Interviews From Yale Radio / Artists, Curators And More

Photo by Lila Barth Jessica Cannon (b. 1979, Brooklyn, NY) lives and works in Brooklyn. She earned an MFA from Parsons School of Design and teaches at Parsons and CUNY Queens College. She is a recipient of the Brooklyn Arts Council’s Community Arts Fund Grant and has exhibited in solo and group shows at Winston’s Los Angeles, Honey Ramka (Brooklyn, NY), Crush Curatorial (Amagansett, NY), the Brooklyn Academy of Music, and the Hudson Valley Center for Contemporary Art, among others. Veils, an exhibition of new paintings will be on view at the Polina Berlin Gallery in New York, NY through June 24th. Cannon's mystic landscapes confront time with a sense of ontological awe. She employs personal and symbolic language in concert with geometric motifs to depict the horizon and the space beyond it. Jessica Cannon Let It Be The Sky, 2023 Acrylic and iridescent pigments on linen 72 x 60 inches 182.9 x 152.4 cm Photo: Steven Probert. Courtesy the artist and Polina Berlin Gallery. Jessica Cannon Capitan, Spinning Ligh

Deanna Havas (b. 1989 in New York, US) is an artist based in Budapest, Hungary. Havas received her BFA from Rhode Island School of Design in 2011 and attended the Hochschule für Bildende Künste in Germany in 2016. Havas’ work has been the subject of solo and two-person exhibitions at the following venues: Tara Downs, New York, US (2023); Triest, Brooklyn, US (2022); Meow 2, Melbourne, AU (2022); Sundogs, Paris, FR (2018); Galeria Madragoa, Lisbon, PT (2017); Marbriers 4, Geneva, CH (2015). Deanna Havas's work has been presented in numerous group exhibitions including Colnaghi, New York, US (2022); 1857, Oslo, NO (2017); Jan Kaps, Cologne, DE (2017); Treize, Paris, FR (2016); Schloss Schöngrabern, Ebreichsdorf, AT (2016); Villa Empain, Brussels, BE (2016); and Eli Ping Frances Perkins, New York, US (2016). Exhibition view of Deanna Havas: Message From the Source. Tara Do'WllS, New York, 2023. Courtesy of the artist and Tara Downs. Photo: Farzad Owrang Deanna Havas, Untitled, 2023. Inkjet and acrylic on can

Zoe Pettijohn Schade’s densely researched, seductively beautiful drawings and paintings of varying size explore the scientific, art historical, and philosophical aspects of pattern. Her lifelong repertoire of work rests on the premise that the pursuit of form, repetition, organization, and its arrangements are as vitally important and determining as the finality of the image itself. Pettijohn Schade studied at The Cooper Union for the Advancement of Science and Art in New York, NY in 1995. In 2012-13, she traveled to France on a Fulbright U.S. Research Scholars Grant to work with a collection of 18th century textile paintings, many completed by anonymous women laborers. The title of her third solo exhibition at Kai Matsumiya Gallery, The Hard Problem, on view until June 17, refers to the question of how physical matter gives rise to consciousness. Recent exhibitions include Our Secret Fire at Hirschl & Adler Modern, New York, NY; Less is a Bore: Maximalist Art & Design, curated by Jenelle Porter, Institute f

George Widener’s artwork is as intellectually challenging as it is aesthetically compelling. A high-functioning savant who has channeled his extraordinary gifts of numerical computation into artmaking, Widener struggled for years before his talent was recognized. Born in Kentucky in 1962, Widener’s was not diagnosed with Asperger Syndrome until he was an adult, making an already difficult childhood even more so. Following a stint of service in the US Air Force, Widener was diagnosed with depression, and committed to several psychiatric hospitals. He eventually attended the University of Tennessee. He currently lives and works in Waynesville, NC, near Asheville. Widener’s brain has been proven to function as a super-calculator, a gift that allows him to process mathematical information in a radically different way than most people do. By directing his impulse to calculate complex sequences of numbers through stunning, often large-scale drawings, Widener makes visible not only his savant skillset, but also his

Martin Bodilsen Kaldahl is a ceramic artist based in Copenhagen, Denmark. He has worked with a myriad of spatial themes and ornaments that frequently reoccur in his formal vocabulary, and which emerge through a methodical, gradual and experimental serial process. Notably, the knot as a shape has been a leitmotif offering possibilities for various sinuous rhythmic cadences and abstract narratives. The hand built architectonic works appear as ‘spatial drawings’–solid, twisting and turning through space. Kaldahl’s interest also lies in the potential of the object to make a direct emotional impact on the viewer. The motif is always clear in its simplicity and easily decoded while remaining open to interpretations. Kaldahl first trained as a potter in the 1970s. In 1988, he joined the Masters program at the Royal College of Art in London, where he graduated in 1990. He is a co-founder of the artist run exhibition platform, Copenhagen Ceramics (CC) launched in 2012. Kaldahl’s works are represented in several public

Ted Gahl creates intuitive paintings of varying scale, embedding and juxtaposing personal imagery of the present alongside art historical influences of the past. Gahl’s paintings often read as elements of subconscious activities–reveries, dreams, and memories, while being firmly grounded in the act of painting itself. He obtained his BFA from Pratt Institute in 2006 and MFA from Rhode Island School of Design in 2010. Recent solo exhibitions include MAMOTH, London; Harkawik, Los Angeles; Halsey McKay, East Hampton; Massif Central, Brussels; Alexander Berggruen, New York. Recent group exhibitions include Valentin, Paris; Bjorn & Gundorph, Aarhus, Denmark; S.M.A.K., Ghent, Belgium; Halsey McKay, East Hampton. Gahl is a 2022 recipient of a Pollock-Krasner Foundation Grant. He lives and works in Northwest Connecticut and Brooklyn, New York. Gallery Installation. Courtesy, Harkawik. Ted Gahl, The Entertainer, 2022. Acrylic, Moroccan pigments, graphite, colored pencil on canvas in artist's frame, 40 x 30 i

Portrait of Nicholas Hatfull. Courtesy of the artist and Dracula’s Revenge, New York. Nicholas Hatfull (born in Tokyo, Japan) is a painter who lives and works in Norwich, UK. Hatfull’s first solo exhibition in the United States, titled Shades, is on view at Dracula’s Revenge in New York through June 18. Hatfull received a Postgraduate Diploma from the Royal Academy of Arts, London in 2011, and was the Sainsbury Scholar in Painting and Sculpture at the British School at Rome in 2012. Recent solo exhibitions include Josh Lilley, London (2020, 2017, 2014); The Club, Tokyo (2019); and Peles Empire, London (2012). Group exhibitions include Leave the road; take the trail at Xenia Creative Retreat, Hampshire (2022); Timelessness at The Club, Tokyo (2020); Stains On A Decade at Josh Lilley, London (2019); Folly at Emalin, Airth, Scotland (2016); D’Après Giorgio at Fondazione Giorgio e Isa de Chirico, Rome (2012); and Re-generation at Museum of Contemporary Art, Rome (2012). His work has appeared in Financial Times,

Luciana Abait was born in Argentina and currently lives and works in Los Angeles. Her multimedia works deal with climate change, environmental awareness and displacement issues facing immigrants. Abait’s artworks have been shown widely in the United States, Europe, Latin America and Asia in solo shows in galleries, museums and international art fairs. Recent projects have been shown at the Los Angeles International Airport (LAX) and the Palm Springs Museum of Art. She has completed numerous public art commissions and installations. Her solo exhibition “On the Verge” is currently on view at the Hilliard Art Museum, Lafayette, Louisiana. On the Verge 7, Photograph on Hahnemuhle Photo Rag paper, 11 x 16 inches, 2022 Green Sky and Black Mountain Archival pigment print mounted on wood panel, 50 x 60 inches, 2021. Agua, immersive video projection on the Petroleum Securities Building in Downtown Los Angeles, 37 h x 32 w feet, 2021.

Victor Boullet (b.1969, Oslo, Norway) lives and works in London, UK and Oslo, Norway. His exhibition at the gallery consisted of two "chapters". The first 4 weeks with paintings installed. The remaining 2 weeks, the paintings were stacked in a corner covered in a blanket, becoming a single work; and 130 drawings were installed on the walls. Links to each chapter can be found here: Chapter One and Chapter Two. Victor Boullet, Binman (Heritage Problem), 2020-2021. Oil on linen Victor Boullet, Untitled (2021). Oil on linen Victor Boullet, Cherries from the Bin, 2019-2021. Oil on linen.

Erin Milez, Courtesy of the artist and Monya Rowe Erin Milez (b. 1994, Pittsburgh, PA) received a MFA from New York Academy of Art, NY and a BA from Seattle Pacific University, Seattle, WA. Her work has recently been exhibited at Lorin Gallery, LA; Arsenal Contemporary Art, NY; Cob Gallery, London; and Kutlesa Gallery, Switzerland. In 2020, the artist was awarded an Elizabeth Greenshields Foundation Grant. Milez will have a solo exhibition at Monya Rowe Gallery in October 2023. The artist lives and works in Bayonne, NJ, and is represented by Monya Rowe Gallery, NY.   ERIN MILEZ Telephone, 2023 watercolor media, colored pencil, and flashe on paper 24 by 18 inches Courtesy of Monya Rowe Gallery, NY ERIN MILEZ The Cleaners Greet the Day's End, 2023 Oil and acrylic on canvas 66 by 48 inches Courtesy of Lorin Gallery, LA and Monya Rowe Gallery, NY ERIN MILEZ, The Tenders Become Their Land, 2023, Oil and acrylic on canvas, 43 by 72 inches. Courtesy of Lorin Gallery, LA and Monya Rowe Gallery, NY

photograph by Lori E. Seid Charles Atlas was born in St. Louis, MO in 1949; he has lived and worked in New York City since the early 1970s. Recent solo exhibitions include The Mathematics of Consciousness, a 100-foot long video installation commissioned by Pioneer Works, Brooklyn, NY, and supported by a grant from the VIA Art Fund; Charles Atlas: Ominous, Glamorous, Momentous, Ridiculous, Fondazione ICA Milano, Italy; and Charles Atlas: The past is here, the futures are coming and The Kitchen Follies, The Kitchen, New York. In 2017, the Hammer Museum, Los Angeles acquired Atlas' five-channel video installation with sound entitled The Tyranny of Consciousness, which won a prize in Viva Arte Viva, the 57th International Art Exhibition of the Venice Biennial. In September 2019, Atlas unveiled The Geometry of Thought, a new commission for Art on theMART that spanned across the 2.5 acre river fac;:ade of theMART in Chicago.Atlas' work is included in the permanent collections of major institutions worldwide, incl

Charlotte Edey Charlotte Edey is a British artist (b.1992, Manchester). Her work is primarily concerned with contemporary issues of selfhood. Cultural signifiers and personal mythologies are interwoven through a process of world-building. Her imagined realms are peppered with symbolist motifs that explore the politics of embodiment, race, gender and the erotic. Her process combines tapestry and embroidery as an expansion of her drawing practice. Mark-making and gesture are explored through hand-embroidery and beading, forging a relationship between line and thread. Her installations reference ritualistic methods of display that blur the boundary between the real and the represented, forming portals to bodily otherworlds that offer the opportunity to investigate our present.  Charlotte Edey lives and works in London. She studied at Chelsea School of Art and Design and the Royal Drawing School. Charlotte Edey, Cutting Ties, 2022, soft pastel on paper in found cedar frame, 13 1/2h x 11w inches, Courtesy of

Photographer: Guillaume Ziccarelli. Courtesy of the artist and Perrotin Nikki Maloof’s paintings depict the world hidden within the mind. Imagined interiors, and animals become proxies for the human experience. Her subjects convey existential loneliness, but that loneliness is buoyed by humor, capricious paint handling, and the use of a saturated palette. A squiggle depicting ground meat, a cat’s meow being mistaken for a howl, or a comically disillusioned fish being filleted before our eyes, all draw the viewer’s attention to the melancholic and at times brutal tone of the imagery.  At the same time, the paint handling and colors attempt to undermine the dark nature of these images all together. This self-defeating melodrama points to an ambivalent view of existence, to a need to laugh and cry and even at once. Nikki Maloof, The Cherry Tree, 2022. Oil on linen, 64 x 48 inch. Photograph: Guillaume Ziccarelli. Courtesy of the artist and Perrotin. Nikki Maloof, In the Yellow Room, 2022. Oil on linen, 7

Victor Burgin (b. 1941, Sheffield, United Kingdom) first came to prominence in the late 1960s as one of the originators of Conceptual Art. His work appeared in such key exhibitions as Harald Szeemann's Live in Your Head: When Attitudes Become Form (1969) at the ICA London, and Kynaston McShine's Information (1970) at The Museum of Modern Art, New York. Since then, he has had solo exhibitions at the Museum für Gegenwartkunst Siegen, Kunsthalle Bremerhaven, MAMCO Musée d'art moderne et contemporain, Canadian Centre for Architecture, Mücsarnok Museum, University at Buffalo Art Gallery, Musée d'art moderne Villeneuve d'Ascq, The List Visual Arts Center, Renaissance Society at the University of Chicago, Musée de la Ville de Calais, The Museum of Modern Art in Oxford, and Stedelijk van Abbemuseum in Eindhoven. His work appears in the collections of The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Museum of Modern Art, New York Public Library, Walker Art Center, Tate Gallery, Victoria and Albert Museum, Los Angeles County Museum of

Lila de Magalhaes (b. 1986, Rio de Janiero) lives and works in Los Angeles. She received her MFA from the University of Southern California in 2013 and a BA from Glasgow School of Art in 2008. Her recent solo and two-person exhibitions include Palace of Errors, Deli Gallery, NY; Soup of the Night, Matthew Brown, LA; Cupid of Chaos, Ghebaly Gallery, LA; A Soft Flea, Mutt. R, LA; Remote Control, Abode, LA; Exhibition (10), SPF15, San Diego; and Motorfruit, Blood Gallery, NY. She has appeared as well in numerous group exhibitions, including Porch Gallery, Ojai; Company Gallery, NY; Freedman Fitzpatrick, LA; François Ghebaly, LA; ltd los angeles, LA; Steve Turner, LA, PANE Project, Milan; Julius Caesar, Chicago; and 356 Mission, LA. Lila de Magalhaes Interior (The wonders of epsom salt), 2022 Glazed ceramic 9 ½ × 10 ¾ × 1 ½ inches (24.13 × 27.31 × 3.81 cm) Lila de Magalhaes Ride Home, 2022 Dyed fabric, chalk pastel, and thread 43 × 35 × 1 inches (109.22 × 88.90 × 2.54 cm) Lila de Magalhaes Lunch Date, 2022 Dy

Jakob Jørgensen by Dorte Krogh Jakob Jørgensen was born in 1977 in Nyborg, Denmark. He studied fine art in his early twenties, attending The New Art School, Odense, Denmark and Guildhall School of Fine Arts in London, as well as completing an apprenticeship with Studio Palla in Carrara, Italy. In 2008, he graduated from the Royal Danish Academy for Design, and went on to found a successful design studio. As his interest in large scale steel sculpture developed, he submitted a proposal to the Danish National Workshop in 2017, and was granted access to their vast metalworking facilities. He continued his exploration of the medium, building a dedicated studio tailored to working with steel pipe on the island of Bornholm in 2020. Jørgensen’s work has been exhibited internationally in solo and group exhibitions including at the Musée d’Art Moderne de Paris, France; Louisiana Museum of Modern Art, Humlebæk, Denmark; Designmuseum, Copenhagen, Denmark; and the 21st Century Museum, Kanazawa, Japan. He has been the r

Susan Dory is a Seattle-based artist whose geometric abstractions explore systems of interconnectedness, patterning and her trust of the process. Susan has exhibited widely with exhibitions at Winston Wachter Fine Art in New York and Seattle; Margaret Thatcher, New York; Catharine Clark Gallery, San Francisco; Tew Gallery, Atlanta; Boecker Contemporary, Heidelberg; The Tacoma Art Museum; The Henry Art Gallery, University of Washington; Kittredge Art Gallery, University of Puget Sound, The Western Gallery, Western Washington University; Mills College Art Museum, Oakland; The Contemporary Austin – Jones Center and The Art Gallery of Greater Victoria, Victoria BC, Canada. She received her BA from Iowa State University and studied painting in Vienna, Austria. Susan is a recipient of the Neddy Award, The Pollock Krasner Foundation Grant, GAP grant, the Artist Trust Fellowship Grant, and was a finalist for the Betty Bowen Award. Some public collections include, The Tacoma Art Museum, Ballinglen Museum of Contem

Jonathan Casella is a contemporary artist based in Los Angeles, California, whose work is defined by dynamic compositions featuring riotous amalgams of dots, checkers, stripes, and bold swaths of color. His disciplined approach to painting involves the exploration and definition of a unique visual language through endless permutations of color, shape, and pattern Born in Houston, Texas, he received a BA from San Francisco State University in 2010. Recent solo exhibitions include Harper's NY (2023), Mindy Solomon Gallery in Miami (2023), F2T Gallery in Milan (2022), and M+B Gallery in Los Angeles (2021). Jonathan Casella, Doublestar Installation, Harper's Gallery Chelsea Jonathan Casella, Doublestar (A.B.B. Emma Cline), 2022, Acrylic on canvas, 77h x 66.25w in., 195.58h x 168.28w cm Jonathan Casella Doublestar (A.B.B. Eat It Up), 2022 Acrylic on canvas 77h x 66.25w in 195.58h x 168.28w cm

Jason Lustig is an artist living and working in Brooklyn, New York. Originally from the S.F. Bay Area Jason’s work is largely informed by the environment he grew up in. Often moving between  cities, mountains, and coastal areas, Jason uses these as the main settings of his paintings and  then adds charmingly mischievous characters to live inside them. Using a bright and saturated color palette, his paintings capture moments in time from other worlds that seem to parallel our own.   Jason Lustig, "Joyride", 2023, Flashe on canvas, 18 x 24 in. Jason Lustig, "The Regular", 2022, Flashe on wood panel, 10 x 8 in. Jason Lustig, "Window Cat", 2021, Flashe on wood panel, 7 x 5 in.

Danielle Roberts. Photo: Anushka Bohra | @ab.frames, Courtesy Fredericks & Freiser Archives. Danielle Roberts (b. 1991, Stockton, CA; raised in Gabriola Island, British Columbia; lives and works in Brooklyn, NY.) She received an M.F.A. from Hunter College in 2021. Recent solo exhibitions include "Evening All Day" (2023) at Fredericks & Freiser, New York and "Afterglow" (2022) at Friends Indeed, San Francisco. Group exhibitions include "What Now?" (2022) at PM/AM, London; "Women of Now: Dialogues of Memory, Place and Identity" (2022) at Green Family Art Foundation, Dallas, TX, and "Towards a More Beautiful Oblivion" (2021) at Fredericks & Freiser, NY.  Danielle is represented by Fredericks & Freiser in New York, and Friends Indeed in San Francisco. Drawing from personal experience Danielle Roberts' paintings are grounded with an uncanny sense of place. Through the collision of light and shadow she creates a world where light is simultaneously magical and toxic; against a darkness that is both soothing and