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Episode 449 / Fred Tomaselli

(born 1956, Santa Monica, CA) Fred has been the subject of solo exhibitions at institutions including the Joslyn Art Museum, Omaha, NE (2019); Oceanside Museum of Art, Oceanside, CA (2018); Toledo Museum of Art, Toledo, OH (2016);  Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth (2014) and the University of Michigan Museum of Art (2014); a survey exhibition at Aspen Art Museum (2009) that toured to Tang Museum in Saratoga, NY and the Brooklyn Museum, Brooklyn NY (2010); The Fruitmarket Gallery, Edinburgh (2004) toured to four venues in Europe and the US; Albright-Knox Gallery of Art (2003); Site Santa Fe (2001); Palm Beach ICA (2001), and Whitney Museum of American Art (1999). His works have been included in international biennial exhibitions including Sydney (2010); Prospect 1 (2008); Site Santa Fe (2004); Whitney (2004) and others. Tomaselli’s work can be found in the public collections of institutions such as the Museum of Modern Art; Whitney Museum of American Art; Metropolitan Museum of Art; Brooklyn Museum; Albright Knox Art Gallery; Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden; San Diego Museum of Contemporary Art; San Francisco Museum of Modern Art; Los Angeles County Museum of Art; Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles; the Orange County Museum of Art, Santa Ana, CA; and many others.

Episode 467 / Julian Lennon is an English musician, photographer, author, and philanthropist. Julian started a music career in 1984 with his debut album and has since released six more albums. He has held exhibitions of his photography and has written several children's books. In 2006, he produced the environmental documentary film Whaledreamers, which won eight international awards. In 2007, he founded The White Feather Foundation, whose stated mission goal is to address "environmental and humanitarian issues".

In 2020, Julian was executive producer of the Netflix documentary Kiss the Ground about regenerative agriculture and the follow-up film Common Ground. In 2022, Julian was executive producer of the documentary film Women of the White Buffalo, which chronicles the lives of women living on the Lakota Pine Ridge Indian Reservation.

On 17 September 2010, Julian opened an exhibition of 35 photographs called "Timeless: The Photography of Julian Lennon" with help from long-time friend and fellow photographer Timothy White. The photographs include shots of his brother Sean and U2 frontman Bono. In 2023, Lennon showed a series of photographs in an exhibition titled ATMOSPHERIA at William Turner Gallery in Santa Monica, California. He currently has a solo show up at Fremin Gallery in Chelsea titled ‘REMINISCENCE,’ that runs through April 6th. 

Episode 444 / Larry Madrigal is a Mexican-American painter based in Phoenix, Arizona. Originally from Los Angeles, where his parents stayed after migrating from Mexico, Madrigal spent many of his early summers in Colima where his extended family lives. In 1998, during his elementary years, his family left California and moved to Phoenix where they remain to this day. Madrigal studied at Arizona state University and received his BFA in 2017. During this time, he developed a skill for traditional figurative and portrait painting through his close relationship with emeritus professor, Jerry Schutte, and his wife Anne Schutte. Jerry’s strong knowledge of figurative and landscape painting combined with Anne’s masterful sense of abstraction and gesture were significant influences. After graduation Madrigal continued in portraiture for several years culminating in his first museum group exhibition “Body Language: Figuration in Modern and Contemporary Art” at the Tucson Museum of Art in 2016.

In 2017, Madrigal returned to ASU for his MFA. Besides this new venture, he and his wife decided to start a family, and his daughter was born two weeks before the start of the program. Madrigal’s initial artistic ambitions were thwarted by the new and urgent demands of parenthood. He inevitably found himself paying close attention to daily rhythms with more profound questions. Finally after two years of resisting, he eventually surrendered to this calling and moved towards a focus on the quotidian. The commonplace became his arena for painting, a strong move away from the current focus on identity politics prevalent in academia at that time.This newly found obsession with the mundane led Madrigal on a quest to rehabilitate the genre in it’s purest form. His work would now be marked by “a suspension and celebration of the precariousness by which our most mundane daily rituals are balanced on a precipice just above total anarchy.” — Ben Lee Ritchie Handler, Global Director Nicodim Gallery.

During his MFA Madrigal was a three-time recipient of the Elizabeth Greenshields Foundation Artist Grant and a finalist in the AXA XL Art Prize. Six months after graduation in 2020, Madrigal had his first solo exhibition, “Scattered Daydream” at Nicodim Gallery in Los Angeles. Since then, he has had solo shows in New York, Los Angeles, Bucharest, and Madrid (Forthcoming), along with group shows in Paris, Tokyo, and Tel Aviv.

Madrigal’s paintings have continued to focus on the relatable nature of the human experience from his earnest and contemplative perspective, adopting a sincere attitude towards figuration, with a touch of darkness and humor.
He currently lives in Phoenix Arizona with his wife and two kids, and works out of his downtown studio.

Jamie Luoto (b. 1987) lives and works in the San Francisco North Bay. Her work has been featured in
publications such as Booooooom, Art Maze Mag, and New American Paintings;
appeared on platforms such as Juxtapoz and Hyperallergic; and is in international
private and public collections including the Green Family Art Foundation (Dallas,
USA).

Selected recent exhibitions include: (Upcoming) Reflections and Refractions, Green Family Art Foundation, (2026); (Upcoming) The Armory Show, Kristin Hjellegjerde Gallery, New York, USA (2024); (Upcoming) When Dusk Falls, Kristin Hjellegjerde Gallery, Berlin, Germany (2024, duo); Mirror, Mirror, Kristin Hjellegjerde Gallery, London, UK (2024); EXPO Chicago, Kristin Hjellegjerde Gallery, Chicago, USA (2024); The de Young Open, de Young Museum, San Francisco, USA (2023); Nude, Manifest Gallery, Cincinnati, USA (2023); True North, di Rosa Center for Contemporary Art, Napa, USA (2022); Stories from My Childhood, Northern Illinois University Art Museum, DeKalb, USA (2022); All About Women, Marin Society of Artists’ Gallery, San Rafael, USA (2021); Chasing Ghosts V, Verum Ultimum Gallery, Portland, USA (2020); Art the Library Featuring Jamie L. Luoto, Napa County Library, Napa, USA (2019, solo); It’s Time: An Uncensored Look at the Time’s Up and #MeToo Movements, Orange County Center for Contemporary Art, Santa Ana, USA (2018); Pride and Prejudice: Gender Realities in the 21st Century, Arc Gallery, Chicago, USA (2018); Identity Spectrum, Susquehanna Art Museum, Harrisburg, USA (2018).

Episode 432 Emily Pettigrew was born in Maine in 1991. She received a BFA from Pratt Institute in Brooklyn, New York who lives and works in Delhi, New York.
Pettigrew’s recent solo and group exhibitions include "The Inside Out" at the Kunstmuseum Schloss Derneburg in Derneburg, Germany (2024); "Pablo’s Cabinet" at Pablo’s Birthday in Verbier, Switzerland (2024); "A Room With a View" at Varden Gallery in Los Angeles, California (2023); "Springs Eternal" at The Fireplace Project in East Hampton, New York (2023); "Wheel of the Year" at Halsey McKay in East Hampton, New York (2023); "Time" at Pablo’s Birthday in New York, New York (2023); "Balm" at Wilder Gallery in London, United Kingdom (2022); "Inside Out" at Scroll NYC in New York, New York (2022); "The Beauty of Solitude" at Adah Rose Gallery in Kensington, Maryland (2022); "Too Pure for this World" at the Historic Hunting Tavern Museum in Andes, New York (2021); "Odd Hours" at Monya Rowe Gallery in New York, New York (2021); "Salut 6" at Nucleus Portland in Portland, Oregon (2021); and "These Days" at Bo Lee Gallery in London, United Kingdom (2020).

Episode 451 / Jason Jägel

Jason Jägel born in 1971, Boston, MA is a 2023-24 Pollock-Krasner recipient. A monograph of his work entitled, Seventy-Three Funshine was published in 2008 by Electric Works, San Francisco. His work is featured in the collections of the Museum of Modern Art, New York, the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, the UCLA Hammer Museum, among others. His 2018 public commission, The Author & Her Story, is a 13x34-foot ceramic tile mosaic at San Francisco International Airport. Landscape, his 2024 solo exhibition, was presented by Michael Benevento Gallery, Los Angeles.

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Episode 448 / Akari Uragami is a Japanese multi-disciplinary artist whose work delves into the essence of human existence as a living organism. Her artistic expression, primarily through oil paintings and soft sculptures crafted from natural materials and textiles, offers a profound exploration of what human is.

Akari earned her bachelor's degree in textiles from Musashino Art University, where she immersed herself in the art of traditional Japanese dyeing techniques. Her dedication earned her the Outstanding Graduate Award, and this deep connection to tradition subtly informs her practice.

Her work has been showcased in exhibitions and projects across Japan, Korea, the USA, and Mexico, connecting with audiences far and wide. She has also completed a number of public murals across Japan and abroad including Tokyo, Kobe and Manchester (UK).

Episode 434 / Dabin Ahn (b. 1988, Seoul, Korea) received a BFA (2017) and an MFA (2020) from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. Ahn’s recent solo exhibitions include Silent Whisper, 1969 Gallery, New York, NY (2024); Staged, Ochi Gallery, Los Angeles, CA (2023); 1st Dibs, Artruss, Chicago, IL (2023); ONE-OFF, Shatto Gallery, Los Angeles, CA (2022); Liminal Fictions, Selenas Mountain, Ridgewood, NY (2021); and Apocrypha, Chicago Manual Style, Chicago, IL (2020). Selected group exhibitions include Night Market, Christie’s, NY (2024); Picnic at Hanging Rock: Chapter II, Sargent’s Daughters, LA (2024); I Go To Seek A Great Perhaps, Make Room, LA (2024); 36 Paintings, Harper’s, East Hampton, NY (2024); Serenity of Less, RHAA, Chicago, IL (2023); Focal Point, Long Story Short, New York, NY (2023); BIG OBJECTS, Marvin Gardens, Ridgewood, NY (2023); Storage Wars, The Hole, Los Angeles, CA (2023); Composition and Layout, Mindy Solomon Gallery, Miami, FL (2022); Best Practices, Edgewood College Gallery, Madison, WI (2022); The Ground Floor Biennial, Hyde Park Art Center, Chicago, IL (2020); and The Green Gallery Works, The Green Gallery, Milwaukee, WI (2020). Ahn’s work has appeared in Chicago Magazine, Korea Times, and Chicago Gallery News. Ahn lives and works in Chicago, IL.

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Episode 435 / Jacqueline Surdell was born and raised in Chicago, IL. She reimagines the woven canvas as a space of undulation and growth. As the expanded histories of painting materialize in her work as content, simultaneously, swollen tendrils and textures of bound rope deny illusions of the classically painted picture plane. The works actively work to bridge the division between painting and sculpture. In this way, her work calls into association other binary categorizations such as rigid and collapsed, construction techniques coded as masculine or feminine, and ontological spaces between body and sculpture.

 She has an MFA in Fiber and Material Studies from the Art Institute of Chicago and a BFA from Occidental College in LA. She’s shown in venues such as Gallery Common in Tokyo, Devening Prijects in Chicago, Library Street Collective in Detroit, Patricia Sweetow Gallery in San Francisco, the South Bend Museum of Art and many more. 

Her work has been covered in the Chicago Tribune, Detroit Art Review, New City, DesignMilk and more. 

Episode 468 / Sarah Awad (b. 1981, Pasadena, CA) has recently exhibited at Night Gallery, Los Angeles; Metropolitan Museum of Manila, Manila, Philippines; The Third Line, Dubai, United Arab Emirates; L.A. Louver, Venice, CA; V1 Gallery, Copenhagen, Denmark; Long Beach City College Art Gallery, Long Beach, CA; and Galerie Ernst Hilger, Vienna, Austria, among others. Her work has been featured in Artillery, Modern Painters, Art in America, Artsy Editorial, ArtScene, and New American Paintings, among others. Her work is included in the collection of the Dallas Museum of Art, Dallas, TX, and the Sharjah Art Museum, Sharjah, United Arab Emirates, among others. She currently teaches on the faculty of the Claire Trevor School of the Arts at UC Irvine and is based in Los Angeles.

This week we are rereleasing this conversation from August 2018 with painter and art critic Walter Robinson. Walter passed this past Sunday and we have lost a singular voice in the world of art. Walter’s impact on all of us who have met him or read his words was huge. I immediately thought of our conversation in his Queens studio when I heard the news. He was a joy to speak with and I hope this revisiting of our talk brings some relief to those missing him and for those who didnt know Walter, I think this is a good ‘get to know you’ chat between two artists. May he rest in peace. 

Episode 458 / Emily Wise

Emily Wise (born 1988, Baltimore, MD) received her BFA from the Pacific Northwest College of Art in Portland, OR, where she currently lives and works. Exploring themes related to femininity, intimacy, and the mysteries of the natural world, her paintings have been featured in national publications such as Juxtapoz and Artsy. She has exhibited across Portland, LA and NYC with Chefas Projects and DTLA based gallery Simard Bilodeau Contemporary.

Episode 440 / Jess Valice is a Los Angeles-based artist born in 1996 in Los Angeles, California, who studied art in grade school but went on to pursue an education in neuroscience at Santa Barbara City College (SBCC). After three years into her education, she decided to end her path in science to pursue painting. Self-taught, Jess Valice now showcases her work with various galleries including Carl Kostyal Gallery (London, Milan, Sweden) and Stems Gallery (Paris, Brussels). 

Episode 443 / ANDREW SIM (b. 1987, Glasgow) lives and works in New York. They work across drawing and painting, often utilising their favoured medium of pastel in large-scale figurative pieces. Sim’s practice borrows from their everyday experience to inflect various motifs – werewolves, sunflowers, horses, and trees, amongst other items – with elements of autobiography, anthropomorphizing natural subjects and creating new characters to convey their relationship to Queerness, culture and identity. Andrew has shown at The Modern Institute, Karma, NY, Margot Samel, Summerhall in Edinburgh, Anton Kern and other venues. Andrew’s work has been covered in The Scotsman, The New York Times, Art Observed and more. 

Episode 464 / Esteban Jefferson

Esteban Jefferson was born in New York City in 1989. He received his BA and MFA from Columbia University. He’s had solo shows at 303 Gallery, Tanya Leighton in Berlin and Goldsmiths in London. He’s had group shows at Hangar Y in Paris, Uncle Brother in Hancock, NY, Herald St in London, the ICA in Miama and more. His work has been featured in Art Monthly, The New York Times, ArtReview, The Brooklyn Rail, Frieze, Art In America, the New Yorker, Artforum and more. 

Episode 452 / Liv Aanrud earned her B.F.A in painting from the University of Wisconsin—Eau Claire(2001) and her M.F.A from Mason Gross School of Art, Rutgers University(2011). She has taught at ARTworks Charter School, Santa Barbara City College, the Armory Center for the Arts, and has designed and led textile workshops in the U.S and Canada.

Aanrud’s work has been the subject of one-person exhibitions at Kravets Wehby Gallery in New York City, and  BozoMag, New Image Art, Arvia, 1700 Naud and TSA-LA in Los Angeles. Solo shows also include Finlandia University in Hancock MI, Sierra Nevada College, Lake Tahoe, Pamela Salisbury Gallery, and John Davis Gallery, Hudson, NY, Oasis Gallery, Marquette, MI and Steven Harvey Fine Art Projects, New York City.

Her work has been shown in group exhibitions across the U.S., Taiwan, Germany, and Spain.

She currently lives and works in Los Angeles, California.

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Episode 447 /

Aaron Glasson (b Auckland, 1983) is a New Zealand born multi-disciplinary artist based in Mexico, City. Since completing a Bachelor's degree in Art and Design at the Auckland University of Technology in 2005 he has been exhibiting and creating public art works internationally. His diverse portfolio consists of participatory installations, paintings, drawings, sculpture, architecture, assemblage, murals and film.

Though working in a diverse array of mediums Aaron has developed an abstract visual language that unifies his practice as a whole. His paintings rooted in geometry but inspired by time spent in the wilderness offer glimpses into micro and macro environments. Similar forms are applied to large scale interactive site-specific installations that encourage viewer engagement and participation as well as functional objects that explore arts practical potential outside of traditional contexts.

Aaron has worked as an artist extensively within numerous environmentalism efforts, community organizations and educational institutions, using his art as tool for connection and learning. His art has been in group exhibitions at the East Hawaii Museum of Contemporary Art, the Oceanside Museum of Art, Heron Arts, Maia Contemporary, Goodmother Gallery, Spoke Art, the Straat Museum along with solo exhibitions at ICA San Diego, Swish Projects, Louis Buhl & Co, Maia Contemporary  and Curators Cube.

Episode 445 / Henry Ward is an artist, writer, and educator living in London.

He works primarily as a painter, but also makes drawings and small sculptures. He is interested in exploring the language of paint by investigating the threshold between abstraction and representation. 

He was shortlisted for the Trinity Buoy Wharf Drawing Prize in 2018, 2019 and 2022, and longlisted for the Contemporary British Painting Prize 2021. He was included in the inaugural “The Football Art Prize” in 2022. His work has been included in numerous exhibitions. The first substantial publication about his work, “Shed Paintings – Henry Ward”, was published in February 2021 by Hato Press and features 101 works on paper and an essay by Ben Street. 

He is the Director for Freelands Foundation and launched the Freelands Painting Prize in 2020. Previously he was Head of Education at Southbank Centre and worked in a variety of roles at Welling School, a Specialist Visual Arts College, where he led on the school’s specialism. In 2002 he established the alTURNERtive Prize, an annual award celebrating outstanding student practice. In 2011 he founded the biannual arts and education periodical, æ. He is a visiting lecturer at UK art schools including Bath Spa University, University of Brighton, Manchester School of Art, Plymouth College of Art and Wolverhampton School of Art, and a mentor on the Turps Art School Correspondence and off-site courses.

He has written and lectured widely on the arts and education, with a particular focus on teaching as an artistic practice. He was an advisor for Martin Gropius Bau, Berlin from 2018-21 and curated a two day event, “Assembly”, investigating approaches to public engagement in 2018 and a follow up, “Assembly II” in 2021. 

In 2023 he undertook a residency at the Albers Foundation in Connecticut.

Episode 437 / Yoora Lee (b.1990) was born in South Korea and currently lives and works in Los Angeles. She graduated with her M.F.A in Painting and Drawing from school of the Art institute of Chicago in 2020. Her paintings are filled with analogous color relationships and wavering horizontal marks that imagine an impressionism derived from video tape distortion. Lee’s brush strokes blur the picture like an analog TV glitch, undulating the image as though from an obsolete technology. The unreal color provokes a sense of fantasy, reminding people of brief moments when life felt like a movie or drama. Lee’s images evoke a nostalgia of the recent past, as grainy VHS grade images meet the retro mood. The power of nostalgia, both romantic and empty, manipulates the viewers’ minds and emotions through imperfect memories. Her work has been exhibited internationally including Los Angeles, New York and Italy. 

Episode 460 / Greg Ito

Greg Ito (b. 1987, Los Angeles, CA) earned his BFA from San Francisco Art Institute. His work has been exhibited widely in solo and group exhibitions including at Institute of Contemporary Art, San Diego, CA; Long Beach Museum of Art, Long Beach, CA; Maki Gallery, Tokyo, Japan; Anat Ebgi, Los Angeles, CA; SPURS Gallery, Beijing, China; Lyles and King, New York, NY; Jeffrey Deitch, New York; NY and Yerba Buena Center for the Arts (YBCA), San Francisco, CA. Ito’s work is included in the permanent collections of public institutions including the Hammer Museum, Los Angeles, CA; Crocker Art Museum, Sacramento, CA; Institute of Contemporary Art Miami (ICA Miami); K11 Art Foundation, Hong Kong; and the Los Angeles County Museum of Art (LACMA). Greg lives and works in Los Angeles, CA. his current show  MOTION PICTURES is at the Long Beach Museum of Art.

Based in Bushwick, Brooklyn, Jonathan Chapline is a painter investigating digital aesthetics and exploring how technology impacts the way we mediate the world around us. He grew up in Waco, TX and received a BFA from the Rhode Island School of Design in Painting. He currently has a solo exhibition, 'Material Memory' at The Hole gallery in New York. He has showed in group exhibitions at CANADA Gallery in New York, Beers Gallery in London, and Annarumma in Naples. He has also recently collaborated with the Belgium based Case Studyo on a edition of porcelain sculptures. Brian talked to Jon about, basement studios, video games, his current show at The Hole gallery and much more.

This week on Sound & Vision, a re-release of a conversation with Devan Shimoyama on the occasion of his opening of Devan Shimoyama: Cry, Baby, his first museum solo exhibition at the Andy Warhol Museum. Spanning his young career, the exhibition includes painting, photography and sculpture, and a series of new works that will be on view for the first time. Devan received his BFA from Penn State University in 2011 and his MFA from Yale University in 2014. Shimoyama has exhibited throughout the United States, including at De Buck Gallery, Lesley Heller Gallery, and Kravets Wehby Gallery in New York in NY; Samuel Freeman Gallery and Zevitas Marcus Gallery in Los Angeles, CA; Alter Space, San Francisco, CA; Emmanuel Gallery, Denver, CO; and internationally at Frieze London and in Realities in Contemporary Video Art at the Fondation des Etats Unis, in Paris, France. His work has been featured in publications such as The Los Angeles Times, The New York Times, New American Paintings ,Vice, Creators Project,  and Saatchi Art’s ‘Best of 2014’. Devan is currently a professor at Carnegie Mellon University, and lives and works in Pittsburgh, PA. This was Devan and Brian talking at his solo booth with Stems Gallery at the Independant Art Fair in 2017

Svenja Deininger is an artist who currently lives and works in Vienna and Milan. She was born in Vienna and was educated at the Kunsteakademie Dusseldorf and the Kunstakademie Munster. Svenja has had solo exhibitions at the Secession in Vienna, the Norton Museum of Art in West Palm Beach, Florida and the Joslyn Art Museum in Omaha, Nebraska. She has also had solo exhibitions internationally, including Federica Schiavo Gallery in Rome and Galerie Martin Janda in Vienna among others. She’s participated in group exhibitions at Bob van Orsouw Gallery in Zurich, Josh Lilley Gallery in London, Patricia Law Contemporary in Gstaad, the Wiels Center for Contemporary Art in Brussels and the University of Michigan Museum of Art in Ann Arbor, to name a few. Brian met up with Svenja at her current show titled ‘Crescendo’ at Marianne Boesky Gallery and they spoke about her well travelled life, painting between cities, music, texture, composition and more. Here’s our conversation… Sound & Vision is proudly sponsored by Golden Artist Colors. Golden acrylics, Williamsburg Oils and QoR Watercolors are all made in upstate New York. Golden is committed to the highest quality paints and also committed to serving a role of stewardship in the community as an employee owned company. Find out more at goldenpaints.com.

Hiroya Kurata is an artist born in Japan and living and working in Brooklyn, New York. He received a BFA from Parsons in 2003. He’s had shows at Ivory & Black SoHo in London, Hollis Taggart, Joshua Liner and Eric Firestone in New York, Ross & Kramer in East Hampton, Part 2 and New Image Art in LA, Guerrero Gallery and FFDG in San Francisco, Gallery Target, Giant Robot and Motus Fort in Japan amongst others. His work has been covered in Juxtapoz, Graphic, Tokion, Le Journal, Vice, Hypebeast and more. Brian went to Hiroya’s studio in Red Hook for a talk about his path from Japan to the US to Japan to the US again, seminal punk, the beauty of baseball and more. Sound & Vision is sposored by Golden Artist Colors. Golden make acrylics, watercolors and oil paint through their Williamsburg Oil Paints. I have been using Golden paint and mediums in my studio for 20 years. I stand by thier paint and mediums and recommend their great supplies made in Upstate NY. you can find more about them at goldenpaints.com

Danny Ferrell is an artist born in Flint, Michigan, raised in Altoona, Pennsylvania and who now lives and works in Pittsburgh. He received his BFA from the Pennsylvania State University in 2014 and his MFA from RISD in 2016. He taught for a year at RISD and since has been teaching at Carnegie Mellon University. He has had shows at Horton Gallery in Dallas, Galerie Pact in Paris, Mindy Solomaon in Miami, the Pittsburgh Center of the Arts, Bass and Reiner in San Francisco, the Westmoreland Museum, Jeff Baily and many more. His work has been covered in Artforum, i-D Vice, Hyperallergic, Paper Magazine, ArtNet, Artmaze and New American Paintings just to name a few. Brian caught up with Danny at Penn State, where he was a visiting artist, and where Brian teaches, for a talk about his small town start, young goth, magic Magritte, music, insomnia, paintings about love and more. Sound & Vision is sponsored by Golden Artist Colors.

Tom Sachs is an artist who was born in NYC, grew up in Connecticut and lives and works in New York City . Tom has had exhibitions at the Nasher Sculpture Center in Dallas, The Noguchi Museum in Queens, The Brooklyn Museum, Sperone Westwater, Thaddaeus Ropac in Paris, the Park Avenue Armory, Baldwin Gallery, Gagosian Tomio Koyama in Tokyo and many more. His work is in the collections of The Museum of Modern Art, The Getty, LACMA, the Guggenheim, the Whitney Museum, the Yale Univeristy Art Gallery, the Art Institute of Chicago, the Albright Knox and many more. He is also one fourth of the collective Satan Ceramics with Mary Frey, Pat McCarthy and JJ Peet. Brian stopped by Tom’s downtown Manhattan studio for a chat about music, craft, hand value, school uniforms, the importance of lighting and more. Sound & Vision is sponsored by Golden Artist Colors. Find out more about Golden at goldenpaints.com.

Joanne Greenbaum is an artist who lives and works in Tribeca and Long Island. She earned a BA from Bard College. Over the past twenty years, Joanne has exhibited widely at international venues including at the Nerman Museum of Contemporary Art, Overland Park, KS; Kusthalle Düsseldorf, Dusseldorf, Germany; and MoMA PS1, New York, NY; among many others. In 2008, a career spanning survey of her work, with a corresponding catalogue, was mounted by Haus Konstruktiv in Zurich, Switzerland and travelled to the Museum Abteiberg in Monchengladbach, Germany. In 2018, The Tufts University Art Galleries at the School of the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston, MA mounted Joanne Greenbaum: Things We Said Today, a comprehensive solo exhibition that travelled to the Otis College of Art and Design in Los Angeles, CA. 
Joanne is the recipient of numerous awards and fellowships, including The Gwendolyn Knight Lawrence Award from the Academy of Arts and Letters, New York, NY; The Joan Mitchell Foundation Grant; Artist in Residence at The Chinati Foundation, Marfa, TX; The Pollock-Krasner Foundation Grant; and the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation Grant. Her work is included in the collections of the Brandeis Rose Art Museum, Waltham, MA; CCA Andratx, Majorca, ES; Hammer Museum, Los Angeles, CA; Haus Konstruktiv Museum, Zurich, CH; Herbert F. Johnson Museum of Art at Cornell University, Ithaca, NY; Museum Abteiberg, Monchengladbach, Germany; Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, MA; The Nerman Museum of Contemporary Art, Overland Park, KS; and the Ross Art Collection at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI. She just closed a show at Texas Gallery in Texas and has an upcoming solo shows next year at Richard Teles and Rachael Uffner Gallery. Brian visited Joanne at her Tribeca studio to talk about starting from scratch, putting in time, waiting for your moment and more. Sound & Vision is proudly sponsered by Golden Artist Colors.

This week on Sound & Vision, a rerelease of an early chat with artist Tomokazu Matsuyama. Matsu is an old friend of Brian’s and he’s putting this rematered version of their conversation out in concert with his just finished mural for Wynwood Walls in Miami. He also just had a solo show in Luxembourg with Zidoun Bossuyt Gallery. Sound & Vision is sponsored by Golden Artist Colors.

Polly Apfelbaum is an artist living and working in NYC. In 2018, Polly had solo exhibitions at the Belvedere 21 in Vienna, Austria and Ikon Gallery in Birmingham, UK, which travels to the Kemper Museum of Contemporary Art, Kansas City, MO, in 2019. She has exhibited widely since the 1980s, including one-person exhibitions at the National Museum of Women in the Arts, Washington, DC, the Otis College of Art and Design, Los Angeles, CA at Bepart in Waregem, Belgium, the Worcester Art Museum in Worcester, MA, the lumber room in Portland, OR and at the Mumbai Art Room, Mumbai, India. A major mid-career survey of her work opened in 2003 at the Institute for Contemporary Art in Philadelphia, PA, and traveled to the Kemper Museum of Contemporary Art, Kansas City, MO, and Contemporary Arts Center, Cincinnati, OH, both in 2004. Her work has been featured in numerous group exhibitions including Pattern and Decoration, Ornament as Promise, Ludwig Forum for Internationale Kunst in Aachen, Germany , An Irruption of the Rainbow at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Wall to Wall at MOCA Cleveland in Cleveland, OH, Pretty Raw: After and Around Helen Frankenthaler at the Rose Art Museum, , Three Graces at the Everson Museum of Art in Syracuse, NY,  Pathmakers: Women in Art, Craft and Design, Midcentury and Today at the Museum of Art and Design in New York , AMERICANA: Formalizing Craft at the Perez Art Museum in Miami, FL, Regarding Warhol: Sixty Artists, Fifty Years at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York, amongst many, many others. 

Polly’s work is in numerous permanent collections including the Albright-Knox Art Gallery, Buffalo, NY; Blanton Museum of Art, Austin, TX; Brooklyn Museum, New York; Carnegie Museum of Art, Pittsburgh; Dallas Museum of Art; Everson Museum of Art, Syracuse, NY; Los Angeles County Museum of Art; Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago; The Museum of Modern of Art, New York; Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts, Philadelphia, PA; Pérez Art Museum Miami; Philadelphia Museum of Art; Princeton University Art Museum, Princeton, NJ; Tang Teaching Museum, Saratoga Springs, NY; and Whitney Museum of American Art, New York. She was the recipient of a Pollock-Krasner Foundation Grant in 1987, a Guggenheim Fellowship in 1993, an Artist's Fellowship from the New York Foundation for the Arts in 1995, an Anonymous Was a Woman Award in 1998, a Richard Diebenkorn Fellowship in 1999, a Joan Mitchell Fellowship in 1999, an Academy Award from the American Academy of Arts and Letters in 2002, and the Rome Prize in 2012. Brian stopped by Polly’s loft in lower Manhattan where she’s lived and worked for the last 40 years for a talk about early influence, the Pennsylvania Dutch, Philadelphia funk, craft, design, endless drive and so much more.

Amy Talluto is an artist who was born and raised in New Orleans and currently lives and works in Brooklyn & Hurley, NY. She earned her BFA from Washington University in St. Louis in 1995 and her MFA from the School of Visual Arts in New York in 2001. She is a 2018 NYFA/NYSCA Artist Fellow in Painting and has recently had solo shows at Jeff Bailey Gallery (Hudson) and Black & White Gallery (Brooklyn). Previous shows include a two-person exhibition at PS 122 Gallery in New York, and several group shows, including exhibitions at the Samuel Dorsky Museum in New Paltz, NY, Geoffrey Young Gallery in Great Barrington, MA, Wave Hill Gardens in the Bronx; Field Projects and the Abrons Art Center in New York; and Kentler International Drawing Center in Brooklyn. She has been a resident artist at The Saltonstall Arts Colony in Ithaca, NY, the Provincetown Dune Shacks, Ucross Foundation in Wyoming, Byrdcliffe in Woodstock, NY, and the Vermont Studio Center. Amy came down to Brian’s studio from Upstate New York for a talk about driverless cars, 90’s hip hop, finding lily pads and more.

Eric White is an artist born in Ann Arbor, Michigan who lives and works between Los Angeles and New York City. He received his BFA from RISD in 1990. He’s had solo exhibitions at Track 16 Gallery, Colette in Paris, at Serge Sorokko in San Francisco, Martha Otero in LA, Johnathan Levine in NYC and more. He’s had countless group exhibitions in galleries and museums. He’s also made cover art for musicians from Frank Zappa to last year’s Tyler the Creator record. Brian met up with Eric at his current show at Grimm Gallery on the Bowery, which is up until January 13th, for a talk about music, painting on different coasts, working for others and working for yourself and much more. Sound & Vision is brought to you by Golden Artist Colors.  GOLDEN, is an employee owned American manufacturing company based in New Berlin, New York, they make a line of acrylic colors and mediums that are the top in class. You can find their paints and mediums in most art stores and online at goldenpaints.com

Highlights of artists speaking about music including Chris Martin. Tracy Thomason, Ellen Berkenblit, Diana Al-Hadid and Geoff McFetridge. From Zepplin to Drake to Miles Davis, an eclectic sampling of the music artists talk about on the podcast.

Heidi Hahn is a painter who grew up in Los Angeles and  lives and works in Brooklyn. Heidi received her BFA from Cooper Union in 2006, and her MFA from Yale University in 2014. She has been awarded residencies at the Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture, the Fine Arts Work Center in Provincetown and the Headlands Center for the Arts, among others. Solo exhibitions include The Future is Elsewhere (If it Breaks Your Heart) at Jack Hanley Gallery, Bent Idle at Jack Hanley Gallery and Shadows from Other Places at Premier Regard, Paris. The artist has also participated in several group exhibitions, including Engender at Kohn Gallery, Los Angeles, 30th Anniversary Exhibition, Part Deaux, at Jack Hanley Gallery, The Edge of Doom at H I L D E, Los Angeles, Human Condition at John Wolf, Los Angeles, American Optimism at Able Baker Contemporary, Portland, Fathoms at Radical Abacus, Sante Fe, On Painting at Kent Fine Art, New York, Friend of the Devil at Jack Hanley Gallery, Immediate Female at Judith Charles Gallery, A Thing of Beauty at Geoffrey Young Gallery in Great Barrington and New Paintings By at Jack Hanley Gallery. She has two upcoming shows: WHY MUST WE, two person show with Vera Illatova opening at Monya Rowe Jan 10th BURN OUT IN SHREDDED HEAVEN, OPENING April 6th at Kohn gallery in LA

Matthew Kirk is an artist born in 1978 in Arizona, who was raised in Wisconsin and lives and works in Queens. His recent solo shows include How the Rest was Won in 2016 at Louis B. James Gallery in NYC, in 2012, Push Came to Shove also at Louis B. James in 2006 He also had a solo show this past October at Makasiini Contemporary in Finland called The Good Land. He’s had group exhibitions including 2010’s Hell No! at Convent of Saint Cecilia in Brooklyn, NY, in 2008 The Wall at Exit Art in NYC and in 2006 Strays at Art Chicago amongst many others. His work has been published in The New York Observer, Modern Painters, and The Wall Street Journal, among other publications. He also was nominated for a 2019 Eiteljorg museum fellowship. His show opens there in November.

Kadar Brock is an artist born in New York and who currently lives and works in Brooklyn. He received his BFA from the Cooper Unioin School in 2002. His work has been featured in shows at NY(G) in Brooklyn, Black Ball Projects in Brooklyn, PATRON in Chicago, Vigo Gallery in London, Praz Delavallade in Paris, Almine Rech in Brussels, The Hole in NYC, the Flag Foundation in NY, Galerist in Istanbul, Bleeker Street Arts Club in NYC, and Detroit MOCA amongst many others. HE’S ALSO GOT AN UPCOMING SOLO SHOW WITH PATRON IN THE LOWER EAST SIDE IN SEPTEMBER.

Heather Day is an artist who lives and works in San Francisco, California. Heather received a BFA from The Maryland Institute College of Art (MICA) on the Presidential Scholarship in Baltimore. Her work has been shown at the Urban Institute of Contemporary Art, The Massachusetts Museum of Contemporary Art. Her work can be found in the collections of Facebook, JCREW, The Ritz- Carlton, AirBNB, Snapchat, Dropbox, Warner Brothers, YouTube and The Chicago Philharmonic Orchestra. Heather’s work has been covered in Juxtapoz, 7x7, Dwell, The Atlantic, CNet, Create, The Washington Post and more. Brian met up with Heather at the site of her show at Joshua Liner Gallery for a talk about her many travels growing up, synesthesia, music, process and more.

Suzanne Song is an artist born in Grand Rapids, MI who lives and works in New York. She received her B.F.A. from Clemson University in Clemson and an M.F.A. from Yale. She has had solo exhibitions at Gallery Baton in Seoul, Korea; Doosan Gallery, Michael Steinberg Gallery, and Caren Golden in New York. She has participated in group exhibitions at Debuck Gallery, Foley Gallery, Mixed Greens, The Drawing Center, Smack Mellon Gallery. Her work has recently been acquired by the RISD Museum.  She is a recipient of the Smack Mellon Fellowship and the NYFA fellowship. Currently, Song is a member of the Elizabeth Foundation of the Arts Studio Program.  Sound & Vision is sponsored by Golden Artist Colors. Golden is made in Upstate NY by an employee owned company. You can find their artist supplies in almost every art store and on goldenpaints.com.

Doron Langberg is a painter born in Israel who lives and works in New York City. He attended the Yale Summer School of Music and Art and the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts. He holds a BFA from Penn and an MFA from Yale. He’s had solo and two person shows at 1969 Gallery, Danese/Corey and an upcoming solo at Yossi Milo Gallery. He’s been in group shows at DC Moore, BGSQD, Alfred University, NTFA Gallery Greenpoint Terminal Gallery, Montclair University and more, including work in the upcoming National Academy of Arts and Letters Exhibition. He’s been a resident of the Sharpe-Walentas Studio Program and Yaddo. His work has been covered in ArtPulse, ArtCritical, The Brooklyn Rail, Hyperallergic, New American Paintings and many others. He has taught at the Anderson Ranch, Montclair University, PAFA and the 92nd St Y. Sound & Vision is sponsored by Golden Artists Colors. Golden is made in upstate NY by an employee owned company that is committed to making the best materials artists can use. They not only make acrylic paints, but Williamsburg Oils and QoR Watercolors along with a spectrum of artist mediums. Check out Golden’s full line of artist material along with some pretty great learning resources at goldenpaints.com

MIMI JUNG is an artist born in Seoul, South Korea who Lives and works in Los Angeles, CA. Mimi got her BFA in Fine Art from The Cooper Union for the Advancement of Science and Art In 2003 and did Postgraduate Study in Communication Design at the Hochschule for Gestaltung and Kunst in Basel, Switzerland, in 2004 and Postgraduate Study in Fine Art in Frankfurt, Germany in 2005. She’s had exhibitions at the National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne, Australia, Fisher Parrish Gallery in New York, Piazza San Sepolcro 2 in  Milan, Italy, Chamber Gallery in New York, Les Gens Heureux Gallery in Copenhagen, Denmark and more including her current show at Carvalho Park Gallery, in Brooklyn called History Lessons: Delphine Hennelly + Mimi Jung from February 8 ­ to March 17, 2019. Her work has been featured in Architectural Digest, Surface, Wallpaper, Dezeen, Interior Design, Creator Vice, Boooooom, the Wall Street Journal, Dwell, Elle Decor, The Los Angeles Times and many many more.

Angela Heisch is an artist living and working in Brooklyn, New York. She received her MFA from SUNY Albany in 2014 the same year she was awarded the Dedalus Foundation Fellowship. She was a resident at Saltonstall Foundation for the Arts, the Virginia Center for the Creative Arts, and Guttenberg Arts. She has had recent solo shows with Davidson Gallery, Gallery 106 Green, One River School and No Place Gallery. Some recent group shows include Transmitter Gallery, Crush Curatorial, Pt.2 Gallery, Angell Gallery, Barney Savage, Mother Gallery, George Gallery, Ortega y Gasset, Park Place Gallery, Geoffrey Young Gallery, Harpy Gallery, and Taymour Grahne Gallery. Her work has been featured in Art Forum, Art in America, The Brooklyn Rail, AEQAI, ArtSFBlog, Maake Magazine: Issue 02, Young Space, and Open House Blog. Angela just opened a solo show at Davidson Gallery here in New York City and Brian stopped by her Bed Stuy studio for a talk about her time from New Zealand to Buffalo, not being fussy, playing the flute, Jethro Tull and more.

Stephen Westfall is an artist, writer and educator born in Schenectady, New York who received his MFA in 1978 from the University of California, Santa Barbara. His first solo exhibition in 1984 at Tracey Garet in New York’s East Village earned reviews in Art in America and Artnews. Exhibitions followed during the 1980s and into the 1990s at Daniel Newburg Gallery in New York, Galerie Paal in Munich, Germany and Galerie Wilma Lock in St. Gallen, Switzerland. An exhibition of paintings took place at Andre Emmerich Gallery in New York in 1995, followed by several exhibitions at Galerie Zurcher in Paris. Westfall has been represented in New York by Lennon, Weinberg since 1997. Recent work has been exhibited at KunstgalerieBonn in Germany and David Richard Gallery in Santa Fe. Stephen has been included in several important survey exhibitions of abstract painting including a show at the Musée d’art moderne in Saint-Etienne, France in 1997 and in both exhibitions titled Conceptual Abstraction, first at Sidney Janis Gallery in 1991 and in the exhibition that revisited that show which took place at the Hunter College Art Gallery in 2012. His works are in the collections of the Whitney Museum of American Art in New York, the Kemper Museum in Kansas City, the Louisiana Museum in Humlebaek, Denmark, the Munson Williams Proctor Museum in Utica, New York, the Baltimore Museum of Art and the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston. He has received grants and awards from the National Endowment for the Arts, the American Academy of Arts and Letters, the Nancy Graves Foundation, and the Guggenheim Foundation. He received a Rome Prize Fellowship and spent a year at the American Academy in Rome during 2009 and 2010. He is a professor at the Mason Gross School of the Arts at Rutgers University and in the graduate program at Bard University. He is a Contributing Editor at Art in America. This is the first of two conversations Brian had with Stephen. This one was in his Industry City studio in Brooklyn. Stephen tells his story growing up, making art, writing, and much more.

Caris Reid was born in Washington D.C. and earned her BFA from Boston University. She’s had solo shows at Denny Gallery, in NYC, Ochi Projects in LA and Circuit12 Gallery in Dallas. She’s had two person shows at Denny Gallery and Monya Rowe Gallery in Florida. She’s been in group shows at 0-0 in LA, Big Pictures LA, The Barn in East Hampton, Monya Rowe, Sargent’s Daughters, Lodge Gallery, Leo Koenig, Ramiken Crucible, the national Arts Club and more. Her work has been covered in the Observer, LA Weekly, Forbes, Paper Magazine, Nylon Magazine, New American Paintings, Vogue Japan, the NY Times and more.

Suzanne McClelland is an artist who lives and works in Brooklyn, New York. She has participated in the 1993 and 2014 Whitney Biennials and has had solo shows at The Aldrich Museum of Contemporary Art, curated by Amy Smith-Stewart; The University of Virginia Museum of Art, and The Whitney Museum of American Art curated by Thelma Golden. Her paintings are held in numerous public collections, including The Museum of Modern Art, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, The Brooklyn Museum, The Yale University Art Gallery, The Albright-Knox Gallery, and The Walker Art Center. 
She currently teaches as a Mentor in the Department of Visual Arts at Columbia University. She has been a faculty member in the MFA program at the School of Visual Arts since 1997 and has been on the Board of Governors at the Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture since 1999. Recent publications include “Suzanne McClelland: 36-24-36” with an essay contribution by Thierry de Duve, published by team (gallery, inc.) in 2016 and distributed by D.A.P., as well as “Knock Knock” and "Net Worth", both published by Space Sisters Press in 2018 with a text contribution for the latter by Amy Smith-Stewart.

Suzanne is represented by team (gallery, inc.) and Shane Campbell Gallery. She just opened a show “Selections from Mute” up until April 13th at Team Gallery. Sound & Vision is sponsored by Golden Artist Colors.

Julie Curtiss (b. 1982, Paris, Lives and works in Brooklyn, NY) holds a MFA and a BA from Ecole Nationale Superieur des Beaux-Arts, Paris, France.  Her work has been shown at White Cube (UK), Various Small Fires (LA) amongst others. Curtiss is a current fellow of the Shape Walentas studio program New York, NY. Her work has been covered in It's Nice That, Bookforum, W Magazine, Bloomberg, Cultured  and more. She is represented by Anton Kern Gallery where she’ll open a solo show entitled Wildlife from April 25 –June 15, 2019. Sound & Vision is brought to you by the employee owned company Golden Artist colors. Whether it’s their vast array of Acrylic paints, their Williamsburg Oil Colors, their QoR Watercolors or their plethora of mediums, Golden are committed to making the best materials for artists to make their work with. You can find them in art stores or online at golden paints.com.

This Panel talk happened at Hunter MFA organized by Cathy Braasch that included Lisa Corinne Davis, Enrico Riley, Cat Balco, Diana Mellon and moderated by Brian Alfred. As a pivotal and integral educator at Yale University for over 40 years, Robert impacted countless lives of students. We would like to touch on personal experiences, teaching philosophy, biographical information and more. Robert was known as an incredibly devoted teacher but just as equally devoted to his artmaking. His works are in the permanent collections of a number of museums, including The Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, The Hirshhorn Museum, Washington, DC, Yale University Art Gallery, New Haven, CT and the National Academy Museum, New York amongst others. I think it would be of interest to also speak about Robert’s relationship to personal identity and abstraction. His personal history and its connection to the ideas and relationships explored in his work.

Mie Yim is an artist born in South Korea based in NYC. She has a BFA in Painting from Philadelphia College of Art as well as a year abroad at Tyler School of Art in Rome, Italy. She has had a number of solo exhibitions including Ground Floor Gallery, Brooklyn, NY, Lehmann Maupin, NY, and Michael Steinberg, NY and Gallery in Arco, Turin, Italy. Numerous group exhibitions include the Drawing Center, Feature, Ise Cultural Foundation, Mitchell Algus Gallery, BRIC art center, Mark Borghi Gallery, all in New York. Other places such as Johnson County Community College, and the Weatherspoon Art Museum, Marcia Wood Gallery, Atlanta, The Arts Center at Western Conn. University. She is a recipient of The Lillian Orlowsky and William Freed Grant 2018, The New York Foundation of the Arts Painting Fellowship 2015 and Artist in the Market Place, Bronx Museum. Sound & Vision is sponsored by Golden Artist Colors and the New York Studio School.

Nikki Maloof is an artist born in Peoria, Illinois who lives and works in Massachusetts. She received her BFA from Indiana University and her MFA from Yale University in 2011. She has shown her work at Jack Hanley Gallery, Salon 94, Misako and Rosen in Tokyo, Underdonk , 247365, Brand New Gallery in Milan, Nicelle Beauchene Gallery and many more. She has received several awards, most recently the Helen Winternitz Award and the Gloucester Landscape Prize. She has a current show at Jack Hanley Gallery, ‘Caught and Free’ and is represented by the Pit in LA and Shane Campbell in Chicago. Her work has been reviewed in the NY tImes, NY Magazine, W, Garage and more. Sound & Vision is sponsored by Golden Artist Colors and the New York Studio School.

Matthew Chambers is an artist born in Boise, Idaho who lives and works in Bozeman, Montana. He received his BFA from the Universoty of Miami and his MFA from Art Center in Los Angeles. He’s had shows at Praz-Delavallade in LA and Paris, Zach Feuer Gallery, Untitled, Hezi Cohen in Tel Aviv, Rental Gallery, the Rubell Collection, Jack Hanley Gallery and more. His work has been covered in the NY Times, Interview, Art in America, Artinfo, Frieze and many others. He is also a co-member with Eric Mast of the collective Dreem Street, who make hand screened shirts including the Sound & Vision anniversary tee we did a while back. Matthew stopped by Brian’s studio while in town for the opening of his current show at Marinaro Gallery titled, Crazy Horse West.

Stephen Westfall is an artist, writer and educator born in Schenectady, New York who received his MFA in 1978 from the University of California, Santa Barbara. His first solo exhibition in 1984 at Tracey Garet in New York’s East Village earned reviews in Art in America and Artnews. Exhibitions followed during the 1980s and into the 1990s at Daniel Newburg Gallery in New York, Galerie Paal in Munich, Germany and Galerie Wilma Lock in St. Gallen, Switzerland. An exhibition of paintings took place at Andre Emmerich Gallery in New York in 1995, followed by several exhibitions at Galerie Zurcher in Paris. Westfall has been represented in New York by Lennon, Weinberg since 1997. Recent work has been exhibited at KunstgalerieBonn in Germany and David Richard Gallery in Santa Fe. Stephen has been included in several important survey exhibitions of abstract painting including Abstraction/abstractions, geometries provisoires at the Musée d’art moderne in Saint-Etienne, France in 1997 and in both exhibitions titled Conceptual Abstraction, first at Sidney Janis Gallery in 1991 and in the exhibition that revisited that show which took place at the Hunter College Art Gallery in 2012. His works are in the collections of the Whitney Museum of American Art in New York, the Kemper Museum in Kansas City, the Louisiana Museum in Humlebaek, Denmark, the Munson Williams Proctor Museum in Utica, New York, the Baltimore Museum of Art and the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston. He has received grants and awards from the National Endowment for the Arts, the American Academy of Arts and Letters, the Nancy Graves Foundation, and the Guggenheim Foundation. He received a Rome Prize Fellowship and spent a year at the American Academy in Rome during 2009 and 2010. He is a professor at the Mason Gross School of the Arts at Rutgers University and in the graduate program at Bard University. He is a Contributing Editor at Art in America. This is the second of two conversations Brian had with Stephen. This one was in Brian’s studio in Brooklyn.

Chloe Wise is an artist born in Canada who lives and works in New York City. She received her BFA at Concordia University in Montreal, Quebec. She’s had solo shows at Almine Rech in Paris and her current solo in London, Galerie Division in Montreal, Retrospective Gallery in Hudson, NY, and at Galerie Sebastien Bertrand in Geneva, Switzerland. She’a had numerous group shows including ones at Arsenal Contemporary, Art Basel Miami Beach, V1 Gallery in Copenhagen, Sargent’s Daughters, Journal Gallery, 4906 in LA, Atlanta Contemporary, Eric Firestone and more. Her work has been covered in Artnet, Architectural Digest, 212 Magazine, Purple Diary, Frieze, Surface, Forbes, Hi-Fructose and many others. Brian stopped by Chloe’s Lower East Side studio just after her return from the opening of her solo show, “Not That We Don’t” at Almine Rech in London for a talk about layered process, bodily fluids, growing as a painter, making sculptures, her cat and studio mate Pluto and much more. This episode is sponsored by Golden Artist Colors and the New York Studio School.

Kelsey Shwetz is a Canadian born painter who lives and works in Ridgewood, Queens. She completed the Advanced Painting Intensive at Columbia University, and has been a guest lecturer at UCLA, Pratt Institute, and Laguardia Community College. Kelsey has exhibited in New York, Germany, Miami, Toronto, and Montreal and was awarded fellowships at the Vermont Studio Center and CanSerrat Residency in Barcelona. Publications featuring her work include: Maake Magazine, ArtMaze Magazine, Whitehot Magazine, and the Globe and Mail. Her most recent solo exhibition was in the spring of 2018 at Brethren Gallery in New York. Kelsey stopped by Brian’s studio to talk about her start in Canada, moving to the US, building community, leterary influence, future color and much more. S&V is sponsored by Golden Artist Colors.

Jenna Gribbon is an artist born in Knoxville, Tennessee who lives and works in Brooklyn . She has had solo exhibitions at Modern Love Club in NY, Shoshana Wayne Gallery in Santa Monica Priska Juschka Fine Art in NY and Sarah Bowen Gallery in Brooklyn. She’s been in group shows at FREDRICKS & FREISER, JACK HANLEY, 1969 GALLERY. Zevitas Marcus, Sargent’s Daughters, Leo Koenig and many more. Her work has been covered in the NY Times, Interview Magazine, Vouge, W, Time Out, Elle and Beautiful/Decay to just name a few. She has an upcoming group show at Gallery Perrotin in NY and Sim Smith Gallery in London and also an upcoming solo at Fredricks & Freiser and the Museum of Modern Art in Warsaw. Jenna stopped by Brian’s studio for a talk about her days moving around as a kid, the figure and the gaze in her work, making paintings for Sophia Coppola movies and much more. Sound & Vision is sponsored by Golden Paints.

Emma Stern is an artist from New Jersey who lives and works in Brooklyn. She participated in a pre-college drawing and painting program at Parsons and recieved her BFA with Honors at Pratt in Brooklyn. She’s had solo shows at Jorge Andrew Gallery and Stream Gallery both in Brooklyn and at Inter-Space in NYC. She’s been included in group exhibitions at Greenpoint Terminal Gallery in Brooklyn, Haw Contemporary in Kansas City, Castor Gallery in New York, The Wrong Biennial, Cloaca Projects in San Francisco, Love Unlimited in Glasgow, Arebyte in London and many others. She’s a co-curator of Post Vision. She was just included in Post Analog Studio, an impressive group show at the Hole Gallery. Her work combines a deep commitment to traditional media with an interest in digital media, resulting in a kind of contemporary portraiture made possible by new technologies.  Emma and Brian spoke about growing up with dial-up, art world jobs, the value of tutorials and much more. S&V is sponsored by Golden Artist Colors.

Jason Stopa is a painter and writer living in Brooklyn, NY.  He received his BFA from Indiana University and his MFA from Pratt Institute.  He is a contributing writer to Art in America, Hyperallergic, and The Brooklyn Rail.  His recent solo shows include "Hanging Gardens" at Atelier W, France and ‘The Gate’ at Stephen Harvey Fine Arts. He’s been in group shows at Barbara Davis Gallery in Houston, Honey Ramka in Brooklyn, Wayne State University in Detroit, Venus over LA in Los Angeles, The Torrance Art Museum in California and many others. Jason and Brian spoke about growing up under changing conditions, meaningful abstraction, windows and layers, attention economy and much more. Sound & Vision is sponsored by Golden Artist Colors.

Madeline Donahue is an artist born in Houston, TX who lives and works in Brooklyn, NY. She has exhibited with The Every Woman Biennial, Steven Harvey Fine Art Projects, 601Artspace and Field Projects, in Manhattan; Underdonk, Greenpoint Terminal Gallery, and Spaceworks, in Brooklyn. Her paintings were included in “Making (It) Work” at the Oliver Art Center, California College of the Arts in Oakland, “a group exhibition of artworks made by artists during their first few years of parenthood.” She will be included in the upcoming exhibitions “SPF32” curated by Madeleine Mermall and “Garden Party” curated by Emily Marie Miller and Jake Coan, both in Brooklyn, and in “Smoke Show” at Elephant Gallery in Nashville, TN. She will have her first solo exhibition at Steven Harvey Fine Art Projects in Manhattan this September. Madeline was an artist-in-residence at Byrdcliffe Artist Colony in Woodstock, NY and recently at The Wassaic Project in Wassaic, NY. Madeline stopped by Brian’s studio for a talk about growing up in Texas, George Harrison, getting in trouble for drawing too much, painting as a parent and a lot more.

Susumu Kamijo is an artist born in Nagano, Japan and based in Brooklyn. He received his BFA from the University of Oregon and his MFA from the University of Washington. He’s had solo shows ar GYNP in Berlin, Harper’s Books in NYC, Sotheby’s S2 in NYC, Tortoise in LA, Masahiro Maki in Tokyo, and Marvin Gardens in Queens and he has a just opened show at Stems Gallery in Brussels. He’s shown in group shows at Rod Barton, Turn Gallery in NYC, She Gallery in NYC, Regina Rex in Brooklyn and many more. Susumu dropped by Brian’s studio in Bushwick for a chat about his youth moving all over, playing music, skateboarding, hitting the jackpot at the casino and how meeting a dog changed his painting life. Sound & Vision is sponsored by Golden Paints.

Emilia Olsen was born in South Africa and now she is based out of Brooklyn, New York. She got her BFA from the Corcoran College of Art & Design in Washington, DC. She’s had solo shows at Arts & Leisure and Doppelganger Studio both in NY and at Anaba Project in Maryland. She’s had group shows at the Spring Break Art Show, Smoke the Moon in LA, Patrick Parrish in NYC, Juxtapoz Projects at Mana Contemporary, the Independant Art Book Fair, Greenpoint Terminal Gallery, Trestle Gallery in Brooklyn, Elephant Gallery in Nashville amongst many others. Her work has been covered in Two Coats of Paint, Art Maze, Hyperallergic, the Nashville Scene, Art F City and more. She has work up in a new group show that just opened SPF32 which is open on weekends for view between 2-6pm through July 6th at the old William Ulmer Brewery, 81 Beaver st. in Brooklyn curated by Madeleine Mermall.

Rafaël Rozendaal is a dutch-brazilian visual artist based out of new york city who uses the internet as his canvas. He also creates installations, tapestries, lenticulars, haiku and lectures. Exhibitions: Times square, Centre Pompidou, Venice Biennial, Valencia Biennial, Postmasters Gallery, the Hole gallery. TSCA Gallery Tokyo, Seoul Art Square, NIMk Amsterdam, Stedelijk Museum. Press: Time Magazine, Wall street Journal, Flash Art, Dazed & Confused, Interview, Wired, Purple, McSweeney’s, O Globo, Vice, Creators Project, Artreview, Vogue. Lectures: Yale (New Haven), DLD (Munich), AIT (Tokyo), Ecole des Beaux Arts (Paris), NYU (New York), Here (London), Vivid (Sydney). Collections: Whitney Museum, Stedelijk Museum Sound and Vision is supported by Golden Artist Colors. Golden is an employee owned company based in upstate New York committed to making the highest quality artist materials.

Clinton King is an artist based out of Brooklyn. He received his MFA from The School of the Art Institute of Chicago in sculpture, and his BFA from Columbus College of Art and Design in painting. He’s shown at The Hole,Tiger Strikes Astroid Los Angeles, Stellan Holm Gallery (NYC), the Dorsky Foundation (Brooklyn NY), Transmitter (Brooklyn, NY), George Lawson Gallery (San Francisco), Zaim Space (Yokohama, Japan), 1a Space Gallery (Hong Kong), Gallery 400 (Chicago), Spaces in Cleveland, OH and The Suburban (Chicago) and the Columbus Museum of Art Clinton will have a Residency in Tokyo this Fall, and will have two exhibitions following at Youkobo Art space and Zempukuji Park. Sound and Vision is supported by Golden Artist Colors. Golden is an employee owned company based in upstate New York committed to making the highest quality artist materials. From their acrylic paints, Williamsburg Oils and QoR Watercolors, Golden is making the highest quality materials out there for artists to make their best work. You can find them in your local art store or online at golden paints.com.

Dominique Fung is from Ottawa, Canada and is currently based in Brooklyn, NY.  She received a Bachelor's of applied arts from Sheridan College Institute of Technology in Oakville, Ontario. Her paintings have been exhibited at the Virginia Museum of Modern Art,  the Smithsonian National Air and Space Museum in Washington DC, Nicodim Gallery in LA, Project Gallery in Toronto,  Field Projects in Nyc, and Crush Curatorial in NYC, to name just a few. She has a solo show up now at Ross Kramer gallery until July 26th and upcoming shows at Nicodim Los Angeles, a 4 person show opening in September and a solo at Taymour Grahne in London in November. Dominique stopped over Brian's studio for a chat about why Canada is so great, early lessons in playing piano, identity in her artwork, Chopin and pop in the studio and much more.

Erin Lawlor is a painter who grew up outside of London, England. She moved to France after high school and studied Art History and received her Bachelors of Art History from Paris-Sorbonne University. After spending several years there she moved back to London and is making her work there. She has a current solo exhibition at Miles McEnery Gallery, New York and recent solo shows include, Espacio Valverde in Madrid; Fox/Jensen Gallery in Sydney; Fifi Projects in San Pedro; “Erin Lawlor, onomatopoeia,” at the Mark Rothko Center, the La Brea Studio Residency in Los Angeles; Rod Barton in Brussels; just to name a recent few. Recent group exhibitions include “Wet Wet Wet” at Fox/Jensen/McCrory Gallery, in Auckland, New Zealand; Space K in Seoul, South Korea; Galerie Pauline Pavec in Paris; Rod Barton in London, “Bête Noire/Candyman,” at The Neutra Museum in Los Angeles and many, many more. While in town for her opening at Miles McEnery Gallery, Erin stopped by for a chat about beating Brexit, process in painting, writing vs. painting, seeing David Bowie live and a family connection to him and much more. Sound and Vision is supported by Golden Artist Colors. Golden is an employee owned company based in upstate New York committed to making the highest quality artist materials. From their acrylic paints, Williamsburg Oils and QoR Watercolors, Golden makes materials so you can make amazing work. You can find them in your local art store or online at golden paints.com.

Ann Shostrom received her BFA from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago and her MFA from Syracuse University. She is an Associate Professor at Penn State University, who lives and works in PA and New York, where she is co-founder and director of First Street Green Art Park in the East Village. She is represented by Elizabeth Harris Gallery and exhibits internationally. Her work has been reviewed in Art in America, Art News, and other publications. Her public art projects include a mural in Crete, sculpture from decommissioned weapons in Albania, and Mir2, a collaborative space station that won Dance Theater Workshop’s Bessie award for Performance, Installation, and New Media. Awards include a Mid Atlantic Foundation for the Arts Fellowship, a New York State Foundation for the Arts Grant, and a Partnership for Parks Grants. Ann and Brian sat down at her show at Elizabeth Harris Gallery, and had a talk about travels, painting and sculpture, making lemons into lemonade and much more. Sound and Vision is supported by Golden Artist Colors. Golden is an employee owned company based in upstate New York committed to making the highest quality artist materials. From their acrylic paints, Williamsburg Oils and QoR Watercolors, Golden makes materials so you can make amazing work. You can find them in your local art store or online at golden paints.com. Sound & Vision is sponsored by Barronarts. Barronarts is a Brooklyn-based designer and builder of the best stretcher frames, art panels and floater frames in New York and the US.  They have many styles and options from standard strainers to mechanical expansion stretchers to fully custom shapes determined by each client.  They also stretch the finest canvases and linens to your exact specifications, and can even crate & ship your order...or your finished paintings...anywhere in the U.S. and worldwide. Barronarts has almost 30 years experience building custom structures for artists like Elizabeth Murray, Sean Scully, Kehinde Wiley, Joan Snyder, Katherine Bernhardt and thousands of others. From custom to standard, big projects and small they remain the most reasonably-priced custom shop around...and take great pride in offering the finest work at affordable prices for the entire artist community.  Your artwork should be on the finest structures available…’built by Barronarts’. Find out more at barronarts .com

From an earlier conversation Brian had with painter Ridley Howard who has an upcoming show at Marinaro Gallery

Emily Mullin was born in Santa Monica CA, and studied painting and sculpture at Mount Holyoke College in South Hadley, MA and at Goldmiths College in London. She has had solo exhibitions at Jack Hanley Gallery, Lucien Terras, Tennis Elbow at Journal Gallery and Sunday Takeout in New York. She has been included in group exhibitions at Mrs. Gallery, Kate Werble Gallery and Casey Kaplan Gallery. Her work has been written about in Art in America, The Brooklyn Rail and The New Yorker. She lives and works in Brooklyn and is represented by Jack Hanley Gallery in New York. Emily stopped by for a talk about horses, piano, ikebana, dancing and a lot of other great things including her artwork. Sound & Vision is sponsored by the New York Studio School, Golden Paints and Barronarts stretchers & panels.

Joe Fyfe is a painter and art crit ic based in New York City. He received his BFA from the University of the Arts in Philadelphia in 1976. He has published his writing on art for the past twenty years in publications such as Art in America, ArtForum and Hyperallergic. Recent solo shows include Nathalie Karg Gallery, Ceysson & Benetiere in Luxembourg, Lovass in Munich, Galerie Christian Lethert in Koln, White Columns in New York amongst many others. He’s had group shows at 56 Henry, Halsey McKay, the American Academy of Arts and Letters, Pablo’s Birthday, Galerie Zurcher, the Everson Museum and many more. Awards include the American Academy of Arts and Letters Gwendolyn Knight Award, a Fulbright, the Pollock Krasner Award, a Guggenheim, a McDowell fellowship, a Yaddo Fellowship, a Gottlieb Award and many others. He’s a tenured professor at Pratt and he’s given countless talks and panel discussions and has contributed greatly to the world of art through his work and his writing. Sound & Vision is sponsored by Golden Artist Colors. Sound & Vision is sponsored by Barronarts. Barronarts is a Brooklyn-based designer and builder of the best stretcher frames, art panels and floater frames in New York and the US. Sound and Vision is supported by the New York Studio School, where drawing, painting and sculpture are studied in depth, debated energetically, and created with passion. The New York Studio School offers a range of programs including the MFA, the Certificate Program, the Marathon Program, Evening & Weekend Classes, and a distinguished Lecture Series that is free and open to the public. The School’s internationally recognized Marathons are two-week intensive courses designed to build momentum and expand one’s creative boundaries! The School welcomes participants for the Fall 2019 Marathons in Drawing and Sculpture which begin September 3rd. Apply online today at nyss.org

Dana James is a painter and a native New Yorker now residing in Bushwick. She is the former founder and curator of Elgin Gallery in Bed Stuy, Brooklyn, as well as the former Associate Director of Life on Mars Gallery in Bushwick, Brooklyn. Her own work has been extensivley exhibited after graduating from the School of Visual Arts in 2008, and can be found in private and public collections including the ISLIP Museum of Art and the Collection of Lion Tree Capital in New York. Her last solo show, Sometimes Seen Dreams at the Lodge Gallery was featured in the Art Critical Review Panel, and her recent two person show “The Thread,” at M.David & Co. Gallery in April, was chosen as Must See Exhibitions by New York Magazine. She has been featured in publications such as Two Coats of Paint, Art Critical, ArtSpace and Hyperallergic.  Upcoming shows include Kicking Abstract & Taking Names at Moberg Gallery in Des Moines, Iowa, as well as a yet-to-be-titled group show curated by Paul Efstathiou with Hollis Taggart Gallery in Chelsea this fall. Dana stopped by for a talk about artist parents, finding balance, process, improvisation and more. Sound & Vision is sponsored by BarronArts, Golden Paints and the New York Studio School.

Marcus Fischer is a musician + interdisciplinary artist based in Portland, Oregon. His work typically centers around memory, geography + the manipulation of physical audio recording mediums. Slowly unfolding melodies and warm tape saturated drones have become a trademark of his recordings + live performances alike. These sounds have found their way into multimedia installations, short films, and even into the award winning public radio program Radiolab. Fischer has released a number of recordings on the widely respected 12k label including his photographic + sonic collaborations with label founder Taylor Deupree. In 2017 Marcus Fischer was an artist in residence at the Robert Rauschenberg Foundation / Rauschenberg Residency where he completed "Loss", his most recent solo album (released September, 2017) Two of his sound works are on view in the 2019 Whitney Biennial from May 17th-Sept 22nd and he recently performed in the Museum as part of the show.

Adrian Kay Wong was raised in the east San Francisco Bay area and now lives and works in Los Angeles, CA. He received his BFA from the Art Institute of Chicago in 2013. His work has been show at Zevitas Marcus Los Angeles, the A+D Museum in LA, the Gene Siskel Film Center in Chicago, Joseph Gross Gallery in LA, Gotham West in NYC, Johanssen Gallery in Berlin, Sherle Wagner Art Gallery in Dallas and many others. His work has been covered in New American Paintings, Friend of the Artist, Artmaze, Relish, It’s Nice That, On Art and Aesthetics and more. Sound & Vision is sponsored by Golden Artist Colors, Barronarts and the New York Studio School.

Kahlil Robert Irving (b. 1992, San Diego, CA) is an artist currently living and working in St. Louis, Missouri. He attended the Sam Fox School of Design and Visual Art, Washington University, St. Louis (MFA, 2017), and the Kansas City Art Institute (BFA, Art History and Ceramics, 2015). In 2017, Callicoon Fine Arts mounted his first solo exhibition in New York titled Streets:Chains:Cocktails. September 8, Irving opened Black ICE at Callicoon Fine Arts, which will be Irving’s second solo exhibition with the gallery. His work has been exhibited at the Nerman Museum of Contemporary Art, Kansas; the Craft Contemporary, Los Angeles; and the RISD Museum, Rhode Island, among others. Irving was selected to participate in the 2019 Great Rivers Biennial hosted by the Contemporary Art Museum St. Louis, where he will have a solo exhibition in May 2020. His work is in the collections of J.P Morgan Chase Art Collection, New York; Nerman Museum of Contemporary Art, Kansas; the Carnegie Museum of Art, Pittsburgh; and the Whitney Museum of American Art, New York. In 2018, Irving’s first institutional solo exhibition, Street Matter – Decay & Forever / Golden Age took place at Wesleyan University’s Center for the Arts, Connecticut, and was accompanied by a full-color catalogue with essays and an interview. Irving's work will be featured in Making Knowing: Craft in Art, 1950–2019, upcoming at the Whitney Museum in New York City (November 20, 2019–January 2021). Brian spoke with Kahlil at Calicoon Fine Arts where he just opened his show. S&V is sponsored by Golden Artist Colors, BarronArts and the New York Studio School.

Christopher Staley is an artist and educator who works out of Pennsylvania where at Penn State he is a distinguished Professor of Art in ceramics in the School of Visual Arts. He received his BFA from Wittenberg University, studied at the Kansas City Art Institute and received his MFA from Alfred University. He served as the president of NCECA (the National Council of Education of the Ceramic Arts), he was the Chair at the Haystack Mountain School in Maine, he’s a member of the International Academy of Ceramics based in Geneva, he was an artist in residence at the Ceramic Art Museum in Fuping, China, he’s been an artist in residence at the Archie Bray Foundation in Montana and has received an NEA grant twice. His work is included in collections such as the Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art in Kansas City, Missouri, The Museum of Fine Arts in Houston, Texas, The Los Angeles County Museum of Art, the Mint Museum in Charlotte, North Carolina, The Palmer Museum of Art in Pennsylvania, The Contemporary Museum in Honolulu, Hawaii and the Smithsonian National Museum of American Art to name just a handful. There’s many more. He’s had over twenty five solo shows and has been in countless group exhibitions. He currently has a solo show at the Jane Hartsook Gallery at Greenwich House Pottery at 16 Jones Street in New York City entitled “Touching Time” up until September 27th. Sound & Vision is proudly sponsored by Golden Artist Colors. Golden makes the best acrylic paints, mediums and gesso in the business. They also make QoR Watercolors and Williamsburg Oil Paints. Based in New Berlin in upstate New York, they are an employee owned company dedicated to making the best supplies for you to make your best work. Check out their products in just about any art store or at golden paints.com

Brian Willmont (b. Boston, MA) is an artist and curator based in Brooklyn, New York. He earned a BFA from the Massachusetts College of Art and graduated with High Distinction. Willmont has mounted solo exhibitions at VICTORI + MO (NY), Guerrero Gallery (CA), Driscoll Babcock (NY), Field Projects (NY), LaMontagne Gallery (MA) and others. His work has been included in group exhibitions at Asya Geisberg (NY), Andrew Edlin (NY), Spring Break Art Show (NY), Allouche Gallery (NY, The Hole (NY), Mrs. Gallery (NY), Steinsland Berliner (NY), County Gallery (FL), Spring Break (NY), Frieze (UK), and many others. Willmont currently has an exhibition, Mirage Mirage, at VICTORI + MO on view in New York through October 26, 2019. Next year he will have a solo exhibition at the Albany Museum of Art in Albany, Georgia. In addition to his art practice, Willmont runs Greenpoint Terminal Gallery in Brooklyn. Sound & Vision is sponsored by Golden Artist Colors.

Meghan Brady is a painter who lives and works in midcoast Maine. Using painting, printmaking, drawing, and ceramics, Brady explores the possibilities of an open process, including elements of the human form and abstraction. Brady shows with Mrs Gallery in NYC. She was featured by Mrs at NADA House on Govenors Island this past summer. She has been included in exhibitions at the Portland Museum of Art and recently had a solo exhibition at the University of Maine Museum of Art. She has been a resident at the MacDowell Colony, Hewnoaks, the Ellis-Beauregard Foundation and Tiger Strikes Asteroid in Brooklyn, NY. Brady is a graduate of Smith College and Boston University’s MFA program in Painting. Sound & Vision is sponsored by the fine folks at Golden Artist Colors.

Vanessa German is a visual and performance artist based in the Pittsburgh neighborhood of Homewood. She is the founder of Love Front Porch and the ARThouse, a community arts initiative for the children of Homewood. Her work is in private and public collections including Everson Museum of Art, Figge Art Museum, Flint Institute of Arts, Spelman College Museum of Fine Art, Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art, David C. Driskell Center, Snite Museum of Art, Wadsworth Atheneum Museum of Art and Wellin Museum of Art at Hamilton College. German’s fine art work has been exhibited widely, most recently at the Figge Art Museum, The Union for Contemporary Art, The Fralin Museum of Art at the University of Virginia, Flint Institute of Arts, Mattress Factory, Everson Museum of Art, Spelman College Museum of Fine Art, Wadsworth Atheneum Museum of Art, Studio Museum, Ringling Museum of Art and Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art. Her work has been featured on CBS Sunday Morning, NPR’sAll Things Considered and in The Huffington Post, O Magazine and Essence Magazine. She is the recipient of the 2015 Louis Comfort Tiffany Foundation Grant, the 2017 Jacob Lawrence Award from the American Academy of Arts and Letters, the 2018 United States Artist Grant and most recently the 2018 Don Tyson Prize from Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art.

Morgan Blair (Re-release) on the occasion of her incredible show up now at Hole Gallery.

Aliza Nisenbaum was born in Mexico City, and is currently based in New York. She received her BFA and her MFA from the Art Institute of Chicago. She is represented by Anton Kern gallery and is an Assistant Professor of Visual Arts at Columbia University School of the Arts. She has had recent shows at the Phillips Collection, Boston ICA, LA MOCA, The Minneapolis Institute of Art, the Whitney Biennial 2017; The Flag Art Foundation; The ICA at MECA; Biennial of the Americas, MCA, Denver; the Rufino Tamayo Painting Biennial, Museo Rufino Tamayo, Mexico City; She has a forthcoming exhibition at Anton Kern gallery 2019; and at Tate Liverpool in 2021. Her work has been covered by Artnet, The Brooklyn Rail, Artforum, Frieze, Vogue. ArtReview, The New Yorker and to name a few. Brian met up with Aliza at Anton Kern Gallery at the site of her solo show ‘Coreografias’ which is on view through November 2nd.

Corydon Cowansage is a painter who lives and works in New York. She received an MFA in painting from RISD and a BA in art from Vassar College. She has had solo shows at 17Essex in New York, Reynolds Gallery in Richmond, and Koki Arts in Tokyo, and a two-person show at Deli Projects in Basel, Switzerland. Her work has been included in group shows at Skylab, 17Essex, Ortega y Gasset Projects, and the Bronx Museum of the arts, among others. She also co-runs an online gallery called Drawer.

Alan Resnick is an artist, director and filmmaker based out of LA. He is part of the What City collective and has made video art that lives from YouTube to Adult Swim. He's directed videos for Dan Deacon and others and was recently featured in the Post Analog show at Hole Gallery.

Salman talks to Brian about his paintings, life from Pakistan to NYC and much more. Sponsored by Golden Paints.

Claudia Bitran is an artist who works primarily painting and video. She was born in Boston, spent most of her life in Santiago, Chile, and currently lives in Brooklyn. She holds an MFA in Painting from Rhode Island School of Design and a BFA from the Catholic University of Chile.    She has exhibited individually at Muhlenberg College (2018-2019), Practice Gallery in Philadelphia (2018), at the Brooklyn Bridge Park in NY (2018), at Roswell Museum and Art Center in New Mexico (2017), and at Museo de Artes Visuales in Santiago Chile (2016). She has participated in Group Exhibitions and Screenings at Smack Mellon Gallery in NY (2019), Cindy Rucker Gallery in NY (2019), Echo Park Film Center LA (2019), Experimental Video Art Film Festival at Tribeca Film Center in NY (2018), Galería Nemesio Antunez Chile (2018), LeRoy Neiman Gallery at Columbia University (2018), Anytime Dept Ohio (2017), Saha Hadid IMAX Theater New York (2017), Taipei Contemporary Art Center Taiwan (2017), The Parlour Bushwick Brooklyn (2016), Project 722 Brooklyn (2015), Museum of Contemporary Arts Quinta Normal Santiago (2011), at Matucana 100 Art space Santiago (2011), among others.   She has held residencies at the Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture in Maine (2014), the Bemis Center for Contemporary Arts in Nebraska (2014), the Roswell Artist-in-Residence Program in New Mexico (2016), Smack Mellon Studio Program in New York (2017), and at Outpost Projects in New York (2018). Grants and Awards include: The New York Trust Van Lier Fellowship, Hammersley Grant, Emergency Grant for Artists Foundation for Contemporary Arts, Jerome Foundation Grant for Emerging Filmmakers, 1st Prize Britney Spears Dance Challenge, 1st Prize UFO McDonald’s Painting Competition, 1st honorable mention at Bienal de Artes Mediales, Museo de Bellas Artes, Santiago, Chile. Claudia currently teaches in the Painting Departments at Pratt Institute and  Rhode Island School of Design, and is an instructor at New York City Crit Club.

Laura Splan is a Brooklyn-based artist whose work mines the materiality of science to reveal poetic subjectivities. Her mixed media projects destabilize notions of the presence and absence of bodies evoking the mutability of categories that delineate their status. Splan’s work compels an intimate engagement with detail calling into question how things are made and what they are made of. She reconsiders perceptions and representations of the corporeal with a range of traditional and new media techniques. She often combines the quotidian with the unfamiliar to interrogate cultural constructions of order and disorder, function and dysfunction. Her frequent combinations of textiles with technology challenge values of "the hand" in creative production and question notions of agency and chance in aesthetics. Her recent Embodied Objects series uses biosensors (electromyography, electroencephalography) to create data-driven forms and patterns for digitally fabricated sculptures, weavings and works on paper as well as for movement in performances with sensor-actuated apparatus. Her current solo exhibition, Conformations, combines biotech imagery, networked devices, and artifacts with sculptures made from the hand-spun fiber of laboratory animals. Splan's work has been exhibited at the Museum of Arts & Design and Beall Center for Art + Technology. International audiences for her work have included Iceland, South Korea, England, Germany, Sweden, Austria, and Canada. Her work is included in the collections of the Thoma Art Foundation, the NYU Langone Art Collection, and the Science Center. Her biomedical themed artworks have been commissioned by the Centers for Disease Control Foundation, the Gen Art New Media Art Exhibition and Davidson College. She has received research funding from The Jerome Foundation and her residencies have been supported by the Knight Foundation, the Institute for Electronic Arts, Harvestworks, and the Pollock-Krasner Foundation. She has been a visiting lecturer at Stanford University teaching interdisciplinary courses including “Embodied Interfaces”, “Data as Material” and “Art & Biology”. She is currently a Creative Experiments track member at NEW INC, the New Museum’s cultural incubator. Sound & Vision is sponsored by Golden Paints.

Evan Marien is a composer/producer/multi-instrumentalist born and raised in Decatur, Illinois who now lives in Brooklyn, NY. Although Evan grew up playing trombone, piano, guitar, and drums, he is primarily known for his performances and recordings on the electric bass.  Most recently he has been playing bass, keys and singing background vocals for electronic songwriter Elliot Moss, playing bass with Thundercat drummer Justin Brown's NYEUSI, and the last bassist to play in guitar legend Allan Holdsworth's band.  Evan attended MacArthur High School, where he played in the Downbeat award-winning MacArthur Jazz Band.  This band brought him many awards and opportunities, winning Best Soloist at multiple competitions, a full scholarship to study at Birch Creek in Wisconsin's beautiful Door County, sharing the stage with Maria Schneider's Orchestra/Big Band and Maynard Ferguson's band. Evan was also a part of the MacArthur Jazz Combo, which in his junior year won Best High School Combo in the nation by Downbeat Magazine. Evan attended the Berklee College of Music in Boston, Massachusetts. During his time at Berklee, Marien studied under Matthew Garrison, David "Fuze" Fiuczynski, Joe Lovano, Kenwood Dennard and Lincoln Goines to name a few. In 2009, Marien graduated Cum Laude from Berklee College of Music and the same year was voted in the Bass Player Magazine Reader’s Choice Awards, one of the top three "Most Exciting New Players".  Besides leading his project with drummer Dana Hawkins, He has recorded or performed with Virgil Donati, Wayne Krantz, Cory Wong (Vulfpeck), Zach Danziger, Nate Wood, Louis Cole, Fredrik Thordendal (Meshuggah), Mark Guiliana, Victor Wooten, Ian Chang (Son Lux), Mike Slott, Mitski, A$AP Ferg producer Frankie P and many other incredible music makers and instrumentalists.  Evan is a bass faculty member at The Collective and The New School in NYC, teaching modern music to all instrumentalists.  Evan stopped by with Brian to talk growing up with music, jazz to funk, Herbie Hancock to video game soundtracks and a lot more.

Justin Liam O'Brien talks about gaming, comics, digital art and much more. He has a solo show up now at Monya Rowe Gallery. This episode is sponsored by Golden Paints and the New York Studio School.

Ga Hee Park was born in Seoul and is currently based in New York. She received her BFA from the Tyler School of Art and an MFA from Hunter College. She is a recipient of a 2016 Dedalus Foundation Fellowship and has had solo exhibitions at Gallerie Perrotin (Seoul), Taymour Grahne (London), Motel Gallery (Brooklyn), Pioneer Works (Brooklyn) and Marginal Utility in Philadelphia. Group exhibitions include Gallerie Perrotin (Seoul), James Cohan Gallery (New York),  Marinaro Gallery (New York) and others. Her work has been featured in publications such as The New York Times, Artforum, Bomb Magazine, Art in Culture and Elle Korea. S&V is sponsored by the New York Studio School and Golden Paints.

Adam Parker Smith was born in Arcata, CA in 1978. He is based in Brooklyn, NY. He received his BA from the University of California at Santa Cruz and his MFA from the Tyler School of Art. Adam attended the Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture and the Atlantic Center for the Arts. His work has been shown widely in the US and internationally at the Hole Gallery, Honor Fraser in LA, Derek Eller in NY, the Boulder Museum of Contemporary Art in Colorado, Ever Gold in San Francisco, Zidoun Gallery in Luxembourg, The Delaware Center for Contemporary Art, the Berkshire Museum in Massachusetts, The Soap Factory Minneapolis, Painted Bride in Philadelphia, Parisian Laundryin Montreal, and TSST Gallery in Hong Kong. Adam’s work has been written about in New York Times, Art in America, Beautiful Decay, The Village Voice, Fiber Arts, ArtForum.com, Art World, White Wall Magazine and The New York Post. Brian stopped over Adam’s studio, just a couple blocks from his own for a talk about drawing battles, the Suzuki method, moving from painting to sculpture, stolen art and much more. Sound & Vision is sponsored by Golden Artist Colors and the New York Studio School.

Chris on the pod. On the heels of episode 200, this is one of our favorite pods to date. Sponsored by the New York Studio School and Golden Paints.

Jon Pylypchuk was born in 1972 in Winnipeg, Canada. He studied at the University of Manitoba School of Art, where he co-founded the collective the Royal Art Lodge in 1996 with fellow artists Michael Dumontier, Marcel Dzama, Neil Farber, Drue Langlois and Adrian Williams. In 1998 he moved to Los Angeles to study at UCLA, where he is currently based. Jon works in painting, sculpture, installation and video. He has exhibited in New York, Düsseldorf, Münster, London, Los Angeles, Cleveland, Paris, San Francisco, Miami, Tokyo, Montreal, Seoul, Guadalajar and St. Petersburg. His works are in the collections of the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles; The Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles; the Hammer Museum, Los Angeles; the Museum of Modern Art, New York; The Saatchi Collection, London; The Museum of Old and New Art, and the Whitney Museum, New York.

Petzel Gallery is where his show opens tonight (if you’re listening to this on the day it releases January 9th) the show is called Waiting for the Next Nirvana and runs until February 29th at their 18th street space in Chelsea.

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Will Hutnick is an artist and curator based in Wassaic, NY. He received his M.F.A. from Pratt Institute (Brooklyn, NY) and his B.A. from Providence College (Providence, RI). He has had recent solo exhibitions at Standard Space (Sharon, CT), St. Thomas Aquinas College (Sparkill, NY), One River School (Hartsdale, NY), and Providence College Galleries (Providence). Recent group exhibitions include: LVL3 Gallery (Chicago, IL), Tiger Strikes Asteroid (Brooklyn), Vox Populi (Philadelphia, PA), Paradice Palase (Brooklyn) and Geoffrey Young Gallery (Great Barrington, MA). Hutnick has curated exhibitions at SPRING/BREAK Art Show, Ortega y Gasset Projects, Trestle Projects, Wassaic Project, and Pratt Institute. He has been an artist-in-residence at Yaddo, the Hambidge Center, the Elizabeth Murray Artist Residency by Collar Works, DNA Gallery, Wassaic Project, Vermont Studio Center and a curator-in-residence at Benaco Arte and Trestle Projects. Hutnick is the Co-Director of Ortega y Gasset Projects, an artist-run curatorial collective and exhibition space in Brooklyn, and is currently the Residency Director at the Wassaic Project, a nonprofit organization that uses art and art education to foster positive social change. SOUND & VISION is sponsored by the New York Studio School and Golden Artist Colors.

Elise Ferguson is an artist based out of Brooklyn. She was born in 1964 in Richmond Virginia and received her BFA from the Srt Institue of Chicago and her MFA from the University of Illinois at Chicago. She’s had solo shows at Odd Ark in LA, Romer Young in San Francisco, Halsey McKay in East Hampton, 106 Green in Brooklyn, White Columns and many others. She’s had numerous group shows and her work has been covered in Contemporary Art Daily, Art News, Interior Design, the New York Times, New York Magazine, Newsday and many others. She’s done residencies at MacDowell Colony, UNLV, Barton College and the Socrates Sculpture Park Residency. If you would like to support this podcast visit patreon.com/soundandvisionpodcast . when you make a donation to the podcast, you can have your name mentioned on a future podcast and even get a hand drawn thank you. Sound & Vision is made possible by listeners like you. Sound & Vision is sponsored by Golden Artist Colors. Golden is a company based in upstate New York and is committed to making the best artist materials for artists to make work with. You can get it in just about every art store and online at goldenpaints.com

Kenichi Hoshine was born in Tokyo, Japan in 1977 and grew up in New Jersey. He studied in New York, where he attended the School of Visual Arts.Kenichi has had shows at Part 2 Gallery in Los Angeles, Galleri Kant in Copenhagen, Unit London in the UK, Morton Fine Art in DC amongst many others. He also just opened a solo show entitled The Magician and the Thief at Hollis Taggart Gallery in Chelsea. which ia up through Feburary 15th. He has been featured in ArtMaze, New American Pantings, the LA Times, and Juxtapoz to name a few. He has been a visiting instructor at Pratt Institute and he stopped by for a chat at Brian’s studio just after the opening of his current solo show at Hollis Taggart. Sound & Vision is sponsored by Golden Artist Colors. Golden is a company based in upstate New York and is committed to making the best artist materials for artists to make work with. You can get it in just about every art store and online at goldenpaints.com If you would like to support this podcast visit patreon.com/soundandvisionpodcast . when you make a donation to the podcast, you can have your name mentioned on a future podcast and even get a hand drawn thank you. Sound & Vision is made possible by listeners like you.

Taylor Anton White is an artist born in 1978. His work has been shown in Future Ruins, a group exhibition at the California Institute of the Arts in Valencia, CA. He has also shown at Deli Grocery in Brooklyn, New York, and has had solo exhibitions with galleries including Galerie Kremers in Berlin, Germany; LC Gallery in Brussels, Belgium; Marquee Projects in Bellport, New York; TWFINEART, in Brisbane, Australia; and a solo show at the Leedy-Voulkos Art Center in Kansas City, Missouri. His current show just opened at Monica King Contemporary in Tribeca called Free_Hotdog. pdf. He has had residencies with Cycamore Artist Residency in Brooklyn, New York and Espositivo 7B in Madrid, Spain. His work has been covered in daily collector, Abstract Mag, New American Paintings, ArtQA Magazine and more. He received his B.A. in Studio Art from the University of Mary Washington, Fredericksburg and he currently lives and works in Richmond, Virginia. Taylor stopped by while in town opening up his show at Monica King. Sound & Vision is sponsored by Golden Artist Colors. Golden is a company based in upstate New York and is committed to making the best artist materials for artists to make work with. You can get it in just about every art store and online at goldenpaints.com If you would like to support this podcast visit patreon.com/soundandvisionpodcast. Sound & Vision is made possible by listeners like you.

During her show at High Noon Gallery Jennifer talks to Brian about Violin, painting and more. Jennifer Coates is a painter living and working in New York City and Poyntelle, PA. She received her BFA from University of Pennsylvania and the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts and her MFA from Hunter College. She is a recent recipient of the Sharpe Walentas Studio (2018-2019) and was a fellow at the Civitella Ranieri Foundation in Italy (Fall 2019). Recent solo exhibitions include Correspondences and All U Can Eat (Freight & Volume Gallery) and Carb Load (Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts). Her work has been written about in the Brooklyn Rail, Art Critical, Hyperallergic, the Huffington Post, Smithsonian Journeys and Art News, among other publications. S&V is sponsored by the New York Studio School and Golden Artist Colors.

EPISODE 200!!!! Rosemarie Fiore is a visual artist from the Bronx, NY.  She combines painting and performance to produce artwork out of the actions of mechanisms.  Her work investigates the space that exists between chaos and control. Her "Smoke Painting Tools" harness and mix color smoke released from fireworks, these tools paint on paper using the painting technique “Fumage”.  She creates large abstract works on paper for exhibitions, commissions and performances around the world.  Her work has been exhibited by MOCA Jacksonville, Weatherspoon Museum, Queens Museum, Bronx Museum and Socrates Sculpture Park.  Fiore is a fellow of MacDowell, Yaddo, Art OMI, Skowhegan and Sculpture Space residencies.  She has been awarded grants through the Milton Avery Foundation, NYSCA, NYFA, and The Walentas-Sharpe Foundation. She has been reviewed by the LA Times, NY Times, NY Magazine, Art in America, Artforum, Village Voice and NY Arts Magazine. Her work is included in the public collections of Texas A & M University, UBS, Fidelity, Weatherspoon Museum, NC, and Cosmopolitan Hotel, Las Vegas. She is on the MacDowell Colony’s Board, teaches at the Metropolitan Museum of Art and is represented by Von Lintel Gallery, LA.  She will be performing at PSU on April 23rd sponsored by Campus Arts and HUB Gallery. Sound and Vision is supported by the New York Studio School, where drawing, painting and sculpture are studied in depth, debated energetically, and created with passion. The School’s full-time programs: a two-year MFA degree and a three-year Certificate Program focus on experiential learning and sustained studio courses. Both programs invite students to focus on Painting or Sculpture, with Drawing as an integral foundation for all creative production. Each semester begins with a two-week drawing or sculpture Marathon to generate momentum and expand one’s range of strategies for future studio work. Since its inception, the New York Studio School has emphasized rigorous learning through direct experience. Learn about scholarship opportunities, schedule a tour, and ask questions by emailing info@nyss.org. The School welcomes applications for Fall 2020 full-time study through nyss.org. Sound & Vision is sponsored by Golden Artist Colors. Golden is a company based in upstate New York and is committed to making the best artist materials for artists to make work with. You can get it in just about every art store and online at goldenpaints.com

Artists reflect on music. Polly Apfelbaum, Brian Belott, Matthew F Fisher and Angela Heisch. Everything from Miles Davis, Captain Beefheart, Lambchop and even some jazz flute. S&V is sponsored by the New York Studio School and Golden Artist Colors.

DOVE BRADSHAW, born in New York in 1949, pioneered the use of Indeterminacy in 1969 by enlisting the unpredictable effects of time, weather, erosion, and indoor and outdoor atmospheric conditions on natural, chemical, and manufactured materials. She has created chemical paintings that change with the atmosphere, indoor erosion sculptures of salt and outdoor stone sculptures that weather. She has worked with crystals that receive radio transmissions from local, short wave, and weather stations, along with reception of radio tele-scope signals from Jupiter. In 1975 she was awarded a National Endowment for the Arts grant; 1985 the Pollock-Krasner award; 2003 a Furthermore Grant; in 2006 The National Science Foundation for Artists Grant. Her work has been shown regularly in the US, Europe, South America, Japan and South Korea, appearing in the 6th Gwangju Biennale. She is represented in the permanent collections of many major museums including the Metropolitan Museum of Art, Museum of Modern Art, New York, The National Gallery of Washington, The Art Institute of Chicago, The British Museum, Centre Pompidou, Paris, and the Marble Palace, Russian State Museum, St. Petersburg.

Cauleen Smith is an interdisciplinary artist born in Riverside, California in 1967 and grew up in Sacramento. She earned a BA in Creative Arts from San Francisco Sate University and an MFA from the University of California, Los Angeles School of Theater Film and Television. Her work reflects upon the everyday possibilities of the imagination. Operating in multiple materials and arenas, Cauleen roots her work firmly within the discourse of mid-twentieth-century experimental film. Drawing from structuralism, third world cinema, and science fiction, she makes things that deploy the tactics of these disciplines while offering a phenomenological experience for spectators and participants. Her films, objects, and installations have been featured in exhibitions at the Studio Museum of Harlem, Houston Contemporary Art Museum; Yerba Buena Center for Art, the New Museum, New York, D21 Leipzig and Decad, Berlin. She has had solo shows for her films and installations at The Kitchen, MCA Chicago, Threewalls, Chicago and at the Whitney Museum. She shows her drawings and 2D work with Corbett vs. Dempsey.  Smith is the recipient of several grants and awards including the Rockefeller Media Arts Award, Creative Capital Film /Video, Chicago 3Arts Grant, and the Foundation for Contemporary Arts, Chicago Expo Artadia Award, and Rauschenberg Residency. Cauleen currently teaches at Cal Arts.  Her current solo show atthe Whitney Museum called Mutualities, the artist’s first solo show in New York, presents two of Smith’s films, Sojourner and Pilgrim—each in a newly created installation environment—along with a new group of drawings collectively titled Firespitters. S&V is sponsored by USA-primed Fredrix Canvas.  Supporting artist for 150 years.  Primed in Atlanta, Georgia. with the widest variety of primed and unprimed cottons and linens on the market. You can find Fredrix in your local art store or at fredrixprintcanvas.com, Golden Paints and the New York Studio School.

Rebecca Morgan received a BA from Bloomsburg University of Pennsylvania and her MFA from Pratt Institute, NY. Her work has been covered in The New York Times, Time Out New York, Hyperallergic, ARTnews, Whitehot Magazine, Beautiful Decay, Artslant, Juxtapoz Magazine, The Huffington Post, Paper Magazine, Hyperallergic, and Berlin's Lodown Magazine. She is the recipient of residencies at the John Michael Kohler Arts Center, the Bemis Center for Contemporary Arts, The Watershed Center for Ceramic Arts Residency, a Vermont Studio Center full fellowship, and the George Rickey Residency at Yaddo, among others. Rebecca has exhibited widely in the United States and abroad, with recent exhibitions at BravinLee Projects New York, NY; Mother Gallery, Beacon, NY; Oakland University Art Gallery, Beacon, NY; Western Exhibitions, IL; Mana Contemporary, NJ; Greenpoint Terminal Gallery, NY; The Vancouver Art Gallery, Canada; The Hole, NY; MRS Gallery, NY; Marinaro Gallery, NY; Hashimoto Contemporary, CA; Woodstock Byrdcliffe Guild, NY; Fisher Parrish Gallery, NY; Woskob Family Gallery at Penn State, PA; Knoll Galerie, Austria; Richard Heller Gallery, CA; Children’s Museum of Art, NY; and SPRING/BREAK art fair, NY. Sound & Vision is sponsored by Frederix Canvas, the New York Studio School and Golden Artist Colors.

Seonna Hong was born and raised in Southern California. She graduated with a B.A. in Art from Cal State University Long Beach and continued to hone her craft teaching art to children for several years. Her paintings are quietly narrative and often autobiographical and no doubt influenced by her time teaching as well as her work in TV and Feature animation. In 2004, she received an Emmy Award for Individual Achievement in Production Design for her work on “My Life as a Teenage Robot.” In 2006, she was the recipient of the Joan Mitchell Foundation Grant. Her illustrated book, 'Animus' is in it's third printing and according to Ken Johnson (The New York Times), "... the paintings are beautifully made and the imagery is mysteriously touching". Hong continues to show her work in shows and galleries around the world and is represented by Hashimoto Contemporary in San Francisco.

Brian spoke with Seonna in Manhattan right after her show had just opened at Hashimoto Contemporary in NYC. The gallery, of course, is not open now but you can see her work on the gallery website and follow her on Instagram @seonnahong. This conversation was recorded before the covid outbreak hit full force in NYC. Future recordings of the podcast will happen over the internet and will continue in that format until our very important distancing to help prevent the spread is lifted. It’s essential that we all do our part and we hope these conversations provide some comfort for you all. Supporting creative artists is so essential in these times and the music you are hearing is from Lullatone’s new record with you can get via a pay as you wish download on their bandcamp page.

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Gideon Bok is a painter who lives and works in Maine. He earned his B.A. from Hampshire College and his M.F.A. from Yale University. He has taught at Hampshire College, Boston University, among others. In 2004 he received a Simon Guggenheim Memorial Fellowship. In 2005, he was included in The American Academy of Art and Letters Invitational Exhibition where he received the Hassam, Speicher, Betts, and Symons Fund Purchase Award. His work is derived from painting from observation, dealing with the furniture and detritus of the artist’s studio. Bok’s work has been written up in The New York Times, Time Out New York, ARTnews, Art New England, and The Boston Globe. He has had three solo shows at Steven Harvey Fine Art Projects. Gideon is represented by Steven Harvey Fine Art in New York and Alpha Gallery in Boston. He manages an organic farm in Camden, ME and plays in the musical group/art collective Pelican Movement that recently toured with Pile. Sound & Vision is supported by Frederix Canvas and Golden Paints.

Lisa Corinne Davis is an abstract painter exploring themes of racial, social and psychological identity. Born in Baltimore, MD, currently living and working in Brooklyn and Upstate NY, Lisa received her BFA from Pratt Institute, and her MFA from Hunter College. Her paintings have been exhibited across the United States and in Europe, including one person shows at Gerald Peters and Spanierman Modern (New York & Miami), Zolla/Lieberman Gallery (Chicago), and The Mayor Gallery (London). Her work is included in the collections of The Museum of Modern Art, the J. Paul Getty Museum, The Philadelphia Museum of Art, and the Victoria and Albert Museum. Lisa is the recipient of numerous awards, including The Louis Comfort Tiffany Foundation Grant, a National Endowment for the Arts Visual Artist Fellowship, and three New York Foundation for the Arts Visual Arts Fellowships. In 2017, she was inducted as a National at the National Academy Museum & School. Her essays on art and culture have been published in the Brooklyn Rail and Art Critical. Lisa has previously taught painting at Yale University; she is currently Professor of Art, and Head of Painting, at Hunter College in New York. Her upcoming solo show at the Pamela Salisbury Gallery will be on view in Hudson, NY., in October. Sound & Vision is sponsored by Frederix Canvas and Golden Artist Colors.

Sarah Slappey is a painter who lives and works in Brooklyn, NY. She received her MFA from Hunter College in 2016 and BA from Wake Forest University in 2006. Her paintings have been exhibited in solo and group exhibitions in New York, Italy, London, Denmark, and Switzerland. In 2015, Sarah was awarded at Kossak Painting Grant and a Hunter MFA award for Outstanding Achievement. Her work has been covered in such publications as The New Yorker, Flash Art, Two Coats of Paint, ArtSpace, ArtMaze Magazine, Social Life, Long Island Pulse, and Hamptons Art Hub. She just had a solo show up, called Power Play at Sargent's Daughters Gallery in New York City. Sponsored by Frederix Canvas and Golden Artist Colors.