Art Matters

BMA Director Christopher Bedford interviews Kenyan-American artist Wangechi Mutu about her transition from working in collage to bronze sculpture and this moment of success for her and other black female artists. Mutu’s Water Woman sculpture is on view at the BMA.

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BMA Director Christopher Bedford talks with Baltimore-based artist Joyce J. Scott about the new exhibition pairing her artwork with that of her mother, Elizabeth Talford Scott, and the legacy of artmaking in her family. Hitching Their Dreams to Untamed Stars: Joyce J. Scott and Elizabeth Talford Scott is on view at the BMA May 15-December 1, 2019.

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BMA Director Christopher Bedford interviews Paul Rucker, an artist determined to create compelling works of art that provoke the mind, body, spirit, and conscience of this ethically embattled world of the 21st century. Their conversation focuses on Paul’s work and the artist’s role in addressing social problems.

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BMA Director Christopher Bedford interviews Berlin-based Swedish artists Nathalie Djurberg and Hans Berg about their creative collaboration making psychologically charged, Surrealist-inspired stop-motion animated films, sculpture, and immersive installations. An exhibition of the artists’ work is on view at the BMA through May 26, 2019. The artists will be in Baltimore for the next Art After Hours event the evening of Friday, May 24, where Hans will debut selections from his new recording of electronic house music.

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BMA Director Christopher Bedford interviews Baltimore-based photographer Ken Royster about the process of creating his black and white documentary images and his recent embrace of color digital images, as well as Ken’s perception of the changes in Baltimore and his experiences in Africa.

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BMA Director Christopher Bedford interviews Lauren Boyle of the New York-based artist collective DIS. Boyle explains how she, Solomon Chase, Marco Roso, and David Toro came up with the collective’s name and describes how they conceive their pop-culture-influenced edutainment videos that visitors will see at the BMA through November 2019.

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BMA Director Christopher Bedford discusses the work of Ebony G. Patterson, whose exhibition at the BMA includes an opulent tapestry with dazzling arrays of found and fabricated materials—glitter, sequins, toys, beads, faux flowers, jewelry, and other embellishments. Patterson talks about these materials and her new work in the BMA’s American Wing, a sculpture that comprises 150 hand-embellished toy guns presented in dialogue with Joshua Johnson’s painting Charles Herman Stricker Wilmans (c. 1804).

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BMA Director Christopher Bedford explores how the artist collaborators Lizzie Fitch and Ryan Trecartin met and how they work together developing scripts and viewing environments for their frenetic, non-linear movies. The artists’ work is on view at the BMA through January 6, 2019.

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BMA Director Christopher Bedford interviews the acclaimed artist Mark Bradford who represented the U.S. at the Venice Biennale in 2017. The artist talks about the exhibition he created for Venice, its presentation in Baltimore, and about his work with the Greenmount West Community Center. Mark Bradford: Tomorrow Is Another Day is on view at the BMA through March 3, 2019.

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Christopher Bedford talks with Bahamian-born artist Tavares Strachan about his work with scientists at MIT in Cambridge and the Allen Institute in Seattle, the meaning of his compelling new light installation on the BMA’s historic fa\u231\uade, and his ambitious new project for the Carnegie International exhibition in Pittsburgh.

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