image_above: installation shot of Kalaija Mallery and Ryan Patrick Krueger installing Krueger’s work for his solo exhibition On Longing, which was organized in 2022 by Mallery at Monaco, documentation of the show and all photography courtesy of @goodartdoc
COOL WIP episode 28:
coolin with Kalaija Mallery
Call her mother. We’re kicking off season three with Kalaija Mallery - everyone’s favorite organizer, artist, and metaphorical mother hen.
Kalaija Mallery photographed in her project KNOW/HOW Bookshop located inside The Luminary, where she is currently the Programs and Communications Manager
IHoly freaking smokes, it’s szn 3 and we are spillin’ tea and other beverages with everyone’s art mom, Kalaija Mallery. Kalaija is a practicing artist, gallery manager at The Luminary, exhibition photographer, creator, caretaker, and facilitator of art spaces and communities across the country. We’re talkin’ myspace pics, fast and casual salads, anarchic art spaces, untethered aesthetics, freedom: cult of self expression, punctdom, solipsistic photography, and navigating a capitalist system while maintaining an ethical praxis.
@Kalaija.m on Instagram
kalaija.works on the web
@goodartdoc on Instagram
for studio photography services including professional headshots, installation photography, and exhibition documentation dm kalaija
img_above: provided by Kalaija, during her time leading a cult (maybe, you’ll have to listen to find out)