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2026-02-0423 min
Cerebral Women Art Talks PodcastErika RaneeEp.212 Erika Ranee received her MFA in painting from the University of California, Berkeley. She is the recipient of a New York Foundation for the Arts (NYFA) Fellowship in Painting/1996 and 2021; an AIM Fellowship from the Bronx Museum and was granted artist residence at the Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture and a recipient of “Anonymous Was A Woman” grant in December 2023. She was awarded a studio grant from the Marie Walsh Sharpe Foundation in 2011. Her work has been featured throughout the New York/NYC region in group exhibitions at the Southampton Arts Center, at BRIC/Project Room and at Klau...
2024-09-1127 min
TVMusic Network Podcast with Phyllis and Belinda"It Was Luna All Along and What's Up with Laura?" - TVMusic Network Podcast with Phyllis and Belinda Season 7 Episode 9"It Was Luna All Along and What's Up with Laura?" - TVMusic Network Podcast with Phyllis and Belinda Season 7 Episode 9 Take a listen to our latest episode of the TVMusic Network Podcast with Phyllis and Belinda. In this episode, the Thomas Sisters discuss The Bold and the Beautiful and General Hospital. We discuss the murder mystery of who killed Tom and Hollis...was it Poppy or Luna? Also, what is wrong with Hope going after Finn...kissing him. Is she having a mid-life crisis? Rebecca Budig is the new Taylor. How will this end?
2024-08-301h 37
The University of Georgia Press PodcastHollis Robbins, "Forms of Contention: Influence and the African American Sonnet Tradition" (U Georgia Press, 2020)As I learned from Hollis Robbins’s monograph Forms of Contention: Influence and the African American Sonnet Tradition (U Georgia Press, 2020), there has been a long-standing skepticism of the sonnet form among Black writers and literary critics. Langston Hughes wrote that “the Shakespearean sonnet would be no mold to express the life of Beale Street or Lenox Avenue.” Ishmael Reed condemned sonneteering, alongside ode-writing, as “the feeble pluckings of musky gentlemen and slaves of the metronome.” And yet African American poets such as Terrance Hayes and Natasha Trethewey continue to contribute to a tradition of sonnet-writing that includes Robert Hayden, Phyll...
2023-08-261h 31
New Books in PoetryHollis Robbins, "Forms of Contention: Influence and the African American Sonnet Tradition" (U Georgia Press, 2020)As I learned from Hollis Robbins’s monograph Forms of Contention: Influence and the African American Sonnet Tradition (U Georgia Press, 2020), there has been a long-standing skepticism of the sonnet form among Black writers and literary critics. Langston Hughes wrote that “the Shakespearean sonnet would be no mold to express the life of Beale Street or Lenox Avenue.” Ishmael Reed condemned sonneteering, alongside ode-writing, as “the feeble pluckings of musky gentlemen and slaves of the metronome.” And yet African American poets such as Terrance Hayes and Natasha Trethewey continue to contribute to a tradition of sonnet-writing that includes Robert Hayden, Phyll...
2023-08-261h 31
New Books in African American StudiesHollis Robbins, "Forms of Contention: Influence and the African American Sonnet Tradition" (U Georgia Press, 2020)As I learned from Hollis Robbins’s monograph Forms of Contention: Influence and the African American Sonnet Tradition (U Georgia Press, 2020), there has been a long-standing skepticism of the sonnet form among Black writers and literary critics. Langston Hughes wrote that “the Shakespearean sonnet would be no mold to express the life of Beale Street or Lenox Avenue.” Ishmael Reed condemned sonneteering, alongside ode-writing, as “the feeble pluckings of musky gentlemen and slaves of the metronome.” And yet African American poets such as Terrance Hayes and Natasha Trethewey continue to contribute to a tradition of sonnet-writing that includes Robert Hayden, Phyll...
2023-08-261h 34
New Books in Literary StudiesHollis Robbins, "Forms of Contention: Influence and the African American Sonnet Tradition" (U Georgia Press, 2020)As I learned from Hollis Robbins’s monograph Forms of Contention: Influence and the African American Sonnet Tradition (U Georgia Press, 2020), there has been a long-standing skepticism of the sonnet form among Black writers and literary critics. Langston Hughes wrote that “the Shakespearean sonnet would be no mold to express the life of Beale Street or Lenox Avenue.” Ishmael Reed condemned sonneteering, alongside ode-writing, as “the feeble pluckings of musky gentlemen and slaves of the metronome.” And yet African American poets such as Terrance Hayes and Natasha Trethewey continue to contribute to a tradition of sonnet-writing that includes Robert Hayden, Phyll...
2023-08-261h 34
2023-05-1031 min
2022-09-1323 min
Cerebral Women Art Talks PodcastKate FowleEpisode 88 features Kate Fowle, the Director of MoMA PS1. From 2013-2019 she was the inaugural chief curator at Garage Museum of Contemporary Art in Moscow and director-at-large of Independent Curators International (ICI) in New York, where she was the executive director from 2009-13. Prior to this she was the inaugural international curator at the Ullens Center for Contemporary Art in Beijing (2007-08). In 2002 she co-founded the Master’s Program in Curatorial Practice for California College of the Arts in San Francisco, for which she was the Chair until 2007. Before moving to the United States, Fowle was co-director of Smith + Fowle in...
2022-01-0532 min
Cerebral Women Art Talks PodcastAllana ClarkeEpisode 87 features Allana Clarke (b. 1987) is a Trinidadian-American artist whose practice is built upon a foundation of uncertainty, curiosity, a will to heal, and an insistence upon freedom. Fluidly moving through photography, sculptural and text-based works, video and performance, her research-based practice incorporates socio-political and art historical texts, to contend with ideas of Blackness, the binding nature of bodily signification, and of the possibility to create non-totalizing identifying structures. Clarke received her BFA in photography from New Jersey City University in 2011 and an MFA in Interdisciplinary Practice from MICA’s Mount Royal School of Art in 2014.
She is an assistant pr...
2021-12-2225 min
Cerebral Women Art Talks PodcastCoady BrownEpisode 86 features Coady Brown. She is a painter from Baltimore, MD. She received her BFA from Tyler School of Art, Temple University in 2012 and her MFA from Yale University in 2016. Her recent solo exhibitions include Only In The Darkness Can You See The Stars at Shulamit Nazarian in Los Angeles and Electric Bloom at Taymour Grahne in London. She has exhibited both nationally and internationally with 1969 Gallery, Carl Kostyál, Richard Heller, and Francios Ghebaly, among others. She is the recipient of several fellowships and residencies including The Fine Arts Work Center, Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture, Fountainhead, Vermont S...
2021-12-1533 min
Cerebral Women Art Talks PodcastPat PhillipsEpisode 85 features Pat Phillips. He was born in Lakenheath, England in 1987. His work was featured in the 2019 Whitney Biennial at the Whitney Museum of American Art in New York. Solo exhibitions include ROOTS (Antenna Gallery, New Orleans), Told You Not to Bring That Ball (Masur Museum of Art, Monroe), SubSuperior (Catinca Tabacaru Gallery, New York) and Summer Madness (M+B, Los Angeles). In 2017, he received a Joan Mitchell Painters & Sculptors Grant. Phillips has also participated in residencies at the Vermont Studio Center and Skowhegan School of Painting & Sculpture. His work can be found in the collections of the Whitney Museum...
2021-12-0826 min
Cerebral Women Art Talks PodcastLeonardo BenzantEpisode 84 features sculptor and painter Leonardo Benzant, a Dominican-American artist with Haitian heritage born and raised in Brooklyn. His practice is informed by his studies of the Kongo, Yoruba and his spiritual beliefs shaped by research into African and Caribbean religion, art, history, culture, rituals and informed by modern and contemporary art. He deploys a wide variety of media and found objects to create dynamic overhanging (or suspended) beaded sculptures and he is an impressive painter.
Leonardo received a Joan Mitchell Foundation Painters and Sculptors Grant, attended Pratt Institute and the Galveston Artist Residency in Texas. He has also participated...
2021-12-0119 min
Cerebral Women Art Talks PodcastLilian Garcia-RoigEp.83 features Lilian Garcia-Roig, a Cuba born, Texas raised artist living in Tallahassee, Florida whose works landscape-themed works have always explored the complex propositions of sense of place and belonging which so influence the construction of personal identity While she is most known for her perceptually-based, large-scale, “all-day” cumulative paintings that underscores the complex nature of trying to capture first-hand the multidimensional and ever-changing experience of being in that specific location. Recently she has embarked on a conceptual investigation of the idea of the Cuban landscape and how her American Bauhausian education has colored her relationship to place and space. Thes...
2021-11-2425 min
Cerebral Women Art Talks PodcastKhalif Tahir ThompsonEpisode 82 features Khalif Tahir Thompson. He is best recognized for his powerful work concentrated in portraiture and figuration. Incorporating painting, drawing, collage, printmaking, and paper-making into his practice, he explores notions of self through varied subjectivity concerning identity, race, iconography, as well as family, and relationships. Recently he graduated from Purchase College with his Bachelors in Fine arts degree and completed a fellowship at the EFA Robert Blackburn Printmaking Workshop in NYC, the Vermont Studio Center, and The Jerome Emerging Artist Residency at The Anderson Center. He is currently represented by Black Art In America.
Headshot credit: Jairo Serna
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2021-11-1725 min
Cerebral Women Art Talks PodcastDelphine DesaneEpisode 81 features Delphine Desane. She is a Brooklyn-based artist born and raised in Paris, France by Haitian parents.
She began her career as a stylist in the fashion industry. After becoming a mother, she began to paint during her maternity leave. Delphine was soon discovered and commissioned to create the cover image for Vogue Italia January 2020 Sustainability Issue. In April 2021, Vogue US featured her painting titled “Bittersweet” in a story about Black Motherhood.
Since then, her work has been exhibited in both solo and group exhibitions in the US, Europe and the UK.
Delphine had her first solo show at Luce...
2021-11-1021 min
Cerebral Women Art Talks PodcastSuzanne McFaydenEpisode 80 features Suzanne McFayden. Born and raised in Kingston, Jamaica, she is a writer, and leading collector of contemporary art. Ms. McFayden holds a BA in French Literature from Cornell University and an MFA in Writing from Mills College. Her philanthropic investments beyond the art world address food insecurity. Ms. McFayden is the current Board Chair of The Blanton Museum of Art at The University of Texas at Austin. She is a Trustee of the Studio Museum of Harlem in NYC and also serves on Pratt Institute's DEIA Committee. As a black female art collector, McFayden’s collection focuses on wo...
2021-11-0325 min
Cerebral Women Art Talks PodcastRonald JacksonEpisode 79 features painter Ronald Jackson. Growing up in the rural South of the Arkansas Delta, Jackson was the youngest of eleven kids born to a farmer and a community organizer. His Mother and Father left a legacy of challenging and reshaping the norms of the racial status quo in their surrounding home communities.
Jackson came from a lineage of black landowners farming in the South. In the mid-sixties, his parents led communities in the organization of multiple boycotts against the establishment of local racial injustices. Despite suffering continual threats, harassments, and organized retaliations, efforts eventually led to a successful lawsuit...
2021-10-2723 min
Cerebral Women Art Talks PodcastAlina ZamanovaEpisode 78 features Alina Zamanova Her paintings are centered around the representation of modern reality, where women’s bodies are embraced in all shapes and focused to portray their distortions without societal norms labeled on them. Being inspired by muses around the world, Zamanova recently draws from her own experience on a psychological level of upbringing to expose both physical and mental sides of humanity. The female bodies in her paintings occupy the dramatic landscapes from her dreams, memories and real-life places that have a strong connection to the artist. The concepts that the artist investigates involve human relationships and hidden st...
2021-10-2027 min
Cerebral Women Art Talks PodcastAdrienne Elise TarverEpisode 77 features Adrienne Elise Tarver, an interdisciplinary artist, educator, and administrator with a practice that spans painting, sculpture, installation, photography, and video. Her work addresses the complexity and invisibility of the black female identity in the Western landscape--from the history within domestic spaces to the fantasy of the tropical seductress.
She has exhibited nationally and abroad, including solo or two-person exhibitions at the Aldrich Museum of Contemporary Art in Connecticut; Atlanta Contemporary in Atlanta, Georgia; Victori+Mo (now Dinner Gallery) in New York; Ochi Projects in Los Angeles; Hollis Taggart in New York; Wedge Curatorial in Toronto, Canada; Wave Hill...
2021-10-1327 min
Cerebral Women Art Talks PodcastDavid ShrobeEpisode 76 features New York based David Shrobe. He creates multi-layered portraits and assemblage paintings made in part from everyday materials that he finds in multiple geographies, and especially from around his familial home. He disassembles furniture, separating wood from fabric and recombines them as supports for collage, painting, and drawing.
Through these various modes of production his work brings notions of identity, history, and memory into question, while challenging conventions of classical portraiture. Shrobe produces new narratives, fragmented and nonlinear, that feel intimate and personal without being anchored to a specific time or place.
David Shrobe (b.1974, New York) lives...
2021-10-0325 min
Cerebral Women Art Talks PodcastWardel MilanEpisode 75 features New York-based artist Wardell Milan. He works in mixed media, combining elements of photography,
drawing, painting, and collage. Milan’s practice is conceptually grounded in photography, often using
photographs as initial inspiration behind composition of drawings and collages. Referencing artists such
as Robert Mapplethorpe, Diane Arbus, Andres Serrano, Alec Soth, and Eugene Richards, Milan
appropriates, and in some cases re-appropriates the photographs, and thus the bodies depicted. Milan
also uses images and objects to establish allegorical connections between history and contemporary
events.
Milan’s ongoing series “Death, Wine, Revolt,” which combines photography, drawing, painting, collage,
and sculpture to explore...
2021-09-2826 min
Cerebral Women Art Talks PodcastDr. Ashley JamesEpisode 74 features Ashley James, Ph.D., Associate Curator, Contemporary Art at the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum. She is the curator of Off the Record (2021) and co-curator of The Hugo Boss Prize: Deana Lawson, Centropy (2021). Prior to joining the Guggenheim, James served as Assistant Curator of Contemporary Art at the Brooklyn Museum, where she was the curator for the museum’s presentation of Soul of a Nation: Art in the Age of Black Power (2018–19), organized Eric N. Mack: Lemme walk across the room (2019), and co-curated John Edmonds: A Sidelong Glance (2020-21). James also served as a Mellon Curatorial Fellow in Drawing and...
2021-09-2232 min
Cerebral Women Art Talks PodcastRebecca BrodskisEpisode 73 features painter Rebecca Brodskis (b. 1988 in France) lives and works in Paris. She spent most of her childhood travelling and living between France and Morocco. Brodskis studied painting at the Ateliers des Beaux Arts de la Ville de Paris and at Central St. Martins College of Art and Design in London,graduating in 2010. In 2015, she also completed a Master’s degree in Sociology,focusing her research on the themes of vulnerabilities and social crisis.Exploring the borders of the sensible world, Brodskis’ work evolves betwee nconscious and unconscious spaces, leading to a reflection on the existence, the self and the...
2021-07-0727 min
Cerebral Women Art Talks PodcastIsolde BrielmaierEpisode 72 features scholar and curator Isolde Brielmaier, an Assistant Professor in the Department of Photography, Imaging and Emerging Media at New York University’s Tisch School of the Arts where she focuses on contemporary art, global visual culture, as well as media and immersive technology as platforms within which to re-think storytelling and the politics of representation. She is also the inaugural Curator-at-Large at the International Center of Photography (ICP) and previously oversaw the arts and cultural programming at the Oculus at Westfield World Trade Center. Isolde has written extensively on contemporary art and culture and is the author of Cu...
2021-06-3026 min
Cerebral Women Art Talks PodcastChe LovelaceEpisode 71 features painter Che Lovelace. Based in Port of Spain, Trinidad, Che’s art originates primarily from his experience of living and working in Trinidad and Tobago.
His paintings which are rendered in a vivid assortment of acrylic and dry pigment on combined board panels, are strongly rooted in depicting the dense, highly charged layers of the Trinidadian landscape which he sees as physical, social and spiritual.
The subjects of his paintings emerge from and flow freely between the streets of Port of Spain, to the rural natural vegetation, to the human form and back to the interior of his st...
2021-06-2323 min
Cerebral Women Art Talks PodcastMaria Guzman CapronEp.70 features Maria Guzman Capron. Born in Milan, Italy to Colombian and Peruvian parents, she lives and works in Oakland, CA. She received an MFA from California College of the Arts in 2015 and her BFA from the University of Houston in 2004. Recent exhibitions include Snail Shell — pt.2 Gallery, Oakland, CA; Female Trouble 2 — CULT Aimee Friberg Exhibitions, San Francisco, CA; Body Spray — Buffalo Institute for Contemporary Art, Buffalo, NY; Don’t Eat Me — Deli Gallery in Brooklyn, NYC; and Through Her Eye — Mana Contemporary in Chicago, IL. In addition, she is a parent and works at NIAD Art Center as a part-time fa...
2021-06-1626 min
Cerebral Women Art Talks PodcastAlvin ArmstrongEp.69 features Alvin Armstrong, a painter whose work explores the social and political landscape of Black American culture. His paintings are often filled with real and fictional subjects, culled from archival material, his community and lived experiences. He’s lived in Hawaii, Japan, and California all of which have informed his art practice.
Armstrong received an MS in Eastern Medicine and is a licensed acupuncturist. The self-taught artist currently has a solo show at Anna Zorina Gallery titled, ‘To Give and Take’ and his work has been featured in the New York Times, Juxtapoz and Something Curated. He will be a Fall...
2021-06-0923 min
Cerebral Women Art Talks PodcastAlanna FieldsEpisode 68 features artist and archivist Alanna Fields (b. 1990, Upper Marlboro, MD) is a lens-based mixed media artist and archivist whose work investigates and challenges representations of Black queer identity and history through the lens of photography. Fields' work has been featured in exhibitions including Felix Art Fair, LA, UNTITLED Art Fair, Miami, MoCADA, and Pratt Institute. Fields is a Gordon Parks Foundation Scholar, 2020 Light Work AIR and Baxter St. CCNY Workspace AIR. She received her MFA in Photography from Pratt Institute and has given talks at the Aperture Foundation, Stanford University, NYU Tisch School of the Arts, Parson's New School...
2021-06-0221 min
Cerebral Women Art Talks PodcastMosie RomneyEpisode 67 features Mosie Romney (b. 1994, New York) They live and work in Ridgewood, Queens, New York. A Jamaican-American artist, they received their education from SUNY Purchase, obtaining a Bachelor of Science in Visual Arts in 2016. They have been an artist in residence at the Home School,Hudson in 2018 and at Pocoapoco, Oaxaca City in 2021 (upcoming). Exhibitions include Mosie Romney, Nicodim Gallery, Los Angeles (3/25-May 1st 2021,solo); Evening Lark, Y2K Group, New York (2020, solo); PAPA RAGAZZE!, Nicodim Gallery, Los Angeles (2020); Mosie Romney and Juan Guiterrez, Meredith Rosen Gallery, New York (2020); and Materia Prima, Gern en Regalia, New York (2019).
Mosie is...
2021-05-2622 min
Cerebral Women Art Talks PodcastKhari TurnerEp.66 features Khari Turner, an emerging painter from Milwaukee, Wisconsin, and a current MFA graduate student at Columbia University. He is in multiple collections including his alma mater Austin Peay State University, where he received his BFA. He has been featured in Artnews, Whitehot magazine, Hyperallergic, to name a few. He grew up with many works of art from black artists that his grandparents collected. His grandfather was also a draftsman which inspired Khari at an early age to create. Growing up in Milwaukee, he was exposed to a connection to vast nature and dense cityscapes fighting amongst a city...
2021-05-1931 min
Cerebral Women Art Talks PodcastDoron LangbergEpisode 65 features Doron Langberg. Born in 1985 in Yokneam Moshava, Israel, he currently lives and works in New York City. He received his MFA from Yale University School of Art, holds a BFA from the University of Pennsylvania, a Certificate from PAFA, and attended the Yale Summer School of Music and Art, Norfolk.
Langberg has attended the EFA Studio Program, Sharpe Walentas Studio Program, Yaddo artist residency, and the Queer Art Mentorship Program. He is the recipient of the American Academy of Arts and Letters John Koch award for painting, the Elizabeth Greenshields Foundation Grant, and the Yale Schoelkopf Travel Prize.
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2021-05-1227 min
Cerebral Women Art Talks PodcastChaz GuestEpisode 64 features Chaz Guest. From his initial start in 1986, in a very creative NYC, he forged his Artistic life. He specializes in painting with a concentration on portraiture and cultural narratives. After moving to Paris in 1986 he worked as a freelance fashion illustrator for Joyce Magazine. It was while working at Joyce that he met Christian Lacroix who encouraged him to apply his illustrator skills to painting. Guest later left Joyce magazine and moved to Dax, France where he started painting.
His practice has since soared. His works are now in some of the world’s most prominent art collections wh...
2021-05-0528 min
Cerebral Women Art Talks PodcastJade Alexis ThackerEpisode 63 features Jade Alexis Thacker. She is originally from Boston Massachusetts, currently living in Brooklyn, New York. She received her BFA in printmaking from Massachusetts College of Art and Design in 2014. Her work explores anxiety, discomfort, self image, identity and perception through figuration. Often her paintings are self reflective and an attempt to better understand her own disposition and psychology as well as an evaluation of her relationship with her own body and existence. She had her first solo show ‘Embarrassment Safe Word’ in 2020 at Kravets Wehby Gallery in New York, and in 2021 she was an artist in residence at the...
2021-04-2818 min
Cerebral Women Art Talks PodcastWilliam VillalongoEp.62 features William Villalongo. He received his B.F.A. from The Cooper Union School of Art, NYC and his M.F.A. from the Tyler School of Art at Temple University, Philadelphia.
Recent exhibitions include Yesterday’s Tomorrow: Selections from the Rose Collection, 1933-2018 at the Rose Art Museum, Brandeis University, Waltham, MA; Living in America, curated by Assembly Room, at the International Print Center, NYC; Afro cosmologies: American Reflections, Wadsworth Atheneum Museum of Art, Hartford, CT; Young, Gifted, and Black: The Lumpkin-Boccuzzi Family Collection of Contemporary Art, OSilas Gallery, Concordia College, Bronxville, NY, travelling to Lehman College Art Ga...
2021-04-2123 min
Cerebral Women Art Talks PodcastFranklin SirmansEpisode 61 features Franklin Sirmans. He has been the director of the Pérez Art Museum Miami (PAMM) since fall 2015. Since coming to PAMM, he has overseen the acquisition of more than a thousand works of art by donation or purchase. At PAMM, Sirmans has pursued his vision of PAMM as “the people’s museum,” representing a Miami lens, by strengthening existing affiliate groups such as the PAMM Fund for African American Art and creating the International Women’s Committee and the Latin American and Latinx Art Fund. Sirmans has organized Toba Khedoori (2017) and he was cocurator of The World’s Game: Futbo...
2021-04-1420 min
Cerebral Women Art Talks PodcastCandida AlvarezEpisode 60 features Candida Alvarez. She is the 2021 recipient of the FCA Helen Frankenthaler award for painting and visual arts. Her works include drawings, paintings, prints, and collages that are created with materials as diverse as acrylic paint, colored pencils, enamel, and embroidery thread on cloth, on various supports ranging from canvas to PVC, cotton napkins to vellum.
Alvarez’s solo exhibitions include Mambomountain, Hyde Park Art Center, Chicago, IL (2012); Candida Alvarez: Here, Chicago Cultural Center, Chicago, IL (2017); DeColores, GAVLAK, Palm Beach, FL (2019); and Estoy Bien, Monique Meloche Gallery, Chicago, IL (2020).
Her many group exhibitions include Brooklyn Museum, NY; Contemporary Arts Mu...
2021-04-0729 min
Cerebral Women Art Talks PodcastHiba SchahbazEpisode 59 features Hiba Schahbaz. Born in Karachi, Pakistan she is a Brooklyn-based figurative painter who works primarily with paper, black-tea, and water-based pigments. Her subjects, largely drawn from her lifelong practice of self-portraiture, inhabit a dreamlike, all-female world. Schahbaz initially trained in Indo-Persian miniature painting at Lahore’s National College of Arts, and later earned a Master’s in Painting from Pratt Institute in New York. Her work addresses issues of personal freedom, destruction, sexuality and censorship by unveiling the beauty, fragility and strength of the female form. Her solo shows include Dreaming (De Buck Gallery 2020) In Solitude (De Buck Gall...
2021-03-3128 min
Cerebral Women Art Talks PodcastLava ThomasEpisode 58, the fourth during Women’s History Month, features Lava Thomas, an American artist and arts advocate who tackles issues of race, gender and representation through a multidisciplinary practice that spans drawing, painting, and site-specific installations.
Drawing from her family's southern roots, intersectional feminism, and current and historical sociopolitical events, Thomas's practice amplifies visibility, resilience, and empowerment in the face of erasure, trauma, and oppression.
Thomas is a recipient of the 2020 San Francisco Artadia Award, the Joan Mitchell Grant for Painters and Sculptors, and the Lucas Artist Fellowship in Visual Arts.
She was recently awarded the commission to create a sc...
2021-03-2422 min
Cerebral Women Art Talks PodcastCheryl FinleyEpisode 57 features Cheryl Finley. She is Director of the Atlanta University Center Art History + Curatorial Studies Collective and Distinguished Visiting Professor of Art History at Spelman College. A visionary leader committed to engaging strategic partners to transform the art and culture industry, she leads an innovative undergraduate program at the world’s largest HBCU consortium in preparing the next generation of African American museum and visual arts professionals. She holds a Ph.D. in African American Studies and History of Art from Yale University.
She is a curator, contemporary art critic and award-winning author noted for Committed to Memory: the Ar...
2021-03-1730 min
Cerebral Women Art Talks PodcastAna BenaroyaEpisode 56 features painter/sculptor Ana Benaroya. She is an artist born in New York City, raised in New Jersey. Ana graduated with her MFA in Painting and Printmaking from the Yale School of Art in 2019. From a queer perspective, Benaroya's work explores notions of power and desire by exaggerating and distorting the human body, playing with its form and its relationship to other bodies. She draws from the visual languages of comics, caricature, and pop culture and is influenced by images of bodybuilders, cartoons, gig-posters, and artists such as Tom of Finland, Robert Colescott, the Chicago Imagists as well as...
2021-03-1024 min
Cerebral Women Art Talks PodcastCourtney J. MartinEpisode 55 features Courtney J. Martin. In 2019, she became the sixth director of the Yale Center for British Art. Previously, she was the deputy director and chief curator at the Dia Art Foundation; an assistant professor in the History of Art and Architecture department at Brown University; an assistant professor in the History of Art department at Vanderbilt University; a chancellor’s postdoctoral fellow in the History of Art at the University of California, Berkeley; a fellow at the Getty Research Institute; and a Henry Moore Institute research fellow. She also worked in the media, arts, and culture unit of the Fo...
2021-03-0327 min
Cerebral Women Art Talks PodcastRon HicksEpisode 54 features contemporary artist Ron Hicks. His works have been described as a blend of multiple disciplines ranging from impressionistic and representational to non-objective and abstract and everything in between. This idea, coupled with his intrinsically inspired brushwork, contributes to his ultimate goal – painting his truth.
Ron was born in Columbus, OH, but spent most of his childhood growing up in the modest and friendly neighborhood of Park Hill in Denver, Colorado. Encouraged by his mother who was an accomplished artist, he knew at an early age that he too, was destined to be an artist and was subsequently encouraged by...
2021-02-2427 min
Cerebral Women Art Talks PodcastTawny ChatmonEpisode 53 features photographer Tawny Chatmon. The primary theme that drives her art practice today is celebrating the beauty of black childhood. She is currently devoted to creating portraits that are inspired by art works spanning various art periods in Western Art with the intent of bringing to the forefront faces that were often under-celebrated in this style of work. The camera remains Tawny’s primary tool of communication, while her constant exploration of diverse ways of expression moves her to add several different layers using a variety of mediums. After a portrait session is complete, she typically digitally manipulates her su...
2021-02-1723 min
Cerebral Women Art Talks PodcastReggie Van LeeEpisode 52 features Reginald Van Lee. He is the Chief Transformation Officer at the Carlyle Group, helping ensure that the firm is maximizing its market competitiveness and operating most effectively and efficiently as an institution. From his 32 years at Booz Allen Hamilton,where, before he retired as Executive Vice President, he led numerous businesses, including the US Telecommunications Practice, the US Computers and Electronics Practice, the global Media & Entertainment Practice, the US Federal Health Practice and the Commercial Solutions business, Reggie brings decades of experience driving growth and best-in-class performance. At Carlyle, he leads the development of new and innovative ways to e...
2021-02-1025 min
Cerebral Women Art Talks PodcastTheresa ChromatiEpisode 51 features Guyanese-American artist Theresa Chromati (b. 1992). She has garnered critical and institutional attention for figurative paintings that are shaped by fragmented forms of desire and constant motion. Bursts of complex color, sensual protrusions, and texture deploy abstraction to explore various contemporary realities of black woman. These bodies are at once imaginative, bordering on grotesque, and celebratory as they convey a variety of emotional and spiritual states of being. Chromati was born and raised in Baltimore, attended the Pratt Institute, and is now based in New York City. Recently, her work was on view at The Baltimore Museum of Art...
2021-02-0328 min
Cerebral Women Art Talks PodcastHalim FlowersEpisode 50 features abstract painter, writer, activist, Halim A. Flowers. In the year of 1997, he was arrested at the age of 16 and sentenced to two life sentences in the District of Columbia. His experiences were filmed in the Emmy award-winning documentary “Thug Life In DC”. In 2005, he started his own publishing company SATO Communications, through which he published eleven books.
In 2019, Halim was released from prison after serving 22 years imprisoned. Since his release, Halim has worked with Kim Kardashian for her documentary The Justice Project, collaborated with Kanye West on a spoken word performance and was awarded the Halcyon Arts and Echo...
2021-01-2734 min
Cerebral Women Art Talks PodcastJared OwensEpisode 49 features abstract painter Jared Owens. He was born in Queens and raised in Rockland County, New York. His art practice started inside federal prison, where he taught himself how to draw, paint, and sculpt using “found” or discarded materials. While imprisoned, he mentored others and taught multiple disciplines, including ceramics, painting, and drawing.
Since his release, he has continued to mentor and teach system-impacted young people. He is currently a fellow at Mural Arts Philadelphia and is working on a public art project for Philadelphia in partnership with youth under court supervision. His work is currently included in Marking Time...
2021-01-2035 min
Cerebral Women Art Talks PodcastFrederick HutsonEpisode 48 features Art Collector Frederick Hutson, the CEO and co-founder of Pigeonly, a platform that makes it easy for people to search, find, and communicate with an incarcerated loved one. A born entrepreneur, he launched and sold his first business at the age of 19 while on active duty in the Air Force. After an honorable discharge in 2005, he went on to build and sell his second business.
Though his entrepreneurial spirit often led him to new opportunities, his desire to attain the American Dream on his terms took him down the wrong path. At 23, he was sent to federal prison...
2021-01-1328 min
Cerebral Women Art Talks PodcastSherrill RolandEpisode 47 features Sherrill Roland, an artist who spent too many months in prison for a crime he did not commit.
Sherrill Roland is an interdisciplinary artist who creates art that challenges ideas around controversial social and political constructs, and generates a safe space to process, question, and share. He was born in Asheville, NC, and received an MFA in Studio Art from the University of North Carolina at Greensboro. Inspired by his experience in prison for a crime he did not commit, he founded The Jumpsuit Project to raise awareness around issues related to mass incarceration. Roland’s socially-engaged art pr...
2021-01-0631 min
Cerebral Women Art Talks PodcastWole LagunjuEpisode Forty-Six features Wole Lagunju. He is a 1986 graduate of Fine arts and graphic design at the University of Ife, now Obafemi
Awolowo University, Nigeria. Lagunju’s hybrid paintings of traditional Gelede masks which are
juxtaposed with images of the modern woman in the Western world redefine the forms and
philosophies of Yoruba visual art and design. He reimagines and transforms cultural icons appropriated
from the Dutch Golden, Elizabethan as well as the fifties and sixties, Euro-American eras. Lagunju’s
cultural references, mined from the eras of colonization and decolonization of the African continent
critique the racial and social structures of t...
2020-12-2325 min
Cerebral Women Art Talks PodcastAlina PerezEpisode Forty-Five features Alina Perez, an artist from Miami, Florida who works with charcoal and pastel to create large-scale drawings on paper. Perez received her BFA in Painting at the Rhode Island School of Design, and was a participant at the Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture in 2017. From 2018-2019, Perez was a visual arts fellow at the Fine Arts Work Center in Provincetown, MA. Perez has attended multiple residencies including the OxBow School of Art in Saugatuck, MI and the Vermont Studio Center in Johnson, VT. Her work was recently exhibited at Arcadia Missa Gallery in London, Blum & Poe...
2020-12-1623 min
Cerebral Women Art Talks PodcastStan SquirewellEpisode Forty-Four features Stan Squirewell. He was born and raised in Washington, DC and currently lives and works in New York, NY. His artistic training began at the Duke Ellington School of the Arts. Since graduating he has continued his tutelage under many of DC’s legends including artists Michael Platt and Lou Stovall.
Mr. Squirewell, is a painter, photographer, installation and performance artist. His work is multilayered and his subject matter tackles themes such as: race and memory through mythology, sacred geometry and science. He draws his inspiration from theory books, science fiction movies and novels, avant-garde jazz and in...
2020-12-0828 min
Cerebral Women Art Talks PodcastMonique MelocheEpisode Forty-Three features gallerist Monique Meloche. She founded her eponymous gallery in Chicago’s West Loop in 2001 with an international roster of emerging artists working in all media. Her programming has been diverse and inclusive since its inception, and the gallery continues to be a bellwether for artistic talents early or under-recognized in their careers like Rashid Johnson, Amy Sherald, Ebony G. Patterson, Sanford Biggers and Brendan Fernandes. She has consistently presented conceptually challenging programming in Chicago and at art fairs internationally with an emphasis on institutional outreach.
Canadian born Meloche holds a BA from the University of Michigan, and Ma...
2020-12-0234 min
Cerebral Women Art Talks PodcastMargaret BowlandEpisode Forty-Two features figurative painter Margaret Bowland. She creates work that confronts contemporary issues of identity through probing and deeply personal pictures that question Western societal expectations of gender, race, power, and beauty. She has lived and worked in Brooklyn, New York for more than 25 years, creating spellbinding and psychologically charged paintings and pastels that explore contentious subject-matter while affirming the resilience and fierceness of humanity. Margaret Bowland’s work is included in many important private and public collections including The Patricia & Phillip Frost Art Museum, Miami, FL. In 2009, she received major recognition as the People’s Choice Award Winner in t...
2020-11-2434 min
Cerebral Women Art Talks PodcastDominic ChambersEpisode Forty-one features painter Dominic Chambers. He is an African-American artist from St. Louis, MO. Chambers received his BFA from the Milwaukee Institute of Art and Design and received his MFA from the Yale University School of Art. Chambers creates large scale paintings and drawings that reference literary narratives cited in books he’s read, various mythologies, and African-American history. His current work is invested in exploring moments of contemplation and meditation through reading and leisure. Chambers has exhibited his work in both solo and group exhibitions regionally and internationally. Chambers also has been the curator of exhibitions at the Kr...
2020-11-1730 min
Cerebral Women Art Talks PodcastPeg AlstonEpisode Forty features Peg Alston. For nearly four decades since establishing Peg Alston Fine Arts, she has emerged as this country’s foremost private dealer specializing in works by African American artists and other artists of African descent, as well as select pieces of traditional African sculpture. In addition to handling art created by gifted emerging and mid-career artists, Peg Alston has sold works by some of the most renowned 20th Century Black masters, including Aaron Douglas, William H. Johnson, Laura Wheeler Waring, William T. Williams, Horace Pippen, Charles White, and Elizabeth Catlett. She has also sold works by some of...
2020-11-1038 min
Cerebral Women Art Talks PodcastJules ArthurEpisode Thirty-Nine features artist Jules Arthur. Born in St. Louis, Missouri and based in New York City, his artistic focus is rooted in the discoveries of triumphant moments within the African and African American experience. Classically trained in sculpture and the study and representation of the human form, Arthur received his BFA from the School of Visual Arts. His work has been amongst many public exhibitions and collections that include The Studio Museum of Harlem, The African American Museum in Dallas, Texas, Schomburg Cultural Center for Research in New York, and the Hutchins Center for the African and African American...
2020-10-2628 min
Cerebral Women Art Talks PodcastLilianne MilgromEpisode Thirty-Eight features Paris-born, internationally acclaimed artist and author Lilianne Milgrom. She holds two degrees from Melbourne University and an associate degree from the Academy of Art in San Francisco. She exhibits her artwork around the world and is the recipient of multiple awards and artist residencies. In 2011, she became the first authorized copyist of Gustave Courbet’s controversial 19th century painting L’Origine du Monde (The Origin of the World), which hangs in the Orsay Museum in Paris and draws over a million visitors a year. The experience inspired her to spend close to a decade researching and writing L’Or...
2020-10-1930 min
Cerebral Women Art Talks PodcastBianca NemelcEpisode Thirty-Seven features Bianca Nemelc, a figurative painter whose work explores the connection between the female form and the natural world. Born and raised in New York City, Bianca’s work is inspired by her own investigative journey into her identity, paying homage to her heritage through the use of many hues of brown that make up the figures in her work. The world within her paintings are loosely inspired by the tropical and carribean landscapes where her families are originally from and her roots can be traced back to. Through her work, Bianca aims to highlight the beautiful and sy...
2020-10-1223 min
Cerebral Women Art Talks PodcastFrancks DeceusEpisode Thirty-Six features Francks Francois Deceus. He was born in Cap-Haitian, Haiti 1966. He currently resides and maintains a studio in Brooklyn, NY. Deceus received a B.A. in Sociology from Long Island University, NY in 1992 and studied Printmaking at Atlantis Arts Atelier, Gentily, France in 2007. His solo exhibitions include the Pounder-Kone Art Space, Los Angeles; Tilford Art Group, Los Angeles, CA. Group exhibitions include the Brooklyn Museum, NY; Museum of Contemporary African Diaspora Arts (MOCADA), Brooklyn, NY; The National Civil Rights Museum, Memphis TN; Hampton University, Hampton, VA; Aljira Center for Contemporary Art, Newark, NJ; Mana Contemporary, Jersey City, NJ...
2020-10-0435 min
Cerebral Women Art Talks PodcastLisa Corinne DavisEpisode Thirty-Five features Lisa Corinne Davis, an abstract painter exploring themes of racial, social and psychological identity. Born in Baltimore, MD, currently living and working in Brooklyn, NY, Davis received her BFA from Pratt Institute in 1980, and her MFA from Hunter College in 1983. Her paintings have been exhibited across the United States and in Europe, including one person shows at June Kelly Gallery (New York), Gerald Peters Gallery (New York), Zolla/Lieberman Gallery (Chicago), Spanierman Modern (Miami), and The Mayor Gallery (London). Her work is included in the collections of The Museum of Modern Art, the J. Paul Getty Museum...
2020-09-2828 min
Cerebral Women Art Talks PodcastAmalia Mesa - BainsEpisode Thirty-Four features Amalia Mesa-Bains. She is an educator, artist and cultural critic. Her works, primarily interpretations of traditional Chicano altars, resonate both in contemporary formal terms and in their ties to her Chicano community and history. As an author of scholarly articles and a nationally known lecturer on Chicano art, she has enhanced understanding of multi-culturalism and reflected major cultural and demographic shifts in the United States. Throughout her cross-disciplinary career, she has worked to define a Chicano and Latino aesthetic in the U.S. and in Latin America. She has pioneered the documentation and interpretation of long Chicano...
2020-09-2131 min
Cerebral Women Art Talks PodcastDerrick AdamsEpisode Thirty-Three features Derrick Adams. He was born in Baltimore, Maryland in 1970. He received his MFA from Columbia University and BFA from Pratt Institute.
Adams has been the subject of numerous solo shows, including exhibitions at the Museum of Arts and Design, NY, the Museum of Contemporary Art, Denver, the California African American Museum, LA, and the Brooklyn Academy of Music. Adams’ work has been presented in public exhibitions, including Men of Change: Power. Triumph. Truth. (2019) by the Smithsonian Institution; PERFORMA (2015, 2013, 2005); The Shadows Took Shape (2014) and Radical Presence (2013–14) at The Studio Museum in Harlem. His work resides in the permanent coll...
2020-09-1433 min
Cerebral Women Art Talks PodcastBarbara HoffmanEpisode Thirty-Two features Barbara T. Hoffman. She is principal, and pre-eminent arts, cultural heritage and cultural institution lawyer in New York City providing transactional advice and litigation services to the domestic and international arts and cultural community. Her more than thirty-five years in the field of art law, representing artists, museums, collectors, artist and other charitable foundations, galleries and foreign governments has given her wide expertise on matters involving art, antiques and cultural property transactions, including art gallery and auction house consignments, gifts of art, copyright and artist's rights, and non-profit issues of governance and conflict of interest. She is...
2020-09-0749 min
Cerebral Women Art Talks PodcastGrace Lynne HaynesEpisode Thirty-One features Grace Lynne Haynes. She is a California born visual artist currently based in New Jersey. She creates lusciously composed paintings containing bright textures and patterns. Intricate moments are juxtaposed against flat, black swaths of paint shaped to represent black female bodies. The artist’s painterly devices lead the viewer to question the very nature of color and how historically symbolic meanings surrounding colors and shades, especially black, are constructed. In Haynes’s work, black appears aspirational, dignified, and sublime. The result is a network of images addressing complex topics and stereotypes surrounding black femininity.
Formally, Lynne is a ma...
2020-08-3129 min
Cerebral Women Art Talks PodcastNicole AwaiEpisode Thirty features Nicole Awai. She earned her Master’s Degree in Multimedia Art from the University of South Florida in 1996. She attended the Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture residency in 1997 and was artist in residence at the Studio Museum in Harlem in 2000. Awai was a featured artist in the 2005 Initial Public Offerings series at the Whitney Museum of American Art and was awarded the Joan Mitchell Foundation Painters and Sculptors Grant in 2011 and an Art Matters Grant in 2012. Her work has been included in seminal museum exhibitions including Greater New York: New Art in New York Now, at P...
2020-08-2428 min
Cerebral Women Art Talks PodcastFerrari SheppardEpisode Twenty-Nine features contemporary artist, painter Ferrari Sheppard. He spends his time working on contemplative, timeless paintings. A sense of movement can often be found in his work, allowing the viewer to feel immersed in an active moment. Stylistically, the artist brings forth a sense of meditative stillness. The paintings organically blur the line between figuration and abstraction.
Sheppard is a contemporary artist based in Los Angeles. He has travelled extensively and lived in various cities in Africa. His paintings reflect a dimension of time and space that gracefully shuttles between otherworldly yet familiar, nostalgic, yet present. The artist has...
2020-08-1733 min
Cerebral Women Art Talks PodcastNigel FreemanEpisode Twenty-Eight features Nigel Freeman. He is the director of the African-American Fine Art department at Swann Auction Galleries. He founded the department in the fall of 2006, and since then has set numerous auction records for important African-American artists, including John Biggers, Elizabeth Catlett, Beauford Delaney, Sargent Johnson, Hughie Lee-Smith, Faith Ringgold and Carrie Mae Weems. Many were the result of significant institutional purchases. The department has also held the single-owner auctions of the estate of Dr. Maya Angelou and the collections of the Golden State Mutual Life Insurance Company and the Johnson Publishing Company, Swann's first white glove auction...
2020-08-1030 min
Cerebral Women Art Talks PodcastPhilemona WilliamsonEpisode Twenty-Seven features narrative painter Philemona Williamson. She’s exhibited her work for over 25 years at the June Kelly Gallery in NYC and recently, at her mid-career retrospective at the Montclair Art Museum in NJ. Her narrative paintings deal with gender, race and adolescence.
Philemona is the recipient of numerous awards and residencies including the Joan Mitchell Foundation, Pollock Krasner, National Endowment For The Arts, New York Foundation For The Arts and Millay Colony. Her work has been shown in solo and group exhibitions throughout the USA and abroad,
She is represented in numerous private and public collections, including The Mo...
2020-08-0335 min
Cerebral Women Art Talks PodcastAlexis de ChaunacEpisode Twenty-Six features Mexican-French emerging artist Alexis de Chaunac. He was born in New York City and raised in Mexico City and Paris. As a child living in Mexico, he grew up surrounded by his mother’s family and his grandparent’s friends which included Mexican artists, intellectuals, historians, poets, diplomats, and writers.
These brilliant minds had a profound impact on Alexis at an early age and as a result he draws from subjects such as literature, religion, art history and politics which overlap with his interests that include natural sciences, biology and botany.
In April 2019, he exhibited at Sargent’s Daug...
2020-07-2727 min
Cerebral Women Art Talks PodcastJasmine WahiEpisode Twenty-Five features Jasmine Wahi, the Holly Block Social Justice Curator at the Bronx Museum, an Activist, TEDx Speaker, and a Founder and Co-Director of Project for Empty Space. Her practice predominantly focuses on issues of femme empowerment, complicating binary structures within social discourses, and exploring multipositional cultural identities through the lens of intersectional feminism.
In 2010, Ms. Wahi Co-Founded Project For Empty Space, a not-for-profit organization that creates multidisciplinary art exhibitions and programming that encourage social dialogue, education, and systemic change through the support of both artists and communities.
Though she does not consider herself to be an artist, Ms...
2020-07-2036 min
Cerebral Women Art Talks PodcastMarcus JansenEpisode Twenty – Four features Marcus Jansen. Over the last twenty-five years he has pioneered a raw concentrated reality in his often socially and politically charged critical landscape works. His unique oeuvre serves as an emotive and insightful critique of the contemporary American and global political and sociological landscape.
A former U.S. Army soldier turned combatant for the avant-garde, Jansen, the child of a West Indian mother and raised by a German father, spent his youth between New York City and Monchengladbach, Germany. Influenced early on by the rebellious gestures of the 1980s graffiti movement in America, it was the De...
2020-07-1329 min
Cerebral Women Art Talks PodcastBrittney Leeanne WilliamsEpisode Twenty-Three features Brittney Leeanne Williams a Chicago-based artist, originally from Los Angeles. Her work has been exhibited in New York, Los Angeles, San Francisco, Miami (Untitled Art Fair), and Venice, Italy (Venice Biennale), as well as in Chicago and throughout the Midwest. Williams attended Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture (2017) and The School of the Art Institute of Chicago (2008-09). She is a Joan Mitchell Foundation grant recipient. Williams was a 2017-2018 artist-in-residence at University of Chicago (CSRPC/Arts + Public Life) and has held residencies at Chicago Artists Coalition (HATCH Projects) and Hyde Park Art Center (The Center Program...
2020-07-0630 min
Cerebral Women Art Talks PodcastSean GreenEpisode Twenty-Two features Sean Green.
Born in Jamaica and raised in Toronto, Sean Green holds a BA in Computer Science from York University. Since graduating in 2011, Sean has been the consummate entrepreneur following his instincts, which eventually lead him to the business of art. Based in Los Angeles, Sean oversees all aspects of ARTERNAL’s evolution, in partnership with his co-founders.
Founded in 2015, ARTERNAL, was the first technology company to focus exclusively on bringing Client Relationship Management (CRM) technology to the art world. Sean’s goal was simple: to provide a unified resource that allows the art professional to focus on w...
2020-06-2927 min
Cerebral Women Art Talks PodcastSarah WorknehEpisode Twenty-one features Sarah Workneh. 2020 marks her 10th year as Co-Director at Skowhegan. Prior to her tenure, Sarah was the Associate Director of Ox-Bow for 9 years. Primarily focused on the educational program, and off-season programming with Alumni, Sarah leads all efforts to support artists in the expansion of their practices. Understanding the holistic nature of the program, Sarah oversees the admissions process, facilities usage and expansion under Skowhegan’s Master Plan, as well as the educational daily life on campus. Sarah has published a variety of texts -- most recently an essay on participatory education and a catalog essay on ra...
2020-06-2230 min
Cerebral Women Art Talks PodcastCerebral Women Art Talks TrailerWelcome. A brief introduction to the Cerebral Women art talks podcast.
2020-06-1600 min
Cerebral Women Art Talks PodcastDavid Antonio CruzEpisode Twenty features David Antonio Cruz, a multidisciplinary artist and a Professor of the Practice in Painting and Drawing at the School of the Museum of Fine Arts at Tufts University. Cruz fuses painting and performance to explore the visibility and intersectionality of brown, black, and queer bodies. Cruz received a BFA in painting from Pratt Institute and an MFA from Yale University. He attended Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture and completed the AIM Program at the Bronx Museum. Recent residencies include the LMCC Workspace Residency, Project For Empty Space’s Social Impact Residency, and BRICworkspace. Cruz’s work has...
2020-06-1537 min
Cerebral Women Art Talks PodcastJune EdmondsEpisode Nineteen features June Edmonds, a west coast based abstract painter that was awarded the AWARE prize during the 2020 Armory show in NYC. AWARE, an acronym for Archives of Women Artists, Research and Exhibitions is a Paris based non profit that this year debuted an award for a Solo Exhibition of Work by a Woman Artist. June’s work was exhibited by the Luis De Jesus Los Angeles Gallery. She was recognized for a never seen before body of work, her new Flag paintings. Each flag is associated with the narrative of an African American, past or present, a current ev...
2020-06-0833 min
Cerebral Women Art Talks PodcastKennedy YankoEpisode Eighteen features Brooklyn based painter-sculptor Kennedy Yanko.
Kennedy’s practice is profound, and her work is unique. She has redefined her paintings as skins and combines these unconventional paintings with metal and other hard found objects and creates beautiful, unexpected sculptures.
“Since debuting sculptures from her "Elements and Skin" collection as part of a Derrick Adams-curated group show, "Hidden in Plain Sight" (Jenkins Johnson Project Space. Brooklyn, NY. 2017),” Kennedy has exhibited her work in several solo and group shows and has been the recipient of several prestigious awards.
Upcoming and current exhibitions include the following:
Solo Show, SALIENT QUEENS, Vielme...
2020-06-0137 min
Cerebral Women Art Talks PodcastOdili OditaEpisode Seventeen features Odili Odita. He is an abstract painter whose work explores color both in the figurative historical context, and in the sociopolitical sense. He is best known for his large-scale canvases with kaleidoscopic patterns and vibrant hues, which he uses to reflect the human condition.
Born in Nigeria and raised in the American Midwest, Odita’s work is also heavily inspired by a sense of dual identity, combining aspects of Western modernity with African culture. His practice speaks to a contrast of cultures and a desire to create something new from a set of distinct parts. In this se...
2020-05-2531 min
Cerebral Women Art Talks PodcastNathaniel Mary QuinnEpisode Sixteen features Nathaniel Mary Quinn.
'Quinn’s passion for drawing began at a young age, while he was growing up on the South Side of Chicago. In ninth grade, he received a scholarship to attend Culver Academies boarding school in Indiana—but a month after arriving at the school, Quinn received news from his father that his mother had suddenly passed away. He returned to Chicago for Thanksgiving the following month, only to find that the rest of his family—his father and brothers—had abandoned his childhood home without a trace. This jarring experience further propelled Quinn’s art, and h...
2020-05-1833 min
Cerebral Women Art Talks PodcastCarrie Mae WeemsEpisode Fifteen features Carrie Mae Weems (b. 1953 Portland, OR; lives and works in Syracuse, NY). She is widely renowned as one of the most influential contemporary American artists living today. Over the course of nearly four decades, Weems has developed a complex body of work employing text, fabric, audio, digital images, installation, and video, but she is most celebrated as a photographer. Activism is central to Weems’ practice, which investigates race, family relationships, cultural identity, sexism, class, political systems, and the consequences of power.
Over the last 30 years of her prolific career, Weems has been consistently ahead of her time an...
2020-05-1124 min
Cerebral Women Art Talks PodcastPaula CrownEpisode Fourteen features Paula Crown, a multimedia artist with a practice encompassing drawing, painting, video, and sculpture. She incorporates cutting-edge technology, social activism, collaboration, and a commitment to sustainability in her studio practice.
Crown has had several solo exhibitions including the Aspen Institute, Dallas Contemporary, Marlborough Gallery, New York, Venice concurrent with the 16th Venice Architectural Biennale, and Fort Gansevoort, New York, to name a few.
She has also participated in various group exhibitions nationally, including For Freedoms, Jack Shainman Gallery, New York, Mount Analogue, Aspen, and the Elmhurst Museum of Art, Illinois.
Crown's Public Art Installations include being featured...
2020-05-0437 min
Cerebral Women Art Talks PodcastMonique LongEpisode Thirteen features Monique Long, an independent curator of contemporary visual art and performance. Her interests include interdisciplinary practices, popular culture, and art that addresses political and social issues. Her forthcoming exhibition, Elegies: Still Lifes in Contemporary Art at the Museum of African Diaspora in San Francisco, will showcase works by contemporary artists who primarily portray the figure but have turned to still lifes in order to recast the style of painting into an existential exploration.
Her first project as an independent curator was a critically acclaimed solo exhibition and book for painter Elizabeth Colomba. The focus of the exhibition, titled...
2020-04-2934 min
Cerebral Women Art Talks PodcastJohn DowellEpisode Twelve features John E. Dowell, Jr., a nationally recognized artist. His work captures the pulse of cities and agricultural landscapes of America in his large-scale photographs. Working primarily from sunset until dawn, he focuses on the surface of buildings, the reflections of their exteriors and, quietly, their interior spaces. Illuminating the unseen, he brings awareness to a single moment. In this episode we focus on 'COTTON: THE SOFT, DANGEROUS BEAUTY OF THE PAST' and the history of slavery in New York City.
An artist and master-printer for more than four decades, Dowell’s fine art prints, paintings and photographs ha...
2020-04-2032 min
Cerebral Women Art Talks PodcastNico WheadonEpisode Eleven is the first episode discussing COVID-19 and how its arrival has impacted one of many communities within the art world.
Featured is Nico Wheadon, the executive director of NXTHVN, a multidisciplinary arts incubator in New Haven, Connecticut. She is an adjunct assistant professor of Art History and Africana Studies at Barnard College, and Professional Practices at Hartford Art School within the interdisciplinary MFA program.
Wheadon is an independent writer and regular contributor to The Brooklyn Rail, Artnet and C&, with her first manuscript slated for publication by Rowman & Littlefield in 2021.
She is the former director of public programs...
2020-04-1333 min
Cerebral Women Art Talks PodcastMarcus BrutusEpisode Ten features Marcus Brutus. He is a self-taught artist, who currently resides outside of Washington, DC and New York City. He holds a BS from St. John's University in Queens, New York, and previously worked in public relations positions in the fashion industry. Being unfulfilled Marcus decided to pursue a career as an artist and has clearly proven to be a talented figurative painter.
Marcus began exhibiting his work and quickly attracted the attention of collectors and institutions alike, with two solo exhibitions, a monograph entitled The Uhmericans, and a solo presentation at EXPO Chicago 2019.
I met him a...
2020-04-0632 min
Cerebral Women Art Talks PodcastMichael HalsbandEpisode Nine features photographer Michael Halsband. He grew up in Manhattan and at age ten became interested in photography as a hobby after learning how to produce a print from start to finish. Michael pursued his passion and was accepted into the School of Visual Arts (SVA). Before graduating in 1981 he began photographing portraits for several magazines and thereafter worked with Interview, Avenue and Rolling Stone Magazine. This led to his becoming the tour photographer for The Rolling Stones.
During Michael's career he worked with well know fashion brands, photographed icons and celebrities, published books, and documented the making of...
2020-03-301h 07
Cerebral Women Art Talks PodcastPauline WillisEpisode Eight features Pauline Willis, the CEO and director of the American Federation of Arts. The AFA is the leader in traveling exhibitions internationally and is an important institution that introduces the visual arts to communities that may not otherwise be exposed to them.
In her role Pauline has the unique opportunity to work with prestigious art institutions, esteemed collectors and amazing artists. She is an art aficionado.
In 2011, during her first year at the helm of the organization, she significantly multiplied the number of traveling exhibitions on the AFA’s schedule and generated new connections with museums in South Am...
2020-03-2335 min
Cerebral Women Art Talks PodcastAnastasiya TarasenkoEpisode Seven features emerging artist and painter Anastasiya Tarasenko.
Born in Kiev Ukraine, Anastasiya moved to New York City with her family at six years of age and has resided in the city ever since. She attended art schools early on and ultimately received her MFA from the New York Academy of Art in 2017.
Her work is influenced by artists such as Hieronymus Bosch, Albrecht Durer, Jean Fouquet and Van Der Weyden, to name a few. Also, worth mentioning, Anastasiya uniquely paints on enameled copper.
After being featured in New American Paintings, Steven Zevitas, the publisher and gallerist, invited Anastasiya...
2020-03-1646 min
Cerebral Women Art Talks PodcastM. Florine DémosthèneIn Episode Six I interview visual artist M.Florine Démosthène. She was born in the United States and raised between Haiti and New York. At times she resides in Ghana where she moved after abruptly deciding to build her practice without the drama of being an artist in New York City.
Florine earned her Bachelor of Fine Arts from Parsons School for Design in New York and her Master of Fine Arts from Hunter College in New York.She has exhibited extensively through group and solo exhibitions in the USA, Caribbean, UK, Europe and Africa
She has shown wi...
2020-03-0936 min
Cerebral Women Art Talks PodcastChela MitchellIn Episode Five we feature Chela Mitchell, an art advisor based in Harlem who has extensive knowledge of the emerging black contemporary art market. She has a deep appreciation of the industry, particularly supporting black artists. Chela started collecting during her late twenties and founded her art advisory business in 2016. She provides art advisory services to private, public, and new collectors needing assistance navigating the contemporary art market. Her clients include collectors and luxury brands looking for guidance diversifying their collections. In early 2020 The Los Angeles Times featured Chela in ‘Faces of Frieze 2020: Picturing the art crowd at Los Angeles Pr...
2020-02-2432 min
Cerebral Women Art Talks PodcastIke UdeEpisode four features Nigerian American artist Ike Ude.
He is a photographer, a performance artist and author of several books and founder and publisher of aRude magazine. In 2017 Ike spoke during a Global Ted Talk in Tanzania to discuss his book ‘Nollywood Portraits: A Radical Beauty a stunning publication depicting major Nigerian’s in the media. His work is in the permanent collections of the Guggenheim Museum, the Smithsonian Museum of Art, The Museum of Fine Arts Houston, Sheldon Museum, RISD Museum, New Britain Museum of American Art, Minneapolis Institute of Arts and in many private collections. Artsy, ranked Ike -- a...
2020-02-1842 min
Cerebral Women Art Talks PodcastNate LewisIn Episode Three we feature visual artist Nate Lewis. His first solo exhibition is opening March 1, 2020 at the Fridman Gallery in Manhattan. He is currently in several group shows including the Smithsonian Institution Group traveling show and 21 c Museum Hotel in Cincinnati. For further details see links provided.
‘Nate Lewis explores history through patterns, textures, and rhythm, creating meditations of celebration and lamentations.’
His work is complex and layered, compelling the viewer to study it more closely. Before pursuing his art practice Nate was a nurse working with patients in various intensive care units. While feeding his passion to support the...
2020-02-1031 min
Cerebral Women Art Talks PodcastDeborah BrownIn an inaugural episode of the Cerebral Women Podcast, we interview Brooklyn based figurative painter Deborah Brown. Her many accomplishments as an artist are impressive, as is her unrelenting advocacy and support of artists. Her paintings are in many museum, private and corporate collections. She has been a visiting artist and lecturer at several universities including Hunter College, Pace University, Columbia University, among others. She has been acknowledged in several publications including the New York Times, The New Yorker, Art Forum, Art in America and Juxtapose Magazine. In 2020, Deborah was accepted into the prestigious Shandaken Projects fellowship where she will...
2020-01-2736 min
Cerebral Women Art Talks PodcastRenee CoxIn an inaugural episode of the Cerebral Women Podcast, we interview artist, photographer and lecturer Renee Cox. She shares her opinion on several topics revealing her critical views on female sexuality, beauty, power and humanity. Her current body of work includes her provocative photography uniquely manipulated by technology. The New York Times recently invited Renee to photograph Nick Cave for one of the four covers of ‘T’s 2019 Greats Issue’ and published a story about her in the Style Magazine titled ‘An Artist Shares Her Most Striking Images of the Decade’. Among many of her distinguished accomplishments, Renee is known for using...
2020-01-2745 min
Things Not Seen Podcast#1401 - Emerging, Emergence, Emergent, Part 1: Phyllis TickleIn part 1 of our interview with Phyllis Tickle, we explore the idea that our culture has been shaped by roughly 500-year cycles, which have helped define our major religious traditions for the past two millennia. According to Tickle, our present epoch - referred to by some as "The Great Emergence" - has the potential to yield a new Christianity distint from Protestantism, Catholicism, and Orthodoxy. Also on the program, Katy Scrogin reviews a new biography of philosopher Alain Badiou by Hollis Phelps. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
2014-01-0643 min
Discover the Best Audio Stories in Romance, ModernRainsong by Phyllis A. WhitneyPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/624379 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Rainsong Author: Phyllis A. Whitney Narrator: Anna Fields Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 9 hours 13 minutes Release date: September 28, 2009 Genres: Modern Publisher's Summary: Hollis Sands has never gotten over her husband’s death. Ricky had been a famous popular singer, and she wrote her best songs for him. Hollis can’t believe he took his own life. Perhaps it was something else … murder. Finally, at Windtop in Cold Spring Harbor, Hollis finds sanctuary, and begins to put in place the pieces of her life. But strange and frightening things keep happen...
2009-09-2803 min