Feb 28, 2020
Field
Projects is an artist-run project space in Chelsea NYC and online
venue dedicated to emerging and mid-career artists. Centered on
long-term curatorial projects, Field Projects presents monthly
exhibitions at their Chelsea location in addition to participating
in pop-up exhibitions in and around New York as well as art fairs
around the world. The gallery invites artists to submit their work
for consideration twice a year through an open call submission process. They discover about 80% of the artist they
show through our open call submission process.
Field
Projects was founded by artists Jacob Rhodes and Keri Oldham in
2011 and is currently run by Jacob Rhodes, Rachel Frank, and
Kristen Racaniello. Interns are Isabella Cilia and Ellen Hersey and
previous members are Jason Mones, Blair Murphy, Alissa D. Polan,
Keri Oldham.
For
this interview, I visited their space in Chelsea to talk to Jaco,
Rachel and Kristen about their background in the arts, starting
Field Projects, curatorial projects, applying to open calls and
balancing their artistic practice with Field Projects. Field
Projects has always been an inspirational space for me and after
this interview, I was really blown away by their generosity and
sincerity for curating shows and supporting artists. They are the
real deal and share their experience as artists and curators in
this episode.
Currently, they are curating a show in the Spring Break
Art Show featuring Kate Klingbeil and they currently are exhibiting
a show curated by Rachel. In addition to the shows they are
curating through Field Projects, Kristen has work in Spring Break
in a show curated by Jac Lahav and Eli Bronner called "Just for the
Taste of It" and has an
article-- Haptic
Homoeroticism: Evidence of Queer Bathing Histories in the Glazier
De Balneis Puteolanis-- coming out soon in the Public Art
Dialogue but you
can check it out now on her Accademia.edu page.
RESOURCES:
Kristen on Insta-@krisrac (for curatorial)
and @krisracworks (for art)
Kristen on Twitter-@krisrac