Episode 78 features Alina Zamanova Her paintings are centered around the representation of modern reality, where women’s bodies are embraced in all shapes and focused to portray their distortions without societal norms labeled on them. Being inspired by muses around the world, Zamanova recently draws from her own experience on a psychological level of upbringing to expose both physical and mental sides of humanity. The female bodies in her paintings occupy the dramatic landscapes from her dreams, memories and real-life places that have a strong connection to the artist. The concepts that the artist investigates involve human relationships and hidden stereotypical behaviours, how societal norms’ ability distort the perception of our existence, views on our bodies and the connection of humans to nature. Zamanova was born in Ukraine (1993) and has had a strong connection to nature since a young age. The artist investigates her own existence within the earth’s creations, by experiencing the landscapes and textures of nature with her own body, distorting the shape of it, exploring the silence. Since ancient times, art has been dedicated to the depiction of beauty and belonged to men. Accordingly, the image of women in this was subordinated to the desires and needs of one of the sexes. The theme of the female gaze is often associated with the destruction of bodily and other stereotypes towards women generated by the male gaze. The female gaze confronts the created ideal of beauty, which imposes specific standards that she must meet. Zamanova’s paintings depict precisely the women who are both confident and vulnerable in their chosen environment and portray the shift of power that women take back over their image and body. " Photographer Roman Zubarev Artist website https://alinazamanova.com/ i-d Vice https://i-d.vice.com/en_uk/article/akdvv5/alina-zamanova-surreal-paintings-celebrate-all-body-types Metal Magazine https://metalmagazine.eu/en/post/interview/alina-zamanova-ugliness-as-the-new-paradigm Glass Magazine https://www.theglassmagazine.com/glass-interviews-artist-alina-zamanova/ Show Studio https://www.showstudio.com/contributors/alina_zamanova

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Alina Zamanova

Episode 77 features Adrienne Elise Tarver, an interdisciplinary artist, educator, and administrator with a practice that spans painting, sculpture, installation, photography, and video. Her work addresses the complexity and invisibility of the black female identity in the Western landscape--from the history within domestic spaces to the fantasy of the tropical seductress. She has exhibited nationally and abroad, including solo or two-person exhibitions at the Aldrich Museum of Contemporary Art in Connecticut; Atlanta Contemporary in Atlanta, Georgia; Victori+Mo (now Dinner Gallery) in New York; Ochi Projects in Los Angeles; Hollis Taggart in New York; Wedge Curatorial in Toronto, Canada; Wave Hill in the Bronx, NY; BRIC Project Room in Brooklyn; and A-M Gallery in Sydney, Australia. She has been commissioned for projects through the New York MTA, the Public Art Fund, Google, Art Aspen, and Pulse Art Fair and has been featured in online and print publications including the New York Times, Brooklyn Magazine, ArtNet, Blouin ArtInfo, Whitewall Magazine, and Hyperallergic, among others. She is currently the Director of Programs at the National Academy of Design. Previously she was the Associate Chair of Fine Arts at SCAD Atlanta, and prior to that was the Director of Art & Design for the Harlem School of the Arts. She received her MFA from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago and BFA from Boston University. Portrait photo credit Eley photo Artist website http://www.adriennetarver.com/ The Aldrich https://thealdrich.org/exhibitions/adrienne-elise-tarver Atlanta Contemporary https://atlantacontemporary.org/exhibitions/adrienne-elise-tarver The Armory https://www.thearmoryshow.com/ Culture Type https://www.culturetype.com/2021/09/07/on-view-adrienne-elise-tarver-the-sun-the-moon-and-the-truth-at-aldrich-contemporary-art-museum-in-ridgefield-conn/ Dinner Gallery https://dinnergallery.com/adrienne-elise-tarver White Wall https://whitewall.art/art/art-aspen-awards-adrienne-elise-tarver-with-inaugural-artist-commission Hollis Taggert Youtube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wft8TmSFnvE See Great Art https://www.seegreatart.art/adrienne-elise-tarver-the-sun-the-moon-and-the-truth/ Boston University https://www.bu.edu/articles/2020/gallery-adrienne-elise-tarver/

Adrienne Elise Tarver

Episode 76 features New York based David Shrobe. He creates multi-layered portraits and assemblage paintings made in part from everyday materials that he finds in multiple geographies, and especially from around his familial home. He disassembles furniture, separating wood from fabric and recombines them as supports for collage, painting, and drawing. Through these various modes of production his work brings notions of identity, history, and memory into question, while challenging conventions of classical portraiture. Shrobe produces new narratives, fragmented and nonlinear, that feel intimate and personal without being anchored to a specific time or place. David Shrobe (b.1974, New York) lives and works in New York. He holds an MFA and a BFA in painting from Hunter College. He is an alumnus of the Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture and was a Joan Mitchell Artist Teaching Fellow. His work was recently included in group shows such as, PUNCH at Jeffrey Deitch Gallery, Los Angeles, and New York; Embody at Mandeville Gallery at Union College, New York; Bronx Calling: The Fourth AIM Biennial, at the Bronx Museum, and in Harlem Postcards at the Studio Museum in Harlem. He has had solo exhibitions at Thierry Goldberg Gallery in New York; Jenkins Johnson Gallery in San Francisco, and The Sugar Hill Children’s Museum in New York, among others. He has shown at numerous art fairs including EXPO Chicago, Untitled Miami Beach, and most recently, a solo booth at The Armory Show. Shrobe’s work is held in the Permanent Collections of The Brooklyn Museum, New York; The Studio Museum in Harlem, New York; The Block Museum, Evanston, Illinois; Union College, Schenectady, New York; Jordan Schnitzer Museum of Art at the University of Oregon, Eugene, Oregon; and NSU Art Museum, Fort Lauderdale. Monique Meloche Gallery is pleased to present a solo exhibition of new work by New York born artist David Shrobe. Riding the Wind’s Back, meticulously carved and painted assemblage structures investigate the coexistence of hybrid identities and notions of a collective remembrance reimagined. This is the artist’s first exhibition with the gallery and first in Chicago thru October 30th. Artist website https://www.davidshrobe.com/ Monique Meloche Gallery https://www.moniquemeloche.com/exhibitions/192-david-shrobe-riding-the-winds-back/press_release_text/ Art of Choice https://www.artofchoice.co/david-shrobe-repurposes-detritus-to-reimagine-history/ Art Market Monitor https://www.artmarketmonitor.com/2020/09/24/david-shrobes-new-pandemic-era-assemblage-works-draw-buyers-museum-interest/ Brooklyn Museum https://www.brooklynmuseum.org/opencollection/objects/224550 Fountainhead | Artist Statement https://www.fountainheadresidency.com/dave-shrobe Photo credit: Michael Palma

David Shrobe

Episode 75 features New York-based artist Wardell Milan. He works in mixed media, combining elements of photography, drawing, painting, and collage. Milan’s practice is conceptually grounded in photography, often using photographs as initial inspiration behind composition of drawings and collages. Referencing artists such as Robert Mapplethorpe, Diane Arbus, Andres Serrano, Alec Soth, and Eugene Richards, Milan appropriates, and in some cases re-appropriates the photographs, and thus the bodies depicted. Milan also uses images and objects to establish allegorical connections between history and contemporary events. Milan’s ongoing series “Death, Wine, Revolt,” which combines photography, drawing, painting, collage, and sculpture to explore themes of over-indulgence, destruction, and revolution. While earlier series such as “Parisian Landscapes” looked inward, to personal questions of freedom and desire, Milan made the works on view in response to the turmoil of the global moment. Works by the artist may be found in the collections of The Art Institute of Chicago; Museum of Contemporary Photography, Chicago; Denver Art Museum; Brooklyn Museum, New York; Hessel Museum of Art, Bard College, New York; The Museum of Modern Art, New York; The Morgan Library & Museum, New York; The Studio Museum in Harlem, New York; Whitney Museum of American Art, New York; UBS Art Collection; Daniel & Florence Guerlain Contemporary Art Foundation, Paris; Hall Art Foundation; and San Francisco Museum of Modern Art. Milan lives and works in New York. Artist website ~ https://wardellmilan.com Bronx Museum - http://www.bronxmuseum.org/exhibitions/wardell-milan-amerika-god-bless-you-if-itand39s-good-to-you Culture Type - https://www.culturetype.com/2021/07/14/on-view-wardell-milan-amerika-god-bless-you-if-its-good-to-you-at-bronx-museum-of-the-arts-in-new-york/ Musee Magazine - https://museemagazine.com/features/2020/10/22/exhibition-review-wardell-milan-at-fraenkel-gallery The Brooklyn Rail - https://brooklynrail.org/2020/02/criticspage/Pentimenti Hyperallergic - https://hyperallergic.com/502980/a-disruptor-of-race-and-sex/ ArtForum - https://www.artforum.com/picks/wardell-milan-78442 Wikipedia - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wardell_Milan

Wardel Milan

Episode 74 features Ashley James, Ph.D., Associate Curator, Contemporary Art at the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum. She is the curator of Off the Record (2021) and co-curator of The Hugo Boss Prize: Deana Lawson, Centropy (2021). Prior to joining the Guggenheim, James served as Assistant Curator of Contemporary Art at the Brooklyn Museum, where she was the curator for the museum’s presentation of Soul of a Nation: Art in the Age of Black Power (2018–19), organized Eric N. Mack: Lemme walk across the room (2019), and co-curated John Edmonds: A Sidelong Glance (2020-21). James also served as a Mellon Curatorial Fellow in Drawing and Prints at the Museum of Modern Art, where her work focused on the groundbreaking retrospectives of Adrian Piper (2018) and Charles White (2018–19), and has held positions at the Studio Museum in Harlem and at the Yale University Art Gallery, where she co-organized the exhibition Odd Volumes: Book Art from the Allan Chasanoff Collection (2015). James holds a BA from Columbia University and a Ph.D. from Yale University in English literature and African American studies, with a certificate in Women's, Gender, and Sexuality studies. Guggenheim https://www.guggenheim.org/staff/ashley-james Yale https://afamstudies.yale.edu/news/ashley-james-named-guggenheim-curator-makes-history Yale https://gsas.yale.edu/news/guggenheim-curator-ashley-james-sees-certain-kind-possibility-new-role NY Times https://www.nytimes.com/2019/11/15/arts/design/guggenheim-black-curator.html Forbes https://www.forbes.com/sites/dominiquefluker/2019/11/30/meet-guggenheims-first-black-curator-ashley-james/ NBC News https://www.nbcnews.com/news/nbcblk/guggenheim-curator-ashley-james-sees-certain-kind-possibility-new-role-rcna1260 Essence https://www.essence.com/culture/ashley-james-want-us-to-look-off-the-record/ W Magazine https://www.wmagazine.com/culture/guggenheim-curator-ashley-james-culture-diet-interview Marie Claire https://www.marieclaire.com/fashion/a34691447/ashley-james-guggenheim-museum/ Artnews https://www.artnews.com/art-news/news/ashley-james-curator-guggenheim-museum-13581/ Brooklyn Museum – Soul of a Nation https://www.brooklynmuseum.org/exhibitions/soul_of_a_nation

Dr. Ashley James

Episode 73 features painter Rebecca Brodskis (b. 1988 in France) lives and works in Paris. She spent most of her childhood travelling and living between France and Morocco. Brodskis studied painting at the Ateliers des Beaux Arts de la Ville de Paris and at Central St. Martins College of Art and Design in London,graduating in 2010. In 2015, she also completed a Master’s degree in Sociology,focusing her research on the themes of vulnerabilities and social crisis.Exploring the borders of the sensible world, Brodskis’ work evolves betwee nconscious and unconscious spaces, leading to a reflection on the existence, the self and the otherness. The idea of being in an in-between is very prominent in Brodskis work, this intermediate space at the cross-roads of empirical reality and imagination, order and disorder, materialism and spirituality, determinism and freedom.  Solo exhibitions include Arrêt Sur Image, Kristin Hjellegjerde Gallery, London (2021); Tomorrow Is Another Day, Steve Turner LA (2020); Fragments of Life, Kristin Hjellegjerde Gallery, Berlin (2020);Galeriste with Hors Cadre, Paris (2019); Septième Galerie, Paris (2019);Unsettled disorders, Canopy Gallery, Netanya (2019); Dépendance, Gallery Mario Kreuzberg, Berlin (2019) and Drifting Singularities, Sputnik Gallery, Tel Aviv(2017).  Group exhibitions include All the Days and Nights, Kristin Hjellegjerde Gallery, London (2020); Constellations, Galerie du 6b- St-Denis, France (2019);Where we once were, Yngspc (2019); Interférence, Le Studio, Paris (2018); Five French artists, Primitive Showroom, Tel Aviv (2017); Human factor, Ori artspace, Berlin (2016) and Disfiguring, figuring the unfigurable KelenföldiErömü, Budapest (2015). Highlights and Collections Her work is held in important private and public collections which include Alan Lo Collection (Hong Kong); Museum Azman Collection (Malaysia);Pamela and David Hornik Collection (USA); Selebe Yoon Collection (Senegal); The Beth Rudin Dewoody Collection (USA); Tiroche DeLeon Collection (Israel);Zeifang Collection (Germany) Hercurrent solo show ~ ‘Effet Miroir’, is on view at the Septieme Gallery in Paris through July 10th.   Artist website ~ http://www.rebeccabrodskis.com/ SeptiemeGallery ~  https://septiemegallery.com/en/rebecca-brodskis-en/ Kristin_Hjellegjerde_Gallery~https://kristinhjellegjerde.com/exhibitions/133/overview/ She_Curates~ https://www.she-curates.com/interviews/artists/rebecca-brodskis/ Cassina Projects ~ https://www.cassinaprojects.com/rebecca-brodskis Wall Street International Magazine ~ https://wsimag.com/art/62982-rebecca-brodskis-tomorrow-is-another-day Interlocutor ~https://interlocutorinterviews.com/new-blog/2021/2/1/rebecca-brodskis-interview-kristin-hjellegjerde-gallery-arret-sur-image

Rebecca Brodskis

Episode 72 features scholar and curator Isolde Brielmaier, an Assistant Professor in the Department of Photography, Imaging and Emerging Media at New York University’s Tisch School of the Arts where she focuses on contemporary art, global visual culture, as well as media and immersive technology as platforms within which to re-think storytelling and the politics of representation. She is also the inaugural Curator-at-Large at the International Center of Photography (ICP) and previously oversaw the arts and cultural programming at the Oculus at Westfield World Trade Center. Isolde has written extensively on contemporary art and culture and is the author of Culture as Catalyst (2020). She has served as curator at several institutions including the Guggenheim Museum and the Bronx Museum. Among her distinctions, she has received fellowships from the Mellon and Ford foundations as well as the Social Science Research Council (SSRC). She serves on the Board of Trustees of the New Museum as well as the Women’s Prison Association. She holds a Ph.D. from Columbia University and lives in Brooklyn, New York. Artist website https://www.isoldeb.com/ Wikipedia https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Isolde_Brielmaier ICP https://www.icp.org/news/the-international-center-of-photography-names-isolde-brielmaier-curator-at-large Book https://tang.skidmore.edu/shop NYU/ Tisch talk https://tisch.nyu.edu/photo/news/dpi-prof-isolde-brielmaier-talks-to-whitewall LinkedIn https://www.linkedin.com/in/isolde-brielmaier-phd-92021b77

Isolde Brielmaier

Episode 71 features painter Che Lovelace. Based in Port of Spain, Trinidad, Che’s art originates primarily from his experience of living and working in Trinidad and Tobago. His paintings which are rendered in a vivid assortment of acrylic and dry pigment on combined board panels, are strongly rooted in depicting the dense, highly charged layers of the Trinidadian landscape which he sees as physical, social and spiritual. The subjects of his paintings emerge from and flow freely between the streets of Port of Spain, to the rural natural vegetation, to the human form and back to the interior of his studio. His recent one person exhibitions have been at Various Small Fires, Los Angeles in 2021, Galerie Eric Hussenout, Paris and Half Gallery, New York, Recent group exhibitions have been “Resting Point of Accommodation” Almine Rech, Brussels, "Get Up, Stand Up Now”, Somerset House, London and “Still-Life: An Ongoing Story”, Galerie Sebastien Bertrand, Geneva. Che Lovelace was born 1969 in San Fernando, Trinidad and grew up in the east coast village of Matura. He received his fine art training at l’Ecole Régionale des Beaux-Arts de la Martinique. He has been a principal collaborator on several arts, Carnival and entertainment projects including the Studio Film Club and the recently established Friends For The Road J’Ouvert…a traditional Carnival project. His practice increasingly includes elements of performance which he absorbs into his painting process. Lovelace currently lecturers at the University of the West Indies Creative Arts department. Artist https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Che_Lovelace W Magazine https://www.wmagazine.com/culture/che-lovelace-various-small-fires-trinidad Very Small Fires http://www.vsf.la/artist_post/che-lovelace/ Galerie Hussenot https://www.galeriehussenot.com/exposition/2347/ Vigo Gallery https://www.vigogallery.com/artists/13 Half Gallery https://halfgallery.com/che-lovelace New Yorker https://www.newyorker.com/goings-on-about-town/art/che-lovelace Pree https://preelit.com/category/che-lovelace/

Che Lovelace

Ep.70 features Maria Guzman Capron. Born in Milan, Italy to Colombian and Peruvian parents, she lives and works in Oakland, CA. She received an MFA from California College of the Arts in 2015 and her BFA from the University of Houston in 2004. Recent exhibitions include Snail Shell — pt.2 Gallery, Oakland, CA; Female Trouble 2 — CULT Aimee Friberg Exhibitions, San Francisco, CA; Body Spray — Buffalo Institute for Contemporary Art, Buffalo, NY; Don’t Eat Me — Deli Gallery in Brooklyn, NYC; and Through Her Eye — Mana Contemporary in Chicago, IL. In addition, she is a parent and works at NIAD Art Center as a part-time facilitator. Enjoy this interview. Photo credit courtesy of the artist. Artist website http://mariaaguzman.com/ Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Art https://www.pafa.org/events/maria-guzman-capron-032421 Roll Up Project http://rollupproject.com/exhibitions/maria-guzman-capron/ Juxtapoz https://www.juxtapoz.com/news/painting/guerrero-gallery-s-october-exhibitions-with-maria-guzman-capron-and-hilary-pecis/ Premiere Jr. https://premierejr.space/Maria-Guzman-Capron Between us, about them https://www.between-us-about-them.cca.edu/maria-guzman-capron Variable West https://variablewest.com/event/snail-shell-maria-guzman-capron-rachel-hayden/

Maria Guzman Capron

Ep.69 features Alvin Armstrong, a painter whose work explores the social and political landscape of Black American culture. His paintings are often filled with real and fictional subjects, culled from archival material, his community and lived experiences. He’s lived in Hawaii, Japan, and California all of which have informed his art practice. Armstrong received an MS in Eastern Medicine and is a licensed acupuncturist. The self-taught artist currently has a solo show at Anna Zorina Gallery titled, ‘To Give and Take’ and his work has been featured in the New York Times, Juxtapoz and Something Curated. He will be a Fall 2021 Visual Arts Resident at Pioneer Works in Brooklyn. Alvin’s solo exhibition at the Anna Zorina Gallery is open thru June 19th. Chelsea NYC Anna Zorina Gallery https://www.annazorinagallery.com/artists/alvin-armstrong/biography Hyperallergic https://hyperallergic.com/648122/alvin-armstrong-black-bodies-in-motion/ Medium Tings https://www.mediumtingsbk.com/alvinarmstrong Pioneer Works https://pioneerworks.org/residency/alvin-armstrong Something Curated https://somethingcurated.com/2021/04/16/interview-painter-alvin-armstrong-questions-societys-expectations-of-black-bodies/ Juxtapoz https://www.juxtapoz.com/news/painting/preview-alvin-armstrong-to-give-and-take/ Brooklyn Rail https://brooklynrail.org/2020/10/artseen/Alvin-Armstrong-This-Place-Looks-Different Photo credit Jordan Lee

Alvin Armstrong

Episode 68 features artist and archivist Alanna Fields (b. 1990, Upper Marlboro, MD) is a lens-based mixed media artist and archivist whose work investigates and challenges representations of Black queer identity and history through the lens of photography. Fields' work has been featured in exhibitions including Felix Art Fair, LA, UNTITLED Art Fair, Miami, MoCADA, and Pratt Institute. Fields is a Gordon Parks Foundation Scholar, 2020 Light Work AIR and Baxter St. CCNY Workspace AIR. She received her MFA in Photography from Pratt Institute and has given talks at the Aperture Foundation, Stanford University, NYU Tisch School of the Arts, Parson's New School, Syracuse University, and Rutgers University. Fields lives and works in New York City and is represented by Assembly. DON’T MISS ~ Alanna Fields in her solo exhibition debut titled ‘Mirages of Dreams Past’ thru June 9th, Baxter Street at Camera Club of NY. Artist website www.alannafields.com Baxter Street https://www.baxterst.org/alanna-fields/ Yancey Richardson Gallery https://www.yanceyrichardson.com/ Lightwork https://www.lightwork.org/archive/alanna-fields/ Aperture https://aperture.org/editorial/alanna-fields-audacious-gaze-on-the-black-queer-archive/ Lenscratch http://lenscratch.com/2020/08/photographers-on-photographers-nick-drain-in-conversation-with-alanna-fields/

Alanna Fields

Episode 67 features Mosie Romney (b. 1994, New York) They live and work in Ridgewood, Queens, New York. A Jamaican-American artist, they received their education from SUNY Purchase, obtaining a Bachelor of Science in Visual Arts in 2016. They have been an artist in residence at the Home School,Hudson in 2018 and at Pocoapoco, Oaxaca City in 2021 (upcoming). Exhibitions include Mosie Romney, Nicodim Gallery, Los Angeles (3/25-May 1st 2021,solo); Evening Lark, Y2K Group, New York (2020, solo); PAPA RAGAZZE!, Nicodim Gallery, Los Angeles (2020); Mosie Romney and Juan Guiterrez, Meredith Rosen Gallery, New York (2020); and Materia Prima, Gern en Regalia, New York (2019). Mosie is currently in a group show at the Almine Rech gallery in Manhattan thru June 05.2021.  Artist Website ~ https://www.mosieromney.com/Almine Rech ~ https://www.alminerech.com/ Artnews ~ https://www.artnews.com/art-news/news/breaking-art-industry-news-january-2021-week-1-1234580739/ Protochic ~ https://www.protochic.com/stories/2020/9/8/what-were-watching-amoako-boafo-in-chicago-and-mosie-romney-in-new-york Hyperallergic ~ https://hyperallergic.com/572862/mo-romney-archiving-black-art-history/ Y2K – studio visit  https://www.y2kgroup.nyc/y2k-group-blog/2020/6/23/studio-visit-with-mosie-romney https://www.y2kgroup.nyc/373-broadway

Mosie Romney

Ep.66 features Khari Turner, an emerging painter from Milwaukee, Wisconsin, and a current MFA graduate student at Columbia University. He is in multiple collections including his alma mater Austin Peay State University, where he received his BFA. He has been featured in Artnews, Whitehot magazine, Hyperallergic, to name a few. He grew up with many works of art from black artists that his grandparents collected. His grandfather was also a draftsman which inspired Khari at an early age to create. Growing up in Milwaukee, he was exposed to a connection to vast nature and dense cityscapes fighting amongst a city well known for its continued segregation. This created a connection to Black people and his environment over time. Blackness and Black people are the ocean to Khari. He currently takes water directly from the Ocean and his hometown, Lake Michigan and the Milwaukee River, incorporating them in the work either mixing the water with paint or pouring directly on the surface of the work. His aims are to eventually start a non-profit to create art programs directed at improving neighborhoods like the one he grew up in. Khari Turner has a solo show opening May 21,2021 at Voss Gallery in San Francisco and a solo show opening July 10th at the Ross Sutton Gallery in NYC. Artist website ~ www.khariturner.com Artnews~ www.artnews.com/art-news/artists/khari-turner-artist-artnews-live-interview-1234577381/ Juxtapoz ~ https://www.juxtapoz.com/news/painting/khari-turner-the-sea-s-own-children-iris-project-venice-beach/ Columbia University ~ https://arts.columbia.edu/news/khari-turner-21-what-are-you-thinking-about-now Whitehot Magazine ~ https://whitehotmagazine.com/articles/turner-or-joy-in-struggle/4797 Kourosh Mahboubian Fine Art ~ https://mahboubianfineart.com/forget-what-you-know-khari-turner Headshot credit - Folasade Ologundudu

Khari Turner

Episode 65 features Doron Langberg. Born in 1985 in Yokneam Moshava, Israel, he currently lives and works in New York City. He received his MFA from Yale University School of Art, holds a BFA from the University of Pennsylvania, a Certificate from PAFA, and attended the Yale Summer School of Music and Art, Norfolk. Langberg has attended the EFA Studio Program, Sharpe Walentas Studio Program, Yaddo artist residency, and the Queer Art Mentorship Program. He is the recipient of the American Academy of Arts and Letters John Koch award for painting, the Elizabeth Greenshields Foundation Grant, and the Yale Schoelkopf Travel Prize. Langberg’s first solo exhibition at Yossi Milo Gallery, New York, was held in 2019. Works by the artist will feature in the forthcoming exhibitions: Intimacy: New Queer Art from Berlin and Beyond, at the Schwules Museum, Berlin (27 November 2020–25 February 2021); and Breakfast Under the Tree, curated by Russell Tovey and Robert Diament, at Carl Freedman Gallery, Margate, Kent (8 November 2020–17 January 2021). Langberg’s work will be included in a major group exhibition at the Institute of Contemporary Art/Boston in 2022. Previously, his work has been shown at institutional venues including the LSU Museum, American Academy of Arts and Letters, Leslie-Lohman Museum and The PAFA Museum. His work is in the collections of The PAFA Museum and RISD Museum. In the public realm, a reproduction of Langberg’s Joe and Edgar, 2020, can currently be seen in New York as part of Public Art Fund’s Art on the Grid, a city-wide initiative featuring 50 emerging artists. Doron has a solo exhibition with Victoria Miro Gallery opening September 2, 2021. Doron’s favorite quotes include ‘Practice is a means of inviting the perfection desired’ ~ Martha Graham Artist website ~ http://www.doronlangberg.com/ Victoria Miro Gallery ~ http://www.doronlangberg.com/ Artforum ~ https://www.artforum.com/print/202009/the-artists-artists-84359 https://www.artforum.com/picks/intimate-companions-83828 Artsy ~ https://www.artsy.net/article/artsy-editorial-14-artists-portraying-queer-love Artdrunk ~ https://www.artdrunk.art/doron-langberg Art of Choice ~ https://www.artofchoice.co/experience-physical-sensation-through-color-in-doron-langbergs-paintings/ Hyperallergic ~ https://hyperallergic.com/521769/a-dreamy-debut-of-paintings-queer-in-subject-and-form/ The Georgia Review ~ https://thegeorgiareview.com/posts/kaleidoscopic-consciousness/

Doron Langberg

Episode 64 features Chaz Guest. From his initial start in 1986, in a very creative NYC, he forged his Artistic life. He specializes in painting with a concentration on portraiture and cultural narratives. After moving to Paris in 1986 he worked as a freelance fashion illustrator for Joyce Magazine. It was while working at Joyce that he met Christian Lacroix who encouraged him to apply his illustrator skills to painting. Guest later left Joyce magazine and moved to Dax, France where he started painting. His practice has since soared. His works are now in some of the world’s most prominent art collections which include Michelle and Barack Obama’s who own two: one of Supreme Court Justice Thurgood Marshall and a portrait of Obama himself. Other collectors include Stevie Wonder, Ambassador Nicole Avant and Ted Sarandos Netflix COO, Angelina Jolie, Oprah Winfrey, and Tyler Perry purchased five of his paintings. Chaz is currently represented by Night gallery in Los Angeles and recent collectors this year include the Bob Rennie collection , Beth Rudin DeWoody and the Museum of Art Zuzeum in Latvia. In April Qingdao City Art Museum acquired his largest painting to date "The Tenth". His current show with Night Gallery in Los Angeles closes May, 15, 2021 For expanded bio please visit links below. Artist website http://www.chazguest.com/ NPG https://www.npg.org.uk/blog/in-conversation-with-chaz-guest Weareageist https://www.weareageist.com/profile/chaz-guest-58-painting-to-unite-humanity/ Night Gallery https://www.nightgallery.ca/exhibitions/promised-land Wikipedia https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chaz_Guest Monarch Magazine https://www.monarchmagazine.com/article/chaz-guest-soul-immortalized/

Chaz Guest

The Cerebral Women Art Talks podcast is an extension of @cerebral_women. Conversations offer insights into the visual art world from artists, mainly artists of color, and female artists who freely articulate what inspires their creativity. In addition, you'll hear interesting perspectives from dedicated art professionals who work with artists and the art institutions that feature them. Art Advisors, Art Critics, Collectors, Curators, Gallerists, Museum Professionals.