Sabrina Raaf's guest appearances

Sabrina Raaf

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

OwlTail

Laura Letinsky

FIRST: Duncan and Jeff Wardtalk to photographer Laura Letinsky about her work and recent exhibitionat Monique Meloche. Laura Letinsky has exhibitedher color photographs in numerous venues, including the Museumof Modern Art, New York City; Casino Luxembourg;The Nederlands Foto Institute; the CanadianMuseum of Contemporary Photography, Ottawa; and the Museumof Contemporary Photography, Chicago. Her series ofstill-life photographs, Morning, and Melancholia, has been shown at Edwynn Houk Gallery, New YorkCity, Copia, Napa Valley, and Stephen Bulger Gallery, Toronto. More recent and upcoming exhibitionsinclude Time Was Away at the Art Institute of Chicago, I did notremember I had forgotten at the Monique Meloche Gallery, Chicago,and Hardly More Than Ever at the Universityof Chicago's Renaissance Society andthe Shine Gallery in London.Her work is collected by LaSalle Bank Photography Collection; Yale UniversityArt Gallery; the Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago; the Art Institute ofChicago; the Museum of Fine Art, Houston; and the San Francisco Museum of Art.Letinsky received her B.F.A. from the Universityof Manitoba in 1986 and her M.F.A.from Yale University 1991. NEXT: Kathryn Born talks to sculptorSabrina Raaf. Sabrina Raaf is aChicago-based artist working in experimental sculptural media and photography.Her work has been presented in solo and group exhibitions at Mejan Labs(Stockholm), Stefan Stux Gallery (NYC), Ars Electronica (Linz), Opel VillasFoundation Art Center (Rüsselsheim), Museum Tinguely (Basel), Espace Landowski(Paris), Artbots 2005 (Dublin), San Jose Museum of Art, Kunsthaus Graz, ISEA(Helsinki), Klein Art Works (Chicago), The Lab (San Francisco) and PaintedBride Center (Philadelphia). She is the recipient of a Creative Capital Grantin Emerging Fields (2002) and an Illinois Arts Council Fellowship (2005 &amp;2001). Reviews of her work have appeared in Art in America, Contemporary, ChicagoTribune Sunday Magazine, Leonardo, www.lab71.org, The Washington Post, and NewArt Examiner. She received an MFA in Art and Technology from the School of theArt Institute of Chicago (1999) and is currently Assistant Professor in the School of Artand Design at the University of Illinois at Chicago. The music in this week’s showis in honor of Duncan and the shady company he has been keeping.

FIRST: Duncan and Jeff Ward talk to photographer Laura Letinsky about her work and recent exhibition at Monique Meloche. Laura Letinsky has exhibited her color photographs in numerous venues, including the Museum of Modern Art, New York City; Casino Luxembourg; The Nederlands Foto Institute; the Canadian Museum of Contemporary Photography, Ottawa; and the Museum of Contemporary Photography, Chicago. Her series of still-life photographs, Morning, and Melancholia, has been shown at Edwynn Houk Gallery, New York City, Copia, Napa Valley, and Stephen Bulger Gallery, Toronto. More recent and upcoming exhibitions include Time Was Away at the Art Institute of Chicago, I did not remember I had forgotten at the Monique Meloche Gallery, Chicago, and Hardly More Than Ever at the University of Chicago's Renaissance Society and the Shine Gallery in London. Her work is collected by LaSalle Bank Photography Collection; Yale University Art Gallery; the Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago; the Art Institute of Chicago; the Museum of Fine Art, Houston; and the San Francisco Museum of Art. Letinsky received her B.F.A. from the University of Manitoba in 1986 and her M.F.A. from Yale University 1991. NEXT: Kathryn Born talks to sculptor Sabrina Raaf. Sabrina Raaf is a Chicago-based artist working in experimental sculptural media and photography. Her work has been presented in solo and group exhibitions at Mejan Labs (Stockholm), Stefan Stux Gallery (NYC), Ars Electronica (Linz), Opel Villas Foundation Art Center (Rüsselsheim), Museum Tinguely (Basel), Espace Landowski (Paris), Artbots 2005 (Dublin), San Jose Museum of Art, Kunsthaus Graz, ISEA (Helsinki), Klein Art Works (Chicago), The Lab (San Francisco) and Painted Bride Center (Philadelphia). She is the recipient of a Creative Capital Grant in Emerging Fields (2002) and an Illinois Arts Council Fellowship (2005 &amp; 2001). Reviews of her work have appeared in Art in America, Contemporary, Chicago Tribune Sunday Magazine, Leonardo, <a href="http://www.lab71.org" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">www.lab71.org</a>, The Washington Post, and New Art Examiner. She received an MFA in Art and Technology from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago (1999) and is currently Assistant Professor in the School of Art and Design at the University of Illinois at Chicago. The music in this week’s show is in honor of Duncan and the shady company he has been keeping.

Bad at Sports Episode 124: Laura Letinsky/ Sabrina Raaf