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Y2K GROUP CHAT is a series about how artists navigate through their practice and a behind the scenes look into their lives. Y2K group is an art agency and advisory focused on supporting emerging artists in New York and beyond. Follow us on Instagram: @y2kgroup and Subscribe to our YouTube channel for more content about contemporary art. #y2kgroupchat

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  1. 05.02.2022

    Prism - group show

    "Prism" on view at Y2K group, New York from February 5 - March 5, 2022. Peter LaBier, JJ Manford, Christian Perdix, Frankie Phillips, Emma Schwartz, Astrid Terrazas,

    5 мин.
  2. Dominic Musa

    21.04.2021

    Dominic Musa

    Welcome to our eleventh episode of Y2K GROUP CHAT featuring artist Dominic Musa. We recorded this episode in early April 2021. We speak with Dominic about his painting process, how he creates space+light in his work, psychological imagery and mental space. Dominic Musa is an emerging artist living and working in Paterson, NJ. He received a MFA from Rhode Island School of Design and a BFA from SVA in New York. This podcast episode was made on the occasion of Dominic's first solo exhibition with Y2K group. Follow us on TikTok, Instagram, and Audius: @y2kgroup Subscribe to our YouTube channel for more content about contemporary art. Visit our Twitch, Theta.tv, and YouTube for live streams Ask us a question about art on Telegram or on Twitter @y2kgroupnyc Audio timestamps below: 0:00 - Intro 0:20 - Dominic bio 0:59 - Hello 1:33 - NJ + weekend 2:17 - Living with plants 3:57 - Where did you grow up and when did you know you wanted to become an artist? 8:11 - Who are some of the artists that keep inspiring you? 9:32 - Have you ever seen the artists work in person? 10:08 - Do you like their paint quality, imagery, or presence of the work? 11:53 - Experimenting with materials 13:40 - What is your process before starting a new painting and how has that evolved since grad school? 15:34 - How do you determine what to add from memory and what to include from observation? 20:12 - Do you dream about your compositions?  21:43 - Who are the figures in your work? 23:27 - Is it easy to paint on multiple works? 25:17 - How do you determine the spaces in the paintings? 27:52 - How does geometry or perspective play a role in your work? 28:53 - How do you determine the light source in the paintings? 30:19 - What are the small figures in your work? 32:05 - Do you try to create different feelings and moods in your work? 35:26 - Growing up in the woods and unknown expanse 37:35 - How long have you been working on the paintings for the Y2K show? 40:28 - What are some of your favorite movies, books, or podcasts? 43:43 - Thank you! 43:52 - Outro

    45 мин.
  3. Frankie Phillips: Cowlick Diary

    09.04.2021

    Frankie Phillips: Cowlick Diary

    Welcome to our tenth episode of Y2K GROUP CHAT featuring artist Frankie Phillips. We recorded this episode in early March 2021. We speak with Frankie about his work featuring coat hangers and t-shirts collaged to make new visionary paintings, ideas of fashion, barriers, symbolism, the materiality of his work, and diaries.  Frankie Phillips is an emerging artist living and working in Ridgewood, Queens. He received a BFA from RISD in Providence, RI. This podcast episode was made on the occasion of Frankie’s third solo exhibition with Y2K group.  Follow us on TikTok, Instagram, and Audius: @y2kgroup Subscribe to our YouTube channel for more content about contemporary art. Visit our Twitch, Theta.tv, and YouTube for live streams, and ask us a question about art on Telegram or on Twitter @y2kgroupnyc Audio timestamps below: 0:00 - Intro 0:20 - Hi–we are live  1:53 - Coat hanger origins  3:28 - Why move away from the standard canvas size 4:29 - Butterflies + ears 6:34 - Shirts + hangers 10:47 - Why did you start using clothes in your work? 12:32 - What do you think about fashion and how you dress yourself? 14:45 - Are you using clothes for texture or as another material? 17:41 - Wires and barriers in the paintings 21:30 - Scars and symbolism 23:16 - Bleached/washed out palette in the work and the figures 27:01 - Cosmic beings 29:05 - “Another Eyelash” sculptural work 30:31 - “Existential Eyelash” painting 35:47 - Self-portraiture/reflection 37:22 - Figure in “Cowlick Diary”  42:50 - Diary book in painting 46:13 - Outro

    47 мин.
  4. Austin Martin White

    02.04.2021

    Austin Martin White

    Welcome to our ninth episode of Y2K GROUP CHAT featuring artist Austin Martin White. We recorded this episode in late February 2021. We speak with Austin about moving around while growing up, homogeneity and diversity, media and big tech, first memories, when he wanted to become an artist and his process at a young age to where he is now. Austin Martin White is an artist working in Philadelphia, PA living in New York. Follow us on TikTok and Instagram: @y2kgroup Subscribe to our YouTube channel for more content about contemporary art. Visit our Twitch, Theta.tv, and YouTube for live streams and ask us a question about art on Telegram. Audio timestamps below: 0:00 - Intro music 0:15 - Introduction 0:36 - Austin bio 1:09 - NM and moving around 2:04 - Homogeneity and diversity 3:50 - Media consumption 6:12 - Big tech + early days 8:04 - Adoption story 13:26 - First memories? 16:43 - What were your first memories of art? 21:15 - When did you decide to become an artist? 30:35 - Have you made abstraction in the past or just figuration? 37:31 - Who are some of the artists you studied or look at now? 43:36 - How has drawing played a role in your practice? What did you think of grad school? 53:52 - Post-Bard 1:00:51 - How do you feel about race relations now? 1:06:23 - Adam Curtis “Can’t Get You Out of My Head…” 1:13:10 - Thank you

    1 ч. 16 мин.
  5. Ted Gahl

    27.02.2021

    Ted Gahl

    Welcome to our eighth episode of Y2K GROUP CHAT featuring artist Ted Gahl. We recorded in December 2020. We speak with Ted about the 2010's in New York, drawing parties, the influence of social media on artists, being an artist in NY/LA, how to slow down, and a glimpse into the future. Ted Gahl is a painter living and working in Northwest, CT. Follow us on TikTok and Instagram: @y2kgroup Subscribe to our YouTube channel for more content about contemporary art. Stay up-to-date with out Y2K Blog on our website for more news. Audio timestamps below: 0:00 - Intro music 0:35 - Ted bio 0:49 - Hey 1:04 - What was the NY art world like when you first moved here? 3:32 - Drawing parties 4:31 - Do you remember your first solo/group show? 6:00 - Did you feel a lot of pressure leading up to the show and how did you feel when it closed? 7:56 - Would it be helpful to have longer shows? 9:50 - Seeing work online vs. in person 12:32 - How do you think IG influenced the art community? 18:10 - Gaming 19:24 - How do you stay focused as opportunities ebb and flow with your work? 24:29 - Undergrad experience 27:10 - Experimentation in grad school 29:21 - Who are some of your favorite artists? 32:18 - Some shows late fall 2020 35:02 - NY>LA story 40:27 - Do you still need to be in a main art city? 43:44 - Is it easier to make work outside of NY? 46:25 - Do you play music? 52:15 - What were your experiences like with different galleries? 54:47 - How do you feel about how the art neighborhoods in NY have changed and closures?  1:00:07 - What kind of work are you making? 1:03:18 - What’s your relationship to nature and landscape painting? 1:06:20 - Is nature a meditative space for you? 1:08:57 - How do you slow down and reflect on your work? 1:11:48 - How long does it take for you to finish a painting? 1:14:30 - Cathartic or therapeutic? 1:17:35 - What is your reference point when you start painting? 1:19:08 - Do you ever tap into your subconscious? 1:22:01 - What is the future of the art world? 1:24:32 - Can AI replace artists/art? 1:27:34 - Ted’s question: has an art show ever made you cry?  1:33:06 - Thank you

    1 ч. 33 мин.
  6. Tamen Pérez

    05.02.2021

    Tamen Pérez

    Welcome to our seventh episode of Y2K GROUP CHAT featuring artist Tamen Pérez. We recorded in late August 2020. We speak with Tamen about grad school during COVID, working from home vs. studio, her relationship to the history of painting, living and working in Berlin, manga and music, and unlearning in painting. Tamen Pérez is an emerging artist living and working in New Haven, CT. Follow us on TikTok and Instagram: @y2kgroup Subscribe to our YouTube channel for more content about contemporary art. Stay up-to-date with out Y2K Blog on our website for more news. Audio timestamps below: 0:00 - Intro music 0:15 - Y2K GROUP CHAT introduction 0:34 - Tamen bio 1:07 - Hi 1:52 - What have you been up to? 3:23 - Update on school 4:23 - How did you adapt to not having studio access at Yale during quarantine? 5:52 - Minimal materials 6:27 - How does music inspire your work? 8:08 - What’s been new with Y2K? 10:50 - Y2K-NOW idea, future shows, learning to pivot 14:11 - Making work from home vs. studio 16:54 - Painting process as workout? 17:57 - What books are you reading? 20:09 - Were you familiar with Afro-Caribbean history? 21:01 - Costa Rica 22:52 - Manga and some inspiration 25:39 - What types of materials do you use? 29:05 - Relationship to history of painting 30:32 - Unlearning 32:54 - After undergrad to New York and moving to Berlin 35:34 - 7-8 years in Berlin 39:38 - Berlin art scene or music scene 41:38 - Learning German and still adapting 44:27 - How was your past solo show at stadium? 49:23 - How did your work first change in grad school? 51:32 - Voice and hand in painting 53:09 - Ideas for thesis 56:44 - Spring studio visits 57:57 - Love of painting and being anti 58:56 - Costa Rican landscape painting and colonialism 1:00:34 - Going back to the history and re-evaluating 1:02:09 - Painting conversation in New York 1:05:34 - Thank you!

    1 ч. 6 мин.
  7. Maureen St. Vincent

    29.01.2021

    Maureen St. Vincent

    Welcome to our sixth episode of Y2K GROUP CHAT featuring artist Maureen St. Vincent. We talk with Maureen about her framed pastel works, her relationship to the Pacific, her experiences living and working in New York and Los Angeles, surrealism, and feminism. Maureen St. Vincent is an emerging artist living and working in the Bay Area. Follow us on TikTok and Instagram: @y2kgroup Subscribe to our YouTube channel for more content about contemporary art. Stay up-to-date with out Y2K Blog on our website for more news. Audio timestamps below: 0:00 - Intro music 0:15 - Y2K GROUP CHAT introduction 0:34 - Maureen introduction and bio 1:20 - Hi 1:58 - How has the pandemic effected your work and life? 4:36 - More time to think? 6:34 - What’s the scale? 7:36 - What was the transition to pastels? 9:54 - Patience 10:37 - How many pieces do you work on at a time? 12:03 - Where does the style of the frames come from? 16:27 - When did you start making the frames for your work 19:45 - Feminist work 23:36 - Pregnancy and surrealism 28:46 - New 3D works 35:13 - Art world / new approaches 45:44 - Inspiring new environment 46:57 - Daydream 47:50 - LA art world experience vs. New York 52:51 - Experiences at old Hunter and new Hunter 59:46 - Which memorable shows have you seen? 1:06:01 - Overthinking 1:07:48 - Ideas about the Pacific 1:11:18 - When did you want to be an artist? 1:14:47 - Thank you!

    1 ч. 16 мин.
  8. Anjuli Rathod

    30.10.2020

    Anjuli Rathod

    Welcome to our fifth episode of Y2K GROUP CHAT featuring artist Anjuli Rathod. We recorded in late September 2020. We talk with Anjuli about her studio practice, making art at a young age, the space in-between worlds, communicating with the passed, creating a character named Red, life and death cycles, and ideas of grieving in her work. Anjuli Rathod is an emerging artist working in Brooklyn. Follow us on Instagram: @y2kgroup Subscribe to our YouTube channel for more content about contemporary art. Stay up-to-date with out Y2K Blog on our website for more news. Coinciding with this new episode release is Y2K-NOW presenting recent works on paper by Anjuli Rathod on our website to buy now. Audio timestamps below: 0:00 - Intro Music 0:15 - Y2K GROUP CHAT introduction 0:34 - Anjuli Rathod introduction and bio 0:56 - Rathod exhibition history 1:44 - Y2K-NOW + Anjuli Rathod 2:10 - Hello and Happy Fridays 2:40 - Name 3:05 - What are you working on? 3:37 - Where’s your studio? 4:37 - What are your first memories with art? 5:15 - Mr. Miller art teacher 6:10 - What inspired you when you were younger? 7:12 - Statues from parents and small paintings 8:54 - What did your parents think about you pursuing art when you were young? 10:27 - Medical books 11:20 - rotten dot com 12:26 - Where did you grow up? 12:36 - Did you imagine a future in New York? 13:27 - Boston 14:09 - Museum 14:21 - MIT 14:58 - Undergrad in Boston 16:04 - Flexibility and preparing to be an artist while in school 16:33 - Did you explore other mediums? 17:09 - Would you revisit past mediums? 17:29 - Recent ceramic work 18:15 - Spiritual elements in current work 18:53 - Life, death cycles, and grieving 19:33 - Creating Red and her journey 20:21 - Monk 20:59 - Hallucinating the passed 21:56 - Paintings imagining in-between spaces and communing 23:07 - Visions? 23:50 - Dream imagery 24:15 - Moon? 25:36 - Observers 26:09 - Butterfly meaning 27:40 - Illuminations 29:35 - Afterlife? 31:30 - Lost + The Leftovers 32:42 - Interstate Projects 34:37 - Working with acrylic and flashe + watercolor 38:07 - How are your drawings incorporated in your practice? 40:32 - Pandemic 45:05 - Revisiting galleries 47:14 - Sketching and ceramics? 48:48 - The Mystic Spiral 51:10 - Future and ceramics? 53:30 - Spirals in everything 54:02 - Continuing the series and Red’s journey 55:23 - More about Red, Anne Carson, Bhanu Kapil 58:53 - Questions / Astrology 1:00:19 - Animation, film, sci-fi 1:04:12 - Thank you

    1 ч. 5 мин.
  9. Mosie Romney

    07.10.2020

    Mosie Romney

    Welcome to our fourth episode of Y2K GROUP CHAT featuring artist Mosie Romney. We recorded in late August 2020. We speak with Mosie about their experiences in the New York art world as a young artist, their work in “Evening Lark” at Y2K, and rituals in the studio. Mosie Romney is an emerging artist based in Ridgewood, Queens. Follow us on Instagram: @y2kgroup Subscribe to our YouTube channel for more content about contemporary art. Stay up-to-date with our Y2K Blog on our website for more news. Audio timestamps below: 0:00 - Intro music 0:15 - Y2K GROUP CHAT introduction 0:34 - Mosie Romney introduction 1:30 - Mosie Romney bio 2:03 - Hello 2:20 - How’s your morning so far? 2:40 - New Hampshire trip 3:05 - NH “Live Free or Die” state motto 3:25 - Mosie’s disturbing NH store experience 4:58 - Safe in NYC? Being scared traveling 5:37 - Show ourselves 5:52 - Happy to be back in NY  6:06 - Evening Lark at Y2K 6:24 - Slowing down 6:49 - What was your first exposure to art? When did you know you wanted to study/pursue art? 7:29 - Grandmother and Mosie’s mark 7:58 - Drawing with elementary school teacher 8:29 - Woman helping and making time 9:02 - Remembering the cardboard in hosiery package 9:13 - What kind of drawing material did you work with? 9:57 - Mosie’s family recognizing them as an artist 10:15 - What was the NY art world like after undergrad? 10:36 - Pop-up galleries and in apartments 11:12 - Art in odd places 12:01 - What kind of art did you make arriving back to New York and your experience? 13:03 - Abstract paintings and painting sets 13:16 - Abstraction not leaving 13:46 - What kind of work have you been making this year? 13:58 - Children, older people, ghosts: intergenerational world 14:38 - Children’s freedom, being themselves 15:30 - What inspired your collection of paintings in “Evening Lark”? 15:49 - Hyper-change and re-imagining the future 16:26 - “Hell is a place on earth and Heaven is a place in your head”  17:04 - “Tonight’s Queen” 17:27 - “Rain Body” 17:57 - Black bodies at ease and in communion 18:47 - “Evening Lark” exhibition title  20:07 - Mosie’s new van 21:19 - Collecting things and painting with the van 21:48 - Collectible pieces and inspiration? 23:44 - Finding yard sales 24:54 - What is your preferred medium and various approaches?  26:06 - Chris Martin and painting 26:40 - Everything is a material  27:11 - What do you enjoy the most about painting? 27:50 - Who are the figures in the paintings? 29:06 - Has your practice changed since moving your studio? 30:42 - What’s integral to your work? 31:33 - What type of research do you pursue? 32:42 - Who inspires you? 34:17 - Do you have any specifics rituals in studio? 35:21 - Method painting 36:03 - Communicating with people not here and who will be here 37:04 - Saying their name and bringing their energy  37:36 - What will happen to artist in the near future? 38:47 - Future of art galleries? 39:34 - Artist estates, lifespans, and re-discovered  40:56 - Have you seen any exhibitions lately? 42:14 - Painting flowers 43:11 - Staying-in 43:48 - Museums opening again 44:48 - Press release and working with Camille 46:44 - Spirits 48:21- Thank you

    50 мин.
  10. Marcela Flórido

    26.08.2020

    Marcela Flórido

    Welcome to our third episode of Y2K GROUP CHAT featuring artist Marcela Flórido. We recorded in late June 2020. We talk with Marcela about her experiences in New York as an artist, the community at her studio building, the affects of COVID-19 on artists, ballet, identity of the figure in her paintings, her experiences as a Brazilian artist and remembering home. Marcela Flórido is an emerging artist based in Brooklyn, New York. Follow us on Instagram: @y2kgroup Subscribe to our YouTube channel for more content about contemporary art. Stay up-to-date with our Y2K Blog on our website for more news. Audio timestamps below: 0:00 - Intro music 0:17 - Podcast introduction 0:35 - Marcela Flórido biography and upcoming 2:07 - Beginning 2:41 - Nearby the studio 4:01 - Interacting with people and the studio 4:38 - Marcela’s experience at the studio towards beginning of COVID 5:50 - Community at the studio 6:59 - Living in New York as an artist 8:03 - What have you been working on at home? 8:12 - Exhibitions re-scheduled 9:19 - Exhibition deadlines 10:31 - Freedom to experiment and part-time 11:42 - New York hustle 12:07 - How has your work been affected by the pandemic? 14:33 - What kind of materials do you use for the drawings? 16:43 - Working with scale 18:49 - Growing up practicing ballet 22:26 - Beginning of body awareness and femininity in Marcela’s painting 25:47 - After ballet 26:35 - When did you know you wanted to be an artist? 29:20 - Studio ritual 31:00 - Schedule for studio time 33:32 - Reflecting on silver lining of pandemic 36:16 - Production of work and creation 37:53 - Identity of the figures in Marcela’s paintings 42:58 - The meaning of the paintings 44:57 - Vulnerability in the studio 48:13 - Sharing past studio in London 50:15 - Resetting at studio 51:13 - Have you made night paintings? Experiences at Yale 53:06 - Brazilian museums and the arts growing up 54:46 - Censorship in Brazil 55:21 - São Paulo cultural capital 56:50 - Marcela recent trip back home and the Amazon 57:46 - Painting flora and home environment 59:01 - Brazilian landscape and exoticism 1:01:26 - Integration and relation of plant life with the figures and landscape in Marcela’s paintings 1:02:43 - Being an immigrant and remembering home 1:03:55 - Dreaming about home 1:04:51 - Immigrant story within the work 1:06:18 - Being a Brazilian artist-background in British painting and Latin American art history 1:10:26 - Thank you!

    1 ч. 11 мин.
  11. fields harrington

    16.07.2020

    fields harrington

    Welcome to our second episode for Y2K GROUP CHAT. We recorded on two separate days in June 2020. fields delves into: COVID-19, the history of the spirometer, the study of labor and fatigue, his relationship with science, fact-checking, Taco Tuesdays, urban gardening, the history of medical theater, and biases in science. fields harrington is an emerging artist based in Brooklyn, New York. Follow us on Instagram: @y2kgroup Subscribe to our YouTube channel for more content about contemporary art Stay up-to-date with our Y2K Blog on our website for more news. Audio timestamps below: 1:17 - Intro with fields 2:16 - Y2K's reason for starting a podcast 3:20 - The podcast music introduction 5:17 - First question: how has your work and life changed since the pandemic? 6:36 - Whitney ISP catalog 7:44 - Braun text on the spirometer 8:56 - Rabinbach text on the human motor (thermodynamics, labor power and fatigue) 10:15 - Labor/work and fatigue in the body 11:17 - fields' mapping of physics and science and its origins 14:37 - Second question: how did the spirometer become the starting point for fields' research? 15:40 - fields' relationship with science 18:12 - Round 2 19:02 - News 19:42 - Twitter/Social Media 21:50 - Fact-checking 23:49 - Deepfake 25:21 - Taco Tuesdays 25:57 - Texas and High School 27:05 - Moving to New York in 2011 27:28 - The Black Beyond Zoom Artist Talk reference 28:52 - Y2K's casual podcast format 30:32 - Community college (finding photography and food ads) 33:23 - Photography at UNT 35:37 - Road trip / couch surfing to New York 37:43 - Working in urban food start-ups and problem solving 39:10 - Beginnings of a career as an artist 39:31 - UNT thesis 40:49 - Food and advertisement 44:31 - Produce Manager and researching solutions 49:06 - Back to school 52:07 - Types of work at UPENN 55:07 - Performing with acoustic levitation 56:53 - S-CURL in high school 1:00:43 - Performance at UPENN using S-CURL 1:03:48 - Reaction to performance 1:05:09 - Medical theater introduction 1:06:40 - UPENN and medical history 1:07:35 - Paintings of medical theater 1:09:54 - Hogarth's The Reward of Cruelty painting 1:11:13 - Robert Thom painting 1:12:36 - J. Marion Simms racist legacy 1:15:31 - "What remains is constant" by fields harrington 1:16:02 - Braun and Rabinbach texts 1:17:18 - The history of the study of fatigue for labor/work 1:19:01 - Benjamin Gould report 1:23:20 - Etienne-Jules Marey 1:25:07 - fields' essay as artwork 1:26:50 - COVID-19 and spirometer having similar biases 1:28:30 - Race table from Gould's report 1:30:23 - Statistics as surveillance 1:30:55 - Biases in science 1:32:57 - Approximation of a Mix performance question 1:37:40 - Protests and Uprising 1:41:31 - Future work

    1 ч. 44 мин.
  12. Frankie Phillips

    28.05.2020

    Frankie Phillips

    In our first episode for Y2K GROUP CHAT we will be presenting the audio from our new Q&A video series. Join us as we go in depth and interview Frankie Phillips and learn more about his practice, opinions, and life as an artist in New York. We also explore his thoughts and ideas about the future of galleries and artists going forward. Frankie Phillips is an emerging artist based in Ridgewood, Queens and is represented by Y2K group in New York. Follow us on Instagram and YouTube for more content about contemporary art.

    35 мин.
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Y2K GROUP CHAT is a series about how artists navigate through their practice and a behind the scenes look into their lives. Y2K group is an art agency and advisory focused on supporting emerging artists in New York and beyond. Follow us on Instagram: @y2kgroup and Subscribe to our YouTube channel for more content about contemporary art. #y2kgroupchat

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