Episodios

  • Jose Duran

    Jose Duran
    Apr 29 2025
    Jose Duran (b. 1979, Moca, Dominican Republic) is a painter, designer, and sculptor creating fantastical worlds of cosmopolitan opulence and sumptuous, even dangerous foliage. Duran’s practice is anchored in extensive research of practices of survival, celebration, vengeance, sabotage, and aspirational desires in Black communities. He draws from baroque and rococo interiors to create scenes of architectural lavishness and femininity, producing complex compositions anchored in whimsy and play. Duran centers Black feminine figures as a reclamation of their contributions to European markers of taste, and as retribution for their forced labor under colonial rule. Duran’s fantasies retrospectively place Black women at the center of his lavish interiors, where they reap the fruits of their labor. His practice is an ode to the dreams and aspirations of his late mother, who, between the Bronx and the Dominican Republic, would imbue in the artist a taste for cosmopolitanism and beauty. Photo credit: Nelson Castillo Artist https://joseduran.studio/ Hannah Traore Gallery https://hannahtraoregallery.com/exhibition/aleluya/ James Fuentes https://jamesfuentes.com/exhibitions/elena NY Times https://www.nytimes.com/2024/05/10/style/roze-traore-hannah-traore-gallery.html Art Speak https://www.artspeak.nyc/home/2024/2/13/jose-duran Island Origins Magazine https://islandoriginsmag.com/dominican-artist-jose-duran-aleluya/ Arthap https://arthap.com/hap/opening-jose-duran-aleluya/ Idiom Studio https://idiomastudio.com/jose-duran-caught-between-fantasy-reality/
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  • Shaunté Gates

    Shaunté Gates
    Apr 22 2025
    Ep.242 Shaunté Gates (b. 1979) lives and works in Washington, D.C. He studied at Duke Ellington School of the Arts and Bowie State University. Early in his career, Gates trained in oil painting and portraiture. His past experience as a tattoo artist and television motion graphics editor caused a profound shift in his artistic practice. His recent work employs a multidisciplinary approach, layering photography, painting, and found text to create dreamlike landscapes that explore labyrinthine social constructs and the physical sites that house and perpetuate them. Echoing the aesthetics of paper theater, his compositions unfold like intricate stage sets, where layered imagery and shifting perspectives evoke a sense of constructed reality and theatrical illusion. Gates was a participating artist in the Smithsonian Institution’s “Men of Change” four-year traveling exhibition spanning ten museums, including the International African American Museum in Charleston, SC, California African American Museum, Cincinnati Underground Railroad Museum and Washington State History Museum (2019-23). He has been awarded the Louis Comfort Tiffany Biennial Grant (2022) and residencies with The Nicholson Project (2023), The Kennedy Center (2019) and Washington Project for the Arts (2018; 2017). Gates has work in esteemed private collections and institutions such as the Studio Museum in Harlem and Munson, Utica, NY. He has completed many public art commissions including Transcending, a painting commemorating the 140th anniversary of Howard University School of Law. Photo credit: Biko Gates Artist https://www.shauntegates.com/ Virginia Tech https://artscenter.vt.edu/exhibitions/shaunte-gates.html Sperone Westwater https://www.speronewestwater.com/artists/shaunte-gates#tab:slideshow Marc Straus https://marcstraus.com/artists/98-shaunte-gates/ FAD Magazine https://fadmagazine.com/2025/03/03/marc-straus-gallery-now-represent-shaunte-gates/ Zidoun-Bossuyt https://zidoun-bossuyt.com/artists/shaunte-gates/ | https://zidoun-bossuyt.com/exhibitions/shaunte-gates-poppies-parachutes-iii-we-should-be-flying-by-now/ Smithsonian https://menofchange.si.edu/exhibit/artist-pairings/shaunte-gates/ The Roanoker https://theroanoker.com/events/shaunt%C3%A9-gates-2025/ Phillips Collection https://www.phillipscollection.org/event/2024-08-25-collaging-shaunte-gates Brooklyn Rail https://brooklynrail.org/2023/10/artseen/Shaunt-Gates-In-Light-of-the-Hunt/ Culture Type https://www.culturetype.com/tag/shaunte-gates/ Washington Informer Bridge https://wibridgedc.com/the-transformative-power-of-found-objects-with-shaunte-gates/ RUSH Philanthropic https://rushphilanthropic.org/artist/shaunte-gates/
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  • Dora Jeridi

    Dora Jeridi
    Apr 16 2025
    Ep.241 Dora Jeridi's work is characterized by a dynamic, expressive approach to painting, blending intense emotion with powerful physicality. She continuously adds to her compositions until they take on a spirit of their own, like painterly symphonies where fragmented forms emerge from a sea of expressive brushstrokes. Jeridi conceals and unveils her forms through the careful layering of various mediums: oil, charcoal, and occasionally ball-point pen or spray paint. Interested in the tension between figuration and abstraction, Jeridi's canvases are marked by a striking use of contrasts—chaotic colors, diverse textures, quiet and violent subjects—reflecting complexities of the human experience. Her paintings evoke narratives that are both enigmatic and visceral, autobiographical and societal, where her figures become universal in their anonymity. Jeridi encourages us to dwell in uncertainty, to explore the spaces where meaning remains both elusive and profound. Portrait Dora Jeridi Courtesy of the artist and Perrotin Artist https://dorajeridi.com/ Perrotin https://www.perrotin.com/artists/dora_jeridi/1284#images Marianne Boesky Gallery https://marianneboeskygallery.com/exhibitions/315/works/artworks-30770-dora-jeridi-the-escape-2024/ Public Gallery https://public.gallery/exhibitions/neck-of-the-wood French Morning https://frenchmorning.com/les-artistes-francophones-a-decouvrir-a-la-galerie-perrotin/ Art Rabbit https://www.artrabbit.com/events/dora-jeridi-humanity Mor-Charpentier https://www.mor-charpentier.com/fr/exhibition/concrete-fear/ Daily Art Fair https://dailyartfair.com/exhibition/18755/dora-jeridi-perrotin Louvre https://www.louvre.fr/louvreplus/video-paroles-du-louvre-dora-jeridi?autoplay Galerie Joseph https://galeriejoseph.com/en/2024/01/05/dora-jeridi-harmony-out-of-chaos/ Beaux Arts Paris https://beauxartsparis.fr/en/actualite/congratulations-dora-jeridi-and-valentin-ranger Art Limited https://www.artlimited.net/agenda/dora-jeridi-solo-show-exhibition-painting-new-york/en/7586362 Shadow Play Magazine https://www.shadowplaymagazine.com/exhibit1/dora-jeridi Overstandard https://overstandard.dk/the-howling-chronicles-of-dora-jeridi/ Societe Generale https://collection.societegenerale.com/en/artists/dora-jeridi
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    22 m
  • Rujeko Hockley

    Rujeko Hockley
    Apr 9 2025
    Ep.240 Rujeko Hockley is the Arnhold Associate Curator at the Whitney Museum of American Art. She co-curated the 2019 Whitney Biennial. Her current project at the Whitney is Amy Sherald: American Sublime. Other projects include Inheritance (2023), 2 Lizards (2022), Jennifer Packer: The Eye Is Not Satisfied With Seeing (2021), Julie Mehretu (2021), Toyin Ojih Odutola: To Wander Determined (2017) and An Incomplete History of Protest: Selections from the Whitney’s Collection, 1940-2017 (2017). Previously, she was Assistant Curator of Contemporary Art at the Brooklyn Museum, where she co-curated Crossing Brooklyn: Art from Bushwick, Bed-Stuy, and Beyond (2014) and was involved in exhibitions highlighting the permanent collection as well as contemporary artists. She is the co-curator of We Wanted a Revolution: Black Radical Women, 1965-85 (2017), which originated at the Brooklyn Museum and travelled to three U.S. venues in 2017-18. She serves on the Boards of Art Matters, Institute For Freedoms, and Museums Moving Forward, as well as the Advisory Board of Recess. Photograph by Jody Rogac Whitney Museum ~ https://whitney.org/2019-biennial-curators ~ https://whitney.org/exhibitions/amy-sherald ~ https://whitney.org/exhibitions/amy-sherald-four-ways-of-being ~ https://whitney.org/exhibitions/inheritance ~ https://whitney.org/exhibitions/2-lizards ~ https://whitney.org/exhibitions/jennifer-packer ~ https://whitney.org/exhibitions/julie-mehretu ~ https://whitney.org/press/protest ~ https://whitney.org/exhibitions/toyin-ojih-odutola Time Magazine https://time.com/7210625/rujeko-hockley-hank-willis-thomas-art-inclusivity/ Observer https://observer.com/2025/04/exhibition-amy-sherald-american-sublime-whitney-dinner-opening-party/ Ursula https://www.hauserwirth.com/ursula/inside-the-issue-ursula-issue-11/ Surface Magazine https://www.surfacemag.com/articles/when-i-call-who-listens-rujeko-hockley-excerpt-for-freedoms/# Forbes https://www.forbes.com/sites/natashagural/2025/04/04/amy-sherald-american-sublime-at-the-whitney-re-imagines-american-realism-with-singular-visual-narratives/ M.M.Lafleur https://mdash.mmlafleur.com/most-remarkable-woman-rujeko-hockley/ Frieze https://www.frieze.com/article/rujeko-hockleys-top-picks-frieze-los-angeles-viewing-room-2023 CCL https://www.curatorialleadership.org/participants/ccl-smh-curators-forum/rujeko-hockley/ Artealdia https://www.artealdia.com/News/NEW-APPOINTMENTS-FOR-MARCELA-GUERRERO-AND-RUJEKO-HOCKLEY-AT-THE-WHITNEY-MUSEUM Culture Type https://www.culturetype.com/tag/rujeko-hockley/ artnet https://news.artnet.com/art-world/career-stories-rujeko-hockley-1962842 Athens Now https://athensnowal.net/sharing-the-spotlight/
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    26 m
  • Tyler Ballon

    Tyler Ballon
    Mar 29 2025
    Tyler Ballon (b. 1996, Jersey City, NJ) creates monumental works inspired by the lives of people in his community. His artistic journey was shaped early on by his grandmother, a community activist and school lunch lady who embodied service and compassion. Tyler’s grandmother recognized his talent and instilled in him a respect for others, regardless of their circumstances. Though initially torn between sports and art, Tyler chose the latter, dedicating himself to painting with the encouragement of his grandmother and his family. His parents, both pastors, reinforced his faith and sense of purpose. Tyler refined his skills through an advanced art program in his high school—the JC Arts program—and later at the Maryland Institute College of Art, where he earned his BFA in 2018. After graduation, Tyler returned to his community, making its people the focal point of his work. Through large-scale paintings, he honors their lives and experiences, ensuring they are seen and celebrated. His art embodies his faith, principles, and the legacy of his grandmother, offering encouragement and validation to those around him. Headshot credit: Sy Battle Artist https://www.tylerdballon.com/ Jeffrey Deitch Gallery https://deitch.com/new-york/exhibitions/tyler-ballon-flying-high Colossal https://www.thisiscolossal.com/2025/02/tyler-d-ballon-flying-high/ Art Rabbit https://www.artrabbit.com/events/tyler-ballon-flying-high PFF Collection https://pffcollection.com/artists/tyler-ballon/ Artefuse https://artefuse.com/tyler-ballon-flying-high-and-sharif-farrag-hybrid-moments-at-deitch-gallery-nyc/ Culture Type https://www.culturetype.com/tag/tyler-ballon/ Raishad J Glover https://raishadjglover.org/researcharchive/2022/12/4/visual-artist-tyler-ballon The Living Church https://livingchurch.org/church-life/old-masters-and-black-bodies/ eskff https://www.eskff.com/post/meet-tyler-ballon-the-local-artist-tackling-race-in-america ABC https://abc7ny.com/tyler-ballon-the-house-i-live-in-artist-jersey-city/11225018/ State of the Arts NJ https://stateoftheartsnj.com/video/tyler-ballon/ BOOOOOOOM https://www.booooooom.com/2020/07/08/artist-spotlight-tyler-ballon/ NJ.com https://www.nj.com/hudson/2020/06/jersey-city-artists-powerful-images-catch-the-attention-of-snoop-dogg-ice-cube.html
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  • Dr. Monique Y. Wells

    Dr. Monique Y. Wells
    Mar 22 2025
    Dr. Monique Y. Wells, A native of Houston, Texas and a 32-year resident of Paris, France. Through her entrepreneurial work as a veterinary pathologist and toxicologist, travel professional, writer, speaker, and mentor, she embraces and harnesses the power of education to change lives. While working in Paris she began researching the history of African Americans there and offered self-guided tours of locations associated with African Americans in Paris. This led to her discovery, in the pauper’s division of a cemetery outside Paris, of the unmarked grave of the distinguished artist Beauford Delaney, an American modernist painter well known for his work with the Harlem Renaissance in the 1930s and ’40s. Delaney moved to Paris in 1953 and continued his production of brilliant figurative and abstract expressionist paintings, including several self-portraits and portraits of James Baldwin. He suffered from mental illness and spent the last four years of his life in a psychiatric institution in the French capital. Fascinated with his story, Monique founded Les Amis de Beauford Delaney, and raised funds for a tombstone to mark his grave. She continues her research and work promoting the legacy of Beauford Delaney. Monique worked for 13 years in the corporate world before combining her passion for life sciences, literacy, STEAM (science, technology, engineering, arts, and mathematics) education, the arts, travel/study abroad, and women’s empowerment under the umbrella of her U.S. non-profit organization, the Wells International Foundation (WIF). She is currently recruiting a select group of high achieving women leaders for membership in WIF’s L³ Alliance. Photo credit: Entrée to Black Paris Founder and CEO, Wells International Foundation https://wellsinternationalfoundation.org Facebook: www.facebook.com/WellsInternationalFoundation (https://www.facebook.com/WellsInternationalFoundation/) Most Charitable Marginalised Community Education & Support Organization - South-Central USA (https://www.acquisition-international.com/winners/wells-international-foundation/) - 2022 - Acquisition International 100 Phenomenal Black Women Fundraiser Award - 2021 10 To Know Global Game Changers in Women's Empowerment - 2018 - The Introducer Magazine Black Women in Europe Power List (https://blackwomenineurope.com/2016/12/07/monique-wells-black-women-in-europe-power-list-2016-a-list-of-our-own/) - 2016 http://walkerslegacy.com/latest-buzz/the-list-12-global-entrepreneurs/?utm_source=12+Global+Entrepreneurs&utm_campaign=OCT-15+Newsletter&utm_medium=emailThe List: 12 Global Entrepreneurs to Watch (http://walkerslegacy.com/latest-buzz/the-list-12-global-entrepreneurs/?utm_source=12+Global+Entrepreneurs&utm_campaign=OCT-15+Newsletter&utm_medium=email) - 2015 - Walker's Legacy Visit our YouTube (https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCPU4szgNs5VG1F_4RF8dLFw) channel! Enjoy highlights of our 2019 International Women's Day event - The Successful Woman (https://the-successful-woman.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/12/Event_Highlights_2019_TSW.mp4) Watch me present WIF during my Talking about Success (https://www.jackcanfield.com/pages/success-tv-talking-about-success-5/) interview with Jack Canfield!
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  • Amanda Coulson

    Amanda Coulson
    Mar 16 2025
    Ep.237 Amanda Coulson has worked for three decades as a scholar, critic, curator and cultural producer, having collaborated with artists and institutions, private and corporate colleagues, in the US, Europe, and various sites in the Caribbean. A dual-national (Bahamas/US), she grew up between London, Nassau, and New York, where she studied for her Master’s Degree at the Institute of Fine Arts (NYU) and started her career at the Old Master dealers, Wildenstein & Sons, going on to work in various art galleries in London, Paris and Milan. Developing as a writer, Coulson spent 2 years as the international Editor of tema celeste, an Italian bi-lingual contemporary art magazine, before consolidating her critical practice writing for a variety of publications (Frieze, Modern Painters, ARTNews, among others) and providing critical texts for monographic gallery and museum shows. Coulson also worked as a freelance curator in Germany, organizing several exhibitions in Berlin, Frankfurt, Wiesbaden, Leipzig and Vienna (Austria), with special attention to Bahamian artists. Noting a lack of platforms for galleries representing emerging art, in 2005 she co-founded the VOLTA art fairs, which take place annually in New York and Basel, Switzerland. In 2011, she was invited home to The Bahamas to be Executive Director at the National Art Gallery of The Bahamas (NAGB), where her focus was on increasing global awareness of the contemporary Caribbean art scene and on expanding the capacity and reach of the NAGB through a rigorous combination of capital works, collaborative projects and the building of strong inter-island, regional and international networks. She served on the Davidoff Art Initiative (now Caribbean Art Initiative) Board from 2012-2018, and on the Board of the Museums Association of the Caribbean (MAC) until she stepped down from the NAGB in 2021, after a decade at the helm. She is the founding partner at TERN, a new Nassau-based gallery operated by three Bahamian women whose aim is to support Bahamian and Caribbean artists in telling their own stories the global stage. Image ~ Photo Credit: Blair Meadows Tern Gallery https://www.terngallery.com/ The Armory 2024 https://www.artsy.net/article/artsy-editorial-armory-2024-pommery-prize-awarded-anina-major The Armory 2023 https://www.thearmoryshow.com/info/past-exhibitors/2023/presents/tern C& https://amlatina.contemporaryand.com/places/tern-gallery/ VOLTA https://www.voltaartfairs.com/journal/volta-voices-amanda-coulson Festival Bahamar https://festival.bahamar.com/speaker/tern-gallery/ Bahamas Local https://www.bahamaslocal.com/showlisting/21880/Tern_Gallery.html Carib Voxx https://caribvoxx.com/tern-gallery-revolutionizing-caribbean-art-on-bahamian-terms/ Burn Away https://burnaway.org/daily/a-blue-haunting-between-the-caribbean-and-the-carolinas/ Culture Type https://www.culturetype.com/2021/06/01/on-view-tern-gallery-of-nassau-bahamas-presenting-slate-of-caribbean-artists-at-online-atlantic-world-art-fair/ interlocutorinter https://interlocutorinterviews.com/new-blog/2021/10/19/exhibition-feature-the-other-side-of-the-pentaprism-at-tern-gallery Cayman Art Week https://www.caymanartweek.com/amanda-coulson Frieze https://www.frieze.com/contributor/amanda-coulson ArtForum https://www.artforum.com/news/amanda-coulson-departs-national-art-gallery-of-the-bahamas-to-lead-new-tern-gallery-249206/ Our News https://ournews.bs/articles/regional/
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    36 m
  • Ebony L Haynes

    Ebony L Haynes
    Mar 9 2025
    Ep.236 Ebony L. Haynes is a writer and curator from Toronto, Canada. She is presently based in New York where she is senior director at David Zwirner and leads the gallery’s 52 Walker space in Tribeca. Haynes sits on the boards of Artists Space (New York) and the New Art Dealers Alliance. She also runs Black Art Sessions, an online “school” that offers free professional practice classes to Black students worldwide. Photo: Ebony L. Haynes, 2020 Photo by Elliott Jerome Brown Jr. Courtesy David Zwirner 52 Walker https://www.52walker.com/info David Zwirner https://www.davidzwirner.com/news/2021/52-walker-street-announcement Wallpaper https://www.wallpaper.com/art/david-zwirner-52-walker-new-york-ebony-l-haynes ArtReview https://artreview.com/artist/ebony-l-haynes/?year=2021 Topical Cream https://topicalcream.org/editors-in-residence/ebonylhaynes-is-topicacream-editor-in-residence-2024/ New York Times https://www.nytimes.com/2020/09/27/arts/design/zwirner-haynes-black-gallery.html ICI https://curatorsintl.org/about/collaborators/22961-ebony-haynes Culture Type https://www.culturetype.com/tag/ebony-l-haynes/ Cool Hunting https://coolhunting.com/culture/all-black-staff-to-run-david-zwirners-new-gallery/ Cultured Magazine https://www.culturedmag.com/article/2023/09/06/downtown-art-dealer-ebony-l-haynes-has-a-tip-for-tourists-who-want-to-look-like-new-yorkers ArtNews https://www.artnews.com/art-news/news/ebony-l-haynes-nada-section-1234611558/ C& https://contemporaryand.com/magazines/ebony-l-haynes-creates-new-gallery-with-all-black-staff-in-nyc/ Document Journal https://www.documentjournal.com/tag/ebony-l-haynes/ Elephant Magazine https://elephant.art/how-ebony-l-haynes-curated-raymond-saunders-evolution-through-post-no-bills/ ArtForum https://www.artforum.com/news/ebony-l-haynes-to-create-black-run-nyc-gallery-with-support-from-david-zwirner-248569/ PIN-UP Magazine https://www.pinupmagazine.org/articles/ebony-l-haynes-interview Curbed NY Magazine https://www.curbed.com/2022/09/21-questions-writer-and-curator-52-walker-director-ebony-haynes.html W Magazine https://www.wmagazine.com/culture/52-walker-ebony-haynes-david-zwirner-interview Whitewall Art https://whitewall.art/art/ebony-l-haynes-opens-52-walker-this-october/ HURS https://hurs-official.com/home/hur-conversations/ebony-haynes Office Magazine https://officemagazine.net/ebony-l-haynes
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