On this week’s harrowing tale of visual art, the Bad@Sports team sits down with artist AmandaAssaley and curator Adia Sykes, currently featured in the exhibition Reclamation: of time, of agency, of narrativeat Acre Exhibitions. Assaley‘s sculptural work manipulates domestic objects, addressing the dynamics of control and agency from a cultural and personal perspective. Sykes, informed by her background as an Anthropologist, has built her curatorial practice as an advocacy tool for racial equity in the arts.
On this week’s harrowing tale of visual art, the Bad@Sports team sits down with artist Amanda Assaley and curator Adia Sykes, currently featured in the exhibition Reclamation: of time, of agency, of narrative at Acre Exhibitions. Assaley’s sculptural work manipulates domestic objects, addressing the dynamics of control and agency from a cultural and personal perspective. Sykes, informed by her background as an Anthropologist, has built her curatorial practice as an advocacy tool for racial equity in the arts.
1. Funny: Looking September 1st, 2019 Work by: Tommy Becker, Ashley Teamer, Brittany M. Watkins, Marta Rodriguez Maleck, Carrie Fonder, Christy Chan, Eric Simmons, Zach Hill, Peder & Hendrik, and Stephanie Patton ACRE TV: www.acretv.org/ 2. Entrelazar...
Today on Bad at Sports, Erin Hayden joins Brian, Dana and Jesse to chat about her shows at the Chicago Artists Coalition (up now!) and the University Galleries at Illinois State University (opening Friday, 8/9!). Surface, depth, backwards, forwards, improvisation, composition, typewriting, Celtic mythology, upstate, downstate, dreamstate — we go there and elsewhere in a wide-ranging conversation with the painter poet performer. song and story, Erin’s new body of concretions alongside an oceanic floor is up through the month at CAC.
