Signe Pierce has been featured in the Spring/Summer issue of Aether art magazine.
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Signe Pierce has been featured in the Spring/Summer issue of Aether art magazine.
Alexandra Gorczynski’s exhibition Never Forever at AKG was reviewed by Mousse Magazine. Gorczynski is quoted saying: “Perhaps the most interesting aspect of the work is its play upon the continuum that exists between traditional painting and new media.” Read the full article here.
Jerry Saltz, New York Magazine’s chief art critic, has selected Signe Pierce as one of 11 artists set to have a breakout year.
Molly Soda is interviewed for the article “How I get By: The Lives of Five American Artists” by Ryan Steadman for the Observer. Read the full article here.
Gretchen Andrew has been interviewed by Elena Giulia Rossi for the magazine Arshake.
Molly Soda’s article ‘This Web Artist Is Ditching The Razor And Fighting The Patriarchy’ was featured in the April 2016 issue of Nylon magazine. Read the full article here.
CCS Centre Galleries exhibition Doubly So in Detroit, including works my Molly Soda, is reported in Detroit Free Press. Read the full article here.
Signe Pierce has been interviewed by 52 Insights concerning her and Alli Coates’ video work ‘American Reflexxx’, which now has more than 1.5 million views on YouTube.
Molly Soda’s work in the exhibition Doubly So at the CCS Centre Galleries in Detroit is reviewed by Clara DeGalan for the Detroit Art Review. She writes, “Soda’s work in “Doubly So” left me with a grim suspicion that autonomy of image in social media still alludes women, and it’s a problem we are going to have to spend a few more decades thinking our way around.” Read the full article here.
Hello, This is Dash at AKG is reviewed by Aujourd’hui. “Making art by recording his life was a form of both communication and catharsis for Snow” writes the author. Read the full article here.
Hello, this is Dash at AKG is reviewed by Another magazine. Annka Kultys is quoted saying: “Now, I am showing his work because I believe that his works are a bridge between his generation and the new Instagramming generation who also makes the private public.” Read the full article here.
To mark Dash Snow’s exhibition at AKG Dazed has reprinted a 2006 interview with the artist. “I don’t really know much about technique, I just aim to ‘keep the moment’… I feel like technology is a fool’s game” says Dash. Read the full interview here.
Alexandra Gorczynski is Artslant’s ‘Wednesday Web Artist of the Week’. Christian Petersen writes, “There is a subtle and precise attention to detail as well as a distinct subversive wit that elevates her compositions to distinctly classical levels.” Read the full article here.
Virgile Ittah’s Champagne Life is on view at the Saatchi Gallery until 9 Mar 2016.
Paddy Johnson has featured Signe Pierce in an article about how the artist-centric movement is having a watershed moment.
Molly Soda’s exhibition From my bedroom to yours at AKG is mentioned in Paul Carey-Kent’s article “Getting Art” in Art Monthly. Read the full article here.
Ione Gamble at Dazed Digital has covered You Can Call Me Baby, a group show featuring Signe Pierce which tackles the problem of casual misogyny in contemporary society.
Ittah Yoda’s exhibition at AKG is reviewed by Ambika Rajgopal for Art Asia Pacific. “From their personal narrative, Ittah Yoda imbue their works with an individual and cultural specificity, which results from a transcultural collaboration”, writes Rajgopal. Read the full article here.
Signe Pierce and Alli Coates’ American Reflexxx has been noted as as highlight of SPRING/BREAK fair by i-D Magazine.
Ittah Yoda’s collaboration and exhibition I Think Mango You Say Salmon at AKG is detailed by Aric Miller in his article “Ittah Yoda and the Yin and Yang of Artist Collaboration’ on 1 Granary. The duo are quoted saying: “Maybe we are continuing this collaboration because we thought that on our own we wouldn’t have made enough good, relevant or strong work, whereas together we can strike a perfect balance.” Read the full article here.
I Think Mango You Say Salmon is reviewed on Mousse magazine. The author describes Ittah Yoda’s exhibition at AKG as “the culmination of the artists’ recent creative collaboration and comprises ten pieces that explore the subjectivity of the human experience”. Read the full article here.
Ittah Yoda’s exhibition at AKG I Think Mango You Say Salmon was reviewed on Aujourd’hui. The author writes, “In I think mango you say salmon Ittah Yoda have harnessed their fragile collective to produce works evocative of Waal’s dream of endless beautiful flow.” Read the full review here.
Molly Soda is featured in the Guardian in the article “Are Selfies empowering for women?” by Laura Bates who writes: “Artist Molly Soda last year leaked her own nude snaps in a statement about regaining power and control from nude picture hackers”. Read the full article here.
Signe Pierce has been selected as one of the most groundbreaking women using Instagram as a platform for their work by Dazed Digital.
Dazed Digital writer Martine Thompson has singled out Signe Pierce as one of ten women artists to follow on Instagram.
Molly Soda is featured in the group show The Mercury Theatre Reality Show organised by Galerie Christophe Gaillard in Paris. The exhibition features 30 artists adopting an anonymous group instagram account: The_Mercury_Theatre and runs from 1-28 February 2016.
Artforum has written an article on the playful materiality of Rachel de Joode’s sculptures in her show Porosity at Galerie Christophe Gaillard.
Katie Gavin writes about Molly Soda’s Pretend (2015) for Flaunt magazine. “Molly Soda erases the line between artifice and sincerity, and the fluctuating boundaries of 21st century social media performance art” says Gavin. Read the full article here.
Molly Soda’s solo exhibition at AKG From My Bedroom To Yours is mentioned on Aujourd’hui. Read the full article here.
From My Bedroom To Yours was published on Mousse Magazine. Read the full article here .
Signe Pierce has been listed as one of seven female performance artists to know about by writer and curator Adriana Felizia Pauly.
Art Report writer Adriana Pauly has selected Signe Pierce as one of seven female performance artists to keep on your radar.
Reality Artist Signe Pierce has been profiled by Ione Gamble of Dazed Digital.
VICE has profiled Motelscape, a neon-drenched collaboration between five artists, including Signe Pierce.
Dazed Digital has interviewed Signe Pierce about deconstructing the beauty industry through her performance pieces.
East London Lines has just reviewed From My Bedroom To Yours, Molly Soda’s first solo show in the United Kingdom. Author Emilie Shane writes, “[Soda’s] videos and images are raw, presenting an authentic experience of being a girl on the Internet. According to Soda: “That’s activism in itself – just putting yourself out there as a woman – being totally unashamed of who you are and what you’re about.” To read the full review, click here.
American Reflexxx has been cited in Ben Valentine’s exploration of contemporary surveillance culture for Open Space SFMoMA.
1883 Magazine has just reviewed From My Bedroom To Yours, Molly Soda’s first solo show. Author Jacopo Nuvo writes, “She likes to call herself a ‘webcam princess’; yet Molly Soda is more than a mere ‘Internet sensation’, and her debut solo show proves it.” You can find the full review here .
Blogger Issey Scott has reviewed From My Bedroom To Yours, Molly Soda’s first solo show. To read the full review, click here.
From My Bedroom To Yours was reviewed by Charlotte Jansen for Artslant. Jansen is convinced that “the show is a confident leap in a new direction, both for the artist, and for the art of this genre”. Read the full review here.
The White Pube writers Gabriella de la Puente and Zarina Muhammad have just reviewed From My Bedroom to Yours, Molly Soda’s first solo show. Describing the complexity of the ideas that Soda presents in the show, Muhammad writes “I always, always in my mind want to make the kind of work that makes you stop. I want to make work that is arresting. That makes you pull out your phone and plop it on Instagram, that you take a selfie in front of. I want my work to look good with a filter on it as well as in real life. Molly’s show did that.” To read the full review, click here .
AQNB has featured From My Bedroom to Yours To read the full listing, click here.
Ione Gamble has interviewed Molly Soda about her first solo show, From My Bedroom To Yours, on the ASOS Likes blog. The show will remain on view at Annka Kultys Gallery through 16 January 2016. To read the full interview, click here.
From My Bedroom To Yours was reviewed by Marianne Eloise for February Stationery. She writes, “The work itself, some of her most iconic videos and Newhive pieces from over the years, is delightfully at odds with the ‘girly’ pinks. It speaks of the real juxtaposition that happens within young women, wherein we feel such intense sadness and pain in intimate girly bedroom spaces.” Read the full article here.
Molly Soda was interviewed by Ashleigh Kane for Dazed. Kane writes, “Her work is so relatable, not only because it exists in its entirely online, but because she breaks through the fourth wall that most of us keep shatterproof when it comes to constructing our identities, whether online or off.” Read the full interview here.
Foam curator Zippora Elders interviews Rachel de Joode about found objects, hoaxes and if her work is repulsive or attractive.
Annka Kultys was interviewed by Maria Teresa Ortoleva about AKG’s debut exhibition Desire of the Other. “Desire of the Other was a curatorial project that pulled together ideas from a decade of observations about collecting behaviours. It was a commentary on what I observed in the market and the growing importance of new collectors in promoting artists in unexpected ways.” says Kultys. Read the full interview here.
Fluxo has reviewed Rachel de Joode’s work from her group show Touch-tone at Martos Gallery in New York.
Vogue Italia has written an article on Signe Pierce’s new performance piece in Milan.
Ladygunn has just interviewed Molly Soda in anticipation of her upcoming solo show at Annka Kultys Gallery. The author writes: “Despite the never ending sounds and voices of so many people in the digital stratosphere Molly has made it to the frontier lines of that world for her engaging and deeply personal work that includes explores self-identity and self depreciation, feminism, culture, and perversion. From her uninhibited selfies, her raw emotions and her uncategorizable take on the modern world, with Molly Soda everything she puts out is a bit surprising, a bit alarming and a bit real.” To read the full article, click here.
Dazed Digital has just published a roundtable discussion about censorship online between Molly Soda and Rupi Kaur, Arvida Byström, Saerah Lee and Alexandra Marzella. Opening the conversation, Soda says: “The way women are perceived online is just a heightened reflection of society and the way women, and particularly their bodies, are treated in real life. Everything you put out there essentially invites others to criticise and interpret your image.” You can find their full conversation here.
Rhizome has interviewed Signe Pierce, in an extensive analysis of Pierce and Alli Coates’ acclaimed film performance American Reflexxx.
Amy Haddad, Create Hub’s editor, considers the attention that VR recently gained following a conversation with Gretchen Andrew.
i-D has published a short review of hot in here, the group show at Sunday Gallery in Los Angeles featuring works by Molly Soda. The show, on view through 5 August 2015, also includes work by Arvida Byström, Mayan Toledano, Vivian Fu, Grace Miceli and Molly Matalon. To read the full article, click here.
Molly Soda has been mentioned in an article posted on NPR about the art of the selfie. Describing Soda’s signature self-portrait aesthetic, the author writes: “Soda is among those who do not clean up their selfies. She’s going for an unvarnished, alternative look.” To read the full article, click here.
Molly Soda has been interviewed by Kayla Unnerstall for Bullett Magazine about the release of her most recent zine, I don’t want you to miss me. Describing the evolution of her practice, Soda says: “I started thinking about websites as art and videos as art and using the Internet as a tool to get my work out there and using it as a medium to make work on instead of having to make a print, painting or a physical piece. I think I’ve evolved in that way that I’m not separating my real life practice from my online art practice anymore. It’s all melded into one thing.” You can find the full interview here.
Galore Magazine has just published a new interview with Molly Soda. Upon responding to writer Maria Pasquini’s request for Soda to describe her practice in 10 words or less, Soda replies: “webcam princess explores digital intimacy and cyber sincerity.” You can find the full interview here.
Bullett Magazine‘s Kayla Unnerstall has written about the controversy surrounding the release of Molly Soda’s zine should i send this / ur so emo about boys. While some have called the zine feminist artwork, others have decried the work as vapid and narcissistic. To read the full piece, click here.
Dazed Digital has just published an article about Should I Send This?, Molly Soda’s latest zine in which the artist publishes a selection of previously unseen nude images and sexts. The author, Alice Mosey, writes: “Far from a bunch of awkward nudes and cringeworthy chat-up lines, Should I Send This? highlights how we construct our intimacy while hiding behind a screen.” You can find the full article here.
John Chiaverina has interviewed Alli Coates and Signe Pierce for ArtNews to discuss their acclaimed film American Reflexxx and the shocking results of mob mentality.
Signe Pierce and Alli Coates’ American Reflexxx has been covered in a VICE profile on the shock of its transphobic violence.
Molly Soda’s involvement in the glitch art project This is Not an Error has been reported on by Priscilla Frank of the Huffington Post. Other artists included in the project are Jeanette Hayes, LaTurbo Avedon, So Sad Today and more. To read the article and see Soda’s glitches-out 404 error page, click here.
Dazed writer Alice Mosey interviews Molly Soda about her digital exhibition, Me and My Bear, hosted on New Hive.
Continue reading “DAZED | 09 April 2015”POSTMatter has reviewed Rachel de Joode’s latest exhibition at Kansas Gallery, New York.
LA Weekly speaks to Gretchen Andrew about her virtual reality art show
Rachel de Joode is mentioned as part of a nuanced and polemical essay on Post-Internet art in Art in America by Brian Droitcourt.
Continue reading “ART IN AMERICA | 29 October 2014”Mousse has written a feature on Rachel de Joode’s show The Molten Inner Core, at Neumeister Bar-Am in Berlin.
Artforum has reviewed Rachel de Joode’s exhibition The Molten Inner Core.
The New Beauty of our Modern Life, a group show featuring work by Rachel de Joode, has been covered by DIS Magazine.
Conversation between Gretchen Andrew and MET’s Content Partnerships Manager, Neal Stimler, spanning from the usage of Google Glass in museums to digital culture and how artists’ practice can evolve thanks to technology.
The New Yorker has selected the group show The New Beauty of Our Modern Life, featuring work by Rachel de Joode, in its critics’ choice section.
Gretchen Andrew talks to Medium about the validity of experience art.
Rachel de Joode and Kate Steciw have been interviewed by Marvin Jordan at DIS Magazine about their collaboration.
Hamilton College News has interviewed Kate Bickmore on her most recent paintings, which explore the trope of the ‘femme fatale’ in the 19th century.
Rachel de Joode’s first solo show in the United States, The Hole and the Lump at Interstate Projects, is selected as an exhibition highlight on Art F. City.
Impose Magazine spoke to Rachel de Joode about her first NY solo show, shamanism, and gravity.
Rachel de Joode has collaborated with Johannes Thumfart for a piece on surviving the apocalypse.
Rachel de Joode speaks to Anna Khachiyan about absurdity, authenticity, and playing with food.
Cool Hunting investigates Rachel de Joode’s ‘magic-surreal, inflatable Neo-Dada’ work.
Berlin Art Link visit Rachel de Joode at her studio.