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Gary Yeh is a senior at Duke University studying art history and economics. He developed an interest in contemporary art after visiting an Yves Klein retrospective at the Hirshhorn Museum in Washington, D.C. Since then, Gary has engaged more directly with the art community by supporting emerging artists, traveling to art fairs, and running an online art gallery in high school. He currently manages ArtDrunk, an Instagram account with over 20k followers and serves as a co-chair on the...

Locate Arts: How did you get connected with Tennessee based curators and artists for the Asymmetric Kin project? Naz Cuguoğlu: I met Jonathan Rattner when we were both at CeRCCa art residency in Llorenç del Penedes (Spain). We wanted to work on a project together. As he is a member of COOP Curatorial Collective (Nashville) and I am co-founder of Creative Çukurcuma art collective (Istanbul), we wanted to involve our communities in this project. He invited Paul Collins (mem...

Dr. Jordan Amirkhani is an Assistant Professor of Art History at the University of Tennessee Chattanooga. Professor Amirkhani obtained her PhD in the History and Philosophy of Modern European Art at the University of Kent in the United Kingdom in 2015, and has published articles and catalogue essays on a diverse range of material including: the British conceptual art group Art & Language; the Serbian art activists Grupa Spomenik; and contemporary art from Iran. Before accepting her current appointment, Jordan held lectureships...