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Seeing Simonette Quamina
In this episode of the Seeing series, Carrie chats with Simonette Quamina, a Brooklyn-based contemporary artist.
Simonette Quamina’s works are a love letter written in a Caribbean visual language. Composed of diverse collage and printmaking techniques, the artist's large-scale collage prints speak to her intersectionality and multicultural background.
From Carrie:
"What sets Simonette apart is her nomadic upbringing. From Brooklyn's vibrant streets to St. Vincent and Guyana's tranquil landscapes, her journey infuses her work with a rich tapestry of experiences. Growing up across continents with a blurred identity, Simonette's art resonated deeply with me. Her use of color, initially appearing monochromatic, reveals intricate patterns and bold symbolism, drawing viewers into a world of beauty and complexity. Her pieces are about memory and forgetting, telling her story and ours.."
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About the Seeing Series
The Seeing Series gets to the heart of what makes an artist tick. By always searching for the motivating truth behind an artist’s practice, we give viewers insider access to some of the most exciting artists in the world, all in a down-to-earth, honest way.
From established artists like Rashid Johnson to emerging stars like Simonette Quamina, we speak to the good and the great of the artworld, ultimately creating an accurate portrait of how creatives survive, flourish and function today.
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  • @danielhaving3411
    @danielhaving3411 Годину тому

    I say you don’t know what you’re talking about, she’s talentless! You’re probably one of those people that think swinging a leaking bucket of paint over a canvas is art.

  • @TomHendricksMusea
    @TomHendricksMusea 21 годину тому

    Most modern art substitutes weird for quality, narrow isms for scope, and trendy for depth. It also refuses to change or even talk about progressive ideas in art like those that follow Too many treat art as a marketing scheme. Modern art has become a trendy clique and the art now is mostly over promoted footnotes to greater art that was done 100 years ago. But art is too important to be reduced to a trendy clique. Post-ism, is art for a new century, not a continuation of last century trends. 1 Mass Market Paintings like Prints. When any art form is mass marketed it enters a golden age. This has happened with books, records, and film. Let's add paintings. Most art is in storage in museum basements. Mass Marketing allows art to tour in copies and allows artists to make royalties on copies. Why do you think the world gets so excited about a new great book, record, or film; but no one cares about a new great painting? All are mass produced except the painting. 2. End a Century of Isms. Dump the genres and formulas and let all kinds of art be a part of the art world. 3. Shift Emphasis From Trendy to Quality. Shift emphasis from the latest trendy art, to quality art in any style. Just because art is weird does not mean it is great art. 4. Free the Art From Museums and Galleries. Get the art out of the ivory elitist museum and gallery towers and back into the world. Have city art centers open to all artists. Make art that is relevant and communicates with people. Start with the first generation of artists online. 5. Postism is Part of a Bigger Revolution. Postism is part of the bigger art and media revolution out of Dallas, that includes art, music, lit, film, media, and a lot more. 6. Postism online: Online artists are the new wave of art. We had all the isms of last century. Now we have a free for all, of all kinds of artists, that are not sanctioned by any museum or gallery, displaying their work. Out of that comes the next wave and revolution of artists. Last century the goal was to fit the ism. This century the goal is to do great art - no ism, no boundaries. Fractionalized art then, synchronized art now. Even calling something modern art is a type of ism that separates that art from the art of the past. The 20th century was a century of experimentation in art. Now in the 21st we can choose from all those styles and / or start one of our own. Then too if someone devises a way to charge and collect a penny per view on a webpage, that would allow any great artist to get money for their art and have a career without any middlemen. Duchamp broke ground 100 years ago - but now his clones are just shoveling dirt. Weird art is easy, you put a strip of raw bacon across an expensive violin, but it's not good art. Join the art revolution and pull the art world out of last century. Musea since 1992.

  • @toascranill5464
    @toascranill5464 12 днів тому

    That's such a cool museum

  • @dansmith4984
    @dansmith4984 12 днів тому

    Great video Carrie - brilliant presentation. You should definitely be on TV - if only we had art on TV these days

    • @watchseenart
      @watchseenart 11 днів тому

      Funny you say that.... that's what Seen is! (not on the TV obviously, but one step at a time)!

  • @guy_denning
    @guy_denning 12 днів тому

    I have pencils and I'm waiting for the EMP.

  • @KatarzynaAnna55
    @KatarzynaAnna55 12 днів тому

    I enjoyed the tour, thanks!

  • @dexterity.by.nandini
    @dexterity.by.nandini 16 днів тому

    Thank you for spreading awareness and talking about what is important 🫶🏼

  • @ronaldolamont
    @ronaldolamont 16 днів тому

    I think 90% of all art galleries only think and care about their bottom line, and that's to sell and to take as long as possible to pay artists for the sale of their work.

    • @watchseenart
      @watchseenart 16 днів тому

      There are certainly galleries out there like that. But there are also galleries who take their role of supporting an artists career very seriously.

    • @ronaldolamont
      @ronaldolamont 16 днів тому

      @@watchseenart Fair enough, maybe this has just been my personal experience. Maybe I haven't been lucky enough to come across such a gallery in my 20 years as an artist.

  • @brandonreed9508
    @brandonreed9508 18 днів тому

    I don’t like the thought of a world with out 100% human input, but what do I know, I’m just a program. Ones and zeros running on a cosmic scale, with the sands of time being my constant.

    • @watchseenart
      @watchseenart 18 днів тому

      We're all in the upside down now.

    • @brandonreed9508
      @brandonreed9508 18 днів тому

      I just found out I watch UA-cam in my sleep lol

  • @yvesklein5414
    @yvesklein5414 21 день тому

    what a horribly and cheaply produced nothing video

    • @watchseenart
      @watchseenart 20 днів тому

      So sorry you feel that way! we had to be a little undercover to record inside the Tate.

  • @janissteadman285
    @janissteadman285 23 дні тому

    nice review, i havnt seen it myself but looks to me like huge progress , moving away from spectacle and nonsense can only be a good thing

    • @watchseenart
      @watchseenart 23 дні тому

      We completely agree! Thanks for watching.

  • @jefferyreed4560
    @jefferyreed4560 25 днів тому

    there's a reason she was committed to an institution by her first husband

  • @toascranill5464
    @toascranill5464 26 днів тому

    The Scotts are multiplying!

    • @watchseenart
      @watchseenart 25 днів тому

      No relation, but it certainly feels like we're multiplying!

  • @jazznickel
    @jazznickel Місяць тому

    Looks like a child drawing, and they just tiled it. Kinda trashy.

    • @watchseenart
      @watchseenart Місяць тому

      Unfortunately, we're going to have to disagree.

    • @jazznickel
      @jazznickel 27 днів тому

      @@watchseenart All good, everyone has their own aesthetic tastes, and you're welcome to yours - I support you 100%. Posting it in an online forum, also lets me have a thought to interject - And I am pretty sure that's what the pattern is. A scribbled face tiled in squares.. Have an amazing day. :)

  • @francoarocha7287
    @francoarocha7287 Місяць тому

    Do you think artists should or should not attend art fairs? You say to stay relevant you need to attend all of these art events, does that apply to artists?

  • @jecahn
    @jecahn Місяць тому

    Really good interview. Rashid's thoughts on parenthood as a transformative building of character were really interesting and right on target. I really like his piece "Fatherhood." It reminds me that being a dad is about providing structure, support and process to something which is wild and organic. And that often, it demands flexibility to let things go outside of that structure and a constant maintenance of balance. I think it's an elegant and sincere allegory. I'm sure he had something different in mind but I'm a coarse amateur, here!!! Also with regard to Plato: Aristotle's "Categories" touches on an expansion of the notion mentioned. He says that an apple, THE apple and a picture of the apple are all the same and are equally valid in their depictions of the subject. They are also all different but one is necessarily dependent on the others to exist and that we can only see and know things and make sense of them in comparison to each other. Worth a read or re-read.

    • @watchseenart
      @watchseenart Місяць тому

      So glad you liked it! Was epic to be able to have this conversation with Rashid.

  • @jecahn
    @jecahn Місяць тому

    Solid list and great suggestions. I'd add Gombrich's "The Story of Art" for those interested in titles like this. Great pictures and the writing is lovely.

    • @watchseenart
      @watchseenart Місяць тому

      Thanks for the suggestion! Love it!

  • @alineneuropsicologa4919
    @alineneuropsicologa4919 Місяць тому

    I went to a co-ed school. Since I was young it had always caught my attention how the girls would gossip and be mean to each other and how boys would gossip and be mean to girls! It always bothered me how the boys seemed to be much more accepting and nice to each other than girls were among themselves. A couple of years ago there was talk about sorority and an attempt to bring women together but unfortunately I haven't seen any change and I think the movement had died down actually.

    • @watchseenart
      @watchseenart Місяць тому

      We would love to see more women-only art spaces for this reason!

  • @autumn7157
    @autumn7157 Місяць тому

    It makes me think of quilting meets in local churches, or knitters circles, and women’s book clubs. My great aunt and her girlfriends used to knit thousands of scarfs and beanies in beautiful colors and hand it out to the gentleman at the local men’s homeless shelter when the weather got cold. My grandmother and her quilting friends would meet up at their church and make several quilts a year to give out to poorer families in the community so they could sleep warmer at night. And more importantly, they had amazing community with each other. My mom and her friends are very busy women with high stress jobs, but meeting together to just knit and shoot the breeze together was so important to her. Many of those women have been close pretty much since my mom moved there 20 years ago after leaving all her close friends behind several states over. Making friends as adults is hard as hell, but women’s groups have a way of turning strangers into family in the best way possible. ❤❤❤

    • @watchseenart
      @watchseenart Місяць тому

      It really does build community and friendship! Thanks for sharing these beautiful stories!

  • @andrebarreto9177
    @andrebarreto9177 Місяць тому

    Do they mean female artists or an exhibit only women are aloud?

  • @dunkawunka2278
    @dunkawunka2278 Місяць тому

    Funny how everybody avoids human interaction while walking with their glass stimulation rocks already fulfilling their human needs with artificial human interaction. Strangely poetic in a kind of morbid way.

  • @calixohiggins9843
    @calixohiggins9843 Місяць тому

    Her description sounds so pretentious. So tired of crap 'art' that looks like bad graffiti. Only jews and dumb white women swallow this garbage up.

  • @jecahn
    @jecahn Місяць тому

    Great conversation. First time hearing of this guy. I checked out his website and his art is super cool and varied. I love it. It's firmly on the ever expanding list of "Art I'll Never Be Able to Afford." I'm jealous you two are buddies. Keep cranking out episodes. You're great at these conversations; always accessible AND compelling.

    • @watchseenart
      @watchseenart Місяць тому

      Thanks so much for listening! Absolutely thrilled you enjoyed it.

  • @E03Erick
    @E03Erick Місяць тому

    I can see having a unique style, but give the same tools I don't see how it couldn't be recreated. Could you forge one? probably not, could you make one that looked like it would belong in a series? I don't see why not

  • @williamsafreed7699
    @williamsafreed7699 Місяць тому

    K, well you're wrong

  • @MM-ve7rr
    @MM-ve7rr Місяць тому

    This makes me think of ratatouille. "Anyone can cook". Anyone can also pain. Anyone could make a masterpiece. I don't think pollocks paintings are good, but feel free to like them. I do think anyone could be a painter and could paint a masterpiece. Most people just won't.

  • @zackwhitehead4018
    @zackwhitehead4018 Місяць тому

    I disagree and leave.

  • @acdeeiprrt
    @acdeeiprrt Місяць тому

    this is only 30s, you have plenty of time left to answer why

  • @MattyB1970
    @MattyB1970 Місяць тому

    What has being white got to do with anything here?

  • @larstreat8650
    @larstreat8650 Місяць тому

    Voice an opinion as to why at the end. You presented the question almost rhetorically without adding the awnser. You have half a short, just need the other half. 👍

  • @millenniumearl1894
    @millenniumearl1894 Місяць тому

    you gave no real answer

  • @SMM-Mystery
    @SMM-Mystery Місяць тому

    Actually, yes, anyone could paint an abstract piece of art like or better than a Pollock. As you stated, the work is up for interpretation. Pollock's work is great because he was great before his best pieces.

  • @Rafaela-y5d
    @Rafaela-y5d Місяць тому

    I like youre glasses😊❤❤❤😊😊😊

  • @jamestarbet9608
    @jamestarbet9608 2 місяці тому

    I fixed your last sentence: Why do we need to bring back some dead asshole from the grave? The problem is he was an asshole, not that he was old, white or male.

  • @archiechoke23
    @archiechoke23 3 місяці тому

    Need to go see this in person.

  • @Styxx_the_Fox
    @Styxx_the_Fox 3 місяці тому

    Who needs the money more, security who can get a job legit anywhere, or the artists who are far less able to diversify, meaning they lose their chance at earning money.... I think this is obvious

  • @grahamgosling5646
    @grahamgosling5646 4 місяці тому

    I've always thought that the fair organisers are the greatest winners in this World

  • @clarenceeduarte6934
    @clarenceeduarte6934 5 місяців тому

    Money, Money, Money

  • @your.opinion.sucks.
    @your.opinion.sucks. 6 місяців тому

    The billionaires, the wealthiest people on the globe got hacked? Can't say I'm too concerned.

  • @Padfoot8186
    @Padfoot8186 6 місяців тому

    Yoko is crazy. Looks like her fan base is too. Yes we are still mad

  • @chungusmaximus526
    @chungusmaximus526 6 місяців тому

    I say no.

  • @sniffy6
    @sniffy6 6 місяців тому

    😂

  • @ricardosamudio3493
    @ricardosamudio3493 6 місяців тому

    Do feminist ever make sense ?

  • @ricardosamudio3493
    @ricardosamudio3493 6 місяців тому

    Obviously, she has never listened to any songs yoko sang. She's terrible.. God bless Yokos still alive but her relationship with John did break-up the great musical act of all time.

  • @aliens-4-sale
    @aliens-4-sale 6 місяців тому

    she’s literally not talented lmao

    • @watchseenart
      @watchseenart 6 місяців тому

      disagree

    • @Balcerowitz
      @Balcerowitz 3 місяці тому

      @@watchseenart You can but it only confirms all your knowledge about art. Your talking nonsense only leads to a certain demonstration that you do not understand the meaning of talent. Would such a person be "inventive", "talented", if she was not rich - and attention not because of talent, but because of Lenon's inheritance? Chat gpt as a source XDDDDDDDDDDDDD Of course single mom shit - it must me sexist XD Of course it is the men fault XD

    • @Balcerowitz
      @Balcerowitz 3 місяці тому

      Nirvana about Yoko ua-cam.com/users/shortsuE-ZGnBmRhQ?feature=share

  • @alem5030
    @alem5030 6 місяців тому

    I love the batles

  • @kellygreen7236
    @kellygreen7236 6 місяців тому

    I don't like her art or her music, but I respect her as a woman who has spirit and represents her country with her choice of vocals. Yoko got a lot of shit for dating John Lennon just because she was 1.) Asian (during the Vietnam War which fueled a lot of racist stereotypes and getting the survivors of WWII to jump back on the Asian hate train) and 2.) Not supermodel, conventionally attractive like the other partners the Beatles had. Yoko deserved better. Whether she aided in breaking up the band or not, the fact she was torn down so much by the public was fucked up. I think so many people threw her under the bus. There are so many stories, perspectives and factors that made the Beatles decide to split. It wasn't just her.

    • @watchseenart
      @watchseenart 6 місяців тому

      thank you so much for your thoughtful response! The other comments on this should take notes.

  • @Jennifer-fl9vj
    @Jennifer-fl9vj 7 місяців тому

    Cfggggz😡🤬😨🤫😐🤔