Jonas Mekas: Filming Independence
New Social Environment 208: Sarah Crowner with Tom McGlynn
Ai Weiwei and Paul D. Miller: New Social Environment #200
Willem Dafoe & Robert Wilson with Charles Shafaieh: New Social Environment #195
Painter, collage artist, and old friend of the Rail Margrit Lewczuk joins us from a borrowed barn studio in Vermont where she's been sheltering in place for the summer and allowing the outside world into her work in Weekend Journal #49. Lewczuk takes us through her collage and sketching processes as well as the ways that she finds inspiration—in this case from a 🦋 that flew into her studio, an important exercise in spontaneity and openness. Thank you for this visit Margrit!
Video by Claire Horvath 🎥 #MargritLewczuk #ClaireHorvath
Artist Azikiwe Mohammed (@misterace12) joins us with glitter, tigers, history, and sound effects from his studio for Weekend Journal #48. Mohammed shows us a recent series of paintings dealing with the Zong Massacre of 1781 as well as NYC in 2020, talks about some recent installations, and discusses his views on the relationship between Black Americans and the sunset hours.
Thank you for this generous visit Azikiwe!
Azikiwe Mohammed’s artwork has been shown in galleries both nationally and internationally. A 2005 graduate of Bard College, where he studied photography and fine arts, Mohammed received the Art Matters Grant in 2015 and the Rema Hort Mann Emerging Artist Grant in 2016. He is an alumnus of Pioneer Works in Brooklyn, New York, and Mana Contemporary in Jersey City, New Jersey. His work has been featured extensively in magazines, including VICE, I-D, Artforum, Forbes, BOMB and Hyperallergic. Mohammed has presented a number of solo exhibitions in venues including the Knockdown Center, Maspeth, New York; SCAD Museum of Art, Savannah, GA; Ace Hotel Chicago, Illinois; IDIO Gallery, Brooklyn, New York; Mindy Solomon Gallery, Miami, FL and Anna Zorina Gallery, New York, NY; as well as multiple solo offerings at Spring Break Art Show, New York. He has participated in group exhibitions at MoMa PS1, Queens, New York; Antenna Gallery, New Orleans, Louisiana; Charlie James Gallery, Los Angeles, California and the Studio Museum in Harlem, New York, among others. He lives in New York and currently has his studio at Mana Contemporary.
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On-the-Spot with Bill Jensen
Painter Bill Jensen joins us from the farm where he has been sheltering-in-place this summer in Weekend Journal #46. Bill takes us through his tent-studio, the philosophies of nature and material that his practice is rooted in, and shows us a few of the drawings he's been working on out among the trees. Featuring a guest appearance by Bosco the dog and two alpacas 🦙🤩 Thank you for the visit Bill!
Bill Jensen (b. 1945) is a painter who has been based in Williamsburg since the early seventies. He came into prominence with “the return to painting” of the late 70’s and early 80’s. Intuitive and visceral, Jensen’s abstractions have long been admired for their unconventional compositions and profound sense of color. Saturated, densely worked surfaces, seemingly primordial in origin, transcend any sense of the struggle that Jensen attributes to his painting process. Jensen's work is in the collections of the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, the Phillips Collection, Washington, D. C. and the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, California.
#billjensen thanks to Margrit Lewczuck for filming
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Our friends Martha Tuttle (@marthatuttle) and Sarah Faux (@fauxsarah) curated a sale of works on paper to support @walkthewalk2020, an organization that resources local voter registration efforts in swing states—one of the best ways to ensure that the results of this election truly reflect the needs of the people. The stakes of the upcoming election continue to rise and the work that grassroots organizers are doing to register voters in communities that are consistently left out of the electoral process is more crucial than ever.
The sale opens today at @drawernyc, you can find the direct link to purchase works through the link in their bio. The benefit includes works by an incredible lineup of artists: @keezukam #andreageyer @annabeth_marks @annntone @antonia.kuo @skybluekite @carrie.moyer.studio @chiefueki @cipzhewes @cequarles @ckh7ckh7 @claytopia675 @danalokokay @doronlangberg @erinmriley @estobaca @evannesbit @felipebaeza @gmercedescf @haley.josephs @misterstella @heidihoward @henryachapman @that_ivy @onwardsteadfast @jordankaseyjordankasey @jo_halvo @kathebradford @lianafinck #louisfratino @m.florido @delosangelesart @lorenzmarie @darthgibson @marthatuttle @matt_kleberg @soupy_matrix @michael_as_if_ @nathlie.provosty @padmavathy_r @patsteir @rubyskystiler @sammesserstudio @samevernon @fauxsarah @netrabile.art @toddbienvenu @zcwalsh
Many thanks to Martha and Sarah for mobilizing the art community to help protect our democracy.
Video editing by Ashraf Ridal (@shraf_usa)
Walk the Walk graphics by Brett Cody Rogers (@BrettCodyrogers_studio)
Artist Minjung Kim (@minjung_kim_art) joins us from her home/studio/garden in the south of France to round out a very art-as-nature weekend, in Weekend Journals #47. Kim draws a strong line between her garden harvest and her art practice, which is deeply tied to the natural qualities of the paper she uses. As she says, finishing a work is like a harvest, it isn't done until the food nourishes a person. 🐓🌿 Thank you for this visit from your peaceful enclave Minjung.
Minjung Kim (b. 1962) is a contemporary Korean artist best known for her ink paintings by their transparency as well as her subtle formal compositions on layered paper. Kim particularly has gained a remarkable attention at the exhibition ‘The Light, The Shade, The Depth’ held in Palazzo Caboto during the Venice Biennale in 2015. She has exhibited at prominent worldwide museums and galleries, such as Princeton University Art Museum, New Jersey, USA (2020); Langen Foundation, Neuss, Germany (2019); Gwangju Museum of Art, Gwangju, Korea (2018); Musée des Arts Asiatiques, Nice, France (2017); Hermès Foundation, Singapore (2017). Her work is represented in numerous international public collections including the British Museum, London, UK; Leeum, Samsung Museum of Art, Seoul, Korea; Musée des Arts Asiatiques, Nice, France; Fundación Helga de Alvear, Cáceres, Sapin. She currently lives and works between France and the United States.
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This video was shot and edited Gautier Ferrero, with additional editing by the Rail staff.
Interdisciplinary, ecologically-focused artist Mark Dion gives us a tour around his home/studio in upstate New York, discussing about how his practice has changed over the last 6 months, some of the ways it's stayed consistent, and shows off a newly installed project @thomascolesite. Thank you Mark for this little portrait of your world!
Mark Dion is an artist whose work examines the ways in which dominant ideologies and public institutions shape our understanding of history, knowledge, and the natural world. His work has been exhibited widely, solo exhibitions include Mark Dion: Follies, at Storm King Sculpture Park (2019), Misadventures of a 21st Century Naturalist at the Institute of Contemporary Art Boston (2017), Mark Dion: The Academy of Things at The Academy of Fine Arts Design in Dresden, Germany (2014), The Macabre Treasury at Museum Het Domein in Sittard, The Netherlands (2013), among others. Dion has received numerous awards, including the ninth annual Larry Aldrich Foundation Award (2001) The Joan Mitchell Foundation Award (2007) and the Smithsonian American Art Museum’s Lucida Art Award (2008). He is a professor at Columbia University. @tanyabonakdargallery #markdion