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In this episode of Bad at Sports Podcast, we delve into the puffy painting and bulging canvases with Chicago-based artist Christina Ballantyne. Live from the opening day of EXPO Chicago 2024. We are the very heart of fabulous in the center of art world fortune and glory.
Guest Bio: Christina Ballantyne is a Chicago-based artist known for her dynamic and thought-provoking artwork. Her work explores themes of identity, culture, and the human experience, drawing inspiration from her surroundings and personal reflections. With a background in fine arts and a keen eye for detail, Christina's creations have been exhibited in galleries and art spaces across the country.
Image: Christina Ballantyne, Madonna, child and little bird, 24"x20", oil, burlap, polyfill on canvas, 2024
https://www.christinaballantyne.com/
https://www.instagram.com/xtinaballantyne2.0/?hl=en
https://www.expochicago.com/
https://colorclub.events/
https://www.juliuscaesarchicago.net/
 

The artists of Hilma’s Ghost join us from the inside of Secrist Beach Gallery, Chicago’s newly opened and probably most gorgeous gallery, Dannielle Tegeder and Sharmistha Ray, treat us to magic, haunting and an introduction to tarot. Beyond that, they revel in the radical feminist histories of art and witch craft looking for knowledge beyond the rationally conceived.
Beyond Hilma’s Ghost they also chat about putting together the exhibition “Cosmic Geometries the Prairies Edge.” Including Candida Alvarez, Elijah Burgher, Holly Cahill, Mike Cloud, Gianna Commito, Edie Fake, Vanessa Filley, Julia Fish, Beverly Fishman, Diana Guerrero-Maciá, Azadeh Gholizadeh, Michelle Grabner, Christina Haglid, Rachel Hayes, Gina Hunt, Michiko Itatani, Miyoko Ito, Anna Kunz, Alice Lauffer, Aya Nakamura, Deb Sokolow, May Tveit, Georgina Valverde, Susan C. White, Amy Yoes and Jade Yumang.
https://www.hilmasghost.com/
https://www.guggenheim.org/exhibition/hilma-af-klint
https://www.secristgallery.com/exhibitions/2024/hilmas-ghost-spectral-visions-a-feminist-collective-signals-magickal-futures/
https://www.secristgallery.com/exhibitions/2024/cosmic-geometries-the-prairies-edge/
https://www.octaviaartgallery.com/artists/dannielle-tegeder?view=slider#4
https://sharmistharay.com/work/tantra-series-2020-ongoing-works-on-paper/
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tarot
https://m.facebook.com/hilmasghost?locale2=my_MM
https://hyperallergic.com/330790/the-unnamed-woman-artist-revealed-in-the-monogram-of-your-tarot-cards/

This week Bad at Sports favorite art world wanderer, Nato Thompson. We chat through all of Nato’s current diversions such as independent curationg, building the 21st Century Museum and AI’s role in that work, the Alternative Art School and the value proposition of contemporary arts education, and Dreaming in Public.
https://thealternativeartschool.net/
https://www.dreaminginpublic.com/

Kate Sierzputowski for EXPO and the Barely Fair! Holy smokes the Art circus is in town. Time to get on board! WE HAVE ALL THE PREVIEW YOU NEED!
 
https://www.expochicago.com/visit
https://www.barelyfair.com/

Compound Yellow's featured artist Gary Cannone dominates every part of the compound with his LA from Chicago brand of conceptual art. Fun name drops include Bernini and Maritizo Catalan. Tune in for the rest.
 
bio:
 
Gary Cannone (Guerino Giovanni Cannone) was born in 1964 to Italian immigrants working factory jobs in Chicago. He learned english from American 70s television and was obsessed with Norm Crosby, Carol Burnett, the Three Stooges, Mad Magazine, Wacky Packages, and the Marx Brothers. His grandfather (and namesake) was crushed to death by a pool table the day before Cannone’s eighth birthday in a warehouse accident.

He played in the early 80s leftist punk rock band The Leeches but, as his interest in performing music waned, he saw Vito Aconcci lecture and decided to become an artist. Cannone exhibited conceptual and often dadaistic art while headquartered from Chicago, Rome, and Los Angeles until he was diagnosed with Multiple Sclerosis in 2013. As the disease took a toll on his body, he took a hiatus but began to work again digitally using social media to distribute art and jokes. Interest in his communal project of parody album covers “Albums by Conceptual Artists” led to invitations to exhibit again. He began exploring the effects of his disease on his body and brain which led him back to the comedic tropes he loved so much as a youngster; adressing his disability through the lens of slapstick rather than advocacy.

Cannone’s recent work can be described as a decidedly reductive art executed with the deft skill of a prop comic. The resulting ensemble explores fragility, instability, urges, communication, humiliation, tension, torture, gravity, parody, dexterity, and death.
 
https://compoundyellow.com/
https://garycannone.studio/ 

Live for WY! The return of art world mega force Sharon Louden and music empresario Vinson Valega! We talk Sustaining your Creative Life and the Institute for it! Always working to better your artistic life! Get your Art World hustle on.
Asia Freeman/Bunnell Arts Center (Homer, AK): https://www.bunnellarts.org/
Andreana Donahue/Arts of Life (Chicago): https://artsoflife.org/about/
Ruby Lerner: www.rubylerner.com (AMAZING WEBSITE/RESOURCE)
Ray Johnson: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ray_Johnson
Evan Penny: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Evan_Penny
Phil Ross: https://www.mycoworks.com/our-heritage and https://www.moma.org/interactives/exhibitions/2013/designandviolence/mycotecture-phil-ross/
Wyoming Initiative Partnership (WIP): https://www.uwyo.edu/as/wip.html is connected to the Neltje Center for Excellence in Creativity and the Arts: https://www.uwyo.edu/as/neltje-center/index.html
Sheridan College: https://www.sheridan.edu/
Whitney Center for the Arts: https://www.sheridan.edu/academics/arts/
New Yorker/Lincoln Financial Sponsored Video: Watch [PAID POST] Sustaining Creativity for a Lifetime | The New Yorker
New Yorker/Lincoln Financial Sponsored Article: https://www.newyorker.com/sponsored/story/sharon-louden-a-lifetime-of-championing-working-artists
https://www.vinsonvalega.com/
Living and Sustaining a Creative Life series of books
Twitter: @LoudenStudio
Instagram: @SharonLouden
www.sharonlouden.com
www.livesustain.org