cool WIP episode 35: coolin with Midwest Art Quarterly aka Troy Sherman
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THE MAQ IS BACK! Surprise surprise… Troy Sherman, Curator at University Galleries of Illinois State University aka the founder, editor, and writer of St. Louis’ most controversial critical compendium Midwest Art Quarterly is live and in the studio. We’re talkin’ Cape Cod, curation, Captain Beef Heart, Rolling Stone, post-modernists in recovery, crises of faith, art writing vs. criticism, Regina George, and anonymity. Oh… and of course… The theory behind the critical journal Midwest Art Quarterly, the void in actual critique, access to language, getting other people to...
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cool WIP episode 34: coolin with Betsy Zeitler-Ellison
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RUN RUN RUN! To hear our SEASON FOUR opener, Betsy Zeitler-Ellison This episode is getting released just as Betsy’s first solo exhibition RUN RUN RUN closes at Monaco, so ICYMI… we're talkin art goths, pre-JUULs, New Dark Ages, HTML, rabbit pelts, a grand unified theory of pain, AI image generators, karaoke clubs, gray-hounds, the way in which representation recognizes the dissonance caused by experience, the fracturing of a once-whole “self” into parallel “selves,” the potency of transforming cleaved identities into literal familiars which function as characters in the narratives...
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cool WIP episode 33: coolin with Nathaniel C. Praska
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BUT WAIT there’s more! We have a special returning guest joining Nathaniel - just 4 U! We’re talkin’ Nathaniel's latest show of large scale paintings Like a Pile of Mud on view at the Bunker in Silico, Young Dolph, white trash aesthetics, trading punk for plein aire painting, fire, mark making, erasure, band names, the residency conundrum, how one man’s painting practice is another’s anxiety nightmare, the Madonna and Child, oil markers, the best ways to honestly represent complicated and conflicting emotions, figuration, dollar-store machetes, smoking and the absence of...
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cool WIP episode 32: coolin with Emily Mueller
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Granny getchur square because we’re makin paaaaaper with practicing artist Emily Mueller! We’re talkin’ sad girls, couture crochet, Ferris Bueller vs. Risky Business, the catch-22 of the female gaze, meditation, avocado egg-tempura, big sweaters, elbow length gloves, summersaults, reacting to critique, and how shifting mediums altered Mueller’s relationship with making — ultimately leading to a deftly disguised practice that navigates the complexities of the body, mark making, image making, and language. Find Emily at @ferris_muellerz
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cool WIP episode 31: coolin' with Kalan Strauss
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Great walls of fire! We’re coolin’ with the director of The Latent Space / master of mediums, practicing artist Kalan Strauss. We’re talkin’ Los Angeles, manifesting, Lucky the Three Legged Dog, art on the blockchain, purple disco balls, Mike Talayna’s Jukebox and Pizza Open Until 3 AM (now closed), Hollywood, soap operas, and how Strauss’ expansive, diverse practice challenges the veracity of the images presented to us. Currently splitting time between LA and Chicago, Strauss embodies openness, curiosity, and a comfort with being malleable. His artistic and curatorial practices...
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cool WIP episode 30: coolin with Esther Ruiz
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Welcome to Esthercom!!! Anything is possible with the neon queen… the incredible Brooklyn based sculptor Esther Ruiz. She traveled ACROSS THE COUNTRY to come cool with us for the opening of her site specific solo show Hall of Exits, at Monaco - organized by our very own, Nick Schleicher. We’re talking Turrel, Space Opera Suzukis, the glory days of American Apparel, electric gooey rib cages, and the way in which Ruiz’s neon sculptures use the process of distillation and the seductive power of reduction to create pseudo-spiritual objects designed to invoke mystical, meditative...
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cool WIP episode 29: coolin with Connor Dolan
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OMG!!! The dog ate my bacteria!!! This week, we’re wiggin out over visual artist / young mad scientist Connor Dolan. This week, we’re coolin with our youngest, most daring guest, who has somehow found a way to obtain yellowcake uranium as an unemployed college student… Visual artist Connor Dolan is galavanting around the mines of Missouri, breaking into toxic dumps, contacting overseas suppliers, and shutting down art schools with his highly conceptual work. Informed by the scientific process and employing the principles of the grotesque, Dolan incorporates dark or highly...
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cool WIP episode 28: coolin with Kalaija Mallery
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Call her mother. We’re kicking off season three with Kalaija Mallery - everyone’s favorite organizer, artist, and metaphorical mother hen. Holy freaking smokes, it’s szn 3 and we are spillin’ tea and other beverages with everyone’s art mom, Kalaija Mallery. Kalaija is a practicing artist, gallery manager at The Luminary, exhibition photographer, creator, caretaker, and facilitator of art spaces and communities across the country. We’re talkin’ myspace pics, fast and casual salads, anarchic art spaces, untethered aesthetics, freedom: cult of self expression, punctdom, solipsistic...
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cool WIP episode 27: coolin with Edo Rosenblith and Erik S Peterson
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This week we’re coolin’ with longtime friends Edo Rosenblith and Erik S Peterson! We’re talking about EVERYTHING including their show Monument Valley, milky substrates, the Boss, promptly moving to Brooklyn, the Hulk, and the way in which art is the last vestige of magical thinking that we’ve permitted in Contemporary society as we navigate what we value, what we choose to remember, and how we construct our personal histories.
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cool WIP episode 26: coolin' with Howard Krohn
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This week we’re coolin’ with one of the biggest weirdos we know, Howard Krohn! We’re talking Monaco, manifesting cable, hamster deaths, the lack of oblique agendas, and the way in which the ambiguity of a mark, the visible stages of revision, and the playfulness of mistakes made permanent, allow the viewer just a moment, to escape into and empathize with Krohn’s process driven abstract paintings.
info_outlineCall her mother. We’re kicking off season three with Kalaija Mallery - everyone’s favorite organizer, artist, and metaphorical mother hen.
Holy freaking smokes, it’s szn 3 and we are spillin’ tea and other beverages with everyone’s art mom, Kalaija Mallery. Kalaija is a practicing artist, gallery manager at The Luminary, exhibition photographer, creator, caretaker, and facilitator of art spaces and communities across the country. We’re talkin’ myspace pics, fast and casual salads, anarchic art spaces, untethered aesthetics, freedom: cult of self expression, punctdom, solipsistic photography, and navigating a capitalist system while maintaining an ethical praxis.
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