Anjuli Rathod

Welcome to our fifth episode of Y2K GROUP CHAT featuring artist Anjuli Rathod. We recorded in late September 2020. We 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. Anjuli Rathod is an emerging artist working in Brooklyn. Follow us on Instagram: @y2kgroup Subscribe to our YouTube channel for more content about contemporary art. Stay up-to-date with out Y2K Blog on our website for more news. Coinciding with this new episode release is Y2K-NOW presenting recent works on paper by Anjuli Rathod on our website to buy now. Audio timestamps below: 0:00 - Intro Music 0:15 - Y2K GROUP CHAT introduction 0:34 - Anjuli Rathod introduction and bio 0:56 - Rathod exhibition history 1:44 - Y2K-NOW + Anjuli Rathod 2:10 - Hello and Happy Fridays 2:40 - Name 3:05 - What are you working on? 3:37 - Where’s your studio? 4:37 - What are your first memories with art? 5:15 - Mr. Miller art teacher 6:10 - What inspired you when you were younger? 7:12 - Statues from parents and small paintings 8:54 - What did your parents think about you pursuing art when you were young? 10:27 - Medical books 11:20 - rotten dot com 12:26 - Where did you grow up? 12:36 - Did you imagine a future in New York? 13:27 - Boston 14:09 - Museum 14:21 - MIT 14:58 - Undergrad in Boston 16:04 - Flexibility and preparing to be an artist while in school 16:33 - Did you explore other mediums? 17:09 - Would you revisit past mediums? 17:29 - Recent ceramic work 18:15 - Spiritual elements in current work 18:53 - Life, death cycles, and grieving 19:33 - Creating Red and her journey 20:21 - Monk 20:59 - Hallucinating the passed 21:56 - Paintings imagining in-between spaces and communing 23:07 - Visions? 23:50 - Dream imagery 24:15 - Moon? 25:36 - Observers 26:09 - Butterfly meaning 27:40 - Illuminations 29:35 - Afterlife? 31:30 - Lost + The Leftovers 32:42 - Interstate Projects 34:37 - Working with acrylic and flashe + watercolor 38:07 - How are your drawings incorporated in your practice? 40:32 - Pandemic 45:05 - Revisiting galleries 47:14 - Sketching and ceramics? 48:48 - The Mystic Spiral 51:10 - Future and ceramics? 53:30 - Spirals in everything 54:02 - Continuing the series and Red’s journey 55:23 - More about Red, Anne Carson, Bhanu Kapil 58:53 - Questions / Astrology 1:00:19 - Animation, film, sci-fi 1:04:12 - Thank you