Untitled Art Podcast

At UNTITLED, ART San Francisco 2020, Withersworldwide presented a lively conversation titled, "Fresh Perspectives on Collecting; What New Collectors Need to Know." Beginning the process of collecting art can often be challenging for new collectors. Listen to a distinguished panel of experts discuss methods and tips on building an art collection with topics that range from current market trends and art financing to conservation and art insurance. Panelists include Kimberly Almazan, Special Counsel at Withersworldwide and Chair of the San Francisco Bar Association’s Art Law Section, Sophia Kinell, Regional Lead for the San Francisco Bay Area at Phillips, and Paul Becker, Art Money Founder and CEO. James Voorhies, Chair, Graduate Program in Curatorial Practice, California College of the Arts, moderated the conversation, recorded on January 18, 2020.

At UNTITLED, ART San Francisco 2020, three noted San Francisco artists working in diverse media discussed their art practices, concerns and challenges, and where the equity movement might lead in coming years. Hear artists Indira Allegra, Katherine Vetne, and Erica Deeman, as well as Heidi Rabben, Senior Curator at the Contemporary Jewish Museum. This panel was organized by ArtTable Northern California, a chapter of the foremost professional organization dedicated to advancing the leadership of women in the visual arts. This year, ArtTable celebrates 40 years of women's advocacy and professional development.

Recorded live at UNTITLED, ART San Francisco 2020, textile artist Kira Dominguez Hultgren and Charlie Sutton, Head of Design for the Facebook App, discussed how ancient analog processes like weaving relate to new immersive technologies like virtual reality, and how both can address ideas of human connection and isolation. In creating an empathic user experience, what is the relationship between designing with physical materials versus virtual means? What does it mean for both analog and virtual creators to design outside the traditional rectilinear, two-dimensional frame? How do traditional collective activities like weaving connect with current advances in the game mechanics of virtual worlds? What role do these practices play in the service of amplifying human agency and providing spaces for authentic connection and discovery? James Voorhies, Chair, Graduate Program in Curatorial Practice, California College of the Arts, moderated the conversation.

At UNTITLED, ART San Francisco 2020, Mike Henderson, accomplished musician and Bay Area artist included in Soul of a Nation: Art in the Age of Black Power​ at the de Young Museum, performed a special musical set highlighting the influence of blues music on African American artists from the 1960s-1980s. Listen now to hear Henderson and his band perform, and check out Writer in Residence, Brian Boucher's take on the performance at Pier 35 on Friday, January 17, 2020: https://medium.com/@UNTITLEDARTFAIR/

At UNTITLED, ART San Francisco, Leigh Raiford, Associate Professor of African American Studies at the University of California, Berkeley, conversed with gallerist Michael Rosenfeld to discuss Michael Rosenfeld Gallery’s curated presentation of artists exhibited in "Soul of a Nation: Art in the Age of Black Power 1963–1983." The gallery’s booth presentation at UNTITLED, ART San Francisco will included works by such seminal artists as Frank Bowling, Ed Clark, Sam Gilliam, Jacob Lawrence, Norman Lewis, Betye Saar, and William T. Williams, among others. The conversation ranges in topics, from the prominence of abstraction in Soul of a Nation, the place of Africa in African American art, and the gallery’s long history exhibiting Black artists as well as the "discovery" of many older Black artists in today’s contemporary artworld. James Voorhies, Chair, Graduate Program in Curatorial Practice, California College of the Arts, moderated the conversation.

Yelena Rachitsky, Executive Producer of Experiences at Oculus, and Kelly Sicat, the director of the Artistic Program and Lucas Artists Residency Program at Montalvo Arts Center, discussed how cultural producers working with both virtual and analog technologies are addressing the so-called “loneliness epidemic” by creating space for authentic empathic connections. Through the yearlong initiative SOCIAL: Investigating Loneliness Together, Montalvo brings together artists who are investigating how to foster social engagement in an age where social media both connects and isolates people. Oculus’s recent project Traveling While Black is a virtual reality documentary that immerses the viewer in the long history of restricted movement for Black Americans. James Voorhies, Chair, Graduate Program in Curatorial Practice, California College of the Arts, moderated the conversation.

Journalist Brian Boucher is UNTITLED, ART's inaugural San Francisco Writer in Residence. Join him as he interviews artist JPW3 and VIP Preview attendees during the live performance at "Food 4 Less," the artist's special project, presented by Night Gallery (C6). The artist made juice out of the plants grown in his three mobile gardens, in which he has been cultivating wheatgrass, agave, and tomatoes. Listen now to find out how the juice tasted.

UNTITLED, ART Miami Beach curator Jordan Stein speaks with several fellows from Artists in Residence in Everglades, AIRIE, about the work, processes, influences, and motivations around their research in the Florida Everglades. Having spent up to a month living and working in Everglades National Park, AIRIE fellows meet with ecologists, biologists, hydrologists, community leaders, and environmental advocates to study this complex ecosystem. Artists include Dana Levy, Harumi Abe, Christina Pettersson, and Onajide Shabaka.

In his final audio dispatch as Writer in Residence at UNTITLED, ART Miami Beach 2019, Osman Can Yerebakan sits down with Pari Ehsan, the visionary behind @Paridust. The two discuss the prevalence of textile based art at the fair this year, specifically highlighting works by South American artists. Listen to a friendly conversation about their discoveries at the diverse galleries of UNTITLED, ART, as well as why dressing for Miami Art Week is a form of art in itself.

In conversation with curator Larry Ossei-Mensah, artist Damien Davis discusses the research surrounding his booth presentation with LatchKey Gallery and forthcoming solo exhibition at the Weeksville Heritage Center, titled “Collapse: Black Wall Street”. This exhibition is centered around the history of the Tulsa Race Riot of 1921, recently depicted by the HBO series Watchman and highlighted in the New York Times.

For his next audio dispatch from UNTITLED, ART Miami Beach 2019, Writer in Residence, Osman Can Yerebakan sits down with Carolyn Ramo, the Executive Director of Artadia. The two discuss new discoveries made on the fair floor, the successful trajectories of previous Artadia grant recipients, and the internationality of UNTITLED, ART year after year.

In this episode, UNTITLED, ART’s inaugural Writer in Residence, Osman Can Yerebakan, meets with Galerie Magazine’s Art and Culture Editor Lucy Rees. Perched on a Wendy White jofa in the lounge designed by the same artist, the two share their picks from the VIP and Press Preview. They discussed the intersection of art and design through artists blurring the distinction between sculpture and function, and mentioned a handful of names whose use of materiality, form, and dimension caught their eyes.

The gallery model is not in crisis: The world economic system is. This episode historically and culturally contextualizes the gallery model to understand how we might update it for our current moment, and the future. The dealers featured are those who are thinking deeply about the nature of their program and the publics with whom they engage. They are propositioning alternatives to the dealer-critic system from the 19th century and fostering communities of collaboration, while still running physical spaces to exhibit emerging, experimental, and established work. How can we support them, dealers like them, and the artists they support and exhibit, who are foundational to our culture and social well-being?

On the occasion of World Pride Month and the 50th Anniversary of the Stonewall Riots, this episode celebrates Pride and explores the history of LGBTQ+ art-making since Stonewall. The episode opens with an excerpted performance by the artist Sheldon Scott, recorded at UNTITLED, ART Miami Beach 2018. Listeners will also tour the exhibition "Art after Stonewall, 1969-1989" with curators Jonathan Weinberg and Drew Sawyer at the Leslie-Lohman Museum in New York City. This episode also features an introduction to “Nobody Promised You Tomorrow” an exhibition at the Brooklyn Museum, with curators Lindsay C. Harris and Lauren Argentina Zelaya.

In this episode, host Amanda Schmitt travels to the Galleria Borghese in Rome to see "Bird Cage, a temporary shelter," by artist Zhang Enli. Hear Amanda speak with the artist, and curator Davide Quadrio, about the extraordinary project. This episode also features a conversation from a panel led by curator Xiaoyu Weng (Guggenheim, New York), along with curators and educators Marc Mayer (Asian Art Museum, San Francisco) and Marie Martraire (KADIST).

Featuring artists that work with analog synthesizers and new programming methods such as data sonification, this episode explores sound Beyond Language, featuring artist Adam Henry, as well as a redacted version of the three-day “Data as Art Material” program presented in collaboration with Cristobal Martinez and his students at the San Francisco Institute of Art at UNTITLED, ART San Francisco 2019.

This episode features an onsite visit to the exhibition “Solidary & Solitary: The Joyner/Giufridda Collection,”with Alison Gass, the Director of the Smart Museum of Art in Chicago. Alison discusses the history of the exhibition and recounts the stories behind featured artworks by Bethany Collins, Leonardo Drew, Melvin Edwards, Sam Gilliam, Samuel Levi Jones, Norman Lewis, and Amanda Williams, among others. The episode also features a special conversation with the co-curator of the exhibition, Christopher Bedford, Director of the Baltimore Museum of Art.

This episode features the second part of panel that was recorded live from San Francisco’s The Battery on January 11, 2019. The panel --hosted by Ethan Appleby from State of the Art Podcast— revisits a lively discussion between Lynn Hershman Leeson (Artist), Erica Gangsei (Head of Interpretive Media, SFMOMA) and Dorothy R. Santos (Writer, Curator, and Researcher) on how technology has affected the way we experience contemporary art in the digital age and what this means for the future of art making and collecting. The episode also features a conversation with Pérez Art Museum Miami Assistant Curator, Jennifer Inacio, on the work of Miami-based artist Felice Grodin and her augmented reality exhibition.

This episode features a panel that was recorded live from San Francisco’s The Battery on January 11, 2019. The panel —hosted by Ethan Appleby from State of the Art Podcast— revisits a lively discussion between Lynn Hershman Leeson (Artist), Erica Gangsei (Head of Interpretive Media, SFMOMA) and Dorothy R. Santos (Writer, Curator, and Researcher) on how technology has affected the way we experience contemporary art in the digital age and what this means for the future of art making and collecting. The episode also features a conversation with Scott Zieher (ZieherSmith) on the work of artist Rachel Rossin and her integration of oil painting and virtual reality.

This episode features a panel that was broadcast live from San Francisco’s The Battery on November 7, 2018. The panel --hosted by Untitled Art's curator of Special Projects and Books & Editions, Juana Berrío-- invites Robin Wright (co-founder, RITE Editions), Margaret Tedesco (founder, 2nd floor projects), and Vee Moran (co-founder, Owl Cave Books) to join in conversation about books that were created within the context of art. The episode also features a reading of Virginia Woolf by artist and bookmaker Brook Hsu.

From the archives of Untitled, Radio, this episode explores our relationship with travel and what it means to experience an “other”. This episode features artists, musicians, writers including Meriem Bennani, Marina Reyes Franco, Hector Arce Espasas, Sara Ludy, Sadria Baniasadi, Prem Krishnamurthy and Maayann Strauss, Mera and Don Rubell, Andy and Deborah Rappaport, and Williams S Smith.

From the archives of Untitled, Radio, this episode looks back on four years of radical women who have the double-X chromosome and a triple-X threat. Contributors include to this episode Liliana Porter, Sylvia Meyer, INVASORIX, Cathy Byrd with Zoe Buckman, Anna Ostoya and Ben Lerner, artist collective CARNE, Catherine Taft with Badlands Unlimited, FLUCT, as well as Autumn Knight and Chelsea Knight. Hosted by Amanda Schmitt.

From the archives of Untitled, Radio, this episode dives into the projects and presentations based on fiction that have been broadcast live from the fair since 2015, including fragments of programs that featured readings of short stories, musical theater and performance art, as well as artists and writers who have produced dramas created to be presented on radio itself. This episode includes contributions from Cesar Aira and New Directions Press, Piper Marshall, Sergio Vega, Scott Reeder, Ei Arakawa, Dan Poston, Stefan Tcherepnin, Anne McGuire and Wayne Grim, and Constance Tenvik. Hosted by Amanda Schmitt.

From the archives of Untitled, Radio, this episode focuses on sound and noise in contemporary art, focusing on that which cannot be seen, but only heard. This episode features artists, curators, writers and musicians including Archival Feedback, DROOIDS, Maria Antelman, Ceci Moss, Robin Cameron and Ted Turner, Claire Wilson, Culture Hole, Shannon Stratton and Harry Bertoia, as well as music by Celia Hollander from the score for Madeline Hollander's performance MILE (Untitled, Miami Beach 2015). Hosted by Amanda Schmitt.

From the archives of Untitled, Radio, this episode reflects on seven years of artistic and creative collaborations that have been activated by the UNTITLED, Art fairs Miami Beach and San Francisco. This episode features artists and curators that embody that collaborative spirit including contributions by Cheryl Pope, John Miller, Madeline Hollander, Amanda Keeley, Stairwell’s, Anthony Huberman and Apsara DiQuinzio, and Konstmusiksystraar, as well as music by Celia Hollander from the score for Madeline Hollander's performance MILE (Untitled, Miami Beach 2015. Hosted by Amanda Schmitt.