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The Hard Truth: An Interview with Jerald Walker

14 Dec 2015
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  Apogee Journal Issue 06 features writing by renowned author, Jerald Walker.  In the following interview, Walker shares some thoughts on writing, teaching, and the hard truth about honesty. Cecca Ochoa: Your essay “The Heritage Room” discusses your experience with a white colleague’s accusation that you showed anger, threatening anger, and leveraged her claim to ban you from your committee. What this essay does so well is examine the perceived difference between “black anger” and “white anger” in a predominantly white institution. Black anger is “irrational and scary” while white anger is… rational? (According to the institution). How would you describe white anger? Jerald Walker: Yes, generally white anger is seen as a form of integrity, an emotional reaction rooted in principle and morality. It is also a thing wholly controllable, like a rifle in the hands of a marksman, whereas black anger is the grenade handled by a fool. CO: I have to ask, what is the price of honesty for a nonfiction writer? You’ve written about how your family has reacted to finding out about your adolescence. I’m sure that your colleagues whom you have written about must also have reactions. How do you deal with fear of...
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Apogee Issue 06 Preview: Christian Newby

10 Dec 2015
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Christian Newby was born in 1979 in Virginia Beach, Virginia and currently works and lives in London and Madrid. He received his B.A. in Sculpture and Extended Media at Virginia Commonwealth University in 2002 and then an M.F.A. at the Glasgow School of Art in 2009. His work has been exhibited internationally, with inclusions in group shows at Pi Artworks, London, the Palais de Tokyo, Paris, Galerie Alain Gutharc, Paris, and MOT International Project Space in London. Newby has recently held solo exhibitions in London at both Space In Between and Vitrine Gallery, and in Glasgow at Transmission Gallery. Awarded the Converse/Dazed & Confused Emerging Artist Award shortlist in association with Whitechapel Gallery in 2013, Newby also participated in the New Work Scotland Programme with Amelia Bywater at Collective Gallery in 2012 and was an Edinburgh Artist-in-Residence at Triangle Arts Trust’s Triangle France Artist in Residence Programme in 2011. Upcoming exhibitions/projects include a commission from Studio Leigh in London and release of Attempt Magazine Issue 1, as Art Director.    Orangina Clock Screenprint, acrylic and dye on fabric, 172×140 centimeters, 2013
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APOGEE ISSUE 06 PREVIEW: Stacey Tyrell

10 Dec 2015
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    We launch Apogee Issue 06 tonight! Join us in celebrating our latest issue at the Bureau of General Services-Queer Division (208 W 13th St, Rm 210) @ 7Pm. And for our final visual art preview, we are thrilled to share artist Stacey Tyrell’s “Rhona, 28yrs.” See you tonight. xoxo Apogee         Rhona, 28yrs., from “Backra Bluid” series, 2012, Archival Epson Print, 40×30 inches   STACEY TYRELL is a New York based photo-conceptual artist.  She was born in 1978 and raised in Toronto, Canada to parents of Nevisian heritage.  She attended OCAD University where she majored in Photography.  Her work explores the interplay of race, heritage and identity as it relates to preconceived notions of Euro-centric beauty and heritage within post-colonial societies and the Caribbean Diaspora. Tyrell’s work has been a part of exhibitions at the Royal Ontario Museum, the Canadian Museum of Immigration, the Places des Arts Montreal, the Power Plant Contemporary Art Gallery, the Houston Museum of African American Culture and the Center for Photography at Woodstock, NY.  She has had her images appear in such publications and websites as Marie Claire South Africa, Canadian Art, Huffington Post, Refinery 29, ARC Magazine and Feature Shoot.  Most recently her...
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APOGEE ISSUE 06 PREVIEW: Clemence Vazard

09 Dec 2015
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    Today we are honored to feature artist Clemence Vazard’s “Escotade.”       Escotade Collage manuel sur documents originaux (Translation: Handmade collage on original paper) 21×30 centimeters, 2014   Since her adolescence, Clémence Vazard has been fascinated by paper. From the age of 12, she has been using walls, doors, and wallpaper as foundations for accumulated images as found in mainstream magazines, posters, stickers, and cards. Vazard received an M.A. in Arts and Culture Studies at the Sorbonne in Paris in 2009; thereafter she began working in various venues ranging from art galleries, to concert venues, to artist residencies and festivals, and beyond. These experiences have helped Vazard develop her creative practice and refine her artistic aesthetic. Amongst the many interrogations that Vazard nourishes, the most recurring and sensitive one is an exploration into the role of women in contemporary society, as depicted in pop culture and media.
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Apogee Issue 06 Preview: Lizzie Gill

09 Dec 2015
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Lizzie Gill is a mixed media artist living and working in Brooklyn, New York. Her work explores themes of retro Americana in a contemporary context. Through a variety of mediums she illustrates a time warp, composed of everyday life, human agency and the disingenuous.  The disingenuous nature of her work pertains to one’s ability to mislead through dress, speech or manner.  Growing up in the digital age, this deception is often conducted behind a series of computer screens. This manipulation is also evident in her process. Her canvases are comprised of mixed media and oil, a process first approached through digital collage and then translated onto canvas. The imagery elicits notions of science fiction, with figures suspended in other dimensions, where natural laws, such as gravity, do not apply. Her work is a nostalgic look at both the American past and innocence with a twist, prompting one to question their sense of time and culture. Not everything is ever quite as it seems. Lizzie is the Associate Curator at Sugarlift Gallery in Brooklyn and the co-founder of the Brooklyn Collage Collective. The Collective’s goal is to bring attention to the medium of collage through an ever growing and dynamic group...
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APOGEE ISSUE 06 PREVIEW: Kapwani Kiwanga

08 Dec 2015
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    Today’s preview features artist Kapwani Kiwanga. “Flowers for Africa: Nigeria” speaks for itself.     Flowers for Africa: Nigeria, 2014 Pièce unique Cut flowers, Ribbon Courtesy of the artist and Galerie Jérôme Poggi © Aurélien Mole   KAPWANI KIWANGA was born in Hamilton, Canada in 1978, and currently resides in Paris. Kiwanga studied Anthropology and Comparative Religions at McGill University, Canada. Her work intentionally confuses truth and fiction in order to unsettle hegemonic narratives and create spaces in which marginal and fantastical discourse can flourish. Kiwanga’s fondness for oral traditions drives a continual exploration of the formal possibilities of orality in her performance, sound, and video work. She has been artist-in-residence at L’Ecole National Supérieure des Beaux-Arts, Paris (France); Le Fresnoy: National Contemporary Art Studio (France); MU Foundation, Eindhoven (Netherlands); Le Manège, Dakar, Senegal. Her film and video works have been nominated for two BAFTAs and have received awards at international film festivals. She has exhibited internationally including at Centre Pompidou, Paris, France; Foundation Ricard, Paris, France; Glasgow Centre of Contemporary Art; Paris Photo; Bienal Internacional de Arte Contemporáneo, Almería, Spain; and the Art Catalyst, London. Recent and Upcoming exhibitions include solo exhibitions at FIAC, 1:54, Galerie Jérôme Poggi, Galerie...
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APOGEE ISSUE 06 PREVIEW: Kaitlin Pomerantz

07 Dec 2015
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      Today we’d like to share Kaitlin Pomerantz’s “Content Aware.” Stay tuned for more exclusive visual art featured in Apogee Issue 06, available for purchase this Thursday, December 11.         Content Aware (Street Morphology series), 2015 Digital photo-collage Permission of artist   KAITLIN POMERANTZ is a visual artist in Philadelphia.
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APOGEE ISSUE 06 PREVIEW: Imran Perretta

03 Dec 2015
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    One week until the launch of Apogee Issue 06, which we will celebrate at the Bureau of General Services Queer Division on December 10th @ 7PM. Join us! Until then, we are honored to feature Imran Perretta’s “Devotion.”       Devotion, 2014 Prayer mat (facing Makkah), tape recording, tape player, newspaper clipping, Nag Champa scent. Dimensions variable. Photo credit: Andy Keate   IMRAN PERRETTA’s work occupies a shifting, liminal territory between time/s and place/s. He deploys the authentic trace alongside the theatrical and the constructed to meditate on the inheritance of identity, the marginal body and the passing of individual and cultural histories. Current exhibitions include a solo presentation of 5 percent for Kunsten.nu alongside the group show Just Frustration at SixtyEight, Copenhagen, Denmark. Recent shows include Devotions at MOT International Project Space (2015), New Contemporaries at the Liverpool Biennial and the ICA, London (2014). In 2014, Perretta was the recipient of the Boise Travel Scholarship. He lives and works in London, UK.
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APOGEE ISSUE 06 PREVIEW: Stina Puotinen

02 Dec 2015
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    Today we’re featuring artist Stina Puotinen’s “Spoopy Sandwich.”         Spoopy Sandwich, 2014 As part of “Spoopy”, a photo series collaboration with Alison Kuo, Nathan Miller & Erik Puotinen. Digital image. Dimensions variable.     STINA PUOTINEN received her BA in Art History and Studio Art at Vassar College, and has been working as an artist, museum educator, and occasional curator in New York City for over 10 years. She has taught at several leading arts institutions, including the MoMA, the Whitney Museum of American Art, and the Cooper Hewitt National Design Museum, among others. Borne out of her work in Museums—both literally and ideologically—is her previous work as co-founder of the video and performance collective CHERYL, and the curatorial production team Limited Time Only. As of Fall 2015, Puotinen has left Brooklyn to attend the MFA program at Manchester School of Art in the U.K. 
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APOGEE ISSUE 06 PREVIEW: Xaviera Simmons

01 Dec 2015
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    Leading up to Apogee Issue 06’s release, we want to treat you to a sneak preview of visual art we feature in our latest issue. Today, we’re starting at the beginning: Issue 06’s cover, “On Sculpture,” by Xaviera Simmons. Stay tuned for more.       On Sculpture, 2011 Color Photograph 40×50 inches Courtesy of The Artist and David Castillo Gallery   XAVIERA SIMMONS’S body of work spans photography, performance, video, sound, sculpture, and installation. She defines her studio practice as rooted in ongoing investigation of experience, memory, abstraction, present and future histories, specifically concentrating on shifting notions surrounding landscape, character development, and formal processes. Simmons is committed equally to the examination of different artistic modes and processes, dedicating part of a year to photography, another part to performance, and other parts to installation, video, and sound works, thereby keeping her practice in constant and consistent rotation, shift, and engagement. 
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