Cerebral Women Art Talks Podcast

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Cerebral Women Art Talks Podcast

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.

  1. Ebony L Haynes

    4D AGO

    Ebony L Haynes

    Ep.236 Ebony L. Haynes is a writer and curator from Toronto, Canada. She is presently based in New York where she is senior director at David Zwirner and leads the gallery’s 52 Walker space in Tribeca. Haynes sits on the boards of Artists Space (New York) and the New Art Dealers Alliance. She also runs Black Art Sessions, an online “school” that offers free professional practice classes to Black students worldwide. Photo: Ebony L. Haynes, 2020 Photo by Elliott Jerome Brown Jr. Courtesy David Zwirner 52 Walker https://www.52walker.com/info David Zwirner https://www.davidzwirner.com/news/2021/52-walker-street-announcement Wallpaper https://www.wallpaper.com/art/david-zwirner-52-walker-new-york-ebony-l-haynes ArtReview https://artreview.com/artist/ebony-l-haynes/?year=2021 Topical Cream https://topicalcream.org/editors-in-residence/ebonylhaynes-is-topicacream-editor-in-residence-2024/ New York Times https://www.nytimes.com/2020/09/27/arts/design/zwirner-haynes-black-gallery.html ICI https://curatorsintl.org/about/collaborators/22961-ebony-haynes Culture Type https://www.culturetype.com/tag/ebony-l-haynes/ Cool Hunting https://coolhunting.com/culture/all-black-staff-to-run-david-zwirners-new-gallery/ Cultured Magazine https://www.culturedmag.com/article/2023/09/06/downtown-art-dealer-ebony-l-haynes-has-a-tip-for-tourists-who-want-to-look-like-new-yorkers ArtNews https://www.artnews.com/art-news/news/ebony-l-haynes-nada-section-1234611558/ C& https://contemporaryand.com/magazines/ebony-l-haynes-creates-new-gallery-with-all-black-staff-in-nyc/ Document Journal https://www.documentjournal.com/tag/ebony-l-haynes/ Elephant Magazine https://elephant.art/how-ebony-l-haynes-curated-raymond-saunders-evolution-through-post-no-bills/ ArtForum https://www.artforum.com/news/ebony-l-haynes-to-create-black-run-nyc-gallery-with-support-from-david-zwirner-248569/ PIN-UP Magazine https://www.pinupmagazine.org/articles/ebony-l-haynes-interview Curbed NY Magazine https://www.curbed.com/2022/09/21-questions-writer-and-curator-52-walker-director-ebony-haynes.html W Magazine https://www.wmagazine.com/culture/52-walker-ebony-haynes-david-zwirner-interview Whitewall Art https://whitewall.art/art/ebony-l-haynes-opens-52-walker-this-october/ HURS https://hurs-official.com/home/hur-conversations/ebony-haynes Office Magazine https://officemagazine.net/ebony-l-haynes

    14 min
  2. Alicia Knock

    FEB 28

    Alicia Knock

    Ep.235 Alicia Knock Head curator for the Contemporary Creation and Prospective Department at Centre Pompidou. Alicia Knock seeks to develop a transnational history of art. Her acquisitions and exhibitions – Ernest Mancoba, 2019; Chine-Afrique, Crossing the World Color Line, 2020; Global(e) Resistance, 2020 – focus specifically on post-colonial practices (Modern and contemporary African art and Central European art). Concurrently, she is also exploring exhibition formats through dynamic projects that reflect on the future of museums (Museum On/Off, 2016). In 2023, she co-curated Kaunas Biennial, Survival Kit in Riga and Ljubljana graphic arts Biennial focusing on "Long-distance Friendships" and non aligned solidarities between Africa and Eastern Europe. She curated the Albanian Pavilion at the 58th Biennale, and co-curated an exhibition devoted to Boris Mikhailov at the Pinchuk Art Centre in Kyiv in 2019. Photo credit: Alicia Knock © DR Centre Pompidou Black Paris https://www.centrepompidou.fr/en/program/calendar/event/VRo249Y (English) Paris Noir - Circulations artistiques et luttes anticoloniales, 1950 – 2000 - Centre Pompidou (French) https://www.centrepompidou.fr/en/magazine/article/paris-noir-pour-une-histoire-panafricaine-et-transnationale-de-lart https://www.centrepompidou.fr/en/program/calendar/event/7OFuMJz https://amis.centrepompidou.fr/en/activities/1230 Villa Albertine https://villa-albertine.org/va/events/black-paris-talk-series-comes-to-five-us-states/ Les Echos https://www.lesechos.fr/weekend/livres-expositions/alicia-knock-la-tete-chercheuse-du-centre-pompidou-2139352 Gagosian https://gagosian.com/quarterly/contributors/alicia-knock/ Le Quotidien de l’Art https://www.lequotidiendelart.com/articles/23456-le-centre-pompidou-nomme-alicia-knock-et-claudine-grammont.html Lawrie Shabibi https://www.lawrieshabibi.com/exhibitions/110-global-e-resistance-nadia-kaabi-linke-at-centre-pompidou-paris/overview/ Global Atlanta https://www.globalatlanta.com/event/a-conversation-on-black-paris-and-the-atlanta-connection/ E-flux https://www.e-flux.com/announcements/529604/alicia-knock-and-inga-lce-to-curate-14th-kaunas-biennial-and-survival-kit-festival/ Instituto Inclusartiz https://inclusartiz.org/en/midia/instituto-inclusartiz-promove-conversa-entre-os-curadores-do-centro-georges-pompidou-fr-alicia-knock-e-paulo-miyada-2/ Cite internationale des arts https://www.citedesartsparis.net/media/cia/183726-pr_chimurenga.pdf Kauno Bienale https://bienale.lt/2025/en/curators/ Ernest Mancoba https://ernestmancoba.org/2020/05/09/alicia-knock/ C& https://contemporaryand.com/exhibition/museum-onoff-group-show/ Say Who https://saywho.fr/mondains/alicia-knock/

    28 min
  3. Diana Sinclair

    FEB 16

    Diana Sinclair

    Ep.234 In a wide-ranging practice that encompasses photography, sculpture and painting, Diana Sinclair (b.2004) probes the material, spiritual and social resonance of water. As a former competitive swimmer, Sinclair experienced the way that pools can become fraught with racial tension; Researching global communities of black surfers, she was inspired to travel to Costa Rica, Santa Cruz and Senegal to take part in the sport that originated in Ghana; and advised by academics Kevin Dawson and Kathie Foley-Meyer, she grasped the way water can preserve legacies, hold the DNA of souls left scattered in the middle passage. Sinclair is a self-taught artist who currently has a studio at the Silver Art Projects Residency in New York, NY. Her work has recently been included in exhibitions at All Street Gallery, New York, NY (2024) and Residency Art Gallery, Los Angeles, CA (2024). Her work was chosen for a year-long public installation at the Rockefeller Center from 2023-2024. She was the recipient of the Gemma Projects Inaugural Curatorial Grant (2023) and the YoungArts Award Finalist in Photography (2021). Sinclair currently lives and works in Jersey City, NJ. Artist https://www.dianasinclair.com/ Silver Art Residency https://www.silverart.org/artists/ Plato Gallery https://www.platogallery.com/blood-as-thick-as-water-press-release

    23 min
  4. Mario Joyce

    FEB 15

    Mario Joyce

    Ep.233 Mario Joyce’s work is rooted in his genealogical research of his family, going back to the 1600s. Incorporating imagery, memories, and stories from his familial research, Joyce incorporates vintage collage materials and soil from the farm he grew up on into his sumptuously textured paintings, weaving together a rich tapestry of his origins. A self-taught artist, Joyce mines his ancestral lineage as well as his personal experience growing up in rural Ohio as a Queer Black man. His work delves into how memories evolve over time and across generations, transforming into intricate capsules of meaning that convey messages of identity, belonging, and place. Mario Joyce lives and works in Los Angeles. He has participated in several residencies including Sointula House Residency, Sointula, BC (2024); Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture, Skowhegan, ME (2023); Pratt Forward, Pratt Institute, Brooklyn, NY (2022); La Brea Studio Residency, Los Angeles, CA (2021). His work has been the subject of solo exhibitions at UTA Artist Space, Los Angeles, CA (2024); Sakhile&Me, Frankfurt, Germany (2023); UTA Art Space, Atlanta, CA (2022). He has been included in numerous group exhibitions at MUZEO Museum and Cultural Center, Anaheim, CA (2024); F2T Gallery, Milan, Italy (2023); New York Culture Club, New York, NY (2022); Over the Influence, Los Angeles, CA (2022), among others. His work is included in public collections including the Columbia Museum of Art, Columbia, SC and the North Dakota Museum of Art, Grand Forks, ND. Portrait credit: Courtesy of Jeff McLane and Vielmetter LA. Artist http://www.mariojoyce.com/ Vielmetter LA https://vielmetter.com/artists/mario-joyce/ Good Black Art https://goodblackart.com/collections/all/mario-joyce Sakhile&Me https://www.sakhileandme.com/artists/mario-joyce.htm Culture Type https://www.culturetype.com/tag/mario-joyce/ Future Fair https://archive.futurefairs.com/journal-posts-2/2024/4/28/future-fair-2024-tastemaker-collections-mario-joyce Campaign Buzz https://campaignbuzz.io/email/vielmetter.com/effea04a-e7f9-4c46-8712-24bb113d1280 UTA Space https://utaartistspace.com/press/2022/08/30/transportive-paintings-from-l-a-artist-mario-joyce-distinguish-first-uta-pop-up-show/ AJC https://www.ajc.com/things-to-do/transportive-paintings-from-la-artist-mario-joyce-distinguish-first-uta-pop-up-show/IG67TNAF7ZDWFP2FND2BNWU4SI/ Meer Art https://www.meer.com/en/78691-mario-joyce-amaryllis-garden F2T Gallery https://www.f2tgallery.com/mario-joyce/ Art Rabbit https://www.artrabbit.com/events/mario-joyce-amaryllis-garden Gallery Platform LA https://galleryplatform.la/galleries/vielmetter-los-angeles/events/in-conversation-mario-joyce-and-dominique-clayton Art| Melanated https://www.artmelanated.com/projects-1/mario-joyce Ohio State University https://art.osu.edu/events/visiting-artist-mario-joyce Art Crawl https://arthag.typepad.com/arthag/2021/08/mario-joyce-unearthing-black-joy-on-governors-island.html Over the Influence https://overtheinfluence.com/artists/mario-joyce/

    30 min
  5. Will Maxen

    FEB 7

    Will Maxen

    Ep.232 Will Maxen (b. Waterbury, CT) is a multi-disciplinary artist living in Houston, Texas, who works primarily in the language of painting. His work blends personal and historical imagery into partially abstracted scenes that explore themes of memory and belonging, navigating both literal and metaphorical spaces. The work delves into the dislocation of identity within these spaces, representing existence as something that teeters on the edge of legibility. This juxtaposition breaks the boundaries between the tangible and the intangible while the painted figures evoke vulnerability, adding a human element to the dialogue. Maxen received his BA in Illustration from Central Connecticut State University, and an MFA in Art Studio at the University of California, Davis. He has had solo exhibitions at Residency Art Gallery, Los Angeles (Felix Art Fair); and UTA Art Space, New York. His work has been featured in group shows at Fridman Gallery, New York; Canepa Selling Gallery, Los Angeles, Marrow Gallery, San Francisco; Chili Art Projects, London. Maxens work is included in the permanent collections of the Jan Shrem and Maria Manetti Shrem Museum of Art, Davis, CA; The Art Galleries at Black Studies, Austin, TX; and the Beth Rudin DeWoody Collection. Maxen has been a resident at Silver Art Projects, New York; a recipient of The New Jewish Culture Fellowship; and an Assistant Professor of Painting and Drawing at Louisiana State University. Photo Credit : Jordan Benton Fridman Gallery https://fridmangallery.com/artists/164-will-maxen/ | https://fridmangallery.com/art-fairs/102/works/artworks-2192-will-maxen-untitled-dreams-2024/ Silver Arts Residency https://www.silverart.org/about-program/ UTA Artist Space https://utaartistspace.com/exhibitions/and-the-land-stands-still/ Good Black Art https://goodblackart.com/collections/will-maxen Hyperallergic https://hyperallergic.com/826680/2023-uc-davis-arts-humanities-grads-take-center-stage-wide-ranging-show/ New American Paintings https://www.newamericanpaintings.com/artists/william-maxen Artspace https://artspacenewhaven.org/os_contributors/will-maxen/ Residency Art https://www.residencyart.com/artists | https://www.residencyart.com/exhibitions/felix-art-fair-2024 Highline Nine https://highlinenine.org/nicholaskontaxis-1-1 Felix Art Fair https://www.residencyart.com/exhibitions/felix-art-fair-2024 UC Davis Art Studio https://arts.ucdavis.edu/announcement/alum-will-maxen-featured-art-blog Cool Hunting https://coolhunting.com/culture/notes-returning-to-felix-frieze-los-angeles-and-the-future-perfect/

    20 min
  6. Lina Iris Viktor

    FEB 5

    Lina Iris Viktor

    Ep.231 Lina Iris Viktor is a Liberian- artist who lives and works in Italy. Influenced by architecture, archaeology, West African sculptural traditions, ancient Egyptian iconography, classical astronomy and European portraiture, her paintings, sculptures, performances, photography and water-gilding with 24-carat gold produce a charged materiality that address philosophical ideas of the finite and the infinite, the microcosm and macrocosm, evanescence and eternity. Her use of gold, marble, bronze, wood and volcanic rock establish an intimate and intangible timelessness whilst her focus on black as ‘materia prima’ challenges the sociopolitical and historical preconceptions surrounding ‘blackness’ and its universal implications. By interweaving disparate materials, methods and visual lexicons associated with contemporary and ancient art forms, Viktor authors an idiosyncratic mythology that threads through deep time, knitting together a diasporic past with an expansive present in order to divine future imaginaries. Viktor received her BA in film at Sarah Lawrence College and studied photography at The School of Visual Arts in New York. Solo exhibitions include Sir John Soane’s Museum, London (2024); Fotografiska Museum of Photography, Stockholm & Tallinn(2020); Autograph, London (2019); and New Orleans Museum of Art (2018), among others. Group exhibitions include the Museum of the African Diaspora [MoAD],San Francisco (2024); Hayward Gallery, London (2022); North Carolina Museum of Art, Raleigh (2020); Somerset House, London (2019); Ford Foundation, New York(2019) ); Ford Foundation, New York (2019); Crocker Art Museum, Sacramento (2018); Kentucky Museum of Art and Craft, Louisville (2016); Spelman Museum of Fine Art, Atlanta (2016); and Cooper Gallery, Harvard University, Cambridge (2016). Photo credit ©2024 Courtesy of LVXIX Atelier.   Sir John Soane Museum https://www.soane.org/exhibitions/lina-iris-viktor-mythic-time-tens-thousands-rememberings Museum of the African Diaspora (MoAD https://www.moadsf.org/exhibitions/liberatory-living Pilar Corrias https://www.pilarcorrias.com/exhibitions/419-lina-iris-viktor-solar-angels-lunar-lords/ Hayward Gallery https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z1ZHUFirMRM&ab_channel=SouthbankCentre New Orleans Museum of Art https://noma.org/exhibitions/lina-iris-viktor-a-haven-a-hell-a-dream-deferred/ Fotografiska Stockholm https://stockholm.fotografiska.com/en/exhibitions/lina-iris-viktor Autograph https://autograph.org.uk/online-image-galleries/lina-iris-viktor-some-are-born-to-endless-night-dark-matter-exhibition-highlights Elephant https://elephant.art/lina-iris-viktors-distinct-mythology-a-photo-diary-from-the-artists-home-on-the-amalfi-coast/ Apollo Magazine https://www.apollo-magazine.com/lina-iris-viktor-soane-museum-review/ An Other https://www.anothermag.com/art-photography/15758/lina-iris-viktor-interview-mythic-time-sir-john-soane-museum-exhibition Artnet https://news.artnet.com/art-world/lina-iris-viktor-2379189 British Vogue https://www.vogue.co.uk/gallery/lina-iris-viktor-sir-john-soane Something Curated https://somethingcurated.com/2023/03/21/interview-lina-iris-viktor-on-the-libyan-sibyl-beauty-as-a-tool-for-truth/ The Art Newspaper https://www.theartnewspaper.com/2022/08/03/a-brush-with-lina-iris-viktor New York Times https://www.nytimes.com/2022/08/04/arts/design/in-the-black-fantastic-london.html

    27 min
  7. Carl E Hazlewood

    JAN 29

    Carl E Hazlewood

    Ep.230 Carl E. Hazlewood (b. 1951) was born in Guyana, South America. Parallel to his studio practice, Hazlewood co-founded Aljira, a Center for Contemporary Art in Newark, NJ in 1983. Steeped in modest materials, such as polyester, push pins, map pins and metallic string, form is foregrounded and the slippage between drawing, painting and sculpture places his work in a space that challenges the conventions of each medium, and forces the viewer to experience form on its own terms. Hazlewood explains, “Like a sculptor, I work to find 'shapes' and 'volumes', implied or actual. And like painting, the layering becomes an intuitive search for textures, color and form…I define edges, where things begin and end, where they may find relationships and multiple transitions against or into each other. I think of this as 'drawing' the accumulation of parts into active and resonant connections. Then those 'active' parts are pinned into a final configuration, something that feels properly 'evocative' yet stable as plastic form.” Solo exhibitions of his work include BlackHead Anansi: Constellations at Charlotte and Philip Hanes Gallery, Wake Forest University, South Carolina (2023); Racing Thoughts-Fever Dreaming at Art Basel Miami Beach (2022); and BlackHead Lyricism at Welancora Gallery (2022). Hazlewood has been the recipient of fellowships at the MacDowell organization (2023, 2015); the Brown Foundation at the Dora Maar House, Ménerbes, France (2018); and the Bogliasco Foundation, Italy (2018). His fifty-two-foot-tall wall work, TRAVELER (2017), was commissioned by the Knockdown Center, Queens. Collections include: The National Museum of African American History and Culture, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, DC , The Study Center, Bogliasco Foundation, Genova, Italy, The Dora Maar House, Ménerbes, France, Ogden Museum of Southern Art, New Orleans, Louisiana, Museu Brasileiro da Escultura, São Paulo - Brazil, The Schomburg Center Collections, New York, NY, The University of Guyana, South America and The National Collection of Fine Arts, Castellani House, Guyana, South America. Photo credit: Dia Art Foundation Artist https://www.carle-hazlewood.com/ Welancora Gallery https://www.welancoragallery.com/artists/71-carl-e.-hazlewood/works/ Brattleboro Museum https://www.brattleboromuseum.org/2024/10/21/carl-e-hazlewood-infinite-passage/ Sharpe-Walentas https://www.thestudioprogram.com/artists-hp2023/carl-e-hazlewood Ortega y Gasset Projects https://www.oygprojects.com/swimming-blind-in-a-wine-dark-sea Duck Creek arts https://www.duckcreekarts.org/2024-group-show-ranee Whitewall https://whitewall.art/whitewaller/must-see-shows-in-the-hamptons-on-view-now/ Bomb https://bombmagazine.org/articles/2024/07/02/an-oral-history-with-cynthia-hawkins-by-julia-trotta/ Art Students League https://www.artstudentsleague.org/events/painters-talking-what-we-talk-about-when-we-talk-about-abstraction Wake Forest | Hanes Gallery https://hanesgallery.wfu.edu/blackhead-anansi-constellations/ Valentine Museum of Art https://valentinemuseumofart.com/artists/36-carl-hazlewood/works/ Art in Dumbo https://dumboopenstudios.com/listings/artist/carl-e-hazlewood/ Stabroek news https://www.stabroeknews.com/2024/02/04/sunday/eye-on-art/circling-back-to-carl-e-hazlewood/ Macdowell https://www.macdowell.org/artists/carl-e-hazlewood Art Cake https://artcake.org/artist-carl-e-hazlewood David Richard gallery https://davidrichardgallery.com/news/865-carl-e-hazlewood-demerara-dreaming-triptych-paintings-1996-2003-david-richard-gallery-chelsea-february-17-2022

    24 min
  8. Na Kim

    JAN 17

    Na Kim

    Ep.229 Na Kim b.1986 Seoul, South Korea Na Kim lives and works in Brooklyn, New York. Known for her mimetic portraits set against polychromatic backgrounds, Na Kim’s paintings depict figures but are conceptually abstract. Her imagined subjects, derivative yet unique, evoke both confrontational and intimate encounters. Kim’s practice centers neither accuracy nor narrative, but rather reflects a deeply meditative character study. Solo exhibitions include Kim’s debut solo presentation at White Columns, New York (2023) and forthcoming show at Nicola Vassell Gallery, New York (2025). Group exhibitions include The Selves, Nicola Vassell Gallery, New York (2024) and the White Columns Benefit Auction, New York (2023, 2024). Kim has shown work at a number of art fairs, including Art Basel Miami Beach, Miami (2024) and Independent Art Fair, New York (2024). In addition to her fine art practice, Kim currently works as the art director of The Paris Review and creative director of the publishing house Farrar, Straus and Giroux. Her designs have been named among The New York Times’ best book covers of the year for the past nine consecutive years. Photo Na Kim: Courtesy of the artist Artist https://www.na-kim.com/ Nicola Vassell Gallery https://www.nicolavassell.com/artists/76-na-kim/ White Columns https://whitecolumns.org/exhibitions/na-kim/ Paris Review https://www.theparisreview.org/about/masthead | https://www.theparisreview.org/blog/2023/06/20/the-cups-came-in-a-rush-an-interview-with-margot-bergman/ One Club Organization https://www.oneclub.org/awards/adcawards/-judge/2739/na-kim The Creative Independent Na Kim – The Creative Independent Drakes https://us.drakes.com/blogs/news/in-the-studio-wth-na-kim?srsltid=AfmBOoqMsvMO6YmKGyt_fJCZkdzWGCsZjEYClN228sX4NQp4dpAGePXX I need a book cover https://ineedabookcover.com/designers/na-kim/ Print Magazine https://www.printmag.com/book-covers/best-book-cover-of-the-month-the-copenhagen-trilogy-designed-by-na-kim/ Coveteur https://coveteur.com/book-designer-interview-na-kim

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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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