Volume 11
About: Emerging artists from all over the world are cranking out amazing work. In this volume, we showcase a group of 30 curated artists who were selected by a jury panel of art professionals.
Printed in the bounds of a hardcover art book, Friend of the Artist elevates the work of emerging artists. In Volume 11, we feature artists working in a variety of mediums including painting, photography, performance, installation, and sculpture. These artists were hand-selected by a jury panel consisting of Anna Mikaela Ekstrand, Angeliki Kim Jonsson, Adele Smejkal, Thomas Flynn, and Ty Bishop. To give more context behind the artist's works, we feature several interviewed, including the cover artists, Erin Wright.
Format: Hardback
Size: 8 x 10 in.
Page count: 210
ISBN: 978-1-64786-140-7
Release date: February 28, 2020
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Selected Artists:
Jessica Alazraki, Paul Anagnostopoulos, Kate Bae, Saba Besier, Julia Blume, Jess Burgess, CARO, Marcy Cook, drigo, Jon Duff, Ayana Evans, Joe Hedges, Brittany Ham, Annette Hur, Timon I, Caroline Liu, Lisa McCutcheon, Sidney Mullis, Melissa Murray, Ellie Ka Yu Ng, Charlie Quezada, Andrea Reyes, Berit Louise Sara-Grønn, Travis Leroy Southworth, Méïr Srebriansky, Shamona Stokes, Chuck Stolarek, Ashley Eliza Williams, Hannah Witner, Erin Wright
Guest Jurors
Anna Mikaela Ekstrand, Angeliki Kim Jonsson, and Adele Smejkal
Juror Bios
Anna Mikaela Ekstrand
Anna Mikaela Ekstrand is a Swedish/Guyanese independent curator and publisher living in New York City. Although she curates across mediums, she is especially interested in exploring equitable ways to disseminate performance art. Anna Mikaela served as co-/curator for the performance art events 'Tales Of Tales' (106 Rivington, 2019), ’Grebnellaw: Sperming The Planet' (House of Yes and The Oculus, 2018), and 'Your Decolonizing Toolkit' (MAW, 2016). She has held curatorial positions at Metropolitan Museum of Art, Solomon R. Guggenheim, Bard Graduate Center, and Museum of Arts and Design. Deeply vested in research, she has worked on over a dozen in-museum and off-site art and design related exhibitions and their catalogs. Anna Mikaela is the founding editor-in-chief of Cultbytes, an online art publication that focuses on interdisciplinary and non-hierarchical art criticism. She holds dual MA degrees, in Design History, Material Culture, and Decorative Arts from Bard Graduate Center and in Art History from Stockholm University.
Angeliki Kim Jonsson & Adele Smejkal
We are two art enthusiasts and professionals with a diverse experience of working in the art world. Angeliki Kim Jonsson is the founder of DYNAMISK an Independent consultancy that offers Curating and Art Advisory. Alongside DYNAMISK she also hosts “In Conversation with..” which is an ever growing series of vibrant and unique conversations with pioneering individuals from the art world. Adele Smejkal works for Sotheby’s London and is also a freelance journalist and the founder of @as_artjournal, an Instagram based page about art. Through a shared passion for art and presence on social media, we have formed our friendship and partnership. Our story, vision and thinking alike inspired us to create the Art/choke