Cerebral Women Art Talks Podcast

Episode Twenty – Four features Marcus Jansen. Over the last twenty-five years he has pioneered a raw concentrated reality in his often socially and politically charged critical landscape works. His unique oeuvre serves as an emotive and insightful critique of the contemporary American and global political and sociological landscape. A former U.S. Army soldier turned combatant for the avant-garde,...

Episode Twenty-Three features Brittney Leeanne Williams a Chicago-based artist, originally from Los Angeles. Her work has been exhibited in New York, Los Angeles, San Francisco, Miami (Untitled Art Fair), and Venice, Italy (Venice Biennale), as well as in Chicago and throughout the Midwest. Williams attended Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture (2017) and The School of the Art Institute of C...

Episode Twenty-Two features Sean Green. Born in Jamaica and raised in Toronto, Sean Green holds a BA in Computer Science from York University. Since graduating in 2011, Sean has been the consummate entrepreneur following his instincts, which eventually lead him to the business of art. Based in Los Angeles, Sean oversees all aspects of ARTERNAL’s evolution, in partnership with his co-founders. Foun...

Episode Twenty-one features Sarah Workneh. 2020 marks her 10th year as Co-Director at Skowhegan. Prior to her tenure, Sarah was the Associate Director of Ox-Bow for 9 years. Primarily focused on the educational program, and off-season programming with Alumni, Sarah leads all efforts to support artists in the expansion of their practices. Understanding the holistic nature of the program, Sarah over...

Welcome. A brief introduction to the Cerebral Women art talks podcast.

Episode Twenty features David Antonio Cruz, a multidisciplinary artist and a Professor of the Practice in Painting and Drawing at the School of the Museum of Fine Arts at Tufts University. Cruz fuses painting and performance to explore the visibility and intersectionality of brown, black, and queer bodies. Cruz received a BFA in painting from Pratt Institute and an MFA from Yale University. He att...

Episode Nineteen features June Edmonds, a west coast based abstract painter that was awarded the AWARE prize during the 2020 Armory show in NYC. AWARE, an acronym for Archives of Women Artists, Research and Exhibitions is a Paris based non profit that this year debuted an award for a Solo Exhibition of Work by a Woman Artist. June’s work was exhibited by the Luis De Jesus Los Angeles Gallery. She...

Episode Eighteen features Brooklyn based painter-sculptor Kennedy Yanko. Kennedy’s practice is profound, and her work is unique. She has redefined her paintings as skins and combines these unconventional paintings with metal and other hard found objects and creates beautiful, unexpected sculptures. “Since debuting sculptures from her "Elements and Skin" collection as part of a Derrick Adams-curate...

Episode Seventeen features Odili Odita. He is an abstract painter whose work explores color both in the figurative historical context, and in the sociopolitical sense. He is best known for his large-scale canvases with kaleidoscopic patterns and vibrant hues, which he uses to reflect the human condition. Born in Nigeria and raised in the American Midwest, Odita’s work is also heavily inspired by a...

Episode Sixteen features Nathaniel Mary Quinn. 'Quinn’s passion for drawing began at a young age, while he was growing up on the South Side of Chicago. In ninth grade, he received a scholarship to attend Culver Academies boarding school in Indiana—but a month after arriving at the school, Quinn received news from his father that his mother had suddenly passed away. He returned to Chicago for Thank...

Episode Fifteen features Carrie Mae Weems (b. 1953 Portland, OR; lives and works in Syracuse, NY). She is widely renowned as one of the most influential contemporary American artists living today. Over the course of nearly four decades, Weems has developed a complex body of work employing text, fabric, audio, digital images, installation, and video, but she is most celebrated as a photographer. Ac...

Episode Fourteen features Paula Crown, a multimedia artist with a practice encompassing drawing, painting, video, and sculpture. She incorporates cutting-edge technology, social activism, collaboration, and a commitment to sustainability in her studio practice. Crown has had several solo exhibitions including the Aspen Institute, Dallas Contemporary, Marlborough Gallery, New York, Venice concurren...

Episode Thirteen features Monique Long, an independent curator of contemporary visual art and performance. Her interests include interdisciplinary practices, popular culture, and art that addresses political and social issues. Her forthcoming exhibition, Elegies: Still Lifes in Contemporary Art  at the Museum of African Diaspora in San Francisco, will showcase works by contemporary artists who pri...

Episode Twelve features John E. Dowell, Jr., a nationally recognized artist. His work captures the pulse of cities and agricultural landscapes of America in his large-scale photographs. Working primarily from sunset until dawn, he focuses on the surface of buildings, the reflections of their exteriors and, quietly, their interior spaces. Illuminating the unseen, he brings awareness to a single mom...

Episode Eleven is the first episode discussing COVID-19 and how its arrival has impacted one of many communities within the art world. Featured is Nico Wheadon, the executive director of NXTHVN, a multidisciplinary arts incubator in New Haven, Connecticut. She is an adjunct assistant professor of Art History and Africana Studies at Barnard College, and Professional Practices at Hartford Art School...

Episode Ten features Marcus Brutus. He is a self-taught artist, who currently resides outside of Washington, DC and New York City. He holds a BS from St. John's University in Queens, New York, and previously worked in public relations positions in the fashion industry. Being unfulfilled Marcus decided to pursue a career as an artist and has clearly proven to be a talented figurative painter. Marcu...

Episode Nine features photographer Michael Halsband. He grew up in Manhattan and at age ten became interested in photography as a hobby after learning how to produce a print from start to finish. Michael pursued his passion and was accepted into the School of Visual Arts (SVA). Before graduating in 1981 he began photographing portraits for several magazines and thereafter worked with Interview, Av...

Episode Eight features Pauline Willis, the CEO and director of the American Federation of Arts. The AFA is the leader in traveling exhibitions internationally and is an important institution that introduces the visual arts to communities that may not otherwise be exposed to them. In her role Pauline has the unique opportunity to work with prestigious art institutions, esteemed collectors and amazi...

Episode Seven features emerging artist and painter Anastasiya Tarasenko. Born in Kiev Ukraine, Anastasiya moved to New York City with her family at six years of age and has resided in the city ever since. She attended art schools early on and ultimately received her MFA from the New York Academy of Art in 2017. Her work is influenced by artists such as Hieronymus Bosch, Albrecht Durer, Jean Fouque...

In Episode Six I interview visual artist M.Florine Démosthène. She was born in the United States and raised between Haiti and New York. At times she resides in Ghana where she moved after abruptly deciding to build her practice without the drama of being an artist in New York City. Florine earned her Bachelor of Fine Arts from Parsons School for Design in New York and her Master of Fine Arts from...

In Episode Five we feature Chela Mitchell, an art advisor based in Harlem who has extensive knowledge of the emerging black contemporary art market. She has a deep appreciation of the industry, particularly supporting black artists. Chela started collecting during her late twenties and founded her art advisory business in 2016. She provides art advisory services to private, public, and new collect...

Episode four features Nigerian American artist Ike Ude. He is a photographer, a performance artist and author of several books and founder and publisher of aRude magazine. In 2017 Ike spoke during a Global Ted Talk in Tanzania to discuss his book ‘Nollywood Portraits: A Radical Beauty a stunning publication depicting major Nigerian’s in the media. His work is in the permanent collections of the Gu...

In Episode Three we feature visual artist Nate Lewis. His first solo exhibition is opening March 1, 2020 at the Fridman Gallery in Manhattan. He is currently in several group shows including the Smithsonian Institution Group traveling show and 21 c Museum Hotel in Cincinnati. For further details see links provided. ‘Nate Lewis explores history through patterns, textures, and rhythm, creating medit...

In an inaugural episode of the Cerebral Women Podcast, we interview Brooklyn based figurative painter Deborah Brown. Her many accomplishments as an artist are impressive, as is her unrelenting advocacy and support of artists. Her paintings are in many museum, private and corporate collections. She has been a visiting artist and lecturer at several universities including Hunter College, Pace Univer...

In an inaugural episode of the Cerebral Women Podcast, we interview artist, photographer and lecturer Renee Cox. She shares her opinion on several topics revealing her critical views on female sexuality, beauty, power and humanity. Her current body of work includes her provocative photography uniquely manipulated by technology. The New York Times recently invited Renee to photograph Nick Cave for...