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Art! News! Politics! Join Field Projects Co-Directors Jacob Rhodes and Kris Racaniello as they discuss the latest shows, deliver interviews with creatives and makers and divulge their thoughts on the good life, from films to books to daily rituals. read less
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MARIA P. VILA & the SECRETO Book Launch!
Oct 6 2022
MARIA P. VILA & the SECRETO Book Launch!
Shame, trauma, and healing are at the core of SECRETO, a years-long project by María Luisa Portuondo Vila. Field Projects is honored to unveil the first book produced from this work at our gallery NEXT WEEK, so stay tuned and you can meet with María Luisa yourself! Secrets grip us, and we get into grief, love, death, sex, and abuse in this deeply human conversation. We discuss María Luisa’s early transition from private theater to community centered public works, and what it means to make projects for the public. Ghostly, haunting thoughts of the pandemic time came together in María Luisa ’s project HABITĀR, whose second iteration was completed at Field Projects residency in 2021. This enabled her to make a book that is materially outside the dominant institutional cannon of paper-centric men’s publications! We also cover questions around audience participation and how to make institutions chase you (not the other way around!) through process, not product.  PLEASE JOIN US FOR the *SECRETO Book Launch Wednesday October 12, 2022!* Our final take away: Reflecting and openness is not related to money and can’t be commercialized, so it is a responsible, anti-market act that helps to better yourself and your community. Be open and love yourself and everyone else you can :) CODA: Perfect Lovers discussion.   TW: There is a brief discussion of childhood sexual abuse around 52 mins, so if that’s not for you, we’ll see you next time!    SHOW NOTES María Luisa Portuondo Vila @mariap.vila  http://www.mariapvila.com/aboutme MERCURY STORE Theater residency in Brooklyn: https://mercurystore.com/what-we-do/   Joseph Beuys on Social Sculpture: (and was it Medieval?): https://www.tate.org.uk/art/art-terms/s/social-sculpture Book rec from Maria: Discourses: Conversations in Postmodern Art and Culture (1990) https://www.google.com/books/edition/Discourses/4pKnyqHfySMC?hl=en   Us Kris Racaniello @krisrac (+for art): @krisracworks Jacob Rhodes @jacobrhodes74 Field Projects @fieldprojects www.fieldprojectsgallery.com Open Call http://www.fieldprojectsgallery.com/open-call Field Residency http://www.fieldprojectsgallery.com/field-residency
SPRING/BREAK with FAY KU
Sep 7 2022
SPRING/BREAK with FAY KU
Floating Cities! Perspective! Blood, String & Jade!  On episode 1 of FieldPod season 3 Jacob Rhodes and Kris Racaniello dive into fall and, of course, fall in New York means Spring/Break Art Show with Fay Ku! Fay is Field Project’s featured artist at Spring Break this year in our exhibition Axonometric Tongue. Ku’s immersive, axonometric installation proposes Ming Dynasty art as a radical alternative to the hegemonic eye of single point perspective. Axonometric Tongue flips the hierarchy, generating an alternate, anti-Italian Renaissance timeline wherein single-minded colonialism is eradicated by the contextual poetics of Mandarin structures. On this episode we talk about Fay’s formative trip to Rome, and her recent return to Italy to teach in Venice for Pratt. How do “museumified” cities affect us? What changes in space when we change our clothing? How do the poetics of the desert play out differently in drawing than the dynamics of the city? Fay discusses how traveling brings you back to who you are and what you want to be. As an artist born in Taiwan and raised in the United States, Fay also discusses stradling White European renaissance ideals as an artist and her connection with axonometric drawing and historical Chinese methods of perspective.  SHOW NOTES Fay Ku www.fayku.com/ @fay.ku  @springbreakartshow   Check out Fay Ku’s work in: Axonometric Tongue   Us Kris Racaniello @krisrac (+for art): @krisracworks Jacob Rhodes @jacobrhodes74 Field Projects @fieldprojects www.fieldprojectsgallery.com Open Call http://www.fieldprojectsgallery.com/open-call Field Residency http://www.fieldprojectsgallery.com/field-residency
Yongqi Tang (Field Resident)
Aug 31 2022
Yongqi Tang (Field Resident)
Episode 9: Yongqi Tang (Field Resident)   Today on Field Pod, Jacob Rhodes joins one of our Field Residents, Yongqi Tang. They discuss growing up queer/bisexual in Shenzhen, China, having the Sistine Chapel and Rome as ones  first Art experience, Heideggar’s ideas on what makes an artwork, Scoliosis, identity performance, empowerment through connecting to community and empathy, sharing food with your ancestry. And finally searching for queerness in chinese mythology.   Show Notes: Yongqi Tang @yongqiichiban https://ichibanstudio.blog/   Shenzhen, China https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shenzhen   Sistine Chapel, Rome https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sistine_Chapel   Martin Heidegger “The Origin of Work of Art” https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Origin_of_the_Work_of_Art    Scoliosis https://www.hopkinsmedicine.org/health/conditions-and-diseases/scoliosis    Jenny Saville https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jenny_Saville   Anna Park https://www.annaparkart.com/   Space in Art History: three lectures by Wu Hung https://www.artandeducation.net/announcements/105628/space-in-art-history-three-lectures-by-wu-hung   Liaozhai zhiyi (Liaozhai; Chinese: 聊齋誌異, English title: Strange Tales from a Chinese Studio) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Strange_Tales_from_a_Chinese_Studio Audio book: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mT4Fm7Ip3s0&ab_channel=LibriVoxAudiobooks    Us Kris Racaniello @krisrac (+for art): @krisracworks Jacob Rhodes @jacobrhodes74 Field Projects @fieldprojects www.fieldprojectsgallery.com Open Call http://www.fieldprojectsgallery.com/open-call Field Residency http://www.fieldprojectsgallery.com/field-residency
Ilana Yacine Harris-Babou
Aug 24 2022
Ilana Yacine Harris-Babou
Episode 8: Ilana Yacine Harris-Babou    Today on Field Pod, Jacob Rhodes sits down with the artist Ilana Yacine Harris-Babou. They talk about growing up in Brooklyn, with a multi generational house of black women, play and its relationship to work, lack and pleasure, the Loren Hill syndrome, Audre Lorde’s “The Use of the Erotic”, finally getting comfortable in your studio, showing old work in a new context, and many other concepts. Join Ilana and Jacob today as they discuss all these questions and topics to learn more about this fascinating artist.    Show Notes: Ilana Yacine Harris-Babou @ilanahbhb  www.ilanahb.com    Ilana Harris-Babou’s solo exhibition Revelations @ Artspace New Haven https://artspacenewhaven.org/exhibitions/ilana-harris-babou-revelations/   Wingate Park area https://www.nycgovparks.org/parks/wingate-park     The Use of the Erotic (page 90) By Audre Lorde  https://uk.sagepub.com/sites/default/files/upm-binaries/11881_Chapter_5.pdf   Forced Collaboration 2 https://artspacenewhaven.org/exhibitions/forced-collaboration-ii/    Johannes DeYoung http://www.johannesdeyoung.com/about    Nestor Siré @ Queens Museum https://queensmuseum.org/2017/01/julia-weist    Video Data Bank https://www.vdb.org/   Electronic Arts intermix https://www.eai.org/   Artspace New Haven https://artspacenewhaven.org   The Wellcome Collection https://wellcomecollection.org/   Larrie “By Design” https://larrie.nyc/pages/by-design   Chimborazo Park, Richmond, VA https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chimborazo_Park  1708 Gallery https://www.1708gallery.org/index.php    Go Sees Candice Madley Gallery “Power Tools” https://www.candicemadey.com/gallery/all/power-tools Dietch “Vibrant Matters” https://deitch.com/new-york/exhibitions/vibrant-matters-curated-by-melanie-krass Hessel Museum of Art “Dara Birnbaum : Reaction” https://ccs.bard.edu/museum/exhibitions/695-dara-birnbaum-reaction  Mass Art “Designing Motherhood : Things That Make and Break Our Births” https://maam.massart.edu/exhibition/designing-motherhood
ASIA SZTENCEL Part 2 + Lisa Schilling Go Sees
Jul 13 2022
ASIA SZTENCEL Part 2 + Lisa Schilling Go Sees
Season 2, Episode 3: Asia Sztencel Part 2 + Lisa Schilling’s Go-Sees Today, host Jacob Rhodes presents part 2 of his interview with Asia Sztencel. Then our guest  Artists and Advisor Lisa Schilling presents her Go-See’s for your pleasure. You know it’s going to be WILEN!   SHOW NOTES: Asia Sztencel @asia_sztencel https://www.asiasztencel.com/   Lisa Shilling  @schilling_lisa www.lisaschilling.com/   Alberto Giacometti “Disagreeable Object” www.moma.org/collection/works/82349   GO SEEs “Extra Terrestrial” curated by Rebekah Chozick @ Rachel Uffner, Upstairs Gallery www.racheluffnergallery.com/exhibitions/detail/upstairs-gallery-extra-terrestrial/installation-stills  Sadie Laska “If everything is a hammer and a nail, make lemonade” @ 57 Henry (105 Henry ) https://56henry.nyc/exhibitions/if-everything-is-a-hammer-and-a-nail-make-lemonade  Ever Baldwin “Quiet Yes” @ Marinaro Gallery https://www.marinaro.biz/exhibitions/quiet-yes/ “Summer DAYZ” curated By Artist Kahlil Robert Irving @ Klaus von Nichtssagend  https://klausgallery.com/exhibition/summer-dayz-curated-by-kahlil-robert-irving-2022-06-24/  “SUMMER Nights” curated By Artist Kahlil Robert Irving @ Canada  https://www.canadanewyork.com/exhibitions/2022/summer-nights/  Robert Yoder  “A Line In The Sand” @ Frosch and Co. https://froschandco.com/  Robert’s Gallery: Season Gallery (Seattle) https://season.cz/    Us Kris Racaniello @krisrac (+for art): @krisracworks Jacob Rhodes @jacobrhodes74 Field Projects @fieldprojects www.fieldprojectsgallery.com Open Call http://www.fieldprojectsgallery.com/open-call Field Residency http://www.fieldprojectsgallery.com/field-residency
LYDIA NOBLES + Latchkey & Abortion Rights: SUMMER SHORTS
Jul 6 2022
LYDIA NOBLES + Latchkey & Abortion Rights: SUMMER SHORTS
Today, host Kris Racaniello sits down with Lydia Nobles in the exhibition TEMPUS FUGIT, curated by Charles Moore at Latchkey Gallery. Lydia speaks about her two sculptures there and their intersection with her larger project documenting and materializing the spectrum of abortion stories. We then talk about sculpture as an offering, the history of communal vs. patriarchal medicine practices in obstetrics and gynecology, as well as abortion as a societal benefit. The exhibition features works by some truly amazing artists: Calli Roche, Camille Hoffman, Chellis Baird, Emmanuel Massillon, Esteban Whiteside, Keli Safia Maksud, Kevin Claiborne, Leah DeVun, Lindsey Brittain Collins, Lydia Nobles and Telvin Wallace. *Apologies for the occasional footsteps–– we were interviewing in a well-trafficked gallery!    Summer Shorts are quick takes, an intimate interview with one of the Field Pod hosts and a guest. These will take the form of artists presenting their work, getting drunk with artist friends, and if we are so moved… impromptu recordings at openings or exhibitions. Don’t worry though in Season 3 launching this September we will be back to double teaming these interviewees! Enjoy!   SHOW NOTES Lydia Nobles @lydianobles ​​https://www.lydianobles.com/  Latchkey Gallery @latchkey_gallery  https://www.latchkey-gallery.com/  Support Lydia’s abortion work with a donation through NYFA: https://www.nyfa.org/fiscal-sponsorship/project-directory/view-project/?id=LN1756  donate Dick Blick and Home Depot gift cards to lydia@lydianobles.com   You can check out Lydia’s past exhibition CHOICE IS INDIVIDUAL with Field Projects here:  http://www.fieldprojectsgallery.com/lydia-nobles-choice-is-individual#:~:text=Choice%20Is%20Individual%20is%20a,Projects%20in%20Spring%20of%202022.&text=Lydia%20Nobles%20(b.,working%20in%20Brooklyn%2C%20New%20York.     TEMPUS FUGIT is up @ Latchkey Gallery June 22 - July 30. 2022. @ 173 Henry Street New York, NY 10002.  Don’t miss it!   Us Kris Racaniello @krisrac (+for art): @krisracworks Jacob Rhodes @jacobrhodes74 Field Projects @fieldprojects www.fieldprojectsgallery.com Open Call http://www.fieldprojectsgallery.com/open-call Field Residency http://www.fieldprojectsgallery.com/field-residency
THE MOON ALSO RISES, Alexandra Rubinstein
Jun 22 2022
THE MOON ALSO RISES, Alexandra Rubinstein
Today on the podcast we are joined by Alexandra Rubinstein, whose current exhibition The Moon Also Rises is up at Mother Gallery in Tribeca through July 16. Discussing the difficulty of both angry and relaxed work in the studio, therapy, gender and figurative painting, and many other important topics. Alexandra is a brilliant, talented artist and we highly recommend you check out the show at Mother, and get to know her work more broadly. Before that Jacob and Kris talk about what’s been happening this past week. They talk about shows, burnout, books, and their personal self-care practices. In the Human Centipede vs. His House horror movie competition, His House wins by a landslide. It’s a very therapeutically-oriented episode!  This is the final episode of season one, but we will already be back next week with a new format for SEASON 2: SUMMER SHORTS. These will be short, 30 minute interviews and talks with either Jacob or I out in the world as we attend art or activist or academic intersecting events throughout the summer.    SHOW NOTES Interviewee Social Handles & Websites Alexandra Rubinstein @therubinstein  https://www.alexandrarubinstein.com/    Alock Menon Natures Body  Thomas Akins boy photos  Goya paintings of Cyclops and giants   GO SEEs Last Week : Johanna Robinson : Wish Fulfillment @ Crush Projects (7th floor) Morbid Anatomy Flea Market @ Industry City (Sat 3-9) https://industrycity.com/event/morbid-anatomy-flea-market-2/ Keisha Prioleau-Martin 𝙂𝙖𝙧𝙙𝙚𝙣 𝙋𝙖𝙧𝙩𝙮, 5/26 - 7/16 at Olympia @olympiartz http://olympiart.org/ Tempus Fugit group exhibition @ Latchkey Gallery, ​​June 22 - July 30, 2022 www.latchkey-gallery.com/exhibitions-future-2 Curated by Charles Moore Featuring Works by: Calli Roche, Camille Hoffman, Chellis Baird Emmanuel Massillon, Esteban Whiteside, Keli Safia Maksud Kevin Claiborne, Leah DeVun, Lindsey Brittain Collins Lydia Nobles & Telvin Wallace   William Kentridge @ David Krut Projects    Elena Kanagy-Loux (at the National Arts club) last day of lectures is today, wed. june  However they record all of the talks and they make them available   Greenwood residency Heidi Lau 2021 Catacomb exhibition Rowan Renee   Us Kris Racaniello @krisrac @krisracworks Jacob Rhodes @jacobrhodes74 Field Projects @fieldprojects www.fieldprojectsgallery.com Open Call http://www.fieldprojectsgallery.com/open-call Field Residency http://www.fieldprojectsgallery.com/field-residency
WITNESSING NARAD, with Jagrut Raval
Jun 15 2022
WITNESSING NARAD, with Jagrut Raval
Immortality! Truth! History! FRRRRREEEEEDDDDOOOOOMMMM! Today on the podcast we sit down in Field Projects with Jagrut Raval, our current field resident. We talk about history and myth making, as well as the imaginary of immortality and what it might mean to achieve that. Jagrut is an artist(?) history-maker, fabulator, and chronicler. We discuss his work on the figure Narad, who is, possibly, an immortal time traveler. Be prepared for a candid conversation about time travel, truth, comparative religion and our constructed identities. There is also a subtle undertone of language and belief systems as shaping forces behind our world perspectives. But first join Jacob and Kris as they talk about what’s been happening this past week. They talk about the shows they attended both together and separately including The Border Project Space’s opening last Friday featuring Kyoko Hamaguchi: Never Since. Kris talks about the opening of Pamela Sneed at Laurel Gitlen and Alexandra Rubenstien’s new solo exhibition “The Moon Also Rises” at Mother Gallery. Alexandra will be on the podcast next week! So stay tuned for even more discussion of those gorgeous, macho moon paintings. We conclude, as usual, with a list of shows to “go see” right now.   SHOW NOTES Interviewee Social Handles & Websites Jagrut Raval @jagrut_raval http://www.fieldprojectsgallery.com/jagrut-raval    Updated Bowling Green Wikipedia page, now with “Precolonial Lenape Sacred Site” history section. Please add if you have any information! https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bowling_Green_(New_York_City)#History    Fay Ku is our Spring Break Art Show solo submission! Fingers crossed! @springbreakartshow @fay.ku    We end up talking about Critical Fabulation quite a bit, so check out Sadiyah Hartman’s work! https://columbia.academia.edu/SaidiyaHartman    GO SEEs   Alexandra Rubinstein, The Moon Also Rises, @ MOTHER, June 9 - July 16, 2022 Opening Thursday, June 9, 6 - 8 pm https://mothergallery.art/future  Kyoko Hamaguchi: Never Since @ The Border Project Space, 10 – July 3rd, 2022 Opening Reception June 10 from 6 – 9 pm https://theborderprojectspace.com/  Benny Merris : flash! @ Heroes Gallery, June 16 – July 30, 2022 Opening June 16, 5-8pm www.heroesgallery.gallery Party for One @ My Pet Ram, June 10 – July 3, 2022 www.mypetram.com/  Pamela Sneed ABOUT time @ Laurel Gitlen, June 9 – July 16, 2022 Opening June 9, 5-7pm /www.laurelgitlen.com  Alfredo Jaar @ Galerie Lelong & Co, May 13 – June 25, 2022 www.galerielelong.com/exhibitions/alfredo-jaar6 Martin D’Orgeval @ Sikkema Jenkins & Co, June 4 – July 22, 2022  www.sikkemajenkinsco.com/ Us Kris Racaniello @krisrac @krisracworks Jacob Rhodes @jacobrhodes74 Field Projects @fieldprojects www.fieldprojectsgallery.com Open Call http://www.fieldprojectsgallery.com/open-call Field Residency
SEHNSUCHT, with Melissa Joseph
Jun 8 2022
SEHNSUCHT, with Melissa Joseph
Longing! Death! Materiality! + Open Call Submissions!  Today we have a very special guest–– Melissa Joseph, our summer Open Call guest curator–– a brilliant artist and independent curator who is interested in connecting people through collective memory and shared experiences. Her work addresses themes of diaspora, family histories and the politics of how we occupy spaces. We sit down and talk about her experience curating the open call, the trends that she noticed. Pivoting to discuss her life and art practice, including the current exhibition at Soloway gallery featuring her father’s photographs of his patient’s gallbladders, death, art, longing, materials and the archeological record plus Melissa’s upcoming exhibition and thoughts on the art world. But first, Jacob and I review the last two weeks of shows we have seen and gone to and talk about what’s been happening in our lives including Tiananmen Square and Will Chan’s Home Gallery. We then wrap things up with a list of shows to “go see” right now.    SHOW NOTES Interviewee Social Handles & Websites Melissa Joseph @melissajoseph_art https://www.melissajoseph.net/   GO SEEs Gall /ɡôl/ NOUN, K. C. Joseph, @ Soloway Gallery May 8, 2022 – June 12, 2022  Alexandra Rubinstein, The Moon Also Rises, @ MOTHER, June 9 - July 16, 2022 Opening Thursday, June 9, 6 - 8 pm  We Are But One, BREYER P-ORRIDGE, @ Pioneer Works, APR 15 – JUL 10   Nicole Eisenman. Untitled (Show), @ Hauser & Wirth, New York NY, 5 May – 29 Jul 2022  Missing Home, Ajay Kurian, @ 47 Canal, May 27–July 9, 2022 NAM JUNE PAIK, Art in Process: Part Two, @ Gagosian, July 19–August 26, 2022 Shikeith, “grace comes violently” @ Yossi Milo Gallery, Through June 25, 2022 Terry Adkins, @ Paula Cooper Gallery, April 22 – June 11, 2022 MARCUS LESLIE SINGLETON @ TENNIS ELBOW, September 25 – October 8 2020 Us Kris Racaniello @krisrac @krisracworks Jacob Rhodes @jacobrhodes74 Field Projects @fieldprojects www.fieldprojectsgallery.com Open Call http://www.fieldprojectsgallery.com/open-call Field Residency
FROM WHAT I REMEMBER, with Elbert Perez
Jun 1 2022
FROM WHAT I REMEMBER, with Elbert Perez
Truth! Desire! Lack!  Today on Field Pod, Directors Jacob Rhodes and Kris Racaniello sit down with curator Michael Howard and artist El Perez in his current exhibition FROM WHAT I REMEMBER, on the night of the first day of our install.  We discuss class-bias at the moment of entry into the art world and the difficulties of attaining professional development from a position of poverty. In a sprawling conversation we cover topics from painting techniques and validity to the art market, shop class as soulcraft, car crashes, rubbernecking, the ways that stereotypes play on unconscious signals, memorials and their secret stories, as well as desire and comedy in art.  We especially discuss the term “lack” and Elbert’s special brand of existential signification. Then we wrap things up with a short list of shows to GO SEE.   Show Notes Interviewee Social Handles & Websites Elbert Perez @elbertperezonline http://www.fieldprojectsgallery.com/elbert-joseph-perez Michael Howard @basquiat_fanfic   Jagrut Raval @jagrut_raval http://www.fieldprojectsgallery.com/jagrut-raval Melissa Joseph @melissajoseph_art https://www.melissajoseph.net/   Go sees Heather Rowe: Christina Ramberg, Heroes Gallery @heroes__gallery April 28th – June 11th, 2022 https://www.heroesgallery.gallery/heather-rowe-christina-ramberg Heather Rowe @heather_rowe_studio http://heatherrowestudio.com/ Heidi Lau  @heidiwtlau Greenwich Cemetery @historicgreenwood https://www.green-wood.com/artist-in-residence/   Us Kris Racaniello @krisrac @krisracworks Jacob Rhodes @jacobrhodes74 Field Projects @fieldprojects www.fieldprojectsgallery.com
‘ROUND THE WORLD’S FAIR
May 25 2022
‘ROUND THE WORLD’S FAIR
Model Homes! White Flight! Protest! + Resistance! Today, Field Projects Co-Directors Jacob Rhodes and Kris Racaniello discuss their week, covering some podcasts, comedy shows, and their future projects including a summer conference and–– haunted paintings?? Then the FP team presents a roundtable with artist Johannah Herr, her co-author and collaborator Cara Marsh Sheffler and Lynn Maliszewski, the Archives and Collections Manager of the Queens Museum. The roundtable took place within Herr’s solo exhibition I HAVE SEEN THE FUTURE, a show featuring her architectural imaginaries. We discuss Johannah’s work and “I Have Seen the Future: Official Guidebook,” a collaborative publication between Cara Marsh Sheffler & Johannah Herr. Lynn Maliszewski brings her work on the history of the World’s Fairs in Flushing Meadows to bear on our discussion of the content of the exhibition during our panel. They talk about the 1939 and 1964 world's fairs that took place in Flushing NY–– a discussion covering our constructed understanding of colonialism, nationalism, racism, misogyny, religious motivations, but also the hope and idealism that shaped the fairs. What pavilion lives in secret in your head? Jacob and Kris wrap things up after the interview with a short list of shows to “go see” right now plus a special Beverly’s opening interview!    Show Notes Interviewee Social Handles & Websites Johanna Herr: @johannah_herr https://www.johannahherr.com/  Cara Marsh Sheffler: @carasheffler https://conversationalist.org/writer/cara-marsh-sheffler/  Lynn Maliszewski, archives and collections manager at the @queensmuseum   GO SEEs FIRE SIGN featuring KENNY WU / MARIE ANINE MØLLER / CHRIS HERITY @ Beverly’s @beverlysnyc 5 Eldridge St, NY. A Tournament of Lies 40+ artists! Saturdays and Sundays, 2022 Summer Exhibition, May 21- September 17 @ Wassaic Project  Bobo “The Association Age,” @ O'Flaherty's (Ave C and 11th), ​​May 19, 2022 - June 19 2022 KEISHA PRIOLEAU-MARTIN, GARDEN PARTY, Curated by Nilufa Yeasmin @ OLYMPIA May 26 - July 16, 2022 Deana Lawson @ PS1  thru September 5, 2022 Night in the Village, CHRIS BOGIA, @ Mrs. Gallery, Maspeth NY, May 14 - July 2, 2022 @__mrs.__
AS IT WAS GIVE(N) TO ME with Stacy Kranitz
May 11 2022
AS IT WAS GIVE(N) TO ME with Stacy Kranitz
Photography! Poverty Porn! Drawing in Space! Spiderwebs! Field Pod sits down with Field Projects current resident Stacy Kranitz for a talk about her take on documentary photography as a medium best used to question the truth of & in the image. Photographers constantly have to reckon with subjectivity. Stacy explains the ways she has pushed against the medium in her new book AS IT WAS GIVE(N) TO ME, a compilation based on over 12 years spent photographing the community living in the heartland of Appalachia. Incorporating pressed plants, topographic drawings, and preserved spiderwebs alongside her photography and voices drawn from a local newspaper column, Kranitz weaves a complex narrative that opens the history of Appalachia to the reader. Through these juxtapositions of text, image, and drawing a narrative of everyday life emerges in the wake of the systemic capitalist oppression that characterizes this region of the USA.  Before this exciting conversation, Field Projects Co-Directors Jacob Rhodes and Kris Racaniello chat about the residency program and open call process. They talk the gallery/gallerist class system, the origins of Field Projects and the Open Call process, and MONEY and survival in contemporary art. Jacob and Kris wrap things up after the interview with a short list of shows to “go see” right now!    SHOW NOTES Interviewee Social Handles & Websites Stacy Kranitz: @stacykranitz https://www.stacykranitz.com/  Our OPEN CALL: http://www.fieldprojectsgallery.com/open-call  GO SEEs: Recalling the Chimæra, Candace Jensen, Thomas Little & Coleman Stevenson, Amos Eno Gallery @ 56 Bogart Street, May 6- June 5, 2022  Wonder Women, Curated by Kathy Huang, Jeffrey Deitch @ 18 Wooster Street, May 7–June 25, 2022   Art Fair radar last week/this week:  Future Fair: https://futurefairs.com/  Independant: https://www.independenthq.com/fair  Frieze: https://www.frieze.com/fairs/frieze-new-york