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Category Archive: Interviews

Letters and Souvenirs: Elizabeth Atterbury in conversation with Gordon Hall

A detail of an embossed print of various shapes on white paper. The shapes, which are not inked, include a silhouette of someone smoking a pipe, a palm frond, a tube sock, wavy Xs, zig-zag shapes, geometric curves, and more.
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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.

Gordon Hall January 7, 2021 Interviews, Vol. 6, No. 1: Winter 2021

On Darkness and Desire: Alison Hildreth & Juliet Karelsen in conversation

Alison Hildreth, installation view at SPEEDWELL projects, including "Flight," (front), glass bats, glass elements, carborundum, assorted elements, 4’ x 6’ x 12', as configured 2018.
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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.

Alison Hildreth and Juliet Karelsen January 8, 2019 Interviews, Vol. 4, No. 2: Winter 2019

Ritual Insider/Ritual Outsider: Gina Adams on art & the archive

Installation view of Gina Adams' exhibition, "Its Honor is Hereby Pledged: Broken Treaty Quilts” which ran from June 26—July 22, 2018, in the Jaffe-Friede Gallery at Dartmouth College.
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“I am a fourth-generation quilt maker”: artist Gina Adams talks with critical ethnographer Myron M. Beasley on archaeology, archive, and the arts.

Myron Beasley December 12, 2018 Interviews, Vol. 4, No. 1: Fall 2018

Postcards from Home: on Art Practice, Immigration, & Domestic Work

Carolina González Valencia, from How to Clean a House: a Family Album (2018, Orbis Editions)
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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.

Cecilia Cornejo Sotelo November 26, 2018 Interviews, Vol. 4, No. 1: Fall 2018

Floating Through Silence and Noise: Anna Hepler & Jon Calame’s “Trespasses”

Work by Anna Hepler, from "Trespasses" (Orbis Editions, 2018).
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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.

Hilary Irons October 29, 2018 Interviews, Vol. 4, No. 1: Fall 2018

A View From the Edge of the Earth: Double Vision at the Headlands & Fort Gorges

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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.

Rose Linke October 9, 2018 Interviews, Vol. 4, No. 1: Fall 2018

Making an Appearance: Jocelyn Lee at the Center for Maine Contemporary Art

Jocelyn Lee, Dark Matter 2: Pomegranate and Hosta, 2016.
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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.

Dylan Hausthor July 24, 2018 Interviews, Vol. 3, No. 3: Summer 2018

Tending to the Haints of Malaga Island

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In advance of Myron Beasley’s performative dinner on Malaga Island, Jessica Lynne reflects on trauma and the heartwork it takes to heal.

Jessica Lynne July 6, 2018 Interviews, Vol. 3, No. 3: Summer 2018

“These Works Will Haunt You”: a conversation on the 2018 Portland Museum of Art Biennial

Angela Dufresne (United States, born 1969), Dean Moss, 2017, oil on canvas, 59 1/2 x 78 inches. Courtesy of the artist. © Angela Dufresne. Photo by Luc Demers.
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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.

Myron Beasley, Meghan Brady, Edwige Charlot, Justin Levesque, Veronica A. Perez May 14, 2018 Interviews, Reviews, Vol. 3, No. 2: Spring 2018

In Conversation: Jenna Crowder & Julien Langevin on Nan Goldin at the PMA

Nan Goldin, Suzanne and Mark dancing, Lexington, MA, 1979, Silver-dye bleach print, 21 x 25 inches. Private collection, Houston, TX.
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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.

Graeme Kennedy December 21, 2017 Interviews, Vol. 3, No. 1: Fall 2017/Winter 2018

Putting It In Ink: Sarah Baldwin’s Self-Alteration

Sarah Baldwin, Seedbombvesselportrait, ink on vellum, 4" x 4" each, 2014.
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Clare Tyrell-Morin speaks with Sarah Baldwin about her work in ink in advance of her new collaborative installation, Influx, in Biddeford.

Clare Tyrrell-Morin September 14, 2017 Interviews, Vol. 2, No. 4: Summer 2017

Scholarship, Power, & the Agency of Place: Beth Finch on Marsden Hartley’s Maine

Hall of the Mountain King, ca. 1908-9, Oil on canvas, 30 x 30 in. (76.2 x 76.2 cm). Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art, Bentonville, Arkansas 2010.94
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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.

Jenna Crowder August 25, 2017 Interviews, Vol. 2, No. 4: Summer 2017

Presence + Polarization: Natalie Bookchin’s Portraits of America

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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.

Eden Osucha May 4, 2017 Interviews, Vol. 2, No. 3: Spring 2017

Opening Up at the Center for Maine Contemporary Art

The Center for Maine Contemporary Art, designed by Toshiko Mori. Photo: Jim Dugan Photography.
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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.

Jenna Crowder October 27, 2016 Interviews, Vol. 2, No. 1: Fall 2016

Sociopolitical Printmaking: In Conversation with Tim Fite

Tim Fite.
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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.

Meg Hahn August 26, 2016 Interviews, Vol. 1, No. 9: August 2016

Ann Hirsch, IRL

Still from Frank the Entertainer... in a Basement Affair on VH1.
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Ann Hirsch will probably defy most expectations of a feminist artist thinking about gender, social media, and the implications of shame and display.

Jenna Crowder August 11, 2016 Interviews, Vol. 1, No. 9: August 2016

The ABCs of Consumer Culture: American Optimism at Able Baker Contemporary

Installation view of American Optimism at Able Baker Contemporary.
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Meg Hahn talks with Able Baker Contemporary’s co-owners Stephen Benenson and Hilary Irons about the space and its current exhibition, American Optimism.

Meg Hahn July 20, 2016 Interviews, Vol. 1, No. 8: June/July 2016

Predicting Future Weather: an interview with Anna Wolfe-Pauly & Erin Colleen Johnson

Anna Wolfe-Pauly, Future Weather, 2016.
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“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.

Jenna Crowder July 8, 2016 Initiatives, Interviews, Vol. 1, No. 8: June/July 2016

Institutional Invisibility: Jessica Hankey’s Women’s Club

Jessica Hankey, Women’s Club (act II), 12 min, HD video still, 2015.
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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

Erin Johnson April 1, 2016 Interviews, Vol. 1, No. 7: April/May 2016

Listen! Do You See That? Episode 2: Because of Ruski’s

New York Construction Workers Lunching on a Crossbeam
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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.

npilar March 3, 2016 Interviews, Podcasts, Vol. 1, No. 6: March 2016

Seeking the Spark: a tinderbox at the Institute for Contemporary Art

Foreground: Adam Manley, We love to wait in lines, wood and mixed media, 2016, and (background) the "Public Aggregation Area".
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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.

Veronica Perez January 28, 2016 Interviews, Vol. 1, No. 5: February 2016

Towing the Green Line: Justin Levesque’s ICELANDx207

Justin Levesque, Bridge: Ship Motions, archival pigment print, 18” x 18”, 2015.
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Benjamin Spalding talks with Justin Levesque about ICELANDx207, a project investigating economic, geographic, and cultural spaces between Maine and Iceland.

Benjamin Spalding January 28, 2016 Initiatives, Interviews, Vol. 1, No. 5: February 2016

Diving into 2016! But first, our top posts from 2015

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A look back at our first handful of issues with our top three posts of 2015.

The Chart January 3, 2016 Essays, Interviews, Studio Visits

Interview: Robin Peckham on the contemporary Chinese art scene

“Art Post-Internet” at the Ullens Center for Contemporary Art (UCCA), Beijing. Image courtesy of UCCA.
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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

Clare Tyrrell-Morin December 4, 2015 Interviews, Vol. 1, No. 4: December 2015/January 2016

IN CONVERSATION with Richard & Alexis Iammarino

Left: Richard Iammarino, Big Yellow, 50" x 50", 2015. Photo by Scott Sell. Right: Iammarino, Unterhalter, and Truhn, Oak Street Mural (detail).
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Rockland artists Richard Iammarino (painter & sculptor) and Alexis Iammarino (painter & dancer) discuss their father-daughter influences, spontaneity, mastery, and compulsion. by Douglas W. Milliken

Douglas Milliken September 29, 2015 Interviews, Vol. 1, No. 2: October 2015

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