BMA Director Christopher Bedford and Berlin-based, South African artist Candice Breitz talk about her inspiration for the two works, Love Story, which addresses the worldwide refugee crisis, and TLDR, a film about the treatment of sex workers in South Africa. Ms. Breitz’s immersive, multi-media installation, Candice Breitz: Too Long, Didn’t Read, will be on view at the BMA through January 10, 2021.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
Baltimore-based artist Elissa Blount Moorhead talks with BMA Director Christopher Bedford about Back and Song, her multi-channel video collaboration with cinematographer Bradford Young that explores the pursuit of healing and well-being, especially through music, is at the root of the black experience. Elissa Blount Moorhead and Bradford Young: Back and Song is on view at the BMA from September 23, 2020 through January 3, 2021.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
German artist Katharina Grosse talks with BMA Director Christopher Bedford about her gallery enveloping fabric and paint installation—her first in a U.S. museum—and describes the immersive experience awaiting visitors. Katharina Grosse: Is It You? is on view at the BMA through June 28, 2020.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
Portland, Oregon-based artist Ellen Lesperance talks about her paintings inspired by sweaters worn by activities at the Greenham Common Women’s Peace Camp, creative non-violence, and her Congratulations and Celebrations Sweater, which is worn for personal acts of courage and posted on Instagram. Ellen Lesperance: Velvet Fist is on view at the BMA through June 28, 2020.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
New York-based artist Mickalene Thomas talks with BMA Director Chris Bedford about the recent national and international recognition for black women artists are getting and A Moment’s Pleasure, her new immersive new commission that has transformed the BMA’s East Lobby into a living room for Baltimore.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
BMA Director Christopher Bedford talks to New York-based multi-media artist Leonardo Drew about how the artist gives new life and meaning to the found materials he uses. Mr. Drew also discusses his appreciation and respect for viewers’ different interpretations of his art. Works by the artist are on view in Generations: A History of Black Abstract Art at the BMA through January 19. Free admission will be available to everyone November 23 ---- 24 courtesy of Bank of America, and city residents December 14 ---- 15 courtesy of CareFirst.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
Artist William T. Williams talks about his long career as an abstract painter and his role in mentoring the next generation. Works by Williams are on view at the BMA in Generations: A History of Black Abstract Art and Every Day: Selections from the Collection and in New York at the Michael Rosenfeld Gallery.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
Artist Melvin Edwards talks with BMA Director Christopher Bedford about how his experiences in Africa have influenced his work—including his ongoing Lynch Fragments series—and shares details about his upcoming installation at The Baltimore Museum of Art. Melvin Edwards: Crossroads is on view at the BMA beginning September 29.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
Photographer and performance artist Clifford Owens talks with BMA Director Christopher Bedford about vulnerable interactions in his performance work, growing up in Baltimore, and the BMA’s newly reinstalled contemporary galleries.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
New Orleans-based artists Keith Calhoun and Chandra McCormick discuss their work documenting the men incarcerated at the Louisiana State Penitentiary at Angola—including how they began this project more than 30 years ago and the daily struggles for those incarcerated, released, and exonerated. Their photographs are on view in Slavery, The Prison Industrial Complex: Photographs by Keith Calhoun and Chandra McCormick at the BMA through October 27.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
BMA Director Christopher Bedford interviews Kenyan-American artist Wangechi Mutu about her transition from working in collage to bronze sculpture and this moment of success for her and other black female artists. Mutu’s Water Woman sculpture is on view at the BMA.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
BMA Director Christopher Bedford talks with Baltimore-based artist Joyce J. Scott about the new exhibition pairing her artwork with that of her mother, Elizabeth Talford Scott, and the legacy of artmaking in her family. Hitching Their Dreams to Untamed Stars: Joyce J. Scott and Elizabeth Talford Scott is on view at the BMA May 15-December 1, 2019.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
BMA Director Christopher Bedford interviews Paul Rucker, an artist determined to create compelling works of art that provoke the mind, body, spirit, and conscience of this ethically embattled world of the 21st century. Their conversation focuses on Paul’s work and the artist’s role in addressing social problems.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
BMA Director Christopher Bedford interviews Berlin-based Swedish artists Nathalie Djurberg and Hans Berg about their creative collaboration making psychologically charged, Surrealist-inspired stop-motion animated films, sculpture, and immersive installations. An exhibition of the artists’ work is on view at the BMA through May 26, 2019. The artists will be in Baltimore for the next Art After Hours event the evening of Friday, May 24, where Hans will debut selections from his new recording of electronic house music.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
BMA Director Christopher Bedford interviews Baltimore-based photographer Ken Royster about the process of creating his black and white documentary images and his recent embrace of color digital images, as well as Ken’s perception of the changes in Baltimore and his experiences in Africa.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
BMA Director Christopher Bedford interviews Lauren Boyle of the New York-based artist collective DIS. Boyle explains how she, Solomon Chase, Marco Roso, and David Toro came up with the collective’s name and describes how they conceive their pop-culture-influenced edutainment videos that visitors will see at the BMA through November 2019.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
BMA Director Christopher Bedford discusses the work of Ebony G. Patterson, whose exhibition at the BMA includes an opulent tapestry with dazzling arrays of found and fabricated materials—glitter, sequins, toys, beads, faux flowers, jewelry, and other embellishments. Patterson talks about these materials and her new work in the BMA’s American Wing, a sculpture that comprises 150 hand-embellished toy guns presented in dialogue with Joshua Johnson’s painting Charles Herman Stricker Wilmans (c. 1804).See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
BMA Director Christopher Bedford explores how the artist collaborators Lizzie Fitch and Ryan Trecartin met and how they work together developing scripts and viewing environments for their frenetic, non-linear movies. The artists’ work is on view at the BMA through January 6, 2019.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
BMA Director Christopher Bedford interviews the acclaimed artist Mark Bradford who represented the U.S. at the Venice Biennale in 2017. The artist talks about the exhibition he created for Venice, its presentation in Baltimore, and about his work with the Greenmount West Community Center. Mark Bradford: Tomorrow Is Another Day is on view at the BMA through March 3, 2019.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
Christopher Bedford talks with Bahamian-born artist Tavares Strachan about his work with scientists at MIT in Cambridge and the Allen Institute in Seattle, the meaning of his compelling new light installation on the BMA’s historic fa\u231\uade, and his ambitious new project for the Carnegie International exhibition in Pittsburgh.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.