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Edition #31: Pinta, The Contemporary Latin American Art Fair listen |
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First broadcast September 24, 2007
Host Jill Spalding with guests Mauro Herlitzka and Liliana Porter, in a special edition highlighting Pinta (The Contemporary Latin American Art Fair), which was open November 16-20, 2007 at The Metropolitan Pavilion in New York City.
Host Jill Spalding in conversation with guest painter, sculptor, and Pop Art legend Gerald Laing His exhibition, Sex and Speed, is on view in New York through August 3, 2007 at Mary Ryan Gallery. (30 minutes)
Host Jill Spalding in conversation with artist Sarah Morris known for her films and constructivist, geometric paintings. Morris' paintings are related to or emerge from her films. She composes colorful, linear grids, often with steep perspectival elements, into an abstract matrix to evoke not only the energy and geometry of the urban landscape, but its psycho-social forces as well. Pools - Cocowalk (Miami), 2003, is part of a series centered on the high-rise architecture and swimming pools of Miami, Florida. By using swimming pools as her focus, the paintings in this series become emblematic of a particular lifestyle and ideology associated with the culture of south Florida. Her unique use of color and intricate web-like grid patterns, result in what one critic has called "...a new ultra-vision of a place."
Host Jill Spalding in conversation with artist Lorna Simpson in January 2007. Simpson became well-known in the mid-80s for her large-scale photograph and text works that confront narrow, conventional views of gender, identity, culture, history, and memory. In the 90s she began making large multipanel photographs printed on felt that depict the sites of public, and unseen, sexual encounters. Most recently she has started making film and video works. Her first mid career survey was at the Miami Art Museum through Feb. 07 and opens the Whitney Museum in March 2007.
Host Jill Spalding interviews art historian and curator Julia Platt Herzberg as she prepares to open her retrospective on artist Carlos Alfonzo (1950-91) at the Freedom Tower in Miami (open through Jan. 31, 2007) and light artist Ivan Navarro, whose work is included in Artificial Light at the Museum of Contemporary Art/North Miami at Goldman Warehouse open through Feb. 18, 2007 and at a show in Roebling Hall in New York through Jan. 10, 2007. (Navarro's recording label is huesorecords.com.)
Host Jill Spalding interviews two artists: Judi Harvest, a Miami-born artist who has spent many years working in Venice (Murano glass appears in her pieces along with mixed media from painting to video) and Columbia-born Miami resident and conceptual photographer Natalia Arias, whose exhibition on the theme of Venus was up at Nohra Haime Gallery (through June 17, 2006) at the time of this interview. The artists reveal personal and professional challenges and triumphs that have come from engaging strong imagery... such as the Buddha, nude pregnant women, and Sept. 11, 2001. (29 minutes)
Jill Spalding in conversation with photographer Elliott Erwitt (born 1928). Erwitt spent his childhood in Milan, Paris, New York, and Los Angeles. In 1948 in New York he met Edward Steichen, Robert Capa, and Roy Stryker. After serving in the army in Germany and France, Erwitt was invited to join Magnum Photos in 1953 by Robert Capa. A member of the prestigious agency ever since, Erwitt has served several terms as its president. One of the leading figures in the competitive field of magazine photography, Erwitt has seen his journalistic essays, illustrations, and advertisements featured in publications around the world for more than thirty years. He is represented by Edwynn Houk Gallery.
Malcom Morley, the London-born (1931) artist and ex-convict turned model of a gentleman and master of styles from abstract to colorfield to photo-realist to collage and expressionist which led to his receiving the inaugural Turner prize in 1984 and many other accolades, joins host Jill Spalding for a chat in the WPS1 Clocktower studios in March of 2006. Morley is represented by Sperone Westwater, New York.
Jill Spalding in conversation with Alison Spear, A.I.A.
"Whether working on the historic renovation of a Miami house, designing the offices of a financial firm in Manhattan, or sketching plans for a luxury high-rise, Spear is always innovating. The Miami-born architect's impressive portfolio adds up to a successful practice that spans both interior design and architecture. She tackles residential and commercial projects with equal verve, earning her a client list that reads like a who's who and includes the likes of Francis Ford Coppola, Jay McInerney, and Katie Ford"--Daisy Oivera, Elegance. (15.5 minutes)
Host Jill Spalding in conversation with Coral Gables based painter Lynne Golob Gelfman (sanders, combs, trowels, chemical reactions, spray paint...richly worked surfaces) and New York painter Erin Parish (dense, dynamic...abstract...grids, bubbles, mosaics, the rich shimmer of tapestry cloth - from Grace Glueck, New York Times).
Art Basel Miami Beach 2005: Our Correspondents (Miami) Edition Edition listen | listen with RealPlayer First broadcast January 30, 2006
Host Jill Spalding convenes an extraordinary panel of young artists working in South Florida: Beatriz Monteavaro (painter), Michael Velasquez (painter), Matthew Schreiber (light artist), Damian Rojo (film and photography), and from Rocket Projects, Jonathan Peck and TM Sisters. Recorded on the boardwalk on the beach at 21st and Collins Avenue.
Host Jill Spalding interviews two young artists now located in New York, Bozidar Brazda and Christopher Miner.
Brazda's EyeShadow, a new mixed-media work, is on view at The Moore Space in Miami from December 1, 2005 - March 10, 2006. This is the latest installment in a series of overlapping, narrative installations that Brazda has been developing over the past two years. The video, watercolors and sculpture in EyeShadow hint at a plot involving Danish punks in search of the vanished star of a banned Eastern Bloc film.
Mixing both the performance and documentary capabilities of video, Christopher Miner explores the social experience and consequences of growing up in the Deep South--including racial and religious tensions--alongside his personal encounters with death, love, lust, and loss. His works are varyingly seen as offensive, darkly humorous, or scathing indictments... always pushing the viewer to make a critical determination.
Jill Spalding interviews curator and critic Micaela Giovannotti of tema celeste and Miami Art Tank and Kathy Grayson, Gallery Director for Deitch Projects. She is the co-editor with Jeffrey Deitch of Live Through This, and curated the group exhibition Trunk of Humors which was presented at the gallery in October 2004. (27 minutes)
First broadcast November 7, 2005 [part 1]; November 21, 2005 [part 2]
On the advent of the 10th anniversary of the Wolfsonian, Miami Beach's Museum of Thinkism, our Miami correspondent Jill Spalding talks to Mitchell Wolfson, founder of the idiosyncratic venue. For ten years, Wolfson has been purveying his 10,000 pieces of political artifacts, "junk," and other objects from the fray to serve as a laboratory for researching museum collection practices and promoting education in "visual literacy," propaganda, and the decorative arts.
From Grace Glueck in the New York Times: "By now Deborah Butterfield's skeletal horses, fashioned of found wood, metal and other detritus, are familiar to almost a generation of gallerygoers. Yet they still have a freshness, which comes from the artist's regard for them as individuals. In fact, training, riding and bonding with horses, as she does at her Montana ranch, she thinks of them as personifications of herself."
Gilberto Ruiz and Jose Alvarez live and work in Miami.
Ruiz: "I attempted to study graphic design in Havana, the school authorities didn't allow me. The option was between scenic or interior design. At twenty-two I felt frustrated and tired. The frustration in Cuba is on a national and individual level; artistic experimentation is limited by the political circumstances..."
2002 Whitney Biennial veteran Jose Alvarez talks with Jill Spalding about his meta-project involving performances, videos, TV, media interventions, and a crystal painting or two. His ongoing exploration of the construction and nature of belief has led him to perform at such impressive arenas as NASA at the Johnson Space Flight Center, The Great Wall Of China, on Chinese Central Television, and at the Sydney Opera House. His elaborate investigations have produced an amazing body of work in which the boundaries between magic, mysticism, science, spirituality, politics, and even conciousness, collide.
Upcoming shows include: Ratio3 in San Francisco opening July 8th, a group show at the New Langton Art Center in San Francisco in January 2006, and solo exhibitions at Western Project in LA in 2006 and at the Fort Lauderdale Museum of Art in the fall of 2007.
Host Jill Spalding interviews two artists whose work redefines and reconfigures the landscape painting. Erika Somogyi paints in collisions of intricate patterns, bright colors, and rich sunlight to create a dreamy, cinematic landscape. Her recent works portray scenes of nature overwhelming man. Adam Straus creates enticing landscapes that draw attention to global environmental threats through subtle and ironic embedded content.
In just 18 months Rocket Projects Gallery has proven a breeding ground for new talent. With North Miami on her mind, host Jill Spalding introduces five of its brightest lights, Christina Lei Rodriguez, Brandon Opalka, Pepe Mar, Ali Prosch and Christian Curiel and their recent work in neon, painting, assemblage, photography and video - a microcosm of the wider contemporary art landscape today. Rodriguez neon fountain was recently acquired for outdoor sculpture garden of the acclaimed Rubell Family Collection, also in North Miami. The self-taught Opalka paints meticulously rendered landscapes from sculpted still-life models. Mar constructs elaborate assemblages from found materials cut into tiny strips. Prosch creates violent sunsets in her vivid videos. Curiel paints dreamlike allegories of children both innocent and wise beyond their years.
Artists Martin Oppel, Daniel Arsham, Tao Rey and Bakti Bashir were members of the now legendary House, a group of very young artists who showed their work for four years in the house they were living in (owned by the father of collector and consultant Richard Arregui), until soaring real estate values destined it for demolishion, a tragedy that they commemorated with an iconic show: Obituary. Bashir moved to the Frederick Snitzer Gallery, while Oppel, Arsham and Rey founded Placemaker, an artist's collective in Miami's Design District dedicated to showing their work and that of young artists they feel merit exposure. Two of Arsham's works were are included in PS1's Greater New York 2005 show.
In this historic interview with Jill Spalding, James Rosenquist gets downright feisty about the fate of "Floating Bacon," the mural that Eastern Airlines once rejected for the Miami Airport. And what about the voyage of his iconic "F-111," the enormous painting that once wrapped around the dealer Leo Castelli's living room and is now stretched flat as Monet's "Waterlillies" across the top floor of the new Museum of Modern Art? Well, just listen here!
The second half of the show reconvenes with Miami artist Carol K. Brown. Known primarily as a sculptor, she relates how she came to pick up both a paintbrush and a video camera to make the kind of animated paintings on paper she recently exhibited at Nohra Haime's 57th Street gallery in New York.
Hernan Bas and Naomi Fisher have collaborated on the Bas Fisher Invitational, a new alternative art space for Miami's landmark Buena Vista Building, opening in early December. Both artists have also contributed work to a group show, "Miami Nice," opening November 13 at Galerie Emmanuel Perrotin in Paris, and both currently have solo shows in New York as well: Bas' solo painting debut, "Sometimes with One I Love," is on view through the end of October, 2004 at the Daniel Reich Gallery in Chelsea. His work, which makes unexpectedly romantic use of white-bread and sissy imagery (the Hardy Boys, Boy Scouts, Oscar Wilde), was also included in the 2004 Whitney Biennial.
Naomi Fisher has been transforming cliched Miami images of exotic foliage and tawny fashion models into tough photographs involving her own body in extreme, often violent confrontations. Her new work is currently available for viewing at Lombard-Freid Fine Art. She will also have a solo show next spring in the project space at the Kemper Museum of Art, Kansas City.
Pop culture meets the baroque and then mixes with Afro-Caribbean mysticism and the kind of edge water makes when Jill Spalding chats with Luis Gispert and Juana Valdes, two of the most dynamic young artists around, both with Cuban roots and refreshingly world-wise views.
Luis Gispert's debut solo show is currently on view at the Hood Museum, Dartmouth College, with another coming to the Whitney Museum's Altria branch in November.
Valdes is currently featured in "Presence of Light" at the Berkshire Museum. She will have a new installation of sculpture in a group exhibition opening September 9 at the Rotunda Gallery in Brooklyn, and October 2nd at the Jamaica Art Center in Queens.
Museum of Contemporary Art - North Miami director and chief curator, Bonnie Clearwater, gives us an the inside track on her terrific upcoming season as host Jill Spalding draws her out about such past successes as her recreation of the Dali Pavilion, sprawling installations by young Miami multimedia artists, and her museum's impact on the local art environment (big!).
Artists Robert Thiele and William Cordova keep host Jill Spalding spellbound during her latest tete-a-tete from the Sunshine State's most magical town.
Terence Riley is not only Museum of Modern Art's chief curator of architecture and design. He is also a partner in Keenan/Riley, the New York firm currently fulfilling four spectacular commissions in Miami - two from MoMA trustees. Join Jill Spalding as speaks to Riley about coping with such potential conflicts of interest and about the unusual houses he is building. They include a showroom on a lot that takes a turn in the middle, the Palm Court (a very cool floating slab) and another, very special house -- his own!
Host Jill Spalding meets with architect Chad Oppenheim, the young hottie who is almost single-handedly bringing the Miami skyline, including Ten Museum Park, into the 21st century.
