Cerebral Women Art Talks Podcast

Ep.91 features Ivy N. Jones. She founded the Welancora Gallery, based in Brooklyn, New York in 2002. Ivy holds a B.A. in political science from Hampton University and a M.A. in public administration from Clark Atlanta University. She is a native of Brooklyn, New York. The gallery name is an amalgam of the names of Ivy's parents and older brother. In 2014, the gallery mission and programming were updated to reflect a greater focus on contemporary art and criticism. The broader mission of the gallery is to represent artists from around the world by placing their work with individual collectors and institutions, publishing scholarly exhibition catalogues and monographs. From time to time, guest curators and writers of color are invited to mount exhibitions and contribute essays about the shows on view. The gallery is located in a 19th century brownstone in Bedford Stuyvesant in Brooklyn, New York. The gallery had a booth at The Armory Show in 2021 and Art Basel Miami in 2021. Photo of Ivy Taken by Elliot Jerome Brown, Jr. Welancora Gallery https://www.welancoragallery.com/ NY Times https://www.nytimes.com/2021/12/04/arts/design/art-basel-miami-diversity.html The Art Newspaper https://www.theartnewspaper.com/2020/09/03/three-exhibitions-to-see-in-new-york-this-weekend The New Yorker https://www.newyorker.com/goings-on-about-town/art/anita-thacher Hyperallergic https://hyperallergic.com/692295/the-coexistence-of-beauty-and-evocations-of-race-and-power/ Cultured magazine https://www.culturedmag.com/article/2020/10/17/ivy-n-joness-welancora-gallery-advances-the-african-diaspora Nico Wheadon Projects https://www.nicowheadon.com/writer/2021/6/17/red-catalogue-essay-welancora-gallery

Ep.123 features Raphaël Barontini(born in France in 1984, and currently lives and works in Saint-Denis, France. He has developed a singular and bold pictorial work, moving from a classical practice on canvas to large-scale textile and volume pieces that can be performative. He questions the portrait and the symbolism of representations in an aesthetic of collage that combines photography, silk-screen prints and digital prints. His works take the form of flags, banners, hangings, tapestries or even ceremonial costumes such as capes. His large scenographies and performances allow us to apprehend the different faces of his production. Barontini's work has been exhibited in institutions around the world, including the SCAD Museum of Art(Savannah, USA), MAC VAL (Vitry-sur-Seine, France), MO.CO (Montpellier, France), Museum of African Diaspora (San Francisco, USA), New Art Exchange Museum (Nottingham, USA).He has also participated in the international biennials of Bamako, Mali, Casablanca, Morocco, Lima, Peru, and Thessaloniki, Greece. In 2020, he was chosen by LVMH Métiers d'Art to complete a residency in Singapore. Phot by Jalil Ourguedi. Courtesy of Mariane Ibrahim Artist https://www.raphaelbarontini.art/ CV https://marianeibrahim.com/usr/library/documents/main/artists/50/raphael-barontinin-cv-pdf-2022.pdf Mariane Ibrahim Gallery https://marianeibrahim.com/artists/50-raphael-barontini/biography/ Metal Magazine https://metalmagazine.eu/en/post/interview/raphael-barontini i-D https://i-d.vice.com/fr/article/epn8pa/lart-du-collage-selon-raphael-barontini LVMH https://www.lvmh.com/news-documents/news/lvmh-metiers-dart-exhibits-the-works-of-raphael-barontini-at-the-studio-des-acacias-in-paris/ Hyperallergic https://hyperallergic.com/627173/raphael-barontini-mariane-ibrahim-purple-moon/ CNN https://edition.cnn.com/style/article/mariane-ibrahim-paris-gallery-nomad/index.html Le Monde https://www.lemonde.fr/m-le-mag/article/2021/07/09/les-gens-s-arretent-a-ma-couleur-l-art-metisse-de-raphael-barontini_6087734_4500055.html Numero https://www.numero.com/fr/art/exposition-raphael-barontini-studio-acacias-lvmh-paris Connaissance des arts https://www.connaissancedesarts.com/artistes/nouveau-talent-raphael-barontini-createur-de-ponts-entre-les-mythes-et-les-cultures-11155995/ Whitewall https://whitewall.art/art/raphael-barontini-shares-work-from-the-lvmh-metiers-dart Villa-Albertine https://villa-albertine.org/residents/raphael-barontini Radio France https://www.radiofrance.fr/franceculture/podcasts/affaires-culturelles/raphael-barontini-est-l-invite-d-affaires-culturelles-8062563 Montpellier3m https://www.montpellier3m.fr/evenement-agenda/exposition-raphael-barontini-jhabite-un-long-silence French Cultural Services French Embassy US https://frenchculture.org/events/12876-raphael-barontini-mariane-ibrahim-gallery Surface Magazine https://www.surfacemag.com/events/raphael-barontini-the-night-of-the-purple-moon/ Artnet http://www.artnet.com/artists/rapha%C3%ABl-barontini/ Galerie Magazine https://galeriemagazine.com/gallerist-mariane-ibrahim-artist-raphael-barontini-found-inspiration-quarantine/Say Who https://saywho.co.uk/mondains/raphael-barontini/ Reiffers Art Initiatives https://www.reiffersartinitiatives.com/en/artistes/raphael-barontini-artist-reiffers-art-initiatives/ NYTimes https://www.nytimes.com/2019/11/29/arts/design/frederick-douglass-savannah.html

Ep.98 features Dr. Nicole Fleetwood. She is an art historian and curator exploring how the art of incarcerated people is essential to our understandings of contemporary art, the carceral state, and the humanity it contains. Fleetwood’s earlier work focused on representations of Blackness in art, performance, and popular culture, particularly how assumptions within American culture about Blackness are disrupted or reinforced by Black artists and public figures. In part motivated by her experiences visiting imprisoned family members, Fleetwood turned her keen curatorial vision to artistic production in and around the United States prison system. In the book Marking Time: Art in the Age of Mass Incarceration (2020), and an accompanying museum exhibition of the same name, Fleetwood investigates the cultural, personal, and aesthetic significance of incarcerated people’s art. The book is the most extensive work to apply the interpretive methods of art history to study the art people make within prison. Drawing on interviews with over seventy currently and formerly incarcerated artists and hundreds of paintings, photos, collages, and other forms of art, Fleetwood develops a concept of “carceral aesthetics” to understand both the works of art produced by incarcerated individuals and the constrained conditions under which they were created. She pays particular attention to the ways people build a sense of themselves and community through creative connection despite the circumstances of imprisonment. For example, the artists Gilberto Rivera, Jesse Krimes, and Jared Owens established a conceptual art workshop focused on multiracial collaboration while serving time at the Fairton Federal Correctional Institution in New Jersey. Another artist, Tyra Patterson, created multimedia portraits inspired by other incarcerated women. Fleetwood’s emphasis on both the artworks’ aesthetic value and the artists’ ingenuity in finding ways to convey their creative vision is a powerful testament to the humanity of all those impacted by the criminal justice system. In both the book and exhibition, she takes a deeply collaborative approach and centers the lived experiences of the artists themselves, many of whom participated in conferences, panel discussions, and other opportunities for public engagement that informed and emerged from the years of work that went into Marking Time. Fleetwood is demonstrating that art and imagery produced and used by incarcerated individuals is a critically important form of human expression, and her work sheds new light on the toll the criminal justice system in the United States takes on human lives. Photo credit: Sara Bennett | John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation MacArthur Foundation https://www.macfound.org/fellows/class-of-2021/nicole-fleetwood NYU https://steinhardt.nyu.edu/people/nicole-r-fleetwood National Endowment for the Arts https://www.arts.gov/stories/podcast/dr-nicole-fleetwood NY Times https://www.nytimes.com/2021/12/13/books/review/the-fortune-men-nadifa-mohamed.html Rikers Rikers Murals: What Will Happen to Artwork at the Jail? (curbed.com) Harvard University Press https://harvardpress.typepad.com/hup_publicity/2021/10/nicole-fleetwood-and-monica-mu%C3%B1oz-martinez-awarded-macarthur-fellowships.html MoMA Magazine https://www.moma.org/magazine/articles/454 Marking Time https://markingtimeart.com/ Troubling Vision https://press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/book/chicago/T/bo10184159.html On Racial Icons https://www.rutgersuniversitypress.org/on-racial-icons/9780813565156 Arts Journal https://www.artsjournal.com/measure/2022/01/27/art-historian-and-2021-macarthur-fellow-dr-nicole-fleetwood-discusses-the-profound-significance-of-the-art-created-by-incarcerated-people/ ACLS https://www.acls.org/news/nicole-fleetwood-f16-named-a-2021-macarthur-fellow/ Youtube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=76Z_hu9wymI

Ep.118 features Alteronce Gumby. He is an artist and local of New York City. His artistic practice includes painting, ceramics, installation and performance. His work has been exhibited at galleries such as Hauser & Wirth, Gladston Gallery and Camden Arts Centre. His work will be shown in an upcoming solo exhibition with Nicola Vassell gallery titled, The Color of Everything, in September 2022. In his recent exhibition Cross Colours at Bode Projects in Berlin, the power of complementary colors is presented in works that reference color exercises in Joseph Albert’s Interaction of Colour. Through Gumby’s fluorescent and chromatic spectrum of iridescent color, the artist engages the viewer and expands the notions through which we perceive form and color, the subjectivity of identity and the materiality of earth and cosmic space. Gumby graduated from the Yale School of Art with an MFA in Painting and Printmaking in 2016. He has won notable awards, such as the Austrian American Foundation /Seebacher Prize for Fine Arts and the Robert Reed Memorial Scholarship. Gumby has also participated in numerous international artist residencies, such as the Rauschenberg Residency (2019), London Summer Intensive (2016), Summer Academy in Salzburg, Austria (2015), 6Base (2016) and was the 2016 recipient of the Harriet Hale Woolley Scholarship at the Fondation des Étas-Unis in Paris. His work has been featured in publications such as ARTnews, Artnet, Artsy, BOMB, Brooklyn Rail, Cultured, DAZED, Freize, Surface & Vogue. Gumby has also curated exhibitions, such as his most recent and ongoing exhibition, Summer of Possibilities with Bode Projects in Berlin, To Dream Avante-Garde at Hammond Harkins Galleries and A Muffled Sound Under Water at Latchkey Gallery. Gumby published his first monograph, Color Is A Beautiful Thing, with Charles Moffett & False Flag in2021, outlining six years of his painting practice from 2014- 2020. Alteronce Gumby solo exhibition titled 'The Color of Everything' opens September 8, 2022 thru October 22nd at the Nicola Vassell Gallery in NYC. Photo credit: Katharina Balgavy Artist https://www.alteroncegumby.com/ Nicola Vassel Gallery https://www.nicolavassell.com/ Surface Alteronce Gumby’s Cosmic Meditations on Color, History, and Lightness – SURFACE(surfacemag.com) Artsy Alteronce Gumby’s Otherworldly Abstractions Reenvision the Color Black | Artsy Brooklyn Rail Alteronce Gumby with Carrie Moyer – The Brooklyn Rail Dazed Alteronce Gumby’s cosmic landscapes challenge the meaning of colour | Dazed(dazeddigital.com) Frieze Alteronce Gumby on His Cosmic Abstractions | Frieze Vogue The Atomic, Cosmic Art of Alteronce Gumby | Vogue Cultured Magazine Painter Alteronce Gumby Sees Color Differently (culturedmag.com) Artnet Studio Visit: Artist Alteronce Gumby on His Weekly MoMA Visits, and Why Seeing Great Art is Like a Reading a Book (artnet.com)

Episode 99 features NICOLA VASSELL. She is the founder of Nicola Vassell Gallery, a contemporary art gallery committed to discourse that widens the lens of the history and future of art. Its focus is on developing an inter-generational, cross-disciplinary program of international artists and thinkers. Prior to the gallery, Nicola was Principal at Concept NV, an art consultancy, established in 2013, specialized in exhibitions and debate on cultural phenomena. Vassell has organized numerous exhibitions and developed a number of important collections. She is an editor of books, whose past publications include, Jean-Michel Basquiat 1981: The Studio of the Street; Francesco Clemente: Works 1971-1979 and Kehinde Wiley: Black Light. Vassell was a Director at Deitch Projects and Pace Gallery, NY. She is a member of New Museum’s Artemis Council. Image courtesy Nicola Vassell. Photo Luigi Cazzaniga Artist https://nicolavassell.com/ Conceptnv https://conceptnv.com/ Gagosian https://gagosian.com/quarterly/contributors/nicola-vassell/ Surface https://www.surfacemag.com/articles/moses-sumney-blackalachia-screening-nyc/ Jamaica Gleaner https://jamaica-gleaner.com/article/social/20210530/her-way-art-former-jamaican-model-nicola-vassell-opens-gallery-new-york Cultured https://www.culturedmag.com/article/2021/01/26/art-whisperer-nicola-vassell-to-open-a-space-of-her-own The Art Newspaper https://www.theartnewspaper.com/2021/05/19/unity-is-survival-former-pace-director-nicola-vassell-to-open-a-gallery-in-new-york New York Times https://www.nytimes.com/2021/05/18/arts/design/nicola-vassell-gallery-chelsea.html Barrons https://www.barrons.com/articles/20-minutes-with-art-dealer-and-curator-nicola-vassell-01635793577 ARTNews https://www.artnews.com/art-news/news/nicola-vassell-donna-de-salvo-conversation-1234609764/ Artnet https://news.artnet.com/art-world/nicola-vassell-gallery-1969733 Grazia https://graziamagazine.com/us/articles/nicola-vassell-gallery-nyc/ Sothebys https://www.sothebysinstitute.com/why-sothebys/our-faculty-and-guest-speakers/nicola-vassell Vogue https://www.vogue.com/slideshow/basel-vassell-dinner-2021