Interviews From Yale Radio / Artists, Curators And More

Raquel Rabinovich is a New York-based, Argentinian-American artist known for her monochromatic paintings and drawings as well as for her large-scale glass sculpture environments and her site-specific stone sculpture installations along the shores of the Hudson River. Born in Buenos Aires in 1929, she has lived and worked in the United States since 1967, currently residing in Rhinebeck, NY. Rabinovich has been the recipient of numerous grants and fellowships, including the 2011-2012 Lee Krasner Award for Lifetime Achievement from The Pollock-Krasner Foundation. She is included in the Oral History Program of the Smithsonian Institution Archives of American Art. Raquel Rabinovich, Avatars 1, 2022 Ink wash, pastel, and colored pencil on Essindia paper 14 x 20 in. Raquel Rabinovich, Avatars 2, 2023, Oil, wax, and colored pencil on canvas, 30 x 48 in. Raquel Rabinovich, Avatars 3, 2023, Oil, wax, and colored pencil on canvas, 30 x 48 in.

Nana Wolke by Inna Svyatsky / installshots.art Nana Wolke explores the nature of perception, focusing her attention on modes of apprehension of space and time. Her series of works usually begins on film-like sets, where the artist records the unfolding of staged situations and improvised actions occurring in spaces spanning across social hierarchy. Wolke proceeds to assemble and edit both original and found footage to create distinctly monochromatic visual atmospheres and rhythms that she then translates into painting and sound installations. Using commonplace lighting to model space and generate the grain, textures and slippages of her images and sequences, Wolke utilizes a variety of devices chosen as much for their technical properties as for their social significance – e.g. CCTV equipment, home video camcorders, inventory cameras, intercom systems, etc. Considering the multiple viewpoints from which an action can be witnessed, Wolke’s work conjures a tension between observation and control, often invitin

Will Stovall (Ph.D. Yale University, 2018; M.F.A. Bard College, 2025) is an artist based in Washington, DC. He completed a dissertation on the institutional imagination of German philosopher Jürgen Habermas. His paintings were the subject of a solo exhibition at Ulrik and have been featured as cover illustrations for Oxford German Studies and Seminar: A Journal of Germanic Studies. In addition to his interest in visuality in the German philosophical tradition, he has presented research and organized exhibitions on the art history of Washington, DC, and is the editor of Of the Land: The Art and Poetry of Lou Stovall (Georgetown University Press, 2022). Eden and Inferno, 2020, oil on canvas, walnut frame, 15 x 10 in. (38.1 x 25.4 cm.). Courtesy of Ulrik, New York; Photo: Stephen Faught Faces and Goalie, 2021, oil on paper pinned on linen, 6 3/4 x 5 1/2 in. (17.1 x 14 cm.) Courtesy of Ulrik, New York; Photo: Stephen Faught Watchers, 2021, oil on linen, 4 1/2 x 5 1/4 in. (11.4 x 13.3 cm.) Courtesy of Ulrik, N

Gail Spaien lives in South Portland, Maine. She earned her B.F.A. from the University of Southern Maine and her M.F.A. from the San Francisco Art Institute. Spaien has received numerous fellowships including the Ucross Foundation; Varda Artist Residency Program; Millay Colony for the Arts; the Djerassi Foundation Resident Artists Program; and the Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture. Over four decades, Spaien’s work has been exhibited nationwide and abroad, including Taymour Grahne Projects (London); Vardan Gallery (Los Angeles, CA); the DeCordova Sculpture Park and Museum (Lincoln, MA); Provincetown Art Association and Museum (Provincetown, MA); Crocker Art Museum (Sacramento, CA); the Portland Museum of Art (Portland, ME); Ogunquit Museum of American Art (Ogunquit, ME); and Colby College Museum of Art (Waterville, Maine). After thirty years as faculty at the Maine College of Art and Design she is now full-time in the studio. Turquoise Window, 2024, acrylic on linen, 48 x 45 inches Pearl with Boots

Michael Gac Levin was born in Los Angeles in 1984. The artist earned an MFA from Pratt Institute in 2015 and a BA from the University of Chicago in 2006. Yellow Brick Road, a solo exhibition of paintings and drawings, took place at Hexum Gallery, Montpelier, VT in 2023. Gac Levin will present a solo show of new works at My Pet Ram in 2024, and will participate in A Cup is a Cup, a Tree is a Tree at Deanna Evans Projects. Gac Levin has recently shown in group exhibitions at Kaleidoscope and My Pet Ram, New York; and BOZOMAG, Los Angeles; as well as online with Taymour Grahne, Platform, and Deanna Evans Projects. His work has been featured in Artmaze Magazine and Maake Magazine, and he has completed special projects online for the Jewish Museum and SCREEN_. Talking Married Oil on canvas 20"x24" 2024 Date Night Acrylic on canvas 24"x30" 2023

Michael Ambron is a painter and paint maker who works through wildly experimental and meditative approaches to making in order to hone in on a kind of overwhelming simultaneity of lived experience. From an investigation of and curiosity about one’s own perception, to the challenges and worries of living in uncertain and upsetting times, Ambron builds symbols, materials, and gestures into an expansive, floating, and timeless space. His paintings immerse the viewer in a loop of dreams, cartoon violence, lived experience, and world events, that create a vibrating sense of absurdity and urgency. Ambron received his BFA from Tyler School of Art and his MFA from The Ohio State University. He is currently based in Long Island City, NY where he is the owner and operator of Paint Makers Notes LLC, a small business that offers education, consulting, and paint making services to amateur and professional artists around the world. Boundaries, 2021, 63” x 66” x 2” - pigment, glass, stone chalk, acrylic, cellulose, marker

Portrait by Sandy Levy Diego Singh (b. 1982, Salta, Argentina) has exhibited his work at the de la Cruz Collection, Miami, FL; Museum of Contemporary Art San Diego, CA; Pérez Art Museum Miami, FL; Fondazione Malvina Menegaz, Castelbasso, Italy; Braverman Gallery, Tel-Aviv, Israel; Mendes Wood DM, São Paulo, Brazil; Palazzo Fruscione, Salerno, Italy; Tomio Koyama Gallery, Tokyo, Japan; Fredric Snitzer Gallery, Miami, FL; Various Small Fires, Los Angeles, CA; Luhring Augustine, New York; and the Museum of Contemporary Art North Miami, FL, among others. Singh was awarded the Knight Foundation award in 2019 and 2015. He lives and works in Miami Beach, FL. His work is on view at Luhring Augustin Tribeca in a two-person exhibition with Tomm El-Saieh through June 8, 2024. Singh was awarded the Knight Foundation award in 2019 and 2015. He lives and works in Miami Beach, FL. Diego Singh, Sin Nombre I, 2023-24 Oil and acrylic on linen 96 x 72 inches (243.8 x 182.9 cm). © Diego Singh; Courtesy of the artist, Luhring A

Photo: Elon Schoenholz, courtesy of David Kordansky Gallery For over four decades, Raúl Guerrero (b. 1945, Brawley, California) has made work informed by his experiences navigating cultures as an American of Mexican ancestry in Southern California. In his paintings, photographs, video, and performance works, Guerrero utilizes language and cultural signifiers to examine notions of place as a way to understand personal concepts of self. An aspect of his work depicts—and critiques—colonial narratives in the Americas such as the settlement of the Great Plains, the history of Latin America, and imposed notions of the American “West.” With compositions fusing Mexican, American, and European visual traditions, he incorporates influences ranging from the readymades of Marcel Duchamp to conceptually-oriented practices associated with a preceding generation of California artists (including John Baldessari and Ed Ruscha) who emerged from Guerrero’s alma mater, the Chouinard Art Institute. A long-time exhibiting artist

Alison Kudlow (b. 1981) lives and works in Brooklyn. She earned a BA from the University of Southern California, a post-baccalaureate degree from Brandeis University and an MFA from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago in Studio Art. She has shown at galleries including Swivel, Parent Company, Field Projects, Tiger Strikes Asteroid, Flux Factory, UrbanGlass, Deanna Evans Projects, Doppelgänger Projects, Paradice Palase, Wavelength Space, and at Fullerton College in California. She is a member of Underdonk, an artist-run gallery. She presented a solo show, Meaningful Rituals in Irrational Times, at Elijah Wheat Showroom’s Brooklyn location in 2019. She was an invited resident at the Art Ichol Center in Maihar, Madhya Pradesh, India in January 2023. She is presenting a solo show at Deanna Evans Projects in Tribeca, NY May 17 - June 22, 2024. Suture, 2024, Ceramic, glass, rubber, 14 1/2 x 11 1/2 x 3 1/2 in. 36.8 x 29.2 x 8.9 cm. Bolbos, 2024 Ceramic, rubber, glass, iron hardware 28 x 22 x 13 in 71.1 x 55

Sari Carel, Portrait. Photo by Argenis Apolinario. Courtesy KODA Sari Carel is a Brooklyn-based, interdisciplinary artist and environmental activist. Her projects consider interspecies communication, nature and the built environment, and how the senses inform perception. Sari Carel participated in a KODA Land + Environment artist residency in 2021. She was offered a studio space on Governors Island in partnership with Swale House, exhibited at FiveMyles and organized a tree-care and stewardship workshop with Trees NY in Brooklyn, NY. Recent exhibitions: The Sun Is A Mouth Of Blue at Melanie Flood Projects, Portland, OR; The Shape Of Play, a public art project in Boston’s North End, and Mud Songs For Anni at The Schneider Museum of Art’s Art Beyond in Ashland, OR. She has been awarded fellowships and residencies at Stundars Museum, Solf, Finland; Atelier Stipendium des Bundeskanzleramtes, Vienna, Austria; and Bundanon, Illaroo, Australia; Socrates Sculpture Park, Long Island City, NY; and LMCC Residency on Go

Alan Belcher, courtesy of Hunt Gallery Alan Belcher's concept-based work is decidedly multi-layered and object oriented. He has been recognized in the past as an originator of a tactile fusion of photography and object-making. A transparency of vision and simplicity of fabrication with a concentrated regard for materials remain hallmarks of his serial productions. A sense of humour and a reverence for both Pop and Poveric sensibilities, as well as a hands-on approach; invade much of his work. His lifelong study of the works by artists Manzoni, Fontana, Pascali, Balla, Boccioni, and Scarpitta inform much of his work history, and indeed the pieces included in this exhibition. Works by Alan Belcher are held in various public collections which include the National Gallery of Canada (Ottawa), Centre Georges Pompidou (Paris), Art Gallery of Ontario (Toronto), Le Consortium (Dijon), Musee des Beaux-Arts (Montréal), Deste Foundation (Athens), Fotomuseum Winterthur (Zurich), Walker Art Center (Minneapolis), Chase Manh

Alexander Brewington (b. 1996, Silver Spring, MD), lives and works in Ridgewood, NY. He holds an MFA from Pratt Institute, and a BFA in visual art from St. Johns University. His work was previously included in the group exhibition ‘Departure’ at Thierry Goldberg. Brewington has been in residence at Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture, and his work was featured in Hyperallergic and Canvas Rebel Magazine. Alexander Brewington She Who Walks out of the Dark, 2024 oil on wooden panel 36 x 48 inches Alexander Brewington End on a High Note, 2023 oil on wooden panel 36 x 24 inches Alexander Brewington Back on Track, 2023 oil on wooden panel 36 x 24 inches

Marianne Nielsen Marianne Nielsen crafts delicate ceramic arrangements, which expose the synthetic and psychological aspects of the natural world. Through the lens of botany and a naturalist approach, she produces an herbarium of gestural forms that preserve the liveliness of plants. In reexamining the still life genre, her works evoke the ephemeral forms of overgrown spaces, crystalizing transient and fleeting moments. Nielsen’s subjects are found throughout nature as well as the decorative arts: in textile patterns, architectural elements, and the general abstracting of form across vernacular craft traditions. As a result, many of her works improvise on the basic format of vase, plate, or decorative dish. At other times, the artist isolates botanical scenarios and chance compositions from field and forest through the slow and detailed observation of her surroundings. Hers is an attention which aims not to simply comprehend the whole but to see each petal, stamen, burl, and stem for its rudimentary elements.

Photo credit: portrait Melvin Way 1994, ARS artists rights society @ 2024 photo Andrew Castrucci, Melvin Way estate. This is an interview with the curator Andrew Castrucci. CO₂ Blues, scheduled since mid-2023, is the first exhibition of the enigmatic art of Melvin Way (1954-2024) since his passing, and the third solo show of his work with the gallery. It serves as a retrospective for a visionary who was one of the most admired self-taught artists in the contemporary art arena.  Way's mostly small-scale drawings are strange and alluring concoctions of science and art that seem intent on revealing the secrets of the universe.  They contain chemical and mathematical formulae, musical notes, abstract designs, and cryptic words and phrases.  It is hard to look at one without becoming entangled in trying to figure out what it means. “I felt like I was seeing another kind of infinity, thought made visible, wild nerves, optical barnacles coming to hermetic life, delirium legible,” wrote New York Magazine’s senior a

Polly Shindler (New Haven, 1977) received her M.F.A. in Painting from Pratt Institute and her B.A. in History from University of Massachusetts. She has shown throughout the U.S. as well as internationally at Rafael Pérez Hernando Gallery in Madrid and Cristea Roberts Gallery in London. She recently had her first solo presentation at NADA Art Fair in Miami and will have her first solo exhibition in April of 2024, both with Deanna Evans Projects. Current shows include Feels Like Home at JDJ gallery, May You Live the Rest of Your Life at BravinLee Programs and Cool and Collected at Kenise Barnes Fine Art. Previous solo shows include Time Management at Freight + Volume, Retreat, at Ortega y Gasset Projects and at the project space Tennis Elbow at The Journal Gallery, NYC. Art Fairs include SP-Arte representing Gisela Projects, São Paulo, BRA, Art Estampa representing Rafael Pérez Hernando Gallery, Madrid, SP, Untitled Art Fair with Pratt Institute Fine Arts and Art on Paper Fair representing 3 Walls, NYC. Polly

Natasza Niedziolka Courtesy the artist and Sean Kelly, NewYork/Los Angeles For nearly ten years, Niedziółka has primarily worked with embroidery thread that she applies by hand to stretched canvas. The canvas functions as a support, manufactured by a machine with a regular horizontal and vertical structure, on which the irregular manual stitching of the embroidery can be seen. In their visual appearance, Niedziółka’s works oscillate between textile picture and tapestry. The hatching – in the sense of stitches made close together, most often in a vertical row – is perhaps the most characteristic aspect of these works in which threads are woven into the canvas in a flat chromatic gradation. In their materiality and treatment of color, Niedziółka’s works strive toward immediate sensations: They want to be beheld, for it is only when beholders move in front of the picture that the threads can unfold their entire chromatic spectrum. Seen from the front or from the side, these stitches appear either as separate u

Armendariz was born in El Paso, Texas. He received his BFA from the University of Texas at San Antonio and MFA from the University of Colorado at Boulder. In 2008, Armendariz received the Artpace Supplemental Travel Grant for travel to Mexico City, and in 2013, he was selected to participate as the Artist-in-Residence in the Blue Star Contemporary Berlin Residency Program in partnership with Künstlerhaus Bethanien, Berlin, Germany. In 2017, Armendariz was selected to be the first Artist-in-Residence for the DoSeum in San Antonio, Texas. In 2017 and again in 2022, Armendariz was a selected to be an Artist-In-Residency at Anderson Ranch, Snowmass Village, Colorado. His artistic and conceptual aesthetic is heavily influenced by growing up near the U.S./Mexico border. Images that have cultural, biographical and art historical references are carved and burned into the surface of his paintings, drawings, and prints. Greek and Mesoamerican mythology plays an important part in the artist’s exploration of the comple

Trudy Benson Trudy Benson received her Master of Fine Arts from the Pratt Institute in 2010 and her Bachelor of Fine Arts from Virginia Commonwealth University in 2007. She has been the subject of recent solo exhibitions at Galerie Krinzinger, Vienna, Austria; Weber Fine Art, Greenwich, CT; SUNNY, New York; Massif Central, Brussels, Belgium; Miles McEnery Gallery, New York; and Ceysson & Bénétière, Saint-Étienne, France. Her work has been included in recent group exhibitions at Krinzinger Schottenfeld, Vienna, Austria; Eric Firestone Gallery, East Hampton, NY; m.simons, Amsterdam; Mother Gallery, Beacon, NY; Miles McEnery Gallery, New York; and Gaa Projects, Cologne, Germany. Benson’s work may be found in the collections of the Aïshti Foundation, Beirut, Lebanon; Beth Rudin DeWoody Collection, New York; Hudson Valley MOCA, Peekskill, NY; Portland Museum of Art, ME; Saatchi Gallery, London; Schwartz Art Collection, Harvard Business School, Cambridge, MA; and the Susan and Michael Hort Collection, New York. The

Debbi Kenote in her studio, Brooklyn, NY. 2023. Photograph by Anastasiya Shelest. Courtesy the artist and Cristin Tierney Gallery, New York. Debbi Kenote (b. 1991, Anacortes, WA) has exhibited at galleries internationally, including shows at Kate Werble and Marvin Gardens in New York, Duran|Mashaal Gallery in Montreal, Cob Gallery in London, and Fir Gallery in Beijing. She received her BFA in Painting from Western Washington University and her MFA in Sculpture from Brooklyn College. Her work has been on display at several art fairs, including Art Toronto, Art Plural, Future Fair and SPRING/BREAK Art Show. Kenote has been published through Liquitex, Maake Magazine, Elle Magazine, Innovate Grant, Suboart, The Hopper Prize, Art of Choice, and Hyperallergic. Her work has been placed in several collections, including the OZ Art Collection and the Capital One Corporate Collection. She has been an artist in residence at the Ucross Foundation, Vermont Studio Center, Saltonstall Foundation, PLOP, Nes Artist Residenc

Jakub Tomáš was born in Jihlava, Czech Republic, where he lives and works. He received a Master of Fine Arts in Painting at the Academy of Fine Arts, Prague, and studied previously at the University of West Bohemia and the Institute of Art and Design in Plzeň, CZ. He has shown widely in the Czech Republic, with recent solo exhibitions at Oblastní Galerie Vysočiny, Jihlava; Stage Garden Gallery, Rožnov pod Radhoštěm; Městská Galerie, Týn nad Vltavou; Šopa Gallery, Košice; GAVU Cheb; Galerie Václava Špály, Prague; Nová Galerie, Prague; and NEVAN CONTEMPO, Prague; and international exhibitions in Austria, Canada, France, and the United Kingdom. Jakub Tomáš, Family Meeting, 2023 Oil on canvas, 63h x 79w in. 160.02h x 200.66w cm. Courtesy of Asya Geisberg Gallery. Photo Credit: Etienne Frossard Jakub Tomáš, Beekeepers, 2023. Oil on canvas. 63h x 47.25w in 160.02h x 120.02w cm. Courtesy of Asya Geisberg Gallery. Photo Credit: Etienne Frossard Jakub Tomáš, The Field Robot of Myself II, 2023 Oil on canvas, 31