Get Into The Artist's Process
A Conversation with Filmmaker, Ron Craigby Lizzetta LeFalle-Collins (March 2009) Filmmaker, Ron Craig's film, Searching for York, really started when he was a young man in a Portland, OR Boy Scout troop. He pondered, “Who is that Black man standing next to Clark?” (of the Lewis and Clark Corp of Discovery team) MORE... | |
I came here to play in a town I knew little about. A Conversation with Devin Phillipsby Lizzetta LeFalle-Collins (March 2009) Portland friends invited my husband and I to a local jazz club to hear Devin Phillips. Once hearing and meeting him, I invited him to have a conversation with me for OD-CAP. Devin leads New Orleans Straight Ahead Jazz Band and two other bands. He came to Portland by way of Hurricane Katrina in New Orleans and has an interesting story to tell and a thoughtful perspective on jazz and his embrace of the music. MORE... | |
Artist in Focus: Bright Ekeby Bisi Silva (February 2009) In 2005 during a curatorial research visit to the University of Nigeria, Nsukka for the 2006 Dak’Art Biennale, Bright Eke was one of the artists whose work seemed compelling. Eke’s focus has been one of the topical issues in recent times; the environment and man’s gradual destruction of the ecosystem. Bisi Silva MORE... | |
Finding J. B. Blunk: A Conversation with Mariah Nielson on Establishing an Artist Residencyby Aimée C. Reed (October 2008) It was through a mutual friend that I recently came to know Mariah Nielson, Founder and Director of the J. B. Blunk Artist Residency in Inverness, CA. Nielson is the daughter of the artist J. B. Blunk, an artist who had created an impressive amount of works, mainly sculpture, but also including ceramics and jewelry as well. Blunk is best known for his massive redwood sculptures, such as “The Planet”, 1969, which is installed at the Oakland Art Museum in Oakland, California. MORE... | |
The World of Loren Hollandby Michele Elizabeth Lee, Visual Arts Curator, California African American Museum (September 2008) “My goal in making a painting is to get people to look at it and maybe see something they didn’t know before and want to keep looking at it until they see something else, and keep looking at it until they get what they can get from it.” Loren Holland on painting 09-09-08. MORE... | |
A Conversation with Alonzo Davis on his Artist Residency in Beijing, China August 9, 2008by Lizzetta LeFalle-Collins (September 2008) Artist and co-founder of the Brockman Gallery in Los Angeles in 1967, Alonzo Davis never stopped creating art. Closing the Brockman in 1990 he continues to exhibit and has consistently been awarded commissions to create public/site specific works. He has also been awarded a number of artist residencies and a conversation with him regarding his most recent artist residency in Beijing, China is included in the Artists at Work section. MORE... | |
A Conversation with Bryant Terryby Lizzetta LeFalle-Collins (June 2008) Conversation with eco-chef, food justice activist, and co-author of Grub: Ideas for an Urban, Organic Kitchen, Bryant Terry. Bryant is currently a W. K. Kellogg Foundation Food Society Fellow and a regular contributor to www.theroot.com. MORE... | |
A Conversation with Olabisiby Shiree Dyson (June 2008) Olabisi "Bisi" Silva is an independent curator and the founder and director of her alternative space the Center for Contemporary Arts in Newpa Lagos, Nigeria. She was one of the three curators for Artes Mundi 3 in 2007 at the National Museum Cardiff and who also co-curated the Dakar Biennale in 2006. MORE... | |
Food for Thoughtby Aimee Crystina Reed (February 2008) FOOD FOR THOUGHT is a look at three young artists, Crystal Liu, Tim Sullivan and Takako Tanabe, who are using either the subjectivity or the objectivity of food as a deeper look into the various aspects of our daily lives.
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A Conversation with Ulysses Jenkinsby Lizzetta LeFalle-Collins (February 2008) I had a conversation and exchanged emails with Ulysses Jenkins about the topic of race and/in digital space. I asked Jenkins to explain his early efforts with computer-based imaging and to discuss this so-called race-blind digital environment. MORE... | |
Race and Digital Spaceby Lizzetta LeFalle-Collins (February 2008) The OD-CAP audience of users is an intimate one and one of OD-CAP’s successes is that it has given its contributors a voice and a sense of community on the web. During 2008, OD-CAP is investigating race and digital space. Since our interest at OD-CAP is on art, our contributors have focused on how artists have embraced different digital technologies and how they are getting their work out to larger and crossover audiences that they may not have been able to reach in more traditional museum and gallery exhibition models.
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A Conversation with Deborah Stokes, Curator for Africa[dot] com.: Drums 2 Digitalby Lizzetta LeFalle-Collins (February 2008) Returning to the Bay Area, I had a meeting at the Museum of the African Diaspora (MoAD) in San Francisco, CA. There I saw their latest exhibition entitled Africa [dot] com: Drums 2 Digital. The exhibition information states that the show “presents a look at the uses of digital technology in the art and social life of Africa’s first digital generation”. While at the museum, I met Deborah Stokes, the guest curator for the show. We discussed the show and the broader issues related to the technological transformations in Africa. MORE... | |
20 Questions Fahamu Pecouby Nicole J. Caruth (January 2008) Nicole J. Caruth asks Fahamu Pecou about his series, The Shit. "Why not use the tricks-of-the-trade from my life as a graphic designer? At the time, I was designing a lot of the promotional collateral for hip hop artists, and clubs, etc." MORE... | |
Conversation with Nekisha Durrettby Jaime Lowe (November 2007) On August 17, 2007 I had the pleasure of sitting down with graphic artist, Nekisha Durrett. She met with me at a café in downtown Washington, D.C. and spoke with me about her work, her process, and where she thinks she will go from here. MORE... | |
A Visit and Conversation with Leslie K Priceby Lizzetta LeFalle-Collins (October 2007) Driving out of Oregon down Highway 5, I crossed over to the Pacific Coast at Grants Pass, OR, on the Redwood Highway. Aptly named, redwoods soared above me on each side of the highway—and then I came to the Pacific Ocean at Crescent City, CA. It was good to see the ocean again. MORE... | |
On & Off the Record: Talking to Modou Diengby Nicole Caruth (August 2007) From Chuck Berry to Bob Sinclar, Rodin to Warhol, Bono to James Brown, Dieng's vinyl record sculptures were the launch pad for a wide-ranging dialogue concerning individual and aesthetic notions of resistance and transformation in art, fashion, and music. MORE... | |
Identity and History: Personal and Social Narratives in Art in Jamaicaby Eddie Chambers (August 2007) When it comes to art in Jamaica, everything is history and everything is identity. Or at least, art in Jamaica can be read through the prism of these complimentary notions. Art in Jamaica is rich with complex narratives reflective of the country's incredible history. MORE... | |
Conversation: David Damoisonby Lizzetta LeFalle-Collins (June 2007) The Museum of the African Diaspora (MoAD) invited Paris-born Martiniquean photographer David Damoison to San Francisco for three weeks to conduct photography classes for youth at the African American Art and Cultural Complex also in San Francisco. MORE... | |
Studio Visit: lava thomasby Lizzetta LeFalle-Collins (June 2007) I visited lava sharing tea and baked delights as we talked about children in college (and how we'd be happy once they graduated), our experience at UCLA, a place to work of our own, museums, and of course her work. I was first introduced to lava's ceramic works of supple and flawless interpretations of biomorphic forms before my visit to her Mission studio but over the last few years, I have become more intrigued with her drawings of hair. MORE... | |
Studio Visit: Mildred Howardby Lizetta LeFalle-Collins (June 2007) On her broad studio table the various components of her assemblages were coming together but there were still questions. Coming to Howard's studio is a ritual that I have repeated since I moved up to the San Francisco Bay Area sixteen years ago. It is part of my process in understanding her work. MORE... | |
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Artists At Work
"During my years of curating, I wondered how and when I could return to creating art rather than writing about it. Since the mid-1980’s the world has changed…the Internet has taken hold in so many ways that were unimaginable by most of us then. I created Open Door-Contemporary Art Projects (OD-CAP) as a way to continue to work with artists but to also as an opportunity to work as an artist again. "
–Lizzetta Lefalle-Collins, Ph.D
Watch this space for conversations and studio visits with artists that you won't find anywhere else on the web. We debut with these text-and-image features, but in the near future we will also be including audio and video content. Also check with us often as we'll be opening up this area of the site as a crossroads for commentary and questions for and about these artists and their work. |
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