Format: Hardback
Size: 8 x 10 in.
Page count: 170
ISBN: 978-1-64570-174-3
Release date: September 28, 2019

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About: Artists from all over the world are cranking out amazing work. Surprisingly, their work is seen by few and, for the most part, remains in the artist's studio, gets a few likes on social media, and might hang in a gallery or two.

Printed in the bounds of a hardcover art book, Friend of the Artist exposes these artists work to a diverse audience. In Volume 10, we feature the top emerging artists from around the world who work in a variety of mediums, including painting, photography, performance, installation, and sculpture. These artists were hand-selected by a jury panel consisting of Tim Ralston, Diana Cerezino, Michael, Dewberry, Thomas Flynn, and Ty Bishop. To give more context behind the artist's works, we feature five interviewed, including the cover artists, Susanne Wurlitzer.

Format: Hardback
Size: 8 x 10 in.
Page count: 170
ISBN: 978-1-64570-174-3
Release date: May 28, 2019

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About: Volume 9 features 25 artists from the US, UK, Germany, and the Netherlands. These artists work in a variety of mediums including painting, photography, performance, and sculpture. Additionally there will be interviews giving an in-depth look into the studio practices of selected artists. Volume 9 was juried by the FOA staff and guest jurors Alice Bonnot, Erika B Hess, and Masha Vlasova.

Artists Included:

Harumi Abe
Nora Arrieta
Becky Bailey
Kyle Cottier
Shiqing Deng
Dylan DeWitt
Kara Dunne
Chelsea Flowers
Albert Gray
Emily Blythe Jones
Melissa Joseph
Julia Kaiser
Donghwan Ko
Lisa McCleary
Kyle Nobles
Ilaria Ortensi
Sin Park
Komikka Patton
Sara Allen Prigodich
Franziska Reinbothe
Anna Teiche
Danielle Winger
Adrian Kay Wong
Jasmine Zelaya
Jiawei Zhao

Interviews:

Nora Arrieta
Chelsea Flower
Jasmine Zelaya

Cover Artist

Adrian Kay Wong

Guest Jurors

Alice Bonnot is an independent curator and art consultant based in London. She is the co-founding director of Picnic, a contemporary art space occupying a long window in the Aylesham Centre in Peckham, London, and the founding director of the Zone d’Utopie Temporaire (Z.U.T.) residency programme, a nomadic annual residency addressing the notion of Utopia as a vehicle for artistic and critical comment. With this residency she curated exhibitions and events in Paris, London, Athens and Lisbon. 

As an independent curator Alice organised a broad range of exhibitions for galleries, institutions and artist-run spaces. Her current exhibition Hyper Mesh(18 Jan – 23 Feb 2019) at Assembly Point, London, is an exhibition that brings together new work from eight international artists; Jonathan Baldock, Pauline Bastard, fleuryfontaine, Holly Hendry, Jessie Makinson, Morgan Wills and Fani Parali. The exhibition explores contemporary notions of identity, and sets out to examine how identity structures could be re-imagined or reconstructed.

Previous exhibitions include:
Engine, Picnic, London, 2018,Bored but secured, Wozen, Lisbon, 2018, 
Acts of disruption, The Concept Space, London, 2018,
A series of pocket Utopias, Yellow Brick and Snehta, Athens, 2017, Right Through You, The Koppel Project Hive, London, 2017,
Le corps comme activateur d’art numérique, Le Carreau du Temple, Paris, 2015,
Prix Canson finalists, Palais de Tokyo, Paris / co-curated with Mr Laurent Boudier, 2015.

Erika B Hess is a painter based in Columbus, OH recognized for her use and interest in color. Hess’s work has been exhibited nationally including Prince Street Gallery in NYC, Last Projects in Los Angles, CA, and Boston Center for the Arts in Boston, MA. In 2017, she had two solo exhibitions, “The Line Between the Past and the Present,” at the Musa Collective, Allston MA and “Viewing Light,” at Newton Free Library, Newton, MA. Her work has been featured in various publications including, Poets and Artists, Fresh Paint, Charles River Journal and Post Industrial Complex, a book released by the Museum of Contemporary Art Detroit. Her work was selected by John Seed to be featured in, “Fifty Memorable Artists 2015”. She has served on panels such as Cleveland Institute of Art’s, “Feminism Now: Exposing the Truth”, was a visiting juror for Dayton Visual Art Center’s 2016-2018 biennial, and is a recurring juror for the Walker Art MFA Prize at Boston University. Hess is a co-founder of Musa Collective, an artist collective in Boston and is the creator of I Like Your Work podcast, a podcast dedicated to interviewing artists, curators and collectors. Hess received her MFA from Boston University.

Masha Vlasova is an interdisciplinary artist, filmmaker, and educator. She holds a BFA from the Cooper Union and an MFA from Yale School of Art. She is a recipient the Fulbright Fellowship in Filmmaking, Alice Kimball Fellowship and the JUNCTURE Art and Human Rights Fellowship at Yale Law School. Her works have been exhibited and screened at Smack Mellon, Anthology Archives, and Abrons Arts Center in New York, Vox Populi and Temple University in Philadelphia, Carpenter Centerfor the Visual Artsat Harvard University among others. Her latest curatorial project “Women Filmmakers at the Intersection of Documentary, Video Art, and Avant Garde,” premiered at Indiana University Cinema in Bloomington, IN Fall of 2018. Her forthcoming essay about monument rotation will be published in a collection titled Monument Culture: International Perspectives on the Future of Monuments in a Changing World by the American Association for State and Local History/Rowman & Littlefield. 

Format: Hardback
Size: 8 x 10 in.
Page count: 152* 
ISBN: 978-1-68454-081-5
Release date: February 9, 2019

About: Rarely is a contemporary artists work seen in print for what it is: art. Volume 8 is releasing in hardcover format, elevating the artwork that is presented. Art’s purpose is to make you think, feel, or become aware of. Volume 8 encourages this type of contemplation, featuring 25 artists from a variety of countries including the US, UK, and Germany. These artists work in a variety of mediums including collage, painting, photography and sculpture. In this volume, we particularly focus on the figure and how it might be seen throughout these mediums. Additionally there will be interviews giving an in-depth look into the studio practices of selected artists. Volume 8 was juried by the FOA staff and guest jurors Bethanie Irons, Martin Mayorga, Vanessa Murrell, and Taylor O. Thomas.

Artists Included:

Catherine Allen
Kim Bartelt
Andy Brown
Renee Brown
Jordan Buschur
Shawn Campbell
Louis Caulfield
Soojin Choi
temporary collective
Brian DePauli
Kristin Hough
Jessica Frances
Grégoire Lancaster
Katie Lane
Martin Lang
Gracelee Lawrence
Katherine Mann
Mychaelyn Michalec
Kate Sable
Elise Thompson
Amber Tutwiler
Yuta Uchida
Hanna Vogel
Tom Wixo
Jing (Ellen) Xu
Mengting Zhou 

Interviews:

Brian DePauli
Gracelee Lawrence
Katherine Mann
Mychaelyn Michalec
Elise Thompson

Cover Artist

Katherine Mann

Guest Jurors

Bethanie Irons

Bethanie Irons is an artist, educator, and curator. She earned her BFA in painting from the University of South Dakota and her MFA in painting from the University of Missouri. She is currently a PhD student in Art Education at the University of Missouri, with an emphasis in college teaching and teaching with technology.  Bethanie has shown her work internationally and has been featured in numerous print publications including New American Paintings. Since 2015, she has curated the online-only gallery PLEAT.

Martin Mayorga & Vanessa Murrell

Vanessa Murrell and Martin Mayorga are writers, curators, and art liaisons that specialise in emerging art. They are founders of DATEAGLE ART, an independent online platform that supports emerging art practices under a UK-based perspective in the form of interviews, studio visits, journal content, events, online and offline exhibitions. Vanessa and Martin have also recently set up DATEAGLE STUDIO, the first creative agency that offers services for contemporary art galleries and collectives that specifically work with emerging artists. The agency delivers from press to production services to cause an inspiring debate and a lasting impact within today’s art and culture.

Vanessa and Martin are the curators of the ‘Artpiq x DATEAGLE ART Prize’, a yearly award for exceptional early career artists. They have curated ’Prevent This Tragedy’, at Post_Institute, Brixton, an organic group show that responded to the future demolition of the gallery space; ‘Home Alone’, in a non-exhibition space, which exhibited nine emerging artists, each of whom examined our subjective experience of the domestic; ‘The PinkPanther Show’ at Gallery 46, London, an experimental group exhibition initially triggered by an Instagram story open call; and ‘Spread the Virus’ a collaborative curatorialexhibition spanning 12 months which invites 12 artists to produce digital works. They were commissioned by Glass Cloud Gallery to Chair ‘Art In The Public Realm: Creating Experiences’, a panel discussion at Camden People’s Theatre that introduced public facing projects. Vanessa has previously worked at Gagosian Gallery, Sotheby’s, and Annely Juda Fine Arts. Martin has previously worked at Frieze and Saatchi Gallery.

Taylor O Thomas

Taylor O. Thomas was born in Birmingham, Alabama and now lives and works as a visual artist in Tampa, Florida. Thomas’s abstract paintings and drawings have been exhibited in galleries and private collections in the United States, Italy, and China. In 2012, she graduated magna cum laude from Davidson College with a BA in Studio Art, and has since used painting as a means of investigating human tendencies, identity formation, and the interconnectedness between the body and mind.

Thomas views her works as physical iterations of the inner self, noting, “My layered gestures serve as indexical traces of my mental and emotional concerns. Mark making is my way of creating an interface between my personal narrative and the abstracted reinterpretations of that narrative that extend my story beyond myself. When confronting my works, viewers are given a chance to recognize and question their own relationships between the internal, the external, and the varying degrees of self-expression today.” Thomas recently received the University Graduate Fellowship from the University of South Florida, where she is currently earning her MFA degree. Her works are represented by Nomad Collective (Nashville, TN), Emily Friedman Fine Art (Los Angeles, CA), and Deli Grocery New York (New York, NY). 

*pending. actual page count may vary in final publication.

Format: Hardback
Size: 8 x 10 in.
Page count: 130
ISBN: 978-1-64440-551-2
Release date: October 13, 2018

About: Rarely is a contemporary artists work seen in print for what it is: art. Volume 7 is releasing in hardcover format, elevating the artwork that is presented. Art’s purpose is to make you think, feel, or become aware of. Volume 7 encourages this type of contemplation, featuring 23 artists from a variety of countries including the US, UK, Germany, and Australia  These artists work in a variety of mediums including collage, painting, photography and sculpture. In this volume, we particularly focus on the figure and how it can be seen throughout these mediums. Additionally there will be 3 interviews giving an in-depth look into the studio practices of Liam Fallon (Manchester, UK), Bradley Kerl (Houston, US), and Anna Park (Brooklyn, US). Volume 7 was juried by FOA staff and guest jurors Natasha Arselan, Morgan Everhart, and Matthew Calendar.

Artist Included:

Tania Alvarez
Kyle Bauer
Melissa Beck
Elliott Chambers
Emily Elhoffer
Dan Elborne
Katie Evans
Liam Fallon
Bradley Kerl
Bumin Kim
So Yoon Kim
William Lenard
Jacob Littlejohn
Catarina Mantero
Hanna Margetson-Rushmore
Bryan Meador
Vasilios Papaioannu
Anna Park
Jing Qin
Anna Riley
Marina Roca Die
Gala Sadurni
Madelyn Sneed-Grays (Cover Artist)

Guest Jurors

Natasha Arselan 

Natasha Arselan is the founder of AucArt which is the first online auction house to connect collectors with recent art school graduates. In addition, Natasha advises private clients, lectures, publicly speaks and curates independently. Natasha specialises in the early stages of the art market & art/artist management in which she holds an MA from Kings College London.  

M.P. Callender

M.P. Callender is the Vice President of Operations at the art consulting and appraisal firm Signet Art based in Dallas, Texas.  

His team works with private collectors, corporate clients, and museums to lend professional guidance for their art needs; whether appraising a collection, handling a donation, brokering items at auction, or art consulting for individual collectors. 

Callender is also a working artist based in Denton, Texas.  He has exhibited in both solo and group shows in Texas and Oklahoma. His non-objective paintings are held in several private and corporate collections.

Morgan Everhart

Morgan Everhart was born in Dallas, Texas, and studied at the University of North Texas and the LeRoy E. Hoffberger School of Painting at Maryland Institute College of Art, from which she received her MFA in 2016. She presently lives and works in Brooklyn.

She has recent interviews in A Skinned Knee Collective and A Woman's Thing. Currently, her work is on view at Kathryn Markel Fine Arts in New York and she has her first museum solo exhibition at Longwood Center for Visual Arts in Virginia opening January 2019. This year, Morgan’s work was published on Sheryl Saint Germain's book cover, "The Small Door of Your Death". In conjunction with her painting practice, she curates pop up exhibitions and collaborates with sound artists for multimedia projects. She has worked with The Metropolitan Museum of Art, The Kimbell Art Museum, Dallas Contemporary, the Rachofsky Collection, artist James Siena, and Green Art Gallery in Dubai.

Product Info:

• Limited Edition print of 100 copies
• ISBN: 978-1-64204-226-9
• Publication Year: 2018
• Perfect Bound
• 70lb premium color paper
• Page count: 122
• 20 artist represented

Looking at the contemporary art world, it’s clear that there isn't one aesthetic That dominates over another. This changes depending on Which gallery You atttend, the current museum exhibition, or What art circle You find yourself in. This creates a strange paradigm where what is relevant is what is in front of you. Everything becomes relevant.  

Volume 5 shows this paradigm unfiltered and for what it is. We feature works by artists working in several mediums including painting, photography, installation, and printmaking. These artists represent the spirit of what’s being made today. We present some artists like Anastasia Komorva, who uses non-traditional material to create a performance piece at a beach in New York, alongside Kris Rehring who uses traditional painting techniques to the figure with strong geometric forms. Despite this contrast, none of the artists are seeking to coddle themselves in the comfortable or overly familiar. Instead, they are seeking to make something new by pushing boundaries of what is considered art while upholding a reverence for an art historical ideas. If anything, We are confronted with what it's like to be an artist today. 

We’re pleased to present these artists who are from the US and UK and are at different points of their career. We have also strived to intentionally include photography in this volume , which overall has been lacking in other volumes. Some are making an impact as university students in graduate or undergraduate programs while others are full time Professors and have shown extensively throughout the world. We avoid stating each artists qualifications, because they can be misleading. Instead, we rely on the integrity of the work Shown within this volume.