I Think About Art

Today we're talking about Wood Pictures, which was a series of sculptural works made by Mildred Thompson in the 1960s and 70s.

The transcript for this episode is available here.

References

Images:
"Wood Picture," c.1967
"Untitled," 1969
"Zylo-Probe," c.1975
"Magnetic Fields," 1990
Louise Nevelson, "Tropical Garden II," 1957
Karl Peters, "Portrait of Mildred Thompson," c.1970

Texts:
"How Mildred Thompson’s Vibrating Canvases Envisioned Our World As It Could Be," ARTNews, Maximilíano Durón, 2021
The Dirty South: Contemporary Art, Material Culture, and the Sonic Impulse, VMFA, 2021
"Mildred Thompson’s Confounding, Cosmological Abstractions," Hyperallergic, Alexandra M. Thomas, 2021
Mildred Thompson, Throughlines: Assemblages and Works on Paper from the 1960s to the 1990s
"Why They Left America: Mearg Negusse on the self-imposed exiles of US artists Mildred Thompson and Ben Patterson," Contemporary And, Mearg Negusse, 2019
Mildred Thompson, Melissa Messina, 2015
“Child of the Universe...Speak Like a Child,” The International Review of African American Art, Eric Hanks, 2007
Gumbo Ya Ya: An Anthology of Contemporary African American Women Artists, Leslie King Hammond, 1995
“Mildred Thompson, Sculptor: Experiences of a Black Artist in Europe and the United States,” Black Art: An International Quarterly, Mildred Thompson, 1977
Mildred Thompson: "Transitions" : sculpture, painting, graphics : October 19 through November 30, 1977
"Mildred Thompson: An Exile Back Home," The Washington Post, Jo Ann Lewis, 1977
"I shall go back again to the bleak shore," Edna St. Vincent Millay, 1923

Today we're talking about "Last Conversation Piece," an outdoor sculpture created by Juan Muñoz in 1994-1995 for the Hirshhord Gallery in Washington, D.C.

The transcript for this episode is available here.

References

“Juan Muñoz, Last Conversation Piece”

“The bronze sorcerer,” The Guardian, James Hall, 2008

“Sculpture and Paradox,” Juan Muñoz, Neal Benezra, 2001

“Sight, Sound, Statuary,” Juan Muñoz, Michael Brenson, 2001

Untitled Paper, Door Williams, 2006

Today we're talking about Fairyland Lustre, a ceramics series put out by Wedgewood between 1915 and 1929 and designed by Daisy Makeig-Jones.

The transcript for this episode is available here.

References
“Wedgwood Dragon Lustre Bowl”

“Wedgwood Fairyland Lustre Punch Bowl,” c. 1920

“Wedgwood Fairyland Lustre Ghostly Wood Covered Malfrey Pot,” c. 1920

Wedgwood Fairyland Lustre: the Work of Daisy Makeig-Jones, Una des Fontaines, 1975

Some Glimpses of Fairyland, Daisy Makeig-Jones, 1921 (republished as Fairyland Wedgwood Ware, 1972)

Imps on a Bridge: Wedgwood Fairyland and Other Lustres, Harold B. Nelson & Jeri Vaughn, 2001

“Ghosts & Ghouls,” Weimer Museum of Decorative Arts, 2017

“Daisy’s Dark Side” Weimer Museum of Decorative Arts, 2018

Today Door is looking at "I See Red: Target" by Jaune Quick–to–See Smith, executed in 1992. It's the first work on canvas by a Native American artist accessioned by the National Gallery of Art in Washington, D.C.

The transcript for the episode is available here.

References
“I See Red: Target,” 1992

“Coyote’s Ransom,” Third Text, Erin Valentino, 2008

“'It's like we don't exist': Jaune Quick-to-See Smith on Native American artists,” The Guardian,Nadja Sayej, 2020

“Denadagohvgee (I Will See You Again),” National Gallery of Art Blog, Shana Condill, 2020

“Orange Car Crash Fourteen,” Andy Warhol, 1963

“Target, Johns (English),” [audio recording]

In the inaugural episode of I Think About Art, we're looking at the Womb Chair, designed by Eero Saarinen for Knoll Furniture in 1946 (production began in 1948).

The transcript for this episode can be found here.

References

Organic Design in Home Furnishings, Eliot F. Noyes, 1941

Knoll Furniture, 1938-1960, Steven & Linda Rouland, 1999

Saarinen, Pierluigi Serraino, 2006

Womb Chair & Ottoman, 1948 (Cooper Hewitt)

Womb Chair (DWR)

The Fiberglass Chairs—Something of How They Get the Way They Are (Film), Charles & Ray Eames