Anjuli Rathod

Y2K GROUP CHAT

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.

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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