https://theselectioncommittee.com Nate Heiges Mon, 01 Jun 2026 13:24:40 +0000 https://theselectioncommittee.com en https://theselectioncommittee.com/Homepage Sun, 03 May 2020 16:57:01 +0000 Nate Heiges https://theselectioncommittee.com/Homepage The Selection CommitteeRADIO SHOW&nbsp;︎ subscribe to our mailing list!&nbsp;︎ follow on instagram for news! LIVE every other Tuesday from 4-6 pmon Newtown Radio in association with International Objects &amp;&nbsp;International Waters Listen to Newtown Radio live HERE! or live on Mixcloud HERE!&nbsp; Past shows can be streamed on Apple Podcasts, below, or on Mixcloud.Upcoming shows: June 2: David L. Johnson June 16: Kamrooz Aram (POSTPONED) TBA: Deondre Davis in conversation with Matt Connors` https://theselectioncommittee.com/David-L-Johnson Mon, 01 Jun 2026 13:24:40 +0000 Nate Heiges https://theselectioncommittee.com/David-L-Johnson <img width="3000" height="2001" width_o="3000" height_o="2001" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/d38f47f960e07b19e0e59a6512e5f8945cbdeb915e09e5c9051cb0383a6c44ea/_6.jpg" data-mid="248966449" border="0" alt="Cleveland&rsquo;s Mix (WBLS 89), 2025. Video, monitor, painted iron case, speakers, electronics" data-caption="Cleveland’s Mix (WBLS 89), 2025. Video, monitor, painted iron case, speakers, electronics" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/d38f47f960e07b19e0e59a6512e5f8945cbdeb915e09e5c9051cb0383a6c44ea/_6.jpg" /> <img width="3000" height="2181" width_o="3000" height_o="2181" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/aedf116bdf8132807f410194e42cc06a477126504350f46e1ea751560b634dcc/_9.jpg" data-mid="248966451" border="0" alt="Rule, 2024-ongoing. Removed codes of conduct signs" data-caption="Rule, 2024-ongoing. Removed codes of conduct signs" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/aedf116bdf8132807f410194e42cc06a477126504350f46e1ea751560b634dcc/_9.jpg" /> <img width="3000" height="4498" width_o="3000" height_o="4498" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/ac33bd3c7cae69f89a7ac61dc8d0abc92d4ad13ca4160f31e9428dc3b3fa4e04/David-L.-Johnson_Loiter-Tony_Galerie-Thomas-Schulte.jpg" data-mid="248966325" border="0" data-scale="60" alt="Loiter (Tony), 2023. Removed standpipe spike" data-caption="Loiter (Tony), 2023. Removed standpipe spike" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/ac33bd3c7cae69f89a7ac61dc8d0abc92d4ad13ca4160f31e9428dc3b3fa4e04/David-L.-Johnson_Loiter-Tony_Galerie-Thomas-Schulte.jpg" /> <img width="2000" height="1334" width_o="2000" height_o="1334" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/357559903385b09e3d3f71fa9747069d6d34adda862e08348292d1805ec20a96/ArtLot-23_001-1.jpg" data-mid="248966312" border="0" alt="Community Garden, 2023. Removed street planters, wild bergamot, soil, unlocked gate" data-caption="Community Garden, 2023. Removed street planters, wild bergamot, soil, unlocked gate" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/357559903385b09e3d3f71fa9747069d6d34adda862e08348292d1805ec20a96/ArtLot-23_001-1.jpg" /> David L. Johnson June 2, 2026One Piece at a Time, Johnny Cash It Fell Off the Back of a Lorry, Denim Iron Galaxy, Cannibal Ox Laws, Apani B Fly feat Nujabes Cleveland_s Mix (Random) - Excerpt&nbsp; &nbsp; Cleveland_s Mix (The Quiet Touch) - Excerpt&nbsp; &nbsp; Panamanian Fight Song (Lyric Video), Irreversible Entanglements Cold Sweat, Billy Woods Scarcity Is Manufactured, Deerhoof Guapa, Juan Wauters Song, Tom Verlaine Sweetheart (Live), Suicide Gertrude Stein, Ed Askew 4 American Dollars, U.S. Girls My Contribution to This Scam, Jean Grae &amp; Quelle Chris Catalogue demo take, Cities Aviv City Hell, Jockstrap It's O.K., Dead Moon David L. Johnson makes work attuned to the streets of the city, pinpointing moments of slippage between public and private property. His practice utilizes photography, video, found and stolen objects, and sound to consider the politics, histories, aesthetics, and forms of use that define contemporary urban space. David L. Johnson&nbsp;(b. 1993, New York, NY) lives and works in New York City. Recent solo and dual exhibitions include: Fanta MLN, Milan (2025); The Shop at Sadie Coles HQ, London (2024); Galerie Thomas Schulte, Berlin; Galerie Noah Klink, Berlin; Art Lot, Brooklyn (all 2023); and Theta, New York (2021). Recent group exhibitions include: The Whitney Biennial, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York (2026); Columbus Museum of Art, Columbus, OH; Salzburger Kunstverein, Salzburg (both 2024); Palais de Tokyo, Paris; Chicago Architecture Biennial, Chicago; MoMA PS1, New York (all 2023); and Artists Space, New York (2022). Johnson received a BFA from The Cooper Union in 2015 and an MFA from the University of Pennsylvania in 2020. He is an alumnus of the Whitney Independent Study Program and is a part-time faculty member at Parsons MFA and an adjunct professor at The Cooper Union. Johnson’s work is held in the public collection of The Studio Museum in Harlem and the Columbus Museum of Art. https://theselectioncommittee.com/Rebecca-Cleman Sat, 18 Apr 2026 12:10:55 +0000 Nate Heiges https://theselectioncommittee.com/Rebecca-Cleman <img width="3024" height="4032" width_o="3024" height_o="4032" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/e7b9d35f655f888dbfacc3b470a41945e24e4bc20faa47fdcf1f5c88f5376a89/IMG_3038.jpeg" data-mid="247365811" border="0" data-scale="43" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/e7b9d35f655f888dbfacc3b470a41945e24e4bc20faa47fdcf1f5c88f5376a89/IMG_3038.jpeg" /> <img width="2592" height="1936" width_o="2592" height_o="1936" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/64ac0c1a4a837d810aae2547a65c3e28e27574aff9564172f702d851e8bf37fd/IMG_3639.JPG" data-mid="247365812" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/64ac0c1a4a837d810aae2547a65c3e28e27574aff9564172f702d851e8bf37fd/IMG_3639.JPG" /> <img width="4032" height="3024" width_o="4032" height_o="3024" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/073272ae39575f506c159e5c1ccb07dca6bed6bf3ad72211cbfc3780b4b8af23/IMG_4024.jpeg" data-mid="247365813" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/073272ae39575f506c159e5c1ccb07dca6bed6bf3ad72211cbfc3780b4b8af23/IMG_4024.jpeg" /> <img width="2320" height="3088" width_o="2320" height_o="3088" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/a6c11ce85c338f1df85d92fd63072000290cdb8d01dac2bb686481d6c7439c2a/IMG_5584.jpeg" data-mid="247365814" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/a6c11ce85c338f1df85d92fd63072000290cdb8d01dac2bb686481d6c7439c2a/IMG_5584.jpeg" /> <img width="1936" height="2592" width_o="1936" height_o="2592" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/72b77eb0202c2dc506ef690627bbb4ab8ced8d1287af6172e0dceabc3c6f353d/IMG_6806.JPG" data-mid="247365815" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/72b77eb0202c2dc506ef690627bbb4ab8ced8d1287af6172e0dceabc3c6f353d/IMG_6806.JPG" /> <img width="3024" height="4032" width_o="3024" height_o="4032" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/894abad67c2f33ea18e0999c252b1590f84280342b157b4a9511556565816f53/IMG_7891.jpeg" data-mid="247365816" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/894abad67c2f33ea18e0999c252b1590f84280342b157b4a9511556565816f53/IMG_7891.jpeg" /> Rebecca Cleman April 21, 2026This week we welcome the amazing Rebecca Cleman, a writer and the director of Electronic Arts Intermix (EAI) in New York City. Born in Flagstaff, Arizona the same year that VCRs came on the consumer market, Cleman has an abiding interest in the mythologies of the American West and the public use of video recording. Cleman discusses the legacy of EAI, a nonprofit founded in 1971 by the visionary gallerist Howard Wise to encourage the use of video technology by artists. We talk about the changing role of EAI in a world where video has become ubiquitous and how this historically important institution is navigating the continual evolution of technology, from video cassettes to streaming, from cable access TV to YouTube and beyond. Cleman’s audio selections range from Ennio Morricone and the Clash to George Carlin and Lily Tomlin. Comedy and the Spaghetti Western are perfect foils for her interest in artists who can take things apart and expose narratives and histories that are hidden, people like Jaime Davidovich, Charlotte Moorman, Nam June Paik, Robert Buck, Cory Arcangel, and Nancy Holt. We also talk about “Yo! MTV Raps”, horror movies, Marshall McLuhan, and her childhood growing up in a very musical family in the desert wanting nothing more than to play ice hockey. A great show! Complete playlist below; tracks in yellow were cut for time. The Ecstasy Of Gold, Ennio Morricone, 1967 Why Am I so Tired All the Time? Eggs, 1994 Oscillations, Silver Apples, 1968Advertising, George Carlin Don't Believe The Hype, Public Enemy, 1988 Potholes in My Lawn, De La Soul, 1989 Mr. Veedle (Live At The Ice House,) Lily Tomlin, 1971 Clampdown, The Clash, 1979 Lonesome, On'ry and Mean, Waylon Jennings, 1973 Egg Man, Beastie Boys, 1989 Big Mess, DEVO, 1982 Highway Star, Deep Purple, 1972 Hey Jane Mansfield Superstar, Sigue Sigue Sputnik, 1989 Backslider, The Jon Spencer Blues Explosion, 2010 Gasoline, Britney Spears, 2011 Candy's Room, Bruce Springsteen, 1978 Pine Box Derby, Beat Happening, 1992 No Particular Place To Go, Chuck Berry, 1964 Teen Angel, Mark Dinning, 2021 The Day The Earth Stood Still, Bernard Herrmann, 1951Rebecca Cleman (b. 1975, Flagstaff Arizona) is a writer and the director of Electronic Arts Intermix (EAI). She was raised by a pianist mother and a composer father who kept a slim but choice selection of rock-n-roll albums within their prodigious collection of classical music, Jimi Hendrix, The Beatles, and the American Graffiti soundtrack were as formative as Rossini, Bach, and Bartók. Professionally, Rebecca has enjoyed a long career at EAI, a leading distributor and archive of artists' videos from the 1960s to the present, which includes videos by previous Selection Committee guests Robert Buck, Michael Smith, Jake Brush, and Phyllis Baldino. She has published essays on video art and film, with a focus on infrastructure and artists television, and programmed many screenings and curated a few exhibitions, including VHS: The Exhibition at Franklin Street Works and, with Alex Klein, Broadcasting: EAI at ICA. Recently, she co-edited The New Television: Video After Television with Rachel Churner and Tyler Maxin, published by no place press. Highways, hot rods, and hockey are particular non-professional subjects of interest. https://theselectioncommittee.com/Enter-the-Nothing Sat, 25 Apr 2026 17:38:39 +0000 Nate Heiges https://theselectioncommittee.com/Enter-the-Nothing <img width="1200" height="1200" width_o="1200" height_o="1200" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/ed8b729921be3b8b64e9bb4b16aaee89d0405104c1d854f07c7d857f7dba328e/EnterTheNothingtext.jpg" data-mid="247587664" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/ed8b729921be3b8b64e9bb4b16aaee89d0405104c1d854f07c7d857f7dba328e/EnterTheNothingtext.jpg" /> April 7, 2026 Enter the Nothing: Marches, Dirges, and Drones A music-only episode showcasing a Nate Heiges mixtape from 2019. Eye in the Wall, Perfume Genius, 2019 The Devil's Mirror, Dirty Art Club, 2013 What's Not Mine, Cate Le Bon, 2016 Magnifique, Ratatat, 2015 Sing, Blur, 1991 Sketch for Summer, The Durutti Column, 1979 Battery Point, Beak&gt;, 2009 Last Trains Come and Gone,&nbsp;Cindy Lee, 2015&nbsp; Dimanche (feat. Bertrand Belin), The Limiñanas, 2018 Transparent Things, Fujiya &amp; Miyagi, 2006 Balloon Ranger - Clavis Remix, Ane Brun, 2019 Soft, Lemon Jelly, 2003 Time Moves Slow feat.&nbsp;Samuel T. Herring, BADBADNOTGOOD, 2016 i ain't scared of no devil, Jitwam, dj godfrey ho, 2017 Memory Arc, Rival Consoles, 2018 Yumeji's Theme - Theme from 'in the Mood for Love', Shigeru Umebayashi, 2013 I Trawl the Megahertz, Prefab Sprout, 2003Starless and Bible Black, The Stan Tracey Quartet, 2010 https://theselectioncommittee.com/Matlok-Griffiths_B-Wurtz Sun, 01 Mar 2026 21:09:28 +0000 Nate Heiges https://theselectioncommittee.com/Matlok-Griffiths_B-Wurtz <img width="2048" height="1365" width_o="2048" height_o="1365" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/617cb0427720ea74d39a96c91118038af18f770b7568c4b38619388561f902ec/MGriffiths_AclubwithAims-View-3-Courtesy-Gordon-Robichaux-NY_Photo-Greg-Carideo-2048x1365.jpg" data-mid="245513612" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/617cb0427720ea74d39a96c91118038af18f770b7568c4b38619388561f902ec/MGriffiths_AclubwithAims-View-3-Courtesy-Gordon-Robichaux-NY_Photo-Greg-Carideo-2048x1365.jpg" /> <img width="1200" height="900" width_o="1200" height_o="900" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/c35097300d59baf66edf10b1c24d7d67afc7e2161e25d80af1f9dacd5690893a/12.-Installation-View_-Matlok-Griffiths-And-My-Unnamed-Corners-at-Gordon-Robichaux-New-York-2026-Courtesy-Gordon-Robichaux-NY_Photo-Greg-Carideo-1200x900.jpg" data-mid="245513611" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/c35097300d59baf66edf10b1c24d7d67afc7e2161e25d80af1f9dacd5690893a/12.-Installation-View_-Matlok-Griffiths-And-My-Unnamed-Corners-at-Gordon-Robichaux-New-York-2026-Courtesy-Gordon-Robichaux-NY_Photo-Greg-Carideo-1200x900.jpg" /> <img width="2000" height="1500" width_o="2000" height_o="1500" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/6b324a868ea47221d35ce1be8cf5ce3a0411335007b696bd25f8130e639ed601/14.-Installation-View_-Matlok-Griffiths-And-My-Unnamed-Corners-at-Gordon-Robichaux-New-York-2026-Courtesy-Gordon-Robichaux-NY_Photo-Greg-Carideo.jpg" data-mid="246160765" border="0" alt="And My Unnamed Corners, 2026, Gordon Robichaux / New York." data-caption="And My Unnamed Corners, 2026, Gordon Robichaux / New York." src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/6b324a868ea47221d35ce1be8cf5ce3a0411335007b696bd25f8130e639ed601/14.-Installation-View_-Matlok-Griffiths-And-My-Unnamed-Corners-at-Gordon-Robichaux-New-York-2026-Courtesy-Gordon-Robichaux-NY_Photo-Greg-Carideo.jpg" /> <img width="1725" height="2048" width_o="1725" height_o="2048" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/a545154d697531e2917e894a865008913181b685f9839dd8ead36fabd3444cda/MatlokGriffiths_YS_close-SV-1725x2048.jpg" data-mid="246160943" border="0" alt="Detail of Untitled (Sicilian Volcano), 2024 from ongoing series Yesterday&rsquo;s Solutions" data-caption="Detail of Untitled (Sicilian Volcano), 2024 from ongoing series Yesterday’s Solutions" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/a545154d697531e2917e894a865008913181b685f9839dd8ead36fabd3444cda/MatlokGriffiths_YS_close-SV-1725x2048.jpg" /> <img width="2048" height="1356" width_o="2048" height_o="1356" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/1601724d8a2f3abb0a2e8825e38c92602edd7e7ff9d7f8fd4e32d17973c87dbe/2_The-Colour-of-Time_Spring_Week-One_Two_Three-2048x1356.jpg" data-mid="246160972" border="0" alt="The Colour of Time (Spring, Week One, Two, Three) Glazed ceramic and wood. 2022." data-caption="The Colour of Time (Spring, Week One, Two, Three) Glazed ceramic and wood. 2022." src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/1601724d8a2f3abb0a2e8825e38c92602edd7e7ff9d7f8fd4e32d17973c87dbe/2_The-Colour-of-Time_Spring_Week-One_Two_Three-2048x1356.jpg" /> <img width="2000" height="2000" width_o="2000" height_o="2000" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/8e0d6a5471317b1fd18571df456c84ffbc1cc48da0c0c0334ebbdf4b4791ca25/MatlokGriffiths_belch_2019.jpg" data-mid="246160980" border="0" alt="Belch Patinated bronze and oil paint. 28.6 &times; 31 &times; 4.2 cm. 2019." data-caption="Belch Patinated bronze and oil paint. 28.6 × 31 × 4.2 cm. 2019." src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/8e0d6a5471317b1fd18571df456c84ffbc1cc48da0c0c0334ebbdf4b4791ca25/MatlokGriffiths_belch_2019.jpg" /> <img width="1540" height="1548" width_o="1540" height_o="1548" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/758785c4f3a8e12372191d9a6c43cfb70649911ef0956cbe6dfe2c1758345313/Screenshot-2026-03-17-at-3.56.52PM.png" data-mid="246161239" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/758785c4f3a8e12372191d9a6c43cfb70649911ef0956cbe6dfe2c1758345313/Screenshot-2026-03-17-at-3.56.52PM.png" /> Matlok Griffiths in conversation with B. Wurtz March 10, 2026For this episode of the Selection Committee Radio Show, former guest B. Wurtz joins me in conversation with Matlok Griffiths, an artist based in Melbourne, Australia. Both artist-musicians, the two first became acquainted when Griffiths approached Wurtz to do a book project with his imprint Tutto. This began an ongoing conversation about art and music between the two that we get to join. Griffiths’ wonderful exhibition “And My Unnamed Corners” recently closed at Gordon Robichaux in New York City. The show featured a selection of modestly scaled paintings on sculptural canvases as well as a series of gouache paintings on crossword puzzles. We discuss the New York connection to this work—in 2016 Griffiths spent four months in the city doing a mentorship with painter Stanley Whitney. He began picking up free newspapers and using the crossword puzzles as a found grid to make gouache paintings. Through time and inspiration these crossword paintings found new form in the sculptural canvases. The conversation also touches on his ceramic practice which began when a neighbor gave his family a bag of clay during Melbourne’s intense Covid lockdown. Inspired by a figure his daughter made of a girl sitting bolt upright in bed, Griffiths created an entire body of work that is a meditation on that strange time. Throughout the program, Griffiths shares a semi-autobiographical set of songs including selections from his own band, Big Supermarket, formed with his wife Katrina and his friend Travis. This three-way conversation is a window into a practice that is remarkably open to opportunities, collaborations, and the unexpected. It was a pleasure to spend the afternoon with Griffiths and Wurtz! Complete playlist below; tracks in yellow were cut for time.Old News, Big Supermarket, 2019 The Boy In the Bubble, Paul Simon, 1986 Blue Flowers, Dr. Octagon, 1996 Black Death, Big Supermarket, 2019 Lost Mi Love, Yellowman, 1982 Some Girls Are Bigger Than Others, The Smiths, 1986 Frenz, The Fall, 1988 Loose Fit, Happy Mondays, 1999 Desire As, Prefab Sprout, 1985 Waterloo Sunset, The Kinks, 1967 Shadazz, Suicide, 1999 Diary of a Young Man, Television Personalities, 1981 Bottles, Samizdat &amp; Michael J. Blood, 2023Rinsed, Dean Blunt &amp; TYSON, 2023Peter, Big Supermarket, 2019Big Jean, Big Supermarket, 2019 Matlok Griffiths (b. 1983, Perth, Australia) is an artist and occasional musician who lives and works in Melbourne, Australia. He has presented solo and two-person exhibitions at Sutton Gallery, Melbourne (2025), Darren Knight Gallery, Sydney (2022, 2019, 2107, 2016), and ReadingRoom, Melbourne (2024, 2022, 2018). His work has been featured in numerous group shows, including at Wolford House, Los Angeles (curated by Nichole Caruso-Siebers, 2024) and the National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne (2023). In 2016, Griffiths completed a four-month mentorship with artist Stanley Whitney through the support of a Skills and Development Grant awarded by the Australia Council for the Arts (now Creative Australia). His work is held in the collections of the National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne, and Artbank, Australia. In 2018, Griffiths released a music album, 1800, with his collaborators (Katrina Griffiths and Travis MacDonald) under the name Big Supermaket.Born 1948 in Pasadena, California, B. Wurtz is best known for his playful and compelling sculptures constructed from discarded materials like produce packaging, construction lumber, and plastic bags. He received a BA from the University of California at Berkeley in 1970, and an MFA from the California Institute of the Arts, Valencia, in 1980. The sculptor and painter currently lives and works in New York, New York. B. Wurtz's repurposing of everyday flotsam into joyous, humorous, and beautiful objects undermine grand artistic gesture while elevating the commonplace. The artist's transformative amalgams of found materials have tended to coalesce around the subjects of "sleeping, eating, and keeping warm"—the foundational human needs named in his 1973 drawing Three Important Things. While his sculptures are often modest in scale, in 2018, the artist created his now iconic Kitchen Trees for the New York City Public Art Fund, transforming City Hall Park with towering columns of colorful colanders exploding with plastic fruit. Wurtz has been the subject of over 52 solo exhibitions at prestigious venues including: Feature Inc. (1987, 1991, 1992, 2001, 2003, 2006, New York); Gallery 400 (2000, Chicago); White Flag Projects (2012, St. Louis); Kunstverein (2015, Freiburg, Germany); and the Aldrich Contemporary Art Museum, (2015, Ridgefield, Connecticut). In 2015, the BALTIC Centre for Contemporary Art, Gateshead, United Kingdom mounted a retrospective exhibition of the artist's work that traveled to La Casa Encendida, Madrid through 2016. In 2018, the Institute of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles mounted a major solo exhibition of his work, This Has No Name. His work has also been included in over 174 group exhibitions including: Pandora's Box: Joseph Cornell Unlocks the MCA Collection (2011, Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago); Building Blocks: Contemporary Works from the Collection (2011, Museum of Art, Rhode Island School of Design, Providence); and Brand New: Art and Commodity in the 1980s (2018, Hirshhorn Museum, Washington DC). https://theselectioncommittee.com/Phyllis-Baldino Wed, 18 Feb 2026 22:35:11 +0000 Nate Heiges https://theselectioncommittee.com/Phyllis-Baldino <img width="1691" height="1110" width_o="1691" height_o="1110" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/d80638610bce96b23fe62b705445d4326b532ff288ee6535667f713e1a7d57ee/GrayBandInstall_Photo_Karl_Peterson.jpg" data-mid="245055246" border="0" alt="April 1994: The Gray Band (installation view)" data-caption="April 1994: The Gray Band (installation view)" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/d80638610bce96b23fe62b705445d4326b532ff288ee6535667f713e1a7d57ee/GrayBandInstall_Photo_Karl_Peterson.jpg" /> <img width="1650" height="1107" width_o="1650" height_o="1107" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/af45f7fa061c4f27b37a7b2731e9a7a505d3ec609cc52a290e71a1e93393fdd3/GrayBandList.jpg" data-mid="245055247" border="0" alt="April 1994: The Gray Band" data-caption="April 1994: The Gray Band" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/af45f7fa061c4f27b37a7b2731e9a7a505d3ec609cc52a290e71a1e93393fdd3/GrayBandList.jpg" /> <img width="1768" height="994" width_o="1768" height_o="994" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/06f7a48af63d9bf3072d23b2a14a1fc39501fc245f8104630f48f379e3e01508/Baldino_FakeNatureBox_still_Jimi.png" data-mid="245567076" border="0" alt="Still from &quot;Fake Nature Box&quot;" data-caption="Still from &quot;Fake Nature Box&quot;" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/06f7a48af63d9bf3072d23b2a14a1fc39501fc245f8104630f48f379e3e01508/Baldino_FakeNatureBox_still_Jimi.png" /> <img width="1765" height="994" width_o="1765" height_o="994" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/c042cded3efb34b015876aa28490425237580a7033288fb1f62327f11ff429d9/Baldino_FakeNatureBox_elephant.png" data-mid="245567075" border="0" alt="Still from &quot;Fake Nature Box&quot;" data-caption="Still from &quot;Fake Nature Box&quot;" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/c042cded3efb34b015876aa28490425237580a7033288fb1f62327f11ff429d9/Baldino_FakeNatureBox_elephant.png" /> <img width="1770" height="990" width_o="1770" height_o="990" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/42d6600a92ed8ab227302aecdbced98faa6a7888e3175734a9c2b733b56da712/Baldino_Hit_thegroundrunning_still_MLang1.png" data-mid="245567078" border="0" alt="Still from &quot;Hit thegroundrunning&quot;" data-caption="Still from &quot;Hit thegroundrunning&quot;" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/42d6600a92ed8ab227302aecdbced98faa6a7888e3175734a9c2b733b56da712/Baldino_Hit_thegroundrunning_still_MLang1.png" /> <img width="1771" height="993" width_o="1771" height_o="993" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/8a6b3ace89f0f5d892dc1835ac3d5d52d88f0bbe8b4c1a2840d78ed165b6f83c/Baldino_Hit_thegroundrunning_still_Camnam.png" data-mid="245567077" border="0" alt="Still from &quot;Hit thegroundrunning&quot;" data-caption="Still from &quot;Hit thegroundrunning&quot;" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/8a6b3ace89f0f5d892dc1835ac3d5d52d88f0bbe8b4c1a2840d78ed165b6f83c/Baldino_Hit_thegroundrunning_still_Camnam.png" /> <img width="3000" height="3000" width_o="3000" height_o="3000" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/10bc35b2ed8fca3fcc8530f6ddcbc3de3698a3ec9cc9c7e4279f5bccc67d4c91/Baldino_Ambrotype_France2020.jpeg" data-mid="245567074" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/10bc35b2ed8fca3fcc8530f6ddcbc3de3698a3ec9cc9c7e4279f5bccc67d4c91/Baldino_Ambrotype_France2020.jpeg" /> Phyllis Baldino February 24, 2026 The great artist Phyllis Baldino graduated from the Hartford Art School at the University of Hartford as a dedicated sculptor. But a few years later, a chance encounter with a generous subletter with a trunk full of video cameras changed the course of her life. She began making video pieces on her Sony Handycam in the early 90s in what would become the remarkable Gray Area Series. Inspired by books about fuzzy logic, each video records a sequence of actions by Baldino on common household objects that are—sometimes aggressively—deconstructed and repurposed. In Wine Rack/Not Wine Rack, for example, a wooden thrift store wine rack is sawed up to accommodate a 4L jug of blush wine. In April 1994: The Gray Band, Baldino gathered together four musician friends, Dez Cadena, Lynn Johnston, Tom Watson, and Mike Watt, to reconstruct instruments that she disassembled and play a single song: Gloria Gaynor's "I Will Survive.” Baldino's musical selection for the show includes great songs from each of these artists as well as music that has influenced her work or been included in her work. Baldino's abiding interest in the intersection of science and the everyday has led to fascinating works about nanotechnology (Nano-cadabra, 1998), quantum mechanics (Baldino-Neutrino, 2003), and parallel universe theory (19 Universes/my brother, 2004). She has been exploring issues of climate change in works like u_n_d_e_r_w_a_t_e_r, 2019 and Fake Nature Box, 2021. It was through research on the Little Ice Age (1300 - 1850) that Baldino arrived at the process that is powering her current body of work. Learning about horrific stories of women accused of witchcraft and weather magic instilled in her the desire to speak firsthand with witnesses to the events. So she turned to an experienced friend and a Ouija board to find out what really happened: whether weather what was the result. Continuing this process led to Hit thegroundrunning, 2025, about immigrants to the US who came through Ellis Island in New York as children. What is it like communicating with the dead? Listen in to find out! We discuss all this work as well as some of the vicissitudes of making video art. It’s a fascinating conversation with a truly unique artist. Information about the work can be found on www.phyllisbaldino.com. Complete playlist below; tracks in yellow were cut for time. Indeterminacy (clip), John Cage and David Tudor, 1959Guitar Solo at Toad's, The B Willie Smith Band&nbsp; &nbsp; Merle Rock A Bye, Steve Baldino&nbsp; &nbsp; Another Day, Another Night; Steve Baldino, 2005&nbsp; &nbsp; You Know I Love You, The B Willie Smith Band&nbsp; &nbsp; No More (Dez Cadena Version), Black Flag, 1982&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;Walking The Cow, Firehose, 1991 The Letter, The Red Krayola, 1995Little Rootie Tootie, CRUEL FREDERICK, 1991 Love, More Love; The United Society of Shakers, 1996 Who Will Blow and Bend Like the Willow, The United Society of Shakers, 1996 Auber: Manon Lescaut - C'Est L'Histoire Amoureuse, Amelita Galli-Curci, 1917 Nessuno, Mina, 1959 Stars (Live – Montreux Jazz Festival 1976), Nina Simone, 1976 Nell'Ufficio Di Produzione Di Otto E Mezzo, Nino Rota, 1962 Tighten Up, Archie Bell &amp; The Drells, 1968 Kimberly, Patti Smith, 1975 96 Tears, ? &amp; The Mysterians, 1966 Chan Chan - Dúo con Elíades Ochoa, Cuba Segundo&nbsp; &nbsp; The Wind Cries Mary, Jimi Hendrix, 1967For What It's Worth, Buffalo Springfield, 1966 They're Red Hot, Robert Johnson, 1937 &nbsp; Andy Warhol - 2015 Remaster, David Bowie, 1971 I'll Never Get Out Of This World Alive, Hank Williams, 1954 Mercedes Benz, Janis Joplin, 1971 Phyllis Baldino is a conceptual artist whose work merges performance, video, sculpture, and installation combining an exploration of perception ranging from the everyday to scientific inquiry with extensive research to make work that creates its own logic. She has had one-person exhibitions at Wexner Center for the Arts, Columbus, Ohio and Contemporary Art Center, Cincinnati, Ohio. Her work has been featured in group exhibitions at the Museum of Modern Art, New York; P.S.1 Contemporary Art Center, New York; Whitney Museum of American Art, New York; Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam; Guggenheim Museum Soho, New York. Baldino’s work is in the collection of the Museum of Modern Art, New York, and the M+ Museum in Hong Kong. Baldino received a Preservation Grant from the NEA to digitize her video work in 2021 and was nominated for the Anonymous Was A Woman award in 2020. Baldino earned a B.F.A. in sculpture from the Hartford Art School, University of Hartford, Connecticut. https://theselectioncommittee.com/Alexander-Dumbadze Sat, 24 Jan 2026 21:35:24 +0000 Nate Heiges https://theselectioncommittee.com/Alexander-Dumbadze <img width="2320" height="3088" width_o="2320" height_o="3088" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/e4b84f02c0dcddf032ce9dbb5502250a28dabd960076ef20fe2b8d61e17343cb/Dumbadze-Author-Photo.jpeg" data-mid="243918629" border="0" data-scale="63" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/e4b84f02c0dcddf032ce9dbb5502250a28dabd960076ef20fe2b8d61e17343cb/Dumbadze-Author-Photo.jpeg" /> <img width="1241" height="1874" width_o="1241" height_o="1874" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/05b23ee658cc4ffb459e342cc538c0973a545441154a85e03d7d04b77c4d47de/Jack-Goldstein_cover.jpg" data-mid="243918630" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/05b23ee658cc4ffb459e342cc538c0973a545441154a85e03d7d04b77c4d47de/Jack-Goldstein_cover.jpg" /> Alexander Dumbadze January 27, 2026I first met the charming art historian Alexander Dumbadze when he was my TA in a Richard Schiff class at the University of Texas at Austin. In the years since, Dumbadze has produced a focused body of work, including his two books “Bas Jan Ader: Death Is Elsewhere” and the just-published “Jack Goldstein: All Day Night Sky.” Combining biography, traditional art history, and theory, these books are eminently readable portraits of two remarkable people. Both artists died prematurely—Ader was lost at sea during a transatlantic solo voyage at 33 and Goldstein by his own hand at 57— and both are big, mythic figures in the art world. What happens when the idea of the artist dominates the work that they make, when the myth precedes them and hovers around their art? Both artists were searching for a fundamental truth—Ader by making art that was unmediated and could communicate without representational systems and Goldstein through deep exploration of the possibilities of the representational image. Dumbadze walks us through Jack Goldstein’s life and times, from his early student days at Chouinard and Cal Arts, to his social circles and his time in New York City, and ultimately to the end of his life in California. We discuss Goldstein’s major bodies of work and his tendentious relationship to artistic mediums. Most of all we talk about Goldstein’s efforts to make an ideal image, something pure that is also a fundamental experience: an unsustainable moment of intensity. Dumbadze considers the books on Ader and Goldstein to be part of a trilogy of works, and he is currently working on the third and final book in the series: a novel set in the 1970s about a conceptual artist who only makes works in his head. I am very much looking forward to seeing how this book will continue the questions, problems, and possibilities that Dumbadze is dealing with in art history! Complete playlist below; tracks in yellow were cut for time. The Headmaster Ritual, The Smiths, 1985 Save It for Later, The English Beat, 1982 Ceremony, New Order, 1987 O Superman, Laurie Anderson, 1982 Uncertain Smile, The The, 1983 Freak Scene, Dinosaur Jr., 1988 Death or Glory, The Clash, 1979 What the World Is Waiting For, The Stone Roses, 1989 Star Sign&nbsp; &nbsp; , Teenage Fanclub&nbsp; &nbsp; , 1991 Rattlesnakes, Lloyd Cole and the Commotions&nbsp; &nbsp; , 1984 Anesthesia, Luna, 1992 6’1”, Liz Phair, 1993 Miss Modular, Stereolab, 1997 That's Entertainment, The Jam, 1980 The State I Am In, Belle and Sebastian, 1996 Sooner Or Later, The Feelies, 1991 Corona, Minutemen, 1984 Our Lips Are Sealed, The Go-Go’s, 1981Alexander Dumbadze is Associate Professor of Art History. He is the author of Bas Jan Ader: Death Is Elsewhere (University of Chicago Press, 2013; paperback 2015) as well as co-editor and co-author of Contemporary Art: 1989 to the Present (Wiley-Blackwell, 2013; Korean translation, 2015). He is currently writing Jack Goldstein: All Day Night Sky. His essays and criticism have been published in a variety of national and international publications. A recipient of a Creative Capital | Warhol Foundation Arts Writers Grant, Dumbadze was a Visiting Professor of Art History at the Université Paris 8 Vincennes – Saint-Denis in 2012. He is also a co-founder and former president of the Society of Contemporary Art Historians. He teaches courses on contemporary art, theory, and historiography. https://theselectioncommittee.com/Sam-Anderson-Returns Sun, 11 Jan 2026 16:48:07 +0000 Nate Heiges https://theselectioncommittee.com/Sam-Anderson-Returns <img width="961" height="1440" width_o="961" height_o="1440" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/2c5f1f9a84d1e6676cbbeea8f2d373e6c4411e634e39bbe6ae0fe8558b13ff57/SA006-e.jpg" data-mid="243088734" border="0" data-scale="45" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/961/i/2c5f1f9a84d1e6676cbbeea8f2d373e6c4411e634e39bbe6ae0fe8558b13ff57/SA006-e.jpg" /> Sam Anderson Returns! January 13, 2026 Artist Sam Anderson returns with a new selection of music that continues our journey into the world of synthesizers that started with her first appearance in 2021. Anderson breaks down every track, giving us an in-depth history of the instruments, contexts, and the artists who made them. She focuses especially on legendary pioneers of synth/electronic music like Suzanne Ciani, Shiho Yabuki, and Raymond Scott. Anderson’s most recent project started when she discovered a draft of a one-act play written in the 1970s by her mother, the late actress Conchata Ferrell. Using notes and journals that she inherited as well as other resources from the time, Anderson finished the play, The Wolf Is an Endangered Species. It's about five women in a theater company working to put on a play. Themes of relationships, competition, and the difficulties for women of working in a male-dominated field are still very relevant today. In December, she produced, directed, and starred in a production of the show at 15 Orient gallery in New York City, and in the spring she plans to produce it in Los Angeles. We discuss Anderson’s mysterious and evocative sculptural work, including her pieces E Number 1-11 and TV from her 2017 show “The Park” at Sculpture Center in New York City. TV comprised a weathervane positioned outside the museum that determined the soundtrack for the gallery below; one of eight pieces composed by Anderson and her partner would play depending on which way the wind blew. It is emblematic of Anderson's concerns with space, sound, story, and fate. In this music-forward episode, we talk about the psychoactive properties of sound and how it can be used for better or for worse. In Anderson’s playlist, it is used for good! Listen on Mixcloud here At The Store, Ernest Hood, 2019 Footprints on the Moon, Johnny Harris, 1969 The Inspector Clouseau Theme, Henry Mancini, 1982 Thatcherie (from "Inner Space",) Sven Libaek, 2006 Ride a White Horse (Tiny Surf,) Sven Libaek, 2013 Le carnaval des animaux, R. 125: VII. Aquarium; Camille Saint-Saëns, Pascal Rogé, Cristina Ortiz, London Sinfonietta, Charles Dutoit; 1980 Baby Elephant Walk, Henry Mancini, 1962 Track Of The Cat, Pram, 2003 Tomoshibi, Shiho Yabuki, 2018 The Seventh Wave - Sailing Away, Suzanne Ciani, 1982 Pompeii 76 A.D., Gail Laughton, 2013 Deep Distance, Ashra, 1977 Sleepy Time, Raymond Scott, 1995 Tempo Block, Raymond Scott, 1995 Noonday Yellows, Ernest Hood, 2022 Sam Anderson is a sculptor whose work explores the fragile interplay between memory and the material world, as much through language as through form. Her rigorously arranged, often minimal compositions combine figures and objects that feel both intimately familiar and unsettlingly existential. Using materials such as clay, metal, plastic, resin, reclaimed wood, and fabric alongside everyday objects, Anderson constructs scenes that oscillate between the poetic and the uncanny, humor and pathos. Drawing from the visual language of American literature and cinema, personal history, and the slippages of linguistic play, Anderson’s work probes how meaning is constructed and deconstructed. Her sculptures inhabit the sad, often absurd space between expectation and desire, functioning like prototypes—she believes the prototype of an idea is often more sincere and open-ended than its final result. By reconfiguring interchangeable, everyday materials, she uncovers the latent narratives embedded within the mundane. Bio courtesy Derosia https://theselectioncommittee.com/Pam-Lins Thu, 04 Dec 2025 12:36:12 +0000 Nate Heiges https://theselectioncommittee.com/Pam-Lins <img width="2400" height="1800" width_o="2400" height_o="1800" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/7717cfbc5161e49c8c055050d3a8d03d24989ac4a5f832b37fd8c08cb05ccc09/202511_uffner_liu_main-02_3k.jpg" data-mid="241404240" border="0" alt="&quot;Laterness&quot; with Roger White at Uffner and Liu, 2025" data-caption="&quot;Laterness&quot; with Roger White at Uffner and Liu, 2025" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/7717cfbc5161e49c8c055050d3a8d03d24989ac4a5f832b37fd8c08cb05ccc09/202511_uffner_liu_main-02_3k.jpg" /> <img width="1656" height="1656" width_o="1656" height_o="1656" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/12e6965994fe0054f35ef43007afc12e8c322c268daee2ce7335c285f6c51b2e/Screenshot-2025-12-23-at-12.15.44PM.png" data-mid="242111413" border="0" alt="&quot;The Rock,&quot; 2020" data-caption="&quot;The Rock,&quot; 2020" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/12e6965994fe0054f35ef43007afc12e8c322c268daee2ce7335c285f6c51b2e/Screenshot-2025-12-23-at-12.15.44PM.png" /> <img width="1786" height="1654" width_o="1786" height_o="1654" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/6640dc8b761a4333af628cfde3ebdeabbfcecf6eab1a0158e9ee2e39731629b1/Screenshot-2025-12-23-at-12.16.33PM.png" data-mid="242111414" border="0" alt="&quot;model model model&quot; at Rachel Uffner, 2015" data-caption="&quot;model model model&quot; at Rachel Uffner, 2015" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/6640dc8b761a4333af628cfde3ebdeabbfcecf6eab1a0158e9ee2e39731629b1/Screenshot-2025-12-23-at-12.16.33PM.png" /> <img width="2184" height="1652" width_o="2184" height_o="1652" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/b6e01aae4adf7cad20877e12039f51456d7cfd78b5d6c02e15f8f5632f339d8e/Screenshot-2025-12-23-at-12.18.05PM.png" data-mid="242111415" border="0" alt="&quot;Owl&quot; at Rachel Uffner, 2009" data-caption="&quot;Owl&quot; at Rachel Uffner, 2009" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/b6e01aae4adf7cad20877e12039f51456d7cfd78b5d6c02e15f8f5632f339d8e/Screenshot-2025-12-23-at-12.18.05PM.png" /> <img width="1142" height="1654" width_o="1142" height_o="1654" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/fd5ecd4efae5a2d0feb6508263ee2488f4d04b9884a7f4d11e0dad62d3f59dd4/Screenshot-2025-12-23-at-12.19.28PM.png" data-mid="242111416" border="0" alt="&quot;Problem Pictures Sources&quot; at Rachel Uffner, 2010" data-caption="&quot;Problem Pictures Sources&quot; at Rachel Uffner, 2010" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/fd5ecd4efae5a2d0feb6508263ee2488f4d04b9884a7f4d11e0dad62d3f59dd4/Screenshot-2025-12-23-at-12.19.28PM.png" /> <img width="2200" height="1652" width_o="2200" height_o="1652" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/0e9eef980e48c3268f5752663cfaf2e862aa598612331a4118f0f6ba1a12892a/Screenshot-2025-12-23-at-12.20.51PM.png" data-mid="242111417" border="0" alt="&quot;Win Me Free&quot; at Silo, NY, 2005" data-caption="&quot;Win Me Free&quot; at Silo, NY, 2005" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/0e9eef980e48c3268f5752663cfaf2e862aa598612331a4118f0f6ba1a12892a/Screenshot-2025-12-23-at-12.20.51PM.png" /> <img width="1247" height="1274" width_o="1247" height_o="1274" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/b4f170453a0b2c5c3b25ade8cf4ab0b83d8aa14243dc1947a342c666a4f72481/c8288430-717b-4093-975f-7396167b6be1.jpeg" data-mid="242111419" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/b4f170453a0b2c5c3b25ade8cf4ab0b83d8aa14243dc1947a342c666a4f72481/c8288430-717b-4093-975f-7396167b6be1.jpeg" /> <img width="692" height="993" width_o="692" height_o="993" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/5c93faaf8af3e789688675862dbe304be5f42345240b75e0a9a90228e9129d15/da9b9918-bb7c-4dee-aee0-3afd184350f8.jpeg" data-mid="242111420" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/692/i/5c93faaf8af3e789688675862dbe304be5f42345240b75e0a9a90228e9129d15/da9b9918-bb7c-4dee-aee0-3afd184350f8.jpeg" /> <img width="3096" height="1742" width_o="3096" height_o="1742" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/a06b4af9484883cb9db236d5aa75fb20f130d64516996787c595e53811393ee4/Screenshot-2025-12-23-at-12.23.16PM.png" data-mid="242111429" border="0" alt="SMLXL Drums, 2011 - present" data-caption="SMLXL Drums, 2011 - present" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/a06b4af9484883cb9db236d5aa75fb20f130d64516996787c595e53811393ee4/Screenshot-2025-12-23-at-12.23.16PM.png" /> Pam Lins December 16, 2025 The wonderful Pam Lins joins us to share some favorite studio songs and talk about “Laterness,” her two-person show with Roger White at Uffner and Liu gallery in New York City through January 10, 2026. The title of the exhibition came from a conversation the artists had in the wake of Donald Trump’s second presidential victory: is it too late for action? How can one make work that is both an inflection and reflection of the political moment? What does it mean to be a maker situated in history? The exhibition features collage works by White and sculptural floor works by Lins comprising quasi-modernist forms made from USPS flat-rate shipping boxes and ceramic birds inspired by John James Audubon’s (imaginary) “Mystery Birds.” A collaborative project by Lins and White inspired by Lins’ research into visionary architect and artist Frederick Kiesler forms the second part of the show. We dive deep into the role that investigations into history and archives play in her work, particularly the idea that bringing concepts and forms from the past into the present can illuminate the political and aesthetic economies of both times. Looking at past exhibitions and bodies of work as well as past lives—a jeweler!—Lins charts her idiosyncratic relationship to craft, form, subject matter, and the complicated histories of sculpture and painting. With characteristic midwestern humility and wit, Lins talks about other collaborations, cultivating mushrooms, the vagaries of scale, the Vkhutemas school in 1920s Moscow, and whether or not sculpture is based on lying. Truly an enjoyable conversation with a singular artist! Calling Occupants Of Interplanetary Craft (The Recognized Anthem Of World Contact Day), Carpenters, 1977 More Than This, 10,000 Maniacs, 1997 (Theme From) Valley of the Dolls, Dionne Warwick, 1968 The Letter, Arthur Russell, 2004 Everybody's Talkin' - From "Midnight Cowboy", Harry Nilsson, 1968 La La Love You, Pixies, 1989 Everybody's Talkin', Iggy Pop, 2022 Let Love Flow On, Sonya Spence, 1981 Fast Car, Tracy Chapman, 1988 Killing Me Softly With His Song, Fugees, Ms. Lauryn Hill, 1996 Silly Games, Janet Kay, 2016 Single Ladies (Put a Ring on It), Beyoncé, 2008 Superstar, Sonic Youth, 1994 Rockin' Back Inside My Heart, Julee Cruise, 1989 TNT, Tortoise, 1998 These Days, Cat Power, 2022 I'm Easy, Keith Carradine, 1975 Women of the World: Take Over, Jim O'Rourke, 2025 Jet Plane, Sonya Spence, 1978 Waterfalls, TLC, 1994 I Say a Little Prayer, Aretha Franklin, 1968 Let the River Run, Carly Simon, 1989 Pam Lins (b. Chicago, IL) earned an MFA from Hunter College, New York, NY in 1995. The artist has been in institutional exhibitions at venues including the American Academy of Arts and Letters, New York, NY (2022); Aldrich Contemporary Art Museum, Ridgefield, CT (2018); Museum of Contemporary Art Detroit, Detroit, MI (2017); White Columns, New York, NY (2015); the Lewis Center for the Arts at Princeton University, Princeton, NJ (2015); The Tang Museum, Saratoga Springs, NY (2012); The Suburban, Chicago, IL (2012); the Brooklyn Museum, Brooklyn, NY (2012); CCS Bard Galleries, Annadale-on-Hudson, NY (2012); Artists Space, New York, NY (2005); and the Socrates Sculpture Park, Queens, NY (2004). Lins has recently worked with artist-run spaces including Room 3557, Los Angeles, CA (2024) and was recently honored at the the KAJE Annual Benefit (2025). The artist was included in the 2014 Whitney Biennial, and is the recipient of multiple awards and fellowships, including The Louis Comfort Tiffany Foundation Award, The Anonymous Was A Woman Award, The Brown University Howard Foundation Fellowship, The John Simon Guggenheim Foundation Fellowship Award and the David and Roberta Logie Fellowship at the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study at Harvard University. In 2007, Pam Lins and Trisha Baga cofounded Ceramics Club, an ever-evolving, direct action organization that brings artists together to collaborate and raise money for a variety of progressive causes. Ceramics Club will partner with White Columns for an upcoming benefit exhibition in November 2025. Lins has held teaching positions at The Cooper Union, The Milton Avery MFA Program at Bard College, and Princeton University where she is currently the Interim Director or the Visual Arts Program. Her work is in the permanent collection of the Tang Museum, Saratoga Springs, NY. Lins lives and works in Brooklyn, NY. https://theselectioncommittee.com/Meredith-James-1 Sun, 30 Nov 2025 22:16:59 +0000 Nate Heiges https://theselectioncommittee.com/Meredith-James-1 <img width="4497" height="6000" width_o="4497" height_o="6000" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/59b8c062eb423b61c25e43ae44699736f0b6307118135a4cc971bea3fb10b042/2.jpg" data-mid="241314204" border="0" alt="South 50&deg; East (C-Stand, Column), 2025, Wood, aluminum, acrylic paint, magic sculpt, plastic film, led lights, 25 x 25 x 18.5 inches" data-caption="South 50° East (C-Stand, Column), 2025, Wood, aluminum, acrylic paint, magic sculpt, plastic film, led lights, 25 x 25 x 18.5 inches" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/59b8c062eb423b61c25e43ae44699736f0b6307118135a4cc971bea3fb10b042/2.jpg" /> <img width="4498" height="6000" width_o="4498" height_o="6000" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/430de89ef29e62a714a354cd9b416a3cedef2cb766adc5ea2f11258063cf18c6/Unknown.jpg" data-mid="241314208" border="0" alt="South 50&deg; East (C-Stand, Column), 2025, Wood, aluminum, acrylic paint, magic sculpt, plastic film, led lights, 25 x 25 x 18.5 inches" data-caption="South 50° East (C-Stand, Column), 2025, Wood, aluminum, acrylic paint, magic sculpt, plastic film, led lights, 25 x 25 x 18.5 inches" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/430de89ef29e62a714a354cd9b416a3cedef2cb766adc5ea2f11258063cf18c6/Unknown.jpg" /> <img width="1800" height="1038" width_o="1800" height_o="1038" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/c2c8029b7cf113d0341d53363a657abc2259b8df1b2b9fe8e28a6e1cb302502d/delmar.jpg" data-mid="241542452" border="0" alt="Delmar, 2014 (play by Julia Jarcho)" data-caption="Delmar, 2014 (play by Julia Jarcho)" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/c2c8029b7cf113d0341d53363a657abc2259b8df1b2b9fe8e28a6e1cb302502d/delmar.jpg" /> <img width="1800" height="1200" width_o="1800" height_o="1200" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/b99ad839c3d9419ae5b8a20668846234270ca468c103ff27013cd8b4627771f1/Land-Lock--2014.jpg" data-mid="241542453" border="0" alt="Land Lock, 2014" data-caption="Land Lock, 2014" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/b99ad839c3d9419ae5b8a20668846234270ca468c103ff27013cd8b4627771f1/Land-Lock--2014.jpg" /> <img width="1800" height="1265" width_o="1800" height_o="1265" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/6576c94e6da36f8bb41f15b9910939f8f4481c718a216b4944ad6a0abe3bf605/Day-Shift-2009.jpg" data-mid="241542451" border="0" alt="Day Shift, 2009" data-caption="Day Shift, 2009" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/6576c94e6da36f8bb41f15b9910939f8f4481c718a216b4944ad6a0abe3bf605/Day-Shift-2009.jpg" /> <img width="1800" height="1200" width_o="1800" height_o="1200" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/405e36083c785a68cb217241cd89eb972f7522b86997417c3fce6f7f03d599d4/4.jpg" data-mid="241314206" border="0" alt="Far from this setting in which I now find myself, 2017, Rose Kennedy Greenway, Boston, MA" data-caption="Far from this setting in which I now find myself, 2017, Rose Kennedy Greenway, Boston, MA" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/405e36083c785a68cb217241cd89eb972f7522b86997417c3fce6f7f03d599d4/4.jpg" /> <img width="1800" height="1200" width_o="1800" height_o="1200" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/f43a75154f315bc6142d182b925842ac29ba5704b4085cbf6864066cdb596eb5/Quebec.jpg" data-mid="241542454" border="0" alt="Four Frames, 2022, Lieu Historique National Cartier-Br&eacute;beuf Quebec City, Canada" data-caption="Four Frames, 2022, Lieu Historique National Cartier-Brébeuf Quebec City, Canada" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/f43a75154f315bc6142d182b925842ac29ba5704b4085cbf6864066cdb596eb5/Quebec.jpg" /> <img width="1800" height="1200" width_o="1800" height_o="1200" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/f8b6a322483e7ddc48df3f6468065d9ce5d9408fe94f58c22eba9507ae69857d/3.jpg" data-mid="241314205" border="0" alt="Mobius City, 2015, sculptural apartment: wood and acyrlic paint, 25 x 16 x 11 feet, video: HD video, no sound, 7 minutes, 56 seconds. Installation at The Queens Museum, Queens, NY." data-caption="Mobius City, 2015, sculptural apartment: wood and acyrlic paint, 25 x 16 x 11 feet, video: HD video, no sound, 7 minutes, 56 seconds. Installation at The Queens Museum, Queens, NY." src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/f8b6a322483e7ddc48df3f6468065d9ce5d9408fe94f58c22eba9507ae69857d/3.jpg" /> <img width="896" height="804" width_o="896" height_o="804" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/b528887daaa97e1219ae50c43c72731926b7da46c01902f9496424bd2006bfaf/photo-crop.jpg" data-mid="241314207" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/896/i/b528887daaa97e1219ae50c43c72731926b7da46c01902f9496424bd2006bfaf/photo-crop.jpg" /> Meredith James December 2, 2025The charming artist Meredith James joins the Selection Committee Radio Show to discuss her current show “The Exit” at Marinaro Gallery in New York through December 13, 2025. In 2019, James became intrigued by a building near her home in TriBeCa. After some finagling she managed to get inside and take some pictures of an abandoned office space—designed for efficiency with low cubicles and drop ceilings—which eventually led to the work in “The Exit.” Depicted in each of the four photographs in the exhibition is a mirror, and reflected in each of the mirrors is another mirror. James then translated the resulting mesh of nested spaces into four exquisitely produced dioramas which represent the reflected images in a fractured, uncanny three dimensions. Each one is a kind of ontological puzzle box, with the viewer trying to piece together the logic of the space and missing, like a vampire, her own reflection. James’ focus on the relationship between image, space, and experience is evident in her earlier work as well. Day Shift, 2009, features a security guard who watches a closed-circuit monitor of what looks like the same office she is sitting in. She leaves the office and walks through whatever space the work is shown in (James reshoots this part of the video every time the work is shown in a new place) and goes out to her truck—where she climbs through the back window into a miniaturized version of the office space. The video is then displayed on the closed-circuit monitor in the miniaturized office space installed in the gallery, retranslating the logic of cinema and dreams back into the real world. Her work often incorporates these kinds of practical effects as well as optical illusions that push questions of scale and perspective, and she insistently uses only analog effects. We discuss many more of James’ pieces, including her large-scale public sculptures, and what it means for people to interact with her work, particularly people outside the art world. James is a sculptor at heart, and we talk about her belief from childhood that objects can carry with them not only the history of their use and the lives they have touched, but also past time itself. In that sense her work doesn’t just create visual and conceptual loops, but time loops as well. Inspired by sources as varied as Maya Deren, Chantal Ackerman, walks around the city, and the cartoon Adventure Time, James’ work always contains a sincere meditation on the time and space of living. Along with a playlist of very personal songs, Meredith brings an illuminating conversation about her kaleidoscopic point of view. Seven Days: Tuesday Afternoon, Gregory Spears, Pedja Muzijevic, 2025Rain, The Clientele, 2000 (I Can’t Seem to) Make You Mine, The Clientele, 2005 Place To Be, Nick Drake, 1972 The Devil Is Loose, Asha Puthli, 1976 I'll Be Your Mirror, The Velvet Underground, 1967 Pillow Talk, Sylvia, 1996&nbsp; Hey Cowboy, Lee Hazelwood &amp; Nina Lizell, 1970 Happy New Year, Camera Obscura, 2001 By the Sea, Wendy &amp; Bonnie, 1969 Time Adventure (feat. Olivia Olson, Niki Yang &amp; Hynden Walch), Adventure Time, 2018 Waving to You (feat. Rebecca Sugar), Adventure Time, 2018 Source Decay, The Mountain Goats, 2002 Another Girl Another Planet, The Only Ones, 2006 Granny, Vic Chesnutt, 2009 Charlie Zink, Bob Martin, 1972 Chelsea Hotel #2, Leonard Cohen, 2002 Every You Every Me, Placebo, 1998 Where Is My Mind?, Pixies, 1988 Clouds, Hiroshi Yoshimura, 2017 Meredith James completed her AB at Harvard University and her MFA at Yale University. She had a museum exhibition at the Queens Museum, NY and has had solo shows at Jack Hanley Gallery, NY; LaMontange Gallery, Boston; and Marc Jancou, NY. She has installed major public art projects at Socrates Sculpture Park, NY; The Rose Kennedy Greenway, Boston; and Lieu Histrorique National Center-Brébeuf, Quebec City.