Joseph Smith is a Bushwick based painter and interviewer. He conducts studio visits with emerging to mid-career artists. These interviews serve as documentations of the artist, the artworld, the time period, etc. You can find his work and current projects on his website, or instagram. He visited KT Hickman’s studio towards the end of September 2020 to rummage through stacks of old paintings while talking about the eponymous Coke.
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Marissa Delano: Typically your itinerant gallery programming is based in New York, but since the spring you’ve been quarantined in Switzerland with Ernst [boyfriend] and his family. Can you describe the ease or difficulty of working remotely and from overseas? Kendra Jayne Patrick: The most difficult aspect is the time difference. It has also been hard as an American to watch from another country as the economic and political situation continues to unravel in America. I found myself envying Swiss life where you can be a regular person because the government’s everyday systems work for you. It's been a mixed...
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In both aesthetics and thematics, Spree is jarring. Drake produced it. Joe Keery stars in it. Mischa Barton dies in it. James Ferraro scores it. As a film that some received as an “inside joke for Gen z,” Spree operates on the based-cringe universal rating spectrum, the Chan-born navbar, and the criterion which emphatically forgoes nuance and discourse.
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