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Interview with Michael Evans

Posted in From the Curatorial Fellows, Interviews, Public, Studio Visits on Friday, April 22nd, 2011

Michael Evans is a current student at the MFA Fiber Art & Material Studies Department. Utilizing a range of mediums, Michael combines his interest in architecture, illustration and storytelling in his latest work, Settings: Raven’s Gate Book 1.  As our relationship with pop-up books and gaming has diminished, Michael has brought it back to us [...]



David Cox, Alexis Grinbold are daalexis boldcox

Posted in From the Curatorial Fellows, Public, Studio Visits on Friday, April 22nd, 2011

Meet collaborative team, David Cox and Alexis Grinbold. Self-identified as, daalexis boldcox, they investigate the domestic and celebrate the mundane in their recent work, Let’s Cocktail Understanding through Blind Evaluation. The objects in this installation take on a new identity, becoming “twacked-out,” manipulated, twisted, painted, sculpted, wrapped, tugged, electrified, pulsating, and whirling formations.



Studio Visit: Gina Hur

Posted in From the Curatorial Fellows, Public, Studio Visits on Thursday, April 21st, 2011

Fusing together her formal training in ceramics with her ongoing experiments in sound art, Gina Hur puts together a tasteful, site-specific mixed media installation entitled Study I. She has created multiple ceramic vessels in various sizes and she carefully places each of them inside handcrafted wooden boxes. They are arranged and stacked accordingly to resemble [...]



Interview with Katya Grokhovsky

Posted in From the Curatorial Fellows, Interviews, Public on Wednesday, April 20th, 2011

Interview by curatorial fellow, Brandi Kulakowski BK: Your work, Untitled (Heroic), references the DIY celebrity status prevalent in pop culture. Can you explain your inspiration for this work? KG: I suppose my work imitates my life: which, as an international artist has been all about HARD DIY: my own destiny, future, identity, practice and status. [...]



Scott Carter: Material Process

Posted in From the Curatorial Fellows, Interviews on Monday, April 18th, 2011

An interview held on Friday, March 18, 2011 is the impetus for the following article. Scott Carter’s sterile-surfaced, site-specific installations are anything but sterile. Although the artist invokes the formal and technical motifs of modernism, it is a nuanced and productive act that challenges the containment inherent in such an aesthetic. His work engages the [...]



Interview with Jonas Sebura

Posted in From the Curatorial Fellows, Interviews, Public on Sunday, April 17th, 2011

Interview by Curatorial Fellow, Katie Fahey KF: Your source materials and recent works strongly reference abandoned, obsolete spaces. Has this always been a theme of your work or is it a new interest or exploration; and if it is the latter, what sparked the shift? JS: Growing up near Buffalo, New York and spending time [...]



Interview with Hurmat Ul Ain

Posted in From the Curatorial Fellows, Interviews, Public on Saturday, April 16th, 2011

Interview by curatorial fellow, Amelia Love Amelia: Can you explain the ingredients needed for a “Great Sacrifice?” and what’s the significance? Hurmat: The use of the word sacrifice is directly borrowed from the idea of animal sacrifice as a notion of religious devotion and by framing it as a recipe, I am using the template [...]



The World is Not a Calm Place

Posted in From the Curatorial Fellows, Interviews, Studio Visits on Thursday, April 14th, 2011

Artists: Steven Frost, Soo Shin, Ivan LOZANO, Jesse Butcher, David R. Harper John Baldessari’s remark, “Life is not always calm,” provides inspiration for the title given to the selected works of this group of artists who, through brazen gestures of resistance, seize contextual objects and fibers to manipulate them for their own poignant commentaries. Purposely [...]



BUNDLED A•PART

Posted in From the Curatorial Fellows, From the Guest Curators, Interviews on Wednesday, April 13th, 2011

BUNDLED A•PART, Artist-curated WG1 BUNDLED A•PART is concerned with the intricate mutual exchanges between humans and their environments, natural or built. Consisting of two partnerships, this group of artists investigates the ways in which organic and artificial ecologies intervene in the lives of the humans who operate within them, and how those interventions are thusly reciprocated. The work itself becomes [...]



Greg’s Curatorial Team

Posted in From the Curatorial Fellows, From the Guest Curators, Studio Visits on Wednesday, April 13th, 2011

Curating an exhibition the scale of the SAIC MFA show is no simple task. This year in particular, many minds have come together to create an exhibition that not only showcases the talents and exceptional work of the artists, but that also presents the work in a compelling and resonant way. With a few weeks [...]



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