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Dara Haskins

Dara Haskins (b.1992 Baltimore, MD) Has rooted her practice in Philadelphia working primarily in painting oil portraits and figurative oil and mixed media paintings. Addressing the ways the black body has been represented and looked at throughout history, she challenges the identity of being seen and unseen connecting historical content to contemporary spaces and how that relationship coexists. She is currently working on a series called “Havana time” expressively from her own photographs of people she spent time within Cuba.-Her large to small-scale paintings of objects, people, and places connect daily in domestic environments within the African diaspora.

She is also working on a series called “ quraintin paintings” that reflects on dealing with isolation, time, and opportunity during the pandemic of COVID 19. Haskins received her BFA at The Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts in 2019. Winning the Artist of the week from Rush Art gallery May 2020) and The J Henry Scheidt Memorial Travel Scholarship to Cuba in (2019). She currently lives and works in Philadelphia.

The book that was mentioned in the interview is The Black Interior.

Desire to be 40 x 46 oil on canvasAre you listening 35 x 34 oil on canvas

Biraaj Dodiya

Biraaj Dodiya (b. 1993) is a Mumbai based visual artist primarily working in painting and sculpture.

Forms and language around absence, uncertainty and impermanence influence her work. Working within abstraction, her paintings are built through processes of repair and erasure, often evoking the nocturnal landscape and bringing up questions of distance and temporality. Dodiya’s sculptural works often combine discarded objects, industrial material, personal relics and studio detritus.
Dodiya received her MFA from New York University (2018) and BFA from School of the Art Institute of Chicago (2015). Her recent solo Stone is a Forehead was at Experimenter, Kolkata in 2020.

She is currently reading Bernard Malamud Rembrandt’s Hat.

Silver grip 78 x 60 inches, Oil on linen, 2021Green Ray 78 x 60 inches, Oil on linen, 2020

Timothy Gierschick II

Timothy Gierschick (b. 1976, Reading, PA) is an artist living and working in Philadelphia, PA. His paintings and works on paper have been exhibited and collected both nationally and internationally, including by Duane Morris LLP offices worldwide, and Capital One Bank NA. Timothy earned his Bachelor of Arts, concentrating in Printmaking, from Messiah College in 2000. He is also employed by the Barnes Foundation as preparator.

Books mentioned at the end of the interview are Mona, by Pola Oloixarac: and Zen Mind by Suzuki.

Bad Blood, latex and enamel on rag paper, 36 x 30”, 2021The Skater, latex and enamel on rag paper, 40 x 30”, 2021.Junkie, latex and enamel on found panel, 19 x 40”, 2020

Rana Tahir

Rana Tahir is a poet, artist, and educator living in Portland, OR. She earned her MFA from Pacific University and is a Kundiman Fellow. Her work has previously appeared in Print Oriented Bastards, Fresh Literary Magazine, and Catch among others.Books mentioned in the interview:Artists of the Harlem Renaissance: Countee Cullen, Cavendish Square Publishing (2016)Choose Your Own Adventure Spies!: Noor Inayat Khan, ChooseCo LLC (2020)“Asrar” Oil on Canvase, 24 x 16 inches (This painting is inspired by and named after the Kuwaiti resistance member Asrar al-Qabandi. The Kuwaiti flag is painted upside down, a symbol for distress.)“Crossings” Oil on Canvas, 16 x 24 inches“Bukhoor” Oil on Canvas, 10 x 5 ft. (This is the painting we talked about. Bukhoor is a type of incense made from wood chips soaked in oil, it is a staple in households in the middle east. Bukhoor is also the name of the manuscript of these Gulf War poems.)

Avery Z. Nelson

Avery Z. Nelson (they/them) was born in Rhinebeck, NY and received their MFA from Columbia University. Recent solo exhibitions include the Rubber Factory (NYC) and JDJ | The Ice House (Garrison, NY). Nelson has received press in The Brooklyn Rail, ARTFORUM, Huffington Post, Bad at Sports, Newcity, and New American Paintings. They are a current resident of the Sharpe-Walentas studio program in Brooklyn and images of their work can be found on their website: www.averyznelson.com. They recently finished a book of selected diaries of Lou Sullivan, “We Both Laughed in Pleasure,” and would highly recommend to anyone looking for a delightful summer read.

Shifting Contours, 2020, 60″ x 48″, oil on canvasHeadspace, 2021, 76″ x 56″, oil and collage on canvas

Šejma Fere

Šejma Fere creates collages, mixed media artworks and installations. Her artworks deal with potential of multiple narratives. She is discovering hidden values and uses of found material to create new structures out of it. Her paintings are created in the mode of free associations from numerous fragments, using the recycled materials, technique of collage and digital process. There, by means of the non-linear narration about private sphere, she explores the entanglement of borders of intimate and public space and investigates the ideological constructs, gender stereotypes and the economic conditions that govern home and everyday life. Sewing patterns, lists, charts and statistic data appropriated from textbooks, documents, furniture catalogs and lifestyle magazines are parts of reality that intrude the private sphere and indicate a failed attempt to adapt to prescribed and homogenized world of mass culture. By superimposing one structure onto another, domestic surrounding is presented as a stage where characters live their reality brought by modern life and technology. These multiple perspectives create spatial and temporal disorientation. It is an open work where viewers fill the gaps and create their own interpretation, becoming a part of this imagined world. She graduated painting and printmaking. Lives and works in Belgrade.

In the interview Sejma mentioned the following;

Norient, audio visual gallery and community for the sound of the world.
“Among Women: Serbian Contemporary Art”, curated by Rachel Klipa, 937 Gallery, 937 Liberty Avenue, Pittsburgh, PA 15222 (opening on September 6, 2021)
“We are alive”, exhibition of Saša Stojanović and Šejma Fere, Gallery Šok Koridor, Art Klinika, Novi Sad (14 September-30 October, 2021 in Šok koriodor, Art klinika, Novi Sad)

Books mentioned:
Tomi Ungerer, children books, J.P. Oliva, L’isolation thermique écologique, Agatha Christie, An Autobiography, George Orwell, Down and Out in Paris and London.

Šejma Fere, Sofi, kolaž, 2019House in zemun, 2018- 2021

Sopheap Pich

Sopheap Pich b. 1971, Battambang, Cambodia. Lives and works in Phnom Penh, Cambodia.

Sopheap’s family left Cambodia as refugees in 1979.  Having first settled in camps in Thailand and the Philippines, they arrived in the United States in 1984 at age 13 years old and began his formal education.

He took art classes in Junior High School but shifted his passion to wood shop in high school and worked as a stagehand in college.  He first majored in Pre-Med but later switched to Fine Arts in his Sophomore year, a choice that allowed him to travel to France, Italy and Mexico and led him to spent a year in Paris studying at the national art school at Cergy Pontoise.  These travels impacted his views of the possibilities and limitations of art that have guided his thinking since.

He returned to Cambodia 2002.  And in 2004, began making sculptures using rattan and bamboo, his main materials to this day.  Aside from working on his art, he also owns a farm in the Kirirom Mountain areas where he plants hardwood trees, coconuts and date palms.

His works has been shown at dOCUMENTA 13, the Venice Biennale, the Asia Pacific Triennale, among others.  And are in major museums collections including the Metropolitan Museum, the Guggenheim, the National Gallery of Singapore, M+ Hong Kong, and the Centre Pompidou in Paris, among others.

Kapok, 2021, Wood, metal, rattan, bamboo, 160 x 530 x 170cmLa Danse, 2021. Dimension varies. Each tree appr. 7 meters tall. Repurposed aluminum and metal.

Annie Jael Kwan

Annie Jael Kwan is a curator and researcher whose exhibition-making, programming, publication and teaching practice is located at the intersection of contemporary art, cultural and pedagogical activism with an interest in archives, feminist, queer and alternative histories and knowledges, collective practice and solidarity. She is founder of Something Human, a curatorial platform focusing on intersectional live art that launched the landmark Southeast Asia Performance Collection in London in 2017, co-founder of Asia-Art-Activism, the interdisciplinary research network exploring the paradigm of “Asia” and its proximities in art and activism. She is the recipient of a Diverse Actions Leadership Award 2019, and the founding council member of Asia Forum 2021/2022 that will have its inaugural programme in Venice in 2021 at the Fondazione Querini Stampalia.

Southeast Asia Performance Collection, launched by Something Human at the Live Art Development Agency 2017. Production photo from ‘I am LGB’ (2016), The LGB Society of Mind. Singapore International Festival of Arts 2016. Photo by Wan Zhong HaTill We Meet Again IRL, Best Wishes, Asia-Art-Activism, 2020, co-curated by Annie Jael Kwan, Arianna Mercado, Cuong Pham and Howl Yuan, with the support of the Bagri Foundation and Arts Council England. Image courtesy of Yarli Allison.

Dana Lok

Dana Lok (b. Berwyn, PA) lives and works in Brooklyn, NY. Recent solo exhibitions include “One Second Per Second” at Page, New York, “Words Without Skin” at Clima, Milan and “Mind’s Mouth” at Bianca D’Alessandro, Copenhagen. Lok recently participated in the group exhibitions “Regroup Show” at Miguel Abreu and “15 Painters” at Andrew Kreps, New York, and “The Conspiracy of Art, Part II” at Chateau Shatto, LA. Her work has been covered in the New York Times, Frieze, and Cura Magazine.Lok received her MFA from Columbia University and her BFA from Carnegie Mellon University. In 2018, she received the Rema Hort Mann Emerging Artist Grant. Recently, Lok’s work digs into the metaphors we use to understand basic components of human experience, like time and representation.Mentioned in interview was Philosopher Sally Haslanger, her books and articles can be found on her homepage. Also mentioned was Krazy Kat and Emily Dickinson.Causal Wedge, 2020, Oil on canvas, 56 x 65 inWeather System, 2021, Oil on canvas, 70 x 78 in

Damien Deroubaix

Portrait of Damien Deroubaix by Arno Lam

Damien Deroubaix, born 1972 in Lille, France. Lives and works in Paris and Meisenthal (France).

Damien Deroubaix studied in Saint-Etienne and in Germany (Karlsruhe, 1998). Since 2003, his work has been shown in the leading European institutions and has been presented in many solo shows, particularly in Switzerland and Germany. He has spent a good deal of time abroad, notably for residences at the Künstlerhaus Bethanien in Berlin (2005) and ISCP in New York (2008). In 2009, he is nominated at the Marcel Duchamp Prize. His works are in the largest national collections : the Musée d´Art Moderne, the Centre Pompidou, the MAMC Strasbourg, the FRAC Midi-Pyrénées, Limousin and Basse Normandie, the FNAC CNAP, the Musée du Dessin et de l’Estampe Originale in Gravelines, and international collections, among them those of the Museum of Modern Art, New York, the Mudam, Luxembourg, the Saarlandmuseum, Saarbrücken, the Museu Coleçao Berardo, Lisbon,  the Albrecht-Dürer-Haus-Stiftung, Nuremberg, the Kunstmuseum, St. Gallen.

Damien Deroubaix’s artistic practice features a great diversity of forms and techniques: oil painting, watercolour, engraving, tapestry, wooden panel carving, but also sculpture and installation. This variety combines with highly eclectic references, often cohabiting in his works in a spirit that is reminiscent of iconoclastic Dada montages. Motifs from medieval danses macabres mingle with evocations of tragic chapters from modern history; topical images are juxtaposed with mythology and folklore; the history of art and the metal music scene collide. His paintings are openly expressionist, often making reference to apocalyptic themes, and perhaps this is what makes them so timeless.

Metamorphosis oil and collage on canvas 78×59 inches, 2018.

Death, oil and collage on canvas 78×59 inches, 2018