The Art Career

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Laurie Simmons : Protecting your Business and Integrity in the Arts Jun 02, 2022

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In Episode 8 of The Art Career Podcast, we chat with artist, photographer and filmmaker, Laurie Simmons, about her refreshing love for observing and her life-long urge to call out how absurd the intersections of life, art, and consumption can be. With all of the unexpected obstacles that life brings us, Laurie Simmons shares how looking and listening helped herself achieve things she never thought possible.

A prominent member of the Pictures Generation, photographer and filmmaker Laurie Simmons uses dolls, puppets, and other anthropomorphized subjects to explore objectification, domesticity, and American consumerism—their effect on women in particular. Since the 1970s, she has photographed miniature scenes of post-war domestic splendor, shot a series focusing on a custom-made Japanese “love doll,” and made a debut feature starring Meryl Streep alongside a cast of puppets and Alvin Ailey dancers dressed as inanimate objects. Simmons has enjoyed solo shows in New York, Los Angeles, Chicago, London, Berlin, Brussels, Madrid, and beyond. Laurie Simmons is an artist that's happier now, more than ever before in her career. With decades of masterful, critically acclaimed work, she’s managed to do something that most artists don’t do, which is to keep herself interested.

Podcast Host: Emily McElwreath @emilymcelwreath_art

Laurie Simmons - @lauriesimmons

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Podcast Director: Morgan Everhart @morgan_everhart

Sound editing: Aaron Stoner

Music: Chase Johnson

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Will Hutnick : Facilitating Artist Forward Projects with Mindfulness May 26, 2022

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In Episode 7 of The Art Career Podcast, Emily McElwreath chats with Will Hutnick, an artist, curator, and Director of Artistic Programming at the Wassaic Project in Upstate NY. The Wassaic Project is widely known, especially with artists around NYC, for being a residency that cultivates a great artist community. Will shares how he promotes artist centric projects while maintaining healthy boundaries in his personal and professional life. Will also shares why residencies are significant in the arts and how to successfully apply to them.

Hutnick is a 2021 NYSCA/NYFA Artist Fellow in Painting, as well as a 2017 Martha Boschen Porter fund grant recipient from the Berkshire Taconic Foundation. He received his M.F.A. from Pratt Institute (Brooklyn, NY) and his B.A. from Providence College (Providence, RI). Recent exhibitions include: 1969 Gallery (New York, NY), Geary Contemporary (Millerton, NY), Sugarlift (New York, NY), Satellite Art Club (Brooklyn), Craven Contemporary (Kent, CT), Collar Works (Troy, NY), Standard Space (Sharon, CT, solo) and One River School (Hartsdale, NY, solo). Hutnick has been an artist-in-residence at Yaddo, Hambidge Center for the Creative Arts and Sciences, Soaring Gardens Artists’ Retreat, Elizabeth Murray Artist Residency by Collar Works, DNA Artist Residency, Wassaic Project, Vermont Studio Center and a curator-in-residence at Benaco Arte and Trestle Projects. He has curated exhibitions at SPRING/BREAK Art Show, Ortega y Gasset Projects, Trestle Projects, Pratt Institute, Wassaic Project and Standard Space. From 2015-20, Hutnick was one of the Co-Directors of Ortega y Gasset Projects, an artist-run curatorial collective and exhibition space in Brooklyn. He is currently the Director of Artistic Programming at the Wassaic Project, a nonprofit organization that uses art and art education to foster positive social change.

Podcast Host: Emily McElwreath @emilymcelwreath_art

Will Hutnick - @willhutnick @wassaicproject

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Podcast Director: Morgan Everhart @morgan_everhart

Sound editing: Aaron Stoner

Music: Chase Johnson

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Mark Tribe : Lifelong Interests, Online Communities, and The Art of Critique May 19, 2022

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In Episode 6 of The Art Career, Emily McElwreath interviews Mark Tribe. The art world knows Mark Tribe in many different ways, and as soon as you’re introduced to him, you’ll see him everywhere. Simply put, Mark Tribe is a renaissance man. He’s developed a well-rounded career as an artist and educator. In varying combinations, Mark works in painting, photography, video, installation, performance and new media. While maintaining an incredible art practice, he also serves as the Chair of the MFA Fine Arts Department at the School of Visual Arts in New York City. Maintaining those two practices alone is a feat, but Mark has somehow managed to start Rhizome. The Rhizome platform is an affiliate in residence at the New Museum which champions born-digital art and culture through commissions, exhibitions, scholarship, and digital preservation. In this episode, Mark shares his balance as an artist, academic and entrepreneur.

Podcast Host: Emily McElwreath @emilymcelwreath_art

Mark Tribe - @marktribe @rhizome @svafinearts

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Podcast Director: Morgan Everhart @morgan_everhart

Sound editing: Aaron Stoner

Music: Chase Johnson

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Dana Prussian : Investing, Leveraging, and Selling Art May 12, 2022

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In Episode 5 of The Art Career Podcast, meet Dana Prussian, New York’s current Senior Vice President of Art Services at Bank of America. In this role, Dana helps drive the bank's art opportunities across all divisions nationally. Dana has a career that was relatively unheard of until recent years, as art product groups at large private banks didn’t really exist yet. She manifested her dream role and skipped the art world ladder by studying art history and political science, then working various roles at Barclays and Bessemer Trust. At the young age of 28, Dana began managing billions worth in art collections.

It’s not often that you meet a young woman who helps pave a major intersection of the artworld and finance, so we’re excited to be sitting with Dana now to discuss how she did it, why she does it, and how it all works. We are also delighted to discuss her art market insights.

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Podcast Director: Morgan Everhart @morgan_everhart

Sound editing: Aaron Stoner

Music: Chase Johnson

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Leo Fitzpatrick: Fostering and Protecting Originality May 06, 2022

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In our 4th episode of The Art Career, Emily McElwreath interviews the multifaceted Leo Fitzpatrick. This may be one of the most perceptive and honest interviews you’ll ever listen to about what the art world is really like today.

Many know Leo Fitzpatrick for his acting career, launching at age 14 as Telly in Larry Clark’s Kids. You may have seen him later in his career appearing in The Wire, Carnivale, Banshee and Sons of Anarchy.

However, we’re here for Leo’s exceptional, intersectional career as a gallerist, actor and DJ. Leo Fitzpatrick might’ve done what many are aspiring for, as he is someone who has successfully pursued everything he’s ever been passionate about. Through this episode, we discuss why Leo started a gallery in the pandemic, how Leo measures success, and what makes the art world so dysfunctional these days.

Public Access is a space bent on a wild-hearted, community-minded programming that’s reminiscent of the city’s scrappier days.

Photo: James Stone, New York Magazine

Public Access: @publicaccess.nyc / Leo Fizpatrick @Lousyleo

Podcast Director: Morgan Everhart @morgan_everhart

Sound editing: Aaron Stoner

Music: Chase Johnson

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Deja Patterson : Body Image, Race and Sexuality Apr 28, 2022

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In episode 3 of The Art Career Podcast, Emily McElwreath interviews emerging artist, Deja Patterson. Deja Patterson is a painter who addresses societal discrimination against plus sized women through her work. Voluptuous women are prominent in her examinations of body image, race and sexuality.

Deja Patterson is a New Jersey based artist originally from Mississippi. She earned her BA in Fine Art from Tougaloo College in 2017. After completing her undergraduate studies, she moved to New York City. She completed her MFA in Studio Art at Queens College in the spring of 2020.

Deja Patterson: @wonderfullyartistic / @artofdejapatterson

Podcast Director: Morgan Everhart @morgan_everhart

Sound editing: Aaron Stoner

Music: Chase Johnson

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Max Kendrick : Welcome to the World, Fairchain Apr 28, 2022

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In Episode 2 of The Art Career Podcast, Emily McElwreath speaks with Fairchain’s CEO, Max Kendrick.

Fairchain is a title management, authentication, and transaction platform for fine art, organized around a high-impact social mission. Fairchain establishes new revenue streams for artists and galleries while protecting buyers from fakes, fraud, and disputes.This new platform delivers a more trustworthy, equitable, and sustainable approach to art transactions. Fairchain allows artists, gallerists, and collectors to prove title, record provenance, authenticate, and transact art works with ease, all while supporting working artists.

Max Kenrick, CEO of Fairchain, is a serial innovator with a passion for tackling tough problems in ambiguous and high-risk environments. Experienced in crisis management, operations, social innovation, and strategic communication across the United States, Europe, Africa, and the Middle East.

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Fairchain: @fairchain.art / www.fairchain.art/

Podcast Director: Morgan Everhart @morgan_everhart

Sound editing: Aaron Stoner

Music: Chase Johnson

Further links: https://www.nytimes.com/2022/03/23/arts/design/fairchain-artists-resale-royalties.html

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Marilyn Minter : Pleasure, Beauty Standards, and Social Change Apr 28, 2022

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In the inaugural episode of The Art Career, Emily McElwreath interviews world renowned artist and activist, Marilyn Minter.

Marilyn Minter’s paintings, photographs, prints, and videos investigate how the beauty industry expertly creates and manipulates desire, beauty standards, and pleasure through images. In our inaugural episode, Marilyn shares how she paved various roads in the arts that instill social change.

Marilyn Minter (born 1948) is an American artist currently living and working in New York City. Minter's work has been the subject of numerous solo exhibitions and has been included in group exhibitions in museums all over the world. In 2006, Marilyn Minter was included in the Whitney Biennial, and installed several billboards in Chelsea, New York City in collaboration with Creative Time. Her video Green Pink Caviar was exhibited in the lobby of the MoMA from 2010-2011. It was also shown on digital billboards on Sunset Boulevard in L.A. and on the Creative Time MTV billboard in Times Square, New York. In 2013, Minter was featured in “Riotous Baroque,” an exhibition that originated at the Kunsthaus Zürich and traveled to the Guggenheim Bilbao. In 2015, Minter’s retrospective Pretty/Dirty opened at the Contemporary Arts Museum in Houston, TX. Pretty/Dirty traveled to the Museum of Contemporary Art, Denver, the Orange Country Museum of Art, and finally the Brooklyn Museum in November 2016. Minter is represented by Salon 94, New York, Regen Projects, Los Angeles and Baldwin Gallery, Aspen.

Marilyn Minter: @marilynminter / www.marilynminter.net

Podcast Director: Morgan Everhart @morgan_everhart

Sound editing: Aaron Stoner

Music: Chase Johnson

Further links: https://www.nytimes.com/2022/01/12/magazine/sex-old-age.html

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The Art Career is sponsored by BetterHelp. Listeners enjoy 10% off their first month of affordable, private therapy by visiting BetterHelp.com/tac

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