Sound and Vision

Allison Janae Hamilton is an artist born in Kentucky, raised in Florida, and on her family's farm in western Tennessee. She has exhibited at museums and institutions such as the Museum of Modern Art (New York, NY); MASS MoCA (North Adams, MA); Storm King Art Center (New Windsor, NY); the Studio Museum in Harlem (New York, NY); the Smithsonian National Portrait Gallery (Washington, DC); The Jewish Museum (New York, NY); Atlanta Contemporary (Atlanta, GA); (Fundación Botín (Santander, Spain); Tacoma Art Museum (Tacoma, WA); the Brighton Photo Biennial (Brighton, UK); and the Istanbul Design Biennial (Istanbul, Turkey). Allison has been awarded artist residencies at the Studio Museum in Harlem (New York, NY); Recess (New York, NY); Fundación Botín (Santander, Spain); and the Whitney Museum of American Art Independent Stu dy Program (New York, NY). She is a 2018 NYSCA/NYFA Artist Fellow. Allison received her PhD in American Studies at New York University and her MFA in Visual Arts at Columbia University. Her artwork has appeared in publications such as Art in America, Transition Magazine, Women and Performance, Arte Al Límite, Oxford American, Studio Magazine, Esquire Magazine, New York Times, Artsy and Artforum, among others.

Hamilton's first solo museum exhibition, Allison Janae Hamilton: Pitch, is currently on view at the Massachusetts Museum of Contemporary Art (MASS MoCA) through March 2019.

Brian met up with Allison in her Chelsea studio to talk about her days growing up in the south, farm life, taking photos, fashion, culture, P-funk and a lot more.

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Barbara Takenaga is an artist living and working in New York City. Barbara grew up in Nebraska and got her BFA and MFA at the University of Colorado at Boulder.

Her recent solo exhibitions include DC Moore Gallery in NYC, Gregory Lind Gallery in San Francisco, and a 20-year survey at the Williams College Museum of Art, curated by Debra Bricker Balken, accompanied by a catalogue published by DelMonico Books|Prestel.  Her large-scale wall projects include Space/42 of the Neuberger Museum and the Hunter Lobby of MASS MoCA.  Other recent exhibitions include a two-person exhibition at the Bemis Center for Contemporary Arts in Omaha, a solo show at the Huntington Museum in WV and a group show, Chaos and Awe at the Frist Museum of Art in Nashville. 

Her work is in the collection of the Library of Congress in DC, the San Jose Museum of Art, the Ackland Art Museum in Chapel Hill, The Museum of Nabraska art amongst many others. She has taught at Williams College, the University of Denver and Washington, St. Louis.

Brian stopped by Barbara’s Flatiron studio to talk about the great plains, feeling at home in New York, negative jazz and more.

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Matthew Ritchie is an artist born in England who lives and works in New York City. He has exhibited internationally over the past two decades, including solo presentations at the Institute of Contemporary Art, Boston, MA (2014); ZKM Karlsruhe (2012), Barbican Theatre, London, UK (2012); Brooklyn Academy of Music (2009), NY, St. Louis Art Museum, MO (2007); MASS MoCA, North Adams, MA (2004), Contemporary Art Museum, Houston, TX (2003); and the Dallas Museum of Art, TX (2001). Matthew’s work was included in the 1997 Whitney Biennial, the 2002 Sydney Biennale, the 2004 Bienal de Sao Paulo, the 2008 Seville Bienal, the Havana Bienal, and the 11th International Architecture Biennial, Venice, Italy (2008) as well as major exhibitions at the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York, NY; Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY and the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, CA. His work is in the permanent collections of the Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY; Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York, NY;  Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY; San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, CA; and the MIT List Visual Arts Center, Boston, MA among others. Brian visited Matthew’s Midtown studio for a talk about his early days in London, shady real estate, musical collaborations, post-punk, burning Bronx and being a Spurs fan.

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Paul Wackers was born in New Haven, Connecticut in 1978. He graduated with his BFA from Corcoran College of Art and Design in Washington, DC with a degree in Fine Arts, and earned his MFA in Paintings from the San Francisco Art Institute. Wackers has exhibited nationally and internationally in Belgium, Denmark, Canada, Peru, San Francisco, CA, Los Angeles, CA, and New York, NY.

He completed a large-scale public mural for The James Hotel (New York, NY) and has been featured in Paper Magazine, Hyperallergic, Juxtapoz, New American Painting, and Art Practical. He was a visiting artist lecturer at Brooklyn College, and has participated in residencies at Byrdcliffe Guild (Woodstock, NY) and the Nordic Artist’s Centre Dale (Sunnfjord, Norway). In 2009 he won the Tournesol Award from the Headlands Center for the Arts (Sausalito, CA), and was a SECA award finalist.

His work is held in numerous private and public collections, including the Chevron Corporation (San Ramon, CA), Fidelity Investments (Boston, MA), Wellington Management (Boston, MA), New York Presbyterian Hospital (New York, NY), University of Texas Southwest Medical Center (Dallas, TX), and the West Collection (Oaks, PA).

Brian went to his studio for a chat.

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Walter Robinson is a New York artist and art critic. He has exhibited his work at several New York City galleries since the 1980s, including Haunch of Venison, Lynch Tham and Metro Pictures. "Walter Robinson: Paintings and Other Indulgences," a retrospective exhibition of 90 works dating from 1979 to 2012, opened in 2014 at the University Galleries at Illinois State University in Normal, IL, and traveled this winter to Moore College in Philadelphia; its final appearance was at Jeffrey Deitch in SoHo.

He was also the founding editor of Artnet Magazine (1996-2012) and news editor at Art in America (1980-1996). He also served as art editor of the East Village Eye (1983-85) and co-published and co-edited Art-Rite magazine during 1973-77. Walter was also a correspondent for Art TV Gallery Beat, a public access television show in the late '90s, and a cofounder of Printed Matter, the New York bookstore devoted to publications by artists.

Brian stopped by Walter’s Long Island City studio to talk about Oklahoma, SoHo in it’s prime, writing about art, pulp imagery and more.

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Brian Belott is an artist born and raised in East Orange, NJ and lives and works in Brooklyn. He received his BFA from the School of Visual Arts after a short stint at Cooper Union. He’s represented by Gavin Brown Enterprise and has had solo shows at Moran Bondaroff, 247365, Retrospective in Hudson, The Journal Gallery, Zurcher Studio, CANADA and many others. He’s had group shows at MoCAD in Detroit, Gavin Brown, The Jewish Museum, Dodge Gallery, Musée d’Art Moderne in Saint-Etienne, France, The Hole, Loyal gallery and many more. He’s done performances, worked with children via art making workshops, collects records, drawings and other objects and has had his hand in a lot more projects and events. His work is in the collection of the Museum of Modern Art and he has been written about in Art in America, Art News, ArtReview, the New York Times amongst many others. Brian stopped by Brian’s Lefferts Gardens studio for a nice talk about his days growing up in New Jersey, his big band affinity as a kid, catholic school, faux baroque, unauthorized murals, jazz and more.

Shara has a lot going on. From a solo show at The Arts Club in London, England (forthcoming), a solo show 'Don't Hold Your Breath', at Galerie Eva Presenhuber, Zürich, Switzerland (forthcoming) and her solo up now, 'Sun Salutations', at the Newport Art Museum, Newport, RI and her outdoor large scale mural 'Carving Out Fresh Options', the deCordova Sculpture Park and Museum, Lincoln, MA it seemed a good idea to revisit the very first episode of Sound & Vision. We look back at a conversation with Shara.

Anne Vieux is based in New York. She received her MFA from Cranbrook Academy of Art and her BFA in Painting and Art History at the Kansas City Art Institute. Vieux’s work has been exhibited in solo shows at The Hole, Annka Kultys, Good Weather, and The Journal galleries. Recently she has shown in group exhibitions at the Newcomb Art Museum, Providence College Galleries, LMAK Gallery, Silvermine Arts Center, Brooklyn Academy of Music, Brand New Gallery and Cranbrook Museum of Art. Her print editions works are included in the library collections of numerous universities and the Museum of Modern Art.

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Kathy Butterly was born in Amityville, NY and was raised primarily in Franklin Lakes, NJ. Kathy went to the Moore College of Art in Philadelphia for undergrad and UC Davis for graduate school. In 1992 she moved back to the east coast from California and set up a studio in Hoboken, NJ. In 1995 Kathy moved to a loft in the East Village where she currently lives and works with her husband and two kids, who are now in college.

Kathy has had many solo exhibitions in NYC and LA and has been included in various group shows around the US and abroad; notably: “The 54th Carnegie International in 2004-05,” “Figuring Color: Kathy Butterly, Felix Gonzalez-Torres, Roy McMakin, & Sue Williams,” at the ICA, Boston, “Pretty Raw: After and Around Helen Frankenthaler,” at The Rose Art Museum, MA, and “Freaks and Beauties, Opener 10: Kathy Butterly,” at the Frances Young Tang Teaching Museum, Saratoga Springs, NY.

In 2014 she the recipient of a Guggenheim Fellowship Award, 2012 the Smithsonian American Art Museum Contemporary Artist Award, 2009 Joan Mitchell Foundation: 2009 Painters and Sculptors Grant, 2009 Pollock-Krasner Foundation Award, 2002 Anonymous Was a Woman Award, a few NYFA’s, and just this year, the Louis Comfort Tiffany Grant among others.

Her new work can be viewed September 6th through October 14th at the James Cohan Gallery in Chelsea.

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Shawna X is an artist, designer, animator and visual director who lives and works in Brooklyn, NY. She was born in China and moved to the US when she was seven. She’s had solo shows at Tictail and Powerplnt in Brooklyn and recently had a solo show at A/D/O in Brooklyn called F*** Your Manners which featured sculpture, prints and large scale video installation. She’s done work with Adidas, Adobe, Ghostly International along with many others. She has spoken at the AIGA Conference, Behance, NYC, the Apple Store and at the Art Director’s Club. I met Shawna at her home studio to talk about her early days in Portland, parental expectations, drawing as language, Sum41 and a lot more. Here’s our conversation…

Sound and Vision is supported by Golden Artist Colors, manufacturing in Upstate NY, GOLDEN Acrylics, Williamsburg Oils, and most recently, QoR Watercolors. An employee owned company committed to producing the highest quality materials, while maintaining a culture of stewardship and community involvement. For information about Golden Artist Colors, call 1-800-959-6543 or visit www.goldenpaints.com.

Sound & Vision is brought to you by Charter Coffeehouse. Find out more at www.chartercoffee.com, follow them on Instagram at @charter_bk

Sound & Vision is supported by Topo Designs. Based in Denver Colorado. Check out their products at topodesigns.com