On the occasion of Elizabeth Atterbury’s solo exhibition at DOCUMENT, Atterbury speaks with Gordon Hall about the connections between object-making and death, arrangements and memorials.
Category Archive: Interviews
Artists Alison Hildreth and Juliet Karelsen discuss the twin concepts of darkness and nature on the occasion of their consecutive exhibitions at Speedwell projects this winter.
“I am a fourth-generation quilt maker”: artist Gina Adams talks with critical ethnographer Myron M. Beasley on archaeology, archive, and the arts.
Cecilia Cornejo Sotelo speaks with Carolina González Valencia about her new publication, How to Clean a House: A Family Album, a 20-page book of postcards that combines instructions on how to clean someone’s house as a domestic worker with milestones from the migration experience of the artist’s family.
Hilary Irons speaks with Anna Hepler and Jon Calame on their forthcoming artist book, “Trespasses,” in an interview that plays with the “danger and slippage” of both written and visual languages.
The first in a series of interviews in collaboration with Orbis Editions, Rose Linke speaks with Double Vision artists Andrea Steves, Francois Hughes, and Yulia Pinkusevich on their work and research that connects the military histories of the Marin Headlands and Fort Gorges.
Jocelyn Lee’s solo show at CMCA explores the nature of life and death and vanity. In an interview with Lee, Dylan Hausthor wonders if and how feminism, symbolism, and performance inform her work.
In advance of Myron Beasley’s performative dinner on Malaga Island, Jessica Lynne reflects on trauma and the heartwork it takes to heal.
Mimicking the collaborative nature of the Biennial’s curation, five cultural producers in Maine gather in conversation to model the critical potential in slow looking, multiple reads, and shared dialogue.
Graeme Kennedy, in a series of community discussions, speaks with The Chart Editor Jenna Crowder and Julien Langevin about the complexities of Nan Goldin at the Portland Museum of Art.
Clare Tyrell-Morin speaks with Sarah Baldwin about her work in ink in advance of her new collaborative installation, Influx, in Biddeford.
Beth Finch, Lunder Curator of American Art at the Colby College Museum of Art, speaks about what Marsden Hartley’s Maine can tell us about how we understand historical legacy and scholarship can shape the contemporary art world.
Eden Osucha speaks with filmmaker Natalie Bookchin about the phenomenon of video self-portraiture in the internet age, and what it means for resistance and identity.
Center for Maine Contemporary Art’s Executive Director and Chief Curator Suzette McAvoy reflects on CMCA’s new presence in Rockland, opening the space to new and wider audiences, and how she envisions CMCA’s role in defining the contexts of Maine art.
Tim Fite is a musician and printmaker in residence this summer at SPACE Studios and Pickwick Independent Press. Meg Hahn talks with him about the the idea of foundational printmaking as process, performative drawing, and his relationship to rap and visual art.
Ann Hirsch will probably defy most expectations of a feminist artist thinking about gender, social media, and the implications of shame and display.
Meg Hahn talks with Able Baker Contemporary’s co-owners Stephen Benenson and Hilary Irons about the space and its current exhibition, American Optimism.
“You can’t push it away. You can’t go under. You have to be in it.” Anna Wolfe-Pauly and Erin Colleen Johnson talk about Wolfe-Pauly’s project for the series A Long Wait happening on Fort Gorges this summer.
Jessica Hankey’s photographic and video work on non-profits, community centers, clubs, and museums, investigates institutions and the relationships that constitute them. Using documentary and narrative filmmaking strategies, she investigates the unstable relationship between location, image, and perception. by Erin Colleen Johnson
In this episode, npilar interview Ruski’s Tavern owner Monica about the art on the walls of our favorite neighborhood bar. They discuss holograms, autographs, a toe calendar, and Bob Saget.
Veronica A. Perez sits down with Kyle Patnaude to discuss his curation of “tinderbox” at the ICA at MECA and the role of the curator and artist in sparking tangible social change.
Benjamin Spalding talks with Justin Levesque about ICELANDx207, a project investigating economic, geographic, and cultural spaces between Maine and Iceland.
A look back at our first handful of issues with our top three posts of 2015.
Beijing-based Robin Peckham discusses his Maine roots, his journey to Beijing’s 798 arts district as a student, and his reflections on Chinese art now. by Clare Tyrrell-Morin
Rockland artists Richard Iammarino (painter & sculptor) and Alexis Iammarino (painter & dancer) discuss their father-daughter influences, spontaneity, mastery, and compulsion. by Douglas W. Milliken