Mixed Media - A Podcast by Kavi Gupta

by Kavi Gupta

Mixed Media is a window opened unexpectedly onto a landscape of ideas, featuring a rotating cast of artists, curators, writers, art collectors, and members of the Kavi Gupta staff, casually discussing the sweetness and mystery and chaos of great art in front of a microphone. Kavi Gupta amplifies voices of diverse and underrepresented artists to expand the canon of art history. Through innovative and ambitious exhibitions, mult ...   ...  Read more
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  • Season 1

  • Suchitra Mattai

    Suchitra Mattai

    S01 E03
    Nov 27, 2022
    40:03

    Episode 3 | In The Margins | Suchitra Mattai | In this episode, Guyanese-American artist Suchitra Mattai unpacks the word marginalization and discusses the freedom, hope, and joy sometimes offered by outsider status. Mattai’s circumstances have positioned her on an assortment of margins. As an immigrant and a woman who has struggled with illness and spent most of her career living and working far from the main art market centers, Mattai maximized the space and time offered by her outsider status to materialize one of the most idiosyncratic, subversive, and joyful visual positions in contemporary art. Mattai’s newest solo exhibition recently opened at Kai Gupta | Elizabeth Street in Chicago. Titled Osmosis, the exhibition features work that employs salt as a sculptural medium. The material empowers Mattai’s aesthetic expressions of emergence and loss as they relate to her family’s Indo-Caribbean ocean migration and the layering of new stories and cultural traditions atop those that already exist. Serious topics, but also areas in which Mattai finds an enormous storehouse of joy and humor. Guest: Suchitra Mattai | Host/Producer: Phillip Barcio | Mixed Media is a production of Kavi Gupta Gallery.

  • Miya Ando

    Miya Ando

    S01 E02
    Sep 22, 2022
    40:13

    Episode 2 | The Observer State | Miya Ando | In this episode we gain a deeper understanding of what it means to enter the observer state, with the help of New York based multidisciplinary artist Miya Ando. Miya lived her formative years between a Buddhist temple in Japan and the mountains of Northern California. The unique vantage point expressed in her work reflects her experiences as an artist occupying the margins between Japanese and Western culture. Miya's latest exhibition, Kumoji (Cloud Path / A Road Traversed By Birds And The Moon), opened at Kavi Gupta | Washington Blvd. in autumn of 2022. The exhibition articulates the ephemeral quality of transient natural phenomena such as night clouds, rain, and the phases of the moon. Miya also recently completed a dictionary containing 2000 "lacunae," succinct Japanese phrases that have no direct linguistic equivalents in English. Such lexical gaps are revelatory about the nature of voids, and offer insights into how different cultures observe, reflect upon, and perceive the world. Guest: Miya Ando | Host/Producer: Phillip Barcio | Mixed Media is a production of Kavi Gupta Gallery.

  • Michi Meko & Key Jo Lee

    Michi Meko & Key Jo Lee

    S01 E01
    Aug 4, 2022
    59:45

    Episode 1 | The Mystery of Voice | Michi Meko and Key Jo Lee | Michi Meko’s latest exhibition, Dark was the Night, Cold was the Ground, opened at kavi Gupta in summer of 2022. The work expressed the thoughts and experiences Michi had during his frequent camping and fishing trips deep into the Georgia woods during the COVID-19 pandemic, where he went in hopes of discovering the sound of his voice in wild spaces. In addition to paintings and sculptures, Michi’s voice also manifested in nature photographs, field notes and sketches, which were compiled and published by Kavi Gupta Editions into the limited edition book: Michi Meko: Black Navigation. In this episode of Mixed Media, Michi talks with Key Jo Lee, Associate Curator of American art at the Cleveland Museum of Art, about how all of these elements fit together to define what we think of as Michi’s voice. Host: Key Jo Lee | Guest: Michi Meko | Producer: Phillip Barcio | Mixed Media is a production of Kavi Gupta Gallery.