Fresh Art International

In this episode, professional consultant Tara Gentile talks about what it takes for creatives to thrive in the new economy, challenging assumptions we might have about work/life balance, the starving artist mythos, and true personal success. Sound Editor: Leo Madriz  Special Audio: Aretha Franklin, Soulville, 1968   Related Episode: Kesha Bruce Channels Her Creative Spark Related Posts:...

In a seaside village outside Lisbon, we meet German artist Regina Frank to hear how she's expanding on her longtime theme, The Artist Is Present. Regina talks about the political and cultural issues that interest her and introduces performative installation projects that explore tensions between analog and digital media. Sound Editor: Jay Agoglia Special Audio: Astor Piazolla, Tango Milonga del An...

Recorded with Puerto Rican artist Papo Colo in SoHo during the final exhibition at Exit Art, this nostalgic episode remembers the legendary contemporary art center. Papo and his partner Jeanette Ingberman (1952-2011) collaborated as artists and activists across decades to make a tremendous impact on New York's art scene. In May 2012, as Exit Art prepares to close, Papo readies himself for a new ve...

Living and working in New York and Barcelona, Spanish artist Antoni Muntadas talks about the importance of language and the social body in the multi-media work he's been creating globally since the 1970s. We recorded this episode with Muntadas in Barcelona in early 2012. That year, we had the opportunity to experience his complex conceptual projects in exhibitions at the Reina Sofía Museum,...

With a PhD in English and literary arts from the University of Denver, Khadijah Queen is the author of seven books of poetry and prose. Her work appears and has been praised in O Magazine, The New Yorker, Rain Taxi, and elsewhere. In this 2012 episode, she talks about what is essential in her creative practice and shares poems from her 2011 book Black Peculiar.  Sound Editor: Jason Agogl...

João Paulo Feliciano, a visual artist, musician, music producer and event designer based in Lisbon, talks about how he manages the complexities of his creative practice and why he loves retro-pop. Sound Editor: Leonardo Madriz  Photography courtesy João Paulo Feliciano and Cristina Guerra Special Audio courtesy of Feliciano’s dance orchestra Real Combo Lisbonense, a group...

In 2012, Cathy Byrd shares stories and sounds from ARCO Madrid, Spain's annual contemporary art fair. Stories: Suzanne Rietdijk, curator, ZINGERpresents, Amsterdam; Voluspa Jarpa, artist, Galeria Isabel Aninat, Santiago; and Anna Pahissa, owner/director, múltiplos, Barcelona. Sounds: Fernando Gutierrez +.tape. , Rapsodia; Jonathan Harker + Donna Conlon : Tapitapultas; Karl Holmqvist : Old N...

In his Barcelona studio, designer Martí Guixé talks to Cathy Byrd about his first experimental concepts for Camper pop-up shops, food design and explains how work has become a recreational activity in the 21st century.  Sound Editor: Leonardo Madriz  Photography: Imagekontainer/Knölke, except where noted.  Special Audio: Rechenzentrum, the John Peel Session  ...

Artist, curator and art consultant, Kesha Bruce talks about the complex connections between history, personal mythology and magical-spiritual belief in the African diaspora. Search Fresh Rx on our website, to explore the 21-part artist advice column that she designed especially for Fresh Art International. Sound Editor: Leonardo Madriz | Photography courtesy Kesha Bruce Related Links: Fresh Rx , K...

Danny Simmons, a high profile Brooklyn-based artist, shares the essential elements of his creative practice—writing, painting, collecting and, most of all, philanthropy. The American abstract painter from Queens, NY, once coined his particular style of painting as “neo- African Abstract Expressionism.” His talent and passion for the arts reaches beyond the canvas; he has become a...

In this episode, we share one of the creative projects of our current sound editor, Ira Kip. Theater director Ira Kip talks about the play she wrote to illuminate the raw space between medical politics and domestic violence in the Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transsexual and Queer community. The celebration of her new play She'Baltimore begins with a Valentine's Day benefit at the LOFTheatre in Baltimo...

Frédéric Nauczyciel, a Paris-based artist, describes an elusive subculture that he explored in Baltimore, Washington DC and New York City, and introduces his new photo series: Men In Heels. Sound Editor: Ira Kip | Special Audio: DDM! “Legendary"   Related Episode: Athi Patra Ruga on Global Human Rights   Related Link: Frédéric Nauczyciel

In his Chicago studio, we sit down with Jefferson Pinder to talk about the physical exertion in his work. The video and performance artist explains how Black history, Houdini, street theater, and symbols of power and struggle inform his practice. At the time of this recording, Pinder was preparing for his 2011 appearance as The Escape Artist in Salisbury, Maryland. The performance commemorated the...

New York-based video artist Janet Biggs makes an extreme sport of her creative expression. In this conversation, Janet considers the power of desire and the physical challenges she met while producing the complex video projects we experience in No Limits, her current mid-career survey. Organized by the Tampa Museum of Art, the exhibition runs from October 8, 2011 through January 8, 2012. Sound Edi...

When we record with Kate Hers, a Korean-born artist based in Berlin, in 2011, she describes the German art scene and explains how she raised funds through Kickstarter for her project Dr. Rhee's Kimtschi Shop. The artist and her partner, physicist Hanjo Rhee, will trade their special version of Korea’s national treasure for cultural artifacts from local customers from November 19 to 25, 2011,...

William Pope. L, a performance artist and interventionist based in Chicago and Lewiston, Maine, is presenting a magic lantern show titled Blink for Prospect.2 New Orleans, the 2011 U.S. Biennial. For his project, the artist made a film from more than a thousand images donated by the people of New Orleans. On the night of October 22, Pope. L projected the film through the back of an old ice cr...

In Baltimore, we sit down with Joyce J. Scott, a venerated visual and performing artist born and raised here. She talks about the state of art in her home town and she introduces her upcoming projects for the citywide exhibition and events known as Prospect New Orleans. For Prospect.2, Joyce presents conceptual beadwork and prints in galleries at Tulane University and Dillard University, and perfo...