Cerebral Women Art Talks Podcast Phyllis Hollis

Ep.210 For Gerald Lovell (b. 1992), painting is an act of biography. Combining flat and impressionistic painting with thick daubs of impasto, Lovell’s monumental portraits depict loving scenes often lost to the abyss of memory. Lovell’s portraits refuse the notion that all Black figures put down on canvas are somehow political. Rather, his work records a deep commitment to fostering alternative community narratives by imbuing his subjects with social agency and self determinative power, while also revealing individualistic details that lay their essential humanity bare. Born in Chicago to Puerto Rican and Black parents, Lovell began painting at the age of 22 after dropping out of the graphic design program at the University of West Georgia. He has exhibited at P·P·O·W, New York; Jeffrey Deitch, Moore Building, Miami, FL; Anthony Gallery, Chicago, IL; Kohn Gallery, Los Angeles, CA; The Harvey B. Gantt Center for African-American Arts + Culture, Charlotte, NC; MINT, Atlanta, GA; and Galerie Peter Kilchmann, Zurich, Switzerland, among others. In 2022, Lovell’s work was on view in What is Left Unspoken, Love at the High Museum of Art, Atlanta, GA, and is in the museum’s permanent collection. Lovell completed the Fountainhead Artists Residency in October 2023. His second exhibition with P·P·O·W, verde, was held in Spring 2024.

Portrait ~ Courtesy of Fountainhead, Miami. Photo, Cornelius Tulloch

PPOW Gallery https://www.ppowgallery.com/artists/gerald-lovell#tab:thumbnails
https://www.ppowgallery.com/exhibitions/gerald-lovell2#tab:thumbnails;tab-1:slideshow
Anthony Gallery https://anthonygallery.com/exhibition/in-the-eye-of-the-beholder/
Juxtapoz https://www.juxtapoz.com/news/painting/gerald-lovell-verde-p-p-o-w-gallery-nyc/
Culture Type https://www.culturetype.com/2024/03/02/new-york-closing-soon-5-gallery-shows-featuring-works-by-nathaniel-oliver-tuli-mekondjo-theaster-gates-richmond-barthe-christopher-udemezue-and-gerald-lovell/
The Atlantic Journal-Constitution https://www.ajc.com/things-to-do/atlanta-painter-gerald-lovell-creates-portraits-of-family-friends-black-life/2PBC7PXW65AGLAGW4EI5U3K5SE/
whitewall https://whitewall.art/art/gerald-lovells-exhibition-at-ppow-captures-all-that-he-has/
Anderson Ranch https://www.andersonranch.org/people/gerald-lovell/
Artrabbit https://www.artrabbit.com/events/gerald-lovell-verde-ppow-390-broadway
Black Art and Design https://www.blackartanddesign.com/artists/gerald-lovell-artist-overview/
The Galllery | Wish https://www.wishatlgallery.com/gerald-lovell
Office Magazine https://officemagazine.net/gerald-lovell-finds-beauty-mundane
Art in NYC https://artinnewyorkcity.com/2021/01/23/all-that-i-have-paintings-by-gerald-lovell-at-p-p-o-w/

Ep.209 Debra Cartwright is an artist interested in depicting the relationship between the black female body and American medical history. She uses paint and mixed media to explore selfhood and her own positioning as the daughter of a gynecologist. Themes around her work include re-embodiment, myth creation, violence, theft and intimacy. She explores a critical understanding of the past while also proposing an examination of the present American healthcare system.

Headshot by Elizabeth von Stubendorff


Artist https://www.debracartwright.com/oils

Welancora Gallery https://www.welancoragallery.com/artists/94-debra-cartwright/works/

Artnet https://news.artnet.com/market/frieze-los-angeles-art-advisors-favorite-works-2442126

Art and object https://www.artandobject.com/slideshows/7-artists-watch-frieze-la

ARTnews https://www.artnews.com/list/art-news/market/expo-chicago-2023-best-booths-1234664207/

Artsy https://www.artsy.net/article/artsy-editorial-debra-cartwrights-abstract-paintings-examine-history-medical-science-black-womanhood

Montclair Art Museum https://www.montclairartmuseum.org/press/press-room/montclair-art-museum-and-african-american-cultural-committee-announce-debra

Bode Gallery https://bode.gallery/blog/48-in-conversation-with-debra-cartwright-episode-19/

Ep.208 Dr. Andrea Myers Achi is trained as a Byzantinist, and her curatorial practice focuses on Byzantine art of the Mediterranean Basin and Northeast Africa. She graduated from Barnard College in 2007 with a BA in Ancient Studies. She thought she would become a Classics Professor but fell in love with Byzantine art and archaeology her senior year during a study abroad program on an excavation in Egypt. Dr. Achi went on to receive two Masters’ of Arts degrees from New York University, the first in Ancient Near Eastern and Egyptian Studies with a concentration in archaeology and the second in Byzantine Art. In2018, she earned a Ph.D. in Art History and Archaeology from the Institute of Fine Arts, New York University.  Currently, Dr. Achi is the Mary and Michael Jaharis Associate Curator of Byzantine Art in the Department of Medieval Art and The Cloisters at The Metropolitan Museum of Art. In her role, she specializes in the art and archaeology of Late Antiquity and Byzantium, with a particular interest in illuminated manuscripts and ceramics. She has brought this expertise to bear on exhibitions like Art and Peoples of the Kharga Oasis (2017), Crossroads: Power and Piety(2020), The Good Life (2021),  Africa& Byzantium (2023), and Afterlives: Contemporary Art in the Byzantine Crypt (2024) at The Met and in numerous presentations and publications.

 Portrait credit Eileen Travell 

Metropolitan Museum
https://www.metmuseum.org/exhibitions/afterlives-contemporary-art-in-the-byzantine-crypt https://www.metmuseum.org/perspectives/articles/2024/05/afterlives-conversation
https://www.metmuseum.org/about-the-met/collection-areas/medieval-art-and-the-cloisters/staff-list
https://www.metmuseum.org/met-publications/africa-and-byzantium
Yale University Press https://yalebooks.yale.edu/book/9781588397713/africa-and-byzantium/
Center for Curatorial Leadership
https://www.curatorialleadership.org/participants/ccl-smh-curators-forum/
Washington Post https://www.washingtonpost.com/entertainment/art/2024/01/04/africa-byzantium-exhibit-met-review/?_pml=1
Barnard Magazine https://www.bgc.bard.edu/about/news/1003/08-feb-2024-exhibiting-africa
https://barnard.edu/magazine/winter-2024/andrea-myers-achi-07
Princeton https://humanities.princeton.edu/event/africa-byzantium-at-the-met/
Church Times https://www.churchtimes.co.uk/articles/2024/23-february/books-arts/book-reviews/book-review-africa-and-byzantium-edited-by-andrea-myers-achi
Tiwana Contemporary https://www.tiwani.co.uk/publications/26-africa-and-byzantium-the-museum-of-metropolitan-art/
The National Herald
https://www.thenationalherald.com/hacf-presented-dr-andrea-achi-lecture-on-africa-and-byzantium-on-feb-1/ 
Artnet https://news.artnet.com/career-stories/andrea-achi-1933101 
National Endowment for the Humanities https://www.neh.gov/article/marvels-byzantine-africahttps://www.neh.gov/news/disorienting-beauty-africa-byzantium 
Apollo Magazine https://www.apollo-magazine.com/andrea-myers-achi-40-under-40-usa-the-thinkers/ 
LinkedIn https://www.linkedin.com/in/andrea-myers-achi-9b575168

Ep.206 David Huffman (b. 1963, Berkeley, CA) has work in the collections of SFMOMA, San Francisco; LACMA, Los Angeles; Berkeley Art Museum, CA; Studio Museum, Harlem; Minneapolis Institute of Art, MN; Oakland Museum of California; Crocker Art Museum, Sacramento, CA; San José Museum of Art, CA; Palo Alto Art Center, CA; Eileen Norton Collection, Los Angeles; Birmingham Museum of Art, AL; Frederick R. Weisman Art Museum, Minneapolis, MN, Arkansas Art Center; ASU Art Museum, Tempe, AZ; Lodeveans Collection, London; and the Embassy of the United States of America, Dakar, Senegal, among others.

Huffman enjoyed a recent solo exhibition at the Museum of the African Diaspora, San Francisco and has been included in recent group exhibitions at the de Young Museum, San Francisco; Everson Museum of Art, NY; Weatherspoon Museum of Art, NC; and The Write Museum, MI.

He is the recipient of numerous awards and residencies including the Eureka Fellowship, ARTADIA San Francisco, Palo Alto Public Arts Commission, and the Barclay Simpson Award.

He studied at the New York Studio School and received his MFA at California College of the Arts & Crafts, San Francisco. Huffman lives and works in Oakland, CA; he is currently on the board at SFMOMA.

Huffman is represented by Jessica Silverman, San Francisco and Casey Kaplan, New York.

Photo credit: Francis Baker

Artist http://david-huffman.com/
Casey Kaplan https://caseykaplangallery.com/artists/david-huffman/ | https://caseykaplangallery.com/?exhibitions=david-huffman
Jessica Silverman https://jessicasilvermangallery.com/online-shows/david-huffman-odyssey/
SFMOMA https://www.sfmoma.org/artist/David_Huffman/
BAMPFA https://bampfa.org/event/artists-curatorial-gallery-talks-david-huffman
MOAD SF https://www.moadsf.org/exhibitions/david-huffman-terra-incognita
KQED https://www.kqed.org/arts/13911456/at-moad-david-huffmans-terra-incognita-explores-black-trauma-among-the-stars
Studio Museum in Harlem https://www.studiomuseum.org/artists/david-huffman
PAFA https://www.pafa.org/museum/collection-artist/david-huffman
Hyperallergic https://hyperallergic.com/678893/david-huffman-afro-hippie-berkeley-art-center/
Berkeley Side https://www.berkeleyside.org/2021/08/13/david-huffman-berkeley-art-center
U.S. Dept of State https://art.state.gov/personnel/david_huffman/
California College of the Arts https://www.cca.edu/newsroom/faculty-spotlight-david-huffman-paintingdrawing-fine-arts/
Open-Editions https://open-editions.com/collections/david-huffman
Miles McEnery https://www.milesmcenery.com/exhibitions/david-huffman
Templon https://www.templon.com/exhibitions/cosmography/
Artforum https://www.artforum.com/events/david-huffman-3-250228/
ARTnews https://www.artnews.com/art-in-america/aia-reviews/david-huffman-protest-paintings-casey-kaplan-1234707187/
Daily Art Fair https://dailyartfair.com/exhibition/18000/david-huffman-casey-kaplan

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

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