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Dannielle Tegeder

September 9, 2019 By Brainard Carey Leave a Comment

Dannielle Tegeder (Born in Peekskill, NY) received a BFA from the State University of New York at Purchase (1994), and an MFA in Painting and Drawing from The School of The Art Institute of Chicago (1997). She is currently an Associate Professor of art at the City University of New York at Lehman College, and has held full-time university positions at SUNY Purchase and Cornell University.

For the past fifteen years, her work has explored abstraction. While the core of her work is paintings and drawings, she has recently begun to include large-scale installation, sculptural objects, video, sound, and animation.

Since receiving her MFA in 1997 from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago, her work has been presented in over 100 gallery exhibitions, both nationally and internationally in Paris, Houston, Los Angeles, Berlin, Chicago, and New York.

She has participated in numerous institution exhibitions including PS1/MOMA, The New Museum, The Brooklyn Museum of Art in New York, and Museum of Contemporary Art in Chicago. Several of her drawings have recently been purchased as part of the Contemporary Drawing Collection at the Museum of Modern Art, and her work is in the permanent collections of The Museum of Contemporary Art in Chicago, and The Weatherspoon Museum of Art in Greensboro, NC.

Lahm (high-density solid pump); gouache, ink, colored pencil, graphite, water-based spray paint, pastel on Fabriano Murillo paper, 79 x 55 in., 2016. Image courtesy of Johannes Vogt Gallery, New York.

Installation view of Dannielle Tegeder: Chroma Machine Suite: Forecasting Fault Lines in the Cosmos: Deconstructed paintings and stage; wood, plexiglass, and metal, 7 x 9 ft., 2018. Image courtesy of H&R Block Artspace at Kansas City Art Institute.

Wendy Red Star

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Artist Wendy Red Star works across disciplines to explore the intersections of Native American ideologies and colonialist structures, both historically and in contemporary society. Raised on the Apsáalooke (Crow) reservation in Montana, Red Star’s work is informed both by her cultural heritage and her engagement with many forms of creative expression, including photography, sculpture, video, fiber arts, and performance. An avid researcher of archives and historical narratives, Red Star seeks to incorporate and recast her research, offering new and unexpected perspectives in work that is at once inquisitive, witty and unsettling. Intergenerational collaborative work is integral to her practice, along with creating a forum for the expression of Native women’s voices in contemporary art.

Red Star has exhibited in the United States and abroad at venues including the Metropolitan Museum of Art, Fondation Cartier pour l’ Art Contemporain, Domaine de Kerguéhennec, Portland Art Museum, Hood Art Museum, St. Louis Art Museum, and the Minneapolis Institute of Art, among others. She served a visiting lecturer at institutions including Yale University, the Figge Art Museum, the Banff Centre, National Gallery of Victoria in Melbourne, Dartmouth College, CalArts, Flagler College, and I.D.E.A. Space in Colorado Springs. In 2017, Red Star was awarded the Louis Comfort Tiffany Award and in 2018 she received a Smithsonian Artist Research Fellowship. In 2019 Red Star will have her first career survey exhibition at the Newark Museum in Newark New Jersey.

Red Star holds a BFA from Montana State University, Bozeman, and an MFA in sculpture from University of California, Los Angeles. She lives and works in Portland, OR.

Peelatchiwaaxpáash / Medicine Crow (Raven) Artist-manipulated digitally reproduced photograph by C.M. (Charles Milton) Bell, National Anthropological Archives, Smithsonian Institution

Chris Bors

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Chris Bors was born in Ithaca, New York and received his MFA from School of Visual Arts. Solo shows include Randall Scott Projects in Washington, D.C. and Art During the Occupation in New York City.

His art has also been exhibited at PS1 MoMA, Freight+Volume, Arts+Leisure, Kustera Projects, White Columns, and the Bronx Museum of the Arts in New York, Casino Luxembourg in Luxembourg, Bahnwarterhaus in Esslingen, Germany and Bongoût in Berlin. His work has been reviewed in the New York Times, Time Out New York, and the Brooklyn Rail and featured in Vogue Italia, K48 and zingmagazine.

He has written for Artforum.com, ArtReview, and Art in America, among many other publications.

Books mentioned in the interview were, J.G Ballard, Kingdom Come and Michael Craig-Martin, On Being an Artist.

Chris Bors, Orange, Acrylic, vinyl paint and griptape on cloth, 20 x 24 inches

Chris Bors, Born Low 2, 2019, Acrylic on canvas, 45.5 x 34 inches

Julian Hoeber

September 5, 2019 By Brainard Carey Leave a Comment

Julian Hoeber (b. 1974, Philadelphia, PA) holds a BA in Art History from Tufts University, Medford, MA, a BFA from the School of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, MA and an MFA from the ArtCenter College of Design, Pasadena, CA.

Hoeber is a multidisciplinary artist whose practice centers on themes such as the problem of the proximity of thought and form, intuitive processes within geometrical compositional systems, and the quest to combine conceptualist strategies (mind) with that which is experiential (body). For Hoeber, many of the binary categories used to define art, culture, and social relations are non-functional or imperfect. Rather than operating as polarities, categories such as interior and exterior, psychic and somatic, rational and irrational, are able to occupy the same space in his work. Hoeber harnesses rigor and exactitude in service of the emotional and idiosyncratic, revealing that his conceptual strategies and modes of inquiry are subjective and poetic.

Going Nowhere, a years-long endeavor to design an architectural structure in the shape of the artist’s thinking is explored through tromp l’oeil paintings, architecturally inspired sculpture, and drawing.

Hoeber’s work is featured in public and private collections internationally including Dallas Museum of Art, Dallas, TX; de Young Museum, San Francisco, CA; DESTE Foundation for Contemporary Art, Athens, Greece; Hammer Museum, Los Angeles, CA; Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, CA; Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY; Nasher Sculpture Center, Dallas, TX; Rosenblum Collection, Paris, France; Rubell Family Collection, Miami, FL; Francis Young Tang Teaching Museum and Art Gallery, Skidmore College, Saratoga Springs, NY; and the Western Bridge Museum, Seattle, WA.

Julian Hoeber lives and works in Los Angeles, CA.

Installation View of Julian Hoeber at Rosenwald-Wolf Gallery, Philadelphia, PA 2019. Photo © Heather Rasmussen

Mood, Latex, enamel on plywood with polyester resin, fiberglass, bondo, epoxy, acrylic paint, 36 x 24 x 6 inches / 91.4 x 61 x 15.2cm, 2018. Photo © Heather Rasmussen

Easing

September 5, 2019 By Brainard Carey Leave a Comment

“Spring passes and one remembers one’s innocence.
Summer passes and one remembers one’s exuberance.
Autumn passes and one remembers one’s reverence.
Winter passes and one remembers one’s perseverance.”
-Yoko Ono

And so another summer begins to fade. There is a fervor in the woods as all living things gambol in the final throes of lingering light, gathering themselves for the coming stillness. We, too, as humans, seem to revel in this time. Nostalgia seeps into our souls through the earthy scent of leaves beginning to fall and decay and the occasional tang of wood smoke on cooler air of evenings.

Olivia Valentine‘s Iowa studio is characteristically busy at the moment. She is at work on an ongoing commission for a private home begun in 2015. She is also working on a series of photographs for Iowa State Park’s Centennial. Valentine’s work is rendered in photography, drawing and textile constructions. To hear more about what she’s up to, including details about the private home commission as well as audio recordings created with a collaborator, listen to the complete interview.

Tony Conrad lives and works in Appleton, Wisconsin where he is pressing forward with an ongoing body of work comprising geometric abstractions. There are around 30 paintings in the series so far and Conrad hopes to reach triple digits. The paintings range in size though he thinks of the smaller works as sketches in a way. Conrad creates his complex paintings by hand although they can appear digital when viewed from a distance. Conrad also teaches painting and drawing at Lawrence University in Wisconsin. To hear more about his work and process, listen to the complete interview.

A Few Words to Keep in your Pocket:

As we slide away from the heat of summer, the cool of autumn quiets the mind.

Interviews are available on iTunes as podcasts, and for Android please click here. All weekly essay pieces in a shareable format are here. The full archive of interviews here.

Books to Read

What are you reading? Add your titles to our reading list here. Olivia Valentine recently read Together by Richard Sennett. Tony Conrad is reading Inner: The Collected Writings and Selected Interviews of Sean Scully.

Maajaam invites artists interested in spending time in rural Estonia to apply for residency. Although many media are invited to apply, projects often use materials found on the farm and are subject to wear and decay. This is one of the driving principles of the residency. for more details and to apply, visit the website. Deadline is September 15.

Deadlines

Weekly Edited Grant and Residency Deadlines – review the list here.

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Brainard Carey is an author, artist and educator. He is the director of Praxis Center for Aesthetics. He has written six books for artists; Making it in the Art World, New Markets for Artists, The Art World Demystified, Fund Your Dreams Like a Creative Genius, Sell Online Like a Creative Genius and Succeed with Social Media Like a Creative Genius.