The Art Career
By Emily McElwreath
The Art Career Apr 28, 2022
Bianca Bosker: Get the Picture
On this special episode of The Art Career, Emily sits down with New York Times bestselling author, Bianca Bosker, who discusses her latest book, Get the Picture: A Mind-Bending Journey among the Inspired Artists and Obsessive Art Fiends Who Taught Me How to See.
Bianca Bosker is the New York Times bestselling author of Cork Dork and, most recently, Get the Picture: A Mind-Bending Journey among the Inspired Artists and Obsessive Art Fiends Who Taught Me How to See. A contributing writer at The Atlantic, she has also written for publications such as The New Yorker, The New York Times, and The Wall Street Journal. Her work has been recognized with awards from the New York Press Club, the Society of Professional Journalists, and more, and has been included in The Best American Travel Writing. She lives in New York City.
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Ritual for Inspiration: A Gift for our Listeners
For our season finale, Sarah Potter has created a ritual for inspiration for our listeners. Take the time, gather the elements, and place this in your creative space. Watch what happens.
Elements (Instruction in episode):
-Any jar
-Orange ribbon
-Orange candle
-Lavender for clarity
-Peppermint for Motivation
-Dried orange peel for success
-Dried rode petals to recieve this inspiration
-Cinnamon for protection and speed
-Dried basil for luck
-Chamomile for optimism
-Lemon balm fro confidence
Sarah Potter is a celebrity psychic medium, Tarot reader, and professional witch based in NYC. Her spiritual guidance has been sought after by thousands of private and corporate clients as her work has been profiled by Forbes, Refinery 29, InStyle, Teen Vogue & countless other publications. As a resident Tarot Reader & witch at both Cosmopolitan & Bust Magazine, the natural next step in her Tarot journey led her to create her first book “The Cosmo Tarot : The Ultimate Deck & Guidebook” via Hearst Home. Sarah’s dedication to making magical modalities a practical and accessible part of everyday life has led her to become one of the most prominent faces of modern day witchcraft. Her writing on witchcraft, Magic, and Tarot is featured in Cosmopolitan, Astrology.com, Bust Magazine, and Shondaland.
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Sarah Potter - Celebrity Psychic Medium, Tarot Reader, and Professional Witch
Welcome to our two part mini series season finale with celebrity psychic medium, tarot reader, and professional witch, Sarah Potter. This week Sarah will tell us all about what being a professional witch entails and doesn't shy away from having the conversation about skeptics. Sarah will share an intimate Tarot reading with our listeners and next week a very special ritual for inspiration she created just for The Art Career!
Sarah Potter is a celebrity psychic medium, Tarot reader, and professional witch based in NYC. Her spiritual guidance has been sought after by thousands of private and corporate clients as her work has been profiled by Forbes, Refinery 29, InStyle, Teen Vogue & countless other publications. As a resident Tarot Reader & witch at both Cosmopolitan & Bust Magazine, the natural next step in her Tarot journey led her to create her first book “The Cosmo Tarot : The Ultimate Deck & Guidebook” via Hearst Home. Sarah’s dedication to making magical modalities a practical and accessible part of everyday life has led her to become one of the most prominent faces of modern day witchcraft. Her writing on witchcraft, Magic, and Tarot is featured in Cosmopolitan, Astrology.com, Bust Magazine, and Shondaland.
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THE ART OF COLLECTING
If you are an art collector, or aspire to be one, you might feel overwhelmed by the complexity and diversity of the art market. How do you find the best artworks for your taste, budget, and goals? How do you avoid overpaying and missing out on opportunities? How do you support living artists and contribute to the cultural conversation? In this episode we will answer these questions and dive into the responsibility of our society to SUPPORT LIVING ARTISTS.
McElwreath Art Advisory is a full-service firm that provides guidance and assistance to art collectors through a comprehensive list of services. Whether the goal is to acquire a single work, build a collection, or add to an existing one, they do so through an educated exploration of the art market. McElwreath Art Advisory is led by Emily McElwreath, an advisor, curator, and educator with over 20 years of experience in the art world. Emily has worked with some of the most prestigious institutions, galleries, and artists in the world. She is also the host of The Art Career Podcast, where she speaks with art world titans and emerging professionals to demystify the art world and share insights and advice. Emily and her team are passionate about promoting the work of living artists through interdisciplinary collaboration, institutional partnerships, and acquisitions. They have access to a wide network of artists, dealers, curators, and experts, and they can source artworks from various genres, mediums, and markets.
McElwreath Art Advisory is not your typical art consultancy. They are uniquely positioned to invigorate the advisory market with a new approach to arts patronage and love to work with individuals and corporations who appreciate being a part of the cultural conversation.
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Live at The New York Studio School: Alla Broeksmit and Stella Hayes
Live at The New York Studio school with Ukrainian born artist, Alla Broeksmit, and sister and poet, Stella Hayes.
“The New York Studio School was founded in 1964 by Mercedes Matter, in collaboration with a group of students and faculty, during a time of cultural ferment. To this day, it is bound by a sense of mission, one that has often stood in counterpoint to the prevailing tastes of the art world. During the heyday of Pop, conceptual art, and minimalism, the School emphasized drawing, working from life, and a sustained studio practice. To delve into the history, however, is to become aware of the contradictions inherent in a school run by some of the most passionate minds of the New York art world.“ Jennifer Sachs Samet
Closely held memories of childhood in Kyiv and deeply rooted remembrances of family and beloved places fuel the dreamlike imagery of Alla Broeksmit’s art. Gestural brushwork and the tactility of hand-mixed pigments in the muted palette of faded frescoes lend texture and atmosphere to her expressively rendered paintings, evoking a sense of time past, recalled to the present. Broeksmit has pursued painting since the 1990s, studying at Parsons School of Design in New York City, then co-founding the Lots Road Group with fellow artists from the Heatherly School of Fine Art after moving to London in 1997. During this period, her paintings were primarily figurative and focused on portraiture, taking inspiration from the heavily impastoed, psychological portraits of Lucian Freud. In 2017, Broeksmit received her MFA from the New York Studio School, where Dean Graham Nickson encouraged her to work on a larger scale and to take “a more instinctual, visceral approach” to painting. Instructors Judy Glantzman, Kyle Staver, and Elisa Jensen were also instrumental in her development of an individualized visual language and in exposing her to the descriptive and emotional expression of color, as seen in her work.
Stella Hayes is the author of a poetry collection, One Strange Country (What Books Press, November 2020). Hayes earned a creative writing degree at University of Southern California. Her work has been nominated for the Best of the Net and for the Pushcart Prize, as well as appeared in Prelude, The Poetry Project’s The Recluse, The Lake and Spillway, among others, and is forthcoming from Stanford’s Mantis and Poet Lore. She began her life in a book-filled home in an agricultural town an hour outside of Kiev, then part of the Soviet Union. In 1977, her family of five — her father excluded — left for the U.S., settling first in Chicago. At USC, she studied creative writing with a focus on poetry with celebrated poet David St. John, chancellor of the Academy of American Poets. More recently, she has taken advanced classes in poetry and fiction at 92Y and was asked to do a reading there in the spring of 2018. She is a graduate student at NYU M.F.A in poetry and is assistant fiction editor at Washington Square Review.
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Jane South: Pratt Institute, Time Alone, and Owning Your Decisions as an Artist
On Season 4, Episode 9 of The Art Career, Emily sits down with Jane South in her Brooklyn loft overlooking the Brooklyn Bridge.
Born in Manchester, UK, Jane South worked in experimental theater before moving to the United States in 1989.
Solo exhibitions include Halfway Off (2023) and Switch Back (2020) at Spencer Brownstone Gallery, Floor/Ceiling (2013) at the Aldrich Contemporary Art Museum, CT; Box (2011), Knoxville Museum of Art, TN.
Recent group exhibitions include Come A Little Closer (2023), DC Moore Gallery, New York; Augurhythms (2022) Hesse Flatow, New York; Maquette (2022); No Show Space, London, UK; Dance with Me (2019); Zürcher Gallery, New York, Invitational Exhibition of Visual Arts (2019) at the American Academy of Arts & Letters, New York.
Southʼs work has been reviewed in the Brooklyn Rail, The New York Times, The LA Times, Artforum, Art in America, Sculpture Magazine, New York Magazine, Frieze, ArtNews, and The New Yorker. She is represented by Spencer Brownstone Gallery, New York.
Awards include the Guggenheim Fellowship (2021), Brown/RISD Mellon Foundation Fellowship (2015), Joan Mitchell Foundation Painters and Sculptors Grant (2009), Pollock-Krasner Foundation (2001 & 2008), and a New York Foundation for the Arts Fellowship (2007).
Residencies include Camargo Foundation, Cassis, France (2010); Dora Maar House, Ménerbes, France (2022 & 2010); Rockefeller Foundation Bellagio Center, Italy (2008); MacDowell Colony, NH (2002 & 2004); Yaddo, NY (2001 & 2002).
In 2018, South was elected to the National Academy of Design. She is currently Chair of Fine Arts at Pratt Institute, New York.
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Marina Granger: Answers and Guidance for Emerging Artists
Marina Press Granger worked in the NYC Art World for years, mostly as a gallery director and hated seeing artists get the runaround. Working in galleries during the time that social media became a thing, she realized that the internet was causing a massive shift in the art world. Suddenly artists had so much more power in curating their online presence which allowed them to get in front of anyone and everyone without traditional gatekeepers. So, in 2018 she started THE ARTIST ADVISORY, a company that guides visual artists on how to progress in their careers and get their work OUT THERE. To date, Marina has reached thousands of artists teaching them the business side of being an artist while helping them navigate using the internet to gain connections. In addition to using analytical business acumen acquired through years of experience and a BA & MA in Art History, Granger also uses the mindset shifts and spiritual tools to enhance the success of the artists she works with. She is also a Reiki Master and certified in Classical Chinese Feng Shui.
Press includes:-Forbes-British GQ-Hyperallergic-TimeOut New York -The NY Post
Tune in to what she has to say on her podcast, The Artist Advisory Hotline.
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[REDUX] Cheryl Strayed: Put Yourself in the Way of Beauty
This week we take a look back on the Season 2 Finale of The Art Career where Emily McElwreath interviews acclaimed author Cheryl Strayed. Cheryl Strayed is the author of the #1 New York Times bestseller Wild: From Lost to Found on the Pacific Crest Trail, which has sold more than 4 million copies worldwide and was made into an Oscar-nominated major motion picture. Her bestselling book Tiny Beautiful Things is currently being adapted for a Hulu television show that will be released in early 2023. In 2016, Tiny Beautiful Things was adapted as a play that has been staged in theaters around the world. Strayed is also the author of the critically acclaimed debut novel, Torch, and the bestselling collection Brave Enough, which brings together more than one hundred of her inspiring quotes. Her award-winning essays and short stories have been published in The Best American Essays, the New York Times, the Washington Post Magazine, Vogue, Salon, and elsewhere. She has hosted two hit podcasts, Sugar Calling and Dear Sugars. Cheryl lives in Portland, Oregon.
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[REDUX] Meg Lionel Murphy: Painting After PTSD From Domestic Violence
Meg Lionel Murphy: Painting After PTSD From Domestic Violence
*Content warning - Domestic Violence, Substance Abuse*
Meg Lionel Murphy paints a dreamworld where suffering transforms femme bodies into a monstrous size, so that their pain must be seen, felt, and acknowledged. Murphy received a Bachelor of Arts degree from the University of Minnesota—Twin Cities, with three majors: Art, Art History, and English Literature. Additionally, Meg studied classical oil painting in Florence, Italy. After graduation, Meg worked as a children’s illustrator, co-founded the literary and art magazine, Paper Darts, and co-directed the arts and social justice non-profit, Pollen Midwest.
A diagnosis of severe PTSD from domestic violence led Murphy to leave her career in publishing to focus on painting and healing. She moved back to her childhood home in rural Wisconsin where she started painting in her father’s junkyard, in a studio shack that was converted from an industrial cooler. As her art took off, she moved her studio to an old storefront—that was built as a church in the 1880s.
Recent solo shows include “Traumatica Dramatica'' at The Untitled Space Gallery (New York), “Interior Violence” at CoExhibitions Gallery (Minneapolis), and solo booths with SPRING/BREAK Art Show (New York and Los Angeles). Recent group shows include “10 @ 10” at The Wisconsin Museum of Art, “Pleasure Garden'' at Laurie Shapiro Gallery (Los Angeles), and “In Her World” at Voltz Clarke (New York). Her painting has been acquired by the Minnesota Museum of American Art. Her artwork has been featured in a variety of publications including Hyperallergic, Bitch, Artnet News, and Forbes.
Domestic Violence Resources :
NO VISIBLE BRUISES - What We Don't Know About Domestic Violence Can Kill Us by Rachel Louise Snyder.
National Domestic Violence Hotline: 1-800-799-SAFE (7233) or 1-800-787-3224 (TTY) or 800-942-6908 (Español) (also available as web chat and text) https://www.thehotline.org/get-help/ To Find local shelters: https://www.domesticshelters.org/ Women's Law Initiative: https://hotline.womenslaw.org/public
Additional Resources can be found at The National Coalition Against Domestic Violence website: https://ncadv.org/RESOURCES
Domestic violence support groups can be found through Psychology Today: support groups: https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/groups
Danger Assessment worksheet: https://www.dangerassessment.org/DATools.aspx
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Jemima Kirke: Movies, Sex, and Bukowski
On Season 4, Episode 8 of The Art Career, Emily sits down with Jemima Kirke and her two cats in her Brooklyn home. The actress, painter, writer, and lover of movies shares insights about performance, vulnerability, love, and much more in this candid interview.
Jemima Kirke is a British-American artist, actress and director. She gained international acclaim through her role as Jessa Johansson in the 2012 HBO series Girls. She made her film debut in the 2005 indie short Smile for the Camera and her feature-length debut in Tiny Furniture, as a favour for her childhood friend Lena Dunham.
In 2017, she starred in Zayn's music video for the single "Dusk Till Dawn" featuring Sia
Kirke next had supporting roles in the dark comedy films Ava's Possessions and The Little Hours. In 2018, Kirke starred alongside her real-life sister Lola Kirke in Emma Forrest's film Untogether. The film premiered at the 2018 Tribeca Film Festival. In 2011, Kirke appeared in the music video "Wring It Out" for the group Rival Schools. Both this music video and Smile for the Camera were directed by her friend Jordan Galland. In 2017, she appeared in the music video for "Gotta Get a Grip" by Mick Jagger, directed by Saam Farahmand and appeared opposite Alex Cameron in his music video for the song "Stranger's Kiss". In September 2017, Kirke appeared opposite Zayn Malik in his music video for the song "Dusk Till Dawn"
In 2021, Kirke appeared in the Netflix series Sex Education in the role of Hope, headmistress of Moordale Secondary School. In 2021, it was announced that Kirke had accepted a role in Conversations with Friends, a series based on the book of the same name by Sally Rooney, in which she plays Melissa, an older, experienced writer fascinated by a younger couple. In 2023, Kirke starred in the Apple TV+ series City on Fire, based on the book of the same name
Kirke majored in art as a student and received her Bachelor of Fine Arts in painting from the Rhode Island School of Design in 2008. In late 2011, she held an exhibition titled "A Brief History" through Skylight Projects. In late 2017 to early 2018 she had a show at Sargents Daughters where she exhibited portrait-style paintings.
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Jenna Gribbon: Lesbian Visibility, Musedom, and Dickinson
On Season 4, Episode 7, Emily sits down with artist Jenna Gribbon, in her studio in Brooklyn, NY.
Brooklyn-based painter Jenna Gribbon’s figurative canvases present tender, uncanny scenes of everyday life while challenging the art historical conventions of the gaze. Gribbon reckons with the patrilineage of her medium, upending the tropes—such as the artist-muse relationship—and the established approaches that she inherited. She reconceives the act of looking as a reciprocal one, marked by empathy and mutual gratification. Utilizing the alla prima technique with a precise and animated hand, she offers unguarded glimpses into her life with her wife, the musician Mackenzie Scott, as well as her young son and circle of friends. She often depicts moments that push the limits of public and private, agency and consent, and exhibition and exploitation. Painting with an acute awareness of the viewer, Gribbon plays with the voyeuristic impulse while bringing visibility to expressions of sapphic love.
Born in 1978 in Knoxville, Tennessee, Gribbon studied painting at the University of Georgia (2001) and received her MFA from Hunter College (2019). In 2011, in Long Island City, Gribbon co-founded the Oracle Club, a literary salon and creative space. Gribbon’s work has been presented in exhibitions at the Frick Museum, New York; Museum of Modern Art, Warsaw; Museum of Contemporary Art, Jacksonville, Florida; Kurpfälzisches Museum, Heidelberg, Germany; Kunsthalle der Hypo-Kulturstiftung, Munich; Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth; Georgia Museum of Contemporary Art, Atlanta; and the Finnish Academy of Fine Arts, Helsinki, among many others. Her paintings reside in the collections of X Museum, Beijing; Dallas Museum of Art; Rubell Family Collection, Miami; Brant Foundation, New York; and FLAG Art Foundation, New York.
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[REDUX]: Mickalene Thomas
Let's travel back to season 2 and listen to a powerful conversation with Mickalene Thomas.
In Episode 1, Season 2 of The Art Career we welcome artist Mickalene Thomas. In preparation for her solo exhibition at Musée de l'Orangerie in Paris, we discuss the power of art, reincarnation, and how black erotica fills the void of aspirational love. The Art Career Podcast is available on Apple, Spotify, and Google. Link in bio.
Mickalene Thomas was born and raised in New Jersey and lives and works in Brooklyn, NY. One of the most influential artists today, her innovative practice has yielded instantly recognizable and widely celebrated aesthetic languages within contemporary visual culture. She is known for her elaborate paintings composed of rhinestones, acrylic, and enamel. Not only do her masterful mixed-media paintings, photographs, films and installations command space, they occupy eloquently while exploring the intersecting complexities of black and female identity within the Western canon.
Thomas received a B.F.A. from the Pratt Institute, Brooklyn, NY in 2000 and an M.F.A. from Yale University School of Art, New Haven, CT in 2002.
In 2012, a blockbuster Brooklyn Museum exhibition established Thomas as one of the leading artists of her generation. In the decade since, Thomas’ work has been purchased by institutions ranging from the Museum of Modern Art to the Guggenheim, from the Whitney to the Studio Museum in Harlem and from museums in Boston, Chicago, Tokyo and more. She has held solo exhibitions all over the world.
Thomas has truly become a master of the female nude form and erotic suggestion in addition to having the drive and commitment to her practice that is unparalleled.
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Natalie Baxter: Suffragettes, Guns, and Quilts
On Season 4, Episode 5, Emily sits down with artist Natalie Baxter in her studio in Upstate NY.
Natalie Baxter (b. 1985, Lexington, KY) received her MFA from the University of Kentucky in 2012 and a BA in Fine Art from the University of the South in Sewanee, TN in 2007. Her work has been exhibited in galleries, museums, universities, and fairs internationally with recent shows at Denny Dimin Gallery in both New York and Hong Kong, The New York Historical Society, The Torrance Art Museum, and Supermarket Art Fair in Stockholm. She has been an artist in residency at the Wassaic Project, Stove Works, a fellowship recipient at the Vermont Studio Center, IASPIS grant recipient at Konstepidemin in Gothenburg, Sweden, New York State Council for the Arts grant recipient, and twice awarded the Queens Art Fund Grant. Press for Baxter’s work includes, The New York Times, The New Yorker, Hyperallergic, The Guardian, and Bomb Magazine.
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Christine Kuan: Improving the Lives of Artists
Christine Kuan is the President and Creative Director of Creative Capital.
Before joining Creative Capital, Christine Kuan was CEO and Director of Sotheby’s Institute of Art, where she oversaw the Master’s Degree programs in Art Business, Contemporary Art, and Fine & Decorative Art & Design, as well as the Online, Summer, and Pre-College programs. In this role, she established new programs and partnerships with Tsinghua University in Beijing, Ewha University in Seoul, Centro University in Mexico City, and ESCP Business School in Paris. Kuan also launched a new scholarship program in partnership with Spelman College at the Atlanta University Center Consortium (AUCC).
Prior to Sotheby’s Institute, she was the Chief Curator and Director of Strategic Partnerships at Artsy, where she oversaw museum and institutional partnerships, digital collection strategy, open access policy, educational initiatives, and launched their auctions business, including benefit auctions such as Whitney Art Party, Brooklyn Museum Artists Ball, ICI Benefit, Public Art Fund Benefit, Sotheby’s x Planned Parenthood. Notably, Kuan established more than 500 museum and institutional partnerships worldwide, including Musée du Louvre, Musée Picasso, Musée d’Orsay, SFMOMA, J. Paul Getty Museum, Smithsonian Cooper-Hewitt Museum, Diebenkorn Foundation, Rauschenberg Foundation, Frankenthaler Foundation, Fondation Cartier, and more.
Prior to Artsy, Kuan was Chief Curatorial Officer and Vice President of External Affairs at Artstor, a nonprofit image library founded by The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, where she led digital collections acquisitions and the funding for the digitization of archives and collections. She has also served as Editor-in-Chief of Oxford Art Online/Grove Art Online at Oxford University Press, where she significantly expanded scholarly information on women artists and Asian contemporary artists working with guest editors Whitney Chadwick and Melissa Chiu, commissioning biographies on Faith Ringgold, Judy Chicago, Ai Weiwei, Cai Guo-Qiang, and others.
Kuan has also worked at The Metropolitan Museum of Art in the Department of Asian Art and the General Counsel’s Office, and she has taught English Literature and Writing at the University of Iowa, Peking University, Rutgers University, and guest lectured at Stanford University’s pilot program of Arts Leadership.
She has been interviewed by The New York Times, Wall Street Journal, Refinery29, Vogue, New York, China Global Television Network (CGTN), and other outlets. Kuan’s publications include: Creative Legacies: Artists’ Estates and Foundations (eds. Kathy Battista and Bryan Faller); Rights and Reproductions: The Handbook for Cultural Institutions (ed. Anne Young), Digital Heritage and Culture: Strategy and Implementation (eds. Herminia Din and Steven Wu), Guest Critic May 2022 for The Brooklyn Rail, and Best Practices Guide for Artist Demographic Data Coordination (Association of Art Museum Curators Foundation).
She has lectured and published extensively on digital strategy, museum policy, and new technologies for the art world. Kuan holds an MFA in Creative Writing Poetry from the University of Iowa Writers’ Workshop, and a BA in Art History and English Literature from Rutgers University.
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Roberta Smith: The One and Only
On Season 4, Episode 3, Emily McElwreath sits down with Roberta Smith in her Greenwich Village home. It was a memorable fall afternoon and an episode you won't want to miss.
Roberta Smith is co-chief art critic for the New York Times. She was born in New York City, raised in Lawrence, Kansas, and earned a B.A. from Grinnell College in 1969. An alumna of the Whitney Museum Independent Study Program, she worked at the Museum of Modern Art and the Paula Cooper Gallery before becoming a professional art critic in the 1970s, contributing to Artforum and serving as a senior editor for Art in America. In 1981 she became art critic for the Village Voice, before moving to the New York Times in 1986.
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Damien Davis: Artists as Center of Ecosystem
On Season 4, Episode 2, Emily speaks with artist Damien Davis for a candid conversation about the importance of understanding that the ARTIST is at the center of the ecosystem, not the other way around. Damien Davis is a Brooklyn-based artist, born in Crowley, Louisiana and raised in Phoenix, Arizona. His practice explores historical representations of blackness by seeking to unpack the visual language of various cultures and question how these societies code/decode representations of race through craft, design and digital modes of production. His work has appeared at The Whitney Museum and Museum of Modern Art, as well as METHOD Gallery in Seattle, and Biagiotti Progetto Arte in Italy. He is the recipient of the Rema Hort Mann Foundation Community Engagement Grant and has been awarded residencies with the Museum of Arts and Design, Lower Manhattan Cultural Council, and Pilchuck Glass School. Mr. Davis is also a former fellow and current advisor for the Art & Law Program in New York City. His work has been mentioned in the New York Times, Frieze Magazine, The Guardian, Hyperallergic and Vulture Magazine. Mr. Davis holds a BFA in Studio Art and an MA in Visual Arts Administration from New York University.
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Matthew Tully Dugan: Caviar, Vampires, and Warhol
Welcome to season 4 of the Art Career. We start the season on a beautiful fall day in a kitchen in NYC’s Chinatown. Before we sit down for our interview, artist Mathew Tully Dugan cooks the most delicious small plate for my editor Ben and myself; Thomas Keller’s potato pavé with whipped roasted bone marrow, salt cured egg yolk, hackleback caviar and wasabi microgreens. A most delicious way to launch Season 4!
Matthew Tully Dugan (b. 1986) Rochester, NY born and NYC based multidisciplinary artist. Dugan's interests span celebrity, psychology, pop iconography, privacy, and fanaticism. Dugan often employs promotional, social, and found imagery in a practice motivated by digital media’s physical and emotional divide. His paintings, sculptures, installations, texts, and curatorial projects collapse the popular and the subcultural, the collective and the personal, as a means of processing contemporary conditions and their impact on the psyche.
Recent exhibitions include solo shows at Will Shott, NY (2023), 56 Henry, New York (2022), Loveclub, NY (2021), Fierman, New York, NY (2018) as well as a public works in collaboration with Half Gallery, NY (2023). Dugan also runs a curatorial program, Art Death with yearly exhibitions in Miami Beach.
Tully's upcoming exhibition, "Inferno", will open at Lomex's new Walker Street project space this Halloween. It will be up until November 5th.
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We are proud to be supported by The New York Studio School. Founded in 1964 as an intensive studio arts program with an emphasis on perception, artists learning from artists, and drawing as the most direct means of describing one’s ideas or experiences, the Studio School offers an array of full-time and part-time programs that prioritize small classes and individual guidance from dedicated instructors distinguished in their fields. It is located in the heart of Greenwich Village, in a National Historic Landmark building that was once home to the original Whitney Museum of American Art. The School invites you to join its free public programming, including the Evening Lecture Series, which for more than half a century has been a cornerstone of the NYC art world and can now be experienced worldwide via livestreaming. Visit nyss.org to enroll in classes, see what’s on in the gallery, register for evening lectures, and more. To learn more about full-time study at NYSS, schedule an in-person tour or a virtual meeting by emailing info@nyss.org.
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True Crime Gallery: The Theft of the Mona Lisa with Dr. Noah Charney
Welcome to the "True Crime Gallery: The Dark Side of Art", the Season 3 mini series finale of The Art Career Podcast, where we are going to uncover the dark and twisted tales where art and crime intersect. In this 3 part series, we bring you bone-chilling stories that will leave you captivated. We began the series with Dr. Noah Charney telling the tale of the cursed Ghent masterpiece. Next we explored the horrifying use of modern art as an instrument of torture, to a crime hidden behind one of the Louvre's prized masterpieces, and the disturbing artistic endeavors of a notorious serial killer-clown. We’ll end with the famous thefts of the Mona Lisa. Brace yourself for these haunting narratives.
Dr Noah Charney is the internationally best-selling author of more than twenty books, translated into fourteen languages. He is a professor of art history specializing in art crime, and has taught for Yale University, Brown University, and American University of Rome He is founder of ARCA, the Association for Research into Crimes against Art. He writes regularly for dozens of major magazines and newspapers, including The Guardian, the Washington Post, the Observer and The Art Newspaper. He has recently fronted an influencer campaign for Samsung, and in 2022 he presented a BBC Radio 4 documentary, China’s Stolen Treasures. He lives in Slovenia with his wife, children and their hairless dog. His work in the field of art crime has been praised in such international forums as the New York Times Magazine, Time Magazine, BBC Radio, National Public Radio, El Pais, Vogue, Vanity Fair, Playboy, Elle and Tatler among many others.
Dr. Noah Charney has a book coming out on the theft of the Mona Lisa!
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True Crime Gallery: The Dark Side of Art
Welcome to the "True Crime Gallery: The Dark Side of Art", the season 3 mini series finale of The Art Career Podcast, where we are going to uncover the dark and twisted tales where art and crime intersect. In this 3 part series, we bring you bone-chilling stories that will leave you captivated. We began with Dr. Noah Charney telling the tale of the cursed Ghent masterpiece. This episode we will explore the horrifying use of modern art as an instrument of torture, to a crime hidden behind one of the Louvre's prized masterpieces, and the disturbing artistic endeavors of a notorious serial killer-clown. We’ll end with the famous thefts of the Mona Lisa. Brace yourself for these haunting narratives.--
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True Crime Gallery: The Cursed Ghent Altarpiece
Welcome to the "True Crime Gallery: The Dark Side of Art", the Season 3 mini series finale of The Art Career Podcast, where we are going to uncover the dark and twisted tales where art and crime intersect. In this 3 part series, we bring you bone-chilling stories that will leave you captivated. We begin this week with Dr. Noah Charney telling the tale of the cursed Ghent masterpiece. Next week we explore the horrifying use of modern art as an instrument of torture, to a crime hidden behind one of the Louvre's prized masterpieces, and the disturbing artistic endeavors of a notorious serial killer-clown. We’ll end with the famous thefts of the Mona Lisa. Brace yourself for these haunting narratives.
Dr Noah Charney is the internationally best-selling author of more than twenty books, translated into fourteen languages. He is a professor of art history specializing in art crime, and has taught for Yale University, Brown University, and American University of Rome He is founder of ARCA, the Association for Research into Crimes against Art. He writes regularly for dozens of major magazines and newspapers, including The Guardian, the Washington Post, the Observer and The Art Newspaper. He has recently fronted an influencer campaign for Samsung, and in 2022 he presented a BBC Radio 4 documentary, China’s Stolen Treasures. He lives in Slovenia with his wife, children and their hairless dog. His work in the field of art crime has been praised in such international forums as the New York Times Magazine, Time Magazine, BBC Radio, National Public Radio, El Pais, Vogue, Vanity Fair, Playboy, Elle and Tatler among many others.
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Carroll Dunham: Husband, Father, Painter
On Season 3 episode 12 of The Art Career, Emily sits down with Carroll Dunham in his Connecticut home.
Carroll Dunham lives and works in New York and Connecticut. His most recent solo exhibitions include National Museum, Oslo, 2023; Kunsthalle, Dusseldorf, and Sprengel Museum, Hannover, 2019–2020. His work has been the subject of numerous solo exhibitions at international institutions including Museum Ludwig, Cologne; Millesgården, Stockholm; Drammens Museum, Drammen; a mid-career retrospective was held at the New Museum of Contemporary Art, New York, in 2002. Dunham has also been included in notable group exhibitions including multiple Whitney Biennials and SITE Santa Fe; and at institutions including MAMCO, Geneva; the Museum of Modern Art, New York; Museu Picasso, Barcelona; and The Institute of Contemporary Art, Boston
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Welcome to The Art Career
The Art Career Podcast is a space breaking barriers by letting you sit in on candid, straightforward conversations with leaders in visual arts, writing, music, theater and film. Join New York based advisor, curator, and overall artist advocate, Emily McElwreath, for authentic and inspirational conversations with icons of our generation like #1 New York Times best selling author Cheryl Strayed, senior art critic for New York magazine Jerry Saltz and world renowned artist Marilyn Minter. Emily dives deep into topics like self development, career trajectories, mental health, social justice and the artists that have changed our lives. Expand your journey through the arts and feel empowered about what you do.
[REDUX] Jasmine Wahi: Politeness is Overrated
We are bringing back Jasmine Wahi's episode from Season 2 Episode 6 of The Art Career Podcast!
In this episode, Emily McElwreath interviews Jasmine Wahi. Wahi's multi-faceted curatorial and social practices predominantly focus on issues of femme empowerment, complicating binary structures within social discourses, and exploring multi-positional cultural identities through the lens of intersectional feminism. During the interview the two cover topics such as community, passion and equitability, and agree that politeness is, indeed, overrated.
Jasmine Wahi is the Founder and Co-Director of Project for Empty Space, a nonprofit organization rooted in Newark, NJ, and soon to be in New York City. Her multi-faceted curatorial practice predominantly focuses on issues of femme empowerment, complicating binary structures within social discourses, and exploring multi-positional cultural identities through the lens of intersectional feminism.
While co-directing PES, Ms. Wahi became the inaugural Holly Block Social Justice Curator at the Bronx Museum of the Arts in 2020. While at the museum she curated several renowned exhibitions, including Born In Flames: Feminist Futures and Wardell Milan: AMERIKA. God Bless You If It's Good To You, which were oriented around the thesis that visibility is the primary tenet of Social Justice. In addition to her work at more formal institutions, Ms. Wahi also curates exhibitions and lectures internationally on dismantling White Supremacist, Capitalist, Patriarchal structures in the cultural realm and beyond. Recent notable engagements include her 2019 TEDx talk on intersectionality and visibility, entitled All The Women In Me Are Tired; and a group exhibition entitled American Truth at the SVA Chelsea Galleries.
A lover of learning and sharing, Ms. Wahi has taught at a number of art institutions, including Yale University, and the School of Visual Arts: MFA Fine Arts department. She is currently on the Faculty of Brooklyn College in New York City. Ms. Wahi received her own Art History education from New York University, where she has a BA in Art History from the College of Arts and Sciences, and an MA from the Institute of Fine Arts.
Jasmine Wahi lives in Brooklyn, NY, with her chihuahua mutt, Momo. You can follow her shenanigans and micro-essays on Instagram at @browngirlcurator.
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Will Shott: Dismantling Tradition
On Season 3 episode 11 of The Art Career, Emily McElwreath interviews Will Shott.
When Houston-born jewelry designer Will Shott sought to revolutionize eternally classic design for this genderless fine jewelry brand, the unique result immediately graced the necks of fashion and music industry influencers alike including Rihanna, A$AP Rocky, Luka Sabbat, Miley Cyrus, and collaborations with brands such as Gucci, Midnight studios, and many more. Shott’s WWW.WILLSHOTT label has attained unforeseen heights, with his recognizably glacial jewelry embellishing a number of runway shows as well as the most highly curated stores worldwide. Dismantling traditional notions of jewelry has led Will to expand his brand to include fine art. In September 2022 Shott opened a gallery space in the street facing room of his jewelry shop in Chinatown. For each exhibition, Shott collaborates with the artists to make a unique, limited edition piece of jewelry. Will’s unique aesthetic encompassing the worlds of fine-art, fashion and music, has created a welcome and necessary addition to New York’s gallery scene.
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Chloe Wise: Coming to New York, Beauty, and Consumption
In preparation for her upcoming installation for this year's Parcours at Art Basel, Emily McElwreath interviews Chloe Wise.
Chloe Wise’s practice spans diverse media, including painting, sculpture, video and installation. Foregrounding an interest in the history of portraiture, Wise examines the multiple channels that lead to the construction of a Self, paying particular attention to the interweaving of consumption and image making. With a wry sense of humour, she nods to canonical tableaux, like Manet’s Déjeuner Sur L’Herbe, exploring the shared projected desires built around food and the female body. Meticulously hand painted casts of food serve as the base for the artist’s sculptural practice where strange assemblies, now frozen in sculpted plastic, toy with the presence and absence of unchangeability and perishability, fiction and reality. Advertising, fashion, taboo, multi-national brands—Wise looks to the consumptive habits built around these structures with parody and derision, underlying how the body is framed and becomes excessive in its manipulation of these sites.
Curated by Samuel Leuenberger, founder of the Swiss non-profit exhibition spaces SALTS in Birsfelden and Country SALTS in Bennwil, the Parcours sector returns to Basel's Old Town with twenty projects including sculptures, films, performances, and site-specific installations. Parcours Night, during which participating artists activate their works with physical and sound-based interventions, will return as well and take place on Saturday, June 18 from 4 to 11pm.
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Emily McElwreath: The Importance of Mental Health
The format of this week’s episode will be different than previous weeks. In celebration of mental health awareness month, licensed social worker, Danny Hutnick, interviews Emily McElwreath about her mental health journey. As this is never a podcast that focuses on the journey Emily agreed to speak a little about hers.
Emily McElwreath is equipped with over eighteen years of experience as an adviser, independent curator and art educator. Thanks to her time as Director of Communications and Education at the Brant Foundation Art Study Center, Emily demonstrates the unique ability to understand the art world from both the point of view of the artist and the audience. This skill is continually perfected through extensive involvement in art education: throughout her career, Emily has organized multiple programs, lectures, and panels, featuring distinguished artists, on university campuses and leading NYC venues, in addition to lecturing herself at Sotheby’s Education. Emily has worked on blockbuster exhibitions including Andy Warhol, Julian Schnabel and Nate Lowman at The Brant Foundation, as well as lecturing at top NYC museums including The Whitney and The Metropolitan Museum of Art. Most recently, Emily has curated multiple exhibitions with leading emerging artists and is now host and CEO of The Art Career Podcast. Building relationships with artists continues to be Emily’s main focus, frequenting studio visits, connecting artists with collectors, and building partnerships within the art community. With an MA from Purchase College in Art History with a Concentration in Contemporary Art Criticism and an Art Business Certification from Christie's Education, Emily McElwreath possesses diverse, real-world experience and formal academic training.
Danny Hutnick is a NYS Licensed Master Social Worker providing Psychological Counseling Services to children in Early Intervention throughout Dutchess County. He is a NYC Department of Education Certified School Social Worker. He is also a Certified Supervisor in Field Instruction training graduate level students in clinical social work practice for University at Albany, Columbia University, Fordham University, and New York University. Danny has worked with various food justice programs within community based organizations, churches, and schools throughout New York State since 1990. He has a wide knowledge base and skill sets with community organizing, civic engagement, and clinical mental health services.
National Alliance of Mental Illness
The National Infertility Association
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Dr. Kate Tomas: Magic, Intuition, and Power
On Season 3, Episode 8, Emily McElwreath interviews Dr. Kate Tomas.
Dr. Kate Tomas is a spiritual teacher, mentor and advisor, with a doctoral degree in Theology from the University of Oxford, and over 23 years experience.
Kate is also one of the most highly educated and sought after practitioners in the world, holding a Masters degree in the Philosophy of Religion, and a Doctoral Degree in Philosophical Theology from the University of Oxford.
Tomas has a thriving international practice as an intuitive advisor, & a best selling book (Chakra Crystals, 2007, 2019). She holds private practices in London, and New York where she consults for individuals as well as businesses. Kate works with forward-thinking women and non-binary people to teach them ancient and modern spiritual practices in a way that engages their entire being.
Rather than needing to suspend their rational minds and critical faculties, her students are encouraged to deeply explore the world of energy, astrology and spiritual practice.
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Ché Morales: Gratitude, Chance Encounters, and Partnerships
On Season 3, Episode 7, Emily McElwreath interviews Ché Morales.
Ché Morales is an independent curator based in New York City who is passionate about presenting groundbreaking material in innovative and thought-provoking ways. With a keen eye for emerging talent, he has curated numerous exhibitions that showcase the diverse range of artists' abilities.
Among his notable exhibitions are Dominique Fung’s "Wash Your Corners" at Ross + Kramer in New York, Bernadette Despujols's "The Vast Ocean in Which the Woman Swims” at Rachel Uffner Gallery in New York, Nadia Waheed's "I Climb, I Backtrack, I Float" and Asif Hoque’s "Lover's Rock" at Mindy Solomon Gallery in Miami. Additionally, he has curated exhibits such as Azikiwe Mohammed’s "396 Wortman Ave." and Heather Day's "Convergence" at Anna Zorina Gallery in New York.
In 2017, Morales established ABSTRKT, an independent consultancy focused on art, design, and creating unique experiences. Clients include Nike, New Balance, Adidas, The Standard Hotel, Soho House, StockX, New York City Ballet, Cîroc and more.Through this platform, he continues to shape his artistic practice and explore new avenues within the art world.
Morales is also recently founded The Online Gallery, a quarterly ad-free art archive that provides a platform for curators, artists, and organizers to share and demystify art through an editorial lens. His approach to art curation is deeply influenced by his extensive knowledge of cultural, social, and historical contexts in which art is both created and consumed. Through his work, Morales aims to push boundaries, inspire meaningful conversations, and captivate audiences with the transformative power of art.
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Meg Lionel Murphy: Painting After PTSD From Domestic Violence
Meg Lionel Murphy: Painting After PTSD From Domestic Violence
*Content warning - Domestic Violence, Substance Abuse*
Meg Lionel Murphy paints a dreamworld where suffering transforms femme bodies into a monstrous size, so that their pain must be seen, felt, and acknowledged. Murphy received a Bachelor of Arts degree from the University of Minnesota—Twin Cities, with three majors: Art, Art History, and English Literature. Additionally, Meg studied classical oil painting in Florence, Italy. After graduation, Meg worked as a children’s illustrator, co-founded the literary and art magazine, Paper Darts, and co-directed the arts and social justice non-profit, Pollen Midwest.
A diagnosis of severe PTSD from domestic violence led Murphy to leave her career in publishing to focus on painting and healing. She moved back to her childhood home in rural Wisconsin where she started painting in her father’s junkyard, in a studio shack that was converted from an industrial cooler. As her art took off, she moved her studio to an old storefront—that was built as a church in the 1880s.
Recent solo shows include “Traumatica Dramatica'' at The Untitled Space Gallery (New York), “Interior Violence” at CoExhibitions Gallery (Minneapolis), and solo booths with SPRING/BREAK Art Show (New York and Los Angeles). Recent group shows include “10 @ 10” at The Wisconsin Museum of Art, “Pleasure Garden'' at Laurie Shapiro Gallery (Los Angeles), and “In Her World” at Voltz Clarke (New York). Her painting has been acquired by the Minnesota Museum of American Art. Her artwork has been featured in a variety of publications including Hyperallergic, Bitch, Artnet News, and Forbes.
Domestic Violence Resources :
NO VISIBLE BRUISES - What We Don't Know About Domestic Violence Can Kill Us by Rachel Louise Snyder.
National Domestic Violence Hotline: 1-800-799-SAFE (7233) or 1-800-787-3224 (TTY) or 800-942-6908 (Español) (also available as web chat and text)
https://www.thehotline.org/get-help/
To Find local shelters: https://www.domesticshelters.org/
Women's Law Initiative: https://hotline.womenslaw.org/public
Additional Resources can be found at The National Coalition Against Domestic Violence website: https://ncadv.org/RESOURCES
Domestic violence support groups can be found through Psychology Today: support groups: https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/groups
Danger Assessment worksheet: https://www.dangerassessment.org/DATools.aspx
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Jeremy Blocker: New York Theatre Workshop
On Season 3, Episode 5 of The Art Career Podcast, Emily McElwreath interviews Jeremy Blocker, director of New York Theatre Workshop.
Jeremy Blocker began his tenure at New York Theatre Workshop in 2014 and has overseen more than thirty productions, stewarding the growth of NYTW’s annual operating budget and significantly increasing the Workshop’s reserve funds to secure the financial future of the organization. He also led the effort to create NYTW’s most recent strategic plan which has seen an expansion of the season to five productions, a 200% increase in artist compensation over the five year plan, the launch of a paid, year-long 2050 Administrative Fellowship, and the renovation of NYTW’s 4th Street Theatre. Prior to arriving at NYTW, Jeremy served as the first Managing Director of Ars Nova, New York’s premiere hub for new talent, where he produced six world premiere productions including the Obie Award-winning Natasha, Pierre & the Great Comet of 1812 by Dave Malloy, seven festivals, and dozens of concerts, readings and workshops. He has also previously served as Director of Individual Giving at Manhattan Theatre Club, Development Associate for Capital Projects at Atlantic Theater Company, and Producing Director of Babel Theatre Project, which he co-founded. Jeremy is an Assistant Adjunct Professor of Theatre Management and Producing at Columbia University’s School of the Arts and holds a BA from Harvard University and an MFA from Columbia.
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Rebecca Jampol: Artist Advocacy, Newark, and Raising Daughters
On Season 3, Episode 4 of The Art Career Podcast, Emily McElwreath interviews Rebecca Jampol.
Rebecca Pauline Jampol is the Co-Director of Project for Empty Space, a public art curator, and designer based in Newark, NJ. Her interdisciplinary creative practice focuses on cultivating impactful social dialogue and change. She explores social activism and empowerment through a range of methods that range from curating gallery exhibitions and publishing to public art programs.
Ms. Jampol is a serial self-starter. In 2010, she launched her first major business Solo(s) Project House, which provided studios and exhibition space for local artists. This innovative model set the stage for her next venture, Project for Empty Space (PES), a nonprofit dedicated to fostering intersectional cultural discourse. Since 2013, she has grown this ‘third space’ endeavor, which has now become a staple in the larger Newark arts scene, and a community unto itself for multidisciplinary artists and a space for social discourse, activism, and change.
In addition to running PES, Ms. Jampol has led an array of significant public art programs both as an organizer/curator and a designer. Over the last decade, she has overseen large projects including Portals, Newark (2016), the longest mural on the east coast, approx. 1.34 miles Gateways to Newark (2016), Four Corners Public Arts (2019 - 2022), Mayor Ras J. Baraka’s Community Ground Murals (2020), and more recently Audible’s Newark Artist Collaboration (2021+). She co-designed a large scale project at the Bronx Museum entitled See Me, an interactive project about visibility, intersectionality, and identity that kicked off the Museum's 50th anniversary. She also organized and chaired the design team for a new initiative for residents without addresses called Newark Hope Village, a low-barrier shelter community built from repurposed shipping containers and transformed into a therapeutic service-oriented community.
Outside of her role as an arts nonprofit director and public art curator/designer, Ms. Jampol is also core faculty at Rutgers-Newark, her Alma Mater. She lives and works in Newark, NJ with her fierce four-year old daughter Adele-Rae.
Rebecca Jampol’s work can be seen at projectforemptyspace.org, gatewaystonewark.org, fourcornerspublicarts.org and newarkartistcollaboration.com.
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Danny Báez - Second Phase in NYC
On Season 3, Episode 3 of The Art Career Podcast, Emily McElwreath interviews Danny Báez.
Danny Báez is a regular and normal guy based in New York City. He is the Co-Founder and Director of MECA International Art Fair in San Juan, Puerto Rico and Co-Founder and Board Member of the ARTNOIR Collective. He firmly believes in the power of building upon community and has organized various exhibitions in New York since 2010. Most recently, Danny Baez joined Kickstarter as Head of Arts where he will work closely with artists, collectives, arts organizations, museums, and cultural institutions to bring their creative ideas to life.
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Caris Reid: Radical Shifts, Symbolism, and Coming Out
On Season 3, Episode 2, of The Art Career Podcast, Emily McElwreath interviews Los Angeles based artist Caris Reid.
Reid's paintings are a symbolic world of blooming flowers, floating lips, and penetrating stares. Influenced by her interest in Tarot and Hypnosis, the paintings feel both familiar and mysterious, every detail is coded and ripe with meaning.
Reid has shown her paintings in solo exhibitions at Over the Influence Gallery in Los Angeles, Denny Gallery in New York, Ochi Projects in Los Angeles as well as exhibiting in two person shows with Elise Ferguson at Monya Rowe Gallery, and with Amanda Valdez at Denny Gallery in New York and Cicuit12 Gallery in Dallas. Her work has been exhibited at the Untitled Art Fair in Miami, Art Central Art Fair in Hong Kong, Intersect Art Fair in Palm Springs, The Dallas Art Fair, Expo Chicago, and The Spring Break Art Fair in both New York and Los Angeles. She's been included in group exhibitions at The Landing Gallery in Los Angeles, Sargents Daughters in New York, Over The Influence Gallery in Hong Kong, Leo Koenig in New York, Longhouse Projects in New York, O-O in Los Angeles, SEASON in Seattle, Ochi Gallery in Idaho, and The National Arts Club in New York among others. Caris has led painting and meditation workshops at The Palm Springs Museum of Art and at Maha Rose in New York. In 2016 she completed a 40 foot mural in downtown Los Angeles titled Grace and Grit. Her work has been featured in The New Yorker, The Observer, Artsy, Vogue Japan, Vogue Mexico, W Magazine, Architectural Digest, Forbes Magazine, LALA magazine and The New York Times as well as the book “Plant Magick” from the Taschen Library of Esoterica.
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Jerry Saltz: Live at NYU
Welcome to Season 3, of the Art Career podcast. To launch our third season, we hosted a live interview between Emily McElwreath and famed art critic Jerry Saltz at New York University.
Jerry Saltz is one of the most popular and influential culture writers working today.Since 2006, he has been senior art critic and columnist for New York magazine. Formerly the senior art critic for The Village Voice, he received the Pulitzer Prize for Criticism in 2018 and was nominated for the award in 2001 and 2006. Saltz served as a visiting critic at the School of Visual Arts, Columbia University, Yale University, and The School of the Art Institute of Chicago and the New York Studio Residency Program, and was the sole advisor for the 1995 Whitney Biennial. Saltz is the recipient of three honorary doctorates in addition to being the author of the NYT best selling book, How To Be An Artist. Cindy Sherman’s review states, “In How to Be an Artist, Jerry Saltz is so right-on it scares me.” Jerry’s most recent book, ART IS LIFE, draws on two decades of work to offer a real-time survey of contemporary art as a barometer of our times.
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Cheryl Strayed: Put Yourself in the Way of Beauty
On the Season 2 Finale of The Art Career Podcast, Emily McElwreath interviews acclaimed author Cheryl Strayed. Cheryl Strayed is the author of the #1 New York Times bestseller Wild: From Lost to Found on the Pacific Crest Trail, which has sold more than 4 million copies worldwide and was made into an Oscar-nominated major motion picture. Her bestselling book Tiny Beautiful Things is currently being adapted for a Hulu television show that will be released in early 2023. In 2016, Tiny Beautiful Things was adapted as a play that has been staged in theaters around the world. Strayed is also the author of the critically acclaimed debut novel, Torch, and the bestselling collection Brave Enough, which brings together more than one hundred of her inspiring quotes. Her award-winning essays and short stories have been published in The Best American Essays, the New York Times, the Washington Post Magazine, Vogue, Salon, and elsewhere. She has hosted two hit podcasts, Sugar Calling and Dear Sugars. Cheryl lives in Portland, Oregon.
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Ellie Rines: Supporting Our Artists
On Season 2 Episode 10 of The Art Career Podcast, Emily McElwreath interviews gallerist and overall artist advocate, Ellie Rines. Emily and Ellie discuss the importance of authenticity in the art world in this special episode with one of downtown's most popular gallerists.
Eleanor Rines is a New York City-based gallery owner committed to supporting and spotlighting the work of emerging contemporary artists. Rines opened her first gallery, 55 Gansevoort, in 2013 in New York City’s Meatpacking District. In 2015, she expanded and relocated the gallery to 56 Henry Street, and renamed the gallery accordingly. In 2022, Rines opened a second location, 105 Henry.
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Shona McAndrew: Reverence and the Female Body
In Season 2 Episode 9 of The Art Career Podcast, Emily McElwreath interviews artist Shona McAndrew. Together they take a deep dive into body acceptance, the female gaze and explore Shona's life and career.
Shona McAndrew (b. 1990) was born in Paris and lives and works in Philadelphia. She holds an MFA in Painting from the Rhode Island School of Design (2016) and a BA in Psychology and Painting from Brandeis University (2012). She had a solo sculptural installation at Art Omi inGhent, NY (2021), a solo show of life sculptures at Abroms-Engel Institute for the Visual Arts at UAB, Birmingham, AL (2021), which traveled from Moore College of Art and Design, Philadelphia, PA (2020). Previous solo exhibitions also include CHART, New York, NY (2019 & 2021) and Spring/Break Art Show, New York, NY (2019). Shona has a upcoming solo show at CHART in February 2023.
McAndrew’s painted papier-mâché sculptures, digital collages and paintings depict women in their most private moments, taking pleasure in twirling untrimmed pubic hair, squeezing soft bellies, or a hand casually warming itself in the fold of a crotch. Life-size, or often slightly larger than human scale, the works draw from personal experience and observation to call attention to the simultaneous banality and importance of fleeting, introspective, and vulnerable moments.
Unembarrassed by their exposed bodies and confrontational towards our careless voyeurism, Shona’s women ask us to valorize mundane activities of body exploration, self-care, and forgetting to see one’s self through the critical eyes of others.
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Who is Your Audience? Branding and Communications with Ellie Hayworth
On Season 2, Episode 8 of The Art Career Podcast, Emily McElwreath speaks with self made publicist Ellie Hayworth about all things branding and communications. Don't miss this episode with countless pieces of wisdom about organic growth and strategy.
Ellie Hayworth is the founder of Hayworth, a strategic consultancy committed to promoting intrepid ideas at the intersection of art and design. The company was founded in the art of storytelling specializing foremost in communications, marketing, and public relations savvy. Through her company, Ellie has distinguished herself as an extended communications director, a storyteller, a curator, a project manager, and a public liaison. Hayworth has developed, managed, and executed on public relations and marketing strategies for diverse clients across the arts & culture sector including the VOLTA Art Fair, the Affordable Art Fair, Powerhouse Arts, and artist Suzy Kellems Dominik, among many others. A burgeoning art collector, Ellie contributes a profound passion for the evolving mechanics of the art & design market and for the connoisseurship that sustains it. Ellie received a Bachelor of Arts with a double major in Communications Studies and Art History at Vanderbilt University and proceeded to earn a Master of Arts in Art Business from Sotheby’s Institute of Art in New York City. Born and raised in Miami, Florida, Ellie is fluent in Spanish and thus demonstrates a passion for international contemporary culture influenced largely by her own Cuban-American heritage.
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Emily McElwreath (Solo): Lifting Each Other Up
S2|E7 Emily McElwreath (Solo)
Emily shares a little about her life, the women that lift her up, and the inspiration behind @theartcareer
Emily McElwreath is equipped with over seventeen years of experience as an adviser, independent curator and art educator; she also boasts a background in sales. Thanks to her time as Director of Communications and Education at the Brant Foundation Art Study Center, Emily demonstrates the unique ability to understand the art world from both the point of view of the artist and the audience. This skill is continually perfected through extensive involvement in art education: throughout her career, Emily has organized multiple programs, lectures, and panels, featuring distinguished artists, on university campuses and leading NYC venues, in addition to lecturing herself at Sotheby’s Education. Emily has worked on blockbuster exhibitions including Andy Warhol, Julian Schnabel and Nate Lowman at The Brant Foundation, as well as lecturing at top NYC museums including The Whitney and The Metropolitan Museum of Art. Most recently, Emily has curated multiple exhibitions with leading emerging artists and is now host and CEO of The Art Career Podcast. Building relationships with artists continues to be Emily’s main focus, frequenting studio visits, connecting artists with collectors, and building partnerships within the art community. With an MA from Purchase College in Art History with a Concentration in Contemporary Art Criticism and an Art Business Certification from Christie's Education, Emily McElwreath possesses diverse, real-world experience and formal academic training.
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Jasmine Wahi: Politeness is Overrated
On Season 2 Episode 6 of The Art Career Podcast, Emily McElwreath interviews Jasmine Wahi. Wahi's multi-faceted curatorial and social practices predominantly focus on issues of femme empowerment, complicating binary structures within social discourses, and exploring multi-positional cultural identities through the lens of intersectional feminism. During the interview the two cover topics such as community, passion and equitability, and agree that politeness is, indeed, overrated.
Jasmine Wahi is the Founder and Co-Director of Project for Empty Space, a nonprofit organization rooted in Newark, NJ, and soon to be in New York City. Her multi-faceted curatorial practice predominantly focuses on issues of femme empowerment, complicating binary structures within social discourses, and exploring multi-positional cultural identities through the lens of intersectional feminism.
While co-directing PES, Ms. Wahi became the inaugural Holly Block Social Justice Curator at the Bronx Museum of the Arts in 2020. While at the museum she curated several renowned exhibitions, including Born In Flames: Feminist Futures and Wardell Milan: AMERIKA. God Bless You If It's Good To You, which were oriented around the thesis that visibility is the primary tenet of Social Justice. In addition to her work at more formal institutions, Ms. Wahi also curates exhibitions and lectures internationally on dismantling White Supremacist, Capitalist, Patriarchal structures in the cultural realm and beyond. Recent notable engagements include her 2019 TEDx talk on intersectionality and visibility, entitled All The Women In Me Are Tired; and a group exhibition entitled American Truth at the SVA Chelsea Galleries.
A lover of learning and sharing, Ms. Wahi has taught at a number of art institutions, including Yale University, and the School of Visual Arts: MFA Fine Arts department. She is currently on the Faculty of Brooklyn College in New York City. Ms. Wahi received her own Art History education from New York University, where she has a BA in Art History from the College of Arts and Sciences, and an MA from the Institute of Fine Arts.
Jasmine Wahi lives in Brooklyn, NY, with her chihuahua mutt, Momo. You can follow her shenanigans and micro-essays on Instagram at @browngirlcurator.
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Eileen Myles: New York, Meditation, and Cigarettes
On Season 2 Episode 5 of The Art Career Podcast, Emily McElwreath interviews Eileen Myles prior to the release of Pathetic Literature, a global anthology of pieces from lesser-known classics by luminaries like Franz Kafka, Samuel Delany, and Gwendolyn Brooks to up-and-coming unpublished writers that examine pathos and feeling, giving a well-timed rehab to the word “pathetic”.
During the interview the two discuss meditation, Marfa, cigarette smoking and the best city in the world, New York.
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Eileen Myles (they/them) came to New York from Boston in 1974 to be a poet, subsequently novelist, public talker and art journalist. A Sagittarius, their 22 books include For Now, evolution, Afterglow, I Must Be Living Twice/new & selected poems, and Chelsea Girls. In 2019 they wrote and directed an 18-minute super 8 film, The Trip, a puppet road film. See it on youtube. Eileen is the recipient of a Guggenheim, a Warhol/Creative Capital Arts Writers grant, 4 Lambda Book Awards, the Shelley Prize, and a poetry award from the Foundation for Contemporary Arts. In 2016, they received a Creative Capital grant and the Clark Prize for excellence in art writing. In 2019 Myles received a poetry award from the American Academy of Arts & Letters. In 2020 they got the Bill Whitehead Award for Lifetime Achievement from the Publishing Triangle. They live in New York and Marfa, TX.
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Taha Clayton: Remembrance, Resilience and Representation
On Season 2, Episode 4, of The Art Career Podcast, Emily McElwreath interviews artist Taha Clayton during his solo exhibition, The Cloth, curated by Will Hutnick at Troutbeck in Amenia, NY. The two explore what it means to be self-taught, maintaining dedication, and the importance of representation.
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Taha Clayton is a Brooklyn-based painter, Houston, TX born and raised in Toronto, ON. Clayton's style and aesthetic is rooted in classical practices, while his narratives juxtapose historical and futurist allusions. He creates realistic renderings, many through portraiture, to celebrate and transcend culture and legacy. His Muslim upbringing and cultural heritage shape his work in order to address mistruths of ethnic antiquity. This clash with Western perspectives is conveyed through images of empowerment rather than historically misguided portrayals of despair and strife. Whether his subjects are captured in their natural environment or composed within an imagined story, these figures embody dignity, culture and beauty. Clayton’s precise, labored, and intricate methods of realism is especially illustrated through his common use of fabric. His subjects are not only representatives, but should be seen as individuals with human stories. His work has been recently exhibited at the Wassaic Project (Wassaic, NY), the Art Renewal Center (Port Reading, NJ), and at MEAM, the Europe Museum of Modern Art (Barcelona, Spain). Clayton’s artistic journey was also documented in the award winning 2016 documentary, “Heavyweight Paint".
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Simon de Pury: The Man of Constant Curiosity
In S2 | E3 of The Art Career Podcast, Emily McElwreath interviews Simon de Pury. Together they explore passion, curiosity and gratitude, ultimately discovering why it is that Simon truly is one of the leading figures in the art world. The Art Career Podcast is available on Apple, Spotify, and Google. Link in bio.
"My real engine and true motivation is my curiosity" -Simon de Pury
Auctioneer, art dealer, curator, photographer and dj, Simon de Pury is one of the leading figures in the art world. Renowned for his legendary performance on the auction podium, which have earned him the moniker “the Mick Jagger of auctions”, de Pury has auctioned and secured some of the most legendary art collections. Moreover, as an active charity auctioneer, it is estimated that de Pury has raised several billion dollars for a number of charities and cultural institutions over the course of his career. As a mentor and curator, de Pury has been instrumental in championing the careers of many contemporary artists, photographers and designers, and has been the subject of and featured in several documentaries and films, including BBC documentary ‘The Man with the Golden Gavel.’
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Roxanne Jackson: Beauty, Horror, and Consciousness
In Season 2, Episode 2 we welcome artist Roxanne Jackson, whose solo exhibition, Nature is a Whore: A Comedy & A Tragedy, is currently on view at The Hole, New York. During the interview, Jackson explores gratitude, the power of manifestation and being a part of nature.
Roxanne Jackson is a ceramic artist and sculptor living in Brooklyn and upstate New York. Her works are black-humored investigations of the links between transformation, myth and pop-culture. Press for her work includes The New York Times, The New Yorker, The LA Times, Juxtapoz Magazine, Hyperallergic, Forbes, among many more. She is the recipient of residencies at Shigaraki Ceramic Cultural Park (Japan), the Beeemis Center for Contemporary Arts (NE), Socrates Sculpture Park (NY), Wassaic Project (NY), PLOP (UK), The POTTERY WORKSHOP IN CHINA), the Ceramic Center of Berlin (Germany), among others.
Jackson has exhibited internationally and currently has a solo show at The Hole, Nature is a Whore : A Comedy & A Tragedy
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Mickalene Thomas: To Be an Artist Is a Radical Act
In Episode 1 we welcome artist Mickalene Thomas. In preparation for her solo exhibition at Musée de l'Orangerie in Paris, we discuss the power of art, reincarnation, and how black erotica fills the void of aspirational love. The Art Career Podcast is available on Apple, Spotify, and Google. Link in bio.
Mickalene Thomas was born and raised in New Jersey and lives and works in Brooklyn, NY. One of the most influential artists today, her innovative practice has yielded instantly recognizable and widely celebrated aesthetic languages within contemporary visual culture. She is known for her elaborate paintings composed of rhinestones, acrylic, and enamel. Not only do her masterful mixed-media paintings, photographs, films and installations command space, they occupy eloquently while exploring the intersecting complexities of black and female identity within the Western canon.
Thomas received a B.F.A. from the Pratt Institute, Brooklyn, NY in 2000 and an M.F.A. from Yale University School of Art, New Haven, CT in 2002.
In 2012, a blockbuster Brooklyn Museum exhibition established Thomas as one of the leading artists of her generation. In the decade since, Thomas’ work has been purchased by institutions ranging from the Museum of Modern Art to the Guggenheim, from the Whitney to the Studio Museum in Harlem and from museums in Boston, Chicago, Tokyo and more. She has held solo exhibitions all over the world.
Thomas has truly become a master of the female nude form and erotic suggestion in addition to having the drive and commitment to her practice that is unparalleled.
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Special: The Armory show with Nicole Berry
In preparation for Season 2, Emily McElwreath sits down at the Javits Center with Nicole Berry to talk about the 2022 edition of The Armory Show.
As Executive Director, Nicole Berry leads the development and strategic vision of The Armory Show, directly overseeing exhibitor relations and spearheading the fair’s VIP program. Nicole joined The Armory Show in September 2016 as Deputy Director and was appointed to the role of Executive Director in November 2017. Previously, Nicole served as Deputy Director of Expo Chicago from 2011 to 2016, playing a prominent role in expanding the fair’s exhibitor list and collector base, both internationally and in the American Midwest. Raised in San Francisco, Nicole received a Bachelor’s Degree from Colgate University and a Master's Degree in Art History from the University of California at Davis. She has been active in the international art world as an art historian, art writer, curator, and art advisor for over a decade.
Ferguson Amo : Anticipating Your Art, Career, and Legacy
Ferguson Amo works across various mediums, including hyper realistic drawings, installations, and mixed media. Originally from Koforidua, Ghana, the artist explores contemporary African identity in the diaspora and examines the intricate details of history and experiences of cultural diffusion, and its assimilation, through representation. Through each work, Amo asks “how as an audience, can we move the image of black bodies and ‘blackness’ toward emancipation?” Amo has exhibited work at VisArts, Rockville; Kente Royal Gallery and The Immigrant Artist Biennial, both New York City, among others.
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Lauryn-Ashley Vandyke : Manifesting Your Own Career in the Art World
Lauryn-Ashley Vandyke is a recent graduate of New York University who has made a fast and furious name for herself in the New York art scene. She has become downtown Manhattan’s party planner, headlining the top DJs, venues and emerging artists. Lauryn-Ashley is a regular contributor to The Drunken Canal, a print-only newspaper for the exclusive downtown crowd. In this episode of The Art Career Podcast, Lauryn-Ashley shares her journey to her recent role as David Zwirner Gallery’s event coordinator.
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Nora Gomez-Strauss : Growing Your Audience by Making Social Media Personal
Whether we like it or not, the internet has completely changed the way we orient and present ourselves. Your social media presence can make or break your career and it's one of the main topics art professionals struggle with. Fortunately, there are people like Nora Gomez-Strauss in the world who manage digital strategies. In this episode, Nora discusses her career, general social media strategies, and what it’s like to manage virtual communications for a major arts organization in New York City, The Public Art Fund.
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Bradley Carbone : Balancing a High-Low Aesthetic
From Complex, Adidas, to Sneeze magazine, Bradley Carbone is key in establishing and driving an authentic New York point of view - or what many may call, “streetwear media”. Bradley has his finger on the pulse of skateboarding, music, and the intersection of street art and fine art. He does this in a way that many people don’t talk about. It’s one thing to have creative vision, but it’s absolutely essential to have direction and organization for visibility and growth. It’s also another very rare thing to be as successful, equally kind as Bradley. In this episode, Bradley discusses how he stays true, connected, and innovative with the street-inspired culture of skateboarding.
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