Interview

Stefan Klein

August 9, 2017 By Brainard Carey Leave a Comment

Klein’s work deals primarily with complex systems that are transferred in (performative) conceptual ways – in a subtle yet interactive form. Deduction as a method ranges from installations to interven- tions. He is interested in small gestures, and printed publications as a conceptual work, reflecting on performances as an action of a documented performative act.

Amongst others, he is intrigued by the work of Niklas Luhman, Albert Camus and Theodor W. Adorno.

Stefan Klein holds a Master in Sociology and received a Master in Fine Arts from the Public Arts and New Artistic Strategies Program at the Bauhaus University in Weimar. He has exhibited in various group and solo exhibitions internationally.

He is also a founding member and runs the independent publishing house VERLAK.

Sunflower Seeds, shells of sunflower seeds, plastic bag. Presented (in the palm of the of the museum guard) at the Berlin Biennale 2016

KEEP GOING WEST UNTIL YOU CAN SEE THE SUN SET IN THE EAST, 2015. Publication/ Performance – Photo credit: ACTING SPACE – BAUHAUS GOES KUNSTFEST 2015 © Thomas Müller

Emilie Clark

August 7, 2017 By Brainard Carey Leave a Comment

Emilie Clark is a New York artist who works in drawing, painting, installation and writing. Different developments in her project “Sweet Corruptions” were exhibited in solo shows at Morgan Lehman Gallery (New York, NY) the Nevada Museum of Art, (Reno,NV), the San Jose Museum of Art and the Lynden Sculpture Garden (Milwaukee, WI) where she continues to work with the local public schools on her science through art project. Clark represented the sin of “gluttony” at the Katonah Museum (Katonah, NY), as part of the Seven Deadly Sins project in 2015.

Other exhibitions include Wave Hill (NY), the Royal Hibernian Academy (Ireland), the Children’s Museum of the Arts (NY), the Weatherspoon Museum (NC), and the Hunterdon Art Museum (NJ). Clark was the first (of four) artist fellows at The Drawing Center from 2015-2015. In 2010 Clark was the first Artist in Residence at the Brooklyn Botanical Garden.

Clark’s work has been featured in many publications, including The New York Times, The New Yorker, The Wall Street Journal, Bomb, Printed Project, Cabinet Magazine, Art in America, Art Week, and Hyperallergic. Clark is the recipient of numerous awards, including the Pollock Krasner and the Rockefeller Foundation’s Bellagio fellowship. She was an Artist Fellow at The Drawing Center in New York City from 2013-2015. Clark has also collaborated and published books with poets including The Traveler and the Hill and Hill 1999, and The Lake 2001, with Lyn Hejinian (Granary Books). With her husband, Lytle Shaw, she has published several books and co-edited Shark, a journal of art writing and poetics.

Born and raised in San Francisco, Clark received her BFA from Cornell University in 1991, and moved to New York City from the Bay Area in 1998. She received her MFA from Bard College in 2002. Clark is currently an assistant Professor at Ohio Wesleyan’s New York Arts Program and an adjunct professor at Parsons. She lives in New York City with her two boys, Cosmo and Luca, and husband, Lytle Shaw.

Aura Rosenberg

August 4, 2017 By Brainard Carey Leave a Comment

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.

Berlin Childhood: The Reading Desk, 1999, Cprint, 30” x 40”

Head Shots, Mike Kelley, 1993, Inkjet print,

Golden Age Rorschach, 2014, 38” x 26”, Acrylic paint over inkjet print mounted on Dibond

Edgar Oliver

August 3, 2017 By Brainard Carey Leave a Comment

Edgar Oliver is a writer and performer who has lived and worked in New York for many years. He started out reading his poems and performing monologues at the Pyramid night club in the early 1980’s.

From 1988 to 2001 he wrote and staged a series of autobiographical plays – premiering a new play almost every year in the Club at LaMama on east 4th Street.

Titles include The Seven Year Vacation, The Ghost of Brooklyn, Mosquito Succulence, Motel Blue 19, and The Drowning Pages.

In recent years he has written and performed a series of one man shows that have won much critical acclaim.

These shows include Helen and Edgar – directed by Catharine Burns of The Moth – and East 10th Street: self-portrait with empty house, In the Park, and Attorney Street – all three directed by Randy Sharp of the Axis Theatre Company.

This October and November (2017) Edgar will be performing East 10th Street, In the Park, and Attorney Street as a trilogy at the Axis Theatre, The trilogy is called “Edgar Oliver’s New York Stories”

Anastasia Patsey

July 30, 2017 By Brainard Carey Leave a Comment

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).