The Present Group Journal » artist interviews http://blog.thepresentgroup.com Exploring new models of support for contemporary artists, musing on the art world and people who make stuff, and documenting our life running the Present Group subscription art project. Wed, 01 Jun 2016 20:47:38 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 ©The Present Group oliver@thepresentgroup.com (The Present Group) oliver@thepresentgroup.com(The Present Group) 1440 art, artist interviews, contemporary art, subscription art We interview one artist every season to learn about their practice, ideas and life as a working artist. The Present Group is a quarterly art subscription project. We enable a community of subscribers to fund contemporary artists projects and receive limited edition artwork in return. Each work is accompanied by an audio artist interview and critical essay to help our subscribers gain insight into the piece, its creator and his/her practice, or recurring themes in the contemporary art world. Founded in 2006, the goals of The Present Group are to create new avenues of support for artists, create consistently thought-provoking, editionable works in a variety of media, to engage and expose a broader public to the joys of art collecting, and provide a free online resource for anyone interested in contemporary art. http://www.thepresentgroup.com The Present Group The Present Group oliver@thepresentgroup.com No no http://blog.thepresentgroup.com/images/tpg-box-small.jpg The Present Group Journal http://blog.thepresentgroup.com 144 144 TPG on Congratulations Pine Tree http://blog.thepresentgroup.com/2015/02/26/tpg-on-congratulations-pine-tree/ http://blog.thepresentgroup.com/2015/02/26/tpg-on-congratulations-pine-tree/#comments Thu, 26 Feb 2015 21:06:59 +0000 admin http://blog.thepresentgroup.com/?p=3142 Maysoun Wazwaz and Kate Rhoades are making a podcast- Congratulations Pine Tree – it’s the #1 Arts and Culture podcast in the Bay Area.

They are very fun to talk to and to listen to, and I’m excited that I can have them in my life more through my ears.

We’re on the podcast briefly this week talking about Compensation Foundation and the Present Prize.

Go here!

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Eleanor Hanson Wise and Oliver interview Joe Hardesty about his recent issue of The Present Group, Audio/Visual

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]]> http://blog.thepresentgroup.com/2011/08/20/interview-with-aaron-gm-2/feed/ 1 22:58 Interview with Aaron GM The Present Group is a quarterly art subscription project. We enable a community of subscribers to fund contemporary artists projects and receive limited edition artwork in return. Each work is accompanied by an audio artist interview and critical essay to help our subscribers gain insight into the piece, its creator and his/her practice, or recurring themes in the contemporary art world. Founded in 2006, the goals of The Present Group are to create new avenues of support for artists, create consistently thought-provoking, editionable works in a variety of media, to engage and expose a broader public to the joys of art collecting, and provide a free online resource for anyone interested in contemporary art. http://www.thepresentgroup.com 5,I.W.T.M.T.A.T.P.M,,artist,interviews,,Artist,Interviews,,blog,,TPG18 The Present Group no No Upcoming artist Aaron GM on Art Practical, Bad at Sports http://blog.thepresentgroup.com/2011/05/20/upcoming-artist-aaron-gm-on-art-practical-bad-at-sports/ http://blog.thepresentgroup.com/2011/05/20/upcoming-artist-aaron-gm-on-art-practical-bad-at-sports/#comments Fri, 20 May 2011 23:36:15 +0000 eleanor http://blog.thepresentgroup.com/?p=2364 The current issue of Art Practical has an excerpt of a conversation between AP contributors Zachary Royer Scholz, Elyse Mallouk, and Patricia Maloney and artists Aaron GM (TPG 18) and Ginger Wolfe-Suarez that took place at the Art Los Angeles Contemporary Fair.  It was one of several conversations held over the weekend of the fair as part of “In and Out of Context: Artists Define the Space between San Francisco and Los Angeles,” a program that invited artists to consider the two cities as a continuously evolving constellation of dialogues, shared interests, and overlapping approaches. You’ll be able to listen to the full interview on Bad at Sports starting Sunday, May 22, 2011.

AGM: “I want to reflect life or this affirmation of life. You know, this optimism of transcendence in the mundane and in the domestic. That’s the space I like to dwell in, reinvent and play with. There’s a lightness and playfulness in that space.”

Read more on Art Practical >>

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We sat down with TPG17 artist Steve Lambert to talk about the edition “I want you to have this” on March 14th, 2011.

]]> http://blog.thepresentgroup.com/2011/04/15/interview-with-steve-lambert/feed/ 0 37:46 We sat down with TPG17 artist Steve Lambert to talk about the edition "I want you to have this" on March 14th, 2011. We sat down with TPG17 artist Steve Lambert to talk about the edition "I want you to have this" on March 14th, 2011. artist,interviews,,Artist,Interviews,,blog,,hear,it,,I,want,you,to,have,this,,TPG17 The Present Group no No Interview with Rebecca Blakley http://blog.thepresentgroup.com/2010/12/21/interview-with-rebecca-blakley/ http://blog.thepresentgroup.com/2010/12/21/interview-with-rebecca-blakley/#comments Tue, 21 Dec 2010 18:09:12 +0000 Oliver http://blog.thepresentgroup.com/?p=2078

We sat down with TPG16 artist Rebecca Blakley in our home in Oakland, CA on November 12th, 2010.

]]> http://blog.thepresentgroup.com/2010/12/21/interview-with-rebecca-blakley/feed/ 0 27:44 We sat down with TPG16 artist Rebecca Blakley in our home in Oakland, CA on November 12th, 2010. We sat down with TPG16 artist Rebecca Blakley in our home in Oakland, CA on November 12th, 2010. artist,interviews,,Artist,Interviews,,blog,,hear,it,,Lichen,Books:,On,the,Road,,On,The,Road,,talking,,TPG,artists,,TPG16 The Present Group no No Interview with Matthew Cella and Studio Photos http://blog.thepresentgroup.com/2010/06/14/interview-with-matthew-cella-and-studio-photos/ http://blog.thepresentgroup.com/2010/06/14/interview-with-matthew-cella-and-studio-photos/#comments Tue, 15 Jun 2010 04:34:45 +0000 eleanor http://blog.thepresentgroup.com/?p=1642 This interview was recorded on May 16th in Cella’s studio in San Francisco.

In this interview we mention:

Jeff Koons
Marcella Faustini
Rob Burden
Tom Friedman
Takashi Murikami
Takeshi Murata
Devendra Bernhart

STUDIO TOUR!

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We’re very excited and honored to have been interviewed by Brian Andrews of Bad at Sports and to show up in Art Practical.

Click Here to read the full interview

The audio version of the interview will be released on Bad at Sports on this Sunday 4/25.

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Listen:

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Listen:

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