://hurs-official.com/home/hur-conversations/ebony-haynes Office Magazine https://officemagazine.net/ebony-l-haynes

3/9/25 • 14:28

Ep.235 Alicia Knock Head curator for the Contemporary Creation and Prospective Department at Centre Pompidou. Alicia Knock seeks to develop a transnational history of art. Her acquisitions and exhibitions – Ernest Mancoba, 2019; Chine-Afrique, Crossing the World Color Line, 2020; Global(e) Resistance, 2020 – focus specifically on post-colonial practices (Modern and contemporary African art and Central European art). Concurrently, she is also exploring exhibition formats through dynamic projects that reflect on the future of museums (Museum On/Off, 2016). In 2023, she co-curated Kaunas Biennial, Survival Kit in Riga and Ljubljana graphic arts Biennial focusing on "Long-distance Friendships" and non aligned solidarities between Africa and Eastern Europe. She curated the Albanian Pavilion at the 58th Biennale, and co-curated an exhibition devoted to Boris Mikhailov at the Pinchuk Art Centre in Kyiv in 2019. Photo credit: Alicia Knock © DR Centre Pompidou Black Paris https://www.centrepompidou.fr/en/program/calendar/event/VRo249Y (English) Paris Noir - Circulations artistiques et luttes anticoloniales, 1950 – 2000 - Centre Pompidou (French) https://www.centrepompidou.fr/en/magazine/article/paris-noir-pour-une-histoire-panafricaine-et-transnationale-de-lart https://www.centrepompidou.fr/en/program/calendar/event/7OFuMJz https://amis.centrepompidou.fr/en/activities/1230 Villa Albertine https://villa-albertine.org/va/events/black-paris-talk-series-comes-to-five-us-states/ Les Echos https://www.lesechos.fr/weekend/livres-expositions/alicia-knock-la-tete-chercheuse-du-centre-pompidou-2139352 Gagosian https://gagosian.com/quarterly/contributors/alicia-knock/ Le Quotidien de l’Art https://www.lequotidiendelart.com/articles/23456-le-centre-pompidou-nomme-alicia-knock-et-claudine-grammont.html Lawrie Shabibi https://www.lawrieshabibi.com/exhibitions/110-global-e-resistance-nadia-kaabi-linke-at-centre-pompidou-paris/overview/ Global Atlanta https://www.globalatlanta.com/event/a-conversation-on-black-paris-and-the-atlanta-connection/ E-flux https://www.e-flux.com/announcements/529604/alicia-knock-and-inga-lce-to-curate-14th-kaunas-biennial-and-survival-kit-festival/ Instituto Inclusartiz https://inclusartiz.org/en/midia/instituto-inclusartiz-promove-conversa-entre-os-curadores-do-centro-georges-pompidou-fr-alicia-knock-e-paulo-miyada-2/ Cite internationale des arts https://www.citedesartsparis.net/media/cia/183726-pr_chimurenga.pdf Kauno Bienale https://bienale.lt/2025/en/curators/ Ernest Mancoba https://ernestmancoba.org/2020/05/09/alicia-knock/ C& https://contemporaryand.com/exhibition/museum-onoff-group-show/ Say Who https://saywho.fr/mondains/alicia-knock/

2/28/25 • 28:27

Ep.234 In a wide-ranging practice that encompasses photography, sculpture and painting, Diana Sinclair (b.2004) probes the material, spiritual and social resonance of water. As a former competitive swimmer, Sinclair experienced the way that pools can become fraught with racial tension; Researching global communities of black surfers, she was inspired to travel to Costa Rica, Santa Cruz and Senegal to take part in the sport that originated in Ghana; and advised by academics Kevin Dawson and Kathie Foley-Meyer, she grasped the way water can preserve legacies, hold the DNA of souls left scattered in the middle passage. Sinclair is a self-taught artist who currently has a studio at the Silver Art Projects Residency in New York, NY. Her work has recently been included in exhibitions at All Street Gallery, New York, NY (2024) and Residency Art Gallery, Los Angeles, CA (2024). Her work was chosen for a year-long public installation at the Rockefeller Center from 2023-2024. She was the recipient of the Gemma Projects Inaugural Curatorial Grant (2023) and the YoungArts Award Finalist in Photography (2021). Sinclair currently lives and works in Jersey City, NJ. Artist https://www.dianasinclair.com/ Silver Art Residency https://www.silverart.org/artists/ Plato Gallery https://www.platogallery.com/blood-as-thick-as-water-press-release

2/16/25 • 22:47

Ep.233 Mario Joyce’s work is rooted in his genealogical research of his family, going back to the 1600s. Incorporating imagery, memories, and stories from his familial research, Joyce incorporates vintage collage materials and soil from the farm he grew up on into his sumptuously textured paintings, weaving together a rich tapestry of his origins. A self-taught artist, Joyce mines his ancestral lineage as well as his personal experience growing up in rural Ohio as a Queer Black man. His work delves into how memories evolve over time and across generations, transforming into intricate capsules of meaning that convey messages of identity, belonging, and place. Mario Joyce lives and works in Los Angeles. He has participated in several residencies including Sointula House Residency, Sointula, BC (2024); Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture, Skowhegan, ME (2023); Pratt Forward, Pratt Institute, Brooklyn, NY (2022); La Brea Studio Residency, Los Angeles, CA (2021). His work has been the subject of solo exhibitions at UTA Artist Space, Los Angeles, CA (2024); Sakhile&Me, Frankfurt, Germany (2023); UTA Art Space, Atlanta, CA (2022). He has been included in numerous group exhibitions at MUZEO Museum and Cultural Center, Anaheim, CA (2024); F2T Gallery, Milan, Italy (2023); New York Culture Club, New York, NY (2022); Over the Influence, Los Angeles, CA (2022), among others. His work is included in public collections including the Columbia Museum of Art, Columbia, SC and the North Dakota Museum of Art, Grand Forks, ND. Portrait credit: Courtesy of Jeff McLane and Vielmetter LA. Artist http://www.mariojoyce.com/ Vielmetter LA https://vielmetter.com/artists/mario-joyce/ Good Black Art https://goodblackart.com/collections/all/mario-joyce Sakhile&Me https://www.sakhileandme.com/artists/mario-joyce.htm Culture Type https://www.culturetype.com/tag/mario-joyce/ Future Fair https://archive.futurefairs.com/journal-posts-2/2024/4/28/future-fair-2024-tastemaker-collections-mario-joyce Campaign Buzz https://campaignbuzz.io/email/vielmetter.com/effea04a-e7f9-4c46-8712-24bb113d1280 UTA Space https://utaartistspace.com/press/2022/08/30/transportive-paintings-from-l-a-artist-mario-joyce-distinguish-first-uta-pop-up-show/ AJC https://www.ajc.com/things-to-do/transportive-paintings-from-la-artist-mario-joyce-distinguish-first-uta-pop-up-show/IG67TNAF7ZDWFP2FND2BNWU4SI/ Meer Art https://www.meer.com/en/78691-mario-joyce-amaryllis-garden F2T Gallery https://www.f2tgallery.com/mario-joyce/ Art Rabbit https://www.artrabbit.com/events/mario-joyce-amaryllis-garden Gallery Platform LA https://galleryplatform.la/galleries/vielmetter-los-angeles/events/in-conversation-mario-joyce-and-dominique-clayton Art| Melanated https://www.artmelanated.com/projects-1/mario-joyce Ohio State University https://art.osu.edu/events/visiting-artist-mario-joyce Art Crawl https://arthag.typepad.com/arthag/2021/08/mario-joyce-unearthing-black-joy-on-governors-island.html Over the Influence https://overtheinfluence.com/artists/mario-joyce/

2/15/25 • 30:13

Ep.232 Will Maxen (b. Waterbury, CT) is a multi-disciplinary artist living in Houston, Texas, who works primarily in the language of painting. His work blends personal and historical imagery into partially abstracted scenes that explore themes of memory and belonging, navigating both literal and metaphorical spaces. The work delves into the dislocation of identity within these spaces, representing existence as something that teeters on the edge of legibility. This juxtaposition breaks the boundaries between the tangible and the intangible while the painted figures evoke vulnerability, adding a human element to the dialogue. Maxen received his BA in Illustration from Central Connecticut State University, and an MFA in Art Studio at the University of California, Davis. He has had solo exhibitions at Residency Art Gallery, Los Angeles (Felix Art Fair); and UTA Art Space, New York. His work has been featured in group shows at Fridman Gallery, New York; Canepa Selling Gallery, Los Angeles, Marrow Gallery, San Francisco; Chili Art Projects, London. Maxens work is included in the permanent collections of the Jan Shrem and Maria Manetti Shrem Museum of Art, Davis, CA; The Art Galleries at Black Studies, Austin, TX; and the Beth Rudin DeWoody Collection. Maxen has been a resident at Silver Art Projects, New York; a recipient of The New Jewish Culture Fellowship; and an Assistant Professor of Painting and Drawing at Louisiana State University. Photo Credit : Jordan Benton Fridman Gallery https://fridmangallery.com/artists/164-will-maxen/ | https://fridmangallery.com/art-fairs/102/works/artworks-2192-will-maxen-untitled-dreams-2024/ Silver Arts Residency https://www.silverart.org/about-program/ UTA Artist Space https://utaartistspace.com/exhibitions/and-the-land-stands-still/ Good Black Art https://goodblackart.com/collections/will-maxen Hyperallergic https://hyperallergic.com/826680/2023-uc-davis-arts-humanities-grads-take-center-stage-wide-ranging-show/ New American Paintings https://www.newamericanpaintings.com/artists/william-maxen Artspace https://artspacenewhaven.org/os_contributors/will-maxen/ Residency Art https://www.residencyart.com/artists | https://www.residencyart.com/exhibitions/felix-art-fair-2024 Highline Nine https://highlinenine.org/nicholaskontaxis-1-1 Felix Art Fair https://www.residencyart.com/exhibitions/felix-art-fair-2024 UC Davis Art Studio https://arts.ucdavis.edu/announcement/alum-will-maxen-featured-art-blog Cool Hunting https://coolhunting.com/culture/notes-returning-to-felix-frieze-los-angeles-and-the-future-perfect/

2/7/25 • 20:00

Ep.231 Lina Iris Viktor is a Liberian- artist who lives and works in Italy. Influenced by architecture, archaeology, West African sculptural traditions, ancient Egyptian iconography, classical astronomy and European portraiture, her paintings, sculptures, performances, photography and water-gilding with 24-carat gold produce a charged materiality that address philosophical ideas of the finite and the infinite, the microcosm and macrocosm, evanescence and eternity. Her use of gold, marble, bronze, wood and volcanic rock establish an intimate and intangible timelessness whilst her focus on black as ‘materia prima’ challenges the sociopolitical and historical preconceptions surrounding ‘blackness’ and its universal implications. By interweaving disparate materials, methods and visual lexicons associated with contemporary and ancient art forms, Viktor authors an idiosyncratic mythology that threads through deep time, knitting together a diasporic past with an expansive present in order to divine future imaginaries. Viktor received her BA in film at Sarah Lawrence College and studied photography at The School of Visual Arts in New York. Solo exhibitions include Sir John Soane’s Museum, London (2024); Fotografiska Museum of Photography, Stockholm & Tallinn(2020); Autograph, London (2019); and New Orleans Museum of Art (2018), among others. Group exhibitions include the Museum of the African Diaspora [MoAD],San Francisco (2024); Hayward Gallery, London (2022); North Carolina Museum of Art, Raleigh (2020); Somerset House, London (2019); Ford Foundation, New York(2019) ); Ford Foundation, New York (2019); Crocker Art Museum, Sacramento (2018); Kentucky Museum of Art and Craft, Louisville (2016); Spelman Museum of Fine Art, Atlanta (2016); and Cooper Gallery, Harvard University, Cambridge (2016). Photo credit ©2024 Courtesy of LVXIX Atelier.   Sir John Soane Museum https://www.soane.org/exhibitions/lina-iris-viktor-mythic-time-tens-thousands-rememberings Museum of the African Diaspora (MoAD https://www.moadsf.org/exhibitions/liberatory-living Pilar Corrias https://www.pilarcorrias.com/exhibitions/419-lina-iris-viktor-solar-angels-lunar-lords/ Hayward Gallery https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z1ZHUFirMRM&ab_channel=SouthbankCentre New Orleans Museum of Art https://noma.org/exhibitions/lina-iris-viktor-a-haven-a-hell-a-dream-deferred/ Fotografiska Stockholm https://stockholm.fotografiska.com/en/exhibitions/lina-iris-viktor Autograph https://autograph.org.uk/online-image-galleries/lina-iris-viktor-some-are-born-to-endless-night-dark-matter-exhibition-highlights Elephant https://elephant.art/lina-iris-viktors-distinct-mythology-a-photo-diary-from-the-artists-home-on-the-amalfi-coast/ Apollo Magazine https://www.apollo-magazine.com/lina-iris-viktor-soane-museum-review/ An Other https://www.anothermag.com/art-photography/15758/lina-iris-viktor-interview-mythic-time-sir-john-soane-museum-exhibition Artnet https://news.artnet.com/art-world/lina-iris-viktor-2379189 British Vogue https://www.vogue.co.uk/gallery/lina-iris-viktor-sir-john-soane Something Curated https://somethingcurated.com/2023/03/21/interview-lina-iris-viktor-on-the-libyan-sibyl-beauty-as-a-tool-for-truth/ The Art Newspaper https://www.theartnewspaper.com/2022/08/03/a-brush-with-lina-iris-viktor New York Times https://www.nytimes.com/2022/08/04/arts/design/in-the-black-fantastic-london.html

2/5/25 • 27:16

Ep.230 Carl E. Hazlewood (b. 1951) was born in Guyana, South America. Parallel to his studio practice, Hazlewood co-founded Aljira, a Center for Contemporary Art in Newark, NJ in 1983. Steeped in modest materials, such as polyester, push pins, map pins and metallic string, form is foregrounded and the slippage between drawing, painting and sculpture places his work in a space that challenges the conventions of each medium, and forces the viewer to experience form on its own terms. Hazlewood explains, “Like a sculptor, I work to find 'shapes' and 'volumes', implied or actual. And like painting, the layering becomes an intuitive search for textures, color and form…I define edges, where things begin and end, where they may find relationships and multiple transitions against or into each other. I think of this as 'drawing' the accumulation of parts into active and resonant connections. Then those 'active' parts are pinned into a final configuration, something that feels properly 'evocative' yet stable as plastic form.” Solo exhibitions of his work include BlackHead Anansi: Constellations at Charlotte and Philip Hanes Gallery, Wake Forest University, South Carolina (2023); Racing Thoughts-Fever Dreaming at Art Basel Miami Beach (2022); and BlackHead Lyricism at Welancora Gallery (2022). Hazlewood has been the recipient of fellowships at the MacDowell organization (2023, 2015); the Brown Foundation at the Dora Maar House, Ménerbes, France (2018); and the Bogliasco Foundation, Italy (2018). His fifty-two-foot-tall wall work, TRAVELER (2017), was commissioned by the Knockdown Center, Queens. Collections include: The National Museum of African American History and Culture, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, DC , The Study Center, Bogliasco Foundation, Genova, Italy, The Dora Maar House, Ménerbes, France, Ogden Museum of Southern Art, New Orleans, Louisiana, Museu Brasileiro da Escultura, São Paulo - Brazil, The Schomburg Center Collections, New York, NY, The University of Guyana, South America and The National Collection of Fine Arts, Castellani House, Guyana, South America. Photo credit: Dia Art Foundation Artist https://www.carle-hazlewood.com/ Welancora Gallery https://www.welancoragallery.com/artists/71-carl-e.-hazlewood/works/ Brattleboro Museum https://www.brattleboromuseum.org/2024/10/21/carl-e-hazlewood-infinite-passage/ Sharpe-Walentas https://www.thestudioprogram.com/artists-hp2023/carl-e-hazlewood Ortega y Gasset Projects https://www.oygprojects.com/swimming-blind-in-a-wine-dark-sea Duck Creek arts https://www.duckcreekarts.org/2024-group-show-ranee Whitewall https://whitewall.art/whitewaller/must-see-shows-in-the-hamptons-on-view-now/ Bomb https://bombmagazine.org/articles/2024/07/02/an-oral-history-with-cynthia-hawkins-by-julia-trotta/ Art Students League https://www.artstudentsleague.org/events/painters-talking-what-we-talk-about-when-we-talk-about-abstraction Wake Forest | Hanes Gallery https://hanesgallery.wfu.edu/blackhead-anansi-constellations/ Valentine Museum of Art https://valentinemuseumofart.com/artists/36-carl-hazlewood/works/ Art in Dumbo https://dumboopenstudios.com/listings/artist/carl-e-hazlewood/ Stabroek news https://www.stabroeknews.com/2024/02/04/sunday/eye-on-art/circling-back-to-carl-e-hazlewood/ Macdowell https://www.macdowell.org/artists/carl-e-hazlewood Art Cake https://artcake.org/artist-carl-e-hazlewood David Richard gallery https://davidrichardgallery.com/news/865-carl-e-hazlewood-demerara-dreaming-triptych-paintings-1996-2003-david-richard-gallery-chelsea-february-17-2022

1/29/25 • 24:22

Ep.229 Na Kim b.1986 Seoul, South Korea Na Kim lives and works in Brooklyn, New York. Known for her mimetic portraits set against polychromatic backgrounds, Na Kim’s paintings depict figures but are conceptually abstract. Her imagined subjects, derivative yet unique, evoke both confrontational and intimate encounters. Kim’s practice centers neither accuracy nor narrative, but rather reflects a deeply meditative character study. Solo exhibitions include Kim’s debut solo presentation at White Columns, New York (2023) and forthcoming show at Nicola Vassell Gallery, New York (2025). Group exhibitions include The Selves, Nicola Vassell Gallery, New York (2024) and the White Columns Benefit Auction, New York (2023, 2024). Kim has shown work at a number of art fairs, including Art Basel Miami Beach, Miami (2024) and Independent Art Fair, New York (2024). In addition to her fine art practice, Kim currently works as the art director of The Paris Review and creative director of the publishing house Farrar, Straus and Giroux. Her designs have been named among The New York Times’ best book covers of the year for the past nine consecutive years. Photo Na Kim: Courtesy of the artist Artist https://www.na-kim.com/ Nicola Vassell Gallery https://www.nicolavassell.com/artists/76-na-kim/ White Columns https://whitecolumns.org/exhibitions/na-kim/ Paris Review https://www.theparisreview.org/about/masthead | https://www.theparisreview.org/blog/2023/06/20/the-cups-came-in-a-rush-an-interview-with-margot-bergman/ One Club Organization https://www.oneclub.org/awards/adcawards/-judge/2739/na-kim The Creative Independent Na Kim – The Creative Independent Drakes https://us.drakes.com/blogs/news/in-the-studio-wth-na-kim?srsltid=AfmBOoqMsvMO6YmKGyt_fJCZkdzWGCsZjEYClN228sX4NQp4dpAGePXX I need a book cover https://ineedabookcover.com/designers/na-kim/ Print Magazine https://www.printmag.com/book-covers/best-book-cover-of-the-month-the-copenhagen-trilogy-designed-by-na-kim/ Coveteur https://coveteur.com/book-designer-interview-na-kim

1/17/25 • 19:28

Ep.228 ELLIOTT BARNES A Los Angeles native, Elliott Barnes graduated from Cornell University in New York State in 1985 with a Bachelors and a Masters in Architecture and Urban Planning. In 1984 the AIA member architect began his career with Arthur Erickson Architects in Los Angeles. In 1987, he joined the Paris office of renowned designer Andrée Putman, who in 1997 handed over the design management of her firm to him, a position he occupied until 2003. In 2004 Elliott Barnes created his own interior design firm in Paris. His aesthetic talents meant that he was immediately sought-after for exceptional design projects, including private residential properties, retail and institutional spaces, hotels and spa, installations in France and abroad. As his work shows, it is his obsession with detail that characterizes his style, which is both eclectic and demure. His notable projects include a visitors and reception center for Champagne Billecart Salmon in Mareuil-sur-Aÿ, the new Tai Ping showroom in Paris, the five-star Hotel de Montesquieu in Paris, as well as the Ritz Carlton palace in Wolfsburg in Germany. A sterling silver limited edition collection for Christofle around the theme of Champagne now on exhibition at the Musée des Arts Décoratifs in Paris, a chalet in Megève (France), the headquarters and tasting center of Ruinart in Reims, a rug collection for Tai Ping, or a penthouse showcase apartment of the real estate group Mitsui in Tokyo, and a chalet in Verbier (Switzerland). He designed the scenography for the exhibition on Gaby Aghion at the Jewish Museum in New York in October 2023. In 2024 his Endless Summer II bench, was acquired by Le Mobilier National, the French National Furniture Collection. The Elliott Barnes style resides in his elegant handling of light and use of both unusual and noble materials which invest unique, exclusive spaces with an innovative approach to luxury. His design talent has been acclaimed by the magazines AD France-AD 100 since 2014, ELLE Decor USA-A List and Architectural Digest USA-AD100 since 2021. In 2023 he was the winner of the «Talent for Elegance» award from The Centre du Luxe et de la Création, France. Wallpaper magazine selected him as one of the 300 American design creatives to know in 2023 and one of the 400 American creatives to know in the Tastemakers category in 2024. Elliott Barnes is considered one of the top 100 interior designers in the world. Passionate about art, Elliott Barnes is also the founder of The Barnes Contemporary (@thebarnescontemporary), a private collection based upon portraits of his family members by artists from the African diaspora. This collection was initiated 12 years ago. Photo Credit~ Benoit Auguste Elliott Barnes www.elliottbarnesinteriors.com Elle Décor https://www.elledecor.com/design-decorate/a43727224/christofle-elliott-barnes/ Musée des Arts décoratifs https://madparis.fr/Exposition-Christofle Christofle https://www.christofle.com/us_en/dellipse-elliottbarnes | https://www.christofle.com/us_en/madparis-christofle | https://www.christofle.com/us_en/our-maison/designers/elliott-barnes ACH Collection https://achcollection.com/trends/home-world/elliott-barnes-and-his-megeve-ski-chalet-that-you-must-know/

1/12/25 • 29:38

Ep.227 Zohra Opoku examines the politics of personal identity formation through historical, cultural, and socio-economic influences, particularly in the context of contemporary Ghana. Opoku's explorations have primarily been expressed through her photography, which she translates into screen printing. This process has led to a collage art practice that combines hand-stitched embroidery on various pre-dyed natural fabrics. She also incorporates references from West African brass-making traditions into her work, which can be experienced as applications on the textile pieces or as sculptures themselves. While her work relays social commentary and broadly relevant themes around the human experience, each of Zohra's explorations is intimately rooted in personal identity politics. She repeatedly integrates family heirlooms and her own self-image into her visual observations of Ghana's cultural memory. In 2023, she is among the artists exhibited in the 15th edition of Sharjah Biennale ‘Thinking Historically in the Present’ (United Arab Emirates), as Black Rock Sénégal Alumni at 14th edition of DAK’ART ‘Forger/Out Of Fire’ in 2022 and at 7th Athens Biennale ‘Eclipse’(Greece) 2021. She has exhibited internationally such as the Brooklyn Museum (NYC), The Museum for Photography (Chicago), The Cleveland Museum of Art, High Museum of Art (Atlanta), Kunsthaus Hamburg, Kunstmuseum Wolfsburg, Musée de l'Ethnographie (Bordeaux), Guggenheim Museum (Bilbao), Kunsthal Rotterdam, Archaeological Museum of Mykonos, Southbank Centre / Hayward Gallery (London), TATE London, SAVVY Contemporary (Berlin), Palais Populaire (Berlin), National Museum Nairobi, CCA Lagos, Nubuke Foundation (Accra) and RAW Material Company (Dakar). Her work is collected by renowned institutions such as the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles; CCS Bard College Hessel Museum of Art, Annandale-on-Hudson, NY; The Royal Museum of Ontario Toronto, Ontario; The Faurschou Foundation, Copenhagen, Denmark; TATE Modern, London, United Kingdom; The Onassis Collection, Athens, Greece and The Centre Pompidou, Paris, France. Zohra Opoku is born 1976 in Altdöbern (former GDR/ East Germany), lives and works in Accra/ Ghana and is represented by Mariane Ibrahim Gallery Chicago / Paris / Mexico City. Photo credit Nii Odzenma Artist https://www.zohraopoku.com/ Mariane Ibrahim Gallery https://marianeibrahim.com/artists/33-zohra-opoku/ Berlin Art Institute https://berlinartinstitute.com/visit-to-zohra-opoku-at-suite-berlin-and-mariane-ibrahim/ deCordova Sculpture Park and Museum https://thetrustees.org/exhibit/platform-33-zohra-opoku-self-portraits/ Interior Design https://interiordesign.net/designwire/10-questions-with-textile-artist-zohra-opoku/ Financial Times https://www.ft.com/content/2d916c9b-fafe-457e-8d21-0b6763430668 C& https://contemporaryand.com/magazines/zohra-opoku-empowering-children-of-color-to-love-themselves/ The Art Newspaper https://www.theartnewspaper.com/2024/09/10/four-galleries-and-four-artists-team-up-on-collaborative-project-suite-berlin Aperture https://aperture.org/editorial/zohra-opokus-evocative-reflections-on-mortality-and-resilience/ NYTimes https://www.nytimes.com/2023/07/14/arts/design/african-royalty-tate-modern.html The Guardian https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/2021/nov/01/laced-cut-mix-review-new-art-exchange-nottingham Wikipedia https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zohra_Opoku

1/8/25 • 24:22

Ep.226 Edra Soto (b. 1971) is a Puerto Rican-born artist, educator, and co-director of outdoor project space The Franklin. Soto instigates meaningful, relevant, and often difficult conversations surrounding socioeconomic and cultural oppression, erasure of history, and loss of cultural knowledge. Soto has presented recent solo exhibitions at Comfort Station, Chicago, IL (2024); Hyde Park Art Center, Chicago, IL (2023); Institute of Contemporary Art, San Diego, CA (2023); Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago, IL (2018); Headlands Center for the Arts, Sausalito, CA (2017); The Arts Club of Chicago, IL (2017). Her work has been featured in notable recent group exhibitions including Widening the Lens: Photography, Ecology, and the Contemporary Landscape, Carnegie Museum of Art, Pittsburgh, PA (2024); Entre Horizontes, Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago, IL (2023); no existe un mundo poshuracán, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY (2022); and Estamos Bien, La Trienal 20/21, El Museo del Barrio, New York, NY (2021). She has been awarded the Joan Mitchell Foundation Painters & Sculptors Grant; Bemis Center’s Ree Kaneko Award; the US LatinX Art Forum Fellowship; and MacArthur Foundation International Connections Fund. Soto has received numerous public commissions, for Noor Riyadh, Saudi Arabia (2024); Now & There, Central Wharf Park, Boston, MA (2023); the Chicago Architecture Biennial, IL (2023); and Millenium Park in Chicago, IL (2019). Her work is in the collection of institutions including the Whitney Museum of American Art, New York; Pérez Art Museum Miami and Museum of Contemporary Art of Chicago. Photo Courtesy of Public Art Fund ~ Liz Ligon Artist https://edrasoto.com/home.html Public Art Fund https://www.publicartfund.org/exhibitions/view/edra-soto-graft/ MSU Broad Art Museum https://broadmuseum.msu.edu/events/artist-talk-edra-soto/ por la señal | by a signal at Morgan Lehman Gallery https://www.morganlehmangallery.com/exhibitions/edra-soto4 Lazos Terrenales at ICA at MECA&D Maine https://meca.edu/ica/lazos-terrenales-earthly-bonds/ La Casa de Todos at Comfort Station https://comfortstationlogansquare.org/calendar/2024/6/1/la-casa-de-todos John Michael Kohler Arts Center https://www.jmkac.org/artist/soto-edra/ Carnegie Museum of Art https://carnegieart.org/art/hillman-photography-initiative/cycle-4-widening-the-lens/ US Latinx Art Forum https://uslaf.org/member/edra-soto/ Noor Riyadh https://riyadhart.sa/en/artists/edra-soto/?_program=noor-riyadh CAB5 https://chicagoarchitecturebiennial.org/people/edra-soto/ Ree Kaneko Award https://www.e-flux.com/announcements/511285/edra-soto-winner-of-2022-ree-kaneko-award/#:~:text=Established%20in%202019%20at%205%2C000,support%20of%20its%20alumni%20community. The Art Newsletter https://www.theartnewspaper.com/2024/09/05/edra-soto-this-kind-of-architecture-lives-in-the-background TimeOut https://www.timeout.com/newyork/news/this-new-outdoor-sculpture-in-central-park-honors-the-puerto-rican-community-090624 Hyperallergic https://hyperallergic.com/946566/new-three-year-arts-series-will-center-nyc-latine-community-clemente/ El Nuevo Dia https://www.elnuevodia.com/entretenimiento/cultura/notas/el-arte-de-una-boricua-transforma-el-central-park-de-nueva-york-con-su-obra-de-rejas/ Newcity Art https://art.newcity.com/2024/08/26/central-park-state-of-mind-edra-soto-puts-the-home-in-public-art/ Chicago Reader https://chicagoreader.com/arts-culture/art-feature/everybodys-home-edra-soto/ Forbes https://www.forbes.com/sites/shelbyknick/2023/12/14/the-brilliance-of-noor-riyadh-a-city-wide-canvas-comes-to-life-again/?sh=400c0e4a6a23 New York Times https://www.nytimes.com/2023/11/28/arts/design/chicago-architecture-biennial.html Chicago Tribune https://www.chicagotribune.com/2023/11/14/3arts-awards-50k-unrestricted-grants-to-local-teaching-artists-with-next-level-awards/ Artforum https://www.artforum.com/events/susan-snodgrass-edra-soto-513802/

12/15/24 • 23:39

Ep.225 Mario Moore, a Detroit native, received a BFA from the College for Creative Studies, Detroit, MI in 2009 and an MFA in Painting from the Yale School of Art, New Haven, CT in 2013. He is a recent Kresge Arts Fellow (2023) and a recipient of the prestigious Princeton Hodder Fellowship (2018-2019). He also has been awarded residencies at Duke University, Josef and Annie Albers Foundation, Fountainhead, and Knox College. Moore’s work is in the permanent collections of but not limited to the Detroit Institute of Arts, Princeton University Art Museum and The Studio Museum in Harlem. Moore’s work has been widely exhibited, including at the Smart Museum of Art, Chicago, IL; Cranbrook Art Museum, Bloomfield Hills, MI; Jeffrey Deitch Gallery, Los Angeles, CA; Arthur Roger Gallery, New Orleans, LA; The Cleveland Museum of Art, and Colby College Museum of Art. Mario Moore / Enshrined: Presence & Preservation exhibition—Moore’s largest survey of work to date—opened at the Charles H. Wright Museum of African American History, Detroit in June 2021 and traveled to the California African American Museum (CAAM) in March 2022, his first solo exhibition on the West Coast]. Moore’s most recent traveling museum exhibition, Revolutionary Times opened at the Flint Institute of Arts in January 2024 and closed at the Grand Rapids Art Museum in August 2024. Mario Moore currently works and lives in Detroit, MI. Headshot by Danielle Eliska Artist https://www.mariomoorestudio.com/ ABC news https://www.abc12.com/video/detroit-native-brings-revolutionary-times-to-the-flint-institute-of-arts/video_1a604728-0a2e-5a4b-969d-f0304557c2a1.html Hour Detroit https://www.hourdetroit.com/art-topics/two-new-exhibitions-at-cranbrook-art-museum-highlight-detroit-artists/ Canvas Rebel https://canvasrebel.com/meet-mario-moore/ David Klein Gallery https://www.dkgallery.com/artists/45-mario-moore/ Grand Rapids Art Museum https://www.artmuseumgr.org/press-releases/artist-mario-moore-bridges-untold-stories-of-americas-past-and-present-at-the-grand-rapids-art-museum Kresege Arts https://kresgeartsindetroit.org/artist/mario-moore/ Shondaland https://www.shondaland.com/act/a40458000/detroit-artist-mario-moore-interview/ Outlier Media https://outliermedia.org/mario-moore-artist-detroit-painter-interview/ LSU Museum of Art https://www.lsumoa.org/mario-moore-responding-to-history CAA Museum https://caamuseum.org/exhibitions/2022/enshrined-presence-preservation Duke Arts https://arts.duke.edu/projects/mario-moore/ Duke Form https://www.dukeform.co/all-content/mario-moore Sakehile & Me https://www.sakhileandme.com/artists/mario-moore.htm Cranbrook Art Museum https://cranbrookartmuseum.org/events/artist-led-tour-skilled-labor-mario-moore-sabrina-nelson-richard-lewis/ CCS Detroit https://www.ccsdetroit.edu/news/mario-moore-honored-with-ccss-2023-distinguished-alumni-award/ Detroit Metro Times https://www.metrotimes.com/arts/mario-moore-tells-detroits-underground-railroad-history-in-new-exhibit-midnight-and-canaan-31303155 Cultured Mag https://www.culturedmag.com/article/2022/11/02/mario-moore-painting-black-history Princeton University https://www.cnn.com/2020/01/01/us/princeton-university-portraits-workers-trnd/index.html The Art Newspaper https://www.theartnewspaper.com/2020/01/20/princeton-artist-fellow-mario-moore-celebrates-african-american-workers

12/6/24 • 22:27

Ep.224 Anthony Olubunmi Akinbola (b. 1991, Missouri) has had solo exhibitions at Sean Kelly, New York; Night Gallery, Los Angeles; Galerie Krinzinger, Vienna; Carbon 12, Dubai; John Kohler Art Center, Sheboygan; the Queens Museum, New York, and other galleries and institutions. His work has been featured in group shows at the Guggenheim, New York, NY; Hauser & Wirth, New York and Los Angeles; Pace Gallery, New York; and the Bernard A. Zuckerman Museum of Art, Kennesaw, among others. Akinbola's work is included in the permanent collections of the Detroit Institute of Arts, Detroit, MI; The Beth Rudin DeWoody Collection; The Everson Museum of Art, Syracuse, NY; Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York, NY; Ogunquit Museum of American Art, Ogunquit, ME; Pizzuti Collection, Columbus, OH; and Zabludowicz Collection, London, United Kingdom. Akinbola lives and works in New York. Photo Courtesy of SCAD Sean Kelly https://www.skny.com/news-events/anthony-akinbola-good-hair Hauser Wirth https://www.hauserwirth.com/viewing-room/anthony-olubunmi-akinbola/ Galerie Krinzinger https://galerie-krinzinger.at/artists/anthony-olubunmi-akinbola-0494f551/ Night Gallery https://www.nightgallery.ca/exhibitions/anthony-akinbola/about zidoun-Bossuyt https://zidoun-bossuyt.com/worksavailable/anthony-olubunmi-akinbola/ SCAD https://www.scad.edu/event/2024-08-23-anthony-olubunmi-akinbola-exhibition-good-hair Contemporary Art Review https://contemporaryartreview.la/anthony-olubunmi-akinbola-at-night-gallery/ L’Officiel https://www.lofficielusa.com/art/artists-to-watch-2024 Hypebeast https://hypebeast.com/2024/10/anthony-olubunmi-akinbola-western-beef-exhibition-galerie-frinzinger-vienna Cultural DC https://www.culturaldc.org/anthony-akinbola Whitewall https://whitewall.art/art/anthony-akinbola-explores-fetish-camouflage-and-loaded-objects-at-sean-kelly-gallery-in-new-york/ Vogue https://www.vogue.com/article/this-nigerian-american-artist-uses-durags-as-his-medium Contemporary Art Review https://contemporaryartreview.la/anthony-olubunmi-akinbola-at-night-gallery/ 1201 https://www.1202magazine.com/art/anthony-olubunmi-akinbola-scad-good-hair Visionary Artistry Magazine https://visionaryartistrymag.com/2024/06/anthony-akinbola-bridging-identity-through-art/ Rivalry Projects https://www.rivalryprojects.com/anthony-olubunmi-akinbola John Michael Kohler Arts Center https://www.jmkac.org/exhibition/magic-city/ Silver Arts Project https://www.silverart.org/artists/27-anthony-akinbola/overview/ Cultured Magazine https://www.culturedmag.com/article/2022/05/17/anthony-bunmi-akinbola-uses-art-as-social-commentary C& https://contemporaryand.com/exhibition/anthony%E2%80%AFolubunmi%E2%80%AFakinbola-magic-city/ NYTimes https://www.nytimes.com/2021/09/30/arts/design/art-gallery-shows-to-see-right-now.html Artnews https://www.artnews.com/art-news/artists/anthony-akinbola-durag-paintings-interview-1234649721/

12/4/24 • 19:55

Ep.223 Pio Abad (b.1983) is an artist whose work is concerned with the personal and political entanglements of objects. His wide-ranging body of work, mines alternative or repressed historical events and offers counter narratives that draw out threads of complicity between incidents, ideologies and people. Deeply informed by unfolding events in the Philippines, where the artist was born and raised, his work emanates from a family narrative woven into the nation’s story. He has exhibited at the Ashmolean Museum, Oxford; 58th Carnegie International; the 5th Kochi-Muziris Biennial; Ateneo Art Gallery, Manila; Museum of Contemporary Art, Tokyo; Kadist, San Francisco; Oakville Galleries, Ontario; the 2nd Honolulu Biennial; 12th Gwangju Biennial; 4A Centre for Contemporary Asian Art, Sydney and Gasworks, London. He was recently nominated for the 2024 Turner Prize. Abad’s works are part of a number of important collections including Tate, UK; Carnegie Museum of Art, Pittsburgh; Hawai​i State Art Museum, Honolulu and Singapore Art Museum. Abad is also the curator of the estate of his aunt, the Filipino American artist Pacita Abad. He has co-curated monographic exhibitions on Pacita Abad at the Museum of Contemporary Art and Design Manila and Spike Island, Bristol. Photo Credit: Frances Wadsworth Jones Artist https://www.pioabad.com/ Tate Museum https://www.tate.org.uk/art/artists/pio-abad-30636/pio-abad-beautiful-things-can-be-vessels-for-painful-stories Ashmolean Museum https://www.ashmolean.org/exhibition/ashmolean-now-pio-abad-those-sitting-in-darkness | Shortlist Turner Prize https://www.ashmolean.org/press/ashmolean-now-pio-abad-turner-prize-shortlist-press-release Pacita Abad https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pacita_Abad | https://ago.ca/events/pacita-abad-roundtable-conversation | https://tinakimgallery.com/news/205-first-of-its-kind-retrospective-of-filipino-artist-pacita-abad-opens-cbs-news/ Frieze https://www.frieze.com/article/frieze-masters-magazine-2024-pio-abad-gerret-willemsz-heda University of Oxford https://www.glam.ox.ac.uk/article/artist-pio-abads-exhibition-at-the-ashmolean-museum-shortlisted-for-2024-turner-prize Royal Academy https://www.royalacademy.org.uk/art-artists/name/pio-abad Kadist https://kadist.org/people/pio-abad/ Wallpaper https://www.wallpaper.com/art/turner-prize-2024-artists Widewalls https://www.widewalls.ch/magazine/pio-abad-2024-turner-prize Artnet News https://news.artnet.com/art-world/who-will-clinch-the-u-k-s-top-art-honor-inside-the-turner-prize-exhibition-2541699 Museums Association https://www.museumsassociation.org/museums-journal/news/2024/09/turner-prize-artist-explores-ashmolean-collection/ Vogue Philippines https://vogue.ph/lifestyle/art/pio-abad-exhibit-turner-prize/ | Pacita Abad https://vogue.ph/lifestyle/art/pacita-abad-decades-strong-path-of-color-set-ablaze/ Tatler Asia https://www.tatlerasia.com/lifestyle/arts/turner-prize-pio-abad-interview Open Space Contemporary https://www.openspacecontemporary.com/projects/10-minutes-with-open-space/10-minutes-with-pio-abad/ Silver Lens https://www.silverlensgalleries.com/artists/pio-abad

11/24/24 • 27:42

Ep.222 José Parlá (b.1973) creates paintings and multidisciplinary works based on his interest in hybrid forms of abstraction. He draws inspiration from various mediums including music, calligraphy, dance, and the decay of urban architecture and advertisements. His works poetically challenge ideas about language, politics, identity, and how we define places and spaces. Parlá’s relationship with mark-making is physical and textural, incorporating the body’s gestures into a painterly stream of consciousness composed of areas of addition, erasure, and layering that challenge the status quo of visual culture. Parlá was born to Cuban parents in Miami, Florida, and lives and works out of Brooklyn, New York. He studied painting at Savannah College of Art & Design (SCAD) in Savannah, Georgia; the New World School of the Arts, Miami, Florida; and Miami Dade College, Miami, Florida. Solo exhibitions of Parlá’s work have been organized at institutions such as The Bronx Museum, New York (2022); Gana Art Center, Seoul (2022); Istanbul’74, Istanbul (2019); Hong Kong Contemporary Art (HOCA) Foundation, Hong Kong (2019); Neuberger Museum of Art, New York (2018); SCAD Museum of Art, Savannah (2017); Brooklyn Academy of Music (BAM), New York (2017); Goss-Michael Foundation, Dallas (2016); High Museum of Art, Atlanta (2015); amongst others. Public arts projects include permanent large-scale commissions including Far Rockaway Writer’s Library, a collaboration between Snøhetta and Parlá, New York (2023); University of Texas, Austin (2018); ONE World Trade Center, New York (2015); A collaboration with Snøhetta, Hunt Library at North Carolina State University, Raleigh (2013); Barclays Center, New York (2012); Brooklyn Academy of Music (BAM), New York (2012); Concord City Place, Toronto (2010). Select group exhibitions and biennials include The Culture: Hip Hop & Contemporary Art in the 21st Century, Baltimore Museum of Art, Baltimore (2023); Brooklyn Abstraction, Four Artists, Four Walls, Brooklyn Museum, New York (2022); Reflections, Gana Art, Seoul (2019); Glasstress, Fondazione Berengo Art Space, Venice (2019); Beyond the Streets, New York (2019); Yasiin bey: Negus, Brooklyn Museum, New York (2019); Victors for Art, University of Michigan Museum of Art, Ann Arbor (2017); Post No Bills: Public Walls as Studio and Source, Neuberger Museum of Art, New York (2016); Seeing, Saying, Images and Words, Van Every/Smith Galleries, Davidson College, North Carolina (2016); Wrinkles of the City: Havana Cuba: JR & José Parlá, the Havana Biennial, Havana (2012); amongst others. Parlá's work is in several public collections including the Brooklyn Museum, New York; The British Museum, London; Buffalo AKG Art Museum, New York; El Espacio, Miami; POLA Museum of Art, Japan; Pérez Art Museum Miami, Florida; The Gordon Parks Foundation, Pleasantville, NY; The Neuberger Museum of Art, New York; and The National Museum of Fine Arts, Havana. Parlá serves on the board of National YoungArts Foundation. Parlá has received numerous awards, including the Scholastic Art & Writing Awards, Alumni Achivement Award (2024) Gordon Parks Foundation Fellowship (2023), the Hirshhorn Museum Artist x Artist honoree (Hank Willis Thomas x José Parlá) (2023), National Young Arts Foundation Award (2022), Americans for the Arts National Art Award (2022), Americans for the Arts Public Art Network (2019), Miami Dade College Alumni Hall of Fame Award inductee (2016), Brooklyn Arts Council honoree (2014), Institute of Contemporary Arts(ICA) London – Grand Prize (2013), Heartland Film Festival - Best Documentary Short and Best U.S. Premiere for Wrinkles of the City, Havana (2013) Scholastic Art Award. Photographer James Chororos

11/18/24 • 26:30

Ep.221 Shinique Smith. Known for her monumental fabric sculptures and abstract paintings of calligraphy and collage, Smith’s personal histories and belongings intertwine with thoughts of the vast nature of ‘things’ that we consume, cherish, gift, and discard and how these objects resonate on intimate and social scales. Over the last twenty years, Smith has gleaned visual poetry from textiles and explored concepts of ritual using breath, bunding and mark-making as tools toward abstraction. Her layered works range from palm-sized bundled microcosms to monolithic bales to massive chaotic paintings that contain vibrant and carefully collected mementos from her life. Smith’s practice operates at the convergence of consumption and spiritual sanctuary, balancing forces and revealing connections across space and time, race, gender, and place to suggest the possibility of new worlds. Born in Baltimore, MD, currently residing in Los Angeles, California, Smith has received awards and prizes from Joan Mitchell, the Tiffany Foundation, Anonymous Was a Woman and the American Academy of Arts and Letters among others. Her work has gained attention through her participation in celebrated biennials and group exhibitions including the 13th Bienal de Cuenca and 8th Busan Biennale; Frequency at the Studio Museum in Harlem, 30 Americans organized by the Rubell Family Collection, UnMonumental at the New Museum and Hauser + Wirth LA’s Revolution in the Making. Smith’s work has also been exhibited and collected by other prestigious institutions such as the Baltimore Museum of Art; Brooklyn Museum of Art; California African American Museum, Denver Art Museum, the Frist, Indianapolis Museum of Art at Newfields, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Minneapolis Art Institute, MOMA PS1, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, Musée d’art contemporain de Montréal, Nerman Museum of Contemporary Art, SCAD, the Ringling Museum of Art, the Whitney and the Guggenheim. Photo credit: Courtesy of the artist Artist https://www.shiniquesmith.com/ moniquemeloche https://www.moniquemeloche.com/artists/207-shinique-smith/biography/ https://www.moniquemeloche.com/exhibitions/218-collage-culture/press_release_text/ The Phillips Collection https://www.phillipscollection.org/event/2024-07-06-multiplicity The Ringling Museum https://www.ringling.org/event/shinique-smith-parade/ SRQ https://www.srqmagazine.com/srq-daily/2023-12-01/23073_The-Ringling-Presents-Shinique-Smith-Parade Hyperallergic https://hyperallergic.com/552240/meet-las-art-community-sharing-inspiration-with-people-of-color-has-always-been-a-priority-for-shinique-smith/ Centure for Maine Contemporary Art https://cmcanow.org/event/shinique-smith-continuous-poem/ Newfields https://discovernewfields.org/Shinique-Smith-Torque Guggenheim https://www.guggenheim.org/exhibition/by-way-of-material-and-motion-in-the-guggenheim-collection Kemper Museum of Contemporary Art https://www.kemperart.org/program/artist-talk-shinique-smith Products | For Freedoms https://checkout.forfreedoms.com/products/by-the-light-2024 ICASF https://www.icasf.org/exhibitions/16-the-poetics-of-dimensions See Great Art https://www.seegreatart.art/shinique-smith-artworks-displayed-with-european-masterpieces-at-ringling-museum/ Visit Indy https://www.visitindy.com/event/shinique-smith-torque/158358/ Guild Hall https://www.guildhall.org/events/ring-the-alarm-a-conversation-with-shinique-smith-renee-cox/ AWARE https://awarewomenartists.com/en/artiste/shinique-smith/ Flora Animalia https://floraanimalia.com/blogs/news/shinique-smith?srsltid=AfmBOorqjJTBqroKRSW96gcOjCXK374pQUKNseNnhQ1A0rZNtRrOdoaj

11/13/24 • 25:49

Ep.220 Jake Troyli (b.1990, Boston, MA) received his BFA from Lincoln Memorial University, Harrogate, TN (2013), where he played Division 1 basketball, his MFA from the University of South Florida, Tampa(2019), and attended the Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture, ME (2019).Solo exhibitions include moniquemeloche. Chicago, IL (2024/2022); Tempus Projects, Tampa, FL (2018); and ArtsXchange, St. Petersburg, FL. (2018). Troyli’s work has been featured in group exhibitions at Perrotin Gallery, New York, NY (2024); Galerie Droste, Düsseldorf, DE (2024);Milwaukee Art Museum, Milwaukee, WI (2023-24); Everson Museum, Syracuse, NY(2023); Galerie Droste, Paris, FR (2021); The Ringling Museum, Sarasota, FL(2021); Contemporary Art Museum, Tampa, FL (2019); San Francisco Art Institute, CA (2018). Troyli’s work will be included in the group exhibition Get in the Game: Sports, Art, Culture, curated by Jennifer Dunlop Fletcher, Seph Rodney, and Katy Siegel, at SF MoMA, which travels to the Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art and the Pérez Art Museum Miami and will be accompanied by a scholarly publication. He will have his first solo museum exhibition at the Museum of Fine Arts, St. Petersburg, FL, in 2026. His work is in the permanent collections of the Tampa Art Museum, Tampa, FL; the Ringling Museum, Sarasota, FL; the Nerman Museum of Contemporary Art, Overland Park, KS; and Pierce and Hill Harper Arts Foundation, Detroit, MI. He is the recipient of the Provincetown Fine Arts Fellowship (2019 2020) and the Creative Pinellas Emerging Artist Grant, Largo, FL (2017). Troyli was a 2023 Visual Artist recipient of the Academy of Fine Arts x International City of Arts program in Paris, France. He is resident at Project for Empty Space in Newark, NJ. Photo courtesy of the artist and Monique Meloche Gallery. Photographer Raphael Lugassy Artist - https://www.jaketroyli.com/ moniquemeloche - https://www.moniquemeloche.com/artists/48-jake-troyli/biography/ Perrotin https://leaflet.perrotin.com/view/898/light-of-winter Galerie Droste https://www.galeriedroste.com/exhibitions/92-reading-the-language-of-images-jammie-holmes-andrew-schoultz-jake-troyli/overview/ Newcity https://art.newcity.com/2024/10/15/a-bloodline-through-the-histories-a-review-of-peter-and-jake-fagundo-at-m-leblanc/ NYTimes https://www.nytimes.com/2024/10/18/arts/sfmoma-exhibit-sports-art.html ARTnews https://www.artnews.com/art-news/news/for-freedoms-activates-art-installations-democratic-national-convention-chicago-1234714497/ WBEZ | NPR https://www.wbez.org/arts/2024/07/22/jake-troyli-artist-chicago-mural-dnc-democratic-national-convention-art Cité internationale des arts https://www.citedesartsparis.net/en/jake-troyli Chicago Sun Times https://chicago.suntimes.com/murals-mosaics/2024/07/26/chicago-murals-jake-troyli-dnc-democratic-national-convention-skyart-east-garfield-park Chicago Gallery News https://www.chicagogallerynews.com/news/2024/8/anticipating-a-season-of-art-five-to-talk-to-jake-troyli White House Magazine https://whitehotmagazine.com/articles/slow-clap-at-monique-meloche/5358It’s Nice That https://www.itsnicethat.com/articles/jake-troyli-art-170222 Chicago Reader https://chicagoreader.com/arts-culture/jake-troyli-contains-multitudes/ Mana Contemporary https://www.manacontemporary.com/jake-troyli/ Kavi Gupta https://kavigupta.com/artworks/10328-jake-troyli-portrait-of-the-artist-with-hors-doeuvre-2020/ The Province Town Independenthttps://provincetownindependent.org/arts-minds/2020/03/12/show-and-tell-with-jake-troyli/ The TRiiBE https://thetriibe.com/2022/04/painter-jake-troyli-invites-us-into-the-spectacle-of-black-skin-at-expo-chicago/

11/6/24 • 24:05

Ep.219 Vian Sora (b. 1976, Baghdad, Iraq) has lived and worked in Louisville, Kentucky since 2009. She received a BS from Al Mansour University in Baghdad, Iraq in 2000 and studied printmaking at the Istanbul Museum of Graphic Art (IMOGA) in Istanbul, Turkey in 2007. Sora’s work has been presented in solo and group exhibitions nationally and internationally including the Baltimore Art Museum, Baltimore, MD; Santa Barbara Museum of Art, Santa Barbara, CA; Speed Art Museum, Louisville, KY; Contemporary Arts Center (CAC), Cincinnati, OH; Sharjah Biennale, Sharjah, UAE; IMOGA, Istanbul, Turkey; as well as the KMAC Triennial, Louisville, KY; Grinnell Museum of Art, Grinnell, IA; among others. Commencing in 2025, Sora will have a travelling solo museum show at the Santa Barbara Museum of Art, and the Speed Art Museum. Sora's work is included in the collections of the Baltimore Museum of Art, Baltimore, MD; Museum of Contemporary Art, San Diego, CA; KMAC Museum, Louisville, KY; Santa Barbara Museum of Art, Santa Barbara, CA; Speed Art Museum, Louisville, KY; Grinnell College Museum of Art, Grinnell, IA; Ministry of Culture Contemporary Collection, Baghdad, Iraq; the Pizzuti Collection, Columbus, OH; Fidelity Art Collection, Boston, MA; and the Shah Garg Foundation Collection, New York, NY; as well as numerous private collections. Photo Credit: Chad Crews Artist https://www.viansora.com/ David Nolan Gallery https://www.davidnolangallery.com/artists/vian-sora Architectural Digest Middle East https://www.admiddleeast.com/story/vian-sora-the-iraqi-american-painter-explores-the-realities-of-displacement-and-being-a-refugee Observer https://observer.com/2024/05/interview-artist-vian-sora-independent-new-york/ Vogue Arabia https://en.vogue.me/culture/iraqi-american-painter-vian-sora-debut-new-york/ The Guardian https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/2023/oct/23/vian-sora-exhibition-iraq-invasion Artnet https://news.artnet.com/art-world/vian-sora-david-nolan-2395358 Arab News https://www.arabnews.com/node/2352756/lifestyle Arab News https://www.arabnews.com/node/2239906/lifestyle Cultbytes https://cultbytes.com/vian-soras-vibrant-paintings-shine-in-the-darkest-of-times/ UnderMain Magazine https://undermain.art/visual-arts/in-search-of-bodies-lost-surveying-the-internal-landscapes-of-vian-sora/ Hyperallergic https://hyperallergic.com/721172/joy-and-terror-coexist-in-vian-soras-unsettling-paintings/

10/30/24 • 23:48

Ep.218 Ibrahim Mahama was born in 1987 in Tamale, Ghana. He lives and works in Accra, Kumasi, and Tamale. Solo exhibitions include Fruitmarket Gallery, Edinburgh (2024); Barbican Centre, London (2024); Kunsthalle Osnabrück, Germany (2023); Oude Kerk, Amsterdam (2022); Frac des Pays de la Loire, France (2022); The High Line, New York (2021); University of Michigan Museum of Art (2020); The Whitworth, The University of Manchester, UK (2019); Norval Foundation, Cape Town (2019); Tel Aviv Art Museum, Israel (2016); and KNUST Museum, Kumasi, Ghana (2013). He has participated in numerous group exhibitions including Desert X AlUla, Saudi Arabia (2024); Sharjah Biennial 15, UAE (2023); 18th International Venice Architecture Biennale, Italy (2023); the 35th Bienal de São Paulo, Brazil (2023); Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, Texas (2021); Centre Pompidou, Paris (2020); 22nd Biennale of Sydney, Australia (2020); Stellenbosch Triennale, South Africa (2020); 6th Lubumbashi Biennale, Democratic Republic of the Congo (2019); Ghana Pavilion, 58th Venice Biennale, Italy (2019); Documenta 14, Athens and Kassel, Germany (2017); Broad Art Museum, Michigan State University (2016); Kunsthal Charlottenborg, Copenhagen and Holbæk, Denmark (2016); 56th Venice Biennale, Italy (2015); and Artist’s Rooms, K21, Düsseldorf, Germany (2015). Mahama was also appointed Artistic Director of the 35th Ljubljana Biennale of Graphic Arts, Ljubljana (2023). In 2024, Mahama was selected for the inaugural Sam Gilliam award by the Dia Art Foundation and the Sam Gilliam Foundation, which includes the presentation of a public program at Dia in fall 2024. Photo credit: Carlos Idun-Tawiah White Cube https://www.whitecube.com/artists/ibrahim-mahama Sam Gilliam Award https://www.diaart.org/about/sam-gilliam-award Dia Art Foundation https://www.diaart.org/program/calendar/sam-gilliam-award-program-ibrahim-mahama-dia-talks-11212024/period/2024-11-02 Fruitmarket https://www.fruitmarket.co.uk/about-us/ Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam https://www.stedelijk.nl/en/events/artist-talk-ibrahim-mahama-en Ghana Remembers https://ghanaremembers.com/stories/people/ibrahim-maham-the-first-ghanaian-artist-to-win-the-inaugural-sam-gilliam-award-in-2024.html#google_vignette Barbican https://www.barbican.org.uk/whats-on/2024/event/ibrahim-mahama-purple-hibiscus Observer https://observer.com/2024/09/interview-ibrahim-mahama-artist-white-cube-exhibition/ Vennice Biennale https://www.labiennale.org/en/architecture/2023/force-majeure/ibrahim-mahama Institute for Humanity Activities https://www.humanactivities.org/en/iha-blank/sculpture-workshop-with-ibrahim-mahama/ Edinburgh Art Festival https://www.edinburghartfestival.com/event/ibrahim-mahamasongs-about-roses/ Wallpaper https://www.wallpaper.com/art/exhibitions-shows/ibrahim-mahama-tells-us-why-he-has-covered-the-barbican-in-pink-fabric Reiter Galleries https://www.reitergalleries.com/en/artists/ibrahim-mahama/ NYTimes https://www.nytimes.com/2024/09/19/arts/design/ibrahim-mahama-artist-ghana-white-cube.html The Brooklyn Rail https://brooklynrail.org/2024/10/artseen/ibrahim-mahama-a-spell-of-good-things/ Bonhams https://www.bonhams.com/press_release/38679/ Burlington Contemporary https://contemporary.burlington.org.uk/reviews/reviews/ibrahim-mahama-songs-about-roses The Highline https://www.thehighline.org/art/projects/ibrahim-mahama/ Desert X AlUla https://desertx.org/dx/dx24-alula/ibrahim-mahama C& https://whitewall.art/whitewaller/best-of-new-york-exhibitions-ibrahim-mahama-janaina-tschape-and-more/ artnet https://news.artnet.com/art-world/ibrahim-mahamas-stunning-textile-installation-blankets-the-barbican-in-london-2476760 BBC https://www.bbc.com/news/world-africa-68846770 The Art Newspaper https://www.theartnewspaper.com/2024/08/23/saatchi-collection-ibrahim-mahama-auction-bonhams Whitewall https://whitewall.art/whitewaller/best-of-new-york-exhibitions-ibrahim-mahama-janaina-tschape-and-more/

10/23/24 • 29:53

Ep. 217 Beverly McIver (b. 1962) is a Professor of Art, Art History, and Visual Studies at Duke University, a role she assumed after 12 years of teaching at Arizona State University. Recently, McIver was elected to the 2024 class of the National Academy of Design. In 2017, she was honored with the lifetime achievement award from the Anyone Can Fly Foundation in a ceremony hosted by her mentor, Faith Ringgold. McIver is also the subject in HBO’s Raising Renee—a feature-length documentary film that tells the story of McIver’s promise to care for Renee, her developmentally disabled older sister. In 2022, the Scottsdale Museum of Contemporary Art organized a traveling museum survey of McIver’s work, titled Full Circle, which traveled to the Southeastern Center for Contemporary Art, Winston-Salem, North Carolina, and the Gibbes Museum, Charleston, South Carolina. Beverly McIver’s solo exhibition, Entangled, opens at Berry Campbell Gallery on Thursday, October 17, 2024 and runs through November 16, 2024. The exhibition coincides with McIver’s involvement in People for the American Way’s Artists for Democracy project to promote voter mobilization through art in advance of the 2024 presidential election. Photo credit: Samantha Everette Artist https://beverlymciverart.com/ Book https://www.ucpress.edu/books/beverly-mciver/hardcover Berry Campbell Gallery https://berrycampbell.com/artists/41-beverly-mciver/biography/ Craven Allen Gallery https://www.cravenallengallery.com/beverly-mciver/ CAM Raleigh https://camraleigh.org/exhibition/beverly-mciver/ National Portrait Gallery https://npg.si.edu/blog/portrait-artist-beverly-mciver SMoCA https://smoca.org/exhibition/beverly-mciver-full-circle/ NCMA https://learn.ncartmuseum.org/artists/beverly-mciver/ Gibbes Museum https://www.gibbesmuseum.org/exhibitions/beverly-mciver-full-circle/128 Raleigh News and Observer https://www.newsobserver.com/entertainment/article290312984.html Duke University https://scholars.duke.edu/person/beverly.mciver People for the American Way https://www.peoplefor.org/world-renowned-artist-sends-urgent-get-out-vote-message-new-mural-downtown-raleigh-vote https://peoplefor.shop/products/signed-print-vote-black-beauty-by-beverly-mciver?srsltid=AfmBOoqXeKpzZlFzjDKf0dOvu7OW0P5Z0aie0-setVnAMCykBcVD0AtU KYW Radio https://www.audacy.com/kywnewsradio/news/local/nonprofit-art-initiative-get-out-the-vote The Guardian https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/2024/apr/10/artists-for-democracy-2024 Surface Magazine https://www.surfacemag.com/articles/people-for-the-american-way-artist-campaign/ artnet https://news.artnet.com/art-world/artists-for-democracy-2024-pfaw-2462641 Rachel Maddow Show, MSNBC https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nl4gqzTV20E Forbes https://www.forbes.com/sites/chaddscott/2023/05/09/what-comes-up-comes-out-in-beverly-mciver-paintings/

10/15/24 • 21:50

Ep.216 Kemar Keanu Wynter (b. Brooklyn, NY) holds a BFA from the SUNY Purchase School of Art and Design. His work was the focus of solo exhibitions at Klaus von Nichtssagend Gallery, New York (2023), Encounter, Lisbon, Portugal (2023), and Tiger Strikes Asteroid, Queens (2021). He has exhibited in several group shows including Mama’s in the Kitchen, Anat Ebgi, New York; Visible World, Halsey McKay Gallery, East Hampton; Death of Beauty, Sargent’s Daughters, Los Angeles; and Notes on Ecstatic Unity, OTP Gallery, Copenhagen, Denmark. Wynter was a member of the 2023-24 Sharpe-Walentas Studio Program, and has also been in residence at the AAI-LES Studio Program, The Macedonia Institute, Anderson Ranch Arts Center, as well as ARoS Kunstmuseum in Aarhus, Denmark and Art Quarter Budapest in Budapest, Hungary. His work is held in the collection of the Art Galleries at Black Studies at the University of Texas, Austin. Wynter’s practice has been written about in Hyperallergic, bon appétit, and the Brooklyn Rail, and discussed on Correspondence Archive and Montez Press Radio. Headshot Credit: Courtesy the Artist Artist https://cowfoot.studio/ Klaus von Nichtssagend Gallery https://klausgallery.com/artist/kemar-keanu-wynter/ | https://klausgallery.com/exhibition/kemar-keanu-wynter-rucken-2024-09-6/ Brooklyn Rail https://brooklynrail.org/2024/10/artseen/kemar-keanu-wynter-rucken/ Hyperallergic https://hyperallergic.com/954814/15-nyc-art-shows-to-see-in-october/ | https://klausgallery.com/press/kemar-keanu-wynter-cooks-up-an-abstract-feast/ Cultured Magazine https://www.culturedmag.com/article/2024/09/04/new-york-young-painters-fall-trends Artforum https://artguide.artforum.com/artguide/klaus-von-nichtssagend-gallery-2985 Artists Alliance https://www.artistsallianceinc.org/kemar-keanu-wynter/ Encounter https://www.encountercontemporary.com/kemar-keanu-wynter Sharpe-Walentas Studio Program https://www.thestudioprogram.com/

10/9/24 • 28:43

Ep.215 María Elena Ortiz is curator at the Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth, where she curated Jammie Holmes: Make the Revolution Irresistible (2023) and Surrealism and Us: Caribbean and African Diasporic Artists Since 1940 (2024). Previously she was curator at the Pérez Art Museum Miami (PAMM), where she curated group shows Allied with Power: African and African Diaspora Art from the Jorge M. Pérez Collection, The Other Side of Now: Foresight in Caribbean Art, and solo exhibitions with Firelei Báez, Ulla von Brandenburg, william cordova,Teresita Fernández, José Carlos Martinat, Carlos Motta, and Beatriz Santiago Muñoz. At PAMM she founded the Caribbean Cultural Institute, a curatorial platform dedicated to Caribbean art, and worked to grow the museum’s collection, securing works by Simone Leigh, Bisa Butler, Bony Ramirez, and others. In October 2024 Maria co-curated Flow States- La Trienal 2024 at El Museo del Barrio with Rodrigo Moura and Susanna Temkin. Photo Credit: Casey Kelbaugh The Museum of Modern Art Fort Worth https://www.themodern.org/program/maria-elena-ortiz | https://www.themodern.org/exhibition/surrealism-and-us-caribbean-and-african-diasporic-artists-1940 Caribbean Cultural Institute https://cci.pamm.org/en/author/mariaelena/ The Hopper Prize https://hopperprize.org/maria-elena-ortiz/ El Museo del Barrio https://www.elmuseo.org/ ICI https://curatorsintl.org/about/collaborators/6324-mara-elena-ortiz The Brooklyn Rail https://brooklynrail.org/contributor/maria-elena-ortiz/ The Weisman Museum https://wam.umn.edu/maria-elena-ortiz ARTnews https://www.artnews.com/art-news/news/el-museo-del-barrio-la-trienal-2024-artist-list-1234708729/ ArtSpeak https://artspeak.fiu.edu/interviews/maria-elena-ortiz/ Culture Type https://www.culturetype.com/tag/maria-elena-ortiz/ Rizzoli Books https://www.rizzolibookstore.com/author/maria-elena-ortiz

10/2/24 • 32:31

Ep. 214 Kim Dacres is a first-generation American sculptor of Jamaican descent, who lives in Harlem and practices her studio work in the Bronx. She primarily uses rubber from recycled tires to create sculptures celebrating the influential forces in her life such as family, friends, artists and musicians. Dacres was born in the Bronx and has a Bachelor’s degree from Williams College in Political Science, Art, and Africana Studies as well as a Masters in Teaching English as a Second Language from Lehman College City University of New York. She spent over a decade in New York City public and charter schools working as a teacher and middle school principal. Now, in her second full time career as an artist, Kim has had solo exhibitions in New York, Los Angeles, and Palm Beach, FL as well group exhibitions internationally and within the U.S., including Surrealism and Us: Caribbean and African Diasporic Artists Since 1940 at the Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth, Texas; Black American Portraits at Spelman College Museum of Fine Art and the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Sounds of Blackness at The Metropolitan Museum of Manila in the Philippines, Godhead – Idols in Times of Crisis at Lustwarande in the Netherlands, and Bronx Calling Part I at the Bronx Museum as part of the esteemed AIM – Artist in the Marketplace Program. Kim is the recipient of the Artadia New York Award Grant in 2022 and the Bronx Recognizes Its Own (BRIO) Grant in 2023. Her work is in numerous private and public collections including – The Beth DeWoody Collection, the LACMA collection in Los Angeles, The ICA in Miami, the Nasher Museum at Duke University, and the International African American Museum in South Carolina. Portrait: Max Yawney Kim Dacres https://www.kimdacres.com/ Colossal https://www.thisiscolossal.com/2023/07/kim-dacres-tire-busts/ NYTimes https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2023/06/22/t-magazine/art/kim-dacres-art-exhibit.html Juxtapoz https://www.juxtapoz.com/news/installation/we-insist-upon-ourselves-in-perpetuity-throughout-the-universe-april-bey-and-kim-dacres-in-atlanta/ Hyperallergic https://hyperallergic.com/871489/bronx-museum-sixth-aim-biennial-is-all-about-knowledge-and-agency/ The Hopper Prize https://hopperprize.org/kim-dacres/ Gavlak Gallery https://www.gavlakgallery.com/artists/kim-dacres Welancora Gallery https://www.welancoragallery.com/artists/86-kim-dacres/works/ The Bronx Museum https://bronxmuseum.org/aim-fellow/kim-dacres/ Observer https://observer.com/2023/06/becoming-an-artist-was-a-dream-deferred-for-sculptor-kim-dacres/ Artadia https://artadia.org/artist/kim-dacres/ Office Magazine https://officemagazine.net/skin-hair-muscles-and-bones-kim-dacres Charles Moffett https://charlesmoffett.com/exhibitions/55-kim-dacres-measure-me-in-rotations/ https://charlesmoffett.com/press/65-on-view-bantu-knots-and-braids-sculpted-from/

9/25/24 • 24:12

Ep.213 SARAH LEWIS is the founder of Vision & Justice and the John L. Loeb Associate Professor of the Humanities and Associate Professor of African and African American Studies at Harvard University. She is the author of The Unseen Truth: When Race Changed Sight in America (Harvard University Press), the bestseller, The Rise: Creativity, the Gift of Failure, and the Search for Mastery (Simon & Schuster), and the forthcoming book Vision & Justice (One World/Random House). Lewis is the editor of the award-winning volumes, “Vision & Justice” by Aperture magazine and the anthology on the work of Carrie Mae Weems (MIT Press). She is the organizer of the landmark Vision & Justice Convening at Harvard University, and co-editor of the Vision & Justice Book Series, launched in partnership with Aperture. Her awards include the Infinity Award, the Andrew Carnegie Fellowship, a Cullman Fellowship, the Freedom Scholar Award (ASALH), the Arthur Danto/ASA Prize from the American Philosophical Association, and the Photography Network Book Prize. Her writing has been published in the New Yorker, the New York Times, Artforum, and the New York Review of Books, and her work has been the subject of profiles from The Boston Globe to the New York Times. Lewis is a sought-after public speaker, with a mainstage TED talk that received over 3 million views. She received her BA from Harvard University, an MPhil from Oxford University, an MA from Courtauld Institute of Art, and her PhD from Yale University. She lives in New York City and Cambridge, MA. Portrait Credit: Stu Rosner Sarah Lewis https://sarahelizabethlewis.com/ Vision and Justice https://visionandjustice.org/ The Unseen Truth The Unseen Truth — Harvard University Press New York Times Welcoming Underexposed Black Photographers Into the Canon - The New York Times (nytimes.com) The Harvard Crimson Curating a Counter Narrative: Sarah E. Lewis on Art, Vision & Justice | Arts | The Harvard Crimson (thecrimson.com) Hyperallergic Portrait Photography Through the Lens of Fredrick Douglass (hyperallergic.com) Boston Globe Frederick Douglass recognized the power of being photographed (bostonglobe.com) The Rise https://www.simonandschuster.com/books/The-Rise/Sarah-Lewis/9781451629248 Justice and Vision https://visionandjustice.org/the-unseen-truth Harvard University https://haa.fas.harvard.edu/people/sarah-lewis Democratic Knowledge Project https://www.democraticknowledgeproject.org/sarah-lewis/

9/18/24 • 35:53

Ep.212 Erika Ranee received her MFA in painting from the University of California, Berkeley. She is the recipient of a New York Foundation for the Arts (NYFA) Fellowship in Painting/1996 and 2021; an AIM Fellowship from the Bronx Museum and was granted artist residence at the Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture and a recipient of “Anonymous Was A Woman” grant in December 2023. She was awarded a studio grant from the Marie Walsh Sharpe Foundation in 2011. Her work has been featured throughout the New York/NYC region in group exhibitions at the Southampton Arts Center, at BRIC/Project Room and at Klaus von Nichtssagend Gallery. In 2019 she exhibited in her first international show at Wild Palms in Dusseldorf, Germany. An encore international group show took place in Paris at the Brigitte Mulholland Galerie, summer 2024. Other selected group shows include The Landing Gallery in Los Angeles, CA, Hollis Taggart Gallery in Southport, CT; the Milton Resnick & Pat Passlof Foundation, NYC and recently at Venus Over Manhattan, NYC. In summer 2024 her work was featured in a solo venture at the Moss Arts Center in Blacksburg, VA. She has been selected by guest co-curator, artist Jeffrey Gibson to participate in the upcoming 200th anniversary exhibition at the Brooklyn Museum, October /2024. Her work has been reviewed in the New York Times and Artforum. She is represented by Klaus von Nichtssagend Gallery and works in New York. Photo credit: Zachary Keeting Artist https://erikaranee.com/ Duck Creek Arts https://www.duckcreekarts.org/2024-erika-ranee | https://www.duckcreekarts.org/2024-group-show-ranee Anonymous Was A Woman https://www.anonymouswasawoman.org/2023 Cultured Magazine https://culturedmag.com/article/2024/07/22/hamptons-art-shows-exhibitions-guide-summer East Hampton Star https://www.easthamptonstar.com/arts/2024725/erika-ranee-shows-feelings-duck-creek 27East https://www.27east.com/events/all-the-things-curated-by-erika-ranee/ Venus Over Manhattan https://www.venusovermanhattan.com/exhibitions/celestial-songs Art Spiel https://artspiel.org/erika-ranee-feelings-at-duck-creek/ The Roanoker https://theroanoker.com/events/erika-ranee-how-are-things-on-my-end/ Klaus von Nichtssagend Gallery https://klausgallery.com/artist/erika-ranee/ Art Rabbit https://www.artrabbit.com/events/erika-ranee-all-natural Coursicle| NYU https://www.coursicle.com/nyu/professors/Erika+Ranee/

9/11/24 • 27:52

Ep.211 Justine Ludwig currently serves as the Executive Director of Creative Time. Recent curated exhibitions include Nadia Kaabi-Linke: Walk the Line, Pia Camil: Bara, Bara, Bara, Pedro Reyes: For Future Reference, and Laercio Redondo: What ends every day. Her research interests include architecture, economics, and the aesthetics of globalization. Ludwig has an MA in Global Arts from Goldsmiths University of London and a BA in Art with a concentration in Art History from Colby College.  Photo credit ~ Scott Ludwig Justine Ludwig http://www.justineludwig.com/ Creative Time https://creativetime.org/about/staff/justine-ludwig/                        http://creativetime.org/givetoday/ Public Art Project commissioned by Creative Time *Dream with us! Submit your dreams to Cosmologyscape https://cosmologyscape.com/,* a public art project that unfolds as we rest by artists Alisha B Wormsley and Kite. The Observer  https://observer.com/2024/08/justine-ludwig-interview-creative-times-public-art/ Flaunt https://www.flaunt.com/blog/q-amp-a-with-new-yorks-most-stylish-curator Wikipedia https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Justine_Ludwig Space 538 https://space538.org/people/board-of-directors/justine-ludwig/ Solondias https://solondais.fr/2024/08/22/news297154/interview-with-justine-ludwig-executive-director-of-creative-time/

9/4/24 • 14:15

Ep.210 For Gerald Lovell (b. 1992), painting is an act of biography. Combining flat and impressionistic painting with thick daubs of impasto, Lovell’s monumental portraits depict loving scenes often lost to the abyss of memory. Lovell’s portraits refuse the notion that all Black figures put down on canvas are somehow political. Rather, his work records a deep commitment to fostering alternative community narratives by imbuing his subjects with social agency and self determinative power, while also revealing individualistic details that lay their essential humanity bare. Born in Chicago to Puerto Rican and Black parents, Lovell began painting at the age of 22 after dropping out of the graphic design program at the University of West Georgia. He has exhibited at P·P·O·W, New York; Jeffrey Deitch, Moore Building, Miami, FL; Anthony Gallery, Chicago, IL; Kohn Gallery, Los Angeles, CA; The Harvey B. Gantt Center for African-American Arts + Culture, Charlotte, NC; MINT, Atlanta, GA; and Galerie Peter Kilchmann, Zurich, Switzerland, among others. In 2022, Lovell’s work was on view in What is Left Unspoken, Love at the High Museum of Art, Atlanta, GA, and is in the museum’s permanent collection. Lovell completed the Fountainhead Artists Residency in October 2023. His second exhibition with P·P·O·W, verde, was held in Spring 2024. Portrait ~ Courtesy of Fountainhead, Miami. Photo, Cornelius Tulloch PPOW Gallery https://www.ppowgallery.com/artists/gerald-lovell#tab:thumbnails https://www.ppowgallery.com/exhibitions/gerald-lovell2#tab:thumbnails;tab-1:slideshow Anthony Gallery https://anthonygallery.com/exhibition/in-the-eye-of-the-beholder/ Juxtapoz https://www.juxtapoz.com/news/painting/gerald-lovell-verde-p-p-o-w-gallery-nyc/ Culture Type https://www.culturetype.com/2024/03/02/new-york-closing-soon-5-gallery-shows-featuring-works-by-nathaniel-oliver-tuli-mekondjo-theaster-gates-richmond-barthe-christopher-udemezue-and-gerald-lovell/ The Atlantic Journal-Constitution https://www.ajc.com/things-to-do/atlanta-painter-gerald-lovell-creates-portraits-of-family-friends-black-life/2PBC7PXW65AGLAGW4EI5U3K5SE/ whitewall https://whitewall.art/art/gerald-lovells-exhibition-at-ppow-captures-all-that-he-has/ Anderson Ranch https://www.andersonranch.org/people/gerald-lovell/ Artrabbit https://www.artrabbit.com/events/gerald-lovell-verde-ppow-390-broadway Black Art and Design https://www.blackartanddesign.com/artists/gerald-lovell-artist-overview/ The Galllery | Wish https://www.wishatlgallery.com/gerald-lovell Office Magazine https://officemagazine.net/gerald-lovell-finds-beauty-mundane Art in NYC https://artinnewyorkcity.com/2021/01/23/all-that-i-have-paintings-by-gerald-lovell-at-p-p-o-w/

7/24/24 • 19:13

Ep.209 Debra Cartwright is an artist interested in depicting the relationship between the black female body and American medical history. She uses paint and mixed media to explore selfhood and her own positioning as the daughter of a gynecologist. Themes around her work include re-embodiment, myth creation, violence, theft and intimacy. She explores a critical understanding of the past while also proposing an examination of the present American healthcare system. Headshot by Elizabeth von Stubendorff Artist https://www.debracartwright.com/oils Welancora Gallery https://www.welancoragallery.com/artists/94-debra-cartwright/works/ Artnet https://news.artnet.com/market/frieze-los-angeles-art-advisors-favorite-works-2442126 Art and object https://www.artandobject.com/slideshows/7-artists-watch-frieze-la ARTnews https://www.artnews.com/list/art-news/market/expo-chicago-2023-best-booths-1234664207/ Artsy https://www.artsy.net/article/artsy-editorial-debra-cartwrights-abstract-paintings-examine-history-medical-science-black-womanhood Montclair Art Museum https://www.montclairartmuseum.org/press/press-room/montclair-art-museum-and-african-american-cultural-committee-announce-debra Bode Gallery https://bode.gallery/blog/48-in-conversation-with-debra-cartwright-episode-19/

7/17/24 • 18:46