Artist Profile Series 32: Marcel Duchamp

Marcel Duchamp was a visual artist, writer and avid chess player born July 28, 1887 near Blainville, France. His works are characterized by irony, movement and the dissolution of pre-conceived notions about art. Duchamp was an artist who defied categorization. He sent shock waves through the art world with the premiere of his line of found, manufactured objects called Readymades.

In this episode, Stephen shares a brief glimpse into the life of this eccentric artist as well as a spiritual interpretation of Readymades and Duchamp’s piece, Fountain.

Artist Profile SeriesStephen RoachAugust 16, 2020marcel duchamp, Artist Profile Series, Readymades, Found objects, Found Art, Fountain, Conceptual Art, Marcel Duchamp, sur, dada, cubism

S5 E4: The Lost Art of Found Objects with Lonnie Holley

Lonnie Holley is an African American artist who has devoted his life to the practice of improvisational creativity. His art and music, born out of struggle, hardship, but perhaps more importantly, out of furious curiosity and biological necessity, manifests itself in drawing, painting, narrative sculpture, photography, performance, and sound.

Holley’s sculptures are constructed from found materials in the oldest tradition of African American sculpture. Objects, already imbued with cultural and artistic metaphor, are combined into narrative sculptures that commemorate places, people, and events.

outsider art, Found ArtStephen RoachFebruary 28, 2019Lonnie Holley, Found Art, Found objects, folk art, Matt Arnett, African American art, narrative sculpture, sculpture, Elsewhere Living Art Museum, Birmingham, Mith, Jagjaguwar, I Snuck Off The Slave Ship