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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!

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

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

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!

Michael Zheng interviews his fellow classmates 5 years after their MFA.  He looks to find out what has changed for them, how they make a living, how they view art and the artworld.

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.

Helena Keeffe was interviewed on August 23rd, 2009 by Oliver Wise and Eleanor Hanson Wise of The Present Group.

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Stephanie Dean was interviewed via Skype on May 13th, 2009 by Oliver Wise and Eleanor Hanson Wise of The Present Group.

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Now you can easily stay up to date on our artist interviews, or explore our archives via iTunes.

David Horvitz was interviewed via Skype on February 13th, 2009 by Oliver Wise and Eleanor Hanson Wise of The Present Group.

Listen: (~15:50) 

 

From the people of We Can’t Paint:  Wassenaar

photo: Andrés Marroquín Winkelmann

From the Editor’s Letter about Wassenaar:

“Wassenaar is an Internet specific publication that focuses its curatorial eye on emerging photographers, photography books from established, independent, and self-publishers, as well as interviews conducted by bloggers. This simple formula, while structured much like a magazine, takes the ethos and subjective freedom of blogging by existing as both absent of commercial interests and free from a specific template. The ability to take risks in an online space means that the following issues of Wassenaar may only focus on a specific artist, type of photography, a single book, or even simply feature a collection of artist portfolios. In short, Wassenaar aims to be an online magazine that reflects its place within the web as an entity that continually evolves, never forgetting that this form publishing is indefinable.”

Maggie Leninger was interviewed via Skype on August 26th, 2008 by Oliver Wise and Eleanor Hanson Wise of The Present Group.

Listen: (~32:00) 

Aaron Cedolia was interviewed via Skype on May 20th, 2008 by Oliver Wise and Eleanor Hanson Wise of The Present Group.

Listen: (~27:00) 

Davin Youngs was interviewed via Skype on February 22nd, 2008 by Oliver Wise and Eleanor Hanson Wise of The Present Group.

Listen: (39:20) 

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Brian Stuparyk was interviewed via Skype on November 16, 2007 by Oliver Wise and Eleanor Hanson Wise of The Present Group..

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Part 1 where Brian talks about the themes of authenticity and value in his art, a bit about his educational history (or lack there of) in art, and the Call to Entry that kick-started the Failure series: A show put on by Chester Costello entitled, “Something to do with Failure.” We also discuss how the process plays into the creation of his works and how these works interact with a viewer.

 

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Part 2 where we talk about his failure series, failing at failure, and the future: Trying, succeeding, and still failing. We talk about his experience at Cranbrook (“What does it mean to be an artist today? Failure and debt.”), his letter to Eric Fischl, more about “Conversation” as well as what’s brown and sticky.

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Christine Kesler was interviewed in Oakland, CA on August 24, 2007
by Oliver Wise and Eleanor Hanson Wise of The Present Group.

Listen: (20:25)