Volume 12
Friend of the Artist is a platform dedicated to showcasing the work of extremely talented emerging artists from around the world. Each volume is unique and features a diversity of aesthetics and ideas. Our printed books are curated by experienced jurors, who work together to carefully select the top artists’ works.
During times when social norms continue to evolve, we find this particular volume of FOA to be important to the overall practice of viewing art. As more galleries have taken exhibitions online, making art interactions a “visual only” experience, the gift of standing before a work of art as it sits in context to its surroundings has become far less taken for granted. We feel that through FOA’s printed volumes, we can continue to provide a physical encounter for the viewer to not only take in the works in a tactile form, but they can also experience them in context to other carefully curated works that surround them in the pages of the volume.
Within the pages of FOA’s Volume 12, we are proud to feature 40 artists from 9 different countries who work in multiple mediums, thanks to the panel of experienced jurors from around the globe including Natasha Arselan, Adrian Zuñiga, Roya Sachs, and Justin Archer.
Details
Release Date: November 7, 2020
Binding: Hardcover
Page count: 234 pages
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Artists
Emi Avora, Caetlynn Booth, Caitlin Cartwright, Li Chen, Madelaine Corbin, Véronique Chagnon Côté, Lauren Dreier, KT Duffy, Mariah Ferrari, Giorgos Gerontides, Keegan Grandbois, Dipali Gupta, Yishay Hogesta, Jordan Holms, Heather Leigh Hoskins, Chin-ting Huang, Jin Jeong, Joseph Kameen, Eric Kunsman, Sandra Lapage, Jackie Leishman, Ashley Lusietto, Terry Mason, Karen Navarro, Katie Neece, Irby Pace, Ekaterina Popova, Kathy Putnam, William Ruller, Sophia Ruppert, Libby Saylor, Leah Schretenthaler, Lila Shull, Ben Siekierski, Emily Somoskey, Alice Stone-Collins, Nicolas Vionnet, Johnathan Welsh, Jiannan Wu, Mikey Yates
Jurors
Natasha
Arselan
Natasha Arselan is the founder and CEO of Auc Art, and is based in London. AucArt launched in 2017 as the only auction house specializing in graduate art, quickly becoming known for championing early career artists. Today, alongside exceptional recent graduates, AucArt is proud to also work with more established names. We enable collectors from anywhere in the world to discover rising international talent, and buy directly from their studio.
Roya Sachs
Roya Sachs is an independent curator and artistic director based between New York and London. She is co-founder of creative house Triadic. Most recently she was curator of Lever House Art Collection. Roya has presented exhibitions, performances, and installations in collaboration with institutions and companies including Lever House, Performa, Google, Spring Place, Gertrude, Mana Contemporary, BOSI Contemporary Gallery, Gerson Zevi Gallery, and LAMB Arts. Her artistic collaborators include Peter Halley, the New York City Ballet, the Campana Brothers, Karole Armitage, Adam Pendleton, assume vivid astro focus, Adam McEwen, and Katherine Bernhardt, to name a few. Her curatorial approach often combines mediums, such as technology, opera, contemporary dance, live music, new media, lighting, and site-specific installation, with a strong emphasis and specialty in performance. She sits on the board of directors at Performa, as well as the Advisory Board of Therme Art Program and AucArt. Raised in London, she attended NYU. Roya and her projects have been featured in The New York Times, Forbes, Vogue, Artnet, W Magazine, Artsy, Wallpaper, and Cultured Magazine, among others.
Justin W. Archer
Justin W. Archer is a sculptor whose work examines the human experience. Since receiving his M.F.A. in 2016 from the University of North Texas he taught in the Studio Arts Department. In the Fall of 2019 he joined SCAD: Atlanta as a Foundations Professor. Archer’s work has been exhibited at Love Field Airport in Dallas, R02 Gallery in Dallas, Mason Fine Art Gallery in Atlanta, and many other galleries nationally. He has created artworks for the United Methodist Healthcare Systems Foundation, Texas Tech University, Music Bed, Film Supply, and is in various personal collections. In addition to his teaching and studio practice he has the privilege of working with the print publication “Friend of the Artist”. He lives with his wife, Laura, in Atlanta, Georgia.
Adrian Zuñiga
Adrian Zuñiga is a writer on contemporary art whose research interests are driven by socially-engaged topics, from the nature of labor and workers on the Internet to artistic interventions within disenfranchised communities. After receiving a BFA in Painting from the University of Texas at Arlington in 2012 he began working for Galleri Urbane in Dallas, Texas, where he has helped plan numerous solo and group exhibitions and art fair presentations. In 2016, he moved to London for a year to study at Sotheby's Institute of Art, receiving an MA in Contemporary Art and the program's Director's Commendation Award for academic excellence. He is currently based in Dallas where he is the Director of Exhibitions at Galleri Urbane.
