Welcome to our fifth episode of Y2K GROUP CHAT featuring artist Anjuli Rathod. We recorded in late September 2020.

We talk with Anjuli about her studio practice, making art at a young age, the space in-between worlds, communicating with the passed, creating a character named Red, life and death cycles, and ideas of grieving in her work.

Anjuli Rathod is an emerging artist working in Brooklyn.

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Coinciding with this new episode release is Y2K-NOW presenting recent works on paper by Anjuli Rathod on our website to buy now.

Audio timestamps below:

0:00 - Intro Music

0:15 - Y2K GROUP CHAT introduction

0:34 - Anjuli Rathod introduction and bio

0:56 - Rathod exhibition history

1:44 - Y2K-NOW + Anjuli Rathod

2:10 - Hello and Happy Fridays

2:40 - Name

3:05 - What are you working on?

3:37 - Where’s your studio?

4:37 - What are your first memories with art?

5:15 - Mr. Miller art teacher

6:10 - What inspired you when you were younger?

7:12 - Statues from parents and small paintings

8:54 - What did your parents think about you pursuing art when you were young?

10:27 - Medical books

11:20 - rotten dot com

12:26 - Where did you grow up?

12:36 - Did you imagine a future in New York?

13:27 - Boston

14:09 - Museum

14:21 - MIT

14:58 - Undergrad in Boston

16:04 - Flexibility and preparing to be an artist while in school

16:33 - Did you explore other mediums?

17:09 - Would you revisit past mediums?

17:29 - Recent ceramic work

18:15 - Spiritual elements in current work

18:53 - Life, death cycles, and grieving

19:33 - Creating Red and her journey

20:21 - Monk

20:59 - Hallucinating the passed

21:56 - Paintings imagining in-between spaces and communing

23:07 - Visions?

23:50 - Dream imagery

24:15 - Moon?

25:36 - Observers

26:09 - Butterfly meaning

27:40 - Illuminations

29:35 - Afterlife?

31:30 - Lost + The Leftovers

32:42 - Interstate Projects

34:37 - Working with acrylic and flashe + watercolor

38:07 - How are your drawings incorporated in your practice?

40:32 - Pandemic

45:05 - Revisiting galleries

47:14 - Sketching and ceramics?

48:48 - The Mystic Spiral

51:10 - Future and ceramics?

53:30 - Spirals in everything

54:02 - Continuing the series and Red’s journey

55:23 - More about Red, Anne Carson, Bhanu Kapil

58:53 - Questions / Astrology

1:00:19 - Animation, film, sci-fi

1:04:12 - Thank you