The Present Group Journal » mfa 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 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.”

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]]> http://blog.thepresentgroup.com/2011/05/20/upcoming-artist-aaron-gm-on-art-practical-bad-at-sports/feed/ 0 SFAI MFA highlights http://blog.thepresentgroup.com/2010/05/17/sfai-mfa-highlights/ http://blog.thepresentgroup.com/2010/05/17/sfai-mfa-highlights/#comments Mon, 17 May 2010 20:41:19 +0000 eleanor http://blog.thepresentgroup.com/?p=1552 FYI this roundup is totally unfair to people working in video or performance.  The opening show is much too chaotic, crowded, and loud to experience those things.

jensusman
Jen Susman

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Jack Leamy

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Emily Dippo made viewers that correlate with walks around the city “to encourage wonder while experiencing the city”

kimcook
Kim Cook made water bottle backpacks and drawings of their (impractical) usage

ashleyharris
Ashley Harris

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