Are You Consistent? / Yale Interviews and Resources for Artists - Your Weekly Digest
Published: Sun, 08/18/24
Updated: Mon, 08/19/24
Your Weekly Digest from Praxis Center for Aesthetic Studies
AUG 18, 2024
Are You Consistent?
by Brainard Carey
DAVID ALLAN PETERS Untitled #10, 2024 Acrylic on panel 72 x 60 inches 182.9 x 152.4 cm. Courtesy of the artist and Miles McEnery Gallery.
“What I mean and what I say is two
different things.” -Roald Dahl, The BFG
Do you feel at times that you have two
minds in competition with each other? I’m here to say you aren’t alone. All of us exist in many minds, and they can change on a whim or stay solid for years and years – even a lifetime. What may seem urgent and important at one point can fade to the background with time. A belief strongly held can eventually shift and give way to a whole new way of thinking. This is what it means to be human.
Kejoo Park spoke to us about her show, Echoes in Time,
on view at Space 776 until August 28. The exhibition pulls together three series and the work draws from the work of composer Gustav Mahler. Echoes in Time marks Park’s first solo exhibition in New York City after gaining great success in Germany in Swizerland. To learn more, listen to the complete interview.
David Allan Peters joined us to discuss his show at Miles McEnery Gallery, a collection of recent work that represents a shift in his style. In past work, Peters has created a more impasto looking expressive paintings, but with this group he went with a more linear style, giving the work an almost aquatic feel. To learn more, listen to the complete interview.
David Ayala-Alfonso is a curator, writer, and researcher living and working in Mexico City. He is a guest curator at the traveling exhibitions program at Independent Curators International,
a Visiting Critic for the Ford Family Foundation, an advisor at the SOMA Academic Program in Mexico City, an editor at the Journal of Visual Culture, and an author and advisor for different editorial projects in the US, Mexico, and the UK.
Can you feel the change in the air? Here in the Northeast U.S., the distinct sense of autumn has begun to descend. There is something in the air, the light, the birdsong that gives way to the new season. A time to slow down and reflect. But for artists, this can also be a time of rejuvenation, a time to revisit and
reevaluate what opportunities you have taken advantage of and will pursue in the coming months. Here are a few to get you motivated.
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 are outright scams.
