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Andrea Giaier

Andrea Giaier was raised in a typical Midwestern town just outside of Detroit, Michigan. From an early age, she developed a deep connection to nature, which later blossomed into a profound admiration, respect, and concern for the environment and the collective future of those who inhabit the earth. Andrea currently lives in Kathmandu, Nepal, and has taught and created in Washington, Oregon, California, Montana, Honduras, Sri Lanka, and Guatemala over the past 15 years.

As an artist and an educator, Andrea focuses on collaborative, performative, and Social Practice Art, which allows people from diverse backgrounds to find their visual voice, empower themselves and create positive change through meaningful art.

Andrea received a Bachelor of Fine Art at Montana State, a Master of Fine Arts from the University of Washington, and a Master of Arts in Teaching from the Vermont College of Fine Arts.

The book mentioned in the interview is The Jealous Curator’s Book.

The street sounds mentioned are here –

https://museumofnonvisibleart.com/interviews/wp-content/uploads/2020/05/lockdown-sounds.m4a

 

Natural ink study, 2020
Sound and Ink study, 2020

Milica Pekic

Milica Pekić, PhD, art historian and curator from Belgrade. She graduated and received her PhD at The History of Modern Art department at Faculty of Philosophy, University of Belgrade. In her research she is focusing on confrontational artistic practices as well as on alternative forms of collective authorships, institutional transformation and potential of interdisciplinary approach both in research and production. She is co-founder of KIOSK platform for contemporary art, and since 2002 is actively engaged in creating and developing the platform’s curatorial, research and art projects. She was curator of O3ONE gallery from 2004 until 2007 and program director of Gallery12HUB in Belgrade from 2013 till 2018. As a curator she has participated in numerous projects on local, regional and international level. Currently she is a member of the program board and mentor on the Nelt interdisciplinary educational program for students. She is also one of the founders of the Association of the Independent Cultural Scene of Serbia and KOOPERATIVA – a regional platform for culture. Her essays are published in numerous magazines, publications and catalogues.

KIOSK Project Yugoslavia, Museum of Yugoslavia, Installation View
KIOSK, Performing-Democracy Project.

Kevin Kearns

Studio portrait

Kevin Kearns studied at the Art Institute of Boston and went on to a successful career as an illustrator, designer, Art / Creative Director. Kearns worked in this field for over twenty five years. He transitioned to painting full time in 2002.

Kearns has had several solo, two person, and group exhibitions. He is currently represented by the Stricoff Gallery, New York City; Blue Gallery, Kansas City; Claire Carino Gallery, Boston; and Julie Nester Gallery, Park City.

His work is housed in many private and corporate collections throughout North America, Europe, Asia, and the Middle East. He works in Newburgh, NY.

Kearns has a forthcoming show at the Art Complex Museum in Massachusetts.

The book mentioned in the interview was George Inness and the Science of Landscape.

Untitled Landscape 30 x 40 inches, oil on wood panel. 2014
Untitled Landscape 48 x 48 inches, oil on wood panel. 2020

Barbara Friedman

Seated in my studio between, We cant have Heaven and, Bring Home the Bacon, both oil on linen.

Barbara Friedman is an artist based in New York City and a professor of art at Pace University. She has exhibited widely, with multiple two- and three-person shows in the last few years, at spaces including Five Myles in Brooklyn, NY; (2020), Sara Nightingale Gallery in Sag Harbor, NY (2019); and Amy Simon Fine Art in Westport, CT (2017); as well as 36 solo shows, most recently at CAS in Livingston Manor, NY and Hamilton Square in Jersey City (2017), Buddy Warren Gallery in New York, NY (2016); BCB Art in Hudson, NY (2015); Ober Gallery in Kent, CT (2014); Ethan Petitt Gallery in Brooklyn, NY (2014); the Painting Center (2012); and twice at Michael Steinberg Fine Art in New York, NY (2007, 2009).  Earlier solo exhibitions were at Art Resources Transfer, The Queens Museum, and White Columns (all NYC); Carnegie-Mellon University, Cleveland State University, the Roanoke Museum of Fine Arts, and the Dana Wright Gallery in San Francisco among others.

Reviews of Friedman’s work have appeared in the New York Times, the New York Sun, The Irish Times, Newsday, Art in America, ARTS Magazine, the Christian Science Monitor and Artweek. A group of her paintings was selected for the 2007 issue of New American Paintings, and another group for the 2010 issue. She was an Artist in Residence twice at the Marie Walsh Foundation Summer Seminar and has also been awarded residencies at Yaddo, The Virginia Center for the Arts, and the Bogliasco Foundation.

The books mentioned in the interview are: Eleanor Heartney, Doomsday Dreams: The Apocalyptic Imagination in Contemporary Art (Silver Hollow Press, 2019) and Richard Powers, The Overstory (W. W. Norton, 2018)

Self portrait with Pig
Watercolors on Studio Wall

Caveh Zahedi

Caveh Zahedi is an autobiographical American independent filmmaker whose feature-length films include The Sheik and I (2012), I Am A Sex Addict (2005), In The Bathtub of the World (2001), I Don’t Hate Las Vegas Anymore (1994), and A Little Stiff (1991).

He is also the writer/director of the BRIC TV series The Show About the Show.

The Show About the Show: Caveh directing his wife and her lover to re-enact their infidelity

Andrea Lawlor

Andrea Lawlor teaches writing at Mount Holyoke College and is a 2020 Whiting Award winner.

They have been awarded fellowships by Lambda Literary and Radar Labs, and their writing has appeared in journals such as Ploughshares, Mutha, the Millions, jubilat, the Brooklyn Rail, Faggot Dinosaur, and Encyclopedia, Vol. II.

Publications include a chapbook, Position Papers (Factory Hollow Press, 2016), and a novel, Paul Takes the Form of a Mortal Girl, a 2018 finalist for the Lambda Literary and CLMP Firecracker Awards. Paul, originally published by Rescue Press in 2017, is out now from Vintage/Knopf in the US and Picador UK in the UK & Ireland.

For a free pdf of Position Papers chapbook, click here.

Claudia Alick

Claudia Alick is performer, producer, and inclusion expert. Named by American Theater Magazine as one of 25 theater artists who will shape American Theater in the next 25 years, Alick has served as the founding Artistic Director of Smokin’ Word Productions, is a NY Neofuturist alum, published playwright, recipient of NYC Fresh Fruit directing award, TedXFargo speaker, the Lilla Jewel Award for Women Artists, featured on HBO’s Def Poetry Jam and former Community Producer at the Oregon Shakespeare Festival. At OSF for ten years she produced events such as “The Every 28 Hours Plays”, “The Green Show”, The Daedalus Project, OSF Open Mics as well as producing/directing audio-plays with OSF such as the Grammy nominated “Hamlet”. Her personal projects include her podcast “Hold On…Wait for it”, vlog “This Week in Cultural Appropriation”, StreetPoetry, and one-person Show “Fill in the Blank” exploring disability and the medical industry.

Claudia served on Oregon Arts Leaders in Inclusion, the steering committee of The Ghostlight Project, the steering committee for Black Theater Commons. She is currently managing content with The Crew Revolution black female leadership, serves as Co-president of the board of Network of Ensemble Theater, collaborated on Unsettling Dramaturgy (crip and indigenous international digital colloquium) and is on the advisory councils for the National Disability Theater and Howlround. Claudia Alick serves as founding executive producer of the transmedia social justice company CALLING UP whose projects include The Justice Quilt, Decolonizing Boards, Co-artistic direction of The FURY Factory Festival, and consulting and advising funders and companies around the country. Her latest project can be found at WeChargeGenocide.TV

Hadoucane: an ongoing photo series.  Blowing folks away with the power of the cane!

Andrew Woolbright

Andrew Woolbright is an artist, critic, and gallerist working in Brooklyn NY. Woolbright attended the School of the Art Institute Chicago where he was greatly influenced by the work of the alternative figuration of Ivan Albright and Mary Lou Zelazny before being taught by Angela Dufresne at the Rhode Island School of Design, receiving his MFA in 2014. Woolbright has exhibited with the Ada Gallery, Nancy Margolis, and Coherent Brussels. His work has been reviewed in TimeOut New York, ArtViewer, Two Coats of Paint, the Boston Globe, the Chicago Reader, and the Providence Journal and is currently in the collection of the RISD Museum. In 2020, he will be curating a survey show of Kathy Goodell’s work at the Dorsky Museum, and he is currently planning a traveling show based on his article “Phantom Body: Weightless Bodies, Avatars, and the end of Skin” that was published in Whitehot Magazine. He has taught at the Rhode Island School of Design and currently teaches at SUNY New Paltz.

The books mentioned in the interview are Weird Realism: Lovecraft and Philosophy, Marlene Dumas: The Image as Burden and God Jr.

The Great Shrinebeast Furschlugginment (My Worries Going Super Saiyan (After Blake)). Oil on cut canvas, plaster, acrylic paint, wire, epoxy, Monster Energy Drink cans, masonite. 160 x 104 inches. 2018-2019


Sad Gundam Shrinebeast (Poem for Bill). Oil on poem. 19.5 x 11.5 inches. 2020

Warren Neidich

Warren Neidich is a conceptual artist and theorist based in Berlin and Los Angeles. He is the founding director of Saas-Fee Summer Institute of Art and the English editor of Archive Books, Berlin. He founded the website www.artbrain.org which includes the Journal of Neuroaesthetics in 1997. His Pizzagate Neon was exhibited as part of the 2019 Venice Biennial in the Zuecca Project Space. Recently published books include Glossary of Cognitive Capitalism, Archive Books, 2019; Neuromacht,Merve Verlag, Berlin, 2017. He has been guest tutor at Goldsmiths College, London 2004-2007 and the Weissensee Kunsthochschule, Berlin 2016-2018 as well as lecturing at such institutions as Harvard University, Columbia University, Princeton University, Brown University, University of Oxford and University of Cambridge


Pizzagate Neon, 2019, Neon Glass, Zuecca Project Room, Venice Biennial.
Phantoms of the Acephalous,KAI 10 Foundation, Dusseldorf,Neon Glass and Prosthetic Arms, 2020

Tongo Eisen-Martin

Originally from San Francisco, Tongo Eisen-Martin

is a poet, movement worker, and educator. His latest curriculum on extrajudicial killing of Black people, We Charge Genocide Again, has been used as an educational and organizing tool throughout the country. His book titled, “Someone’s Dead Already” was nominated for a California Book Award. His latest book “Heaven Is All Goodbyes” was published by the City Lights Pocket Poets series, was shortlisted for the Griffin Poetry Prize and won a California Book Award and an American Book Award.