Ava Werner, House Flip: Hurricane Katrina Photo collage, Digital print 18” x 24” 2023
“Things on a very small scale behave like nothing that you have any direct experience about.” -Richard Feynman, Six Easy Pieces The world as we think we know it is little more than an illusion. The deeper truth about things we have come to feel we understand is far more bizarre than most of us can even begin to imagine. Nothing is what it seems; solid objects that ground us
to the earth, our lives, our homes, and each other are, in truth, collections of particles, none of them still and none of them touching on a quantum level. Indeed, the universe is a strange place, and we have simply curated a comfortable way of existing within it. Omari Douglin joined us to talk about his recent two-person show alongside Lukas Quietzsch, Scam Likely, which ran through early November at Ramiken
Crucible. The title comes from a time when Quietzsch, who lives in Germany, attempted to call Douglin who missed his call. When Douglin called back, the message “scam likely” popped up on screen. A screenshot later, the two had found the name for their exhibition. To learn more, listen to the complete interview. Ava Werner discussed her show, Shadowtime, at the Shirley Project Space. The two-person show with
Melissa Capasso derives its title from another artist’s website filled with neologisms, including “shadowtime.” What it means is a feeling of living simultaneously in two different temporal scales. In other words, we live our lives going through the daily routine, but we have the sense that something is off. That something is climate change. To learn more, listen to the complete interview. Read the summary of this week's interviews and resources. |
Erin Joyce is a curator and scholar of contemporary art and has organized over 35 solo and group exhibitions for museums, galleries, and project spaces across the United States including
Between Beauty and Decay (Artspace New Haven, 2017), Still Life No. 3: Raven Chacon (Heard Museum 2019), Erika Harrsch: Moving in the Borderlands(Idyllwild Arts Foundation, 2022), and Crafting Resistance (Arizona State University Art Museum, 2023). In addition to her curatorial practice, Joyce is a frequent contributor to Hyperallergic, and has had writing featured in Salon, Selvedge Magazine, Canvas Magazine, SHFT, Art Wednesday, Native American Art Magazine, GOOD Magazine, Southwest
Contemporary, NPR Art and Seek, and a forthcoming essay in Digging Earth: Extractivism and Resistance on Indigenous Lands of the Americas (Ethics International Press). She is a 2023 winner of the Rabkin Prize for arts journalism from The Dorothea and Leo Rabkin Foundation.
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Are You Moving In The Right Direction? You’re doing great. No matter what obstacles stand in your way, that you are here, reading these words now means that your path has brought you in the direction of a career in art. It can feel intimidating to pursue this path. We are made to believe that the arts
are not a place where success can be found. But there are many things in life that are sadly misunderstood, often inhibiting those who believe in them. So be proud in this moment that you’re taking the time to move forward in your pursuit of an art career. And read on for a few opportunities to keep you going. Read more |
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 you absolutely can forge a life as a working artist, you simply need the right tools, just like with anything else. One of those tools is knowing what sort of opportunities are available – and there are a lot of them – here are a few to get you started. |
These are positive and / or negative reviews of galleries, art fairs, consultants, writers, online pay to play offers, residencies and more – all written by artists so that other artists can beware of situations where institutions treat artists badly, or that end up costing the artist money or
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