Sound and Vision

Stephen Westfall is an artist, writer and educator born in Schenectady, New York who received his MFA in 1978 from the University of California, Santa Barbara. His first solo exhibition in 1984 at Tracey Garet in New York’s East Village earned reviews in Art in America and Artnews. Exhibitions followed during the 1980s and into the 1990s at Daniel Newburg Gallery in New York, Galerie Paal in Munich, Germany and Galerie Wilma Lock in St. Gallen, Switzerland. An exhibition of paintings took place at Andre Emmerich Gallery in New York in 1995, followed by several exhibitions at Galerie Zurcher in Paris. Westfall has been represented in New York by Lennon, Weinberg since 1997. Recent work has been exhibited at KunstgalerieBonn in Germany and David Richard Gallery in Santa Fe. Stephen has been included in several important survey exhibitions of abstract painting including Abstraction/abstractions, geometries provisoires at the Musée d’art moderne in Saint-Etienne, France in 1997 and in both exhibitions titled Conceptual Abstraction, first at Sidney Janis Gallery in 1991 and in the exhibition that revisited that show which took place at the Hunter College Art Gallery in 2012. His works are in the collections of the Whitney Museum of American Art in New York, the Kemper Museum in Kansas City, the Louisiana Museum in Humlebaek, Denmark, the Munson Williams Proctor Museum in Utica, New York, the Baltimore Museum of Art and the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston. He has received grants and awards from the National Endowment for the Arts, the American Academy of Arts and Letters, the Nancy Graves Foundation, and the Guggenheim Foundation. He received a Rome Prize Fellowship and spent a year at the American Academy in Rome during 2009 and 2010. He is a professor at the Mason Gross School of the Arts at Rutgers University and in the graduate program at Bard University. He is a Contributing Editor at Art in America. This is the second of two conversations Brian had with Stephen. This one was in Brian’s studio in Brooklyn.

Matthew Chambers is an artist born in Boise, Idaho who lives and works in Bozeman, Montana. He received his BFA from the Universoty of Miami and his MFA from Art Center in Los Angeles. He’s had shows at Praz-Delavallade in LA and Paris, Zach Feuer Gallery, Untitled, Hezi Cohen in Tel Aviv, Rental Gallery, the Rubell Collection, Jack Hanley Gallery and more. His work has been covered in the NY Times, Interview, Art in America, Artinfo, Frieze and many others. He is also a co-member with Eric Mast of the collective Dreem Street, who make hand screened shirts including the Sound & Vision anniversary tee we did a while back. Matthew stopped by Brian’s studio while in town for the opening of his current show at Marinaro Gallery titled, Crazy Horse West.

Nikki Maloof is an artist born in Peoria, Illinois who lives and works in Massachusetts. She received her BFA from Indiana University and her MFA from Yale University in 2011. She has shown her work at Jack Hanley Gallery, Salon 94, Misako and Rosen in Tokyo, Underdonk , 247365, Brand New Gallery in Milan, Nicelle Beauchene Gallery and many more. She has received several awards, most recently the Helen Winternitz Award and the Gloucester Landscape Prize. She has a current show at Jack Hanley Gallery, ‘Caught and Free’ and is represented by the Pit in LA and Shane Campbell in Chicago. Her work has been reviewed in the NY tImes, NY Magazine, W, Garage and more. Sound & Vision is sponsored by Golden Artist Colors and the New York Studio School.

Mie Yim is an artist born in South Korea based in NYC. She has a BFA in Painting from Philadelphia College of Art as well as a year abroad at Tyler School of Art in Rome, Italy. She has had a number of solo exhibitions including Ground Floor Gallery, Brooklyn, NY, Lehmann Maupin, NY, and Michael Steinberg, NY and Gallery in Arco, Turin, Italy. Numerous group exhibitions include the Drawing Center, Feature, Ise Cultural Foundation, Mitchell Algus Gallery, BRIC art center, Mark Borghi Gallery, all in New York. Other places such as Johnson County Community College, and the Weatherspoon Art Museum, Marcia Wood Gallery, Atlanta, The Arts Center at Western Conn. University. She is a recipient of The Lillian Orlowsky and William Freed Grant 2018, The New York Foundation of the Arts Painting Fellowship 2015 and Artist in the Market Place, Bronx Museum. Sound & Vision is sponsored by Golden Artist Colors and the New York Studio School.

This Panel talk happened at Hunter MFA organized by Cathy Braasch that included Lisa Corinne Davis, Enrico Riley, Cat Balco, Diana Mellon and moderated by Brian Alfred. As a pivotal and integral educator at Yale University for over 40 years, Robert impacted countless lives of students. We would like to touch on personal experiences, teaching philosophy, biographical information and more. Robert was known as an incredibly devoted teacher but just as equally devoted to his artmaking. His works are in the permanent collections of a number of museums, including The Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, The Hirshhorn Museum, Washington, DC, Yale University Art Gallery, New Haven, CT and the National Academy Museum, New York amongst others. I think it would be of interest to also speak about Robert’s relationship to personal identity and abstraction. His personal history and its connection to the ideas and relationships explored in his work.

Julie Curtiss (b. 1982, Paris, Lives and works in Brooklyn, NY) holds a MFA and a BA from Ecole Nationale Superieur des Beaux-Arts, Paris, France.  Her work has been shown at White Cube (UK), Various Small Fires (LA) amongst others. Curtiss is a current fellow of the Shape Walentas studio program New York, NY. Her work has been covered in It's Nice That, Bookforum, W Magazine, Bloomberg, Cultured  and more. She is represented by Anton Kern Gallery where she’ll open a solo show entitled Wildlife from April 25 –June 15, 2019. Sound & Vision is brought to you by the employee owned company Golden Artist colors. Whether it’s their vast array of Acrylic paints, their Williamsburg Oil Colors, their QoR Watercolors or their plethora of mediums, Golden are committed to making the best materials for artists to make their work with. You can find them in art stores or online at golden paints.com.

Suzanne McClelland is an artist who lives and works in Brooklyn, New York. She has participated in the 1993 and 2014 Whitney Biennials and has had solo shows at The Aldrich Museum of Contemporary Art, curated by Amy Smith-Stewart; The University of Virginia Museum of Art, and The Whitney Museum of American Art curated by Thelma Golden. Her paintings are held in numerous public collections, including The Museum of Modern Art, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, The Brooklyn Museum, The Yale University Art Gallery, The Albright-Knox Gallery, and The Walker Art Center. 
She currently teaches as a Mentor in the Department of Visual Arts at Columbia University. She has been a faculty member in the MFA program at the School of Visual Arts since 1997 and has been on the Board of Governors at the Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture since 1999. Recent publications include “Suzanne McClelland: 36-24-36” with an essay contribution by Thierry de Duve, published by team (gallery, inc.) in 2016 and distributed by D.A.P., as well as “Knock Knock” and "Net Worth", both published by Space Sisters Press in 2018 with a text contribution for the latter by Amy Smith-Stewart.

Suzanne is represented by team (gallery, inc.) and Shane Campbell Gallery. She just opened a show “Selections from Mute” up until April 13th at Team Gallery. Sound & Vision is sponsored by Golden Artist Colors.

Caris Reid was born in Washington D.C. and earned her BFA from Boston University. She’s had solo shows at Denny Gallery, in NYC, Ochi Projects in LA and Circuit12 Gallery in Dallas. She’s had two person shows at Denny Gallery and Monya Rowe Gallery in Florida. She’s been in group shows at 0-0 in LA, Big Pictures LA, The Barn in East Hampton, Monya Rowe, Sargent’s Daughters, Lodge Gallery, Leo Koenig, Ramiken Crucible, the national Arts Club and more. Her work has been covered in the Observer, LA Weekly, Forbes, Paper Magazine, Nylon Magazine, New American Paintings, Vogue Japan, the NY Times and more.

Stephen Westfall is an artist, writer and educator born in Schenectady, New York who received his MFA in 1978 from the University of California, Santa Barbara. His first solo exhibition in 1984 at Tracey Garet in New York’s East Village earned reviews in Art in America and Artnews. Exhibitions followed during the 1980s and into the 1990s at Daniel Newburg Gallery in New York, Galerie Paal in Munich, Germany and Galerie Wilma Lock in St. Gallen, Switzerland. An exhibition of paintings took place at Andre Emmerich Gallery in New York in 1995, followed by several exhibitions at Galerie Zurcher in Paris. Westfall has been represented in New York by Lennon, Weinberg since 1997. Recent work has been exhibited at KunstgalerieBonn in Germany and David Richard Gallery in Santa Fe. Stephen has been included in several important survey exhibitions of abstract painting including a show at the Musée d’art moderne in Saint-Etienne, France in 1997 and in both exhibitions titled Conceptual Abstraction, first at Sidney Janis Gallery in 1991 and in the exhibition that revisited that show which took place at the Hunter College Art Gallery in 2012. His works are in the collections of the Whitney Museum of American Art in New York, the Kemper Museum in Kansas City, the Louisiana Museum in Humlebaek, Denmark, the Munson Williams Proctor Museum in Utica, New York, the Baltimore Museum of Art and the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston. He has received grants and awards from the National Endowment for the Arts, the American Academy of Arts and Letters, the Nancy Graves Foundation, and the Guggenheim Foundation. He received a Rome Prize Fellowship and spent a year at the American Academy in Rome during 2009 and 2010. He is a professor at the Mason Gross School of the Arts at Rutgers University and in the graduate program at Bard University. He is a Contributing Editor at Art in America. This is the first of two conversations Brian had with Stephen. This one was in his Industry City studio in Brooklyn. Stephen tells his story growing up, making art, writing, and much more.

Angela Heisch is an artist living and working in Brooklyn, New York. She received her MFA from SUNY Albany in 2014 the same year she was awarded the Dedalus Foundation Fellowship. She was a resident at Saltonstall Foundation for the Arts, the Virginia Center for the Creative Arts, and Guttenberg Arts. She has had recent solo shows with Davidson Gallery, Gallery 106 Green, One River School and No Place Gallery. Some recent group shows include Transmitter Gallery, Crush Curatorial, Pt.2 Gallery, Angell Gallery, Barney Savage, Mother Gallery, George Gallery, Ortega y Gasset, Park Place Gallery, Geoffrey Young Gallery, Harpy Gallery, and Taymour Grahne Gallery. Her work has been featured in Art Forum, Art in America, The Brooklyn Rail, AEQAI, ArtSFBlog, Maake Magazine: Issue 02, Young Space, and Open House Blog. Angela just opened a solo show at Davidson Gallery here in New York City and Brian stopped by her Bed Stuy studio for a talk about her time from New Zealand to Buffalo, not being fussy, playing the flute, Jethro Tull and more.