Episode 151: Today I talk to Charlotte movie producer, Tony Elwood. We kind of go back in time 3 years ago to an exhibition on Camp Green, that he designed for the Levine Museum of the New South. This is a well-kept secret that even long-time Charlotteans don’t know about.
But I thought it was especially timely, as their dealings with the Spanish Flu was not unlike our “new” normal with Covoid 19.
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Episode 150: Today I talk with artists Alteronce Gumby & Tariku Shiferaw about their A Muffled Sound Underwater exhibition, which questions the historical context of the color black & how these perceptions influence our responses. This exhibition is put on in conjunction with the Latchkey Gallery. It is showing at 361 Canal Street in NYC, by appointment only from February 21 – March 28, 2020.
An iteration of the exhibition will continue to Mehari Sequar Gallery in collaboration with the Smithsonian Museum in June, 2020.
The exhibition will be accompanied by a catalogue produced by LatchKey Gallery with an essay by Niama Safia Sandy.
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Episode 149: You can’t deny that eyes are the window to the soul. Today I go on-site to see Bree Stallings’s solo exhibition, To be Seen & Celebrated. Bree & I chat about the project behind the exhibition, where she was commissioned to paint 100 individual eyeballs in memory of a loved one.
Bree gives a percentage of it to the residents Brookhill Village, an affordable housing community in Charlotte, for eye exams & glasses.
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Episode 148: Today I talk to Andrea Rosen and Gillian Sewake about The Vermont Curators’ Group and their 2020 Vision Project. Its a really cool alliance of curators and they’ve got a great series of joint exhibitions planned throughout Vermont for 2020 .
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Episode 147: Today I talk to Andrea Rosen, the head curator at the Fleming Museum in Burlington, Vt. She tells me all about the Artist, Wood Gaylor, which is the topic of her new book, Wood Gaylor and American Modernism, 1913-1936 which just came out. We talk about the corresponding exhibition, Let’s Have a Ball! which goes until May 8, 2020.
featured image credit: Let’s Have a Ball! Wood Gaylor and the New York Art Scene, 1913–1936 — February 7 – May 8, 2020. Image: Samuel Wood Gaylor (American, 1883-1957), Arts Ball, 1918, 1918. Oil on canvas. Private Collection.
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Episode 146: Today I talk to Charlotte-based artist, Chad Cartwright at his studio in C3Lab. We talk about how he got started, about his practice, what it’s like shooting nudes…
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Episode 147: Today I talk to Brooklyn based artist Katerina Marcelja, about her Shoot the Breeze exhibit at Happy Lucky No.1 Gallery. Every culture has it’s idioms and sayings, “kill two birds with one stone,” “an eye for an eye.” She examines the history behind what we say and questions why we say it. It goes until March 1, 2020.
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Episode 145: Today I talk to Wim Roefs of the ifArt Gallery in Colombia, SC about the Prints from Europe exhibition. This exhibition contains limited edition prints from the last six decades. Join us as we talk about this fabulous exhibition & we also learn what makes a print valuable.
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Episode 144: Today I talk with local antiques appraiser, Jan Durr who works at Robbins Appraisals in Matthews, NC. With some real life stories, she gives a great overview to the appraising business.
Episode 143: Today I talk to the collector who inspired the Bart at TAM exhibition, episode 141. Bill Heeter generously loaned his vast collection of vintage Simpsons art to the museum. I was lucky enough to talk to him about the inspiration behind it, what he does with it, & where he’s going with it. [Hopefully to Charlotte].
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