PODCAST: Women As/In Art Episode 25, Alexandra Goldman

Pictured above: La Chola Poblete, La virgen de la leche, 2023, Photography, 59.8 x 63.4 in / 152 x 161 cm. Courtesy of Barro New York.

Emerald Gruin and Leah Schrager interview Alexandra Goldman, Managing Director of Barro New York.

In this episode, we discuss the importance of relationships, the art market, and inspiring female artists on our radar.

Listen here, and on Spotify.

Alexandra Goldman is a writer, curator, and art dealer living in New York. She is Founder of the art publishing platform Artifactoid, and Managing Director of Barro New York, a contemporary art gallery with locations in New York and Buenos Aires. Goldman writes for Artifactoid, Whitehot Magazine, Cultbytes, ArteFuse, Vice-Versa, and Revista Jennifer. She received her M.A. in Art History from Hunter College and received her bachelor’s degree from NYU in Media, Culture, and Communications. Her Instagram is @Artifactoid.

Artists featured in this episode include:

Installation view, Monica Giron “Elemental Vortex” at Barro New York, 2023. Photo by Mikhail Mishin.

Maria Evelia Marmolejo, Anonymous 3, 1982. Performed on the polluted banks of the Cauca River, Valley Cauca, Colombia. Documentary photograph. Photo: Nelson Villegas. Courtesy of ArtNexus.

Agnes Denes, Model for A Forest for New York, Commissioned by The Shed, New York ©2014-2019 Agnes Denes. Courtesy of the artist.

Installation view, “Alejandra Seeber: Interior with landscapes” on view at Americas Society, curated by Aimé Iglesias Lukin. Courtesy of Americas Society.

Catalina Schliebener Muñoz, Coloring Book Series, Minnie II, 2023, Vinyl, colored pencil and embroidery on mat board, 33 3/10 × 33 3/10 in | 84.6 × 84.6 cm. Courtesy of Barro New York.

Chellis Baird, Lady Danger II, 2021, Silk, acrylic, wire, birch panel, mahogany frame with black finish 28 x 20 x 4 inches
71.1 x 50.8 x 10.2 cm. Courtesy of the artist.

Me and Layo Bright with her sculptural glass artwork, now on view in her solo show “Dawn and Dusk” at The Aldrich Museum curated by Amy Smith-Stewart. Photo by Ferguson Amo.

Podcast: Alexandra Goldman in conversation with Franklin Evans at Miles McEnery Gallery

Above: Franklin Evans and Alexandra Goldman in his Studio, 2021, New York, NY.

This article was originally published in Whitehot Magazine of Contemporary Art.

The Whitehot Magazine Art World Podcast, season 2 E20:

LINK TO PODCAST: Alexandra Goldman in conversation with Franklin Evans on the occasion of his show at New York’s Miles McEnery Gallery.

Alexandra Goldman sits down with artist Franklin Evans to discuss his two current exhibitions at Miles McEnery Gallery, fugitivemisreadings at 520 West 21st Street, and YOU AGAIN curated by Franklin Evans at 511 West 22nd Street, as well as his current museum show Franklin Evans: franklinsfootpaths at the Figge Art Museum in Davenport, Iowa.

FRANKLIN EVANS (b. in 1967 in Reno, NV) received his Bachelor of Arts degree from Stanford University in 1989 and his Master of Fine Arts degree from the University of Iowa in 1993. He has had numerous solo exhibitions, including “Franklinsfootpaths” at the Figge Art Museum, Davenport, IA; “fugitivemisreadings ” at Miles McEnery Gallery, New York, NY; “selfportraitas” at FL Gallery, Milan, Italy; and “timepaths” at the Nevada Museum of Art, Reno, NV. His work is included in many public and private collections including the Bronx Museum of the Arts, New York, NY, El Museo del Barrio, New York, NY, the Nevada Museum of Art, Reno, NV; the Orlando Museum of Art, Orlando, FL; the Pizzuti Collection, Columbus, OH, and the Yale University Art Gallery, New Haven, CT. He is a recipient of the 2017-18 Pollock-Krasner Foundation Grant, New York, NY; The Fountainhead Residency, Miami, FL in 2017; and was a National Endowment for the Arts Fellow at The MacDowell Colony, Peterborough, NH in 2016. Evans lives and works in New York, NY.

New York, NY: Miles McEnery Gallery, Franklin Evans: fugitivemisreadings, 24 June – 31 July 2021. Image: Christopher Burke Studio. Courtesy of the artist and Miles McEnery Gallery, New York, NY

Franklin Evans, misreadinglandscapeintoart, 2021, Acrylic on canvas, 53 1/2 x 49 1/4 inches, 135.9 x 125.1 cm. Courtesy of the artist and Miles McEnery Gallery, New York, NY.

Franklin Evans Studio, 2021, New York, NY. Image: Christopher Burke Studio. Courtesy of the artist and Miles McEnery Gallery, New York, NY.

Franklin Evans, titianatilt (detail), 2021, Acrylic on canvas, 79 1/2 x 68 3/4 inches, 201.9 x 174.6 cm. Courtesy of the artist and Miles McEnery Gallery, New York, NY.

Installation view: Franklin Evans: franklinsfootpaths at the Figge Art Museum, 19 June – 26 September 2021, Davenport, IA. Image courtesy of the Figge Art Museum.

Works by Ann Pibal, Elliott Green, Josephine Halvorson, and Tom McGrath in YOU AGAIN curated by Franklin Evans at Miles McEnery Gallery. New York, NY: Miles McEnery Gallery, ‘YOU AGAIN’ curated by Franklin Evans, 24 June – 31 July 2021. Image: Christopher Burke Studio. Courtesy of the artists and Miles McEnery Gallery, New York, NY.