download
This week on Bad at Sports Center, Ann Toebbe joins Brian, Ryan and Dana in the studio to discuss the painting in her current 2 person exhibition, At Home, currently on view at Carthage College’s H. F. Johnson Gallery of Art. Toebbe walks our host through her singular process of transforming memories and her day to day life into intentionally flat and beautifully complicated canvases. Learn more about At Home and Toebbe at
download
This week in the studio, Gwendolyn Zabicki swept in to reflect on her love of painting, as Dana and Ryan get a glimpse into her sparkling studio practice. Gwendolyn decries the onerousness of curating, sharing her prolific pursuits of wrangling some big group painting exhibitions. Dana hints at a deep dish about the upcoming Open Engagement close to the chest and Ryan keeps his definition of brachylogy brief.
download
This week on Bad at Sports Center, Gabe Holcombe of Lillerne Tapes joins Brian Andrews, Dana Bassett and special guest host, smaller Dana (aka Alexis Bassett aka DJ Lil Sis), to discuss ten years of cassette releases and what types of audio are, and are not, allowed in prison. Enjoy some smooth jams as Holcombe previews the latest Lillerne releases. More information available at http://www.lillernetapes.com/.
download
This week in the studio, we enter the virtual cave of sculptor, Daniel G. Baird. Dana and Ryan join Daniel in traversing the temporal expanse, dragging the prehistoric into the hyperreality of the Anthropocene. We muse on the museological and disambiguate our guest from his 90’s roots rock alter ego. Daniel’s current solo exhibition, “on the water,” is on display at New York’s Grimm
Gallery and is additionally featured in “Unthought Environments,” at the Renaissance Society.
download
Karsten Lund is Assistant Curator at The Renaissance Society with recent curated exhibitions including Ben Rivers Urth and Sadie Benning’s Shared Eye. Previously, Lund was Curatorial Assistant at the Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago, contributing to major group exhibitions including The Way of the Shovel: Art as Archaeology and The Freedom Principle: Experiments in Art and Music, 1965 to Now.Additionally, he has produced curatorial projects at other venues, including the Museum of Contemporary Photography, New Capital Projects, Hyde Park Art Center, and a factory shortly before its demolition.
