Cerebral Women Art Talks Podcast Phyllis Hollis
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The Cerebral Women media platform presents Cerebral Women Art Talks, a podcast that is an extension of @cerebral_women. Conversations offer insights into the visual art world from artists, mainly artists of color, and female artists who freely articulate what inspires their creativity. In addition, you'll hear interesting perspectives from dedicated art professionals who work with artists and the art institutions that feature them. Art Advisors, Art Critics, Collectors, Curators, Gallerists, Museum Professionals.
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Andrea Grover
Ep.206 Andrea Grover is the Executive Director of Guild Hall, the cornerstone cultural institution of East Hampton that combines a museum, theater, and education center. Guild Hall is completing a facility-wide renovation to restore the 1930s-era building and grounds to state-of-the-art performance and functionality. Grover has over 25 years of experience in curatorial and nonprofit leadership, focusing on art/science, moving image art, maritime themes, innovation, and participation. Most recently, she was the curator of the 2021 exhibition Alexis Rockman Shipwrecks, presented at Guild Hall, Peabody Essex Museum, Salem, MA, The Ackland Art Museum at UNC-Chapel Hill, NC, and Princeton University Art Museum, Princeton, NJ.
Before joining Guild Hall in 2016, she was the Curator of Special Projects at the Parrish Art Museum, where she was awarded both a Tremaine Foundation and an AADA Curatorial Award for her exhibition, Radical Seafaring. At the Parrish, she established the extremely popular community-driven program PechaKucha Night Hamptons and the exhibition series Parrish Road Show and Platform.
Grover founded the nonprofit film center Aurora Picture Show, Houston, Texas, at age 27. This groundbreaking entity focuses on experimental artist-made movies and installations and celebrates its 26th anniversary in 2024.
With expertise in artists who work in scientific or technological spaces, she has served as a panelist or advisor for the Pew Foundation for Arts & Heritage, Pulitzer Arts Foundation, Rauschenberg Foundation, and Bogliasco Foundation. She has taught interdisciplinary courses at the University of Houston and Texas Southern University.
She has been a guest speaker or juror at SXSW Interactive, Austin, Texas, and Ars Electronica, Linz, Austria, among many others. Grover has received fellowships from the Center for Curatorial Leadership, the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, STUDIO for Creative Inquiry at Carnegie Mellon University, and the Warhol Foundation. She holds an MFA from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago and a BFA from Syracuse University.
Photo credit: Lori Hawkins
Andrea Grover https://www.andreagrover.com/
Guild Hall https://www.guildhall.org/people/andrea-grover/
Wikipedia https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andrea_Grover
Studio for Creative Inquiry https://studioforcreativeinquiry.org/people/andrea-grover
IMAGO https://www.imago-images.com/st/0443350624
Hamptons https://hamptons.com/guild-hall-executive-director-andrea-grover-board-chairman-marty-cohen-on-entering-phase-2/
AAQ https://aaqeastend.com/bulletins/guild-hall-an-insiders-tour-of-guild-hall-w-executive-director-andrea-grover-annual-appeal/
Long Island https://events.longisland.com/executive-directors-choice-with-andrea-grover.html -
Kahlil Robert Irving
Ep.205 Kahlil Robert Irving was born in San Diego, in 1992, but spent most of his youth in St. Louis, Missouri. He attended the Kansas City Art Institute, where he received his BFA, and earned his MFA from the Sam Fox School of Design and Visual Art at Washington University in St. Louis. Irving’s work has been featured in numerous group exhibitions at the Whitney Museum of American Art, the Mass MOCA, the New Museum, and the Contemporary Art Museum St. Louis. In February of 2024, Irving opened concurrent exhibitions at the Nerman Museum of Contemporary Art (AnticKS & MOdels + My theater to your eyes) and Archeology of the Present at the Kemper Art Museum in Saint Louis and both will be on view until July.
Like many artists today, Irving works in many media, including sculpture, painting, and collage. His collages are largely influenced by contemporary digital culture. He gathers different pieces of digital material ranging from photographs he takes, to items he sees online to assemble these works. While appearing chaotic at times, he uses this method to subtly describe a view of how to navigate being Black in the United States. Irving’s range of ideas and materials shine through his practice—as he combines contemporary memes with evolved ceramic techniques, he shows how different ceramic materials can be fashioned into looking like objects from life. Throughout his practice, Irving focuses on Black joy while also shedding a light on violent white people and their ideologies.
Photo credit: Andrew Castañeda
Artist https://www.kahlilirving.com/
Nerman Museum
https://nermanstaging.jccc.edu/exhibitions/2024-02-09-kahlil-irving.html
Kemper Art Museum
https://www.kemperartmuseum.wustl.edu/on-view/on-view/kahlil-robert-irving-archaeology-of-the-present-20232024
MoMA https://www.moma.org/calendar/exhibitions/5396
Walker Art Center https://walkerart.org/calendar/2023/kahlil-robert-irving
St. Louis Magazine https://www.stlmag.com/culture/visual-arts/kahlil-robert-irving-returns-to-washington-university-for-ar/
Art Review https://artreview.com/kahlil-robert-irving-excavating-the-recent-past-walker-art-center-bold-tendencies/
River Front News https://www.riverfronttimes.com/arts/kahlil-robert-irving-reflects-on-the-built-world-in-kemper-exhibition-41948583
St. Louis Post Dispatch https://www.stltoday.com/life-entertainment/local/art-theater/art-by-kahlil-robert-irving-gets-a-special-platform-at-mildred-lane-kemper-museum/article_14b149ee-cf92-11ee-b349-3fef347f28cf.html
ARTnews https://www.artnews.com/art-news/artists/kahlil-robert-irving-walker-art-center-interview-1234663240/
Culture Type https://www.culturetype.com/2023/10/15/on-view-at-walker-art-center-kahlil-robert-irvings-site-specific-installation-reinterprets-the-notion-of-street-art/
Star Tribune https://www.startribune.com/ceramic-artist-kahlil-robert-irving-wants-us-to-stay-in-the-present-walker-art-center-minneapolis/600261276/
NPR https://www.stlpr.org/arts/2024-03-13/st-louis-artist-kahlil-robert-irving-explores-modern-life-and-loss -
Nina Chanel Abney
Ep.204 Nina Chanel Abney (b. 1982, Harvey, IL) has been honored with solo exhibitions at the Savannah College of Art and Design, Georgia (2023); the Museum of Contemporary Art, Cleveland (2023); the Institute of Contemporary Art, Miami (2022); the Gordon Parks Foundation, Pleasantville, New York (2022;traveled to Henry Art Gallery, Seattle); the Institute of Contemporary Art, Boston (2019–21); Palais de Tokyo, Paris (2018); and the Contemporary Dayton, Ohio (2021). Additionally, her solo exhibition at the Nasher Museum of Art, Duke University, Durham, North Carolina (2017), toured to the Chicago Cultural Center; Institute of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, and the California African American Museum, Los Angeles; and the Neuberger Museum of Art, Purchase College, State University of New York. Abney was recently commissioned to transform Lincoln Center’s new David Geffen Hall façade in New York, drawing from the cultural heritage of the neighborhood previously known as San Juan hill that comprised African American, Afro-Caribbean, and Puerto Rican families. Abney's recent public mural at the Miami World Center was similarly inspired by Overtown, a historic Black neighborhood in Miami. Abney’s work is held in the collections of the Whitney Museum of American Art, New York; the Museum of Modern Art, New York; the Brooklyn Museum, New York; the Bronx Museum, New York; the Dallas Museum of Art, Texas; the Rubell Family Collection, Florida; the Nasher Museum of Art, North Carolina; and the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts; amongst others.
Photo credit: Jesper Damsgaard Lund
Artist https://ninachanel.com/
Jack Shainman https://jackshainman.com/
Chronogram https://www.chronogram.com/hv-towns/review-nina-chanel-abneys-lie-doggo-at-jack-shainman-gallerys-the-school-20807734
Blockonomi https://blockonomi.com/super-punk-world-nfts-face-backlash-over-focus-on-race-and-gender/
Cultured Mag https://www.culturedmag.com/article/2024/05/16/nina-chanel-abney-jack-shainman-upstate-show
Air Jordan 3 Collaboration https://ninachanel.com/news/10-closer-look-at-nina-chanel-abney-s-air-jordan/
nft now https://nftnow.com/art/cryptopunks-debut-artist-residency-program-with-nina-chanel-abney/
NYTimes https://www.nytimes.com/2024/02/18/arts/design/abney-bey-fordjour-simmons-harlem-renaissance-met.html
The Cut https://www.thecut.com/2023/11/where-nina-chanel-abney-gets-her-custom-hats.html
Surface Magazine https://www.surfacemag.com/articles/scad-museum-of-art-life-affirming-power-of-personhood-fall-2023-exhibitions/
Juxtapose https://www.juxtapoz.com/news/in-session/big-butch-energy-synergy-a-conversation-with-nina-chanel-abney/
W Magazine https://www.wmagazine.com/culture/nina-chanel-abney-exhibition-big-butch-energy-artist-interview
Hyperallergic https://hyperallergic.com/767955/nina-chanel-abney-jacolby-satterwhite-david-geffen-hall-lincoln-center/ -
Emanuel Aguilar
Ep.203 Emanuel Aguilar is a gallerist and independent curator living and working in Chicago, IL. In 2015 he founded PATRON, a contemporary art gallery with a focus on emerging artists and conceptual practice. Previously he was a director at Kavi Gupta Gallery in Chicago and Berlin and a founder of the arts and culture magazine Jettison Quarterly. Aguilar serves on the board of Chicago Artist Coalition and is a member of the Society for Contemporary Art at The Art Institute of Chicago.
Photo credit: Erin Morgan Taylor
Patron https://patrongallery.com/about
LinkedIn https://www.linkedin.com/in/emanuel-aguilar-9819194/
Chicago Gallery News https://www.chicagogallerynews.com/organizations/patron
NYTimes https://www.nytimes.com/2024/03/13/arts/design/whitney-biennial-review-museum-art.html
Hyperallergic https://hyperallergic.com/877662/first-impressions-from-the-2024-whitney-biennial/
Surface Magazine https://www.surfacemag.com/articles/patron-gallery-chicago-interview/
Brooklyn Rail https://brooklynrail.org/2024/04/artseen/Whitney-Biennial-2024-Even-Better-Than-the-Real-Thing
Bay State banner https://www.baystatebanner.com/2024/03/20/noe-martinez-explores-indigenous-ancestry-and-trauma-of-colonialism-in-the-body-remembers/
SETI Org https://www.seti.org/seti-air-newsletter-march-2024
e-flux https://www.e-flux.com/criticism/599131/81st-whitney-biennial-even-better-than-the-real-thing
AnOther Magazine https://www.anothermag.com/art-photography/15214/chantal-akerman-exhibition-2023-jeanne-dielman-collier-schorr-carmen-winant
Art Basel https://www.artbasel.com/catalog/gallery/3688/Patron?lang=en | https://www.artbasel.com/stories/young-voices-from-the-whitney-biennial-2024
Frieze https://www.frieze.com/gallery/patron | https://www.frieze.com/article/focus-frieze-new-york-stanley-stellar-reverend-joyce-mcdonald
The Art Newspaper https://www.theartnewspaper.com/2024/03/21/whitney-biennial-2024-even-better-than-the-real-thing
Six Inches From Center https://sixtyinchesfromcenter.org/the-atmosphere-that-holds-us-an-interview-with-brittany-nelson-on-i-cant-make-you-love-me/
Cultured Mag https://www.culturedmag.com/article/2024/03/13/whitney-biennial-new-york-art -
Adebunmi Gbadebo
Ep.202 Adebunmi Gbadebo (b. 1992 in Livingston, NJ) is a multidisciplinary artist working with paper, ceramics, sound, and film, exploring Gbadebo explores the archival record of her family’s ancestry. Through her research, material selection, and technical process, the artist emphasizes the prejudice of the historical record, activating her practice to restore Black subjectivity.
She received a BFA from the School of Visual Art, New York. In 2023, she was the recipient of the Maxwell and Hanrahan Craft Fellowship and the Keynote speaker for the American Ceramic Circle annual conference. In 2022, she was a Pew Fellow at the Pew Center for Arts & Heritage. Gbadebo is currently an Artist in Residence at The Clay Studio and has exhibited across the US and internationally in Africa, Europe, Asia and Australia. Her work is now on view in major exhibitions such as the 24th Sydney Biennale: Ten Thousand Suns; Minneapolis Museum of Art: Collage/Assemblage Part II: 1990-Now; and Hear Me Now: The Black Potters of Old Edgefield, South Carolina, which opened at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, in 2022, and has traveled to the Museum of Fine Arts Boston, University of Michigan Museum of Art, and is now at the High Museum of Art in Atlanta.
Gbadebo’s work is in the public collections of the Smithsonian National Museum of African Art, Washington, D.C.; Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture, Washington D.C.; Boston Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, MA; Minnesota Museum of American Art, St. Paul, MN; Minneapolis Institute of Art, Minneapolis MN; Weisman Museum of Art, Minneapolis, MN; Newark Museum of Art, Newark, NJ; and South Carolina State Museum, Columbia, SC. Her public commissions include an ongoing sculpture project in collaboration with students and faculty from Clemson University, SC, and the Harriet Tubman Monument (2021), Newark, NJ.
Photo Credit:Tobias Truvillion
Articles
● Past Present Projects Magazine: Past Present No. 4
● The Pew Center For Arts and Heritage: Fellow to Fellow: Adebunmi Gbadebo and Odili Donald Odita on Meaning in Materiality
● WHYY: Philly artist wins $100K craft prize for her work remembering Black ancestors
● PBS: Treasures of New Jersey
● Penn Today: Ritual and Remembrance
● The Boston Globe At the MFA, enslaved Black potters’ work brings lives into the light in ‘Hear Me Now’
● The Post and Courier At the Met, in Harlem and beyond, acclaimed artist honors enslaved SC ancestors
● Forbes, Haunting Generational Trauma In “Remains” By Adebunmi Gbadebo At Claire Oliver Gallery In Harlem
● Brooklyn Rail, Abstraction in the Black Diaspora
● New York Times, Critic’s Pick: The Magnificent Poem Jars of David Drake, Center Stage at the Met
● New York Times, New Shows That Widen the Beaten Path -
Lindsay Adams
Ep.201 features Lindsay Adams (b. 1990, Washington, D.C.) , an Artist working across traditional mediums. Embracing her intersectional identity, Lindsay’s work serves as both a reflection and extension of self, challenging narratives of both race and representation, reflecting on personal and collective histories and memories, while simultaneously mining through the complexity of the black experience. Lindsay’s current body of work is a visual and conceptual investigation of the balance between certainty and imagination, examining themes of place, liberation, memory, and psychological space. She reflects on personal and collective histories and memories, while simultaneously mining through the complexity of the black experience. Adams’ abstracted florals serve as an index for marking and reclaiming her black ancestral connection to land, embracing both personal and shared narratives while reflecting on the importance of the sites that have accumulated histories of social, cultural, and political life. Drawing connections to place and space, she responds to each mark intuitively while making both formal and narrative considerations. She renders layers of texture and color, alternating between abstracted and defined forms, composing multiple paintings within one. Employing her educational foundation as a social scientist, with a background in foreign relations, sociology, and cultural anthropology, she systematically engages in her work with precise critical analysis and a perceptive understanding of the complex fabric of social dynamics. Lindsay received her B.A. in International Studies: World Politics and Diplomacy and Latin and Iberian Studies from The University of Richmond.
Lindsay has been the recipient of the New Artist Society Merit Award at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago where she is currently pursuing an MFA in Painting and Drawing, and she has had solo presentations at Eaton DC, Washington and Riverhill Art Residency, Upstate Art Weekend. Her works were recently exhibited at Baltimore Museum of Art; James Cohan Gallery, New York, NY; Alpha Arts Alliance, Brooklyn; Gavlak Gallery, Los Angeles; Allouche Gallery, New York. Her work is in the collection of the Baltimore Museum of Art and Northwestern Law School.
Photo credit: Lana Jackson
Artist https://www.lindsay-adams.com/
“Lindsay Adams’s Intimate Paintings Explore Place, Self, and Memory”
https://www.nga.gov/stories/lindsay-adams-intimate-paintings.html
Baltimore Museum of Art https://collection.artbma.org/people/32189/lindsay-adams
James Cohan https://www.jamescohan.com/exhibitions/arcadia-and-elsewhere
Washington Post https://www.washingtonpost.com/dc-md-va/2022/05/30/lindsay-adams-dream-day/
University of Richmond https://urnow.richmond.edu/features/article/-/21779/an-artist-and-an-advocate.html?utm_source=www&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=features-story
LinkedIn https://www.linkedin.com/in/lindsaybadams/
Gavlak https://www.gavlakgallery.com/artists/lindsay-adams
National Gallery of Art https://www.nga.gov/stories/lindsay-adams-intimate-paintings.html
DCist https://dcist.com/story/22/04/29/lindsay-adams-debuts-first-solo-exhibit-dc/
Green Family Art Foundation https://www.greenfamilyartfoundation.org/exhibitions/22-in-the-know-show/
Visionary Projects https://visionaryprojects.org/interviews/lindsay-adams
Loeffler Randall https://loefflerrandall.com/blogs/lr-stories/inthestudiowithlindsayadams
Soho House https://www.sohohouse.com/en-us/house-notes/issue-006/art-and-design/lindsay-adams
Marie Claire Magazine https://www.marieclaire.com/fashion/a36805666/lindsay-adams-artwork/
Refinery29 https://www.refinery29.com/en-us/2020/07/9923617/black-disabled-artist-cerebral-palsy-lindsay-adams-interview