This week Brian sits down with Eleanor Hanson and Oliver
Wise, the Oakland-based founders of The Present Group, who describe the project
as “like a mutual fund that produces art instead of profits.”; A quarterly art
subscription project, The Present Group enables a community of subscribers to
create a new avenue of support for contemporary artists. They produce
thought-provoking work in a variety of media, and each of the four annual
limited editioned art works is paired with an essay contextualizing the edition.


 

Their goal is to engage art enthusiasts who never thought
of themselves as art collectors and to introduce them to the experience and
pleasures of owning contemporary art. This is the next installment of the
collaboration between Art Practical and Bad At Sports.

 

An abridged transcript of this interview appears in AP
Issue 13.

 

http://www.artpractical.com


 

Image: David Horvitz. Hermosa Beach, CA, Issue 9, Winter
2009; viewmaster reel, viewer, and Somerset cotton rag paper card. Courtesy of
The Present Group.

 

A note from BAS: Libsyn, our hosting company, sucks like
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