Artists in their studios talk about life and art while doing the host’s makeup. Season One looks at artists affiliated with the University of Chicago’s Department of Visual Arts.
Airing Thursdays at 6:30pm
Episode 1: July 3, 2014
Danny catches up with the ever-amazing Dado as she talks about her life on the stage, sculptural epiphanies, and her upcoming MFA thesis show.
http://dadosite.com/
https://dova.uchicago.edu/
http://arts.uchicago.edu/logan/gallery
“Funeral for Ortolan”
Logan Center Gallery and Grey Center Lab
Exhibition Dates: April 11 — May 9, 2014
Reception — Saturday, April 12, 2014 at 6pm
Performance by Dado – TBD
Artists:
Dado, Danny Volk, Tucker Rae Grant, Jinn Bronwen Lee, Ramyar Vala
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Created and hosted by: Danny Volk
Produced by: Danny Volk, Stephanie Anne Harris Trevor
Cameras: Bryce Peppers, Valia O’Donnell
Technical consultant: Ben Chandler
MUwDV theme music:
“Comic Strip” by Serge Gainsbourg remixed by DJ Flashcookie
http://www.loveismylene.com/
https://soundcloud.com/flashcookie
Episode 2: July 10, 2014
Richard sits down and shares with Danny his fear of commitment, secret love of make-up, and a bit of whisky.
http://culturehall.com/richard_williamson
http://ttttterminal.biz/
https://dova.uchicago.edu/
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Created and hosted by: Danny Volk
Produced by: Danny Volk, Stephanie Anne Harris Trevor
Cameras: Bryce Peppers, Valia O’Donnell
Technical consultant: Ben Chandler
MUwDV theme music:
“Comic Strip” by Serge Gainsbourg remixed by DJ Flashcookie
http://www.loveismylene.com/
https://soundcloud.com/flashcookie
Episode 3: July 17, 2014
Zachary Harvey has a lot to teach us: fur-sonas, duck-face peace-signs, poking at paintings? What’s THIS guy?!
Check out the inaugural exhibition, Open Relationship, curated by Danny Volk at Zachary’s new space, The Honey Hole.
https://www.facebook.com/events/1433093003600940/
http://spectiveretro.com/
http://instagram.com/duckfacepeacesign
https://www.facebook.com/TheHoneyHoleChicago
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Created and hosted by: Danny Volk
Produced by: Danny Volk, Stephanie Anne Harris Trevor
Cameras: Bryce Peppers, Valia O’Donnell
Technical consultant: Ben Chandler
MUwDV theme music:
“Comic Strip” by Serge Gainsbourg remixed by DJ Flashcookie
http://www.loveismylene.com/
https://soundcloud.com/flashcookie
Episode 4: July 24, 2014
Scott Wolniak talks with Danny about his process, turning garage galleries into studios, and fruit murder.
See his show at Valerie Carberry now through May 31st and be sure to check out the newly available archive from his 1999-2004 alternative exhibition space, Suitable Gallery.
http://scottwolniak.com
http://suitablearchive.com/
http://vimeo.com/scottwolniak/videos
http://valeriecarberry.com/wolniak-fields.php
Scott Wolniak is a multidisciplinary artist who’s work in drawing, painting, sculpture and video explores ontological questions rooted in everyday life. Labor intensive craft and humble materials are utilized, along with a combination of manual and automated techniques, to create hybrid forms that blur distinctions between found and made. Recent projects have explored the relationship of damage and beauty, with on-going themes such as humor and the sublime, nature, geology, phenomenology, metaphysics, the apocalypse and relentless positivity.
Wolniak has exhibited at the Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago; the Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago Cultural Center; Hyde Park Art Center, Valerie Carberry Gallery, Spencer Brownstone Gallery, Peres Projects, Andrew Rafacz Gallery, 65Grand, and Judith Racht Gallery, among others. His work has been reviewed in ArtForum, Art in America and Art News, and featured in New American Paintings.
Wolniak received a BFA from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago in 1995, and MFA from the School of Art and Architecture, University of Illinois at Chicago in 2002. He recently received the Janel M. Mueller Award for Excellence in Pedagogy.
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Created and hosted by: Danny Volk
Produced by: Danny Volk, Stephanie Anne Harris Trevor
Cameras: Bryce Peppers, Valia O’Donnell
Audio: Bryce Peppers
MUwDV theme music:
“Comic Strip” by Serge Gainsbourg remixed by DJ Flashcookie
http://www.loveismylene.com/
https://soundcloud.com/flashcookie
Episode 5: July 31, 2014
An American Flag is used as a drop-cloth to catch the blood oozing off Danny’s face, Anais assigns her students manual labor, and whiskey.
http://www.johallaprojects.com/if-i-had-my-life
https://dova.uchicago.edu/
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Created and hosted by: Danny Volk
Produced by: Danny Volk, Stephanie Anne Harris Trevor
Cameras: Zoe Petticord and Nicole Cherry
Technical consultant: Ben Chandler
MUwDV theme music:
“Comic Strip” by Serge Gainsbourg remixed by DJ Flashcookie
http://www.loveismylene.com/
https://soundcloud.com/flashcookie