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Kenturah Davis

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Matthew Brown Los Angeles Podcast

The Institute of Black Imagination.

Jerry Saltz

Aindrea Emelife

Laurie Anderson

Gavin Turk

London Hughes

Louisa Buck

Michael Craig-Martin

Luke Evans

Helen Cammock

David Dawson

Lucian Freud

David Shrigley

Jericho Brown

Mark Neville

Jacqueline Woodson

OwlTail

Today’s episode is with contemporary artist Kenturah Davis. Exploring language, looms, and listening beyond the limen, Kenturah's work reminds us that identity requires an intimacy with the unknown and oftentimes hidden portraits of ourselves. We explore topics that range from the diminishing value of a Masters of Fine Arts degree to urban planning and design to Toni Morrison’s essay “The Site of Memory”, this conversation is one that holds our hearts in an audible essay on the shadows of life and living. What to read.The Site of Memory by Toni Morrison Playlist inspired by this conversation.Atladena- Kelela Apocalypse-ThundercatWho to follow.Kenturah Davis This conversation was recorded on 12/14/21. Host Dario Calmese Producer Carmen D. HarrisVisual Art Direction and Designs: River Wildmen, AfroVisualismDirector of Digital Content: vickygcreative.comOriginal Music composed by Dario Calmese 

Today’s episode is with contemporary artist Kenturah Davis. Exploring language, looms, and listening beyond the limen, Kenturah's work reminds us that identity requires an intimacy with the unknown and oftentimes hidden portraits of ourselves. We explore topics that range from the diminishing value of a Masters of Fine Arts degree to urban planning and design to Toni Morrison’s essay “The Site of Memory”, this conversation is one that holds our hearts in an audible essay on the shadows of life and living. What to read.<a href="https://blogs.umass.edu/brusert/files/2013/03/Morrison_Site-of-Memory.pdf" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow" target="_blank">The Site of Memory by Toni Morrison </a>Playlist inspired by this conversation.<a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KrlP3tbuj44" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow" target="_blank">Atladena- Kelela </a><a href="https://thundercat.bandcamp.com/album/apocalypse" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow" target="_blank">Apocalypse-Thundercat</a> Who to follow.<a href="https://www.instagram.com/kenturah/" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow" target="_blank">Kenturah Davis </a> This conversation was recorded on 12/14/21.  Host <a href="https://www.instagram.com/dario.studio/" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow" target="_blank">Dario Calmese</a> Producer <a href="https://www.instagram.com/carmendharris/" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow" target="_blank">Carmen D. Harris</a>Visual Art Direction and Designs: <a href="http://riverwildmen.com/" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow" target="_blank">River Wildmen</a>, <a href="https://www.instagram.com/afrovisualism/" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow" target="_blank">AfroVisualism</a>Director of Digital Content: <a href="https://www.vickygcreative.com/" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow" target="_blank">vickygcreative.com</a>Original Music composed by <a href="http://www.dariocalmese.com/" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow" target="_blank">Dario Calmese</a>

E43. Kenturah Davis: The Limits of Language.

New Talk Art!!!! Russell &amp; Robert speak with leading artist Kenturah Davis from her studio in Los Angeles.Her work oscillates between various facets of portraiture and design. Using text as a point of departure, she explores the fundamental role that language has in shaping how we understand ourselves and the world around us. This manifests in a variety of forms including drawings, textiles, sculpture and performances.Kenturah Davis lives and works between Los Angeles and Accra, Ghana. The artist earned her BA from Occidental College, Los Angeles, and MFA from Yale University School of Art in 2018. Her work was included in Punch, curated by Nina Chanel Abney at Jeffrey Deitch, Los Angeles, in 2019. The Savannah College of Art and Design presented Everything That Cannot Be Known, a solo exhibition of her work, in 2020. Public projects include a major commission by the Los Angeles Metro Rail to create large-scale, site specific work that will be permanently installed on the new Crenshaw/LAX rail line, opening in 2021, and Four Women, a commissioned mural by Alliance Francaise to commemorate International Women’s Day, in Accra, Ghana. (a)Float, (a)Fall, (a)Dance, (a)Death is Kenturah Davis’s first solo exhibition in New York at Jeffrey Deitch Gallery and runs until 19th June 2021. The exhibition is presented in collaboration with Matthew Brown, Los Angeles.Follow @Kenturah on Instagram and her official website http://www.kenturah.com/Special thanks to Kenturah and to Pippy Houldsworth Gallery for introducing us for this extraordinary episode. Learn more at @MatthewBrownLA and view images of Kenturah's current solo exhibition @JeffreyDeitchGallery.TALK ART BOOK is OUT NOW! Visit Waterstone's or The Margate Bookshop to buy our brand new book in the UK or Amazon or Bookshop.org in USA &amp; Canada. Full list of links in our Linktree: https://linktr.ee/TalkArtFor images of all artworks discussed in this episode visit @TalkArt. Talk Art theme music by Jack Northover @JackNorthoverMusic courtesy of HowlTown.com We've just joined Twitter too @TalkArt. If you've enjoyed this episode PLEASE leave us your feedback and maybe 5 stars if we're worthy in the Apple Podcast store. For all requests, please email talkart@independenttalent.com Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

New Talk Art!!!! Russell &amp; Robert speak with leading artist Kenturah Davis from her studio in Los Angeles.Her work oscillates between various facets of portraiture and design. Using text as a point of departure, she explores the fundamental role that language has in shaping how we understand ourselves and the world around us. This manifests in a variety of forms including drawings, textiles, sculpture and performances.Kenturah Davis lives and works between Los Angeles and Accra, Ghana. The artist earned her BA from Occidental College, Los Angeles, and MFA from Yale University School of Art in 2018. Her work was included in Punch, curated by Nina Chanel Abney at Jeffrey Deitch, Los Angeles, in 2019. The Savannah College of Art and Design presented Everything That Cannot Be Known, a solo exhibition of her work, in 2020. Public projects include a major commission by the Los Angeles Metro Rail to create large-scale, site specific work that will be permanently installed on the new Crenshaw/LAX rail line, opening in 2021, and Four Women, a commissioned mural by Alliance Francaise to commemorate International Women’s Day, in Accra, Ghana. (a)Float, (a)Fall, (a)Dance, (a)Death is Kenturah Davis’s first solo exhibition in New York at <a href="https://www.deitch.com/new-york/exhibitions/kenturah-davis-a-float-a-fall-a-dance-a-death" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow" target="_blank">Jeffrey Deitch Gallery</a> and runs until 19th June 2021. The exhibition is presented in collaboration with Matthew Brown, Los Angeles.Follow <a href="https://www.instagram.com/kenturah/?hl=en" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow" target="_blank">@Kenturah</a> on Instagram and her official website <a href="http://www.kenturah.com/drawings" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow" target="_blank">http://www.kenturah.com/</a>Special thanks to Kenturah and to <a href="https://www.instagram.com/pippyhouldsworthgallery/?hl=en" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow" target="_blank">Pippy Houldsworth Gallery</a> for introducing us for this extraordinary episode. Learn more at <a href="https://www.instagram.com/matthewbrownla/?hl=en" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow" target="_blank">@MatthewBrownLA</a> and view images of Kenturah's current solo exhibition <a href="https://www.instagram.com/jeffreydeitchgallery/?hl=en" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow" target="_blank">@JeffreyDeitchGallery</a>.TALK ART BOOK is OUT NOW! Visit <a href="https://www.waterstones.com/book/talk-art/russell-tovey/robert-diament/9781781578407" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow" target="_blank">Waterstone's</a> or <a href="https://www.themargatebookshop.com/shop/talk-art" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow" target="_blank">The Margate Bookshop</a> to buy our brand new book in the UK or Amazon or <a href="http://Bookshop.org" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Bookshop.org</a> in USA &amp; Canada. Full list of links in our Linktree: <a href="https://linktr.ee/TalkArt" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow" target="_blank">https://linktr.ee/TalkArt</a>For images of all artworks discussed in this episode visit <a href="https://www.instagram.com/talkart/?hl=en" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow" target="_blank">@TalkArt</a>. Talk Art theme music by Jack Northover <a href="https://www.instagram.com/jacknorthovermusic/?hl=en" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow" target="_blank">@JackNorthoverMusic</a> courtesy of <a href="http://HowlTown.com" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">HowlTown.com</a> We've just joined Twitter too <a href="https://twitter.com/talkart?lang=en" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow" target="_blank">@TalkArt</a>. If you've enjoyed this episode PLEASE leave us your feedback and maybe 5 stars if we're worthy in the Apple Podcast store. For all requests, please email talkart@independenttalent.com Hosted on Acast. See <a href="https://acast.com/privacy" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow" target="_blank">acast.com/privacy</a> for more information.

Jerry Gogosian

May 27, 2020 Hello internet, it's Jerry Gogosian. I hope you and your family are doing well in these troubling times. It's been a while since I last released an episode of the podcast. Like many of you, life got real real and I have had to really focus on the brass and tacks for a while. However, during all of this, I’ve had the privilege of reflection. Time to finally start absorbing the reality of where we’ve come to as a species, as a culture, as a community of art lovers, as an industry… The inevitability of change is here and its time to start deciding what we want to do about it. (This is a longer conversation meant for another time.) ***But, I'm good. There will be several more podcast releases in the coming weeks so you have that to look forward to.  For this episode, I decided to speak with the artist Kenturah Davis about her paintings and her practice's relationship liminality, language, and how textiles manage to weave their way into the history of human communication. It was truly a pleasure and I hope you enjoy our conversation as much as I did. But before we get started, I wanted to announce that after much searching for a quality Zoe + Chloe, I think I’ve found him. That's right. His name is Gunner Dongieux.  I decided to record our interview to get your opinion. What do you think? Is he a good hire? Is he a Zoe or a Chloe?  ________  Kenturah Davis lives and works in Los Angeles, CA with regular trips to Accra, Ghana. The artist earned her BA from Occidental College, CA and MFA from Yale University School of Art in 2018. Davis recently opened her first solo institutional exhibition, Everything That Cannot Be Known at the Savannah College of Art and Design Museum (SCAD) in February (2020). Other solo and two-person exhibitions include Blur in the Interest of Precision, Matthew Brown Los Angeles (2019); a two-person exhibition with Desmond Lewis at Crosstown Arts, Memphis, TN in coordination with the traveling venue, Seed Space (2019); and Narratives and Meditations (2014) and sonder (2013), Papillion, Los Angeles. Public projects include Four Women, a commissioned mural by Alliance Francaise to commemorate International Women’s Day, in Accra, Ghana and Metamorphose, comprised of five portraits commissioned by architect Elliott Barnes, featured in Barnes’ installation at the Lâ Exposition AD Interieurs, Paris, France. Her work has been in institutional presentations in Africa, Asia, Australia, and Europe. Recent exhibitions include Plumb Line: Charles White and the Contemporary, curated by Essence Harden and Leigh Raiford at the California African American Museum, Los Angeles, CA (2019); Punch, curated by Nina Chanel Abney, at Jeffrey Deitch, Los Angeles, CA (2019); and Afrocosmologies: American Reflections, at the Wadsworth Atheneum Museum of Art, Hartford, CT (2019). Other notable institutional exhibitions include: Must Risk Delight, organized in collaboration with the 56th Venice Biennale (2015); Linked in Tradition, Inspiring in Vision: A Selection of Works by African American Women Artists, Robert and Frances Museum of Art, San Bernadino, CA (2017); Black Joy, Yale University, New Haven, CT (2016); We Must Risk Delight, at the Accademia di Belle Arti di Venezia, Venice Biennale (2015); The Silence of Ordinary Things, The Mistake Room, Los Angeles (2015); i:23, The Yokohama Triennial, Yokohama, Japan (2014); An American Water Margin, Ucity Museum, Guangzhou, China (2014); Mass Attack, Torrance Art Museum, Torrance, CA (2013); and Mis-Design, Ian Potter Museum, Melbourne, Australia (2011). Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/jerrygogosian/message

May 27, 2020 Hello internet, it's Jerry Gogosian. I hope you and your family are doing well in these troubling times. It's been a while since I last released an episode of the podcast. Like many of you, life got real real and I have had to really focus on the brass and tacks for a while. However, during all of this, I’ve had the privilege of reflection. Time to finally start absorbing the reality of where we’ve come to as a species, as a culture, as a community of art lovers, as an industry… The inevitability of change is here and its time to start deciding what we want to do about it. (This is a longer conversation meant for another time.) ***But, I'm good. There will be several more podcast releases in the coming weeks so you have that to look forward to.  For this episode, I decided to speak with the artist Kenturah Davis about her paintings and her practice's relationship liminality, language, and how textiles manage to weave their way into the history of human communication. It was truly a pleasure and I hope you enjoy our conversation as much as I did. But before we get started, I wanted to announce that after much searching for a quality Zoe + Chloe, I think I’ve found him. That's right. His name is Gunner Dongieux.  I decided to record our interview to get your opinion. What do you think? Is he a good hire? Is he a Zoe or a Chloe? ________ Kenturah Davis lives and works in Los Angeles, CA with regular trips to Accra, Ghana. The artist earned her BA from Occidental College, CA and MFA from Yale University School of Art in 2018. Davis recently opened her first solo institutional exhibition, Everything That Cannot Be Known at the Savannah College of Art and Design Museum (SCAD) in February (2020). Other solo and two-person exhibitions include Blur in the Interest of Precision, Matthew Brown Los Angeles (2019); a two-person exhibition with Desmond Lewis at Crosstown Arts, Memphis, TN in coordination with the traveling venue, Seed Space (2019); and Narratives and Meditations (2014) and sonder (2013), Papillion, Los Angeles. Public projects include Four Women, a commissioned mural by Alliance Francaise to commemorate International Women’s Day, in Accra, Ghana and Metamorphose, comprised of five portraits commissioned by architect Elliott Barnes, featured in Barnes’ installation at the Lâ Exposition AD Interieurs, Paris, France. Her work has been in institutional presentations in Africa, Asia, Australia, and Europe. Recent exhibitions include Plumb Line: Charles White and the Contemporary, curated by Essence Harden and Leigh Raiford at the California African American Museum, Los Angeles, CA (2019); Punch, curated by Nina Chanel Abney, at Jeffrey Deitch, Los Angeles, CA (2019); and Afrocosmologies: American Reflections, at the Wadsworth Atheneum Museum of Art, Hartford, CT (2019). Other notable institutional exhibitions include: Must Risk Delight, organized in collaboration with the 56th Venice Biennale (2015); Linked in Tradition, Inspiring in Vision: A Selection of Works by African American Women Artists, Robert and Frances Museum of Art, San Bernadino, CA (2017); Black Joy, Yale University, New Haven, CT (2016); We Must Risk Delight, at the Accademia di Belle Arti di Venezia, Venice Biennale (2015); The Silence of Ordinary Things, The Mistake Room, Los Angeles (2015); i:23, The Yokohama Triennial, Yokohama, Japan (2014); An American Water Margin, Ucity Museum, Guangzhou, China (2014); Mass Attack, Torrance Art Museum, Torrance, CA (2013); and Mis-Design, Ian Potter Museum, Melbourne, Australia (2011). Send in a voice message: <a href="https://anchor.fm/jerrygogosian/message" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://anchor.fm/jerrygogosian/message</a>

Jerry Gogosian AM Art Radio Ep. 11 : An Interview with Kenturah Davis 

In this debut episode of the Matthew Brown Los Angeles Podcast, artist Kenturah Davis conducts an interview with artist Diedrick Brackens in a conversation that spans the politics of pandemics, the history and process of Brackens' tapestry weavings, and Brackens' parallel, though lesser-known, practice of basket weaving.Using text as a point of departure, Kenturah Davis explores the fundamental role that language has in shaping how we understand ourselves and the world around us. This manifests in a variety of forms including drawings, photographs and performances. Davis recently opened her first solo institutional exhibition, Everything That Cannot Be Known at the Savannah College of Art and Design Museum (2020). Other solo and two-person exhibitions include Blur in the Interest of Precision, Matthew Brown Los Angeles (2019); a two-person exhibition with Desmond Lewis at Crosstown Arts, Memphis, TN in coordination with the traveling venue, Seed Space (2019); as well as Narratives and Meditations (2014) and sonder (2013) at Papillion, Los Angeles. Davis lives and works between Los Angeles, CA and Accra, Ghana.Diedrick Brackens is best known for his woven tapestries that explore allegory and narrative through the artist’s autobiography, broader themes of African American and queer identity, as well as American history. Recent solo exhibitions include blessed are the mosquitoes, Jack Shainman Gallery, New York (2020); If You Have Ghosts, Alabama Contemporary Art Center, Mobile, AL (2020); Allegiance, University Art Gallery, The University of the South, Sewanee, TN (2019); Diedrick Brackens: darling divined, The New Museum, New York (2019); and unholy ghosts, Various Small Fires, Los Angeles (2019). Brackens lives and works in Los Angeles, CA

In this debut episode of the Matthew Brown Los Angeles Podcast, artist Kenturah Davis conducts an interview with artist Diedrick Brackens in a conversation that spans the politics of pandemics, the history and process of Brackens' tapestry weavings, and Brackens' parallel, though lesser-known, practice of basket weaving.Using text as a point of departure, Kenturah Davis explores the fundamental role that language has in shaping how we understand ourselves and the world around us. This manifests in a variety of forms including drawings, photographs and performances. Davis recently opened her first solo institutional exhibition, Everything That Cannot Be Known at the Savannah College of Art and Design Museum (2020). Other solo and two-person exhibitions include Blur in the Interest of Precision, Matthew Brown Los Angeles (2019); a two-person exhibition with Desmond Lewis at Crosstown Arts, Memphis, TN in coordination with the traveling venue, Seed Space (2019); as well as Narratives and Meditations (2014) and sonder (2013) at Papillion, Los Angeles. Davis lives and works between Los Angeles, CA and Accra, Ghana.Diedrick Brackens is best known for his woven tapestries that explore allegory and narrative through the artist’s autobiography, broader themes of African American and queer identity, as well as American history. Recent solo exhibitions include blessed are the mosquitoes, Jack Shainman Gallery, New York (2020); If You Have Ghosts, Alabama Contemporary Art Center, Mobile, AL (2020); Allegiance, University Art Gallery, The University of the South, Sewanee, TN (2019); Diedrick Brackens: darling divined, The New Museum, New York (2019); and unholy ghosts, Various Small Fires, Los Angeles (2019). Brackens lives and works in Los Angeles, CA