Artists’ Talks
For the 2nd part of Tina Barney and Roe Ethridge’s conversation, we discuss how their upbringing, and generational gaps.
For the 2nd part of Tina Barney and Roe Ethridge’s conversaion, we discuss their relationship with various collaborators and how essential they are to their work.
In today’s episode of EYE TO EYE, we go to Brooklyn, to photographer Roe Ethridge’s studio, where him and fellow photographer Tina Barney discuss their unorthodox beginnings, their relationships with commercial and fine art photography, and the influence past generations may have had on their current work.
EYE TO EYE offers a peek inside a conversation between two artists moderated by curator Lolita Cros as they discuss their work in their most intimate setting, the studio.
The first episode invites us inside Monsieur Zohore's studio in Richmond, VA as he and painter Cynthia Daignault talk museum acquisition, appropriation and colonial History.
April 28, 2022
Curator and advisor Lolita Cros in conversation with artists Bahar Behbahani, Rico Gatson, and MTA Arts & Design director Sandra Bloodworth.
To celebrate Lolita Cros' collaboration with Brookfield on the Third Bankside project in the Bronx, two of the 21 artists included in the building's collection were invited to participate in a conversation with one of the most important figure of public art in New York, the woman behind all the subway murals, to discuss their past and upcoming public art projects.
November 17, 2022
This video is part of "Studio Visit of the Month", a video series which follows artists inside their studios to walk the viewers through their process and provide an intimate look into their practice.
Through lush, detailed work, Max Colby's work reframes traditional notions of domesticity, power, and gender from a trans and non-binary perspective. She received her BFA from the School of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston and Tufts University in 2012. Colby has exhibited her work all around the US and internationally including at Wave Hill, Bronx, NY; the Leslie-Lohman Museum of Art, New York, NY; Jane Lombard Gallery, New York, NY; Isabel Croxatto Galería, Santiago, Chile; Sugar Hill Children’s Museum of Art and Storytelling, New York, NY; and Museum Rijswijk, Rijswijk, Netherlands; among others. She has completed residencies at the Museum of Arts and Design in New York, MASS MoCA in North Adams, the Wassaic Project and was a Leslie-Lohman Museum Fellow. Colby is based in New York and is represented by Shoshana Wayne Gallery in Los Angeles, CA.
September 4, 2019
Alex Prager (b. 1979) is a photographer and filmmaker who creates elaborately staged scenes that draw inspiration from a wide range of influences and references, including Hollywood cinema, experimental films, popular culture, and street photography. She deliberately casts and stages all of her works, merging past and contemporary sources to create a sense of ambiguity. In her images of both crowds and individuals, she examines conflicting impulses of claustrophobia and isolation, revealing an ominous and perpetual anxiety.
Solo exhibitions of Prager’s work have been organized at Des Moines Art Center, Des Moines, IA; Galerie des Galeries, Paris, France; and FOAM Photography Museum, Amsterdam, Netherlands, among others. Her work is in numerous international public and private collections including The Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY; Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY; Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles, CA; San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco, CA; and Kunsthaus Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland. Prager has received numerous awards, including the FOAM Paul Huf Award, The Vevey International Photography Award, and the London Photographic Award. Prager currently lives and works in Los Angeles, she is represented by Lehmann Maupin Gallery, New York, Honk Kong and Seoul.
July 11, 2019
Portia Munson (b. 1961) is a visual artist who works in a range of mediums including photography, painting, sculpture and installation and focuses primarily on environmental and cultural themes seen from a feminist perspective. She holds a BFA from Cooper Union and a MFA from Rutgers University and has studied at Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture. Munson's work has been shown in major public and private exhibition spaces since the early 1990s, at The New Museum (1994), Mass MoCA (2011), The Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts (2012) and the Museum of Contemporary Art in Helsinki (1996) among others. She create large-scale installations at the Bryant Park subway station for New York's MTA, Fort Hamilton Parkway Station and Albany International Airport.
June 18, 2019
Tschabalala Self (b. 1990) combines painting, printmaking and assemblage to explore ideas surrounding the Black female body. Constructed with a combination of sewn, printed, and painted materials, her exaggerated depictions of bodies traverse a variety of artistic and craft traditions. She received her BA from Bard College and her MFA from Yale University and is a recipient of the Joan Mitchell Foundation Painters & Sculptors Grant. Her work has been included in solo and groups exhibitions at the Yuz Museum in Shanghai, China; The New Museum, New York, NY and most recently the Hammer Museum in Los Angeles, CA, among others. She is currently an artist in residence at the Studio Museum in Harlem and is part of a 3-person show this summer at MoMA PS1, New York, NY in collaboration with the Studio Museum.
February 26, 2019
This is the first of a video series by curator Lolita Cros which follows artists inside their studios to walk the viewers through their process and provide an intimate look into their practice. Erin O’Keefe received a BFA from Cornell University and MA in Architecture from Columbia University. She is represented by Denny Dimin Gallery in New York, NY. Her most recent solo exhibition, “Book of Days”, was exhibited at Denny Dimin Gallery in 2017. She’s shown works around the country internationally in Vancouver, London and Amsterdam. She will be inaugurating Denny Dimin’s Hong Kong gallery, opening March 29 with a two person show with Matt Mignanelli. And will be in a group show opening next week at Morgan Lehman Gallery as well as at Seventeen Gallery in London this April.
February 19, 2019
Lolita Cros led a panel at The Wing San Francisco with four of the artists featured in the space: Maryam Yousif, Marcela Ariza Pardo, Maria Capron, and Jay Katelansky.
September 19, 2018
Lolita Cros and Chase Hall were featured on a panel at The Norwood Club in anticipation of Hall’s solo presentation at The Affordable Art Fair, curated by Cros. The panel was moderated by Vanessa Seis, director of The Affordable Art Fair.
May 1, 2018
Born in New York City in 1945, Barney turned her concentration to photographing in color with a large format view camera in 1982 – an analogue process she steadfastly continues today. The artist was included in the 1987 Whitney Biennial, and significant solo exhibitions have since been held at the Museum of Modern Art, NY, in 1990 and The Barbican Art Gallery, London, in 2005. Barney’s works are in the permanent collections of the Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY; the Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY; the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, CA; and the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, MA, among many others.
June 27, 2017
Peter Saul (b. 1934) is an American painter. Often considered one of the fathers of Pop Art, he is known for his distinctively colorful and cartoonish paintings which satirize American culture. Since his first solo exhibition, in Chicago in 1961, Peter Saul has exhibited his work throughout the United States and internationally. His works are found in numerous museum collections worldwide, including the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York; Museum of Modern Art, New York; Whitney Museum of American Art, New York; Art Institute of Chicago; Carnegie Museum, Pittsburgh; Centre Pompidou, Paris; Los Angeles County Museum of Art; Moderna Museet, Stockholm; Museum Ludwig, Cologne; and Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam. Peter Saul lives and works in New York.
March 13, 2017
Duane Michals (b. 1932, McKeesport, PA) is one of the great photographic innovators of the last century, widely known for his work with series, multiple exposures, and text. In an era heavily influenced by photojournalism, Michals manipulated the medium to communicate narratives. The sequences, for which he is widely known, appropriate cinema’s frame-by-frame format. The Museum of Modern Art, New York, hosted Michals’ first solo exhibition in 1970. More recently, he had solo shows at the Odakyu Museum, Tokyo, the International Center of Photography, New York, and the Scavi Scaligeri in Verona, Italy to name a few. In 2015 The Carnegie Museum of Art, Pittsburgh, PA held a major retrospective of the artist’s work, and another retrospective is scheduled to open this May at the Fundación Mapfre in Barcelona, Spain. Michals' work belongs to numerous permanent collections in the U.S. and abroad, including the Israel Museum, Jerusalem; the J. Paul Getty Museum, Los Angeles; the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York; the Moderna Museet, Stockholm; the Museum of Modern Art, New York; the National Museum of Modern Art, Kyoto among others.
December 12, 2016
In light of McDermott & McGough upcoming mid-career retrospective at Dallas Contemporary, Peter McGough will be discussing their overall body of work with curator Lolita Cros. Starting from their early works in the 80s to the Oscar Wilde chapel they are now building at the Studio Voltaire in London, he will reflect on their relationship with time both conceptually and historically.
SPEAKING ENGAGEMENTS
May 6, 2020
Art Collector Oliver Elst of Cuperior Collection in Talk in Instagram Live with curator Lolita Cros from NYC , who spoke about her curated shows, her art collection and how the pandemic scene could affect curating .
October 9, 2019
As a part of Mana Decentralized, Lolita Cros was invited by Mana Contemporary in Jersey City to speak about how to put your best foot forward when hosting visitors, showing your work, and discussing your practice.
A studio visit can be the first step toward a successful relationship with a collector, gallery, or curator. Lolita Cros, brings her experience in moderating talks between artists and exhibiting artworks to an intimate discussion.
March 9, 2019
Lolita Cros was featured on a panel at The Arlo Hotel entitled “Breaking Through the Canvas”, moderated by curator Andrea Delph. Cros spoke alongside of visual artists Genesis Tramaine and Hiba Schahbaz.