Anjuli Rathod
Welcome to our fifth episode of Y2K GROUP CHAT featuring artist Anjuli Rathod. We recorded in late September 2020.\nWe talk with Anjuli about her studio practice, making art at a young age, the space in-between worlds, communicating with the passed, creating a character named Red, life and death cycles, and ideas of grieving in her work.\nAnjuli Rathod is an emerging artist working in Brooklyn.\nFollow us on Instagram: @y2kgroup\nSubscribe to our YouTube channel for more content about contemporary art.\nStay up-to-date with out Y2K Blog on our website for more news.\nCoinciding with this new episode release is Y2K-NOW presenting recent works on paper by Anjuli Rathod on our website to buy now.\nAudio timestamps below:\n0:00 - Intro Music\n0:15 - Y2K GROUP CHAT introduction\n0:34 - Anjuli Rathod introduction and bio\n0:56 - Rathod exhibition history\n1:44 - Y2K-NOW + Anjuli Rathod\n2:10 - Hello and Happy Fridays\n2:40 - Name\n3:05 - What are you working on?\n3:37 - Where\u2019s your studio?\n4:37 - What are your first memories with art?\n5:15 - Mr. Miller art teacher\n6:10 - What inspired you when you were younger?\n7:12 - Statues from parents and small paintings\n8:54 - What did your parents think about you pursuing art when you were young?\n10:27 - Medical books\n11:20 - rotten dot com\n12:26 - Where did you grow up?\n12:36 - Did you imagine a future in New York?\n13:27 - Boston\n14:09 - Museum\n14:21 - MIT\n14:58 - Undergrad in Boston\n16:04 - Flexibility and preparing to be an artist while in school\n16:33 - Did you explore other mediums?\n17:09 - Would you revisit past mediums?\n17:29 - Recent ceramic work\n18:15 - Spiritual elements in current work\n18:53 - Life, death cycles, and grieving\n19:33 - Creating Red and her journey\n20:21 - Monk\n20:59 - Hallucinating the passed\n21:56 - Paintings imagining in-between spaces and communing\n23:07 - Visions?\n23:50 - Dream imagery\n24:15 - Moon?\n25:36 - Observers\n26:09 - Butterfly meaning\n27:40 - Illuminations\n29:35 - Afterlife?\n31:30 - Lost + The Leftovers\n32:42 - Interstate Projects\n34:37 - Working with acrylic and flashe + watercolor\n38:07 - How are your drawings incorporated in your practice?\n40:32 - Pandemic\n45:05 - Revisiting galleries\n47:14 - Sketching and ceramics?\n48:48 - The Mystic Spiral\n51:10 - Future and ceramics?\n53:30 - Spirals in everything\n54:02 - Continuing the series and Red\u2019s journey\n55:23 - More about Red, Anne Carson, Bhanu Kapil\n58:53 - Questions / Astrology\n1:00:19 - Animation, film, sci-fi\n1:04:12 - Thank you