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 Nicole Renault: www.nicolerenaud.com

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Episode 17: Jared Linge from the series "Humanizing Role of Arts in the Wake of the Public Health Crisis".

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.

Episode 16: Jason Clay-Lewis from the series "Humanizing role of arts in the wake of the public health crisis"

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 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. Masterclass Description: MAKE YOUR MARK is a one-week online crash course and mentorship for artists concluding in a gallery group exhibition in New York, and led by a duo of expert curator Coco Dolle and publicist Nathalie Levey. Online Dates: July 6th to July 12th, 2020 Exhibition Date: TBD EventBrite LINK to Masterclass: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/make-your-mark-signature-masterclass-mentorship-for-artists-july-6th-12th-tickets-109410983196?fbclid=IwAR31mibmHK4F5CFA9JSvMjPkwRqKeL9QUEHbAYMzz3blX2ReuZ53Cci86iA

Episode 15: Humanizing role of arts in the wake of the public health crisis. Featuring Coco Dolle

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/  

Episode 14: Interview with artist Richard Humann

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, Columbia, 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  

Episode 13: Interview with artist Sebastián Carrasco

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.

Episode 12: Interview with Jared Linge and Jill Levine

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.

Episode 11: Interview with artist Lisa Levy

"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.

Episode 10: Interview with the The Royal Society of American Art RSOAA

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". 

Episode 9: Interview with Paradice Palase

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 we’re excited to try to unpack this large and important exhibition.Music is provided by More Than Skies, song "Act Casually" from the newest album "Everyone is a Loaded Gun" 2018

Episode 8: Review of the Whitney Biennial 2019

©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 curated Traveling Spaces, a group exhibition that addressed ideas of “site” and “space” and questioned how we travel and move through space. The exhibition featured a series of site interventions and perceptual interruptions, which included works by Caroline Cloutier and Willem Besselink. In 2017, Re-Sited curated Sites of Knowledge at Jane Lombard Gallery, New York. Sites of Knowledge examined spatial semiotics and language as a visual structure of knowledge, and included works by Richard Artschwager, Henri Chopin, Sophie Tottie and Michael Rakowitz. Amore curated a solo exhibition titled ThreeFold, on Australian/American installation artist Natasha Johns-Messenger, at El Museo de Los Sures, in New York. ThreeFold was a large-scale site installation, an optical prism, predominantly made of mirrors and periscopic devices. Amore has also been the curatorial advisor for public art-work commissions both locally and in Australia, and continues today to advise for a private dealer based in New York City, alongside her curatorial projects.  In 2012, Amore was appointed the Creative Director and Senior Curator for a non-profit arts organization, NotFair, in Melbourne, Australia. NotFair is a curated art fair-launching emerging and undiscovered contemporary artists across the Asia Pacific Region. Amore curated a large-scale exhibition Bal Taschit Thou Shalt Not Destroy, in 2006, at the Jewish Museum of Australia. The exhibition featured over thirty-five artists who examined early scripture including, readings from the Torah, the Talmud and biblical prescriptions about structures of knowledge and the environment.  Amore held the position as Exhibition Manager and Artist Liaison at Arc One Gallery, Melbourne, Australia for over seven years, where she managed Australia's most important contemporary artists. She received a Masters of Fine Arts (MFA) in Art Criticism and Writing, at SVA, New York in 2014, and a Degree in Philosophy, History of Ideas, and a B.A in Creative Writing (Literature) and Art History (Minor) in 2005, Melbourne Australia, where she graduated with honors and also commenced a bachelor of psychology for two years.

Episode 7: Interview with Melissa Bianca Amore, an international curator, art critic and independent scholar based in New York.

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

Episode 6: Review of Frieze Art Fair 2019- a special extended 2hr edition

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 catalogues of contemporary artists.Music was provided by Haunted Horses. Song, “Radar” from their EP album released in November 2018. www.hauntedhorses.nyc Photo credit: Anna Tomczynska

Episode 5: Interview with a special guest Marie-Ève Lafontaine, an independent curator of modern and contemporary art.

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, which had been stored in the Casa Azul, (translated as the "Blue House") her longtime Mexico City home, are intended to shed a new light on her crafted personal and public appearance and identity, which reflect her cultural heritage and political beliefs, while also addressing her physical disabilities. Friday Kahlo was born in Coyoacán, a suburb south of Mexico City in 1907.  Her work intertwines narratives of Mexican folk customs and Roman Catholic iconography to create works that are defined through her heritage, ethnicity, disability, and her political views. Her work is exemplified by uncompromising honesty, searching through the self-portraiture self-scrutiny and self-reflection. Kahlo was an activist during the Mexican revolutions of the early 1920s. Ministry of Education launched Mexican Muralist Movement and in 1922 Kahlo enrolled in National preparatory School where Diego Rivera was working on his first commission. She joined a Communist party as teenager in 1925 where, along with her husband Rivera, lead the Union of Mexican Technical Workers, Painters, and Sculptors. Like other artists within Mexico during the era, Kahlo infused her work with “Mexicanidad,” an identification with Mexico’s distinct national history, traditions, culture, and natural environment, but she did so in a much more personal way. Nari Ward: We The People  at The New Musuem On view through May 26 Curated by Gary Carrion-Murayari, Kraus Family Curator; Massimiliano Gioni, Edlis Neeson Artistic Director and Helga Chrisoffersen, the exhibit 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. Ward relies on research into specific histories and sites to uncover connections among geographically and culturally disparate communities and to explore the tension between tradition and transformation.   Nari Ward was born in 1963, in St. Andrew, Jamaica and is known for his sculptural installations composed of discarded material found and collected in his neighborhood. Since the early 1990s, Ward has produced his works by accumulating staggering amounts of humble materials and repurposing them in consistently surprising ways. He has repurposed objects such as baby strollers, shopping carts, bottles, doors, television sets, cash registers and shoelaces, among other materials. Ward re-contextualizes these found objects in thought-provoking juxtapositions that create complex, metaphorical meanings to confront social and political issues surrounding race, poverty, and consumer culture. 

Episode 4: Comparative analysis of two retrospectives Nari Ward vs Frida Kahlo

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 workshops and immersive performance happening in Rosekill, NY on Saturday, May 25. You are welcome to bring your tent and camp overnight and enjoy Sunday by the lake. PANATHENAIA FESTIVAL FB event PANATHENAIA TICKETS 

Episode 3: Interview with a special guest, artist and a curator, Coco Dolle

I ART New York podcast is a guide into the NYC Art Apple. Each 60 min episode grapples with the question: How to love art in the big city, why to pay attention to it, and how to relate to it? Hosts of the show, Rebecca and Izabela in the first half of the “art hour” offer an alternative review of the large NYC museum retrospectives and selected gallery shows, soaked in candid criticism and diffused by humor. In the 2nd part of the hour, they host noteworthy guests from the art world for interviews asking questions relating to the shows but also the tricky question of a hands-on experience in the arts as a profession in practice. I ART New York’s critical insight focus on selected exhibitions, and consider concepts and narratives as told through the various forms within Contemporary art. Rebecca and Izabela take on large museum retrospectives at first and move onto the various exhibitions in different parts of NYC, galleries in Chelsea, LES, Williamsburg and Bushwick. Through emotional and considered reactions to artworks, Rebecca and Izabela attempt to unpack the work of iconic, established, and less known artists. They discuss the mediums and concepts and compare and contrast the aspects and characteristics of the art, the practice, and artists’ lives. Tune in for the alternative art tour in the Big Apple.

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