Episode 49: on-off.site with co-founders Stephanie Garcés & Stephanie Smith

This week we have two new guests on the podcast: Stephanie Garcés,
Education and Community Engagement Coordinator at SFMOMA & Stephanie Smith, Director of Content and Creative Strategy at CCA. Today you’ll hear them both discuss on-off.site, a creative collective focused on experimentation, collaboration and inclusion.

Be sure to submit to on-off.site‘s #callforart, which is open to individuals and collectives who are fully or partially based in the Bay Area. ⁠In response to #COVID-19, this project shares creative practices and offers opportunities for direct-to-artist donations.

️Visit on-off.site/artists/holding-space to learn more⁠. #HoldingSpace

To learn more about on-off.site website at www.on-off.site or follow them on Instagram.

Stephanie Garcés
(Image courtesy of on-off.site)
Stephanie Smith
(Image courtesy of on-off.site)
(Image courtesy of on-off.site)
(Image courtesy of on-off.site)
(Image courtesy of on-off.site)
(Image courtesy of on-off.site)
(Image courtesy of on-off.site)

Episode 48: Luca Atonucci #3

Luca Antonucci (co-founder of Colpa Press) is back on the podcast this week to talk about the projects Colpa Press is working on during the quarantine and the current state of the 2020 SF Art Book Fair. He also discusses new features to look forward to at the art book fair.

Luca Antonucci, co-founder of Colpa Press
OCULTAS – Luca Antonucci and David Kasprzak
 Video Paintings – M.Jensen
The Art of Computer Designing: A Black and White Approach – Osamu Sato

Episode 47: Christo Oropeza #2

This week Christo is back on the podcast to talk about his new role at SFMOMA & Incline Gallery’s 9th anniversary show at anälog gallery. We also just check in with each other and see how we are dealing with the COVID-19 self quarantine. 

Follow SFMOMA on Instagram @sfmoma to see what they are up to during the shutdown with #museumfromhome.

Visit inclinegallerysf.com to learn more about the gallery’s 9th anniversary show at anälog gallery.

Christo front of his mural titled “whatever the work may be” 2019 with his Parents Cenobio and Rosario Oropeza
Artist dropping off artwork at the 9th year anniversary. (From left to right : Alán Miknis, Gina Contreras, and Gallery director at anälog gallery, Don Ross)

Episode 46: Cléa Massiani #2

New episode with Cléa Massiani, curator & exhibition coordinator at Creativity Explored. We discuss the quarantine, the recent closure of the San Francisco Art Institute and the work that Creativity Explored does in the Bay Area art community.

Episode 45: Jamil Hellu

Today’s guest is Jamil Hellu, visual artist based in the Bay Area whose work deals with issues of identity relating to race, queer sexuality, and gender. We discuss his path to becoming an artist and how his art practice has grown over the years. 

Jamil’s solo show titled Together is on exhibit at SF Camerawork through March 14th. For more info visit: https://sfcamerawork.org/exhibitions. To learn more about Jamil and his work visit his website at https://jamilhellu.net.

Music by Obed Padilla (https://soundcloud.com/obedpadilla).

Jamil Hellu
Jamil Hellu
“100 Years of Solitude,” 2014 In response to the anti-LGBTQ law passed in Russia in 2013, and Moscow’s ruling to block permissions to organize pride parades for the next 100 years.
“Rider,” 2016
“By wearing my grandmother’s rebozo on my head, I celebrate not only my ancestral maternal tradition but my own feminine expression of the mother goddess within,” affirms Lorenzo Lambertino, a Mexican of Lebanese heritage. Hues Project, 2018.
“Jamil Hellu: Together” at SF Camerawork, 2020. (Image credit: Senny Mau)
“Jamil Hellu: Together” at SF Camerawork, 2020. (Image credit: Senny Mau)

Episode 44: Joe Yorty

Today’s guest is Joe Yorty, artist and co-founder of Best Practice, an alternative art space in San Diego. Joe discusses his background in the Navy, his art practice and the work he is doing with Best Practice which he co-runs with his fellow co-founder, Allie Mundt.

The current show at Best Practice is titled Rosas y Nopales, featuring work by Armando De La Torre. It runs through November 16, 2019. Visit their website at practicebest.org for more information. You can also follow them on Instagram @bestpracticeok.

JOE YORTY
(photo credit – Noé Olivas)
JOE YORTY
Works installed in the MCASD exhibition Being Here with You/ Estando aquí contigo; 42 Artists from San Diego and Tijuana
September 20, 2018 – February 3, 2019
Allie Mundt & Joe Yorty
Cofounders of Best Practice
JOSH TONIES
Songs and Views of the Holocene Garden
installed at Best Practice from February 9 – March 9, 2019
CHANTAL WNUK
I Dreamt of a Perfect Ocean, I Dreamt of Stepping in a Hole
installed at Best Practice from May 4 – June 1, 2019

Episode 43: Rio Yañez #2

Rio Yañez is back on the pod to talk about two recent projects he’s been working on. The first is a current exhibition at the Thacher Gallery at the University of San Francisco titled Studio Misión: The Artist Studio as Medium by René Yañez. The focus of the exhibition is the world and creative process of Rio’s father René Yañez during his final years from 2016 to 2018. The second is this year’s Día de Los Muertos exhibition at SOMARTS titled City of Souls. Curated by both Rio and Carolina Quintanilla, this year’s exhibition features work to honor and manifest Rio’s father and founding curator Rene Yañez’s vision for his final Día de Los Muertos exhibition, titled City of Souls, a reference to his 2001 exhibition City of Miracles.

For more info on Studio Misión visit https://www.usfca.edu/thacher-gallery.

For more info on City of Souls visit https://www.somarts.org

Rio Yañez
Studio Misión: The Artist Studio as Medium by René Yañez at the Thacher Gallery at USF
Studio Misión at the USF Thacher Gallery
The Great Tortilla Conspiracy at Studio Misión
City of Souls, 2019 Dia de Los Muertos exhibition at SOMARTS

Episode 42: Current Seen

The podcast is back and with a special new episode. Today’s guest is Bleu Cease, Executive Director of the Rochester Contemporary Art Center who is on to discuss Current Seen, an upcoming biennial in Rochester, NY dedicated to supporting small and mid-sized venues who are committed to advancing the region’s art community. 

Current Seen opens October 4th and runs through November 17th. For more info on programming and events visit www.currentseen.org.

You can also follow the biennial on Instagram at @currentseenroc.