00:00Shana, how are you?
00:02Come say good morning
00:04These guys are going to interview you in a little bit if that's okay
00:07This is Shana McCoy the artist, Vernissage TV. This is Shana McCoy, Heinrich Schmidt and Marco
00:16Welcome, congratulations. Thank you. If you could, you look lovely
00:19If you could be so kind at some point later and just sit down with them and do a small interview would be great
00:25Great. Thank you so much
00:30So welcome to Hill House
00:33This is a project that I've been working on for four or five years
00:37We ran it as an artist residency at first for a number of years and then we renovated the property
00:43using the architect Katrin Terstegen
00:46There are eight structures on the property. Each structure has a different function and
00:51is interchangeable in either an exhibition space, a studio space, a work space, an audio space
00:56And we start off at the front side of the property, show you a little sculpture park where we have a birdhouse by Tyler Macco from
01:03Ohio, we have
01:05ceramic sculptures from, we have ceramic sculptures from Stan Edmondson and
01:13Sterling Ruby and
01:17We have
01:19cacti and
01:21Sterling Ruby is one of his big bronze pieces coming through here
01:26We'll see our
01:29protection of
01:33Stan Edmondson's big guy over here, keeps away evil spirits and welcomes you to the property
01:44And then we'll come here to
01:46The maple forest. So one of the things you'll notice is there's a lot of plant material, a lot of landscaping
01:51Petra Courtright, artist I've been working with for over a decade now, did the landscaping
01:57with me and we we designed it to be like a little Huntington Gardens where you have a lot of different kinds of
02:04landscaping, cacti
02:08Maples and
02:09then this is the first of the structures, the smallest and most modest of the structures and
02:15The idea is we have rotating shows in some rooms and semi-permanent shows in other rooms with core artists
02:22We work with where we change the material, we refresh it
02:25But artists produce so much work giving them a chance to be seen over a longer period of time. Sergio Tukwekloti
02:33children's drawings, his kids
02:35obsessively draw on the walls of his house in Ghana and Accra and
02:39He loves their work so much that he actually copies their work on canvas
02:43So it's this sort of play on
02:46children's drawings
02:47professionalized by a master artist and I think they're amazing, a very good example of one of his collage works made out of
02:55plastic materials from kefir gallons, an
02:58amazing little collage which involves material, you know found
03:03in Ghana
03:05Chadwick Boseman
03:07The late Chadwick Boseman, a beautiful duct-tape portrait of Chadwick
03:12Boseman
03:14One of his watercolor works of
03:16a bellboy and so whoever comes here can
03:21Can experience Sergio's work as we as we rotate through shows
03:25We have a few permanent sort of six-month up artists
03:28so really give them a chance to be seen. Trying to extend the duration of exhibition for artists so that
03:35with people's busy schedules
03:38There's an opportunity to be seen. We'll come up to the porch because the porch is kind of cool
03:43Justin Lieberman many years ago did a project with me where we produced all these bears
03:49They've been in storage for quite a while and we just thought in Pasadena
03:54Because there's so many bears around if they come hang out in the porch
03:57We'd give them some friends and and so we we have all these bears around
04:03Stan Stan Edmondson beautiful little figurine sculptures over here. I think they're remarkable and
04:10We walk on the porch you'll notice the esplanade of apple trees Petra is very domestic
04:16She besides being one of the preeminent digital artists of our time. She also loves Martha Stewart
04:21in fact, she has a collection of all of Martha Stewart magazines, so she likes like esplanades of apple trees and lavender bushes and
04:29And
04:31Now we'll come to the the main exhibition space on the front end of the of the property
04:37These pots I just have to point out a beautiful ceramic vessels made by the artist Ken Taylor and they have rose bushes in them
04:46and
04:47In the back is some trucks up
04:49We're going to come and show you the main show today, which is Shana McCoy aka wallflower McCoy and Instagram
04:58Wallflower McCoy amazing artists from Minneapolis who I met when she was probably 21 years old
05:03and
05:06Hi, how are you? Nice to see you Ben. This is Ben. How are you? Ben is an amazing amazing photographer
05:13who works with us on our creative art partners side and he
05:18Documents a lot of our projects in creative art partners
05:21And he's been working with us for a number of years and we'll discuss cap in a little bit
05:26Our rental business called creative art partners, which is an amazingly innovative product
05:31Thank you so much. And this is Shana McCoy show
05:35So she's very well known for these faceless portraits
05:39she does that are based on photographs of her and her family that she collects and this is a
05:48Very beautiful intimate show of of
05:52of
05:53Portraits she does big paintings and also these really beautiful little gems that you want to look at and
06:03And what we've done here is in each space you'll notice
06:06We've we've paired music in all the spaces
06:10really beautiful
06:12You know audiophile grade equipment
06:15Making the spaces more active more dynamic more engaging what you find people end up sitting in these rooms for hours and
06:23They start looking at the work in a much more intimate way trying to give people an opportunity to sit with a work
06:31With more duration a more intimate setting that is more akin to
06:36More akin to a living space a working space an active space
06:40I'm very interested in this idea of living with art
06:44And presenting art as a lived experience as opposed to sort of a situation
06:49So finding that balance where you can curate a beautiful show have it present itself as a as a solo exhibition and presentation
06:56But also give you the idea that art is a very livable thing
07:00This is a beautiful Mickey Mouse ceramic
07:03That is an is is a hangover from our last group show and I loved it so much and thought it was so cute
07:08I didn't think he got in the way of
07:12Shana's show so we left it here and this is of course
07:16Of a small vessel made by an artist I work with for many years from Ghana named Pajo he does these miniatures
07:22And it's a really interesting
07:24painting because
07:26Jonas woods an artist who actually
07:29He commissioned Pajo through me to do a big basketball that you see evident a basketball
07:35Sculpture that's evident in some of his most important paintings today
07:39Jonas loves Madalena
07:40The ceramic artist Madalena, so he did a painting based on the Madalena
07:45Frumkins pot and then Pajo did a vessel of a copy of a Jonas painting of a Madalena Frumkins pot
07:53So it's an appropriation of an appropriation of an appropriation. I
07:56Think this this lamp is also made by an artist. I work with named Frank
08:02Elementi who does these sort of design objects?
08:05This painting is really beautiful
08:07I think it's worth it's worth two minutes of study, and you'll see how Shana builds up the texture of
08:13You know of the of the hair. This is an amazing amazingly beautiful painting in my opinion real masterpiece
08:20Hi, how are you nice to see you?
08:24Good, and then we'll we'll we'll come in through the
08:29Through the main property and you'll see there's a flow through each space
08:34This this space is a workspace and also an exhibition space and
08:40This presents work some addition additions works of Shana. She's done quite a bit of addition work
08:50This is a this is actually a UV dimensional print that that really replicates the texture of the painting
08:57As is this one and and this is a this is a work of her. This is one of her early works
09:05one of the first paintings she did Troy that we did a screen print edition of and
09:11You know so Shana is actually in in five of the spaces today
09:17so you know the you know you really get an idea of the artist presenting in multiple spaces and
09:24When we do events we gather in the in the front of the house in which you'll see there are four
09:31specific structures here of
09:33exhibitions we're going to zip you right to the back and
09:38I think we'll we'll first cover Shana show and then we can sort of cut and then we can do the
09:44rest of it, so
09:47This is red bond one the bigger of the two red bonds where we have a solo presentation of Shana's
09:54Paintings over here. Hi. How are you? Nice to see you
09:58Thank you so much. Thank you very much. And once again, you know presenting art you can sit down and listen to music relax
10:06And
10:13Since you're Swiss Heinrich, we have Swiss speakers for you Swiss power for you. We've got bone a key speakers
10:21w11's nagra power
10:24Lampazada DAC from Poland powering everything and of course Shane is beautiful paintings
10:29And this is such a nice angle to see things from so I think you should this these angles are also
10:36so beautiful and
10:41You'll notice cactus material everywhere
10:44we assembled this material over a couple of years and the idea was to give contrast to the red bonds a
10:53Presentation of work by Ken Taylor and
10:58Also the the Simcoe one speaker, which I'm very proud of which is a speaker manufactured in California by Simcoe
11:06It's a horn speaker
11:08doesn't require much power sounds amazing and
11:12Ken Taylor group show of works on paper and two big paintings and the bull the big bull and
11:20What you'll notice everywhere is turntables with multiple arms and stuff. So we're very much into analog equipment and
11:27So, you know, you can come here listen to music
11:31We can curate a system for you build something esoteric or something simple
11:35and
11:36You know really give you an experience and I love the howling red wolf. Ken is one of my favorite artists we work with
11:47Look how sick that is. That's actually pretty cool. This is a a schick 12-inch tone arm with a
11:53cartridge from a company called mutek kandahaya basu where the
11:58Dynavector 805 from the 1980s
12:00marble head shell of a Dynavector cartridge sold
12:04Great beautiful gear thorace good old German guy point-to-point wiring all handmade extraordinary sounding
12:15And then let's go to the pool house and look at Shana's beautiful little intimate paintings the little portraits here of
12:22You know these small works on paper and painting so you'll see
12:26The the work presents itself in in in multiple ways
12:31and then this is the pool house and
12:35We have we have a series of Shana McCoy paintings here small paintings works on paper really lovely
12:43So you're really presenting the work in a different in in a multitude of ways
12:50Come meet Cal rusty Ola Cal
12:52This is Cal Cal rusty Ola guys. Very important person in my life. How are you? Cal nicely vernissage TV
12:59Okay, Cal Cal runs the Burkle Center at UCLA
13:03which we have a we engage in a partnership with them where we do events at our property and in Los Angeles, which hosts
13:11intellectuals thinkers
13:14Politicians right we just week. Yeah, and
13:17It's an amazing an amazing sort of part of UCLA that
13:22That brings some of the most interesting people to Los Angeles for intimate discussions
13:26And and so again weaving in
13:30ideas thoughts books different kinds of things
13:33Integrating with art with music trying to be interdisciplinary and cross and so cross these these things together
13:40Come to the fantastic host for that. Thank you. I'll be with you in a sec. Come guys
13:46And then this is the music room over here
13:52Come in
13:57Tyler Macco artist from Ohio
14:01Lila bossom possum and then of course these speakers are YG acoustics
14:08Diptyque beautiful things to film
14:12It'll be great if after we do the interview you
14:15Because I think there's a lot of detail here to get so much and there's also the cables the red cables on my own cable
14:22I'll show you and then this room and then there's a of course a giant Shana cable here a giant Shana
14:29painting over here
14:37And you'll see it's unbelievable she makes these balls
14:41He's creates the hair and sees tiny little balls such amazing detailed work
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