Y2K GROUP CHAT

"Prism" on view at Y2K group, New York from February 5 - March 5, 2022.

Peter LaBier, JJ Manford, Christian Perdix, Frankie Phillips, Emma Schwartz, Astrid Terrazas,

Welcome to our eleventh episode of Y2K GROUP CHAT featuring artist Dominic Musa. We recorded this episode in early April 2021. We speak with Dominic about his painting process, how he creates space+light in his work, psychological imagery and mental space.

Dominic Musa is an emerging artist living and working in Paterson, NJ. He received a MFA from Rhode Island School of Design and a BFA from SVA in New York. This podcast episode was made on the occasion of Dominic's first solo exhibition with Y2K group.

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Audio timestamps below:

0:00 - Intro

0:20 - Dominic bio

0:59 - Hello

1:33 - NJ + weekend

2:17 - Living with plants

3:57 - Where did you grow up and when did you know you wanted to become an artist?

8:11 - Who are some of the artists that keep inspiring you?

9:32 - Have you ever seen the artists work in person?

10:08 - Do you like their paint quality, imagery, or presence of the work?

11:53 - Experimenting with materials

13:40 - What is your process before starting a new painting and how has that evolved since grad school?

15:34 - How do you determine what to add from memory and what to include from observation?

20:12 - Do you dream about your compositions?

21:43 - Who are the figures in your work?

23:27 - Is it easy to paint on multiple works?

25:17 - How do you determine the spaces in the paintings?

27:52 - How does geometry or perspective play a role in your work?

28:53 - How do you determine the light source in the paintings?

30:19 - What are the small figures in your work?

32:05 - Do you try to create different feelings and moods in your work?

35:26 - Growing up in the woods and unknown expanse

37:35 - How long have you been working on the paintings for the Y2K show?

40:28 - What are some of your favorite movies, books, or podcasts?

43:43 - Thank you!

43:52 - Outro

Welcome to our tenth episode of Y2K GROUP CHAT featuring artist Frankie Phillips. We recorded this episode in early March 2021. We speak with Frankie about his work featuring coat hangers and t-shirts collaged to make new visionary paintings, ideas of fashion, barriers, symbolism, the materiality of his work, and diaries.

Frankie Phillips is an emerging artist living and working in Ridgewood, Queens. He received a BFA from RISD in Providence, RI. This podcast episode was made on the occasion of Frankie’s third solo exhibition with Y2K group.

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Audio timestamps below:

0:00 - Intro

0:20 - Hi–we are live

1:53 - Coat hanger origins

3:28 - Why move away from the standard canvas size

4:29 - Butterflies + ears

6:34 - Shirts + hangers

10:47 - Why did you start using clothes in your work?

12:32 - What do you think about fashion and how you dress yourself?

14:45 - Are you using clothes for texture or as another material?

17:41 - Wires and barriers in the paintings

21:30 - Scars and symbolism

23:16 - Bleached/washed out palette in the work and the figures

27:01 - Cosmic beings

29:05 - “Another Eyelash” sculptural work

30:31 - “Existential Eyelash” painting

35:47 - Self-portraiture/reflection

37:22 - Figure in “Cowlick Diary”

42:50 - Diary book in painting

46:13 - Outro

Welcome to our ninth episode of Y2K GROUP CHAT featuring artist Austin Martin White. We recorded this episode in late February 2021.

We speak with Austin about moving around while growing up, homogeneity and diversity, media and big tech, first memories, when he wanted to become an artist and his process at a young age to where he is now.

Austin Martin White is an artist working in Philadelphia, PA living in New York.

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Audio timestamps below:

0:00 - Intro music

0:15 - Introduction

0:36 - Austin bio

1:09 - NM and moving around

2:04 - Homogeneity and diversity

3:50 - Media consumption

6:12 - Big tech + early days

8:04 - Adoption story

13:26 - First memories?

16:43 - What were your first memories of art?

21:15 - When did you decide to become an artist?

30:35 - Have you made abstraction in the past or just figuration?

37:31 - Who are some of the artists you studied or look at now?

43:36 - How has drawing played a role in your practice? What did you think of grad school?

53:52 - Post-Bard

1:00:51 - How do you feel about race relations now?

1:06:23 - Adam Curtis “Can’t Get You Out of My Head…”

1:13:10 - Thank you

Welcome to our eighth episode of Y2K GROUP CHAT featuring artist Ted Gahl. We recorded in December 2020.

We speak with Ted about the 2010's in New York, drawing parties, the influence of social media on artists, being an artist in NY/LA, how to slow down, and a glimpse into the future.

Ted Gahl is a painter living and working in Northwest, CT.

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Audio timestamps below:

0:00 - Intro music

0:35 - Ted bio

0:49 - Hey

1:04 - What was the NY art world like when you first moved here?

3:32 - Drawing parties

4:31 - Do you remember your first solo/group show?

6:00 - Did you feel a lot of pressure leading up to the show and how did you feel when it closed?

7:56 - Would it be helpful to have longer shows?

9:50 - Seeing work online vs. in person

12:32 - How do you think IG influenced the art community?

18:10 - Gaming

19:24 - How do you stay focused as opportunities ebb and flow with your work?

24:29 - Undergrad experience

27:10 - Experimentation in grad school

29:21 - Who are some of your favorite artists?

32:18 - Some shows late fall 2020

35:02 - NY>LA story

40:27 - Do you still need to be in a main art city?

43:44 - Is it easier to make work outside of NY?

46:25 - Do you play music?

52:15 - What were your experiences like with different galleries?

54:47 - How do you feel about how the art neighborhoods in NY have changed and closures?

1:00:07 - What kind of work are you making?

1:03:18 - What’s your relationship to nature and landscape painting?

1:06:20 - Is nature a meditative space for you?

1:08:57 - How do you slow down and reflect on your work?

1:11:48 - How long does it take for you to finish a painting?

1:14:30 - Cathartic or therapeutic?

1:17:35 - What is your reference point when you start painting?

1:19:08 - Do you ever tap into your subconscious?

1:22:01 - What is the future of the art world?

1:24:32 - Can AI replace artists/art?

1:27:34 - Ted’s question: has an art show ever made you cry?

1:33:06 - Thank you

Welcome to our seventh episode of Y2K GROUP CHAT featuring artist Tamen Pérez. We recorded in late August 2020.

We speak with Tamen about grad school during COVID, working from home vs. studio, her relationship to the history of painting, living and working in Berlin, manga and music, and unlearning in painting.

Tamen Pérez is an emerging artist living and working in New Haven, CT.

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Audio timestamps below:

0:00 - Intro music

0:15 - Y2K GROUP CHAT introduction

0:34 - Tamen bio

1:07 - Hi

1:52 - What have you been up to?

3:23 - Update on school

4:23 - How did you adapt to not having studio access at Yale during quarantine?

5:52 - Minimal materials

6:27 - How does music inspire your work?

8:08 - What’s been new with Y2K?

10:50 - Y2K-NOW idea, future shows, learning to pivot

14:11 - Making work from home vs. studio

16:54 - Painting process as workout?

17:57 - What books are you reading?

20:09 - Were you familiar with Afro-Caribbean history?

21:01 - Costa Rica

22:52 - Manga and some inspiration

25:39 - What types of materials do you use?

29:05 - Relationship to history of painting

30:32 - Unlearning

32:54 - After undergrad to New York and moving to Berlin

35:34 - 7-8 years in Berlin

39:38 - Berlin art scene or music scene

41:38 - Learning German and still adapting

44:27 - How was your past solo show at stadium?

49:23 - How did your work first change in grad school?

51:32 - Voice and hand in painting

53:09 - Ideas for thesis

56:44 - Spring studio visits

57:57 - Love of painting and being anti

58:56 - Costa Rican landscape painting and colonialism

1:00:34 - Going back to the history and re-evaluating

1:02:09 - Painting conversation in New York

1:05:34 - Thank you!

Welcome to our sixth episode of Y2K GROUP CHAT featuring artist Maureen St. Vincent.

We talk with Maureen about her framed pastel works, her relationship to the Pacific, her experiences living and working in New York and Los Angeles, surrealism, and feminism.

Maureen St. Vincent is an emerging artist living and working in the Bay Area.

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Audio timestamps below:

0:00 - Intro music

0:15 - Y2K GROUP CHAT introduction

0:34 - Maureen introduction and bio

1:20 - Hi

1:58 - How has the pandemic effected your work and life?

4:36 - More time to think?

6:34 - What’s the scale?

7:36 - What was the transition to pastels?

9:54 - Patience

10:37 - How many pieces do you work on at a time?

12:03 - Where does the style of the frames come from?

16:27 - When did you start making the frames for your work

19:45 - Feminist work

23:36 - Pregnancy and surrealism

28:46 - New 3D works

35:13 - Art world / new approaches

45:44 - Inspiring new environment

46:57 - Daydream

47:50 - LA art world experience vs. New York

52:51 - Experiences at old Hunter and new Hunter

59:46 - Which memorable shows have you seen?

1:06:01 - Overthinking

1:07:48 - Ideas about the Pacific

1:11:18 - When did you want to be an artist?

1:14:47 - Thank you!

Welcome to our fifth episode of Y2K GROUP CHAT featuring artist Anjuli Rathod. We recorded in late September 2020.

We talk with Anjuli about her studio practice, making art at a young age, the space in-between worlds, communicating with the passed, creating a character named Red, life and death cycles, and ideas of grieving in her work.

Anjuli Rathod is an emerging artist working in Brooklyn.

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Coinciding with this new episode release is Y2K-NOW presenting recent works on paper by Anjuli Rathod on our website to buy now.

Audio timestamps below:

0:00 - Intro Music

0:15 - Y2K GROUP CHAT introduction

0:34 - Anjuli Rathod introduction and bio

0:56 - Rathod exhibition history

1:44 - Y2K-NOW + Anjuli Rathod

2:10 - Hello and Happy Fridays

2:40 - Name

3:05 - What are you working on?

3:37 - Where’s your studio?

4:37 - What are your first memories with art?

5:15 - Mr. Miller art teacher

6:10 - What inspired you when you were younger?

7:12 - Statues from parents and small paintings

8:54 - What did your parents think about you pursuing art when you were young?

10:27 - Medical books

11:20 - rotten dot com

12:26 - Where did you grow up?

12:36 - Did you imagine a future in New York?

13:27 - Boston

14:09 - Museum

14:21 - MIT

14:58 - Undergrad in Boston

16:04 - Flexibility and preparing to be an artist while in school

16:33 - Did you explore other mediums?

17:09 - Would you revisit past mediums?

17:29 - Recent ceramic work

18:15 - Spiritual elements in current work

18:53 - Life, death cycles, and grieving

19:33 - Creating Red and her journey

20:21 - Monk

20:59 - Hallucinating the passed

21:56 - Paintings imagining in-between spaces and communing

23:07 - Visions?

23:50 - Dream imagery

24:15 - Moon?

25:36 - Observers

26:09 - Butterfly meaning

27:40 - Illuminations

29:35 - Afterlife?

31:30 - Lost + The Leftovers

32:42 - Interstate Projects

34:37 - Working with acrylic and flashe + watercolor

38:07 - How are your drawings incorporated in your practice?

40:32 - Pandemic

45:05 - Revisiting galleries

47:14 - Sketching and ceramics?

48:48 - The Mystic Spiral

51:10 - Future and ceramics?

53:30 - Spirals in everything

54:02 - Continuing the series and Red’s journey

55:23 - More about Red, Anne Carson, Bhanu Kapil

58:53 - Questions / Astrology

1:00:19 - Animation, film, sci-fi

1:04:12 - Thank you

Welcome to our fourth episode of Y2K GROUP CHAT featuring artist Mosie Romney. We recorded in late August 2020.

We speak with Mosie about their experiences in the New York art world as a young artist, their work in “Evening Lark” at Y2K, and rituals in the studio.

Mosie Romney is an emerging artist based in Ridgewood, Queens.

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Audio timestamps below:

0:00 - Intro music

0:15 - Y2K GROUP CHAT introduction

0:34 - Mosie Romney introduction

1:30 - Mosie Romney bio

2:03 - Hello

2:20 - How’s your morning so far?

2:40 - New Hampshire trip

3:05 - NH “Live Free or Die” state motto

3:25 - Mosie’s disturbing NH store experience

4:58 - Safe in NYC? Being scared traveling

5:37 - Show ourselves

5:52 - Happy to be back in NY

6:06 - Evening Lark at Y2K

6:24 - Slowing down

6:49 - What was your first exposure to art? When did you know you wanted to study/pursue art?

7:29 - Grandmother and Mosie’s mark

7:58 - Drawing with elementary school teacher

8:29 - Woman helping and making time

9:02 - Remembering the cardboard in hosiery package

9:13 - What kind of drawing material did you work with?

9:57 - Mosie’s family recognizing them as an artist

10:15 - What was the NY art world like after undergrad?

10:36 - Pop-up galleries and in apartments

11:12 - Art in odd places

12:01 - What kind of art did you make arriving back to New York and your experience?

13:03 - Abstract paintings and painting sets

13:16 - Abstraction not leaving

13:46 - What kind of work have you been making this year?

13:58 - Children, older people, ghosts: intergenerational world

14:38 - Children’s freedom, being themselves

15:30 - What inspired your collection of paintings in “Evening Lark”?

15:49 - Hyper-change and re-imagining the future

16:26 - “Hell is a place on earth and Heaven is a place in your head”

17:04 - “Tonight’s Queen”

17:27 - “Rain Body”

17:57 - Black bodies at ease and in communion

18:47 - “Evening Lark” exhibition title

20:07 - Mosie’s new van

21:19 - Collecting things and painting with the van

21:48 - Collectible pieces and inspiration?

23:44 - Finding yard sales

24:54 - What is your preferred medium and various approaches?

26:06 - Chris Martin and painting

26:40 - Everything is a material

27:11 - What do you enjoy the most about painting?

27:50 - Who are the figures in the paintings?

29:06 - Has your practice changed since moving your studio?

30:42 - What’s integral to your work?

31:33 - What type of research do you pursue?

32:42 - Who inspires you?

34:17 - Do you have any specifics rituals in studio?

35:21 - Method painting

36:03 - Communicating with people not here and who will be here

37:04 - Saying their name and bringing their energy

37:36 - What will happen to artist in the near future?

38:47 - Future of art galleries?

39:34 - Artist estates, lifespans, and re-discovered

40:56 - Have you seen any exhibitions lately?

42:14 - Painting flowers

43:11 - Staying-in

43:48 - Museums opening again

44:48 - Press release and working with Camille

46:44 - Spirits

48:21- Thank you

Welcome to our third episode of Y2K GROUP CHAT featuring artist Marcela Flórido. We recorded in late June 2020.

We talk with Marcela about her experiences in New York as an artist, the community at her studio building, the affects of COVID-19 on artists, ballet, identity of the figure in her paintings, her experiences as a Brazilian artist and remembering home.

Marcela Flórido is an emerging artist based in Brooklyn, New York.

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Audio timestamps below:

0:00 - Intro music

0:17 - Podcast introduction

0:35 - Marcela Flórido biography and upcoming

2:07 - Beginning

2:41 - Nearby the studio

4:01 - Interacting with people and the studio

4:38 - Marcela’s experience at the studio towards beginning of COVID

5:50 - Community at the studio

6:59 - Living in New York as an artist

8:03 - What have you been working on at home?

8:12 - Exhibitions re-scheduled

9:19 - Exhibition deadlines

10:31 - Freedom to experiment and part-time

11:42 - New York hustle

12:07 - How has your work been affected by the pandemic?

14:33 - What kind of materials do you use for the drawings?

16:43 - Working with scale

18:49 - Growing up practicing ballet

22:26 - Beginning of body awareness and femininity in Marcela’s painting

25:47 - After ballet

26:35 - When did you know you wanted to be an artist?

29:20 - Studio ritual

31:00 - Schedule for studio time

33:32 - Reflecting on silver lining of pandemic

36:16 - Production of work and creation

37:53 - Identity of the figures in Marcela’s paintings

42:58 - The meaning of the paintings

44:57 - Vulnerability in the studio

48:13 - Sharing past studio in London

50:15 - Resetting at studio

51:13 - Have you made night paintings? Experiences at Yale

53:06 - Brazilian museums and the arts growing up

54:46 - Censorship in Brazil

55:21 - São Paulo cultural capital

56:50 - Marcela recent trip back home and the Amazon

57:46 - Painting flora and home environment

59:01 - Brazilian landscape and exoticism

1:01:26 - Integration and relation of plant life with the figures and landscape in Marcela’s paintings

1:02:43 - Being an immigrant and remembering home

1:03:55 - Dreaming about home

1:04:51 - Immigrant story within the work

1:06:18 - Being a Brazilian artist-background in British painting and Latin American art history

1:10:26 - Thank you!