I ART New York

Episode 17 of I Art New York is part of a special series; The Humanizing Role of Arts in the Wake of the Public Health Crisis, in which three previously interviewed guests revisit the show to respond to the topic of new realities caused by the Covid-19 Pandemic. Jared Linge, owner and director of High Noon Gallery located in the Lower East Side, brings to fore strategies of resistance developed in the context to the pandemic. Among several topics covered in the interview, including the pressures and difficulties of the art economy, Linge discussed with us his online exhibitions, Shelter/Place and Friends With Benefits, which ran during shutdown, and in which 30% of total gallery commission went to benefit organizations that stand in solidarity with Black lives and against police brutality: COVID Bailout NYC, Color of Change, The Okra Project, and the Ali Forney Center to benefit the LGBTQ community. Recorded on May 30, 2020. High Noon Gallery, 124 Forsyth St. NYC: www.highnoongallery.com Music courtesy of Nic

This episode is part of a special series in which I ART New York invites 3 of our previously interviewed guests to respond to the COVID 19 pandemic. The interviews bring to fore the resistance and constructive strategies created by artists and curators in the face of difficult and chaotic realities. Jason Clay-Lewis is an artist, curator, and director of the Royal Gallery in Williamsburg, B’klyn. Lewis discusses The Royal Gallery’s online summer exhibitions, their recently launched online Artist List, and his artist-interview podcast-project begun last year. We also delve into his art practice and discuss his recent paintings as well as his reaction to the Covid-19 lockdown in New York City. Check out the Royal’s latest exhibition “Remake/Remodel”, co-curated with Amelia Biewald. https://rsoaa.com/exhibitions/ This interview was recorded May 30, 2020.

This 15th segment of I ART New York is a special episode in which we invite 3 of our previously interviewed guests to respond to COVID 19 pandemic. Its about resistance of the artists, curators, in response to the situation and strategies on how to deal constructively with this new reality amidst of all the chaos. Coco Dolle Born 1974 in Avignon, France is a French-American artist and curator whose work explores themes of the body, identity and feminism. Over the past decade, Coco has developed a personal mode of working that merges the roles of artist, curator and performer. Miss Dolle is an avant-guard curator within the feminist conversations in New York, she is the Founder and director of Legacy Fatale (2008) performance art project, built on notions of ancient mysticism and punk female leadership. And in 2014, she developed her curatorial eponym, Milk and Night producing feminist exhibition concepts while building her community. www.cocodolle.com © Photo: Portrait Coco Dolle by Brian Kang James 2020 Its

Richard Humann is a New York based artist working in several mediums; video, installation, and computer generated visual works such as AR (augmented reality). His work has been exhibited at Pace University’s Digital Gallery in NYC, the Karachi Biennale in Pakistan in 2017, and the Venice Biennial, among others. His recent 2019 exhibition, “Art Has No Limits”, was an augmented reality visual experience viewable through cell phones at the High Line in Chelsea New York, curated by Augmented Reality Fine Art Gallery 9. Humann is also a published writer and lyricist for the Brooklyn based band American Nomads, Intro and outro music is courtesy by American Nomads. Richard Humann: https://richardhumann.com/ American Nomads: https://www.americannomadsband.com/  

Izabela and Rebecca interview artist Sebastián Carassco about his art practice and his current exhibition; Prayer II; The March of Silence (Plegaria II; la marcha del silencio). Carassco is an interdisciplinary project-based artist from Bogota, Colombia, whose work investigates structures and dialectics of power. His work has been exhibited frequently in Colombia and the US. Iberia Gallery: https://adorno-liberia.com/ Artist Website: https://www.scarrasco.com/ The track Patacón has been generously provided for this episode by the band Los Yoryis, off their album Una Vida. https://losyoryis.bandcamp.com/releases  

In this 12th segment I ART New York interviews artist Jill Levine and gallery owner Jared Linge about his gallery High Noon; its development and focus on representing mainly women artists. Jill Levine discusses her projects and her upcoming exhibition entitled Now at High Noon, opening Nov. 14, 106 Eldridge Street, L.E.S. Musical intro. and outro by The Slaughter Boys; tracks Generation End and Gentrify Me.

I ART New York interviews Brooklyn based artist Lisa Levy; she discusses her performance art, paintings, and her talk show “Dr. Lisa Gives a Shit”, in which she adopts the role of psychiatrist. Lisa infuses humor into her work while retaining a tone of seriousness in each of her projects. Lisa’s artwork has been exhibited widely including at the New Museum, Bronx Museum, White Columns, and Artists Space. The music intro and outro music are by singer, songwriter Ivo Dimchev. Follow on Instagram: #Ivo_Dimchev and on Spotify. Title tracks “I Cure” and “I Can Not”. I ART New York is produced by your hosts, Izabela Gola and Rebecca Major.

"Determined to achieve professional standing for American Art” is part of the founding mission statement of the The Royal Society of American Art- a community of artists providing artist studios and exhibition space. I ART New York interviews an artist, Amelia Biewald who is a curatorial partner at their gallery space, The Royal, Jason Clay Lewis who is co-founder and director of RSOAA, and as Janet Rutkowski a multidisciplinary artist, also a curatorial partner at The Royal. Izablea and Rebecca ask questions about their history and programming as well as their personal, artistic, and curatorial processes. Lewis reveals the RSOAA's newest endeavor; a free and open artists’ registry with the aim of creating an online platform for artists: https://theroyallist.com/. The intro track is “1969” by the band American Nomads from their new single and the outro is their track titled “A Revelation’s Gonna Come”. I ART New York is produced by your hosts, Izabela Gola and Rebecca Major.

In this segment, I ART New York interviews Lauren Hirshfield and Kat Ryals, founders and the curatorial team behind Paradice Palase. Begun two years ago Paradice Palase aims to promote artists through arts patronage and to create public engagement with art. Hirschfield and Ryals discuss their recently guest-juried exhibition Twist and Twine, launched in partnership with Chashama, their booth at the The Spring/Break Art Fair among other exhibitions and related initiatives. They offer their insights into their curatorial practice while navigating the complexities and rewards of operating in New York City. Music intro and outro are by the Brooklyn based band, More Than Skies; tracks "Act Casually" and "She Loves Me Not" from their album "Everyone is a Loaded Gun". 

Join us for our radio walk through of the Whitney Biennial, which is the longest-running exhibition in the country and was inaugurated 1932 by the Museum's founder Gertrude Vanderbilt Whitney. This year is the 79th edition and includes the work of 75 artists and collectives working in painting, sculpture, installation, film and video, photography, performance, and sound. In this edition, for the first time in over a decade the curatorial team has been totally internal: Rujeko Hockley and Jane Panetta reveal statements of resistance with an emphasis on history and sort through divisive national political and social issues. The Whitney biennial traces the latest developments in American art. Themes in the exhibition circulate around issues of identity, representation, history, economics, class, as well as a critique on Western hegemony.  The biennial spans several floors, outdoor terraces and features film and performance programs." The Biennial’s mission is to chart the latest developments in American art and

©Photo courtesy of Chris Collie. Melissa Bianca Amore is an Australian/Italian international curator, art critic and independent scholar based in New York. Her primary area of exploration surrounds the study of phenomenology, the limitations of perceived space and interactive spatial aesthetics. A highly acclaimed critic and essayist, Amore has written for leading publications and authored exhibition catalogues since 2005.  Amore is currently a visiting critic and curator for selected organizations and academic institutions including Parsons School of Design, The New School University, New York; Residency Unlimited, New York and Art Omi Artists Residency, New York.Amore co-founded, alongside William Stover, a non-profit arts organization titled Re-Sited, which re-evaluates the architecture of “site” and the “conceptual space”- its materiality, particularities and relationship to the work of art. Re-Sited examines the spatial intersections between sculpture, architecture and space. The collaborative recently c

Izabela and Rebecca take on a big spectacle of the Frieze Art Fair 2019 which featured leading galleries from 26 countries this year. We feature a special selection of galleries, artists, and focus themes through our lens. Music was provided by Haunted Horses. Song, “Radar” from their EP album released in November 2018. www.hauntedhorses.nyc Frieze is a non-profit organization established in 2003 as a spin-off of frieze magazine and now a media company that comprises three publications, frieze magazine based in London, Frieze Masters Magazine and Frieze Week; and four international art fairs, Frieze London, Frieze LA, Frieze New York and Frieze Masters. Frieze offers a program of courses and talks at Frieze Academy, as well as Frieze Foundation. Funded by the European Commission’s Culture 2000 programme and Arts Council England, which is in charge of the curated program at the Frieze Art Fair. Frieze.com

Izabela and Rebecca interview Marie-Ève Lafontaine, an independent curator of modern and contemporary art, about her practice between Canada, Germany, Poland and the USA, including her Schinkel Pavillon projects, TRAFO in Stettin in Poland, and her newest venture, “The Streets of Crocodiles.” Music was provided by Haunted Horses. Song, “Radar” from their EP album released in November 2018. www.hauntedhorses.nyc  Photo credit: Anna Tomczynska Marie-Ève Lafontaine, an independent curator of modern and contemporary art, was formerly curator at the Schinkel Pavillon in Berlin and chief curator at TRAFO Center for Contemporary Art in Stettin, Poland. Lafontaine has curated solo exhibitions of artists such as Janet Cardiff, Alicja Kwade, Gilad Ratman and Ari Benjamin Meyers, and was involved in Schinkel Pavillon’s recent critically acclaimed Louise Bourgeois show, “The Empty House” in 2018. In addition to her institutional experience, Lafontaine is a regular contributor to online journals and editor of several solo

Comparative analysis of two big exhibits: Frida Kahlo: Appearances Can Be Deceiving at The Brooklyn Museum, displaying her artwork alongside personal possessions, which had been stored in the Casa Azul, (translated as the "Blue House") her longtime Mexico City home; and Nari Ward: We The People at The New Musuem, which features over thirty sculptures, paintings, videos, and large-scale installations from throughout Ward’s twenty-five-year career, highlighting his status as one of the most important and influential sculptors working today. Frida Kahlo: Appearances Can Be Deceiving at The Brooklyn MuseumOn view through May 12Curated by Circe Henestrosa this is the first exhibition in the United States to display a collection of Kahlo’s clothing and other personal possessions. They are displayed alongside paintings, drawings, photographs, related historical films and ephemera, as well as works from the Brooklyn museum’s holdings of Mesoamerican art.  The examples of Kahlo’s personal artifacts in the exhibit, whi

Coco Dolle is a French-American artist and curator whose work explores themes of the body, identity and feminism. She is the founder of the "Legacy Fatale" performance art project and the curator of “TRANS-Ville” series at Catinca Tabacaru Gallery. An avant-guard curator within the feminist conversations in New York, Miss Dolle has presented numerous concept exhibitions including at the SPRING/BREAK Art Show, The National Arts Club and The Untitled Space, while working with pioneer artists such as Betty Tompkins, Kembra Pfahler, Narcissister and the Guerrilla Girls. Her performance works have been presented widely including at The Queens Museum, Czech Center (NYC), Miami Art Basel,  Deitch Projects and Manchester Art Gallery (UK). © Photo of Legacy Fatale performance art by Kim Doan Quoc, 2018 Music for this episode is generously provided by Leigh Celent and Castle Black. Check them out on www.castleblackmusic.com Coco will host an upcoming performance happening with her troupe Legacy Fatale that includes

Izabela and Rebecca converse with special guest artist, activist, and curator, Katya Grokhovsky, and take an analytical look at the most influential artist of Pop Art, Andy Warhol, in a dialogue with Sarah Lucas, one of the most influential artists in the UK associated with Young British Artist (YBA), in response to their recent retrospectives, From A to B and Back Again curated by Donna De Salvo, Chief Curator and Deputy Director for Programs at the Whitney Museum, and Au Naturel at The New Museum, curated by the New Museum’s artistic director, Massimiliano Gioni, and the curator Margot Norton. Through a feminist gaze, the speakers reflect on these two large retrospectives, the narratives of the works presented in the above institutions, the contemporary meaning of these artists legacies, and selected aspects of the artists' biographies. Katya Grokhovsky is an NYC based artist, curator and a Founding Artistic Director of The Immigrant Artist Biennial. Grokhovsky holds an MFA from the School of the Art Instit

Izabela and Rebecca’s guest for the first episode of I ART NY is Katya Grokhovsky (b.in Ukraine, based in New York), whose extensive art practice encompasses several mediums, including installation, performance, sculpture, video, and painting. In response to the hosts’ questions, the artist addresses issues that inform her art practice, her role and as an activist, as well as her experience as an immigrant artist, all through a feminist lens. Katya’s work explores ideas about gender and migrant identity construction, alienation, labor, and the self. Through research and autobiographical experience, Katya constructs characters, underscoring study of stereotypes, assumptions, oppression, prejudices, and injustice.  Katya is an independent curator, educator and a founding director of The Immigrant Artist Biennial (TIAB). She has received support through numerous residencies, fellowships and awards including MAD - Museum of Art and Design Studios Program, Art and Law Fellowship, BRIC workspace Residency, Studios