Nicholas Hatfull
Shades I, 2022 Oil, gouache and acrylic on canvas 67 x 51 1/4 inches (170 x 130 cm). Courtesy of the artist and Dracula’s Revenge, New York.
“We don’t see people as they are. We see people as we are.” –Anaïs Nin, Little Birds Perception is skewed. Of course, intellectually, we understand this, and yet we move through our days
quietly ignoring that we see the world through our own lens. Everything we encounter gets filtered and processed to reflect the comfortable narrative in which we all live. No one – perhaps save a very few, though I could not say for certain – escapes this subjective way of thinking. Even as I write this, I am aware that these thoughts, these words spill from my own personal experiences and will reach you in yours. Nicholas Hatfull recently chatted with us about, among other things, his exhibition, Shades, which runs until June 18 at Dracula’s Revenge in NYC. The title sprang from a Takeshi Kitano film, and initially, Hatfull considered calling the show Shades of Kitano to allude to the way in which others’ work influences us. Ultimately, he shortened to just Shades, which globalizes the concept of influence. To hear more about the show
and more, listen to the complete interview. Ted Gahl sat down with us to discuss his recent exhibition, Le Goon, which closed on February 18 at Harkawik Gallery. The
title speaks to both the idea of one who is a goon and is perhaps a play on “lagoon” as well as hinting at a word frequently used in hip-hop. The show comprised small and quite large works, which were painted on unstretched drop cloth. This eliminated the issue of storing unsold works, that can be easily rolled up and put away because they are not created on stretchers. To hear more about the physical process of this exhibition and the work therein, listen to the complete interview. Read the summary of this week's interviews and resources. |
Summer Guthery is the Artistic Director and Head Curator of Canal Projects, a new non-profit organization opening in New York City's Soho neighborhood in the Fall of 2022. Prior to this she was the Director of JOAN, a not-for-profit exhibition space focusing on emerging and underrepresented artists and the Curator of Performance and Public Programming at
LAXART in Los Angeles. In 2013 & 2011 she was the Assistant Curator of Performa Biennial 2013 & 2011. Her writing can be seen in Frieze, Artforum, ArtReview, and Art in America. Guthery received an M.A. from the Center for Curatorial Studies at Bard College.
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Despite chilly temperatures here in the northeast U.S., summer is indeed around the corner. And with it comes a rebirth of opportunity. The time is right to continue your artistic journey by committing yourself to researching those things that can further your career. Whether that’s funding, exhibition or, as we have below, residency, there are
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When the time is right for you to turn your art into your livelihood, where do you turn first? How does one build a successful career in the art world, a place notorious for its roadblocks and exclusive members-only status? The truth is that
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