This week John sits down with artist and professor Melissa Yes to discuss her artist-run space Vinegar, personal creative vulnerability, and her latest exhibition “Finches”
All artworks © Melissa Yes
Slide list
1–2: Finches installation view (sculpture + projected video, collaboration with Tyler Jones, Fen Kennedy, and Todd Slaughter
3–5: Finches film stills, collaboration with Tyler Jones, Fen Kennedy, and Todd Slaughter
6: Space Program installation views (multiple projections and performance), 2017
7: 45 Portraits (detail of #34, Eisenhower, oil on plexiglass) and Your Votes (installation view, oil on plexiglass with vinyl hearts, portraits are life-size), 2020-21
8: Coyote Circle installation view (HD and SD videos, TVs, projection, dimensions vary), 2019
9: Surround video still (HD video, 17 minutes), 2019
10: Surround installation view (multiple projections and performance/interaction), 2019-present