{"id":39425,"date":"2015-01-14T16:58:00","date_gmt":"2015-01-14T16:58:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/wordpress\/?p=39425"},"modified":"2015-01-14T16:58:00","modified_gmt":"2015-01-14T16:58:00","slug":"young-artists-saya-woolfalk","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=39425","title":{"rendered":"Young Artists: Saya Woolfalk"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.wmagazine.com\/culture\/art-and-design\/2008\/11\/saya_woolfalk\" target=\"_blank\"><em><strong>Young Artists: Saya Woolfalk<\/strong><\/em><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.wmagazine.com\" target=\"_blank\">W<\/a><br \/>\nNovember 2008<\/p>\n<p><strong>Timothy McCahill<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>For the last two years <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sayawoolfalk.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Saya Woolfalk<\/a> has practically lived in <em>No Place<\/em>, the futuristic work she is creating through painting, sculpture and video. So it\u2019s not surprising that when she talks about it, the line between fact and fiction seems a little fuzzy. More than just a plain old multimedia installation, <em>No Place<\/em> has its own inhabitants and culture. The bubbly 29-year-old delights in describing every nook and cranny. \u201cI talk about it as if it could be real,\u201d admits Woolfalk, who is completing a yearlong stint as an artist-in-residence at the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.studiomuseum.org\/\" target=\"_blank\">Studio Museum in Harlem<\/a>, where <em>No Place<\/em> was recently shown. \u201cBut I never forget that it\u2019s another place.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Woolfalk\u2019s world is inhabited by half-human, half-plant figures called <em>No Placeans<\/em>, who in her paintings are portrayed roaming a psychedelic landscape reminiscent of <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Yellow_Submarine_(film)\" target=\"_blank\"><em>Yellow Submarine<\/em><\/a>. In one piece, they appear in front of a blue and yellow building surrounded by pink phalluses. As part of the project, Woolfalk filmed the <em>No Placeans<\/em>\u2014played by the artist, her friends and colleagues\u2014in the style of a documentary&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>&#8230;Though the piece grew partly out of Woolfalk\u2019s reflections on utopia, her influences also originate closer to home. Born in Japan to a Japanese mother and an African-American and white father, Woolfalk draws on Japanese anime and traditional African garments for many of her characters and costumes, blending cultures so that her work feels at once foreign and familiar. \u201cBecause I\u2019m mixed race, I have this idea that to leave the conversation ambiguous is interesting,\u201d she says&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Read the entire interview <a href=\"http:\/\/www.wmagazine.com\/culture\/art-and-design\/2008\/11\/saya_woolfalk\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Young Artists: Saya Woolfalk W November 2008 Timothy McCahill For the last two years Saya Woolfalk has practically lived in No Place, the futuristic work she is creating through painting, sculpture and video. So it\u2019s not surprising that when she talks about it, the line between fact and fiction seems a little fuzzy. More than [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[24,16,13743,8,20,25],"tags":[14225,19055,19053,19054],"class_list":["post-39425","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-arts","category-asia","category-interviews","category-media-archive","category-usa","category-women","tag-saya-woolfalk","tag-timothy-mccahill","tag-w","tag-w-magazine"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39425","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=39425"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39425\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=39425"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=39425"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=39425"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}