Marc Chagall walking with son David on Mohonk Rd in High Falls, NY. photo by Charles Leirins
Tonight's episode of the Dead Hare Radio
Hour focuses on that consummate Hudson River School painter, Marc Chagall. Whaaa?, you might say. but yes, it turns out that Marc
Chagall lived in High Falls, NY with his companion, Virginia Haggard from 1946 through 1948.
I
interview Gary Ferdman and Rik Rydant, two fellows who have been
digging deep into the details of Chagall's life in this Hudson Valley
hamlet and the proliferation of work he created there.
The D&H Canal Museum will be hosting an exhibit on Chagall in High Falls from September 3 - Oct 30.
Tune
in this afternoon to 91.3 WVKR in Poughkeepsie to learn all about the
details of the exhibit and to hear the details of this moment in the
artist's life. An extended version of my Chagall in High Falls
interview will be released in podcast version tomorrow.
Now in it's seventh year, Windows on Main St. is a store front window based exhibit of artist installations. This year's exhibit, organized by Melissa Tatge and Hannah Anderson features the work of a whopping 40+ artists.
In the podcast, Our intrepid group strolls and chats about the Western half of the exhibit (stay tuned for the second half very soon).
This is an impromptu, rough and ready recording this week. I sought to not edit the recording....something foreign for those episodes I've been responsible for producing, so it's a little cringe inducing to hear so much of me...and to hear so much of me stuttering through my thoughts. If you listeners might feel the same, by way of an apology, I added a bonus treat to you dear listener, to make up for the lapse of neutral objectivity, we have embedded a special drinking game in this Episode. Here is the one and only rule: Each and every time you hear me utter the word 'Context' take a swig of your favorite cold syrup. You'll be wasted in no time.
I expect to conduct a second-half walk through of the exhibit next week....if you're interested in joining us, drop me a line.
If I have get the time in the next couple of weeks, I'll post some of my thoughts on this year's installment.
Some images (some of them bad) of some of the things we saw on our walk.
Teresa Marra at Bank Sq Coffee House.
Cristin Hughes at Mountain Tops Outfitters
Cayla Lockwood at Paper Presence.
Nicole Ganas
a bad photo of the sculpture at Global Home.
Myra Kooy at RiverWinds Gallery.
Myra Kooy at RiverWinds Gallery.
Allison Braun at Play.
Amy C. Wilson at Dream in Plastic.
Lynn Isaacson & Shannon Kahan at the Cup & Saucer Tea Room.
Lily Zand at School of Jellyfish.
James Westwater at School of Jellyfish.
Christopher Albert at Artisan Wine Shop
Beth Haber at Beacon Institute.
Chris Sanders at Zora Dora.
Erica Hauser's 2008 WOMS installation still up at Zora Dora.
This week, the Dead Hare Radio Hour visits NADA Hudson, billed as a non art fair/sculpture installation held in Hudson on July 30 and 31, 2011 at the Basilica Hudson.
Listen to the show here:
NADA Hudson on the inside.
Sarah Anderson Lock, artist and Executive Director of Rural Projects has joined Dead Hare Radio as a contributor. She has already been a part of the show's 18th episode (a round table discussion of recent NYFA Mark Program alums) and the 19th episode in which she journeys to Manchester, England to speak with members of the Owl Project.
Matthew, Sarah and I start off the show with our impressions of what we saw. Then we proceed to hear the sounds of NADA Hudson. I conducted short interviews with the following folks:
Nadia from the private dealer Bipolart which featured the "carton marquetry" of Andy Barrett.
Works by Andy Barrett at Bipolart.
The backside of this Andy Barrett work is equally pleasing to look at.
Artist Andy Meerow who, with Rose Marcus, curated Evil Freaks II, a selection of artist created "chairs".
A view of the Evil Freaks II presentation.
Andy Meerow's piece is the white panel with black text on the left.
Reid Ramirez
Georgia G Gray
left: Simone Frazier, right: Rose Marcus
Benjamin Tischer of Invisible Exports and Invisible Exports' featured artist Philip Von Zweck who was creating on demand editioned photocopies of artwork by other artists through the run of the weekend.
Philip von Zweck's printing station.
We also fold the recent NY Times article "Williamsburg on the Hudson" by Peter Applebom into the conversation, which is particularly timely given NADA's foray into Hudson.
Blogger and former Beacon resident Phyllis Bobb reacts to the article on her blog reclaimedhome.com
Also, Leonard Nevarez (see DHRH Episode 6) responds to the article too.
I've been reflecting on Cy Twombly's work since I heard of his death yesterday. There's a lot to unpack and rummage through for me here, and I'm working it out for a post in the near future.
I'm thinking that next week's episode of the Dead Hare Radio Hour may focus on Twombly's work.
We're taking Twombly related comments on the Dead Hare Hotline:
(480) 442-7311
Leave a message about Twombly, his work, and your experience of it. I'll likely use whatever I get on the show...
Bik Van der Pol: "Are you really sure a floor can't also be a ceiling?" 2010 Enel Prize at MACRO in Rome.
image courtesy of MACRO
For this week's episode of Dead Hare Radio, I was joined in the garden ofMoMAby Liesbeth Bik and Jos Van der Pol who, together are the collaborative duoBik Van der Pol.
Bik Van der Pol were the artists in residence at CCS Bard this past Spring. Their 2008 exhibition project at the Hessel Museum in 2008, "I've Got Something in My Eye" had some unintended consequences; one being an uproar debating the relative value of artists to birds, and two, the near liberation of Pinocchio (which I have posted about before).
image via the blog called : _____________ which also has a detailed, first hand description of the caper.
Since I'm such a fan of this moment, I'm embedding the video again here for your viewing pleasure:
All of the previous projects that Jos and Liesbeth mention in the interview are documented in their website. Take some time and dig around in there to find out more.
They're scheduled to open a projection New York's Lower East Side for Creative Time in September.
Special thanks to Ryan Magyar for being our attentive studio audience for this interview.
In the event you haven't heard of them, this is Eva & Adele....another artistic duo - of another sort.
Thanks to v<o>brainsee (Dead Hare Theme & Dead Hare Prayer) and the Erthlyngz (Jam to the Present Tense )for their musical stylings in this episode.
This week marks the end Benjamin Krevolin's tenure as prez of the Dutchess County Arts Council. Benjamin served as the area's arts advocate in chief since 2002.
Listen to Benjamin's "exit" interview on the Dead Hare Radio Hour earlier this week.
...Or perhaps, let us gather our signals to produce a little noise.
Or, more likely, that which we create and consider to be signal, may well be just noise for anyone else.
In any case, this week's Dead Hare Radio Hour episode marks our three month anniversary of producing the show. If you've missed any of the shows, don't worry. This week, we're playing all of the previous 11 show - simultaneously - so you can get caught up real quick.
If, by chance, you want to listen to any of the shows individually, you may do so on the Dead Hare Radio website, or download them via iTunes. You can also click on the title of this post to listen to the show.
I have found myself, of late, pondering the satisying nature of unicorn poo. A center made of a hefty dollup of cast cement, and an outer surface of soft sumptuous white fox fur. The experience of passing this truffle must be a luxurious one for the unicorn.
It's enough to elicit a touch of envy from other species. And it is the wonder of art that ignites such flights of fanciful speculation on subjects never before imagined.
Jin Yu is the artist responsible for said Unicorn Poo. She's one of the artists I spoke with for this week's Dead Hare Radio Hour.
Unicorn Poo, 2008
Concrete, fox fur, gold leaf
Jing Yu is among the group of artists, all of whom are or will be artists in residence at the Wassaic Project this year and who are currently exhibiting work at Hudson Beach Glass through June 19th. The exhibit is co-curated by John Gilvey and Jennifer Mackiewicz.
I also spoke with Jennifer, and exhibiting artists Ben Bigelow and Amanda Lechner for the radio show. Matthew Slaats made a trip up to Wassaic to take in the project's first Last Saturday event of the season and record an interview with Wassaic Project co-directors Bowie Zunino, Eve Biddle and Jeff Barnett-Winsby.
Listen to the episode here, or download it via iTunes.
Here are a few images from the Hudson Beach Glass exhibit.
