Stay tuned for our next Feature on Josiah McElheny's exhibition Libraries, which will be released later this month. 

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Michelle Grabner is known for her broad perspective developed as teacher, writer and critic over the past 30 years. In this episode, Michelle Grabner walks viewers through the making of the paintings, wood-panel and ceramic works on view in her latest exhibition at James Cohan, as well as her site-specific installation at the Art Preserve at the John Michael Kohler Arts Center in Sheboygan, WI. 

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In this brief interview, watch Naudline Pierre discuss her practice from her Brooklyn studio. Pierre examines the rich imagery of the paintings on view at MoMA PS1 in This Longing Vessel, the three-person capstone exhibition of the 2019–2020 Studio Museum’s Artist Residency program.

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Over six decades, Monir Shahroudy Farmanfarmaian (1922 - 2019) investigated the intricate geometries of her Iranian heritage, reconfiguring traditional craft techniques to explore the philosophical, poetic, and perceptual possibilities of interlocking primary forms. 

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In this video, Yinka Shonibare CBE discusses the connection between the history of colonial domination and humankind’s domination of the natural world and exploitation of its limited resources, as these themes relate to his recent solo exhibition Earth Kids.

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Watch Mernet Larsen discuss her nearly six decade-long career as a painter and the processes and inspirations behind her latest exhibition at James Cohan. Drawing from influences that range from the non-objective geometries of Russian Constructivism to Bunraku puppet theater and Indian miniatures, her works take compositional cues from art of the past as springboards for uniquely spatial figure-paintings that speak to the anxieties of the present.

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Since the early 1990’s, Fred Tomaselli has created multimedia paintings which explode in mesmerizing and hallucinatory patterns. In this video, Tomaselli discusses the latest body of work presented in his solo exhibition at James Cohan. These new paintings marry Tomaselli's resin paintings with his ongoing New York Times collages. 

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In this film, artist Trenton Doyle Hancock confronts issues of race and power. By harnessing painting, graphic novels and art history, he builds a world around his avatar Torpedo Boy in an ongoing narrative of superheroes and villains. 

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 In this episode, Trenton Doyle Hancock discusses the materiality at play throughout his practice and his experimental self-portraits.

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Watch Trenton Doyle Hancock discuss the genesis of the Exchange paintings, which feature his superhero alter ego Torpedo Boy facing off against the buffoonish Klansmen that populated Philip Guston’s paintings.

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In this episode, Grace Weaver brings us into her Brooklyn studio while working in quarantine, sharing her diverse influences and discussing the psychological complexities of the female figures in her recent body of work.

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In this video, artist Josiah McElheny discusses his Observations series, including the work Seven Observations for June Tyson. These paintings are abstracted depictions of the deep night sky, comprised of a dense accumulation of glass elements seamlessly inserted into a wood-panel surface.

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Federico Herrero sees paintings everywhere, from street curbs and traffic signs to the painted trees and stones which proliferate in his native San José, Costa Rica. In this video, Herrero discusses his use of photography and 'found paintings' from his San José home-studio, highlighting the tangible connection between the artist's environment and practice.

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In this video, Firelei Báez speaks about her latest exhibition, her ongoing use of found book pages, and mythologies ranging from the Dominican ciguapa to the black Atlantis developed in the techno music of Drexciya.

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Tuan Andrew Nguyen’s work explores the power of storytelling through video and sculpture. In this video, Nguyen discusses the themes of inherited history and communal memory present in his exhibition A Lotus in a Sea of Fire and the making of its centerpiece film The Boat People.

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