Ivy Jones

01/26/22 • 28 min

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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

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Kenny Schachter

Ep.90 features Writer, curator, lecturer, artist, NFT evangelist Kenny Schachter. He has been curating contemporary art exhibits in museums and galleries and teaching (art history and economics) for more than thirty years; presently in the graduate department of the University of Zurich (appointed to advisory board January 2021) professorships at the School of Visual Arts (NY) and New York University. He has lectured internationally, been the recipient of a Rockefeller supported grant in Mexico, and contributed to books on Paul Thek, Zaha Hadid, Vito Acconci and Sigmar Polke/Gerhard Richter. Schachter has a regular column on Artnet.com in addition to writing widely for various international publications including most recently New York Magazine and The Times Magazine (UK). He had a retrospective of his art at Joel Mesler’s Rental Gallery in New York in the summer of 2018, curated an exhibit at Simon Lee Gallery in London, fall 2018 and a one person show at Kantor Gallery, LA, February 2019. He recently staged the first phygital NFT group exhibit at Nagel-Draxler Gallery in Cologne, and participated in a two-person show with Eva Beresin at Galerie Charim in Vienna (both in May 2021) Schachter participated in Art Basel 2021 with Nagel Draxler Gallery. In addition, another one person show is scheduled at Blum & Poe Gallery in Tokyo in 2022. Schachter is presently the subject of a documentary being produced and directed by Chris Smith (Tiger King/Fyre Festival), and a Hulu/ABC NFT film, and has been profiled in The New York Times Magazine (cover story, September, 1996), and London's Observer, Independent and Telegraph. After having made digital art for decades, Schachter has spearheaded the traditional art world’s adaptation of Non Fungible Tokens in 2021 by lecturing from Yale to the Hirschhorn Museum and written 8 feature articles for Artnet on the subject. He has curated wide-ranging NFTism exhibitions (which term he trademarked) at Nagel Draxler in Cologne, Institut in London and Nagel Draxler’s booth in Art Basel Switzerland. Kenny is currently based in New York. The Nagel Draxler gallery has launched in Berlin a space dedicated to NFTs and blockchain related art. The inaugural and current exhibition at the gallery is titled METADADA at Nagel Draxler CRYPTO KIOSK, a solo exhibition featuring Kenny Schachter, thru 12 March 2022 Artist https://www.kennyschachter.art/ https://www.kennyschachter.art/category/interviews-lectures-talks/ https://www.kennyschachter.art/2022/01/kenny-schachter-art-above-all/ Crypto Mutts https://cryptomutts.io Galerie Nagel Draxler https://nagel-draxler.de/ SVA https://sva.edu/events/kenny-schachter-on-nfts-in-the-art-world Coindesk https://www.coindesk.com/business/2021/09/25/art-collectors-swoon-over-nfts-at-elite-basel-gathering/ Observer https://observer.com/2021/06/kenny-schachter-nft-cryptocurrency-rarible/ Artnet http://www.artnet.com/ Unit London https://unitlondon.com/content/feature/998/detail/artworks8704/ Col\ecteurs https://www.collecteurs.com/article/kenny-schachter-on-transparency-in-the-art-world Gallerie Magazine https://galeriemagazine.com/kenny-schachter-manhattan-home/ Vulture https://www.vulture.com/2020/03/inigo-philbrick-art-dealer.html

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vanessa german

Episode 92 features vanessa german. vanessa was born in Milwaukee, WI and currently lives and works in Pittsburgh, PA. She is a self-taught citizen artist working across sculpture, performance, communal rituals, immersive installation, and photography, in order to repair and reshape disrupted systems, spaces, and connections. The artist’s practice proposes new models for social healing, utilizing creativity and tenderness as vital forces to reckon with the historical and ongoing catastrophes of structural racism, white supremacy, heteropatriarchy, resource extraction, and misogynoir. A visual storyteller, vanessa utilizes assemblage and mixed media, combining locally found objects to build protective ritualistic structures known as her power figures or tar babies. Modeled on Congolese Nkisi sculptures and drawing on folk art practices, they are embellished with materials including beading, glass, fabric, and sculpted wood, and come into existence at the axis on which Black power, spirituality, mysticism and feminism converge. Kasmin Gallery https://www.kasmingallery.com/artist/vanessa-german The Art Newspaper https://www.theartnewspaper.com/2021/12/01/handmade-tales-collage-textile-and-assemblage-pieces-abound-at-art-basel-in-miami-beach 90.5 WESA https://www.wesa.fm/arts-sports-culture/2021-02-19/artist-vanessa-germans-homewood-arthouse-looks-to-rebuild-after-fire Studio Museum https://www.studiomuseum.org/event/lea-k-green-artist-talk/vanessa-german Youtube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E5Lbtots9HI State of the art | Crystal Bridges https://stateoftheart.crystalbridges.org/blog/project/vanessa-l-german/ Wikipedia https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vanessa_German Transformative Now https://transformativenow.org/vgerman Fort Gansevoort https://www.fortgansevoort.com/artists/vanessa-german/cv School of Art | Carnegie Mellon University http://www.art.cmu.edu/news/school/vanessa-german-diploma-ceremony-2021/ Museum of West Virginia University https://arts.wvu.edu/news/2021/10/29/vanessa-german-piece-finds-its-home-at-wvu NPR https://www.npr.org/2016/01/24/463859455/young-artists-find-home-and-healing-at-a-pittsburgh-art-house