Art Talk AM on the Radio

Mierle Laderman Ukeles

2009-05-18T16:07:00.000-07:00

Mierle Laderman Ukeles

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[Interview conducted by Lori Gilbert]

After child-birth in 1968, artist Mierle Laderman Ukeles became a mother/maintenance worker and fell out of the picture of the avant-garde. In a rage, she wrote the Manifesto for Maintenance Art 1969, applied equally to the home, all kinds of service work, the urban environment, and the sustenance of the earth itself. Inspired, also, by NYC’s “Comprehensive Plan” that split its mission into two systems: development and maintenance, she has created works that collide the boundaries of these two systems together, understanding them as the embodiment of opposing human drives of freedom and necessity. Upcoming and recent exhibitions are Birthing Tikkun Olam, an inter-active installation where over 8,000 people participated in completing the work at the new Contemporary Jewish Museum in San Francisco; Radical Nature at the Barbican in London; Agency: the Work of Artists at the Montalvo Art Center, San Jose; a one person show in the Feldman Gallery Booth at the International Armory Art Fair in NYC; WACK! Art & the Feminist Revolution beginning at the Los Angeles Museum of Contemporary Art and traveling; and the Sharjah Biennial 8, United Arab Emirates. Often a visiting artist, she was Senior Critic at Yale in the sculpture department in 2007—2008. Forthcoming and recent publications include “Forgiveness for the Land: Public Offerings Made by All, Redeemed by All,” in On Forgiveness, the List Center for Art and Politics, NYC, 2009; and “The Power of the Artist & The Power of Art in the Public Domain,” in Creative Time: The Book, 2007.

Frances Stark

2009-05-11T14:58:00.001-07:00

Frances Stark

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[Interview conducted by Ryan Paulsen and Anna Gray]
[with special guest Arlo]

Frances Stark writes texts and poems. She also creates collages on paper and canvas. Stark's artistic style is formed from the combination of text, word, writing and image, often taken from collected pictorial source material. The starting point for her way of working is the self-referential use of literary or visual templates, which she places for the most part ironically or metaphorically in relation to herself, that is to say her various (life) roles as artist, woman, mother, professor and member of an (art) community. The transformation of the templates culminates in an expressly personal language, which appears, both visually and contextually, to be extremely fragile. The contextual fragility can be undoubtedly traced to the fact that Frances Stark works in a very self-ironic way, making circumstances, such as indecisiveness, timidity, becoming something, transformation, stagnation or also being a self-impostor become the central focus of her work.

Mark Dion

2009-05-04T14:19:00.001-07:00

Mark Dion

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[interview conducted by Jason Zimmerman]

Mark Dion was born in New Bedford, Massachusetts in 1961. He received a BFA (1986) and an honorary doctorate (2003) from the University of Hartford School of Art, Connecticut. Dion’s work examines the ways in which dominant ideologies and public institutions shape our understanding of history, knowledge, and the natural world. The job of the artist, he says, is to go against the grain of dominant culture, to challenge perception and convention. Appropriating archaeological and other scientific methods of collecting, ordering, and exhibiting objects, Dion creates works that question the distinctions between ‘objective’ (‘rational’) scientific methods and ‘subjective’ (‘irrational’) influences. The artist’s spectacular and often fantastical curiosity cabinets, modeled on Wunderkabinetts of the 16th Century, exalt atypical orderings of objects and specimens. By locating the roots of environmental politics and public policy in the construction of knowledge about nature, Mark Dion questions the authoritative role of the scientific voice in contemporary society. He has received numerous awards, including the ninth annual Larry Aldrich Foundation Award (2001). He has had major exhibitions at the Miami Art Museum (2006); Museum of Modern Art, New York (2004); Aldrich Museum of Contemporary Art, Ridgefield, Connecticut (2003); and Tate Gallery, London (1999). “Neukom Vivarium” (2006), a permanent outdoor installation and learning lab for the Olympic Sculpture Park, was commissioned by the Seattle Art Museum. Dion lives and works in Pennsylvania.

Doug Blandy

2009-04-30T01:53:00.000-07:00

Doug Blandy

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[interview conducted by Crystal Baxley]

Doug Blandy is the Associate Dean of Academic Affairs for the School of Architecture and Allied Arts, a Professor and Program Director in the Arts and Administration Program, and the Director of the Institute for Community Arts Studies at the University of Oregon. His research defines, describes, critiques, and analyzes the implementation of community arts programs that are participatory, community focused, community based, and culturally democratic. His most recent research considers the creation and distribution of zines as a component of radical democracy. He is also a principle investigator in a multi-university project associated with the documentation and interpretation of China's material culture.

Lee Montgomery of NPR

2009-04-20T23:04:00.000-07:00

Lee Montgomery of
Neighborhood Public Radio

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Lee Montgomery is a founding member of the Bay area based collective Neighborhood Public Radio, an independent, artist-run radio project committed to providing an alternative media platform for artists, activists, musicians, and community members. The group sets up independent radio stations, which are made available for public use, under the motto “If it’s in the neighborhood and it makes noise... we hope to put it on the air.”

NPR has produced radio projects all over the United States and Europe, including a recent project for the 2008 Whitney Biennial titled " _______ American Life," which took place next door to the Whitney Museum of American Art in an empty storefront.

Larry Sultan

2009-04-16T16:50:00.000-07:00

Larry Sultan

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[interview conducted by Tasha Liegel]

Larry Sultan grew up in California’s San Fernando Valley, which has become a source of inspiration for a number of his projects. His work blends documentary and staged photography to create images of the psychological as well as physical landscape of suburban family life. Sultan’s seminal book and exhibition Pictures From Home (1992) is a decade long project that features his own mother and father as its primary subjects, exploring photography’s role in creating familial mythologies Using this same suburban setting, his book, The Valley (2004) examines the adult film industry and the area’s middle-class tract homes that serve as pornographic film sets. Sultan's work has been exhibited and published widely and is included in the collections of the Art Institute of Chicago, the Museum of Modern Art, the Whitney Museum of American Art, the Solomon Guggenheim Museum, the San Francisco Museum of Art to name a few. Sultan is a professor of art at California College of the Arts in San Francisco.

Michael Rakowitz

2009-04-06T13:13:00.000-07:00

Michael Rakowitz

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[Interview conducted by Ariana Jacob]

Michael Rakowitz first came to the attention of the art world in the winter of 1998, when a project called paraSITE began appearing on the streets of Cambridge, and Boston, Massachusetts. It was a series of inflatable plastic homeless shelters, each one tailored to the individual specifications of its occupant designed to inflate by latching on to heat-exhaust ducts on the sides of buildings, swiping the escaping hot air and rerouting it to provide warmth for those living on the streets.

Born and raised in New York, Rakowitz work is informed by an idiosyncratic blend of performance, sculpture and graphic design; its activism is filtered through a highly aesthetic artifice. His projects, which weave together historical information and politics, are marked by a profound emotional depth. He is now on faculty at Northwestern University in Evanston, Illinois.

MK Guth

2009-03-30T17:22:00.000-07:00

MK Guth

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[Interview conducted by Cyrus Smith]

MK Guth is a multidisciplinary artist who resides here in Portland, Oregon. Her work utilizes video photography, sculpture, and interactive performance. Her work has exhibited internationally, including a contribution to last year's Whitney Biennial, titled "Ties of Protection and Safe Keeping," which was installed at the Armory Building. Guth received an MFA from New York University and is the chair of the MFA program for visual arts at the Pacific Northwest College of Art.

Tanner Dobson

2009-03-30T17:06:00.000-07:00

Tanner Dobson

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[Interview conducted by Cyrus Smith]

Tanner Dobson is a radio personality best known as the former host of WACP's "Public Square." Dobson now works independently, producing radio from his home studio here in Portland, OR. An amateur expert on the subject of Midwestern hardcore music, Tanner joined Art Talk AM to discuss the band Black Crimson from Umea, Sweden and listen to some of their catalog that spans over 15 years.

Althea Thauberger

2009-03-30T16:57:00.000-07:00

Althea Thauberger

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An emerging media artist based in Vancouver, British Columbia, Thauberger's recent video and photographic work often involves collaboration with its subjects and invites both sympathetic and critical reflection of tropes relating to individualism and self-expression, romanticism and nature and aspects of youth cultures with which she identifies.

(J Morgan Puett was not able to come on the radio. Please enjoy this recording of her lecture at PSU)

J Morgan Puett

2009-03-30T16:37:00.000-07:00

J Morgan Puett

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Born in Hahira, Georgia, Puett describes herself as a life artist, often working on project based site-sensitive artworks. She is the recent recipient of The Anonymous Was A Woman Award and A Pew Charitable Trust Grant (PEI), and currently living and working between New York City and Beach Lake, Pennsylvania, where she heads up Mildred’s Lane in collaboration with Mark Dion and other associates. This project is a long-term experiment in large-scale project based practices with a living museum and an educational institution attached, located on Puett and Dion's 96-acre compound in the upper Delaware River Valley region of Pennsylvania near New York City.

(J Morgan Puett was not able to come on the radio. Please enjoy this recording of her lecture at PSU)

damali ayo

2009-03-23T14:07:00.000-07:00

[Core Radio on Art Talk AM]

damali ayo

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[Interview conducted by Cyrus Smith]

damali ayo is a Portland based artist and writer whose work aims to challenge our culture's behavior around race. She received an MFA in 2006 from Portland State University. Her writing and commentary have appeared in a number of natonal publications and programs. She is currently working on a new book with the working title of Obamistan, a land without racism.

Brian Suereth

2009-03-09T15:48:00.000-07:00

[Core Radio on Art Talk AM]

Brian Suereth

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[Interview conducted by Cyrus Smith]

Brian Suereth is the Executive Director of Disjecta, a non-profit committed to contemporary art right here in Portland. Since 2000 Disjecta has been a vital resource for artists to create and exhibit new work. Now located in North Portland's Kenton Neighborhood, Disjecta has re-emerged as one of Portland's leading contemporary art venues.

Brian sat in for an interview to discuss Disjecta's CORE Radio initiative, a platform for community voices to offer thier perspective on the pressing cultural issues facin Portland. Core Radio is made possible by a grant from the Reigonal Arts and Culture Council and is being headed up by Zefrey Throwell of Art International Radio.

Moudou Dieng

2009-03-02T16:28:00.000-08:00

Modou Dieng

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[Interview conducted by Cyrus Smith]

Modou Dieng is a multidisciplinary artist, curator, gallery owner operator, and teacher living here in Portland, Oregon. Born in St. Louis Senegal, Dieng recieved a BA from Ecole Nationale des Beaux Arts (Senegal), later moving to the United States where he recieved an MFA from the San Francisco Art Institute.

Dieng’s has been busy recently, showing his artwork all over the world, including exhibitions in Brussels, Paris, New York, and Los Angeles, among many others. Currently you can see his work at Rocks Box Fine Art in North Portland. The show entitled “Shoot You - Shoot Me” is a collaborative installation with Damien Gilley that examines the relationship between contemporary guerilla warfare, high fashion, and the artists approach to the creative process.

Dieng is the Founder and Curator of Worksound Gallery in SE portland, a comtemporary art and music venue housed in an industrial warehouse, and was recently hired as full time faculty at the Pacific Northwest College of Art.

Julie Ault

2009-03-02T16:11:00.000-08:00

(Julie Ault / Martin Beck, Installation, Secession 2006)

Julie Ault

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Julie Ault is an artist, author, and curator who independently and collaboratively organizes exhibitions and diversiform projects. Her work emphasizes interrelationships between cultural production and politics.

Recent projects include Wet and Wild: The Spirit of Sister Corita, signal, Malmö, 2007, Installation, Vienna Secession, 2006, in collaboration with Martin Beck, and Points of Entry, a permanent art project for Queens College, CUNY, 2004. Ault is the editor of Felix Gonzalez-Torres (steidl/dangin, 2006), and Alternative Art New York, 1965-1985 (University of Minnesota Press, 2002), and is the author of Come Alive! The Spirited Art of Sister Corita Four Corners Books, 2006).

Ault and Beck are the authors of Critical Condition: Selected Texts in Dialogue (Essen: Kokerei Zollverein | Zeitgenössische Kunst und Kritik, 2003). In 1979 Ault co-founded Group Material, the NYC-based collaborative that until 1996 produced over forty installations and public projects. She has taught on a visiting basis, including at Center for Curatorial Studies at Bard; Critical Studies, Malmö Art Academy; Ecole supérieure des beaux-arts, Geneva; UCLA; and RSDI, and is currently a PhD candidate in Visual Art at Malmö Art Academy, Lund University.

(Please enjoy this archive of Julie Ault's Lecture at Portland State University)

Mark Beasley

2009-02-16T14:41:00.000-08:00

Mark Beasley

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[Interview conducted by Cyrus Smith]

Mark Beasley is an artist and curator based in New York City. Past projects include 'The Thinking,' Romantic Detachment, PS1/MoMA, New York;'Beasley Street,' Camden Arts Centre, London; the radio play 'Adventure: Showdown at the Pig Palace,' with Stephen Beasley and Nicholas Bullen and the curated group show ‘Six Actions for New York City,’ Creative Time. Some more recent projects include 'Hey Hey Glossolalia', various venues New York City, May 2008 and 'Sudden White (After London)' at the Royal Academy, London, December 2008. He is a frequent contributor to Frieze magazine, and is represented by MOT International, London.

Edgar Arceneaux

2009-02-02T15:01:00.000-08:00

Edgar Arceneaux

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[Interview conducted by Cyrus Smith]

Edgar Arceneaux is an artist living and working in Los Angeles. His multivalent practice includes drawings, collaborative installations, community-based social sculpture initiatives and large-scale film projects. Some recent solo shows include Correlations and Isomorphisms at Susanne Vielmetter Los Angeles Projects (2008), Snake River at the REDCAT Gallery in Los Angeles, CA (2006), and The Alchemy of Comedy…Stupid at ArtPace in San Antonio, Texas and Susanne Vielmetter Los Angeles Projects (2006).

Edgar has shown his work extensively both nationally and internationally, and was recently included in the 2008 Whitney Biennial. His work can be seen currently exhibiting in the 2008 California Biennial. In addition to all this, Arceneaux is also the director of Watts House Project, a collaborative artwork in the shape of a neighborhood redevelopment centered around the historic Watts towers in Watts, California.

Michael Brophy

2009-01-26T13:16:00.000-08:00

Michael Brophy

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[Interview conducted by Cyrus Smith]

A life-long resident of Portland, Michael Brophy's paintings explore the evolution of the northwest landscape with sublime large-scale canvasses and murals, referencing historical and environmental elements that question our surroundings and our relationship to nature. Brophy approaches painting as a form of storytelling, providing contemporary currents on the continuing saga of the Northwest.

Brophy graduated from the Pacific Northwest College of Art in 1985. He shows his work extensively in the Pacific Northwest including a 2005 retrospective titled "The romantic vision of Michael Brophy," which was exhibited at the Tacoma Art Museum and the Hallie Ford Museum of Art at Willamette University. His work is in collections at the Portland Art Museum, the Seattle Art Museum, and the Tacoma Art Museum, among many others. Brophy's commissioned murals can be seen at Portland's City Hall and at the Columbia Gorge Discovery Center in Wasco, OR.

Calvin Johnson

2009-01-19T13:08:00.000-08:00

Calvin Johnson

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[Interview conducted by Cyrus Smith]

Based in Olympia, Wash., Calvin's work in underground culture started as a teenage fan volunteering at the local community radio station, KAOS-FM. He moved on to writing for fanzines, organizing music and film events, playing music in various ill-fated bands. Calvin established K, a locally oriented media outlet, in 1982.

In 1993 Calvin founded Dub Narcotic, a recording studio, in which he has documented the work of the Somehow Is and Never Was, such as Mirah, the Blow, Versus, Built to Spill, Fitz of Depression, Make-Up and Little Wings. It has also been the incubator of many Calvin experiments in collaboration and self-expression, such as Beat Happening, Halo Benders and Dub Narcotic Sound System.

This interview took Place at the Dub Narcotic, December 30th, 2009.

Daneil Bozhkov

2009-01-12T15:38:00.000-08:00

Daniel Bozhov

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[Interview conducted by Cyrus Smith]

Daniel Bozhkov studied at the Academy of Fine Arts in Sofia, Bulgaria where he was trained in the traditional painting techniques of fresco, egg tempera and oil painting, then moving to the United States to persue a graduate degree at Hunter College in New York City. Bozhkov’s interdisciplinary, interactive, and multi-faceted projects have been described as “positive subversions,” often addressing cultural issues with a bit of absurdity and play.

He teaches at the Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture, Columbia University, Yale University and Rhode Island School of Design. Bozhkov was a recipient of the 2007 Chuck Close Rome Prize of the American Academy in Rome, among many other awards and accomplishments. Bozkhov produces and exhibits his work internationally, and is represented by Andrew Kreps Gallery in New York City.

Lucky Dragons

2009-01-05T13:53:00.000-08:00

Lucky Dragons

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[Interview conducted by Cyrus Smith]

"Lucky Dragons" means any recorded or performed or installed or packaged or shared or suggested or imagined pieces made by Luke Fischbeck, Sarah Rara, and/or any sometimes collaborators who claim the name. Lucky Dragons are about the birthing of new and temporary creatures--equal-power situations in which audience members cooperate amongst themselves, building up fragile networks held together by such light things as skin contact, unfamiliar language, temporary logic, the spirit of celebration, and things that work but you don't know why. There have been hundreds of these simple yet shifting and unpredictable instances--with audiences ranging from the intense intimacy of one person to the public spectacle of thousands of people. At the heart of it all is playing together--building up social collectivities, re-engaging the wonder and impossibility of technological presence.

They keep a busy schedule of performances and visits and festivals and workshops and things, in the present, and in the past: the 2008 Whitney Biennial, NY's PS1, the Centre Georges Pompidou in Paris, the Philadelphia Institute for Contemporary Art, the Portland Institute for Contemporary Art, the Museum of Contemporary Art San Diego, Frankfurt's Schirn Kunsthalle, Los Angeles' The Smell, NY's The Kitchen, The Smithsonian Institute's Hirshorn Museum, Cooper Union, the Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts, etc. Lucky dragons live in Los Angeles California and have recorded 19 albums which are all available for downloading.

Lucky Dragons' sister projects include "Sumi Ink Club" a weekly collaborative drawing society, and "Glaciers of Nice" a small press and internet community.

Chris Johanson

2008-12-29T14:11:00.000-08:00

Chris Johanson

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[Interview conducted by Cyrus Smith]

Chris Johanson is a painter, installation artist, and producer living and working in Portland, Oregon. Before moving to Portland, Chris lived in the mission District of San Francisco where he gained attention with his straight forward depictions of city life and cosmic energy. Among his many achievements in art are inclusion in the 2002 Whitney Biennial, the 2002 SF MOMA SECA Art Award, along with numerous solo exhibitions, most recently at Jack Hanley in San Francisco, and Deitch Projects in New York. Chris is also currently operating a music label called "Awesome Vistas," which prodces limited edition vinyl in collaboration with musicians and artists.

Hamza Walker

2008-12-01T13:18:00.000-08:00

Hamza Walker

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[Interview conducted by Cyrus Smith]

Since 1994, Hamza Walker has served as Director of Education/Associate Curator for The Renaissance Society at The University of Chicago - a non-collecting museum devoted to contemporary art. His most recent group exhibitions include Black Is, Black Ain't, 2008; Meanwhile in Baghdad..., 2008; All the Pretty Corpses, 2005; The Here and Now, 2005; A Perfect Union...more or less, 2004; and New Video, New Europe: A Survey of East European Video, 2004.

Monographic exhibitions include Katerina Seda: It Doesn't Matter, 2008; Katharina Grosse: Atoms Inside Balloons, 2007; Scott Short: A Survey, 2007; Mai-Thu Perret, 2006; and Peter Welz, 2005. Walker was the recipient of the 1999 Norton Curatorial Grant and the 2005 Walter Hopps Award for curatorial achievement. In addition to serving on numerous panels and juries in Europe and the United States, he has written for numerous catalogues, magazines and journals such as Artforum and Parkett.

Matthew Higgs

2008-11-24T13:23:00.000-08:00

Matthew Higgs

interviewed by

Jen Delos Reyes

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Matthew Higgs (b.1964. Wakefield, England) is a curator, critic and artist currently living and working in New York. Since the early 1990s he has sought to develop a practice that considers the intersections and overlaps between these disciplines. A primary facet of this approach has been the development of an ongoing, inter-generational dialogue amongst artists – through his exhibitions, projects and publications. Over the past fifteen years he has organized more than one hundred and fifty exhibitions and projects in Europe and North America. His writings have appeared in more than fifty books, catalogs and periodicals, including Artforum, and Frieze. In the past two years he has contributed to publications for artists such as Elizabeth Peyton, John McCracken, Christian Marclay, Oliver Payne & Nick Relph, Ken Price, Marilyn Minter, and Kay Rosen, amongst others. Higgs is currently the Director and Chief Curator of White Columns, New York's oldest non-profit art space. Since his arrival at White Columns in the fall of 2004 he has organized more than seventy-five individual exhibitions and projects, showing the work of more than 400 international artists of all generations. He has taught extensively over the past ten years and was a lecturer at Goldsmiths College, London and the Royal College of Art, London.

Stephanie Smith

2008-11-22T12:35:00.000-08:00

Stephanie Smith

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Stephanie Smith is Director of Collections and Exhibitions and Curator of Contemporary Art at the University of Chicago’s Smart Museum of Art. Her recent exhibitions at the Smart include Heartland (2008-2009, coorganized with Van Abbemuseum, Eindhoven and co-curated with Charles Esche and Kerstin Niemann), Adaptation: Video Installations by Ben-Ner, Herrera, Sullivan, and Sussman & The Rufus Corporation (2008 + tour), Drawing as Process in Contemporary Art (2006), and Beyond Green: Toward a Sustainable Art (2005 + tour, coorganized with iCI), as well as the intimate archival exhibition Adrian Piper: The Mythic Being (2006). Her upcoming project Feast: Radical Hospitality in Contemporary Art (2011) received one of three 2008 Emily Hall Tremaine Exhibition Awards.

Prior to joining the Smart's staff in 1999, Smith held curatorial positions at Contemporary Arts Museum, Houston and the Rice University Art Gallery. She is an affiliate member of the University of Chicago's Department of Visual Arts and a founding member of its Open Practice Committee. She speaks and writes widely about art and sustainability. Other current research include feasting, hospitality, independent cultural infrastructure, and the American Midwest.

(Please enjoy this archive of Stephanie Smith's Lecture at Portland State University)

2008-11-17T13:02:00.000-08:00

Reggae!

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Please enjoy this super-secret, all reggae version of Art Talk AM on the Radio!

Courtney Fink

2008-11-10T13:56:00.000-08:00

Courtney Fink

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[Interview conducted by Cyrus Smith]

Courtney Fink is the Executive Director of Southern Exposure in San Francisco, a nonprofit visual arts organization founded in 1974 that supports emerging artists and youth in a dynamic environment in which they can develop and present new work and ideas. Prior to Southern Exposure, Fink worked at the California College of the Arts and Capp Street Project in San Francisco, and Franklin Furnace in New York. For almost 15 years, Courtney has been committed to developing the capacity of visual artists and the systems that support them.

Fink is also a curator and writer and publishes books under the small press she founded, Art Workers Press. She recently co-developed SoEx Off-Site, a major yearlong series of public art projects and the acclaimed exhibitions Practice Makes Perfect: Bay Area Conceptual Craft and The Way We Work all at Southern Exposure. She is also working on co-developing several national arts field-building projects to develop new networks connecting visual arts organizations locally and nationally in partnership with the National Alliance of Media Arts and Culture and the Warhol Foundation. She has served as a juror for Creative Capital, Headlands Center for the Arts, the San Francisco Arts Commission, the San Francisco International Film Festival among many others, and has lectured locally and nationally. Originally from Los Angeles, California, Courtney holds a B.A. in art history and fine arts from Skidmore College in Saratoga Springs, NY.

Darren O'Donnell

2008-11-03T13:34:00.000-08:00

Darren O'Donnell

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[Interview conducted by Cyrus Smith]

Darren O'Donnell is a Canadian novelist, essayist, performance artist, playwright, director and actor. He is the artistic director of the performance company Mammalian Diving Reflex, self proclaimed as "Ideal Entertainment for the End of the World." In 2006 Darren published "Social Acupuncture," which shares it's name with a wing of Mammalian Diving Reflex where he creates work that engages the public, in order to prove the "generosity, abundance, and power of the social sphere."

Matt McCormick

2008-10-29T11:34:00.000-07:00

Matt McCormick

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[Interview conducted by Cyrus Smith]

Matt McCormick is an artist, film-maker, photographer and musician who has produced several well received projects in recent years. His films defy genre distinctions and fashion witty, abstract observations of contemporary culture and the urban landscape. Matt's work has been exhibited in film festivals, art museums, and micro-cinemas around the globe. Some films of note include Sincerely Joe P. Bear, American Nutria, The Problem with Machines (that communicate), and the Subconscious Art of Graffiti Removal. A collection of Matt's music and sound recordings titled Very Stereo was released in 2007 by Marriage Records, and his photography and installation work is represented by Elizabeth Leach Gallery. Matt is also the founder of the internationally recognized video distribution label Peripheral Produce, and is the founder and executive director of the Portland Documentary and Experimental Film Festival, Portland's premiere event for experimental, documentary, and otherwise obscure contemporary cinema.

Buster Simpson

2008-10-22T13:15:00.000-07:00

Buster Simpson

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[Interview conducted by Cyrus Smith]

Buster Simpson is widely known as an environmental artist, making outdoor sculpture and public art that involve its environment as well as its viewers. Simpson has worked on major infrastructure projects, site master planning, signature sculptures, museum installations, and community projects. Some of these include a light rail bridge collaborative over the Salt River in Phoenix and art master plans for urban centers and watersheds that integrate community, ecology, and art.

Andrea Zittel

2008-10-15T12:40:00.000-07:00

Andrea Zittel

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Internationally acclaimed Andrea Zittel develops hand-crafted furniture, homes and vehicles for contemporary consumers, in response to human rhythms and the creative need of people to match their surroundings to the changing appearance of life. Recently Zittel's institute, known as "A-Z Enterprise," has been acting as host to The High Desert Test Sites, a series of experimental art sites located along a stretch of desert communities in Southern California, which will provide alternative space for experimental works by both emerging and established artists in connection with the California Biennial in November, 2008. She received a BFA in painting and sculpture in 1988 from San Diego State University, and an MFA in sculpture in 1990 from the Rhode Island School of Design.

(please enjoy this archive of Zittel's lecture at Portland State University)

Avalon Kalin

2008-10-07T09:08:00.000-07:00

Avalon Kalin

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[Interview conducted by Cyrus Smith]

Avalon Kalin is a Portland based artist who explores consciousness and relationships in social contexts. Avalon has created interdisciplinary projects that often involve collaboration with individuals and groups. These include the 2001 film The Subconscious Art of Graffiti Removal, Open Reading Room, The Power of Fliers, Drumset Drumcircle, and most recently Breakthough in conjunction with the 2008 Portland Institute for the Arts Time Based Arts Festival. He is currently a graduate student of fine arts with an emphasis in social practice at Portland State University.

(this special edition of Art Talk AM, aired Monday October 6th)

Mack McFarland

2008-10-07T08:59:00.000-07:00

Mack McFarland

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[Interview conducted by Cyrus Smith]

Mack McFarland is an interdisciplinary artist who splits his time between his home in Portland, Oregon and the 11th dimension. He works in many mediums, with a particular focus on video and drawing. Characterized by humor, mysticism, chance, repetition, and the multi-sensory, his work invites the viewer to experience the intersection of the aesthetic and the cognitive. McFarland has been exhibited nationally and internationally. In 2006, he created a work for the Portland Institute for Contemporary Arts’ Time-Based Art Festival, and recently finished a three month long project for the Northwest Biennial at the Tacoma Art Museum, which Sheila Farr of the Seattle Times called “startling, nutty, and technologically relevant.” His future projects include a installation at the Art Gym at Marylhurst University and a major curatorial project at the Feldman Gallery. He is the recipient of the William H. Givler Thesis Award in Fine Arts and the winner of the Charles Voorhies Drawing Competition.

Patrick Rock

2008-09-29T13:51:00.000-07:00

Patrick Rock

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[Interview conducted by Cyrus Smith]

Patrick Rock is the new incoming director of the Autzen & MK Galleries at Portland State University and the director of Rocksbox Fine Art on Interstate Avenue in North Portland. Rocksbox is an independently ran exhibition space and short-term artist in residence program committed to the promotion and support of contemporary artists and thier work. Patrick is also a co-founding member of ROCKSBOOKS Leipzig/Portland, an artist ran publishing collaborative dedicated to the production of individual artists self-designed catalogs. Patrick has exhibited his sculpture, installation, performance, and video work internationally, most recently with gallery Laden Fuer Nichts in Leipzig, Germany, and Queen's Nails Annex in San Francisco, California. He possesses an MFA in New Genres from the San Francisco Art Institute where he was employed before returning to Portland. Patrick is a native born Oregonian whose initial art exposure was an awestruck child standing in front of the Rasmussen Collection of Pacific Northwest Native American art at the Portland Art Museum, which acted as surrogate and babysitter while his mother was completing her masters degree in teaching at PSU in the early 1970's.

Ashley Neese

2008-09-23T00:29:00.000-07:00

Ashley Neese

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[Interview conducted by Cyrus Smith]

Ashley Neese is an interdisciplinary artist and publisher. She grew up in Atlanta, Georgia and received her MFA from the California College of the Arts. Her projects and interventions have been exhibited and executed across the US and Canada. In 2008 she began hosting a non-denominational mediation group in her apartment and founded AFY, a publishing company that specializes in small runs of contemporary art books. Currently she is working on several social projects around the concept of healing and discussing publication plans with selected artists.

Born 1980 Beloit, Wisconsin. Lives and works in Portland, Oregon.

Shelby Davis

2008-09-15T15:07:00.000-07:00

Shelby Davis

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[Interview conducted by Cyrus Smith]

Shelby Davis received an MFA degree from Portland State University in 2008. He is a sculptor and multimedia artist from small town South Carolina, Pickens more specifically. He has shown with a variety of venues in the Southeast and Northwest including Redux Contemporary Art Center, The North Carolina Public Arts Commission , Jace Gace, Disjecta, and most recently for the Portland Institute of Contemporary Art as part of a collaborative effort called Paintallica. He also has pieces all over his parent's property. His outdoor sculptural installations are often based off dissecting photographic information or rearanging recycled stuff. Some are installed without permission. He is a practiced wood and metal worker but often welcomes challenges that come with new materials. He now resides in Portland, OR and is showing wherever possible selectively.

Kristan Kennedy

2008-09-08T13:09:00.000-07:00

Kristan Kennedy

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[Interview conducted by Cyrus Smith]

Kristan Kennedy is the current Visual Art Program Director at the Portland Institute for Contemporary Art (PICA), who maintain a full spectrum of contemporary arts programming, including the internationally recognized Time Based Arts Festival. Kennedy moved to Portland the year PICA was born. Her career as an artist and an arts advocate has been informed and fueled in part by PICA’s programming and impact the organization has had on Portland’s burgeoning arts community. She started at PICA as a volunteer and joined the Board of Trustees in 2002, before transitioning onto the staff in 2003, where she was responsible for managing Press and Public Relations and marketing campaigns for the organization. In Summer 2005, Kennedy moved positions to manage the Visual Program.

Kennedy is a graduate of the New York State College of Art and Design at Alfred University, and is an exhibiting artist represented by the Elizabeth Leach Gallery in Portland, Oregon. She is also co-founder of the artist collective Swallow Press (x2), whose printed ephemera and public art projects have been exhibited in PICA’s 1999 exhibit, CounterCanvas and internationally. Swallow Press (x2) projects have been published in Émigré, I-D Magazine, and Surface, and Swallow Press (x2) Printed Matter is in the special collections of Dartmouth College, the New York State Public Library, the Museum of Modern Art (MOMA), and the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art (SFMOMA). Kennedy’s own work was included in the 2006 and 1999 Biennials at the Portland Art Museum, and she has lectured at Oregon State University, Portland State University, Pacific Northwest College of Art, and her own alma mater. She is the former Board Chair of the Independent Publishing Resource Center, where she presently serves on their advisory board, and is also a former member of the Tri-Met Public Art Advisory Committee.

Jenene Nagy

2008-09-01T21:14:00.000-07:00

Jenene Nagy

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[Interview conducted by Cyrus Smith]

Jenene Nagy is an artist and curator residing in Portland, OR. She received her MFA from the University of Oregon in 2004. Since then, Nagy has been exhibiting her work all over Portland and the world including projects for the Pacific Northwest College of Art, the PDX Window Project, Linfield Art Gallery, Art Gym at Marylhurst University, and Portland Art Museum's Apex exhibition series. Nagy has also distinguished herself as one half of the curatorial duo that is Tilt Gallery and Project Space, which recently ended a two and a half year run at the Everett Street Lofts. Nagy's work will soon be featured in an upcoming edition of New American Paintings.

2008-08-25T16:42:00.000-07:00

Arthur Bradford

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[Interview conducted by Cyrus Smith]

Arthur Bradford is an accomplished writer and a filmmaker residing in Portland, Oregon. In 2001 Bradford published "Dogwalker" a book of short stories which met with critical acclaim and earned him an O'Henry Award. Bradford is also the Director of "How's Your News?," a travelling news program hosted by developmentally disabled adults. A feature length version of How's Your News? is now available on DVD, while the cast and crew are currently working on a 6 episode series for MTV. Bradford is also a long time councelor and Director at Camp Jaberwocky, a summer camp for disabled adults.

Paul Middendorf

2008-08-18T13:23:00.000-07:00

Paul Middendorf

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[Interview conducted by Cyrus Smith]

Paul Middendorf is the co-founder and current Director of galleryHOMELAND, an exhibition and project space in Portland's Central Eastside Industrial Arts District. Currently located at the Ford Building on SE 11th and Division, galleryHOMELAND also runs a number of projects independent of it's exhibition space, including a residency program, and art exchange program, and the upcoming annual "Scratching the Surface." A graduate of the School of the Art Institute of Chicago, Middendorf has been living, working, and curating in Portland, OR since 2002.

galleryHOMELAND fosters cutting edge and challenging concepts in art. Our goal is to work closely with the community to provide some of the finest exhibitions and projects for Portland's creative economy. Founded in 2005 by Paul Middendorf and Paige Saez, galleryHOMELAND contributes to the contemporary arts in Portland through the cross-pollination of regional, national, and international art and artists.

Mostlandian Citizen Lady Asher

2008-08-11T14:32:00.000-07:00

Katy Asher

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[Interview conducted by Cyrus Smith]

Mostlandian Citizen Lady Asher, is the former O. of the MOST, a long running art group based in Portland, OR who also happened to be portals to a place called Mostlandia. Though the MOST have recently resigned their positions as portals, Mostlandia will live on through its citizens. You may also know Lady Asher as Katy Asher, a graduate of the Pacific Northwest College of Art, and a current MFA candidate at Portland State University. Katy has exhibited her work throughout Portland and the world, including projects for PICA, Gallery Homeland, Disjecta, and the Victorian College of the Arts in Melbourne, Australia. You can see Katy's work in upcoming projects for "suddenly" at Reed College, and at this year's Time Based Arts Festival, organized by PICA.

Damien Gilley

2008-08-04T14:04:00.000-07:00

Damien Gilley

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[Interview conducted by Cyrus Smith]

Currently an MFA Candidate at Portland State University, Gilley received a BFA from UNLV in new media. Included in New American Talent 22 at Arthouse in Austin, Texas, Gilley has recently been showing his work all over Portland at such venues as White Elephant, Igloo, Worksound, the Portland Building, and most recently at the grand opening of Disjecta in a show called "Immaterialized" which he also curated. Damien is also the co-director of Igloo Gallery located in the Everett Street Lofts.

Adam Keller and Stephanie Simek of Rererato

2008-07-21T23:06:00.000-07:00

Rererato

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[Interview conducted by Cyrus Smith]

Adam Keller and Stephanie Simek, sometimes known as "baby bird," are the brains behind Rererato, an experimental music and art venue in NE Portland. Housed in a former Hare Krishna temple, Rererato has been the home to experimental music and art experiences of all kinds since opening their doors in the summer of 2007.

Zefrey Throwell

2008-07-14T13:35:00.000-07:00

Zefrey Throwell

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[Interview conducted by Cyrus Smith]

Zefrey Throwell is an artist living and working in New York City.
Investigating honest communication, in all the varied plumage, is his aim. Working with video, radio and painting, he is exploring the connecting points and underpinnings of social discourse.

He is a member of two collectives, Red76 and Thin Ice Collective. He loves them both equally and won't be pressured into picking a favorite.

Zefrey works with Gallery 138 in New York and is a regular contributing member to Art Radio WPS1 (PS1 Contemporary Art Center).

Dan Attoe

2008-07-07T14:07:00.000-07:00

Dan Attoe

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A native of the rural Pacific Northwest, Dan Attoe now lives and works in Washougal, Washington, just outside of Portland, Oregon. Attoe's paintings, drawing, installation and neon show internationally including exhibitions for Peres Projects in Los Angeles and Berlin, Vilma Gold in London, Western Exhibitions in Chicago, MUSAC in Leon, Spain, and most recently as part of the Contemporary Northwest Art Awards at the Portland Art Museum, which will remain on display through the 14th of September. Attoe will also be collaborating on a project called Paintallica for the 2008 Time Based Arts festival, organized by Portland Institute for Contemporary Art.

Eva Lake

2008-06-30T13:34:00.000-07:00

Eva Lake

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[Interview conducted by Cyrus Smith]

Eva Lake works in both photomontage and paintings. She shows her work at Augen Gallery here in Portland, most recently with Richter Scale in December 2007. Eva hosted a weekly art talk podcast called "the Art World" in 2007. Before that, she produced "Artstar Radio" at KPSU for five years. You can find her continuing youtube interview program, and recent writing endeavors at her blog, which she actively maintains as a public diary.

Matt Green

2008-06-23T15:30:00.000-07:00

Matt Green

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[Interview conducted by Cyrus Smith]

Matthew Green was born in Olympia Washington. Green received his Bachelor of Fine Arts from Washington State University in 2007.His current work is involved in creating democratic visual experiences via music, zines, and performance. Green Has shown primarily in the northwest. This year he curated a group show entitled, “Animal Magnetism” at Igloo gallery in Portland Oregon. In 2006 he was included in New American Art Union’s group show, “Do No Harm V.S Step Up” which was curated by Jacqueline Ehlis. Green is currently pursuing a masters of visual studies at Pacific Northwest College of art in Portland Oregon.

Harrell Fletcher and Jen Delos Reyes

2008-06-16T20:39:00.000-07:00

Harrell Fletcher

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Jen Delos Reyes

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[Interview conducted by Cyrus Smith]

Harrell Fletcher has worked collaboratively and individually on a variety of socially engaged, interdisciplinary projects for over fifteen years. His work has been shown at SF MoMA, the de Young Museum, The Berkeley Art Museum, and Yerba Buena Center For The Arts in the San Francisco Bay Area, The Drawing Center, Socrates Sculpture Park, The Sculpture Center, The Wrong Gallery, and Smackmellon in NYC, DiverseWorks and Aurora Picture show in Houston, TX, PICA in Portland, OR, CoCA and The Seattle Art Museum in Seattle, WA, Signal in Malmo, Sweden, Domain de Kerguehennec in France, and The Royal College of Art in London. Fletcher exhibits in San Francisco and Los Angeles with Jack Hanley Gallery, in NYC with Christine Burgin Gallery, in London with Laura Bartlett Gallery, and Paris with Gallery In Situ. He was a participant in the 2004 Whitney Biennial. Fletcher has work in the collections of MoMA, The Whitney Museum, The New Museum, SFMoMA, The Berkeley Art Museum, The De Young Museum, and The FRAC Brittany, France. In 2002 Fletcher started Learning To Love You More, an ongoing participatory website with Miranda July. A book version LTLYM was published in 2007 by Prestel. Fletcher is the 2005 recipient of the Alpert Award in Visual Arts. His exhibition The American War originated in 2005 at ArtPace in San Antonio, TX, and traveled to Solvent Space in Richmond, VA, White Columns in NYC, The Center For Advanced Visual Studies MIT in Boston, MA, PICA in Portland, OR, and LAXART in Los Angeles among other locations. Fletcher is a Professor of Art and Social Practice at Portland State University in Portland, Oregon.

Jennifer Delos Reyes is an artist originally from Winnipeg, MB, Canada. Her theoretical and studio research interests include: relational aesthetics, group work, interactive media and artists' social roles. She has exhibited videos, installations, and site-specific participatory work across North America and Europe. In 2006 she completed an intensive workshop, Come Together: Art and Social Engagement, at The Kitchen in New York. She has received numerous grants and awards including a Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada Masters Grant. Jennifer has recently mounted her MFA exhibition, a conference on socially engaged art practices titled Open Engagement: Art After Aesthetic Distance. In the fall of 2008 she will begin teaching in the Social Practice Program with Harrell Fletcher at Portland State University.

John Malpede

2008-06-09T14:35:00.000-07:00

John Malpede

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[Interview conducted by Cyrus Smith]

John Malpede is a director, actor, activist, and writer. In 1985, Malpede founded and continues to direct the Los Angeles Poverty Department (LAPD), the first performance group in the nation comprised primarily of homeless and formerly homeless people. LAPD's mission is to create performances that connect lived experience to the social forces that shape the lives and communities of people living in poverty. “A nationally acclaimed theater radical and social visionary, Malpede has been confounding audience expectations for two decades,” said Linda Eisenstein in the Cleveland Plain Dealer this year. Directed by Malpede, LAPD is current touring Agents & Assets, a performance that addresses the consequences of the U.S. government’s escalating war on drugs and the misuse of U.S. intelligence agencies by the executive branch of the government. Agents & Assets has been produced in Los Angeles, Detroit, and at the Cleveland Public Theater.

A frequent collaborator with dancers, poets, artists, architects, and other directors, he has recently been featured in The Passion series by artist Bill Viola and as Antonin Artaud in director Peter Sellars’ productions of For An End to the Judgment of God. Originally produced for the Vienna Festival in June 2002, the piece has toured six European cities and was produced in San Francisco at the Yerba Buena Center for the Arts and at the Roy and Edna Disney/Cal Arts Theater (REDCAT) in 2004.“Malpede creates a magnetic image of rational insanity that demands—and rewards—rapt, close attention,” says critic Robert Hurwitt in the San Francisco Chronicle.

Also in 2004, as part of a citywide retrospective exhibition of Creative Time’s renowned public sculptures, Malpede’s 1984 collaboration with visual artist Erika Rothenberg and architect Laurie Hawkinson—The Freedom of Expression National Monument—was re-installed in Foley Square, downtown New York.

Beginning in 2001, Malpede began researching and constructing RFK in EKY, a recreation of Robert F. Kennedy’s 1968 swing through Eastern Kentucky. Directed by Malpede and performed in September 2004 in five counties of eastern Kentucky, RFK in EKY recreated Kennedy’s original “war on poverty” tour over the course of a four-day event that included in-depth discussion of historic and current events, public and performance art, and social policy. RFK in EKY was produced by Appalshop and developed with a host of community partners. This monumental, real-time documentary-style performance project drew national and international attention to the strengths and needs of present-day Appalachia and its people, while revealing startling historical parallels to present-day political realities.

Malpede has taught at UCLA Dept. Dance / World Arts and Cultures; NYU Tisch School of the Arts; the Amsterdam School for Advanced Research in Theater and Dance (DasArts); and California College of the Arts. His individual artist fellowships include grants from New York State Council on the Arts; National Endowment for the Arts; and California Arts Council. He has received Dance Theater Workshop's Bessie Creation Award; San Francisco Art Institute's Adeline Kent Award; and a Theater LA Ovation Award, as well as numerous government and foundation project grants. He has performed throughout the United States in solo performances including Inappropriate Laughing Responses, Generic Performance, Pre-existing Conditions, and GET.

Amy Yoes

2008-06-02T14:02:00.000-07:00

Amy Yoes

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[Interview conducted by Cyrus Smith]

Amy Yoes has been interested in ornament and architectural space for many years. Her recent projects have become more three dimensional and have involved animation and light. Her work has been exhibited in L.I.C., NYC, Socrates Sculpture Park; 50,000 Beds, a project by Chris Doyle on view at Artspace, New Haven, CT; the Islip Museum’s Carriage House, Islip, NY; and Michael Steinberg Gallery, New York, NY. She created a wall drawing, Sightseers Folklore, for Wave Hill’s exhibition Out of Bounds in 2005. Her work has been exhibited at Aldrich Contemporary Art Museum, Ridgefield, CT; Cranbrook Art Museum, Bloomfiled Hills, MI; Hollins University, Roanoke, VA; and The Peppermil Fireside Lounge, Las Vegas, NV. She has received grants from the Pollock-Krasner Foundation and the New York Foundation for the Arts. She earned her BFA from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago.

Karen Yasinsky

2008-05-19T13:58:00.000-07:00

Karen Yasinsky

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[Interview conducted by Cyrus Smith]

Karen Yasinsky is an artist working primarily with animation. Her video installations and drawings have been shown in many venues internationally including the Mori Art Musuem, Tokyo, P.S. 1 Contemporary Art, NY, UCLA Hammer Museum, L.A., Kunst Werke, Berlin, the Sculpture Center, NY and at the Wexner Center in Columbus Ohio. Her animations have been screened worldwide at various venues and film festivals including MoMA Film at the Grammercy Theater and the International Film Festival Rotterdam. Her work can be found in several books including No. 1: First works by 363 Artists, Armpit of the Mole and >>fast forward: Media Art Sammlung Goetz. She is the recipient of a 2002 Guggenheim Foundation grant and teaches at Johns Hopkins University in Film/Media Studies. Recently she had solo shows at Mireille Mosler, Ltd., NY and Sprueth Magers Projekte, Munich. She is also a founding board member of the Gunk Foundation, a private foundation for public art.

HOCK E AYE VI, Edgar Heap of Birds

2008-05-12T14:28:00.000-07:00

Edgar Heap of Birds

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[Interview conducted by Cyrus Smith]

The artworks of HOCK E AYE VI EDGAR HEAP OF BIRDS include multi-disciplinary forms of public art messages, large scale drawings, Neuf Series acrylic paintings, prints and monumental porcelain enamel on steel outdoor sculpture.

Heap of Birds received his Master of Fine Arts from Tyler School of Art, Temple University, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania (1979), his Bachelor of Fine Arts from The University of Kansas, Lawrence, Kansas (1976) and has undertaken graduate studies at The Royal College of Art, London, England.

The artist has exhibited his works at The Museum of Modern Art, Whitney Museum of American Art, National Museum of the American Indian, Smithsonian Institution, New York, New York, The National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa, Museum of Contemporary Art, Sydney, Australia, Documenta, Kassal, Germany, Orchard Gallery, Derry, Northern Ireland, University Art Museum, Berkeley, California, Association for Visual Arts Museum, Cape Town, South Africa, Lewallen Contemporary Art, Santa Fe, New Mexico, Hong Kong Art Center, China and Bandung Institute of Technology, Bandung, Indonesia.

He has served as visiting lecturer in London, England, Western Samoa, Chiang Mai and Bangkok, Thailand, Johannesburg, South Africa, Barcelona, Spain, Belfast, Northern Ireland, Norrkoping, Sweden, Hararre, Zimbabwe and Adelaide, Australia.

Heap of Birds has taught as Visiting Professor at Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut, Rhode Island School of Design, Providence, Rhode Island and Michaelis School of Art, University of Cape Town, South Africa. At the University of Oklahoma, Professor Heap of Birds teaches in Native American Studies and Fine Arts. His seminars explore issues of the contemporary artist on local, national and international bases.

He has received grants and awards from The National Endowment for the Arts, Rockefeller Foundation, Louis Comfort Tiffany Foundation, Lila Wallace Foundation, Bonfil Stanton Foundation and The Pew Charitable Trust.

In June 2005, Heap of Birds completed the fifty-foot signature, outdoor sculpture titled Wheel. The circular porcelain enamel on steel work was commissioned by The Denver Art Museum and is inspired by the traditional Medicine Wheel of the Big Horn Mountains of Wyoming.

Heap of Birds' art work was chosen by the Smithsonian's National Museum of the American Indian as their entry towards the competition for the United States Pavilion at the 52^nd Venice Biennale. He represented NMAI with a major collateral public art project in Venice, June 2007.

Rebecca Ripple

2008-05-05T14:59:00.001-07:00

Rebecca Ripple

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[Interview conducted by Cyrus Smith]

Rebecca Ripple received her MFA in Sculpture from Yale University in 1995. Her work has been exhibited at the Brewery Project in Los Angles, Rosamund Felsen Gallery in Santa Monica, and Ludwig Drum Factory in Chicago, among others. Her work has been reviewed in the LA Weekly, ArtScence, the Chicago Tribune, and American Craft. Ripple attended the prestigious Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture where she received a full scholarship, and was awarded a Fellowship and Artist Residency at the Bemis Foundation in Omaha. She is currently a faculty member at California State University, Northridge.

Young Hae Chang Heavy Industries

2008-04-28T13:48:00.000-07:00

Young-Hae Chang Heavy Industries

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YOUNG-HAE CHANG HEAVY INDUSTRIES is in Seoul. Its C.E.O is Young-hae Chang (Korea), its C.I.O. Marc Voge (U.S.A). YHCHI's pieces present a Homeric hero searching for sublime meaning in the insignificance of a life lived anywhere but where it seemingly counts; Asian businessmen and bar hostesses drinking the night away; a man who dies and is reborn a stick; a Korean cleaning lady who is really a French philosopher; an illegal immigrant in a holding cell under the Justice Palace, in Paris; a woman who sexually embraces corporate monopoly; an evening with Sam Beckett in a bordello; an S O S from a beauty queen; a night roundup followed by an execution; a frustrated bongo player; a guy who goes to work without his pants; a girl with a Global Positioning Satellite chip sewn into her abdomen; the second Korean war in the eyes of W.G. Sebald; cultural identity; nothingness; loneliness; love in a snowy region of Japan; a guy and his girlfriend trying to get from Tokyo to Detroit; official North Korean policy on oral sex; eating glass; movie end credits; the Riviera; a duty-free DMZ; a James Brown impersonator; Saul; and more.

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YOUNG-HAE CHANG HEAVY INDUSTRIES
THE ART OF SLEEP, 2006
http://www.tate.org.uk/netart/artofsleep/
Online Flash animation with original soundtrack, 18 min 26 sec

Regine Basha

2008-04-21T16:50:00.000-07:00

04.21.08

Regine Basha

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[Interview conducted by Cyrus Smith]

Regine Basha is a curator who, for the past 15 years has worked in Montreal, New York and Austin. Her undergraduate work at NYU was in Studio Art and Art History and her graduate work was at the Center for Curatorial Studies, Bard College (class of 96). As an independent curator she has been mostly involved in realizing context-specific situations for the production of new work in both public and private space, as well as considering alternative curatorial practice. In the mid-90s, she was a part of two collectives with artists, Mayday Productions and The Brewster Project, each of which realized temporal and experimental projects throughout New York City's parks, hotels and neighboring townships. In Austin, she produced numerous special projects, exhibitions, screenings, symposia and residencies for artists in conjunction Arthouse, and with Fluent~Collaborative, an organization she co-founded with Laurence Miller. Basha's recent and upcoming exhibitions an exhibition about listening with Steve Roden and Stephen Vitiello (Lora Reynolds Gallery), an exhibition with Berlin-based Setareh Shahbazi (Contemporary Arts Forum, Santa Barbara), and a town-wide sound sculpture project in Marfa, Texas called The Marfa Sessions (Ballroom Marfa). Basha's essays have appeared in Art Lies, Art Papers, Bidoun, Cabinet, Modern Painters and Performing Arts Journal. She is currently installed at unitednationsplaza, Berlin as curatorial participant.

Marie Watt

2008-04-14T13:32:00.000-07:00

04.14.2008

Marie Watt

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(Due to a technical glitch, audio from the Art Talk AM interview with Marie Watt is not available. Please enjoy this recording of her lecture)

Marie Watt (born 1967) is a contemporary artist living and working in Portland, Oregon. Part Seneca, Watt has created work centered on contemporary Native American themes. She holds a B.A. in art from Willamette University and a Master's Degree from Yale University. She has also studied at the Institute of American Indian Arts.

Watt's art is primarily lithography and sculpture. For her sculpture, she uses a variety of materials, including everyday objects, as well as textiles, alabaster, slate, and cornhusks. In 2002, her stone sculpture Pedestrian was installed along the east bank of the Willamette River in Portland. Her work has appeared in several exhibitions in the Pacific Northwest and beyond.

In 2004, as part of the Continuum 12 artists series, an exhibit of her work opened in New York City and the George Gustav Heye Center of the National Museum of the American Indian. The exhibit includes Blanket Stories, a sculpture made of two towers of wool blankets, with each stack sewn together with a central thread. The blankets are ones Watt collected over several years, including many Hudson's Bay point blankets that were given to Native Americans in trade by the Hudson's Bay Company during the 19th century.

Storm Tharp

2008-04-07T16:28:00.000-07:00

04.07.2008

Storm Tharp

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[Interview conducted by Cyrus Smith]

Storm Tharp was raised in the rural town of Ontario, Oregon where his creative life began in calligraphy and ceramics. He attended Cornell University in 1988 and received a BFA from the College of Architecture, Art and Urban Planning. He moved to Portland, Oregon in 1992. His work is categorically interdisciplinary - although recently, his output has been primarily large-scale works on paper. These works, which are mainly figurative, encompass many narrative and historical references - balancing the sublime and desperate postures of human theatrics. Upcoming solo exhibits are scheduled for Galerie Bertand et Gruner in Geneva, Switzerland in September and PDX Contemporary Art in Portland, Oregon.

Art Talk AM on the Radio!

2008-04-07T13:47:00.000-07:00

Welcome to Art Talk AM on the Radio!

With your hosts Alex McCarl and Cyrus Smith!

Mondays on KPSU
12:00-1:00

Live interviews with the visiting artists from the PSU MFA Monday Night Lecture Series! Find out what our guests are thinking about and listening to!