Michael Williams

Listen in to CKUT today for the July edition of ASAH. 

Michael Williams is a New York-based painter who has an exhibition up at the Montreal Museum of Fine Arts: Yard Salsa is a collection of large-scale works in which the digital collides with the painterly. 

Williams, Man, 2015

I spoke with Michael on the eve of the show's opening, so we'll here our chat.

Also on the program today: Naum Gabo and The Realistic Manifesto. And more!

A Roundup

While the blog lay dormant, Art Scene and Heard has continued to air monthly on CKUT 90.3FM. Since April of this year, the program expanded to a duration 1 hour.

A few highlights from the past few months of broadcasts:

In December, we aired a lecture given by photographer Jamel Shabazz at McGill University earlier in the fall.

In March, we dug up interviews from around the web: one with painter Kerry James Marshall and another with photographer Benoit Aquin.

In April, we had artists Edith Brunette and François Lemieux live in studio to discuss their exhibition Cuts Make the Country Better.

In May, we heard an archival recording of Georg Baselitz performing The Painter's Equipment.

In June, we played an interview I recorded with artists Bismark Villacrés and Danielle Matte, participants in cultural mediation project Tandem Créatif.

Voilà! 

Baselitz, Rebel, 1965

Hanging Out on Ontario Street

For November: an interview with François Morelli! He recently presented an exhibition called Volute at the Joyce Yahouda gallery.

As always, catch the show live, November 6th, or download it from the archives at ckut.ca.

installation view of Volute (photo: Guy L'Heureux)

The Idiot Looks at the Finger...

For the October edition of ASAH, I spoke with artist Jessica Houston.
Listen live on October 2nd, or download/stream it from the CKUT archives at your leisure! Hear her talk about her projects, Flatland, the light in Italy, and more.

Jessica Houston's Full Spectrum (with reflections); image courtesy of the artist

Ateliers Portes Ouvertes 2014

Coming up soon: the 4th edition of the Ateliers Portes Ouvertes - September 12-13-14, 2014. All around the Mile End, artists will be welcoming the public into their studios to check out their work and chat.

For the September edition of ASAH, I spoke with 3 participating artists who have studios in the 5445 avenue de Gaspé building.

Suzanne Joos, Beth Frey and Caroline Steele talked to me about their work & their thoughts on the upcoming event.

Tune in to CKUT on September 4th at 2:30pm to hear them, and be sure to do some studio-hopping during the Ateliers Portes Ouvertes.

Segments in English & French.

studio of Caroline Steele

Beth Frey, from Pink Aisle, exhibition at Galerie Rats 9, 2014

atelier de Suzanne Joos

QOULEUR Collective

Tune in tomorrow, August 7th at 2:30pm 2:00pm to hear an interview with members of the QOULEUR Collective, a group of artists and activists based here in Montreal. Their annual festival, celebrating the identities and experiences of two-spirited, indigenous, queer, gay, lesbian, bisexual and trans* people of colour, is on now, and includes an exhibition that will run at articule until August 10th. Check out their website for the full schedule of events.

Catching up...

ASAH is alive and well. Just to recap, the June 5th edition of the show featured an interview with film director Andrew Neel. (You can still listen to it through CKUT's archives.) We spoke about his excellent documentary on Alice Neel, one of the great portrait painters of the 20th century. The film was released in 2007 through SeeThink Productions.

Alice Neel,  Nancy and Olivia, 1967