IZHAR PATKIN: The Making of The Black Paintings
Some Serious Business and Howl! Happening are pleased to present “Izhar Patkin: The Making of The Black Paintings.”
Susan Martin
SSB AWAY TUSCANY RESIDENCY RESCHEDULED FOR THE FALL
On a 40-acre working olive oil farm just outside the tiny hamlet of Petroio, SSB and artist Carey Maxon offer artists a tranquil sanctuary.
Our Heads Are Round So Our Thoughts Can Change Direction*
As Creative Consultants for Howl! Happening, SSB works with a talented group of people who are artists and innovators in their own right. We’re happy to showcase two members of that multi-dimensional team.
SSB AWAY: Residency at Plaza Blanca, Abiquiu
In a rugged desert environment in northern New Mexico, SSB AWAY offers a 2-week residency on Plaza Blanca (“the white place”), memorialized in countless paintings by Georgia O’Keeffe.
Edificio Mercurio – A New Poem by Ariana Reines
Vomit-colored curtain | A little ripped | No air | Cameras | Screen behind the judges | The killers’ combed white heads
#FIFTYQUESTIONS: Paul Pinto on Sincerity, Coffee, Loss, Joy, and Being a Shape-Shifting Space Creature
Paul Pinto takes on six of SomeSeriousBusiness’s #FiftyQuestions.
CHRISTEN CLIFFORD ANSWERS A FEW OF OUR #FIFTYQUESTIONS
My work really shifted after my daughter was born ten years ago. I was walking down Bedford in Brooklyn and a young woman stopped me on the street to compliment me on a performance she had seen me do. [That’s when] I realized my audience was mostly younger women.
SSB Presents FeMaLe GEniUs in Albuquerque and Santa Fe
FeMaLe GEniUs will appear in Albuquerque on August 1 and in Santa Fe on August 3.
2019: FEMINIST ARTIST CHRISTEN CLIFFORD COMES TO PLAZA BLANCA
Some Serious Business is pleased to host multidisciplinary artist, writer, mother, professor, and curator Christen Clifford as part of SSB AWAY’s artist-in-residence program in Abiquiu, New Mexico.
MICHIE GLEASON ANSWERS A DOZEN OF OUR #FIFTYQUESTIONS
As Michie starts her residency in Tuscany, we asked her to answer a few of our signature #FiftyQuestions that probe the intentions, emotions, and practices of artists, writers, and thinkers.