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Welcome to cool WIP, a silver space podcast! This season we're bringing you 100% Certified Fresh conversations with artists, and curators practicing in St. Louis and beyond. Keep listening to hear more about what's good in contemporary art, Tinder, Monster Energy guitars, mop water shots, hostile Minnesotans, and maybe key lime pie, among other topics of conversation.
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THE MAQ IS BACK! Surprise surprise… Troy Sherman, Curator at University Galleries of Illinois State University aka the founder, editor, and writer of St. Louis’ most controversial critical compendium Midwest Art Quarterly is live and in the studio. We’re talkin’ Cape Cod, curation, Captain Beef Heart, Rolling Stone, post-modernists in recovery, crises of faith, art writing vs. criticism, Regina George, and anonymity. Oh… and of course… The theory behind the critical journal Midwest Art Quarterly, the void in actual critique, access to language, getting other people to write for you, guerrilla distribution techniques, the role of humor, and the role of the critic. You can check out VOLUME TWO of Midwest Art Quarterly which will be released in the coming weeks… Check their Instagram to find out when you can get your hands on the latest issue. IG: @midwestartquarterly
RUN RUN RUN! To hear our SEASON FOUR opener, Betsy Zeitler-Ellison This episode is getting released just as Betsy’s first solo exhibition RUN RUN RUN closes at Monaco, so ICYMI… we're talkin art goths, pre-JUULs, New Dark Ages, HTML, rabbit pelts, a grand unified theory of pain, AI image generators, karaoke clubs, gray-hounds, the way in which representation recognizes the dissonance caused by experience, the fracturing of a once-whole “self” into parallel “selves,” the potency of transforming cleaved identities into literal familiars which function as characters in the narratives we tell ourselves in the wake of trauma, and how to make all of that kind of funny and beautiful. Find Betsy on IG: @b.eszi or her website: www.beszi.work/
BUT WAIT there’s more! We have a special returning guest joining Nathaniel - just 4 U! We’re talkin’ Nathaniel's latest show of large scale paintings Like a Pile of Mud on view at the Bunker in Silico, Young Dolph, white trash aesthetics, trading punk for plein aire painting, fire, mark making, erasure, band names, the residency conundrum, how one man’s painting practice is another’s anxiety nightmare, the Madonna and Child, oil markers, the best ways to honestly represent complicated and conflicting emotions, figuration, dollar-store machetes, smoking and the absence of smoking, basements, and of course – a little band called KORN. Let me tell you, this episode… butt-rocks. Find Nathaniel at https://www.nathanielcpraska.com/ or on IG:@nathaniel_c_praska Also: @bunker_in_silico @kalaija.m
Granny getchur square because we’re makin paaaaaper with practicing artist Emily Mueller! We’re talkin’ sad girls, couture crochet, Ferris Bueller vs. Risky Business, the catch-22 of the female gaze, meditation, avocado egg-tempura, big sweaters, elbow length gloves, summersaults, reacting to critique, and how shifting mediums altered Mueller’s relationship with making — ultimately leading to a deftly disguised practice that navigates the complexities of the body, mark making, image making, and language. Find Emily at emilymuellerart.com/ @ferris_muellerz
Great walls of fire! We’re coolin’ with the director of The Latent Space / master of mediums, practicing artist Kalan Strauss. We’re talkin’ Los Angeles, manifesting, Lucky the Three Legged Dog, art on the blockchain, purple disco balls, Mike Talayna’s Jukebox and Pizza Open Until 3 AM (now closed), Hollywood, soap operas, and how Strauss’ expansive, diverse practice challenges the veracity of the images presented to us. Currently splitting time between LA and Chicago, Strauss embodies openness, curiosity, and a comfort with being malleable. His artistic and curatorial practices are fluid, unrestricted to a single medium or subject. Check out The Latent Space’s exchange show Warm Walls, a duo exhibition of work by Andrew Park & S.H. KIM that was curated by Strauss, on view at Monaco through July 9th. Find Kalan at kalanstrauss.com/ and @kalan.eth on Instagram Find The Latent Space at thelatentspace.art/ @thelatentspace on Instagram
Welcome to Esthercom!!! Anything is possible with the neon queen… the incredible Brooklyn based sculptor Esther Ruiz. She traveled ACROSS THE COUNTRY to come cool with us for the opening of her site specific solo show Hall of Exits, at Monaco - organized by our very own, Nick Schleicher. We’re talking Turrel, Space Opera Suzukis, the glory days of American Apparel, electric gooey rib cages, and the way in which Ruiz’s neon sculptures use the process of distillation and the seductive power of reduction to create pseudo-spiritual objects designed to invoke mystical, meditative portals to another dimension. Find her and her work www.estherruiz.com/ and @esther___ruiz on Instagram. *Episode Note* It was brought to our attention that we mispronouced Esther's last name in the introduction. The correct pronunciation is "roo EEZ." We will be sure to correct it moving forward. Thank you for listening, and we are always open and eager for any feedback!
OMG!!! The dog ate my bacteria!!! This week, we’re wiggin out over visual artist / young mad scientist Connor Dolan. This week, we’re coolin with our youngest, most daring guest, who has somehow found a way to obtain yellowcake uranium as an unemployed college student… Visual artist Connor Dolan is galavanting around the mines of Missouri, breaking into toxic dumps, contacting overseas suppliers, and shutting down art schools with his highly conceptual work. Informed by the scientific process and employing the principles of the grotesque, Dolan incorporates dark or highly dangerous materials to develop a haunting, beautiful, and transcendent body of work that tricks you into exploring concealed, neglected, and taboo subject matter. We’re talkin bacterial self portraits, breaking your own legs, needles, and of course, fish having sex in wigs. Find him and his work @csnnor and www.connordolan.net/
Call her mother. We’re kicking off season three with Kalaija Mallery - everyone’s favorite organizer, artist, and metaphorical mother hen. Holy freaking smokes, it’s szn 3 and we are spillin’ tea and other beverages with everyone’s art mom, Kalaija Mallery. Kalaija is a practicing artist, gallery manager at The Luminary, exhibition photographer, creator, caretaker, and facilitator of art spaces and communities across the country. We’re talkin’ myspace pics, fast and casual salads, anarchic art spaces, untethered aesthetics, freedom: cult of self expression, punctdom, solipsistic photography, and navigating a capitalist system while maintaining an ethical praxis. @Kalaija.m on Instagram
It’s another meaty one… This week we’re coolin’ with longtime friends Edo Rosenblith and Erik S Peterson! We’re talking about EVERYTHING including their show Monument Valley at Monaco, milky substrates, the Boss, promptly moving to Brooklyn, the Hulk, tumblr death, how authorship changes in the face of collaboration, and finally, the way in which art is the last vestige of magical thinking that we’ve permitted in Contemporary society as we navigate what we value, what we choose to remember, and how we construct our personal histories. @edorosenblith on Instagram and edorosenblith.com @ricktatum on Instagram
This week we’re coolin’ with one of the biggest weirdos we know, Howard Krohn! We’re talking Monaco, manifesting cable, hamster deaths, the lack of oblique agendas, and the way in which the ambiguity of a mark, the visible stages of revision, and the playfulness of mistakes made permanent, allow the viewer just a moment, to escape into and empathize with Krohn’s process driven abstract paintings. @Howard_Krohn on Instagram
It’s spooky SZN and this week we’re investigating the Roswell Incident, a man named Stump, and a bounce blastin’ rodeo… it’s the one, the only, Reuben Hemmer. Reuben’s photographic practice has taken him from basic training to Bonerville and everywhere in between as he uses his camera to capture the most surreal, ethereal, and authentic aspects of the quotidian Midwestern experience. With a genuine desire to connect with his subjects and surroundings, he presents incredible stories that defy voyeurism, distilling every frame to its vulnerable, empathetic core. @Reubenhemmer on Instagram
Rachel Hayden, badass Brooklyn based painter and bat-wing liner enthusiast, manifests order out of chaos. Through the paradoxical power of painting parameters, Hayden allows herself the freedom to explore the duality and ambiguity of self-identity, loss, anxiety, and the occupation of space in her hyper-saturated “life on canvas” described by a unique code of recurring symbols. We’re talking butterflies, clip-art, buff babes, and TAMMY FREAKIN’ BROWN. Catch Hayden's work on IG @rachelahayden
Vaughn Davis Jr. has centered his incredibly prolific practice around breaking all the rules as he locates himself within the gallery and by extension, the world. We’re talkin’ mayonnaise cake, riding' goofy, Yeezys, and work that rests in the ambiguous space between painting and sculpture, as it rebukes formalism, deconstructs traditional systems, documents its own making, and reforms to embody the time, space, emotion, and body of the maker. Catch Davis’ latest work in" Shady Beautiful” at Malin Gallery or on IG @vaughndavis__
Representational painter Chloe West isn’t judging you for looking, but she wants you to know that she knows. Bone collecting, the Devil’s Tower, vanitas, modern dance, misidentified decapitation… West's work is both seductive and reclusive, as her figures populate the space between voyeuristic intrigue and unmitigated agency, implicating you, the viewer. Check out her latest show “11” online at PM/AM gallery or her Instagram @chloe.m.west
Character studies, cerebral darts, flash fiction, the uncertainty of ochre, Carl Jung; Rachel Lebo’s work has the unique ability to shuttle you into the discomfort of ambiguity. Her paintings and installations run the gamut of emotions as she transports us into a parallel universe of fiction that may be more honest than reality. We’re talkin psychology, architecture, frommage-it’s, mollusks, the controversial role of the Electric Slide at a wedding, and a love of vomit-shit colors. Make sure you check out her show “A Bull Called Flamingo” at G-CADD. Follow her @rachel_margueritte and perhaps inquire about her DJ services
It's another I-70 series matchup with Kansas City based painter / sculptor / bad boy Kombucha brewmeister Cullen Curtis! We’re talkin' death, destruction, termites, Primordial Oooooze, Google Spreadsheets, and the way in which Cullen’s work reconceptualizes the formal elements of abstraction and reconsiders materials to assess everything from entropy to the impact of the human experience on the built environment. Follow him @cullencurtis and @primordialkombucha for that booch booch
That’s her name, don’t wear it out! It’s Bianca Fields everybody!! We caught up with painter, sculptor, and all around bad gal, Bianca Fields to discuss her latest show at Dragon Crab Turtle Studio “Rowdy Like a Racoon” and things got… bloody. We’re talkin puppets, Pee Wee, the grotesque, Sunday Cartoons, art crushes, and the way in which Field’s work encapsulates, celebrates, and elevates the state of cognitive dissonance allowing for the psychological exploration of performance, tension, and of course, humor. Follow her @beeyonkerz and biancafields.weebly.com
It's szn 2 episode 2 and we are coolin' it down with some SOFT serve. This week co-founders Brittany Jasin and Ariana Velazquez share how the courage to be vulnerable sparked one of the best designed qtrly publications in the game: SOFT. They take us through what it's like to self-publish, create a community around empathy and strength, and remain true to your mission and merch, all at the same time. Follow them @soft.qtrly and order the Spring issue on www.softqtrly.com. @ariianapearl @britjasin
We wanted to kick off the season with this wild, funky, and vulnerable conversation with craft based artist Janie Stamm! We’re talkin motorcycle patches, Florida, gay line-dancing, crocodykes, theme parks, and the way in which Stamm lovingly preserves and communicates the intricacies of queer history and ecological erasure through her unabashedly kitschy, hyper-vibrant, prolific practice. And, QuikTrip, if you’re listening, please stop ghosting her, we want the merch. Check out her work on the gram @glitterpuppies or online janiestamm.com
Visual artist Tim Portlock is our tour guide to the uncanny as we explore his aphoristic, sublime, manufactured, large scale cityscapes that distort reality and maybe bring us closer to a new truth. He's schoolin' us in the history of Hudson River Valley painting, monuments, American Exceptionalism, video games, and obviously that one weird building in New York. Portlock is one of the participants selected for the 2020 Great Rivers Biennial presented by the Contemporary Art Museum St. Louis. Follow him @timportlock and check out his website timportlock.net This episode was brought to you by May's Place and Perennial Artisan Ales. Thank you for making cool WIP possible!
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