Brainard Carey's Blog, page 42
December 22, 2021
William J. Simmons
William J. Simmons is a writer and curator based in Los Angeles and New York.
This is his third interview in this series, the second interview can be found here, and the first interview can be found here.
December 21, 2021
Matthew Ronay
Matthew RonayMatthew Ronay (b. 1976, Louisville, KY) lives in New York. In 2016, his work was the subject of a solo-presentation at the Blaffer Art Museum in Houston, and the Pérez Art Museum Miami, with a fully-illustrated exhibition catalogue published on the occasion.
He has exhibited extensively at major institutions worldwide, including: Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art, Bentonville, AK; Kentucky Museum of Art and Craft, Louisville; Kunstverein Lingen, Germany; University of Louisville, KY; Artspace, San Antonio; Serpentine Gallery, London; Sculpture Center, New York; Center for Curatorial Studies, Bard College, Annandale-on-Hudson, NY, and Parasol Unit Foundation for Contemporary Art, London. Ronay participated in the 2013 Lyon Biennale, curated by Gunnar Kvaran, and the 2004 Whitney Biennial.
His work is included in numerous major public collections, including: ARoS Aarhus Kunstmuseum, Denmark; Astrup Fearnley Muset for Moderne Kunste, Oslo; Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art, Bentonville, AK; Dallas Museum of Art; Henry Art Gallery, University of Washington, Seattle; Los Angeles County Museum of Art; Museum of Modern Art, New York; Pérez Art Museum Miami; Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, and Williams College Museum of Art, Williamstown, MA. The artist currently has a solo show at Casey Kaplan entitled Ligatures.
Matthew Ronay Recursionizer, 2021 Basswood, dye, gouache, flocking, plastic, steel, epoxy 16.25 x 59 x 12″/ 41.28 x 149.86 x 30.48cm Courtesy the artist and Casey Kaplan, New York
Matthew Ronay, Forces, 2020, Basswood, dye, gouache, flocking, plastic, steel14 x 11.5 x 9″/ 35.56 x 29.21 x 22.86cm, Courtesy the artist and Casey Kaplan, New York
December 20, 2021
Ariana Page Russell
Ariana Page Russell creates images that explore the skin as a document of human experience, using her own hypersensitive flesh to illustrate the ways we expose, express, adorn and articulate ourselves. Her fascination with skin and the body are inspired in part by her dermatographia, a condition in which one’s skin temporarily welts when lightly scratched. Dermatographia also connects her to people all over the world via her images and writing. She’s been making art with and inspired by her skin for about 20 years.
Russell is a Los Angeles based artist whose work has been exhibited in New York, Seattle, Los Angeles, Dublin, Belgium, New Dehli, Toronto, Australia, Bolivia and Venezuela, amongst other places. Her work has appeared in Art in America, the Huffington Post, Wired, The Atlantic, VISION Magazine: China, The Indian Express, Women’s Health Magazine, and the monograph ‘Dressing’ published by Decode Books. She was featured on ABC News 20/20 and was invited to give a TEDx Talk at University of North Carolina in 2016. She received her MFA from the University of Washington, Seattle in 2005.
The book mentioned in the interview is Hunt, Gather, Parent.
Index, c-print, 23 x 17 inches, 2005. This image became viral back in 2008 and was pretty much the impetus for forming an international dermatographia community. I wrote freehand text on my legs, kind of recounting a dream I had the night before.
Wild Cucumber, from my Bloom Back series, archival inkjet print, 19 x 13 inches, 2021. I found these on a hike in the mountains near my home in Southern California. My son and I love to collect these.
December 15, 2021
Anna Conway
Anna Conway, New York, 2019Anna Conway (b. 1973) first came to prominence in the 2005 group exhibition, Greater New York, at MoMA PS1, where her meticulously rendered paintings announced the arrival of a singular talent. Her stylistic development has emerged from spectacular and unpredicted encounters with natural forces beyond normal human experience, to a more anthropological and psychological exploration of the human condition. Conway’s paintings are a testament to the continued relevance and fascination of the centuries-old tradition of realist painting—an archaic practice, which seems to grow only stronger with every passing year. She has exhibited extensively in the United States and Europe, and is the recipient of numerous accolades, including: the John Simon Guggenheim Fellowship (2014); the Pollock-Krasner Foundation (2011 and 2005); and the William Metcalf Award from the American Academy of Arts and Letters (2008).
Anna Conway, Fishing for Minnows on the Back of a Whale, 2021. Oil on panel 45 x 68 x 2 inches (114.3 x 172.7 x 5.1 cm) © Anna Conway; courtesy of the Artist and Fergus McCaffrey
Anna Conway, Ark, 2021. Oil on panel 45 x 68 x 2 inches (114.3 x 172.7 x 5.1 cm) ©Anna Conway; courtesy of the Artist and Fergus McCaffrey
December 9, 2021
Polly M. Law
Photo courtesy of Mizuyo Aburano/Woodstock School of ArtPolly M. Law is an artist, bricoleur, and mythologenist living and working in the Mid Hudson Valley of New York. She explores attachment in both the literal and spiritual senses, humans and nature are her vehicles. Bricolage and monoprinting are her media which she exploits ignoring the boundary between art and craft- especially the traditionally feminine hand-crafts. She has been a craftswoman, illustrator- advertising and editorial, bricoleur, and printmaker. She turned her interest in language into a book: “The Word Project: Odd & Obscure Words- Illustrated,” featuring over 100 of her “word-dolls.” Ms. Law has an abiding interest in semiotics, the symbolism inherent in everyday objects; and an abiding and futile anxiety about entropy.
“Numen I/ Greenman” 9″x9″ Bricolage
“Greenman D” 13.5″x11″ Monoprint
December 5, 2021
Paula Rebsom
Screen Capture from Class Demo VideoPaula Rebsom describes herself as an Artist, Mother, Educator, and Trickster. All of these identities inform her interdisciplinary visual art practice which includes making sculptures from wood and fabric, site-specific installations, and image-based work using motion-sensor cameras. She’s always had an interest in science, specifically wildlife ecology, and applies elements of that into her work.
Born and raised in Southwest North Dakota she spent a great deal of time exploring nature and learning to sew and craft. Much of her work after grad school was situated outdoors and used motion-sensor cameras to document animal interactions with site-specific installations. Becoming a mother 6 years ago radically shifted her practice. No longer able to spend extended periods of time in remote locations, she returned to sewing, making quilts in order to process the raw emotions she was experiencing as a new mother. She is currently returning towards more image-based surveillance work by documenting the flora and fauna using her backyard and neighborhood greenspaces as installation sites.
She is currently full-time faculty in the art department at North Seattle College. Her work has been exhibited across the US, including group shows in New York City, Philadelphia, Miami, and Los Angeles, along with solo exhibitions at The Art Gym in Portland, OR, Gallery of Contemporary Art in Colorado Springs and SOIL Gallery in Seattle.
The Books mentioned in the interview were Never Home Alone and The Artist as Culture Producer.
Undetected, 2013, Digital image taken with a RECONYX motion detection infrared camera, Dimension Vary.
Absence of Color, 2019, Pigment Print, 24″x18″
December 3, 2021
Patricia Engel
Patricia Engel is the author of Infinite Country, a New York Times Bestseller, Washington Post Notable Book of the Year, Reese’s Book Club pick, Esquire Book Club and Book of the Month Club pick, Indie Next pick, Amazon Best Book of the Month, and more.
Her other books include The Veins of the Ocean, which won the Dayton Literary Peace Prize and was named a New York Times Editors’ Choice and a San Francisco Chronicle Best Book of the Year; It’s Not Love, It’s Just Paris, which won the International Latino Book Award, and of Vida, a finalist for the PEN/Hemingway Fiction Award and the Young Lions Fiction Award; winner of a Florida Book Award, International Latino Book Award and Independent Publisher Book Award, longlisted for the Story Prize and the Dayton Literary Peace Prize, and named a Barnes & Noble Discover Great New Writers selection and a New York Times Notable Book of the Year. For Vida, Patricia was the first woman to be awarded Colombia’s national prize in literature, the 2017 Premio Biblioteca de Narrativa Colombiana.
She has been awarded fellowships from the Guggenheim Foundation, the National Endowment for the Arts, the Florida Division of Cultural Affairs, Bread Loaf Writers’ Conference, Hedgebrook, and Key West Literary Seminar among others, and is the recipient of an O. Henry Award.
Patricia’s books have been translated into many languages. Her short fiction has appeared in The Atlantic, A Public Space, Ploughshares, The Sun, Kenyon Review, Harvard Review, and anthologized in The Best American Short Stories, The Best American Mystery Stories, The O. Henry Prize Stories, and elsewhere. Her criticism and essays have appeared in The New York Times, Virginia Quarterly Review, Catapult, and in numerous anthologies.
Born to Colombian parents, Patricia is a graduate of New York University and earned her MFA at Florida International University. She is an Associate Professor in the Creative Writing Program at the University of Miami.
Paula Matthusen
Paula Matthusen is a composer who writes both electroacoustic and acoustic music and realizes sound installations. She has written for diverse instrumentations, such as “run-on sentence of the pavement” for piano, ping-pong balls, and electronics, which Alex Ross of The New Yorker noted as being “entrancing”. Her work often considers discrepancies in musical space—real, imagined, and remembered. Awards include the Walter Hinrichsen Award from the American Academy of Arts and Letters, a Fulbright Grant, two ASCAP Morton Gould Young Composers’ Awards, and the 2014 – 2015 Elliott Carter Rome Prize. Matthusen is currently Professor of Music at Wesleyan University.
one thing five times from Paula Matthusen on Vimeo.
between systems and grounds, with Olivia Valentine. Photo by Olivia Valentine. More info at https://betweensystemsandgrounds.com/
December 1, 2021
Sébastien Léon
Photo by Anastasia BlackmanSébastien Léon is a French Los Angeles-based creative director, designer, and multi-media artist who has shown internationally with cultural institutions (Palais de Tokyo, the Park Avenue Armory, the New Museum, the Palazzo della Triennale, UCCA), and developed ambitious artistic projects with brands (Audemars Piguet, Krug, Samsung, Audi).
Sébastien Léon’s work brings to life ethereal physical environments and sculptures that are at once tangible, familiar, and yet unmistakably abstract. His designs, typically relying on tubular metallic structures, are strongly influenced by his immediate environment. His decade in New York translates into collections inspired by the world of construction sites, and his move to California morphs into designs drawn from insects, rock formations, and the ocean.
Léon is the founder of acclaimed experiential studio Formavision, and the recipient of the FGI Rising Star award for his design work for Atelier d’Amis, the furniture company he co-founded in 2015. / www.atelierdamis.com / www.formavision.info / www.sebleon.com
Hydrochrom Sulu
Golden Horns
Clement Page
Clement Page, was born in Exeter, Devon, United Kingdom, and moved to London in 1990 where his formative experience as an artist took shape.
In early 90’s London as well as making his own work, Clement founded a studio complex in an abandoned hat factory in Bethnal Green, curated artist led exhibitions, wrote and published art criticism and gave artist lectures at Tate gallery, Sotheby’s, Goldsmiths and Ruskin school of art.
In 1996 Clement moved to New York City where he witnessed the emergence of the Chelsea gallery district and had a studio on the bowery.
In 2006 he moved to Berlin and now lives between Berlin and Bristol in the UK. Clement works with painting, film, and installation.
Currently Clement is working on a monograph of his work with Hans Ulrich Obrist and Sacha Carddock, to be published in 2023. His recent ‘mirror paintings’ will be exhibited at HSBC gallery London and
Santa Lucia galerie, Berlin in the coming year.
His films from the Goetz Media Art collection, Munich have been shown at Pinakothek der Moderne, Munich Germany, and Haus der Kunst, Munich Germany. and The Freud Museum, London.
