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KALX Art Crush
We Have a Crush on Alicia McCarthy
Season 1, Ep. 1
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We visit the studio of Oakland artist Alicia McCarthy. McCarthy is known for being a member of the ‘Mission School’ (a title she shies away from) and creates colorful, detailed abstracts in paint and colored pencils. She is a 2017 winner of SFMOMA’s SECA award, and is currently working on a large-scale glass installation for the San Francisco Airport. Her studio is full of her own work, and also the work of friends alive and dead. We adore her. We interview her in a storage shelf. McCarthy doesn’t have a website but she is represented by Jack Hanley gallery (http://www.jackhanley.com/artists/alicia-mccarthy) and can be found on Instagram at @helloforevor (https://www.instagram.com/helloforevor/)
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2. We Have a Crush on Angela Hennessy
25:24We visit the Oakland warehouse studio of California artist Angela Hennessy. Hennessy is a professor at the California College of the Arts and works with synthetic and human hair. Her work explores death and mourning in relationship to mythologies and experiences of Blackness. Her solo show, ‘When and Where I Enter’ at Southern Exposure included immense abstract sculptures, a person-sized crocheted rainbow of hair, an artist talk with three other queer Black female Oakland artists, and a mourning wreath made of hair and gold. We are in love. We interview her in her sunlit studio as trucks rumble by. See her work at angelahennessy.com