Sophie Yerly was born in Soulce, Switzerland. She is currently living in Basel, Switzerland.
She is the founder of the online art space We Find Wildness.
Sophie Yerly
Interview
Fredericka Foster
Fredericka Foster works in oil painting and photography. She was born in Seattle and has spent most of her life on, or near, water. This proximity gave rise to a deep, personal connection with water, amplified by her Buddhist studies and practice. This lifelong connection to water has deeply informed her paintings.
After receiving her B.A. in Art at the University of Washington, she studied and taught at The Factory of Visual Arts in Seattle, and eventually moved to New York. She currently lives in New York City and Seattle.
She has exhibited in the U.S., Europe, and Japan. Since 2002, she has had five solo painting exhibitions, called “Waterway,” at the Fischbach Gallery in New York City. She has also participated in many of their group shows.
From 2011 to 2012, Foster was guest curator of “The Value of Water” at the Cathedral of St. John the Divine in New York. She exhibited paintings other exhibitions there, “The Value of Food” in 2016 and “Christa” in 2017. She had a solo show of her Waterway paintings at The Beacon Institute of Rivers and Estuaries in 2014 and participated in the 2017 Clio Art Fair in New York.
Foster believes that the art experience involves a different way of knowing that can connect people intuitively and emotionally; increasing personal resiliency and encouraging positive change. In addition to curating and participating in the exhibits at St. John and BIRE, she has had many opportunities through her painting to be an advocate for water.
In April of 2017, she gave a talk at the Sage Assembly in Seattle, where she spoke to a group of two hundred and fifty scientists about water issues and solutions. Her presentation combined art, science, environmental issues and activism, and culminated in a performance “Exploring Catastrophe to Water Through Science and Art.”
Foster exhibits online with the Fischbach Gallery, now located in Miami Beach.
Lisa Goren
Lisa Goren was born in California and raised in NYC. And yet, she has dreamed of Polar landscapes since she was in her teens. Her first trip took her to Antarctica where she was inspired and captivated by the landscape. She has also traveled to Iceland, Alaska, and the High Arctic to increase her understanding of the Polar Regions. Her watercolors show an unfamiliar landscape in a new light. By using vibrant colors and taking risks with different surfaces, she makes the viewer reevaluate their understanding of both these landscapes and their beliefs in the potential of the medium. Her works create questions about the nature of abstraction and our planet as many of her pieces are representations of unfamiliar, threatened terrains.
Lisa’s work can be found in personal collections all over the world, from Australia to Iceland, and the United States. She was awarded a place on the 2013 voyage of The Arctic Circle, an artist residency sailing near the North Pole. This “trip of a lifetime” was chronicled in an article she wrote for the New York Times (http://nyti.ms/1PAO5mr) and led her to her next phase of her Polar work. She had two pieces in “Gaia – Les femmes et l’ecologie” in Paris to coincide with the COP21 Climate talks.
Lisa has been working out of Boston, Massachusetts for the past 25 years and is a board member of the National Association of Women Artists (Mass. Chapter). She was named Artist-in-Residence for the South Shore Art Association, 2016-2017.
The book mentioned the is “South Pole Station” by Ashley Shelby.
Richard Chartier
Richard Chartier is considered one of the key figures in the field of sound art described as “microsound” and Neo-Modernist. Chartier’s minimalist digital work explores the inter-relationships between the spatial nature of sound, silence, focus, perception and the act of listening itself.
Chartier’s critically acclaimed sound works have been published since 1998 on a variety of labels internationally. He has collaborated with noted composer William Basinski, sound artists ELEH, CoH, Robert Curgenven, Taylor Deupree, AGF, Yann Novak, and German electronic music pioneer Asmus Tietchens. In installation form he has created works with multimedia artists Evelina Domnitch and Dmitry Gelfand, visual artist Linn Meyers, and projected light artist Anthony McCall. Under his Pinkcourtesyphone alias he has collaborated with the likes of Cosey Fanni Tutti, Kid Congo Powers, harpist Gwyneth Wentink, AGF, and Evelina Domnitch.
Chartier’s sound works/installations have been presented in galleries and museums internationally and he has performed his work live across Europe, Japan, Australia, and North America. In 2000 he formed the recording label LINE exploring the aesthetics of contemporary and digital minimalism.
The book mentioned in the interview was ‘Art Sex Music’ by Cosey Fanni Tutti (Faber & Faber, 2017)
Natasha Stagg, part 2
Natasha Stagg is a writer who is living in Brooklyn and working on her second novel. Her first, Surveys, was published by Semiotext(e) in 2016.
The first part of this interview can be heard here.
She has worked as an editor at V magazine and as a freelance writer for other magazines, like DIS, 032c, Dazed & Confused, Texte Zur Kunst, Spike Art Quarterly, and CR Fashion Book.
Her fiction and essays have appeared in the book The Present in Drag, Flash Art International’s Fiction Issue, and independent publishing projects Have Not and Logue.
