Studio Noize: Black Art Podcast

In partnership with Stay Home Gallery, I present Inward, a virtual exhibition curated by Jasmine Wilson, one of the 2021 curatorial fellows. You should think of these special episodes as mini-artist talks for the virtual exhibition. Over the next two weeks, we’ll be dropping mini-episodes featuring all the artists in the show talking about their inspiration and artistic process. In this episode, we talk with artist Kayleah Aldrich. She took a break from all the big fun teaching at a summer camp to let us know about her work from the show, growing up doing dancing and taekwondo, and how art helped her through the pandemic. Check out the show at https://www.stayhomegallery.com/exhibitions/inward and listen to the episodes to hear more.

As an exhibition inspired by our collective isolation and intimate encounters with ourselves, Inward centers the work of artists who confront their beauty, identity, and personal struggles through portraiture. This gesture to explore the inner Self, particularly during the global pandemic, is personal in nature and inspired me to call upon this group of artists to provide a visual opening into their inner worlds. The artworks included in this exhibition feature artists’ battles with anxiety and illness, as well as their transcendence of chaos and feelings of inner peace while surrounded by family and loved ones. By centering their narratives, it is my goal to inspire critical discourse surrounding the lessons and realizations that surface as a result of our individual reckoning with the need to transform amid moments of uncertainty and change.

See More: Inward Virtual Exhibition + Julia Terry IG

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In partnership with Stay Home Gallery, I present Inward, a virtual exhibition curated by Jasmine Wilson, one of the 2021 curatorial fellows. You should think of these special episodes as mini-artist talks for the virtual exhibition. Over the next two weeks, we’ll be dropping mini-episodes featuring all the artists in the show talking about their inspiration and artistic process. In this episode, we talk with artist Jasmine Best. She talks about her pandemic experience, what she learned about herself making her work and how she approaches self-portraits. Check out the show at https://www.stayhomegallery.com/exhibitions/inward and listen to the episodes to hear more.

As an exhibition inspired by our collective isolation and intimate encounters with ourselves, Inward centers the work of artists who confront their beauty, identity, and personal struggles through portraiture. This gesture to explore the inner Self, particularly during the global pandemic, is personal in nature and inspired me to call upon this group of artists to provide a visual opening into their inner worlds. The artworks included in this exhibition feature artists’ battles with anxiety and illness, as well as their transcendence of chaos and feelings of inner peace while surrounded by family and loved ones. By centering their narratives, it is my goal to inspire critical discourse surrounding the lessons and realizations that surface as a result of our individual reckoning with the need to transform amid moments of uncertainty and change.

See More: Inward Virtual Exhibition + Julia Terry IG

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In partnership with Stay Home Gallery, I present Inward, a virtual exhibition curated by Jasmine Wilson, one of the 2021 curatorial fellows. You should think of these special episodes as mini-artist talks for the virtual exhibition. Over the next two weeks, we’ll be dropping mini-episodes featuring all the artists in the show talking about their inspiration and artistic process. In this episode, we talk with paper cut artist Julia Terry. She talks about what she learned about herself working during the pandemic, how her children responded to her working at home and how she approached doing self-portraits. Check out the show at https://www.stayhomegallery.com/exhibitions/inward and listen to the episodes to hear more.

As an exhibition inspired by our collective isolation and intimate encounters with ourselves, Inward centers the work of artists who confront their beauty, identity, and personal struggles through portraiture. This gesture to explore the inner Self, particularly during the global pandemic, is personal in nature and inspired me to call upon this group of artists to provide a visual opening into their inner worlds. The artworks included in this exhibition feature artists’ battles with anxiety and illness, as well as their transcendence of chaos and feelings of inner peace while surrounded by family and loved ones. By centering their narratives, it is my goal to inspire critical discourse surrounding the lessons and realizations that surface as a result of our individual reckoning with the need to transform amid moments of uncertainty and change.

See More: Inward Virtual Exhibition + Julia Terry IG

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In partnership with Stay Home Gallery, I present Inward, a virtual exhibition curated by Jasmine Wilson, one of the 2021 curatorial fellows. Jasmine is an amazing young emerging curator who has interned at the Studio Museum in Harlem and at ZuCot Gallery in Atlanta GA. Jasmine talks about her time in the curatorial fellowship, how she’s working to develop her artistic voice, and the process of creating this exhibition. Consider this the beginning of the mini-artist talk for the virtual exhibition. Over the next two weeks, we’ll be dropping mini-episodes featuring all the artists in the show talking about their inspiration and artistic process. Big thanks to Kaylan Buteyn and Pam Marlene Taylor for including Studio Noize as a partner. Check out the show at https://www.stayhomegallery.com/exhibitions/inward and listen to the episodes to hear more.

As an exhibition inspired by our collective isolation and intimate encounters with ourselves, Inward centers the work of artists who confront their beauty, identity, and personal struggles through portraiture. This gesture to explore the inner Self, particularly during the global pandemic, is personal in nature and inspired me to call upon this group of artists to provide a visual opening into their inner worlds. The artworks included in this exhibition feature artists’ battles with anxiety and illness, as well as their transcendence of chaos and feelings of inner peace while surrounded by family and loved ones. By centering their narratives, it is my goal to inspire critical discourse surrounding the lessons and realizations that surface as a result of our individual reckoning with the need to transform amid moments of uncertainty and change.

See More: Inward Virtual Exhibition + Jasmine Wilson IG

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Aaron Henderson has been making art for over 50 years and he has a lot of great info to share with the Studio Noize listeners. Mr. Henderson has a new book about his long-running series based on negro spirituals. The book is called Fight On: A Visual Interpretation of African American Spirituals. It features not only his amazing paintings but also the written lyrics of the spirituals and essays by a few academics and historians. We talk about his research into the spirituals and how his life experience influences his paintings. Mr. Henderson tells us about making the new book, how he picked his models, and some great moments that happened while creating this series. Get ready to soak up some good knowledge on this episode. It’s the Noize!

Episode 117 topics include:

origin of African American spirituals

region language in slavery

interpreting negro spirituals

researching spirituals

stories of descendants of slavery

kum ba yah

young poets creating spirituals

painting narratives

making an art book

the work of Black artists

Aaron F. Henderson, a native of Birmingham, Ala., has been an artist all his life. The self-proclaimed narrative artist has always loved to draw and paint. For him, it is the story behind each piece of artwork he has done that motivates him to capture the realism, the emotion, the character, and the settings. He works mainly in oils and gouache on canvas, linen, and 100% cotton paper using bold, vibrant colors in his artwork that is showcased in exhibits, museums and corporations, and homes around the world. Henderson has distinguished himself with his Spiritual Series, which is a series of more than 50 pieces over the past 5 years based on his student work-study job as the audio recorder for the world-renowned choir of Tuskegee University in Tuskegee, Ala. He is always working on a series, which encompass a range of images, including pieces dedicated to the legend of Ganga Zumbi, Afrolantica, which provides a view into his interpretation of paradise. Another series, Music, includes his depiction of the Jazz influence on our culture.

See More: www.zucotgallery.com + AJC feature on Aaron Henderson

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Studio Noize welcomes Dr. Tiffany E. Barber to the fam! (no relation to your boy JBarber) Tiffany is a scholar, curator, and critic that has done some great work around the ideas of Afrofuturism. We talk about the roles of Black artists, her work on and with Wangeshi Mutu, how studio visits help her with curating, and her love of dance. We’re always excited to have high-level conversations about art with the scholars that are thinking about Black art. Another great conversation just for you.

Episode 116 topics include:

defining Black art,

the complexities of Afrofuturism,

Wangechi Mutu and Mary Sibande,

studio visits with artists,

curating exhibitions,

how artists approach art,

social media algorithms and art,

artists getting recognized.

Tiffany E. Barber is a scholar, curator, and critic of twentieth and twenty-first century visual art, new media, and performance. Her work, which spans abstraction, Afrofuturism, dance, fashion, feminism, and the ethics of representation and aesthetic criticism, focuses on artists of the Black diaspora working in the United States and the broader Atlantic world. She is Assistant Professor of Africana Studies and Art History at the University of Delaware. She has completed fellowships at ArtTable, the Delaware Art Museum, and the University of Virginia’s Carter G. Woodson Institute for African-American and African Studies. During the 2021-2022 academic year, Dr. Barber will be a Postdoctoral Fellow at the Getty Research Institute.

See More: www.tiffanyebarber.com + @tiffanyebarber

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Alexis McGrigg joins the Studio Noize fam! This week we talk to Alexis who is showing her new show, The Ether: Journey In Between, at Richard Beavers Gallery in Brooklyn, New York. Alexis talks about the revelations and experimenting that went into developing this new body of paintings. We talk about her choice of materials, her process, and the ideas of space and Black existence that she explores in her work. Of course, talk about a few of JBarber’s favorites from the show and some of her previous work that connects to this new conceptual theme. Alexis is looking good, feeling good and ready to talk with the Noize!

Episode 115 topics include:

working with a gallery

moving away from the figure

developing an abstract painting

conceptual ideas

experimenting with materials

working with fabric dyes

changes during graduate school

exploring new work

Alexis McGrigg is a contemporary artist who explores themes of blackness, space, spirituality, identity, and collective consciousness. Her artwork utilizes the mediums of painting, drawing, transmedia, and installation to create fictional and philosophical narratives of black existence that stems from historical and lived experiences. She integrates poetry, sound, and performance in her practice as major contributors of influence throughout her research. Alexis earned her Bachelor of Fine Art in Painting from Mississippi State University in 2012 and a Master of Fine Art with a concentration in Painting and Transmedia from Texas Tech University in 2017.

See More: www.alexismcgrigg.com + @alexismcgrigg

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Gallery owner, photographer, and collector Arnika Dawkins joins the Studio Noize podcast. Arnika has been operating Arnika Dawkins Gallery since 2012 and specializes in photographic fine art. She represents an outstanding group of photographers and artists with photo-based work. We talk about what got her to create her own gallery, her love for photography in all its different forms, and discuss some of the fantastic artists that she represents. Such as Ervin A Johnson, Builder Levy, Keris Salmon, and Najee Dorsey. She lets us know what makes a good photograph and how she sees herself operating as a Black woman gallery owner in the art world.

Episode 114 topics include:

photographic techniques

starting an art gallery

Ervin A Johnson’s technique

developing an eye as a collector

expanding the medium of photography

history and photography

Keris Salmon’s photography and letterpress

expression in imagery

Arnika Dawkins Gallery is devoted to presenting fine art from both emerging and established photographers, specializing in images by African Americans and of African Americans. The gallerist is passionate about connecting collectors to artwork that is significant, inspiring, and provocative. As a fine art photographer and avid collector herself, she is a valuable resource to collectors and artists alike. The gallery's objective is to provide an educational platform that supports this burgeoning community of talented artists.

See More: www.adawkinsgallery.com + @arnikadawkinsgallery

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You know we love our printmakers on Studio Noize! We’re excited to talk to Leslie Diuguid from Du-Good Press out of New York. She is about to open her retrospective show at Subliminal Projects on June 5. It features 80 plus print works she’s produced at Du-Good so it’s a perfect time to connect with Leslie. She tells us about operating her print studio out of her basement and her big quest to get a new studio space. We talk about some of the dope artists she has worked with, adventures in screenprinting, and focusing on knowing what you want your practice to be. It’s another inspiring, super fun episode of the Noize!

Episode 113 topics include:

art studio spaces

collaborating with artists

methods of printmaking

growing as an artist

Black Women of Print

artistic influences

producing work

the value of artistic labor

believing in yourself as an artist

In 2017 Leslie Diuguid established the first and only Black Female owned Fine Art Printshop in New York and collaboratively prints for artists, designers, illustrators, and galleries.

See More: www.du-goodpress.com + @dugoodpress

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It’s a special episode of Studio Noize with guest host Lauren Jackson Harris, co-founder of Black Women in Visual Art, talking to your boy, JBarber, about his MFA thesis show FULLNESS. Jamaal recently finished his three-year program in printmaking at Georgia State University. His thesis show is a collection of paintings produced during the quarantine and reflects a new mindstate in how he approaches art. Lauren and Jamaal talk about the difference in the work from his first solo show, Bright Black, to this body of work after grad school, how the pandemic affected Jamaal’s art practice, the personal healing that happened during this journey, and much more.

Episode 112 topics include:

academia versus the art market

going back to school

ways of visualizing Blackness

father and son relationships

growing as an artist

artistic influences

examining your art practice

teaching art

overcoming artistic insecurities

how the pandemic affected creativity

Jamaal Barber is a creative imaginative soul who was born in Virginia and raised in North Carolina. In 2013, after seeing a screen printing demo at a local art store, Jamaal started experimenting with printmaking and made it his primary focus. His woodcuts and mixed media prints can be seen on display at ZuCot Gallery. They have also been included in the Decatur Arts Festival, Atlanta Print Biennial Show and at various art shows around the Metro Atlanta area. Additionally, Jamaal has done work for Twitter, the New York Times, Penguin Random House, Black Art in America and Emory University.

See More Jamaal: www.jbarberstudio.com + @jbarberstudio

See More Lauren: www.blackwomeninvisualart.com + @ljacksonharris

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