Stan Shellabarger's guest appearances

Stan Shellabarger

Bad at Sports

Amanda Williams

Mark Allen

Gavin Turk

David Shrigley

Chris Walla

John Jennings

Jenn Smith

Michael Parker

Holly Hanessian

Scott McCloud

Marina Abramović

Chris Ware

Claire Ashley

David Hockney

Michael Rakowitz

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This week: Amanda and Patricia have a .... spirited....discussion with two of BAS's favorite artists (and the greatest oversight in our interview history until now) Stan Shellabarger and Dutes Miller. Go see their show, it's awesome! Next, Brian and Duncan talk to Courtney Fink of Art Publishing Now while at Southern Exposure. Did we really get the "bums rush" from the Propellor fund, oh yes we did!   Lifted relevant info: Art Publishing Now is a two-day event dedicated to the investigation  and showcasing of art publishing practices in the Bay Area. It includes  a day of presentations and critical discussions, an after-party, an art  publishers fair, library and archive.   Western                    Exhibitions is pleased to present an exhibition by husband-and-husband                    artist team Miller &amp; Shellabarger. The show opens on Friday,                    October 15 with a reception, from 5 to 8pm, which is free and                    open to the public.  This second showing at Western Exhibitions of Miller &amp; Shellabarger's collaborative                    pursuits will focus on works from several inter-related projects                    including Volume 6 of their large-scale silhouette artist books,                    documents from a recent performance involving funeral pyres                    and intimate, discrete objects that utilize embroidery and carved                    shells.   The silhouette is a key component in several of these new works.                    Miller &amp; Shellabarger first employed silhouettes in large-scale                    artist books that contained their individual profiles, each                    one cut by the other. We will show the most recent book in this                    series as well as other silhouette-based works that use the                    silhouette as a starting point, including conjoined beard silhouette                    collages traced by friends and two embossed lead pieces that                    feature similar imagery. We will also show larger-than-life,                    phantasmagorical images, created during their  "Summer                    Studio" artist residency at the School of the Art Institute                    of Chicago's Sullivan Galleries in 2010 which take advantage                    of the distortions of the silhouetted figure in light and shadow.                    Life-size body tracings of each other are realized in large                    drawings on paper made with gunpowder, and in a small book of                    photographs of body tracings made with seeds.  Additional work will include a twin set of pillowcases, each                    monogrammed with their initials using hair from their beards                    as thread, a delicate cameo depicting the two with their beards                    intertwined carved out of sardonic shell by an Italian master                    carver, and photographs from a recent performance "Untitled                    (Pyre)" where they found two naturally fallen trees in                    the forest, chopped them, and stacked the fireplace-sized pieces                    into roughly human-size forms, and burned these pyres at dusk.  Miller &amp; Shellabarger are a 2009 recipient of the Peter                    S. Reed Foundation Grant, 2008 recipient of an Artadia Award,                    and a 2007 recipient of a Louis Comfort Tiffany Foundation award.                    Their work is in the collections of the Nerman Museum of Contemporary                    Art and the National Gallery of Canada in Ontario. In 2010 they                    showed a major selection of work at the Institute of Contemporary                    Art, Portland, Maine, participated in the Time-Based Arts (TBA)                    festival in Portland, Oregon and will have a solo exhibition                    in 2011 at the Illinois State University Galleries in Normal,                    Illinois. Their work has been written about in Artforum.com,                    Art &amp; Auction, Frieze, Artnet, The Art Newspaper, Flash                    Art, TimeOut Chicago, and the Chicago Sun-Times. Dutes Miller                    and Stan Shellabarger also maintain separate artistic practices.                    They live and work in Chicago.

This week: Amanda and Patricia have a .... spirited....discussion with two of BAS's favorite artists (and the greatest oversight in our interview history until now) Stan Shellabarger and Dutes Miller. Go see their show, it's awesome! Next, Brian and Duncan talk to Courtney Fink of Art Publishing Now while at Southern Exposure. Did we really get the "bums rush" from the Propellor fund, oh yes we did! Lifted relevant info: Art Publishing Now is a two-day event dedicated to the investigation and showcasing of art publishing practices in the Bay Area. It includes a day of presentations and critical discussions, an after-party, an art publishers fair, library and archive. Western Exhibitions is pleased to present an exhibition by husband-and-husband artist team Miller &amp; Shellabarger. The show opens on Friday, October 15 with a reception, from 5 to 8pm, which is free and open to the public. This second showing at Western Exhibitions of Miller &amp; Shellabarger's collaborative pursuits will focus on works from several inter-related projects including Volume 6 of their large-scale silhouette artist books, documents from a recent performance involving funeral pyres and intimate, discrete objects that utilize embroidery and carved shells. The silhouette is a key component in several of these new works. Miller &amp; Shellabarger first employed silhouettes in large-scale artist books that contained their individual profiles, each one cut by the other. We will show the most recent book in this series as well as other silhouette-based works that use the silhouette as a starting point, including conjoined beard silhouette collages traced by friends and two embossed lead pieces that feature similar imagery. We will also show larger-than-life, phantasmagorical images, created during their  "Summer Studio" artist residency at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago's Sullivan Galleries in 2010 which take advantage of the distortions of the silhouetted figure in light and shadow. Life-size body tracings of each other are realized in large drawings on paper made with gunpowder, and in a small book of photographs of body tracings made with seeds. Additional work will include a twin set of pillowcases, each monogrammed with their initials using hair from their beards as thread, a delicate cameo depicting the two with their beards intertwined carved out of sardonic shell by an Italian master carver, and photographs from a recent performance "Untitled (Pyre)" where they found two naturally fallen trees in the forest, chopped them, and stacked the fireplace-sized pieces into roughly human-size forms, and burned these pyres at dusk. Miller &amp; Shellabarger are a 2009 recipient of the Peter S. Reed Foundation Grant, 2008 recipient of an Artadia Award, and a 2007 recipient of a Louis Comfort Tiffany Foundation award. Their work is in the collections of the Nerman Museum of Contemporary Art and the National Gallery of Canada in Ontario. In 2010 they showed a major selection of work at the Institute of Contemporary Art, Portland, Maine, participated in the Time-Based Arts (TBA) festival in Portland, Oregon and will have a solo exhibition in 2011 at the Illinois State University Galleries in Normal, Illinois. Their work has been written about in <a href="http://Artforum.com" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Artforum.com</a>, Art &amp; Auction, Frieze, Artnet, The Art Newspaper, Flash Art, TimeOut Chicago, and the Chicago Sun-Times. Dutes Miller and Stan Shellabarger also maintain separate artistic practices. They live and work in Chicago.

Bad at Sports Episode 268: Stan Shellabarger and Dutes Miller/ Courntey Fink & Art Publishing Now