Che Lovelace

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06/23/21 • 23 min

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Episode 71 features painter Che Lovelace. Based in Port of Spain, Trinidad, Che’s art originates primarily from his experience of living and working in Trinidad and Tobago. His paintings which are rendered in a vivid assortment of acrylic and dry pigment on combined board panels, are strongly rooted in depicting the dense, highly charged layers of the Trinidadian landscape which he sees as physical, social and spiritual. The subjects of his paintings emerge from and flow freely between the streets of Port of Spain, to the rural natural vegetation, to the human form and back to the interior of his studio. His recent one person exhibitions have been at Various Small Fires, Los Angeles in 2021, Galerie Eric Hussenout, Paris and Half Gallery, New York, Recent group exhibitions have been “Resting Point of Accommodation” Almine Rech, Brussels, "Get Up, Stand Up Now”, Somerset House, London and “Still-Life: An Ongoing Story”, Galerie Sebastien Bertrand, Geneva. Che Lovelace was born 1969 in San Fernando, Trinidad and grew up in the east coast village of Matura. He received his fine art training at l’Ecole Régionale des Beaux-Arts de la Martinique. He has been a principal collaborator on several arts, Carnival and entertainment projects including the Studio Film Club and the recently established Friends For The Road J’Ouvert...a traditional Carnival project. His practice increasingly includes elements of performance which he absorbs into his painting process. Lovelace currently lecturers at the University of the West Indies Creative Arts department. Artist https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Che_Lovelace W Magazine https://www.wmagazine.com/culture/che-lovelace-various-small-fires-trinidad Very Small Fires http://www.vsf.la/artist_post/che-lovelace/ Galerie Hussenot https://www.galeriehussenot.com/exposition/2347/ Vigo Gallery https://www.vigogallery.com/artists/13 Half Gallery https://halfgallery.com/che-lovelace New Yorker https://www.newyorker.com/goings-on-about-town/art/che-lovelace Pree https://preelit.com/category/che-lovelace/

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Isolde Brielmaier

Episode 72 features scholar and curator Isolde Brielmaier, an Assistant Professor in the Department of Photography, Imaging and Emerging Media at New York University’s Tisch School of the Arts where she focuses on contemporary art, global visual culture, as well as media and immersive technology as platforms within which to re-think storytelling and the politics of representation. She is also the inaugural Curator-at-Large at the International Center of Photography (ICP) and previously oversaw the arts and cultural programming at the Oculus at Westfield World Trade Center. Isolde has written extensively on contemporary art and culture and is the author of Culture as Catalyst (2020). She has served as curator at several institutions including the Guggenheim Museum and the Bronx Museum. Among her distinctions, she has received fellowships from the Mellon and Ford foundations as well as the Social Science Research Council (SSRC). She serves on the Board of Trustees of the New Museum as well as the Women’s Prison Association. She holds a Ph.D. from Columbia University and lives in Brooklyn, New York. Artist website https://www.isoldeb.com/ Wikipedia https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Isolde_Brielmaier ICP https://www.icp.org/news/the-international-center-of-photography-names-isolde-brielmaier-curator-at-large Book https://tang.skidmore.edu/shop NYU/ Tisch talk https://tisch.nyu.edu/photo/news/dpi-prof-isolde-brielmaier-talks-to-whitewall LinkedIn https://www.linkedin.com/in/isolde-brielmaier-phd-92021b77