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Julia Kunin

Julia Kunin (b. 1961) is a sculptural artist living and working in Brooklyn, NY. Her work
explores themes including queerness, the body, and the natural world. She earned a B.A.
from Wellesley College (Wellesley, MA) and an M.F.A. from The Mason Gross School of the
Arts, Rutgers University (New Brunswick, NJ). Recent solo exhibitions include Mechanical
Ballet at Kate Werble Gallery (New York, NY) in 2021 and Rainbow Dream Machine at McClain Gallery (Houston, TX) in 2020-21. Recent group exhibitions include: Cosmic Geometries, curated by Hilma’s Ghost, at EFA Gallery (New York, NY) in 2022, Fur Cup at Underdonk (Brooklyn, NY) in 2019, Raw Design at the Museum of Craft and Design (San Francisco, CA) in 2018, and Said by Her at Lesley Heller Gallery (New York, NY) in 2018. Kunin was a Fulbright Scholar to Hungary in 2013. In 2010 She received a Trust for Mutual Understanding Grant to Hungary. In 2008 she received a Pollock-Krasner Foundation Grant and a residency at Art Omi. In 2007 she received the John Michael Kohler Arts/Industry Artist Residency. Fellowships include those at The MacDowell Colony, The Marie Walsh Sharpe Art Foundation, CEC Artslink grant to The Republic of Georgia, an Artist Residency in Wiesbaden, Germany, Yaddo, The Millay Colony, Vermont Studio Center, The Core Program in Houston, TX, and Skowhegan. Julia Kunin currently has a series of ceramic lamps at Ralph Pucci International (New York, NY). In 2022 she contributed artist interviews to Two Coats of Paint. She is also a member of the board of FIRE, The LGBTQ Fire Island artist residency. Her work was recently acquired by the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, LACMA.

Julia Kunin Copper Hammer, 2016 Ceramic 12 x 9 x 2 1/2 in 30.5 x 22.9 x 6.3 cmJulia Kunin Chambered Rainbow, 2016 Ceramic 18 x 13 x 3 1/2 in 45.7 x 33 x 8.9 cmJulia Kunin Psychedelic Body, 2016 Ceramic 40 x 10 x 6 in 101.6 x 25.4 x 15.2 cm

Silas Inoue

Silas Inoue was born in 1981 and graduated from the Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts, Copenhagen, Denmark in 2010. He currently lives and works in Copenhagen. Inoue’s work has been widely exhibited internationally; recent exhibitions include; Barbe á Papa, Musée d’art contemporain de Bordeaux, Bordeux, France; Night Bloom Central, Ulterior Gallery, New York, NY (2022, solo); Minimalism-Maximalism-Mechanissmmm, Art Sonje Center, Seoul, South Korea and Kunsthal Aarhus, Aarhus, Denmark (2022); Naturen Taler #1, Sorø Kunstmuseum, Sorø, Denmark (2021); eat & becʘ̃me, Augustiana Kunsthal, Augustiana, Denmark (2020, solo); and Altering, Lothringer 13, Munich, Germany (2019). Many notable collections include his artwork, such as: Danish Arts Foundation, Bornholm Art Museum, Noma, and Horsens Kunstmuseum, where his first museum solo exhibition is scheduled to open in 2023.

Silas Inoue Future Friture-Turritopsis Dohrnii, 2022 Sugar, silicon and cooking oil in acrylic aquarium on concrete plinth 42 1/8 x 13 x 13 in (107 x 33 x 33 cm) Photo Credit: Jason Mandella Courtesy of Ulterior Gallery, New YorkSilas Inoue Infrastructure, 2022 Acrylic cover, wood, silicon, plastic, mold, and bronze respiratory system 25 1/4 x 26 x 9 1/4 in (64.1 x 66 x 23.5 cm) Photo Credit: Jason Mandella Courtesy of Ulterior Gallery, New YorkSilas Inoue Mesh, 2022 Graphite and watercolor on paper 35 x 37 5/8 in (88.9 x 95.6 cm) 41 x 44 x 2 1/2 in (104.1 x 111.8 x 6.4 cm) Framed Photo Credit: Jason Mandella Courtesy of Ulterior Gallery, New York

Jazmin Lopez

Jazmín López (Buenos Aires, Argentina). She is a filmmaker, a visual artist, and a professor. She graduated from the Universidad del Cine in Buenos Aires. She has also an MFA in Visual Arts from NYU and MFA in Visual Arts from Universidad Torcuato Di Tella. She participated in the WhitneyISP program. Her work is represented by Ruth Benzacar art gallery and has been featured in venues like Fondation Pernod Ricard, San Jose Museum, OCAT, Tabacalera, Kadist, Istanbul Biennial and KW. Her films had participated in festivals like: Orizonti oficial competition Venezia Biennial, Rotterdam Film Fest, Viennale, New Directors New Films at MoMA and Lincoln Center, Centre George Pompidou and KW institute Berlin, among many other world Film Festivals and featured in Variety and New York Times.

She has taught a Master Class in École Nationale Supérieure des Beaux-Arts de Lyon and was part of the Jury in the 33 FID Marseille. She works as professor for NYU and as an assistant professor of Boris Groys. She worked as a full faculty professor at Universidad del cine, Buenos Aires.

The book mentioned in the interview is In Praise of Love, Book by Alain Badiou.

Gracelee Lawrence

Gracelee has attended twenty residencies in the US and abroad and opened her second solo show in New York at Postmasters in June 2022, her third at Heroes Gallery in September 2022. She is currently an Assistant Professor of Sculpture at the University at Albany, SUNY. Recent exhibitions include Marinaro Gallery (New York, NY), Postmasters Gallery (New York, NY), Atlanta Contemporary (Atlanta, GA), Kavi Gupta Gallery (Chicago, IL), HEADLINE Gallery (Vancouver, Canada), and more. She has installed large-scale outdoor sculptures at the Upstate Immersive (Poughkeepsie, NY), Wave Hill (Bronx, NY), Museum of Museums (Seattle, WA), Franconia Sculpture Park (Shafer, MN), Mary Sky (Hancock, VT), and others. In 2017 she returned from 15 months as a Visiting Professor in the Multidisciplinary Department of Art at Chiang Mai University and assistant to artist Araya Rasdjarmrearnsook on a Luce Scholars Fellowship. She is a member of the collective MATERIAL GIRLS, a recipient of the 2021-22 Individual Artist DEC Grant, a 2019 Jerome Fellow at Franconia Sculpture Park, a 2016-17 Luce Scholars Fellow, a recipient of the 2015 UMLAUF Prize, 2013 Eyes Got It Prize, and the 2011-12 Ella Fountain Pratt Emerging Artist Grant. Press for her work includes The New Yorker, ArtNet, Hyperallergic, Artspace, Beautiful/Decay, and MAAKE Magazine, among others. She is an enthusiastic dancer, a lifelong horsewoman, and an aspiring indoor gardener.

Installation view, “Gracelee Lawrence: Marisol,” Heroes Gallery, New York, 2022. From left: Marisol, Lizard Kiss, 1979; Gracelee Lawrence, Punching a Hole in the Darkness, 2022.Installation view, “Gracelee Lawrence: Marisol,” Heroes Gallery, New York, 2022. From left: Gracelee Lawrence, Just a little Fever, 2022; Marisol, Untitled III, 1979.Installation view, “Gracelee Lawrence: Marisol,” Heroes Gallery, New York, 2022.

Jeff Gibson

Jeff Gibson is an Australian-born artist and occasional critic who has worked in a variety of media and contexts—photography, collage, video, prints, posters, banners, and books for galleries and public spaces. Gibson moved to New York in 1998 to work for Artforum magazine, where he has been the managing editor since 2004. Since arriving in New York, he has exhibited on the Panasonic Astrovision screen in Times Square as part of Creative Time’s “59th Minute” program and mounted solo shows at the New York Academy of Sciences, Stephan Stoyanov, and Theodore. In 2011, two of the artist’s videos were projected onto the facade of the Everson Museum of Art in Syracuse, New York, as part of a curated series presented by Light Work and the Urban Video Project.

His video Metapoetaestheticism was exhibited in the 2014 Whitney Biennial. In 2016, Gibson produced a billboard, titled Armagarden, for the I-70 Sign Show, a curated program of artworks occupying advertising sites on the Missouri interstate. Gibson’s work was also included in the “Digital Infinity” section of the 2018 Front International: Cleveland Triennial for Contemporary Art. And in June of this year, the Griffith University Art Museum in Brisbane, Australia, staged a survey show of Gibson’s art, titled “Countertypes,” featuring a selection of works spanning 1980 to the present.

Jeff Gibson, Untitled, 2022, decoupage on wood panel, 24 x 24”.Jeff Gibson, Untitled, 2022, decoupage on wood panel, 24 x 24”.Jeff Gibson, Untitled, 2022, decoupage on wood panel, 24 x 24”.

Vusi Beauchamp

Vusi Beauchamp (b. 1979) studied printmaking and painting at the Tshwane University of Technology and Graphic Design at Damelin in Pretoria, South Africa.

Beauchamp’s provocative iconography employs popular culture, satire and stereotypes in service of a visual political commentary. His somewhat controversial works are meant to comment on social issues, politics and current events in South Africa, though they easily relate to the dissatisfaction felt by many international communities with regards to their political and economic leaders. Beauchamp seeks to examine the South African government currently embattled within itself, the disconnect it displays with its people, and the tense social climate under years of viral threat, mired in misinformation and heightened insecurities over corruption. Predominantly a painter, Beauchamp creates his works on canvas by using various methods, including spray painting and stenciling, with mediums such as crayons, charcoal, oil sticks and acrylic paint. His works on paper similarly use a variety of materials and techniques, often incorporating multiple layers to create the final image.

Beauchamp’s most recent solo exhibitions include The Cult of One, Part II at David Krut Projects, New York (2022) and The Cult of One at David Krut Projects, Johannesburg (2022). The exhibitions are a continuum of his ongoing Paradyse of the Damned series, which has been shown at the Borderline Art Space in Iași, Romania (2019); the Johannesburg Art Gallery in Johannesburg, South Africa (2018); and the Pretoria Art Museum in Pretoria, South Africa (2015).

Winner 1.1, 2019, Mixed media on Fabriano paper, 39.4 x 27.6 in (100 x 70 cm)Africa Bonanza, 2022, Mixed-media on canvas, 33.9 x 28.5 in (86.1 x 72.4 cm)My People, 2022, Mixed-media on canvas 33.9 x 28.3 in (86.1 x 71.9 cm)

Lucia Buricelli

Lucia Buricelli is a photographer from Venice, Italy, based between New York City and Milan. In her work, Buricelli is interested in exploring everyday life in all its forms: interactions between people, animals that live in urban environments, objects that have fallen to the ground, and self-portraits. Ultimately, Buricelli is interested in documenting different aspects of urban daily life. Her clients include The New York Times, Vogue, Time, Vice, among others.

New Collectors is an art gallery that primarily features work by emerging artists. The gallery was founded on the premise that the art world is inherently difficult to penetrate, and there need to be more approachable ways for people to explore and buy artwork. The types of exhibitions have ranged widely in the gallery’s first year; there have been shows with students from the School of Visual Arts MFA program, shows curated from open calls, and even exhibitions that utilize augmented reality to display NFTs. The gallery hopes to bring light to new ways of exhibiting while continuing to foster the careers of the artists it represents.

Wild City Installation, New Collectors, October 2022Naples, Italy (2022), inkjet print on archival paper, 31×21, edition of 5New York City, USA (2019) inkjet print on archival paper, 13×19″, edition of 10.New York City, USA (2019), inkjet print on archival paper, 19×13,edition of 10

Dave Bopp

Photo by Helmut Spudich, Vienna, 2022

Dave Bopp (b. 1988, Basel, Switzerland) is an ultra contemporary artist based in Berlin. His paintings have been featured in gallery and museum shows throughout Germany, Switzerland, The Netherlands, South Korea, and the US and has been acquired by prominent private, corporate, and museum collections.

Conjunction After Sunset, 2022, Mixed media on aluminum composite board, 31.5 x 39 in (80 x 99.1 cm)Incursion 1, 2022, Mixed media on aluminum composite board, 60 x 79 in (152.4 x 200.7 cm)Juggernaut, 2021, Mixed media on aluminum composite board, 79 x 120 in (200.7 x 304.8 cm)

Peter Frederiksen

Peter Frederiksen champions the art of embroidery. Throughout his exploration of the medium, the artist has developed a free-motion machine technique, commonly working on a standard sewing machine that has been altered by removing the presser foot andlowering the feed teeth, allowing Frederiksen to engage tension while moving an embroidery hoop around freely. The result is dense embroidery stitched onto linen canvas, which is then stretched onto a wooden panel as a nod to traditional painting. Described by the artist as “drawing with a sewing machine,” Frederiksen produces scenes with subtle gradients and uniform textures that closely resemble colored pencil drawings when viewed from a distance. The nostalgic, soft-edged scenes are born from the artist’s love of cartoons (notably post-war Warner Brothers and the Simpsons) and come together through a fervent editing process.  Beginning with screenshots taken from old cartoons, often focusing on the smallest of elements while featuring as much action as possible, Frederiksen crops, edits and adds additional details, be it from other cartoons, eclectic designs or abstract images, before tracing, sketching and eventually stitching his creations onto linen.

Peter Frederiksen attended the School of the Art Institute of Chicago from 2006 – 2008, with a focus on painting, drawing and fibers. It was during these years that the artist explored the techniques of other mediums and expanded his painting practice to include soft sculpture and fiber art. Following his time at SAIC, Frederiksen worked at ad agencies as an art producer where he fostered his passion for promoting and representing other working artists. He is currently a partner, representative and producer at RAD Represents, an artist representation company located in Chicago, IL.

The artist’s work has been presented at a number of institutions in Chicago including the Chicago Athletic Association (solo exhibition, 2020), the Hyde Park Art Center (group exhibition, 2019) and the Arts Club of Chicago (group exhibition, 2018).  Most recently, the artist’s embroideries have been featured in group exhibitions internationally at Haverkampf Leistenschneider in Berlin (Text-ile, June – August 2022), Galleri Urbane in Dallas (Intersections, July – August 2022), Daniel Raphael Gallery in London (Go Figure!, July – August 2022), and Bulls Fest in Chicago, curated by All Star Press Chicago (The Art of the Game, September 2022). Frederiksen has appeared in numerous print and online publications, including The Guardian, Colossal, It’s Nice That, gallerytalk.net, Textiel Plus, The Fiber Studio, Composite Arts Magazine, and Chicago Art Review. The artist lives and works in Chicago, IL.

The book mentioned in the interview: How High We Go In The Dark.

Peter Frederiksen, Massey Klein Gallery, no-no-no-no-no, 22-2022 Freehand machine embroidery on linen, 9 x 12 inches. Image courtesy of Massey Klein Gallery and The Artist.Peter Frederiksen Massey Klein Gallery, some locks wont hold, 22-2022, Freehand machine embroidery on linen, 8 x 6 inches. Image courtesy of Massey Klein Gallery and The Artist.Peter Frederiksen, Massey Klein Gallery, “out from under rocks, clearing the crust from dreary eyes and seeing friends again”, 2022, Freehand machine embroidery on linen, Each panel 7 x 5 inches, Overall 7 x 10 inches. Image courtesy of Massey Klein Gallery and The Artist.

Monia Ben Hamouda

Portrait of Monia, photo credit: Michele Gabriele

Monia Ben Hamouda (b. 1991, Milan) lives and works between al-Qayrawan and Milan. She graduated with a BA in Fine Arts from the Brera Academy of Fine Arts, Milan. Previous positions include a visiting professorship at the Hochschule für Bildende Künste in Dresden and a Master of Curating at Istituto Marangoni, Florence, and a seat in the jury at the Filmmaker Festival, Milan. 

Her work has been presented in various venues including ChertLüdde, Berlin; ASHES/ASHES, New York; Ar/Ge kunst Kunstverein, Bozen; Jevouspropose, Zurich; Museo Salvatore Ferragamo, Florence; Et.Al, San Francisco; Ada, Rome; Galerie Valeria Cetraro, Paris; Universitätssammlungen Kunst, Dresden; Alios 16me Biennale d’Art Contemporain, La Teste de Buch; Marselleria Permanent Exhibition, Milan. Awards include: Pollock-Krasner Foundation Grant (winner); VI Club Gamec Prize (finalist); TSI Art Award x Artissima (winner); Art Business Accelerator Grant, Artwork Archive and Redline Contemporary Art Center (winner); DUCATO Contemporary Art Prize  (special prize winner).Additional information for Monia can be found on her artist page.The book she discussed in the interview is The Big Something by Ron Padgett.Monia Ben Hamouda Denial of a Red-Winged Blackbird (Aniconism As Figurative Urgency), 2022 laser-cut steel, spice powders, charcoal 86 1/4 x 76 3/8 x 3/64 inches (219 x 194 x 0.3 centimeters). photo credit: ASHES/ASHES, New York and ChertLüdde, Berlin.Monia Ben Hamouda Denial of a Red-Winged Blackbird (Aniconism As Figurative Urgency), 2022 laser-cut steel, spice powders, charcoal 86 1/4 x 76 3/8 x 3/64 inches (219 x 194 x 0.3 centimeters). photo credit: ASHES/ASHES, New York and ChertLüdde, Berlin.