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Today's episode is a special conversation and recap of Elisabeth Condon and my experiences collaborating as visual artists in the ballet project CounterPointe (now in its 12th year) produced by Norte Maar and staged at the Mark O'Donnell Theater (Brooklyn) in March 2025. Jennifer Coates kindly came on to ask us questions about making props and what it was like for 2 newbies to enter the world of dance. Thanks, Jennifer!
Special thanks also to Norte Maar and its co-directors, Julia K. Gleich and Jason Andrew for their support of artists and creative collaboration.
More information about Elisabeth and Amy's work:
Elisabeth: https://www.elisabethcondon.com/ | @elisabethcondon
Amy: https://www.amytalluto.com/ | @talluts
More information about Julia Gleich and Jason Andrew's NorteMaar & CounterPointe12: https://www.nortemaar.org/projects/counterpointe12
Julia K. Gleich's website: https://www.gleichdances.org/
Julia Gleich interview on this podcast: Episode 49
The dances we discussed:
"Vermillion | 10" by Ava Desiderio and Elisabeth Condon
Dancers: Minami Ando, Lucia Betelu
Support structures: Elise Wunderlich
Music by Zero Eklipse and William Pilarte
Lighting: Evan Spigelman
Mark O'Donnell Theater, Brooklyn, March 2025
"And So It Begins" by Margaret Wiss and Amy Talluto
Dancers: Maya Tsuruki Holden and Jaclyn Kriewall
Music by Margaret Wiss
Lighting: Evan Spigelman
Mark O'Donnell Theater, Brooklyn, March 2025
"46 Gordon" by Julia K. Gleich and Nicole Cherubini
Dancers: Michelle Buckley, Kara Chan, Annie Freeman, Amber Neff, Ethan Schweitzer-Gaslin
Lighting: Evan Spigelman
Mark O'Donnell Theater, Brooklyn, March 2025
Special thanks to Jennifer Coates for interviewing us!
Jennifer's website: https://www.jenniferlcoates.com/
Jennifer on IG: @jennifercoates666
Artists mentioned: Henri Matisse, William Kentridge, Florine Stettheimer, Keisha Prioleau Martin, Meg Lipke, Elana Herzog, Nicole Cherubini, Alvin Ailey, Judith Jamison (Dancer), Julia K. Gleich (Choreographer), Jason Andrew
Dances mentioned: "Afternoon of a Faun" by the Ballet Russes, “Minutiae” (1954) Robert Rauschenberg and Merce Cunningham, "Cry" Alvin Ailey
Video mentioned: "How to Make Theater Props" by Eric Bucklein (not actually old but young) https://youtu.be/JSl5Vc8mej0?si=KWGdOxnijBiEEGZc
Book mentioned: Inigo Philbrick "All That Glitters: A Story of Friendship, Fraud, and Fine Art"
Exhibition mentioned: "Edges of Ailey" at the Whitney
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In this audio essay, I roam from post-war France to the abstract expressionists to the artists of the East Village and even to outer space to consider times in art history when art was forced to bloom in the dark. These under-the-radar moments yielded deeply experimental work, and I wonder how we might channel some of that spirit in our own time.
Artists mentioned: Laurie Anderson, Joan Miro, Jean Dubuffet, Marcel Duchamp, David Wojnarowicz, and Judy Glantzman
Scientists mentioned: Robert H Dicke, Jim Peebles
Jim Peebles interviewed by Alan Lightman for the American Institute of Physics January 19, 1988 Princeton, NJ: https://www.aip.org/history-programs/niels-bohr-library/oral-histories/33957
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I'm offering for you here a new mini ep about what I've been thinking about lately: the wackiness of Meret Oppenheim's titles - and how they expand the mystery of her images rather than explain them.
I recently snagged the catalog from the Moma retrospective show from last year and highly recommend it if you don't have it yet. It's full of lovely color plates: https://store.moma.org/products/meret-oppenheim-my-exhibition-hardcover But I think cheaper ones are on Amazon?
Here are some images from the exhibition online too: https://www.moma.org/calendar/exhibitions/5368
Some art news:
Tickets for CounterPointe12, a collaborative art ballet in Brooklyn March 8-9, 2025!
Check out "Mythology/Matriarchy" at the Middle Room Gallery in Los Angeles (Glendale) March 14 - April 27, 2025
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This is Part 2 of Mandolyn Wilson Rosen and my review of "Lifeline: Clyfford Still" 2019 directed by Dennis Scholl. It's a juicy art bio tell-all with a crusty curmudgeon as its talented but embittered subject. Don't forget to listen to Part 1 too!
Find the film on Amazon ($2.99 SD) or for free on Kanopy
Find Mandolyn online at: https://mandolynwilsonrosen.com and on IG at @mandolyn_rosen
Artists mentioned: Philip Guston, Barnett Newman, Jackson Pollock, Willem DeKooning, Frank Stella, Donald Judd, Paul Cezanne, Ad Reinhardt, Mark Rothko, Thomas Hart Benton,
Art Problems Podcast
Thank you, Mandy! Thank you, Listeners!
Visit RuthAnn, a new artist-run gallery in Catskill, NY at @ruthanngallery and ruthanngallery.com
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Pep Talks website: peptalksforartists.com
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Mandolyn Wilson Rosen is back on the podcast! This time, instead of a book we are talking about an artist documentary. The film is called "Lifeline: Clyfford Still" 2019 directed by Dennis Scholl. It's a juicy art bio tell-all with a crusty curmudgeon as its talented but embittered subject. Come along with us as we enter a turbulently Still world.
Find the film on Amazon ($2.99 SD) or for free on Kanopy
Find Mandolyn online at: https://mandolynwilsonrosen.com and on IG at @mandolyn_rosen
Links to the writings we mentioned:
Clyfford Still's "An Open Letter to an Art Critic" on Artforum
https://www.artforum.com/features/an-open-letter-to-an-art-critic-212151/
David Levi Strauss for Brooklyn Rail "From Metaphysics to Invective"
https://brooklynrail.org/2012/05/art/from-metaphysics-to-invective-art-criticism-as-if-it-still-matters/
Seph Rodney for Hyperallergic "Hoping is Not Enough"
https://hyperallergic.com/983414/hoping-is-not-enough/
Artists mentioned: Matthew Barney, Jackson Pollock, Mark Rothko, Barnett Newman, Lois Dodd, Julian Schnabel, Mark Bradford, Julie Mehretu, Frank Stella, Ellsworth Kelly, Michelle Grabner
Writers mentioned: Seph Rodney, Paul Valéry, John Ruskin, Guillaume Apollinaire, John Ruskin, David Levi Strauss, Dore Ashton, Jerry Saltz, Ken Johnson, Clement Greenberg, Emily Dickinson's "'Hope' is the thing with feathers"
Thank you, Mandy! Thank you, Listeners!
Visit RuthAnn, a new artist-run gallery in Catskill, NY at @ruthanngallery and ruthanngallery.com
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Pep Talks website: peptalksforartists.com
Amy, your beloved host, on IG: @talluts
Amy's website: amytalluto.com
Pep Talks on Art Spiel as written essays: https://tinyurl.com/7k82vd8s
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Jennifer Coates is back with me this week to cohost Part 4 of our series about researching our way to feeling better as artists. This time we go all the way back to 1306 to the Mongol empire and then zoom forward to the 1970's in the USSR and with a few more stops in between. We studied hard (and maybe got C minuses) but we ended up feeling inspired and hope you will too.
The artists we spoke about:
Zheng Sixiao of Southern China's Song Dynasty, "Ink Orchid" 1306, during Mongol Empire (Yuan Dynasty) under Kublai
Kasimir Malevich of Russia/USSR, "Black Square" 1915, "Girls in a Field" 1928-30, "Female Worker" 1933, Russian icon paintings
The Bulldozer Exhibition, 15 September 1974 and Oskar Rabin "Lamp and Shawl" 1974 & Lidya Masterkova "Untitled" 1974 of the Leonozovo Group, Photographs by Mikhail Abrosimov/ The Calvert Journal
Read more:
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/sep/17/bulldozer-underground-exhibition-revolutionised-russian-art
https://www.edelman.com/insights/bulldozer-exhibition-my-eyewitness-account-russian-repression-6-am
Claude Cahun of Jersey (Channel Islands/France), Partner/Collaborator, Marcel Moore, "I am in training, don't kiss me" 1927, "What do you want from me?" 1929, "Self Portrait" 1939
The Nahua People of the Aztec Empire and the Florentine Codex: https://florentinecodex.getty.edu/ - facilitated by Franciscan Monk, Bernardino de Sahagún, Deep dive into the Codex with Dr. Diana Magaloni Kerpel, Deputy Director, Program Director, and Dr. Virginia Fields Curator of the Art of the Ancient Americas at the LA County Museum of Art (LACMA): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zUfg_WQwvMg
Gee's Bend Quilters of Alabama and their organization Souls Grown Deep: https://www.soulsgrowndeep.org/
Other artists mentioned:
Elisabeth Condon, Piet Mondrian
**Disclaimer: As we are not historians by trade, some factual errors may have slipped through. Apologies if so **
Jennifer Coates online: web and IG
Amy Talluto online: web and IG
Thank you, Jennifer! Thank you, Listeners!
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Amy's website: amytalluto.com
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Welcome back, Elisabeth! This time I am very excited to be speaking to Artist, Elisabeth Condon, about one of my favorite Chicago Imagists: Christina Ramberg.
The Art Institute of Chicago recently mounted a retrospective of Ramberg's work and Elisabeth travelled to see the show this past summer. She spent time telling me about her favorite works, but also offered insight into Ramberg's personality and teaching style - as Elisabeth was her student in graduate school at SAIC in the late 80's.
Ramberg is known for her small but tightly-wound acrylic paintings of disembodied women: truncated torsos, legless high heels shoes, floating suits, and body-less corsets, but also produced quilts and a series of satellite paintings shortly before she died at 49 of Pick's disease.
See more images from the Art Institute retrospective here:
https://www.artic.edu/exhibitions/9723/christina-ramberg-a-retrospective
Barry Schwabsky's review in The Nation:
https://www.thenation.com/article/culture/christina-rambergs-public-secrets/
Riva Lehrer AIC Lecture on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0afNYv3mfqo&t=2812s
Thea Liberty Nichols AIC Lecture on YouTube:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C0ps_oQnrvs
Julia Fish, Rebecca Shore and Judith Russi Kirshner AIC Panel on YouTube:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mQzpGJGot-k
Find Artist, Elisabeth Condon online here: https://www.elisabethcondon.com/ and https://www.instagram.com/elisabethcondon/
Ramberg's artworks mentioned: "Untitled" 1980, Satellite Paintings "Untitled 122" 1986, "Istrian River Lady" 1974, "Probed Cinch" 1971, "Troubled Sleeve" 1974, "Bound Hand" 1973, "Untitled Hand" 1975, "Corset/Urns" 1970, "Lola La Lure" 1969, "Cabbage Head" 1968, "Belle Rêve" 1969, Quilt works, and "Satellite" series of the late 80's, Playboy Commission 1972 "Untitled", "Shadow Panel" 1972
Artists mentioned: Paula Modersohn-Becker, Utamaro "Two Girls with a Cricket Box," Jimmy Wright, Phillip Hanson, Jeff Koons, Ed Paschke, Mike Kelly, Erling Sjovold, Jackie Kazarian, Christopher Williams, Maureen P. Sherlock, Lori Gunn (Wirsum), Karl Wirsum, Roger Brown, William Eckhardt Kohler, Karl Kelly, Jackie Saccoccio, Jackie Cheng, Helen O'Leary, Helen O'Toole, Barbara Rossi, Ray Yoshida, Judith Russi Kirshner, Julia Fish, Riva Lehrer, Rebecca Shore
Others noted: Muriel Newman (Collector), Kanye West, Edith Wharton, Corbett VS Dempsey Gallery, Rozsika Parker and Griselda Pollock's "Old Mistresses: Women, Art and Ideology"
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Artist, Jennifer Coates is back for Part 3 in our series about finding artistic resilience through research! This time we look at these artists and how they adapted to their own gloomy times of foreboding:
Kay Sage: Found a way to paint even though she was a victim of domestic violence and ignored by the art world, and used her money to help Surrealist artists flee Germany and France before WWII
Grete Stern: Sneakily slipped in feminist art into a fluffy women's magazine under the Peronist regime
Jacob Lawrence: Illustrated injustices and acts of racism not covered by the history books
Frederic Edwin Church: Painted an emblem that many thought symbolized the coming Civil War
Works mentioned:
Kay Sage works: "This Morning" 1939, "China Eggs" Autobiography, "I Saw Three Cities" 1944, "A Bird in the Room" 1955, "Destiny" a poem
Grete Stern works: "Los Sueños: Muñecos (Dreams: The Doll)" 1949 for Idilio Magazine (Argentina)
Jacob Lawrence works: "The Life of Toussaint Louverture," "Migration" and "Struggle" Series
Frederic Edwin Church works: "Meteor" 1860, with writers/poets: Herman Melville's "The Portent" 1859, Walt Whitman's "Year of Meteors" 1860 and "Crossing Brooklyn Ferry" 1856 (both "Leaves of Grass")
Special thanks to art historian and Senior Curator at the Smithsonian, Eleanor Harvey, for her presentation on the Civil War - from which I got most of my information on the meteor and its effects on the culture then: https://www.youtube.com/live/3r1_xWV1ICU?si=QtC2xKeHq7oHzNfQ
Other artists mentioned: André Breton, Fra Angelico, Piero della Francesca
**Disclaimer: As we are not historians by trade, some factual errors may have slipped through. Apologies if so **
Jennifer Coates online: web and IG
Amy Talluto online: web and IG
Thank you, Jennifer! Thank you, Listeners!
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Pep Talks website: peptalksforartists.com
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Amy's website: amytalluto.com
Pep Talks on Art Spiel as written essays: https://tinyurl.com/7k82vd8s
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What can an artist do during times of political unrest and instability? In this episode (Part 2 of our series), we aim to find out. Jennifer Coates joins me again to share some stories from the past of how artists coped throughout history, because somehow research is very reassuring right now!
We looked at the ways these specific artists reflected and reacted to their time:
Goya: Made his most honest work in secret
Dave Drake: Created signed pottery and poetry and used them to comment on his life and times, even though enslaved
Otto Dix: Painted the horrors of the past in order to warn society against repeating them
Mario Mafai: Documented destruction of housing under Fascism
Felix Nussbaum: Painted even while hiding from the Gestapo
Piet Mondrian: Built a controlled world of harmony and equilibrium to escape to
George Grosz: Openly lampooned everyone in power & the media
Francisco de Goya works: "Goya's Graphic Imagination" exhibition at the Met 2021, "Disasters of War" Etchings 1810-20, "Still Life of a Lambs Head and Flanks" 1812, "The Black Paintings" incl "Saturn Devouring His Son" 1823, "The Dog" 1823, and "Witches Sabbath" 1823
Dave Drake: all examples of stoneware jugs and vessels
Otto Dix works: "The Trench" 1923, "War Cripples" 1920, "The Skull" 1924, "Mealtime in the Trenches" 1924
Mario Mafai works: "Demolition" 1936, "Destruction of the Neighborhoods" 1939
Felix Nussbaum works: "Self-Portrait with Jewish Identity Card" 1943, "Death Triumphant" 1944
Piet Mondrian work: "Tableau 1, Lozenge with Four Lines and Gray" 1926
George Grosz work: "Pillars of Society" 1926
Other artists/movements mentioned: DeStijl Movement, Futurist Movement, Dada Movement, Yves Tanguay
Part 3 is out now!
**Disclaimer: As we are not historians by trade, some factual errors may have slipped through. Apologies if so **
Jennifer Coates online: web and IG
Amy Talluto online: web and IG
Thank you, Jennifer! Thank you, Listeners!
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Pep Talks website: peptalksforartists.com
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Amy's website: amytalluto.com
Pep Talks on Art Spiel as written essays: https://tinyurl.com/7k82vd8s
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Jennifer Coates, friend of the pod, is back to help me consider a new way forward (artwise) after the destabilizing event of the US election. She, herself, is finding comfort in the long history of rocks, geology and the cosmos, while I find myself turning to a book about how Matisse and his daughter, Marguerite, both reacted to the trauma of WWII in opposite yet valid ways. It's a bit of a potpourri, but we promise some great galvanizing art historical quotes and an inspiring double pep talk for the ages. Alternative title of ep: Rock Paper Scissors! Come hang out with us!
Media mentions: The Weekly Show w Jon Stewart (ep with Heather Cox Richardson), Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez on IG/Tiktok
Rock mentions: The Makapansgat pebble, Paleo "Venuses," Venus de Willendorf, baetyl stones, "The Living Stones" by Ithell Colquhoun, Paul Cezanne's drawings of Fontainbleu Quarry/MOMA show , John Elderfield and Terry Winters discuss Cezanne's Rock and Quarry Paintings for the Brooklyn Rail , "Turning to Stone: Discovering the Subtle Wisdom of Rocks" by Marcia Bjornerud, new minerals elalite and elkinstantonite discovered in 2022 in Somalia from a meteorite
Art mentions:
Cat Balco, Adie Russell, Elisabeth Condon, Pierre Bonnard, Edvard Munch & "White Night" 1900, Dada Movement, Hannah Hoch & “Cut with the Kitchen Knife," Man Ray, "Matisse the Master" by Hilary Spurling, "The Unknown Matisse" by Hilary Spurling, Henri Matisse ”Bathers by a River" 1917 and "The Chapelle du Rosaire de Vence" 1947-51, "Verve Magazine" Issue No 8 Vol 2 (1940), "Les Fleurs de Mal" Baudelaire/Matisse poetry book, Marguerite Matisse, Max Beckmann
Jennifer's website and IG: https://www.jenniferlcoates.com/ @jennifercoates666
Thank you, Jennifer! Thank you, Listeners!
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This bonus episode is a promotion for NYC Crit Club's "The Canopy Program" 2025, a year-long mentorship community for artists. Founder and artist, Catherine Haggarty, stopped by the pod to tell me more about what the program offers, who it's for, and which artists she has on deck to lead the cohorts next year.
Applications for The Canopy Program are open Monday, December 9th - January 12, 2025
Quick Links:
RSVP for Zoom Info Sessions (Dec 3, 10, 12 and Jan 3, 6)
The Canopy Program website
The Canopy Program on IG
The Canopy Program is a year-long intimate mentorship program, providing artists access to work exclusively with a Faculty Mentor and a Cohort of 10 artists for three consecutive semesters (Spring, Summer + Fall 2025).
Together, as a Cohort, artists will meet regularly for critiques, discussions, artist talks, and resource-building in professional practices, workshops, and lectures! Each Cohort features an esteemed roster of invited Guest Speakers + Visiting Artists/Critics/Gallerists.
2025 Mentors
Rose Nestler @rose.nestler (virtual)
Matt Phillips @themattphillips (virtual)
Erika Ranee @erikaranee (virtual)
Adrienne Elise Tarver @adrienne__elise (virtual)
Amy Lincoln @amyplincoln (in person)
Sara Jimenez @saraegj (in person)
Virtual Cohorts are hosted via Zoom and are open to artists around the globe!
In-Person Cohorts are hosted in Chelsea (New York City) and are open to NYC-area
Visit nyccritclub.com to learn more & apply!
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Pep Talks website: peptalksforartists.com
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I'm back in the interview seat with Kristen Mills, an artist working in video, sculpture and installation. We discussed her latest show at Turley Gallery where she covered an entire room with cardboard and made it into a spaceship cockpit. Her video work features clones of herself, multiplied, and combines humor and old school editing techniques to create surreal worlds of play and exploration. The digital elements are then ensconced in laboriously-made, intricate cardboard constructions.
There's also Glue Tawk and a MacDowell Corner! Tune in!
Find Kristen's work online:
Web: https://millskristen.com/
IG: @k.millzzzzzzzzzzz
Sharpe-Walentas Studio Program on IG: @swstudioprogram
(Open Studios in late April 2025)
Previous Exhibitions:
Turley Gallery: https://www.turley.gallery/kristen-mills-seats-for-everyone
Glenlily Grounds: https://www.glenlilygrounds.com/glenlily-grounds-2024
Ortega y Gasset: https://www.oygprojects.com/believability
Kristen's videos mentioned: Audience for an Audience, Waiting Room, I Can Reach In, Seats for Everyone, Space Race (featuring artwork by Melissa Dadourian), The Portal with the Cord, Tap Sap, Rock Collecting, Animal Sanctuary Project, Sister Spaceship Live at the Sinkhole w/ Angie Melchin
Comedians mentioned: Maria Bamford, Atsuko Okatsuka, Ali Wong, Paula Poundstone, Chris Fleming
Movies/TV Mentioned: Strangers with Candy, Pee-wee's Playhouse, Beetlejuice
Artist Residencies/Schools Mentioned: Skohegan School of Painting & Sculpture, Vermont Studio Center (VSC), MacDowell and Firth Studio, Amy's secret MacDowell vlog, Columbo's Dog: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC_sKO_QcKc1eIVTRXyDHryw
Glue Tawk™: Kristen uses "Sure Bond" corded hot glue gun and sticks (rumor has it also comes in roll form like a too-long fingernail or ram's horn)
“An artist discovers his genius the day he dares not to please.”
— André Malraux
Thank you, Kristen! Thank you, Listeners!
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Dear Listeners, it's spooky season. In that spirit, I offer you this mini episode about taking a mini break from the career grind. Why not instead light a spell candle while getting clear on what we really want? Shelve the "should's" for a bit and get witchy with me.
The ending "Goodbye!" (with cacophonous lighting zaps) is Bette Midler from the movie, Hocus Pocus - Iconic Icon.
Thank you for listening.
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Charles Burchfield (Chas to his friends) once noted how an oak leaf had fluttered down and stuck upright in the snow in his neighbors yard, like a flag, for the entire winter. It weathered many Buffalo "gales" and storms and thereafter Burchfield used it as a personal symbol of steadfastness. In fact its alternate title is "Steadfast Leaf." The painting he made of it is attached here "Constant Leaf, also known as Steadfast Leaf" 1960, watercolor and graphite on paper.
And, speaking of leaves, I indulge in a short meditation on how the forest floor leaf litter reminds me of the mutual beneficence of a group of artist friends. Hope you enjoy!
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Today I'm taking us on a space, art and space-art journey. Because, I've been thinking about how when William Shatner recently went up to space in Bezos' rocket, he saw in real life what he had always pretended to see on TV: space and the final frontier. But to his shock and horror, he...sort of hated it: At least he hated the outer space view. He quaked in the face of all that vast emptiness and ended up with a new appreciation for our warm "Mother" Earth.
I.e. "Beam me down, Scotty."
And in this way, I think an artist could adopt a William Shatner in Space ideology: and try to appreciate the gifts we each have right now (time, space, adequate health, and freedom to create), versus caving into the dark matter horrors of compare & despair, and worry over not achieving the right career benchmarks.
Artists/Works mentioned: "The Creation of the World and the Expulsion from Paradise" by Giovanni di Paolo (1445), "Galaxy (Hydra)" Vija Celmins (1974), "The Moon Museum" Robert Rauschenberg, David Novros, John Chamberlain, Claes Oldenburg, Forrest Myers and Andy Warhol (Possibly sent on the Apollo 12 Moon Mission-1969), "The Wave" by Astronaut, Nicole Stott (2009)
William Shatner's book: "Boldly Go: Reflections on a Life of Awe and Wonder"
Frank White's book: "The Overview Effect"
More about Astronaut, Nicole Stott's first-ever painting in space: http://www.collectspace.com/news/news-070816b-astronaut-artist-nicole-stott.html
More about The Moon Museum: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moon_Museum
Thank you for listening!
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We're back!
This is the second part of our deep dive on drawing. I asked my artist-guests: Jennifer Coates, David Humphrey and Catherine Haggarty to bring along a fave drawing from art history to share and describe what "drew" them to it (please forgive the pun). It was so fun to see what they selected.
See images of all of the works on IG @peptalksforartists
The drawings discussed were:
1) "The Grotto of Neptune in Tivoli" ca 1640 by Claude Lorrain
2) Rocks near the caves above Château Noir (Rochers à Bibémus) 1895/00 by Paul Cézanne, Watercolor on paper 18¼ by 12 in.
3) "Moon and Clouds" 1945 by George Ault
4) Ledger Drawing ca. 1875-78 attributed to William Cohoe, Cheyenne, Central Plains, Inscribed "Cheyenne Soldiers"
Find my guests online here:
David Humprhrey: web and IG
Jennifer Coates: web and IG
Catherine Haggarty: web and IG
See more Ledger Drawings at DonaldEllisGallery.com:
https://www.donaldellisgallery.com/offerings/plains-indian-drawings
Artists also mentioned: Georges Seurat ("Monkey"), Alexander Cozens, Caspar David Friedrich, Julia Gleich (choreographer)
Books mentioned: "Lake Superior" by Lorine Niedecker, "Keeping Time: Plains Indian Ledger Drawings 1865-1900" (pub by Donald Ellis Gallery)
Catherine's show "Just Drawing" online at Geary Contemporary: https://geary.nyc/exhibition/just-drawing-catherine-haggarty/
You can watch the original IG Live video of my guests' panel talk at Geary here: https://www.instagram.com/reel/C9qMilKRs-f/?utm_source=ig_web_copy_link&igsh=MzRlODBiNWFlZA==
Thank you for listening!
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Amy's website: https://www.amytalluto.com/
Pep Talks on Art Spiel as written essays: https://tinyurl.com/7k82vd8s
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Join me and my guests: Jennifer Coates, David Humphrey and Catherine Haggarty as we discuss the topic of Drawing this week. This discussion was broken up into 2 parts, so keep an eye out for Part 2 coming soon.
In Part 1, we discuss the drawing state of mind, drawing as a form of safety, as a tie to our primitive origins, and as a way to express the multitudes of self. We also dissect painter, Amy Sillman's analogy that Draw-ers are beavers and Painters are birds.
Find my guests online here:
David Humprhrey: web and IG
Jennifer Coates: web and IG
Catherine Haggarty: web and IG
Catherine's show "Just Drawing" online at Geary Contemporary: https://geary.nyc/exhibition/just-drawing-catherine-haggarty/
Amy Sillman's lecture "Drawing in the Continuous Present" at the Menil Collection can be watched here on youtube: https://youtu.be/BLOgc466nRk?si=RfJ8B0lSD5Sz1OF6
You can watch the original IG Live video of my guests' panel talk at Geary here: https://www.instagram.com/reel/C9qMilKRs-f/?utm_source=ig_web_copy_link&igsh=MzRlODBiNWFlZA==
Artists mentioned: Amy Sillman, Sun You, Gary Stephan, The paleo artists of Peche Merle Cave in France, Thomas Nozkowski, Amanda Nedham, Miranda July (interview)
Thank you for listening!
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Pep Talks Website: https://www.peptalksforartists.com/
Amy, your beloved host, on IG: @talluts
Amy's website: https://www.amytalluto.com/
Pep Talks on Art Spiel as written essays: https://tinyurl.com/7k82vd8s
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...or the future of our own cultural output? Dear Listener, please enjoy this space-y, star-filled Mini Pep about the infinite freedom that comes from making digital doodles.
My Threads App artists doodle harvest can be found here: https://www.threads.net/@talluts/post/CucE58OLSwU/?igshid=MzRlODBiNWFlZA==
Artists mentioned: Sharon Butler (see all of her digital drawings by searching the hashtag #sbgoodmorningdrawings on IG), Paul Dagostino, Joe Haley, John Avelluto, Keisha Prioleau Martin
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Pep Talks on IG: @peptalksforartists
Amy, your beloved host, on IG: @talluts
Pep Talks on Art Spiel as written essays: https://tinyurl.com/7k82vd8s
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This episode is based on an internet slang mantra which translates to "Delusion is the Solution." Find out why healthy artists rely heavily on healthy self-delusion to self-motivate. Like Comedian, Nina Oyama, says, one must create a "self deception turducken" to persevere in a creative pursuit.
I also threw in Lady Gaga, David Shrigley and even Salvador Dali who all had excellent quotes.
Signed,
Amy
Your Quote-&-Internet-Meme MagpieReading/Watch Links:
Dali's appearance on "What's Your Line:" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iXT2E9Ccc8A&t=304s
Grace Dow "The Artist and the Ego:" https://eruanna317.medium.com/the-artist-and-the-ego-e7ccdbc8e3c5
Nina Oyama "Confessions of a Delusional Artist:" https://www.killyourdarlings.com.au/article/confessions-of-a-delusional-artist/
Alexa Rae Smith on TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@alexaraesmith/video/7279446633346010410?is_from_webapp=1&sender_device=pc&web_id=7329325629496772127Thank you!
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Amy, your beloved host, on IG: @talluts
Pep Talks on Art Spiel as written essays: https://tinyurl.com/7k82vd8s
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This is my hot take on the seven-year-old (it's new to me!) Eva Hesse doc and the scandalous revelations contained within. Also, I receive further evidence for why we still stan our queen, Sylvia Mangold, as she asks: Is the Home Depot the new Canal Street?
The #cerebral, #inspiring and #wondrous documentary, Eva Hesse (2016) directed by Marcie Begleiter, is available to rent/stream on Amazon.
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Pep Talks on IG: @peptalksforartists
Amy, your beloved host, on IG: @talluts
Pep Talks on Art Spiel as written essays: https://tinyurl.com/7k82vd8s
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