Ep.170 MAREN HASSINGER (b. 1947) has built an interdisciplinary practice that articulates the relationship between nature and humanity. Carefully choosing materials for their innate characteristics, Hassinger has explored the subject of movement, family, love, nature, environment, consumerism, identity, and race. The artist uses her materials to mimic nature, whether bundling it to resemble a monolithic sheaf of wheat or planting it in cement to create an industrial garden. Within the past five years, the artist has executed commissions for Dia Bridgehampton, Socrates Sculpture Park, the Hirshhorn Museum, and the Aspen Art Museum. Work is currently installed on the terrace of the Art Institute of Chicago, along the Schuylkill River in Philadelphia, at Longhouse Reserve in East Hampton, and in Ugo Rondinone's Sculpture Milwaukee. Hassinger will be included in the upcoming exhibition Groundswell: Women of Land Art at the Nasher Sculpture Center, Dallas and will be honored with an upcoming two-person survey alongside Senga Nengudi at IVAM, Valencia as well as an exhibition focused on their work in performance at the Cooley Gallery, Reed College, Portland, OR. She is the recipient of the Women’s Caucus for the Arts Lifetime Achievement Award. Her work can be found at the Art Institute of Chicago; the Hirshhorn Museum; the Los Angeles County Museum of Art; the Museum of Modern Art, NYC; the San Francisco Museum of Art; the Walker Art Center, and the Whitney Museum, among others. 

Photo credit ~ Museum Associates/LACMA 
Susan Inglett Gallery https://www.inglettgallery.com/artists/255-maren-hassinger/overview/Smithsonian | 
Hirshhorn Museum  https://hirshhorn.si.edu/explore/maren-hassinger-hirshhorn-artist-diaries/
Getty https://www.getty.edu/news/getty-acquires-maren-hassinger-archive/
Dia Art https://www.diaart.org/exhibition/exhibitions-projects/maren-hassinger-exhibition-301
LongHouse Reserve https://longhouse.org/products/artist-maren-hassinger
MICA https://www.mica.edu/graduate-programs/rinehart-school-of-sculpture-mfa/maren-hassinger/
Inquirer https://www.inquirer.com/arts/schuylkill-river-public-art-steel-bodies-philadelphia-20230623.html
Brooklyn Rail https://brooklynrail.org/events/2023/06/02/maren-hassinger-process/
Culture Type https://www.culturetype.com/2023/09/05/latest-news-in-black-art-sonia-boyce-now-represented-by-hauser-wirth-getty-acquires-maren-hassinger-archive-tomashi-jackson-wins-rappaport-prize-more/
The Grio https://thegrio.com/2023/09/08/getty-acquires-archive-of-renowned-artist-maren-hassinger/
Sculpture Milwaukee  https://www.sculpturemilwaukee.com/nature-doesnt-know-about-us/maren-hassinger
MCAD https://www.mcad.edu/events/visiting-artist-lecture-maren-hassinger
Art Pil https://artpil.com/announcements/maren-hassinger-process/
MICA https://www.mica.edu/graduate-programs/rinehart-school-of-sculpture-mfa/maren-hassinger/
Wikipedia   https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maren_Hassinger
MoMA https://www.moma.org/artists/41280
Hammer https://hammer.ucla.edu/now-dig-this/artists/maren-hassinger
Socrates Sculpture Park  https://socratessculpturepark.org/artist/maren-hassinger/
Artic https://www.artic.edu/exhibitions/10139/maren-hassinger-this-is-how-we-grow
Association For Public Art https://www.associationforpublicart.org/apa-now/news/the-association-for-public-art-brings-maren-hassingers-steel-bodies-to-philadelphia/
The Great Northern Festival https://thegreatnorthernfestival.com/2023/maren-hassinger-love-for-minneapolis
The Art Newspaper https://www.theartnewspaper.com/2023/08/30/maren-hassinger-archive-acquired-getty-research-institute
Beverly Press https://beverlypress.com/2023/09/hassinger-works-added-to-getty-archive/

Maren Hassinger

In the 13th episode of Collect Wisely we are speaking with Pamela Joyner. Based in San Francisco, Pamela and her husband Fred Giuffrida’s collection consists of over 400 works, with a primary focus on abstract works by artists of the African diaspora from the 1940’s onward. 

The collection is widely recognized as one of the most significant collections of modern and contemporary art by African American artists. In September 2017, Pamela and Fred published a scholarly catalogue of the collection titled, “Four Generations: The Joyner Giuffrida Collection of Abstract Art.” Following the publication, select works from the exhibition have been included in an extensive exhibition, which opened at the Ogden Museum of Southern Art, in New Orleans and has toured to several US museums.

Episode 13 - Pamela Joyner

In an inaugural episode of the Cerebral Women Podcast, we interview Brooklyn based figurative painter Deborah Brown. Her many accomplishments as an artist are impressive, as is her unrelenting advocacy and support of artists. Her paintings are in many museum, private and corporate collections. She has been a visiting artist and lecturer at several universities including Hunter College, Pace University, Columbia University, among others. She has been acknowledged in several publications including the New York Times, The New Yorker, Art Forum, Art in America and Juxtapose Magazine. In 2020, Deborah was accepted into the prestigious Shandaken Projects fellowship where she will spend six months in a series of group discussions between faculty and fellows. Her passion to support other artists both financially and intellectually is sincere and consistent. In this podcast Deborah shares with us her insightful perspectives on the art world.

http://www.shandakenprojects.org/paint-school/fellows
https://www.juxtapoz.com/news/painting/dirt-s-the-only-animal-who-will-sleep-with-you-deborah-brown-in-review/

Deborah Brown

Must Love Art

Episode four features Nigerian American artist Ike Ude.
He is a photographer, a performance artist and author of several books and founder and publisher of aRude magazine. In 2017 Ike spoke during a Global Ted Talk in Tanzania to discuss his book ‘Nollywood Portraits: A Radical Beauty a stunning publication depicting major Nigerian’s in the media. His work is in the permanent collections of the Guggenheim Museum, the Smithsonian Museum of Art, The Museum of Fine Arts Houston, Sheldon Museum, RISD Museum, New Britain Museum of American Art, Minneapolis Institute of Arts and in many private collections. Artsy, ranked Ike -- along with Rembrandt, van Gogh, Warhol -- among the top 10 "Masters of the Self-Portrait." 
He was included on the Vanity Fair’s International Best Dressed List in 2009, 2012 and 2015. 
Commenced during Art Basel Miami 2019, Ike has a one year exhibition at The Betsy Hotel on Ocean Drive.

This interview offers listeners a rare peek into Ike Ude’s intellect.

Ike Ude

In Episode Five we feature Chela Mitchell, an art advisor based in Harlem who has extensive knowledge of the emerging black contemporary art market. She has a deep appreciation of the industry, particularly supporting black artists. Chela started collecting during her late twenties and founded her art advisory business in 2016. She provides art advisory services to private, public, and new collectors needing assistance navigating the contemporary art market. Her clients include collectors and luxury brands looking for guidance diversifying their collections. In early 2020 The Los Angeles Times featured Chela in ‘Faces of Frieze 2020: Picturing the art crowd at Los Angeles Premier’ fair.’
In December 2019, Forbes highlighted her as ‘Making Waves In The Elite Art World: Meet The Black Millennial Art Advisory Disrupting The Status Quo.’ 
During this interview Chela shares with us her upcoming and exciting project titled Komuna House.
Chela Mitchell has successfully established herself as a major figure in art advisory.


https://www.chelamitchellart.com/
https://www.forbes.com/sites/katetalbot/2019/12/05/making-waves-in-the-elite-art-world-meet-the-black-millennial-art-advisor-disrupting-the-status-quo/#715130572cdd
https://www.latimes.com/entertainment-arts/story/2020-02-15/faces-of-frieze-los-angeles-2020-photos
https://www.komunahouse.com/

Chela Mitchell

In Episode Six I interview visual artist M.Florine Démosthène. She was born in the United States and raised between Haiti and New York. At times she resides in Ghana where she moved after abruptly deciding to build her practice without the drama of being an artist in New York City. 

Florine earned her Bachelor of Fine Arts from Parsons School for Design in New York and her Master of Fine Arts from Hunter College in New York.She has exhibited extensively through group and solo exhibitions in the USA, Caribbean, UK, Europe and Africa

She has shown with the Mariane Ibrahim Gallery in both a solo booth and group show at the The New York Armory Fair in 2019 and 2020
She is the recipient of a Tulsa Artist Fellowship, Arts Moves Africa Grant and a Joan Mitchell Foundation Grant. 
Florine has participated in residencies in the USA, UK, Slovakia, Ghana and Tanzania. Her work can be seen at the University of South Africa (UNISA), Lowe Museum of Art, PFF Collection of African American Art and in various private collections worldwide.

Our interview was fun. You will enjoy.

Additional information:

https://florinedemosthene.com/home.html
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/03/06/arts/design/armory-show-art-piers.html
https://marianeibrahim.com/artists/29-florine-demosthene/biography/
https://florinedemosthene.com/links.html

M. Florine Démosthène

Episode Thirty-Six features Francks Francois Deceus. He was born in Cap-Haitian, Haiti 1966.  He currently resides and maintains a studio in Brooklyn, NY.  Deceus received a B.A. in Sociology from Long Island University, NY in 1992 and studied Printmaking at Atlantis Arts Atelier, Gentily, France in 2007. His solo exhibitions include the Pounder-Kone Art Space, Los Angeles; Tilford Art Group, Los Angeles, CA.  Group exhibitions include the Brooklyn Museum, NY; Museum of Contemporary African Diaspora Arts (MOCADA), Brooklyn, NY; The National Civil Rights Museum, Memphis TN; Hampton University, Hampton, VA; Aljira Center for Contemporary Art, Newark, NJ; Mana Contemporary, Jersey City, NJ; Prizm Art Fair Miami FL; Fridman Art Gallery, NY, NY; Gallery M, NY, NY. The works of Deceus have entered numerous public collections, including Xavier University, New Orleans, LA and the Schomburg Center, New York Public Library, NY. His work has been featured in publications such as Artillery Magazine, the International Revue of African-American Art, and The Village Voice.

www.deceusart.com
https://mocada.org/2020/04/28/digital-gallery-francks-deceus/
https://catalogue.swanngalleries.com/Lots/auction-lot/FRANCKS-DECEUS-(1966----)-Pilgrimage-14?saleno=2535&lotNo=181&refNo=767372
https://www.instyle.com/lifestyle/girls-in-the-window-recreated?utm_source=emailshare&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=email-share-longform&utm_content=20200809

Francks Deceus

The Cerebral Women media platform presents Cerebral Women Art Talks, a  podcast that is an extension of @cerebral_women. Conversations offer insights into the visual art world from artists, mainly artists of color, and female artists who freely articulate what inspires their creativity. In addition, you'll hear interesting perspectives from dedicated art professionals who work with artists and the art institutions that feature them. Art Advisors, Art Critics, Collectors, Curators, Gallerists, Museum Professionals.

Maren Hassinger

CEREBRAL WOMEN Art Talks Podcast

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