1.4.15 with Michelle Mackey

T/AP’s fifth visiting artist is Brooklyn- and Dallas-based painter, educator, and writer Michelle Mackey. She is a very accomplished artist with a wide perspective.

Today began in the classroom where students were immediately given a sixteen-by-twenty-inch wooden panel. Students were supplied with a variety of shades of yellow paint and large brushes and were asked to paint a wash over the entire panel. 

Michelle Grabner

Michelle Grabner, artist, critic, professor, gallery director, and co-curator of the 2014 Whitney Biennial

Michelle Grabner is a Chicago-based artist, curator, art writer, Professor and Chair of Painting and Drawing at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago, senior critic for Yale University in painting and printmaking, and a curator of the 2014 Whitney Biennial – is a dynamic force who has been at the fore of the art world with her ambitious and varied initiatives for some time.

Gabriel Kuri

This special Tuesday Evenings presentation features artist Gabriel Kuri in conversation with Tyler Green for a live-audience taping of an episode of The Modern Art Notes Podcast.

Andy Coolquit

Andy Coolquitt, an Austin-based artist, creates installations that are activated through casual but precise arrangements, suggesting purpose and relationships between elements made of what Coolquitt terms "somebodymades," as well as manipulated and combined flotsam and jetsam of the artist's urban environment. Stephanie Buhmann of the Brooklyn Rail writes, "Coolquitt's crops find meaning primarily through re-organization.

James Timberlake

James Timberlake, FAIA, is a founding partner of KieranTimberlake, an internationally recognized architecture firm based in Philadelphia and recipient of numerous honors including the 2008 AIA Architecture Firm Award and the 2010 Cooper-Hewitt National Design Award.

Jose Antonio Macotela

José Antonio Vega Macotela, a Mexico City-based artist, is represented in México Inside Out: Themes in Art Since 1990 with work from his poignant and long-standing project Time Divisa (Time Exchange), a series of exchanges with prisoners explained by the artist as an outcome of his interest in the concept of time - the idea of "doing time" making prisons a rich source of exploration.

Melanie Smith

Melanie Smith, born in Poole, England and living and working in Mexico City since 1989, is an artist whose work has been characterized as a re-reading of the formal and aesthetic categories of avant-garde movements.

Thomas Glassford

Sundays with the Modern offers unique perspectives on special exhibitions, with artists, curators, art historians, and writers holding conversations in the galleries. This program is free and begins at 1 pm on the first Sunday of selected months. In conjunction with México Inside Out: Themes in Art Since 1990, these special gallery talks feature artists included in the exhibition. Featuring Thomas Glassford.

Yoshua Okon

Yoshua Okón is an artist born and raised in Mexico City. He traveled to Montreal and Los Angeles for his BFA and MFA degrees, then returned to Mexico and pursued what has been a successful international career with group and solo exhibitions spanning the globe, including, most recently, shows at the Hayward Gallery in London, Fundación Alumnos47 in Mexico City, the Hammer Museum in Los Angeles, and Musée cantonal des Beaux-Arts in Lausanne, Switzerland.
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