Dr. Ashley James

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09/21/21 • 32 min

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Episode 74 features Ashley James, Ph.D., Associate Curator, Contemporary Art at the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum. She is the curator of Off the Record (2021) and co-curator of The Hugo Boss Prize: Deana Lawson, Centropy (2021). Prior to joining the Guggenheim, James served as Assistant Curator of Contemporary Art at the Brooklyn Museum, where she was the curator for the museum’s presentation of Soul of a Nation: Art in the Age of Black Power (2018–19), organized Eric N. Mack: Lemme walk across the room (2019), and co-curated John Edmonds: A Sidelong Glance (2020-21). James also served as a Mellon Curatorial Fellow in Drawing and Prints at the Museum of Modern Art, where her work focused on the groundbreaking retrospectives of Adrian Piper (2018) and Charles White (2018–19), and has held positions at the Studio Museum in Harlem and at the Yale University Art Gallery, where she co-organized the exhibition Odd Volumes: Book Art from the Allan Chasanoff Collection (2015). James holds a BA from Columbia University and a Ph.D. from Yale University in English literature and African American studies, with a certificate in Women's, Gender, and Sexuality studies. Guggenheim https://www.guggenheim.org/staff/ashley-james Yale https://afamstudies.yale.edu/news/ashley-james-named-guggenheim-curator-makes-history Yale https://gsas.yale.edu/news/guggenheim-curator-ashley-james-sees-certain-kind-possibility-new-role NY Times https://www.nytimes.com/2019/11/15/arts/design/guggenheim-black-curator.html Forbes https://www.forbes.com/sites/dominiquefluker/2019/11/30/meet-guggenheims-first-black-curator-ashley-james/ NBC News https://www.nbcnews.com/news/nbcblk/guggenheim-curator-ashley-james-sees-certain-kind-possibility-new-role-rcna1260 Essence https://www.essence.com/culture/ashley-james-want-us-to-look-off-the-record/ W Magazine https://www.wmagazine.com/culture/guggenheim-curator-ashley-james-culture-diet-interview Marie Claire https://www.marieclaire.com/fashion/a34691447/ashley-james-guggenheim-museum/ Artnews https://www.artnews.com/art-news/news/ashley-james-curator-guggenheim-museum-13581/ Brooklyn Museum – Soul of a Nation https://www.brooklynmuseum.org/exhibitions/soul_of_a_nation

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Rebecca Brodskis

Episode 73 features painter Rebecca Brodskis (b. 1988 in France) lives and works in Paris. She spent most of her childhood travelling and living between France and Morocco. Brodskis studied painting at the Ateliers des Beaux Arts de la Ville de Paris and at Central St. Martins College of Art and Design in London,graduating in 2010. In 2015, she also completed a Master’s degree in Sociology,focusing her research on the themes of vulnerabilities and social crisis.Exploring the borders of the sensible world, Brodskis’ work evolves betwee nconscious and unconscious spaces, leading to a reflection on the existence, the self and the otherness. The idea of being in an in-between is very prominent in Brodskis work, this intermediate space at the cross-roads of empirical reality and imagination, order and disorder, materialism and spirituality, determinism and freedom. Solo exhibitions include Arrêt Sur Image, Kristin Hjellegjerde Gallery, London (2021); Tomorrow Is Another Day, Steve Turner LA (2020); Fragments of Life, Kristin Hjellegjerde Gallery, Berlin (2020);Galeriste with Hors Cadre, Paris (2019); Septième Galerie, Paris (2019);Unsettled disorders, Canopy Gallery, Netanya (2019); Dépendance, Gallery Mario Kreuzberg, Berlin (2019) and Drifting Singularities, Sputnik Gallery, Tel Aviv(2017). Group exhibitions include All the Days and Nights, Kristin Hjellegjerde Gallery, London (2020); Constellations, Galerie du 6b- St-Denis, France (2019);Where we once were, Yngspc (2019); Interférence, Le Studio, Paris (2018); Five French artists, Primitive Showroom, Tel Aviv (2017); Human factor, Ori artspace, Berlin (2016) and Disfiguring, figuring the unfigurable KelenföldiErömü, Budapest (2015). Highlights and Collections Her work is held in important private and public collections which include Alan Lo Collection (Hong Kong); Museum Azman Collection (Malaysia);Pamela and David Hornik Collection (USA); Selebe Yoon Collection (Senegal); The Beth Rudin Dewoody Collection (USA); Tiroche DeLeon Collection (Israel);Zeifang Collection (Germany) Hercurrent solo show ~ ‘Effet Miroir’, is on view at the Septieme Gallery in Paris through July 10th. Artist website ~ http://www.rebeccabrodskis.com/ SeptiemeGallery ~ https://septiemegallery.com/en/rebecca-brodskis-en/ Kristin_Hjellegjerde_Gallery~https://kristinhjellegjerde.com/exhibitions/133/overview/ She_Curates~ https://www.she-curates.com/interviews/artists/rebecca-brodskis/ Cassina Projects ~ https://www.cassinaprojects.com/rebecca-brodskis Wall Street International Magazine ~ https://wsimag.com/art/62982-rebecca-brodskis-tomorrow-is-another-day Interlocutor ~https://interlocutorinterviews.com/new-blog/2021/2/1/rebecca-brodskis-interview-kristin-hjellegjerde-gallery-arret-sur-image

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Wardel Milan

Episode 75 features New York-based artist Wardell Milan. He works in mixed media, combining elements of photography, drawing, painting, and collage. Milan’s practice is conceptually grounded in photography, often using photographs as initial inspiration behind composition of drawings and collages. Referencing artists such as Robert Mapplethorpe, Diane Arbus, Andres Serrano, Alec Soth, and Eugene Richards, Milan appropriates, and in some cases re-appropriates the photographs, and thus the bodies depicted. Milan also uses images and objects to establish allegorical connections between history and contemporary events. Milan’s ongoing series “Death, Wine, Revolt,” which combines photography, drawing, painting, collage, and sculpture to explore themes of over-indulgence, destruction, and revolution. While earlier series such as “Parisian Landscapes” looked inward, to personal questions of freedom and desire, Milan made the works on view in response to the turmoil of the global moment. Works by the artist may be found in the collections of The Art Institute of Chicago; Museum of Contemporary Photography, Chicago; Denver Art Museum; Brooklyn Museum, New York; Hessel Museum of Art, Bard College, New York; The Museum of Modern Art, New York; The Morgan Library & Museum, New York; The Studio Museum in Harlem, New York; Whitney Museum of American Art, New York; UBS Art Collection; Daniel & Florence Guerlain Contemporary Art Foundation, Paris; Hall Art Foundation; and San Francisco Museum of Modern Art. Milan lives and works in New York. Artist website ~ https://wardellmilan.com Bronx Museum - http://www.bronxmuseum.org/exhibitions/wardell-milan-amerika-god-bless-you-if-itand39s-good-to-you Culture Type - https://www.culturetype.com/2021/07/14/on-view-wardell-milan-amerika-god-bless-you-if-its-good-to-you-at-bronx-museum-of-the-arts-in-new-york/ Musee Magazine - https://museemagazine.com/features/2020/10/22/exhibition-review-wardell-milan-at-fraenkel-gallery The Brooklyn Rail - https://brooklynrail.org/2020/02/criticspage/Pentimenti Hyperallergic - https://hyperallergic.com/502980/a-disruptor-of-race-and-sex/ ArtForum - https://www.artforum.com/picks/wardell-milan-78442 Wikipedia - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wardell_Milan