Brainard Carey

Aura Rosenberg lives in New York City and Berlin.  She has examined themes of sexuality, childhood, work/play, family history and world history. 

She has produced painting, sculpture, photography, video, and plays keyboards with her bands Cornichons and Dirty Mirrors in NYC and Berlin.

In 1996 Stop Over Press published her first book, Head Shots. In 2002 DAAD and Steidl Verlag published her photo project Berliner Kindheit. In 2008 Hatje Cantz Verlag published Who Am I? What Am I, Where Am I?  In 2016 to commemorate the 20^th Anniversary of Head Shots JOAN, an exhibition space in Los Angeles, showed all sixty-one photos in the book.  The series will be shown again in October 2017 at de Oudeschans in Amsterdam in an exhibition organised by Zippora Elders.  

Learn more at her galleries Meliksetian | Briggs, Los Angeles and Martos Gallery, New York.

Anastasia Patsey is a curator based in St. Petersburg, Russia and working internationally. She graduated from the St. Petersburg State Stieglitz Art Academy (Department of History and Theory of Visual Arts) and received her MA at the Faculty of Liberal Arts and Sciences — a joined program of the St. Petersburg State University and the Bard College NY.

Since 2012 she is a permanent member of the curatorial team at the “Pushkinskaya-10” — the oldest non-governmental cultural institution in Russia founded in 1989. In 2013 Anastasia Patsey founded the “2,04 gallery”, which functions as a shared art laboratory and project incubator for emerging art professionals.

She is co-founder and board member of the “Paideia School of interpretation of contemporary art”, launched in 2014. Since 2012 she is directing the St. Petersburg International Art Residency (SPAR), which regularly hosts interdisciplinary art professionals to from all over the world.

In Fall 2015 Anastasia Patsey was offered the directorial position at the St. Petersburg Museum of nonconformist art (MoNA) that she currently holds. Anastasia Patsey is regularly invited as a guest lecturer by the National Research University Higher School of Economics, the Pushkin Leningrad State University and the St. Petersburg State Polytechnic University.

The books mentioned in the interview are the Documenta-14 catalogue and the “History of an Old Apartment” (available only in Russian).

Damien Davis (b. 1984) is a Brooklyn-based artist. His practice explores historical representations of blackness by seeking to unpack the visual language of various cultures and question how these societies code/decode representations of race through design and digital modes of production. 

Davis’ recent solo presentations include White Room, METHOD Gallery, Seattle, WA (2017); MoMA PopRally Presents Arty Gras, The Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY (2017) and OBJECT | AFFECTION, Black Ball Projects, Brooklyn, NY (2016); His group exhibitions include Race and Revolution: Still Separate – Still Unequal, Smack Mellon, Brooklyn, NY (2017); The MYSYSYPYN, Nemeth Art Center, Park Rapids, MN (2017); Sine Gallery: Berlin, Sine Gallery, Berlin, Germany; The Magic Flute, 80WSE Gallery, New York, NY (2016); and ReSignifications, Biagiotti Progetto Arte, Florence, Italy (2015). 

His awards and residencies include Lower Manhattan Cultural Council’s Workspace Program, New York NY, (2016-17); The Art & Law Program Fellowship, New York NY, (Spring 2016); Prattsville Art Center residency, Prattsville, NY (2012); Rema Hort Mann Foundation, Community Engagement Grant Winner, New York, NY (2017); Art Matters, Foundation Grant Nominee, New York NY, (2016); and Rema Hort Mann Foundation, Emerging Artist Award Nominee, New York NY, (2016). Davis holds a B.F.A in Studio Art and an M.A in Visual Arts Administration from New York University.