Diane Simpson Interview part 1: Ben Chaffee and Jasmin Tsou interview Diane Simpson

In this special live episode, Dena Yago and Ben Davis discuss "Capacity", Dena's first solo show at JTT. This conversation was recorded with a live audience on Tuesday, June 6th. Dena Yago is an artist, writer, and founding member of the trend forecasting group K-HOLE (2010-2016). Past exhibitions and presentations include Industry City, High Art, Paris, 2022;  Art Basel Statements, Basel, 2021; Image Power, Frans Hals Museum, Haarlem, 2020; Dry Season, Derosia (Bodega), New York, 2020; Force Majeure, High Art, Paris, 2019; and Made in L.A., Hammer Museum, Los Angeles, 2016. Recent publications include: Fade the Lure (After Eight Books, 2019). Her writing has appeared in e-flux Journal, Flash Art, and Frieze. Yago lives and works in New York City. Ben Davis is the author of 9.5 Theses on Art and Class (Haymarket, 2013), which ARTnews named one of the best art books of the decade in 2019, and Art in the After-Culture (Haymarket, 2022). He has been Artnet News's National Art Critic since 2016. His writings have also been featured in The New York Times, New York Magazine, The Baffler, Jacobin, Slate, Salvage, e-Flux Journal, Frieze, and many other venues. He lives in Brooklyn, NY.

Jasmin Tsou interviews Sam McKinniss on his solo shows “Costume Drama” on view at the Ovitz Collection, “Misery” on view at Almine Rech, “Mischief” at JTT and two new works he made for us for Art Basel Miami Beach. You can view images of McKinniss’s work at jttnyc.com

Jasmin Tsou interviews Dena Yago on the progression of her career from an undergrad student to her recent show at High Art in Paris titled "Industry City" which was on view from April 6 through July 16 2022. In this episode Dena Yago talks about cultural capitalism and forms of labor that trade in affect, emotion and creative production. You can view images of Dena's work at jttnyc.com

Jasmin Tsou interviews Anna-Sophie Berger on her solo show at JTT titled "Sin" which was on view from May 13 through June 18. In this episode Anna-Sophie talks about the many ways to decipher a Hieronymus Bosch painting, how reading symbols in art can parallel forms of biblical interpretations, and the ever evolving significance of the Unicorn Tapestries at The Met Cloisters. You can view images of "Sin" on the gallery's website.

James Yaya Hough discusses his development as an artist while incarcerated. On view at JTT from May 1 through June 11 is a solo show of work by Hough titled "Invisible Life". The show features a series of line drawings and watercolors that delineate the economy of desire that emerges from within America’s carceral system. All are drafted on what Hough refers to as “institutional paper:” any state-issued documents required to process an inmate’s daily activities from weekly cafeteria menus to questionnaires for inmates to complete on triplicate copy paper. In today's episode Hough discusses the environment from which this body of work emerged.

Charles Harlan discusses his most recent solo show at the gallery titled Celtic Cross. On view were nine sculptures laid out in the Celtic Cross tarot spread, each an interpretation of a specific card. While the show takes a tarot reading as a starting point, interpretation itself is the central focus of the show.

This is the first in a two part interview with Diane Simpson. Ben Chaffee, Associate Director of Visual Arts at the Center for the Arts at Wesleyan University, and Jasmin Tsou ask Diane about her early career.

Anna-Sophie Berger discusses with Jasmin Tsou, "Duel", her first institutional solo exhibition in Germany at the Bonner Kunstverein. Berger and Tsou begin by discussing Berger's larger practice and how her interest in language, clothing, distribution and notions of private and public space make their way into this specific institutional show.

Sculpture and installation artist Dan Herschlein’s practice renders the interior and exterior of domestic spaces with great detail in accordance with a supernatural logic. By appropriating tropes from horror cinema and gothic fiction, Herschlein explores aspects of narrative identity as an efficient tool for self-deception, and the lengths an individual may unconsciously go to in order to craft and mediate their own narrative.  Herschlein and Jasmin Tsou discuss narrative identity and his solo exhibition on view from September 2 - October 17, 2020 at JTT. For more information visit jttnyc.com

Jasmin Tsou interviews sculpture artist Doreen Garner on new work inspired by vanitas still lifes, the 16th and 17th century Dutch painting genre that focused on the transience of life, the futility of pleasure and the certainty of death. Garner's work at large deals with the history of medical experimentation in America and this interview unpacks our current pandemic moment.