Bad at Sports

And, we're back! Chicago artists' artist Kyle Schlie sits down with Jesse and Brian to talk about his current exhibition at Stanley Brown Jewelist, the Globe Al Chemical Company, the expanded soap opera By Way of Today (through which he collaborates with Cameron Gibson and a cast of literal dozens) and his distinctive parafictive hand-hewn conceptualism. Kyle's work is generous, wide-ranging and j...

Megafauna hosts, Jesse Malmed and Ryan Peter Miller, hold an animated exchange with curator Kate Sierzputowski and artists Danielle Rosen and Dominique Knowles , discussing  The Intuitive Language of an Extended Hand , an exhibition currently on display at  Julius Ceasar , which also features artist  Emilie Gossiaux.  In the spirit of the exhibition, the conversation decries the  anthropocentric h...

On this beautiful September day in Bridgeport, a collaboration of collaborationists convene in the WLPN studio with the B@SC crew.  Nick   Butcher , one half of the graphic art collaborative,  Sonnenzimmer , along with Megan Jedrysiak and Jackson Ammenheuser of  AppleButter Animated , a Chicago based animation studio, assemble to discuss their upcoming exhibition at  Public Works Gallery ,  I'm No...

On today's show Dana and Duncan are joined in the Lumpen studios by conceptual heavyweight, Abraham Cruzvillegas. We discuss the work and intention behind The Ballad of Etc., a new exhibition opening at The Arts Club of Chicago on September 12th featuring a musical performance in collaboration with experimental jazz ensemble, Restroy. In addition his brilliant conversation, Cruzvillegas shares a p...

In this week's episode we check in with Houston based artist Lisa Lapinski . On the opening day of the NADA Chicago invitational Lapinsky makes time to sit down and talk about Minneapolis art institutions , underpants, tobacco, and bingo and a post-Orientalist America. We check in about childhood myths and modernist sculpture, and recognize the vaping horrors being experienced by the youth of Amer...

The fall art season is at hand! Ryan & Brian sit down with painter Jason Dunda and FLXST gallerist  Jan Bernabe in anticipation of Jason's exhibition Twelve Step Program for Iconoclasm . Severed heads, Spock, studio first aid kits, and student sound experiments are discussed in ernest.

On this week's installment of B@SC, the team connects with Kasia Houlihan and Nabiha Kahn, Co-Directors of  Weinberg/Newton Gallery . With a recent move to Chicago's west loop, Weinberg/Newton Gallery 's  first exhibition,  The Way the Mystic Sees , is in partnership with  Human Rights Watch , surveying contemporary perspectives and historical approaches to technology and surveillance. 

On this week's harrowing tale of visual art, the Bad@Sports team sits down with artist  Amanda   Assaley  and curator  Adia Sykes , currently featured in the exhibition  Reclamation: of time, of agency, of narrative   at  Acre Exhibitions .  Assaley 's sculptural work manipulates domestic objects, addressing the dynamics of control and agency from a cultural and personal perspective. Sykes, i nfor...

Today on Bad at Sports, Erin Hayden joins Brian, Dana and Jesse to chat about her shows at the Chicago Artists Coalition (up now!) and the University Galleries at Illinois State University (opening Friday, 8/9!). Surface, depth, backwards, forwards, improvisation, composition, typewriting, Celtic mythology, upstate, downstate, dreamstate — we go there and elsewhere in a wide-ranging conversation w...

On today's episode of Bad at Sports Center, Jesse, Dana and Brian are joined by artists Holly Murkerson and Kaylee Wyant, whose collaborative exhibition "Come Roaming" is on view at the Comfort Station. We discuss their individual practices as well as their work as part of the ADDS DONNA artist-run space and collective.    A closing reception for "Come Roaming" took place on August 3rd from 5-8pm,...

This week on Bad at Sports Center, Dana, Ryan and Jesse are joined in the studio by veteran artist and activist, Aaron Hughes. We discuss the recent National Veterans Art Museum Triennial, taking place across three prestigious venues in the city of Chicago. We have a fascinating conversation on contemporary [mis]understandings of the veteran art community as well as the interrelated exhibitions of...

Bad at Sports is pleased to present a recording of our recent panel on art radio at Common Field's Philadelphia Convening. Out of Sight brought together a diverse group of art podcasters and radio hosts to discuss radio and podcasting in the realm of contemporary art. We discuss podcasting as practice, archives, income, interview and narrative formats, and technical concerns related to producing y...

On this episode of Bad@Sports the team travels to  NADA Miami 2017 . We speak with  Aramis Gutierrez , a Miami based artist, discusses his orgiastic paintings and iterative institutional edeavors Noguchi Breton, VersaceVersaceVersace and GucciVuitton. We speak with  Denise Kupferschmidt  about the relationship between her graphic figurative drawings and new sculptural forms. AND. THERE. IS. STILL....

You won't want to miss this delightfully juicy and enlightening conversation with living legend and self-described "Black Hornet", Howardena Pindell. On this episode, Dana travels to New York for a special interview with the well-known artist and activist, who joins Bad at Sports as the first major survey of her work, "Howardena Pindell: What Remains to be Seen" ends its multi-museum run at the Ro...

On this episode of Bad@Sports the team travels to  NADA Miami 2017 . We speak with Justin Polera, designer or  Exhibitionary , an iOS app and mobile optimized art guide, covering the latest exhibitions across the globe. We speak with Hubert Neumann and Alison Wolfson about their new model for art collection through  Neumann Wolfson Art  based out of the Upper East Side of Manhattan. And to close t...

This week we talk Cuba, books and artistic exchange with Chicago's Dianna Frid. In advance of the opening of...  CROSS CURRENTS / INTERCAMBIO CULTURAL JULY 11, 2019 5:00 PM - 8:00 PM   FOOD !    MUSIC ! Smart Museum of Art      5550 S. Greenwood  Avenu e, Chicago, IL 60637 JULY 11–AUGUST 18, 2019   For more information and museum hours visit  https://smartmuseum. uchicago.edu/exhibitions/ cross-cu...

Today on Bad at Sports Center, Naomi Potter of the Esker Foundation drops into the studio with fellow Calgarian, DMack Mackenzie. Potter tells us about exhibitions and programing at Esker, and discusses her work building an arts institution from the ground up. We weirdly ask her to imagine if the B@S team were all babies (which we are), and give a few of our own Chicago art viewing recommendations...

I am Alberto Aguilar. For this episode of Bad at Sports I'm joined with Lorelei Stewart to be interviewed by Dana, Ryan, Duncan and co-guest Jesse Malmed. How is Jesse a co-guest? Shouldn't he be a guest co-host? I have allowed for questions. We are here to talk about my survey exhibition 'moves on human scale' (it is not a retrospective) at Gallery 400 which runs through June 15, but may go a mon...

  Open Meeting for Arts Educators and Teaching Artists   How might arts educators gather together to develop, share, and practice pedagogies that foster collective skills and values?   Friday 5/17 from 6-8pm Facilitators: Members of the Pedagogy Group   The Pedagogy Group is a group of educators, cultural workers, and political organizers who resist the individualist, market-driven subjectivities...

  This week we welcome Chicago-based contemporary artist Audrius Plioplys,  practicing neurologist and visual artist for more than 40 years, talks brain, soul, string theory, convergence, and art. We start with his exhibition at the Stevanovich Institute on the Formation of Knowledge at the University of Chicago and lost in the hallways of the mind.    

Bad @ Sports Center fans gets a double-header this week when director Lin Hixon and dramaturg Matthew Goulish deliver on their current performance collaborative  Every house has a door ,  and their formative history with  Goat Island  performance ensemble. Building from the ground up, Dana and Ryan discuss the acquisition of the  Goat Island  archives by the SAIC's  John M. Flaxman Library , the o...

  On this episode of Bad at Sports Center, Dana and Brian are joined by abstract painter, Pooja Pittie. Pittie discusses the new work in her upcoming exhibition, Moon Illusion, at McCormick Gallery as well as her fascinating journey from entrepreneur to full time artist. 
 More information about Pittie's May 4th exhibition can be found here:  http://www.thomasmccormick. com/exhibitions/115

BFAMFAPhD, Making and Being , teaching tools, installation detail, exhibition at the Dekalb Gallery, Pratt Institute, PROJECT THIRD residency, summer 2018. Photograph by João Enxuto. Event 6: Group Agreements   What group agreements are necessary in gatherings that occur at residencies, galleries, and cultural institutions today?   Friday 4/19 from 6-8pm Sarah Workneh, and Danielle Jackson   Sarah...

Join Bad at Sports Center for a summer-facing conversation with Threewalls Director and independent curator, Jeffreen M. Hayes, Ph. D. We speak with Haynes following the announcement that AFRICOBRA: Nation Time, the second iteration of her recent exhibition at MoCA in North Miami will travel to Italy as an official Collateral Event at the 2019 Venice Biennale. Hayes discusses the process of curati...

In this episode we welcome back three long lost friends. We pull Richard Holland and Christian Kuras out of retirement to speak deeply and profoundly about the complexities of museum funding. We visit the studio of Michael Rakowitz to talk about what it's like to be considered for the Whitney biennial and to choose not to participate. Then to have that choice forced to become a public act and to f...