In this episode of The Artist Business Plan, we sit down with artist Alexandra Rubinstein for an awesome episode about using humour to break down barriers in art. Her masterclass includes how to not get carried away by external validation, growing to appreciate your day job, management skills, and her top 5 tips for financial freedom. Get a pen and let's get going!

Guest: Alexandra Rubinstein is a Russian-born, Brooklyn-based conceptual artist working primarily in 2D media. She immigrated to the United States in 1997, earned her BFA from Carnegie Mellon University in 2010, and has been living in New York ever since. Inspired by her adolescent (and ongoing) trauma, her work explores the relationships between culture, gender, consumption and power. She reconstructs familiar and taboo images to create a new narrative, to provoke the conforming and to take back control. Alexandra has exhibited nationally including at the Untitled Space, The Hewitt Gallery of Art, Spring Break Art Fair, Established Gallery, Proto Gallery, Fort Wayne Museum of Art, and The Wing. She has been featured on Huffington Post, Paper Mag, Cosmopolitan, Juxtapoz, Hyperallergic, Forbes, GQ, Playboy, Broad City, Real Time with Bill Maher as well as some podcasts - like this one!

www.therubinstein.com

For more information on applying to The Superfair as well as recordings of this and all of our past podcasts, just visit www.thesuperfair.com

IG: @thesuperfair, @theartistbusinessplan

IG: @therubinstein

If you want to submit a listener question you can email it to [email protected] for a chance of it being answered by Alex, James, and our guest!

Hosted and Executive Produced by James Miille and Alexander Mitow

Executive Producer/Producer : Kelsey Susino

Written by: Kelsey Susino, Alexander Mitow, and James Miille

Audio Edited by: Federico Solar Fernandez