Two Cuban-born artists talk about their experiences as child refugees in the 1960s and how that has affected their work.
Brian Hitselberger and Jessica Wohl on Converging Paths
Two artists and longtime friends discuss the similarities in their work, and how they arrived at the same place but for different reasons.
Present-Tense Living and Loving Harder: Beth Malone & Tori Tinsley
Two artists discuss how having a parent with frontotemporal dementia has impacted their life and work.
Comedian Tara Ochs Assesses “Pratfall Tramps” at the ACAC
“Pratfall Tramps,” a group show about women, comedy, and performance, closes at the Atlanta Contemporary Art Center on Saturday, April 11. Matthew Terrell asked his improv instructor, local comedic actress Tara Ochs, to weigh in on the exhibition. They visited the show with curator Rachel Reese; their conversation delves into the finer points of comedy from the…
Three Curators Discuss University Galleries
University galleries function in a sphere that straddles academia and museums. Perhaps this is a distinctive position, allowing for academic inquiry, flexibility, nimbleness, and the imperative for challenge without the burden of museum tradition. To explore this potential and its particular challenges, I invited Lia Newman, director and curator at Davidson College, and Yasmeen Siddiqui,…
IN PRINT: Artist Exchange—Jiha Moon & Renée Stout
Jiha Moon: Narratives and your work have almost symbiotic relationships that exist somewhere between reality and fantasy, and you are in the middle of that. Are you Fatima when you make your work in your studio, or do you go back and forth between Renée and Fatima? Renée Stout: Fatima Mayfield wasn’t my first alter…
Talking Heads: Curtis Ames, Andrew Boatright & Kojo Griffin
Three recent MFAs talk about their graduate school experience and how it has or has not affected their work and processes. Curtis Ames and Kojo Griffin just completed their degrees this year and recently participated in two-person ping-pong event called weak hand for “Double Date,” a series of one-night shows spearheaded by MINT Gallery’s Candice Greathouse (Ames’s wife). Andrew Boatright,…
Talking Heads: Leaving Atlanta In Pursuit of an MFA
We asked Andre Keichian and Nikita Gale (a BURNAWAY board member) to discuss their decisions to pursue an MFA and to do it somewhere other than Atlanta. Coincidentally, both are heading to California schools in August, Gale to UCLA and Keichian to CalArts. They’ve individually been visible presences on the Atlanta scene. Gale earned her BA in…
Talking Heads: In Nature With Hailey Lowe Fennell
Stephanie Dowda and Hailey Lowe Fennell texted from their favorite nature spots in their respective cities.
Preview and Interview: David Courtright on The Creatives Project’s Fund-raiser at the Goat Farm Arts Center
The Creatives Project’s annual exhibition and fundraiser, Momentum: Exit to the Future, is taking place this Friday, October 18 at the Goat Farm Arts Center. The Creatives Project is a nonprofit arts organization that helps to give exhibition, studio, and living space to artists through its artist-in-residency program. It allows audiences across the nation the…
Talking Heads: Interview with Alison Feldish & Derek Frech, Creators of whoworeitbetter.info
“And there’s a certain money shot that everyone goes to especially if they’re making a three-dimensional object. There’s a way to photograph a thing to make it look the best way: a certain type of lighting, a certain type of space behind it, and blah, blah, blah.”
Talking Heads: Joelle Dietrick and Judy Rushin, June 2013
Deep into a collaborative project for their upcoming exhibition Hackers and Painters, October 10–November 6, 2013, at the Alexander Brest Museum in Jacksonville, FL, Joelle Dietrick and Judy Rushin broke away from their Tallahassee, FL studios to talk about collaboration and the solo projects that led them to work together. Joelle Dietrick: As I was…
Talking Heads: Suburbia and Its Discontents
Atlanta artists Meg Aubrey and Christina Price Washington email about grass and mining other suburban symbols.
Talking Heads: NYC Armory and Art Fair Week, Wrap-Up
Stuart Horodner and Craig Drennen have an early morning chat around their recent trips to NYC during Armory fair week.