Part two of a two-part podcast. I had Star Liana York on the podcast back in December and we had a great chat that went long enough that I decided to make it a two-part interview. Star York is an amazing sculptor and an interesting human being. It's a fun podcast because you get the sense of how full of life and joy Star is and how it translates into her sculptures. When you see her bronzes, you'll see the curiosity and the fun that comes through, especially with her horse and animal sculptures....
Mar 03, 2021•45 min•Season 1Ep. 142
Part one of a two-part podcast. I had Star York on the back in December and we had a great chat that went long enough that I decided to make it a two-part interview. Star York is an amazing sculptor and an interesting human being. It's a fun podcast because you get the sense of how full of life and joy Star is and how it translates into her sculptures. When you see her bronzes, you'll see the curiosity and the fun that comes through, especially with her horse and animal sculptures. Star also cre...
Feb 24, 2021•44 min•Season 1Ep. 141
Part two of a two-part podcast with Gary Ernest Smith This is the second episode of Gary Ernest Smith's artist story, we discussed his field paintings and how they resonate with not only myself but with others. This is a wonderful podcast to watch as Gary shows some of his paintings. He's been painting his entire whole life and he tells us some very interesting stories including how he got represented by Ray Johnson at Overland. Gary discusses the positive and negative of having mainly one galle...
Feb 17, 2021•41 min•Season 1Ep. 140
This is part one of a two-part podcast. Part one of a two-part podcast. Now Gary Ernest Smith is a guy who has been painting basically his whole life and he tells us some very interesting stories, not only of how he got to do what he did in life, but also how he became the successful western landscape painter he is today. I love that about doing a podcast by the way. I get to be a part of that moment in time when an artist decides "this is what I have to do." Early on in his artistic journey, Ga...
Feb 10, 2021•49 min•Season 1Ep. 139
Dr. Tricia Loscher and I did a podcast back in December, I've been fortunate enough to be a co-curator with Tricia on the major Maynard Dixon exhibit "Maynard Dixon's American West" and she wrote the foreword for my Dixon book. That Maynard Dixon exhibit is hanging at the Scottsdale Museum of the West and will run through August 2021. If you haven't visited the Scottsdale Museum of the West, just know it's a great museum and has a wonderful collection of artistic and anthropological material. It...
Feb 03, 2021•1 hr 34 min•Season 1Ep. 138
Kevin Macpherson took time a month ago from his painting schedule to Zoom with me on the podcast. He's a renowned painter and author who has written four instructional books and was one of the very first artists to start writing these types of books in the early 90s. Kevin also had a PBS show that lasted for two years with 26 episodes - and he's an amazing painter, I've always been a fan of his work. Kevin paints with an impressionistic plein air style that he does so well it's become iconic. Wh...
Jan 27, 2021•1 hr 26 min•Season 1Ep. 137
Dr. Larry Peterson joined me for a podcast in November. He's a fascinating, interesting man and you know every once in a while you meet somebody and you say to yourself "this guy's done a lot more than I have" and in this case he really has. Dr. Peterson is a dermatologist that published numerous medical research papers before pivoting at the age of 56 to focus on his writing ability in the world of art. He's written books on the artist Phillip Goodwin, the photographer L. A. Huffman, he wrote a...
Jan 20, 2021•1 hr 49 min•Season 1Ep. 136
Had a great time with Eric Rhoads. Eric is the publisher of Fine Art Connoisseur as well as PleinAir Magazine. He does live interviews on his Facebook and his Youtube every day at noon for an hour, as well as two podcasts - The Art Marketing Podcast and Plein Air Podcast. Eric is very committed not only to his own artistry but to the art community as a whole. This was much fun and is part two with Eric who shares the backstory of his early life and road to the art world. Eric can spin a great ya...
Jan 13, 2021•1 hr 1 min•Season 1Ep. 135
Had a great time today with Eric Rhoads. Eric is the publisher of Fine Art Connoisseur as well as Plein Air Magazine. He does live interviews on his Facebook and his Youtube every day at noon for an hour, as well as two podcasts - The Art Marketing Podcast and Plein Air Podcast. Eric is very committed not only to his own artistry but to the art community as a whole. This was so much fun; it is a two-part podcast; this is part one and reflects on Eric's life as it is today with the pandemic and h...
Jan 06, 2021•56 min•Season 1Ep. 134
I had Forbes and Essential West writer Chadd Scott on the podcast today. Chadd is such an energetic person that it's hard not to get revved up when I get to talk to someone that is even more enthusiastic about art than I am, and it's hard to find because I really love art. Whether it's collecting, seeing art, or being around artists. Chadd has that, right? He has that in spades! Chadd was involved in the sports world working for ESPN, in all these major sporting areas as an announcer, as a write...
Dec 30, 2020•1 hr 35 min•Season 1Ep. 133
I had Martha Braun on the show today. You know this is an interesting podcast for those who are into interior design. Martha was a world-class interior designer who had her own company in San Francisco for 25 years. She also built high-end spec homes and sold them in San Francisco but really found her calling in being an abstract painter. We get a different sensibility of somebody who's painting - not from a realistic standpoint - but a nonobjective one. I think anyone who likes art, whether it'...
Dec 23, 2020•1 hr 23 min•Season 1Ep. 132
I had David Michaels on today. He is one of the more unique guests I've had quite frankly, an artist with a background probably like no other. David Michaels has produced and directed some of the largest sporting events for television. Think the Olympics, the Tour de France - he has like 14 Emmys so he's extremely gifted in that field and he's done documentaries as well. However, when you hear David's account of the path he took in life, you'll know as well as I did that this individual was alwa...
Dec 16, 2020•1 hr 20 min•Season 1Ep. 131
I had New Mexico landscape painter Bill Gallen on the podcast today. He's such an interesting guy and his heart and soul are poured into every painting he does. We get to hear his story about struggling to find a path in the art world. Bill had an encounter with an artist during an art fair, and after seeing this artist's painting that resonated with him to an immeasurable extent, and BOOM, everything changes. After nearly fifteen years as a contractor, Bill Gallen traded in his house painting b...
Dec 09, 2020•1 hr 14 min•Season 1Ep. 127
I had William Haskell on the podcast today and it's interesting - all of these podcasts I do have common threads running through them which you can pick up, in this case, it happens to be one that I hear from many artists. Somewhere early on in their lives, they had an art teacher or mentor that affected them greatly. William find's his own commonality which helped him find his artistic voice. William took an off-the-beaten-path approach to become an artist, working in graphics and illustration ...
Dec 02, 2020•1 hr 20 min•Season 1Ep. 129
David Meikle was my guest on the podcast today and I just have to say that I love doing these interviews over a Zoom call. Initially, I thought that the personal process of listing to someone's life story was a process that I'd only want to do in the studio. After recording a few of these long-distance Zoom podcasts with artists in their studios, I've noticed that when the person being interviewed is in a comfortable and familiar setting they are much more relaxed and often get a better insight ...
Nov 25, 2020•1 hr 31 min•Season 1Ep. 128
I had John Coleman, a member of the Cowboy Artists of America, on the podcast today. John is just such a deep, interesting human being. John is one of the most successful artists of his generation but believe it or not, he didn't start out as an artist even though he knew he had this innate artistic talent inside him. John had to go through finding that artistic voice, which isn't an easy process. His earliest path was one of success as a business person, but it just wasn't the type of fulfillme...
Nov 18, 2020•1 hr 30 min•Season 1Ep. 127
I had Josh Elliott on the podcast today and what a fun and interesting individual to interview. I’ve been fortunate enough to join Josh on a couple of painting trips to observe his painting acumen and you can learn so much as an art dealer when you get to actually see what an artist does with their skill set in the field. It helps one understand the process and there is something to be said about comprehending the process. I'm an artist in the sense that I'm a writer and photographer, but I’m no...
Nov 11, 2020•1 hr 33 min•Season 1Ep. 124
I had the Director and CEO of the Tucson Museum of Art, Jeremy Mikolajczak, on today. Jeremy is a unique individual who has run the gamut in life. He was not only a world-class swimmer in high school and college but was an artist as well. He went the BFA route and then worked in the gallery circuit, but it was running his first museum where he really found his stride in life. He's run a couple of different museums, including significant ones, and has been our the director at Tucson Museum of Art...
Nov 04, 2020•1 hr 15 min•Season 1Ep. 125
I had landscape painter Matt Smith on the podcast today. He's such a good plein air artist and I was a fan and collector long before I ever representing him in my gallery. It took me 20 years before I was lucky enough to get Matt Smith to show in my gallery and it's fun to hear the story of how he got to be one of the best western painters in the country. He's renowned for not only his studio paintings and plein paintings but for his workshops where he shares his expansive skillset with others. ...
Oct 28, 2020•1 hr 9 min•Season 1Ep. 124
I had Mark Magggiori on today. Wow, really an interesting human being. He's one of the best Western artists working today and I'm a big fan of his artwork. This is a Western artist who has 150,000 Instagram followers. Yes, you read that correctly. Having that many followers is kind of unheard of in the Western art game but there's a definite reason though and that's that this guy has an amazing background and can paint. He's the front-man for the French band Pleymo which was signed in 1997 by So...
Oct 21, 2020•1 hr 20 min•Season 1Ep. 123
I had artist Julia Arriola on the podcast today. She is a new artist for us and our gallery-artist relationship has developed into one of those special situations where you get a new artist and their work really resonates with you as a collector and as an art dealer but is also immediately recognized by clients and collectors alike. Julia is of Mexican-Mescalero Apache descent who does these wonderful ledger drawings that have steampunk motifs incorporated into traditional Native American storie...
Oct 14, 2020•1 hr 10 min•Season 1Ep. 122
I had Laura Finlay Smith, the curator for the Tia Collection on the podcast today. The Tia Collection is a unique gathering of paintings and sculptures including top-notch Contemporary and the best of the best Western and recently Native American artwork as well. Laura has been curating for the Tia Collection for the last 8 years building this fantastic collection of artwork This collection tours throughout the country and pieces are routinely loaned to museums across the United States. Any of y...
Oct 07, 2020•1 hr 26 min•Season 1Ep. 121
What a fun podcast I had with Jill Carver. Jill grew up in England and has been living in the Southwest since 2002. She had this circuitous road to becoming the well-respected painter she is today, beginning with her education in the UK and the thought of becoming a finance professional, getting a degree in history, to finally following her heart as an artist. Along the way, she gets a position at the National Portrait Gallery in London and works there for 12 years. Jill ends moving across the p...
Sep 30, 2020•1 hr 46 min•Season 1Ep. 120
I had Utah artist Greg Newbold on the podcast today. I've represented Greg for only a couple years and, believe it or not, I found him on Facebook. For those artists out there that wonder: "how do I get into a great art gallery," people like myself look on social media from time to time and we find the artists that have a voice and unique sensibilities about their artwork. When I came across Greg's work, I immediately said "WOW! Who is this guy?" Greg is an interesting individual and we discuss ...
Sep 23, 2020•1 hr 27 min•Season 1Ep. 119
I had Davison Koenig on the podcast today who is the Director/Curator of the Couse-Sharp Historical Museum in Taos, New Mexico. This Northern New Mexico museum is a wonderful experience as I've been there a couple of different times. I've visited the Couse residency before it was ever a museum and was amazing then and now it is spectacular. It was fun to hear the story of how someone falls into a position like Davison's as a director of such a unique museum. The path, in this case, begins with D...
Sep 16, 2020•1 hr 9 min•Season 1Ep. 118
I had the award-winning Santa Clara potter Susan Folwell on the podcast today. She followed up a podcast that I recorded with her husband, Davison Keonig, the director of the Couse-Sharp Historic Site in Taos, NM. I loved this interview because I got to hear Susan's backstory in great and entertaining detail. Susan's mom, the famous contemporary potter Jody Folwell an important figure pueblo pottery. Jody Folwell was the ceramist who popularized asymmetrical pottery and inserting social commenta...
Sep 09, 2020•1 hr 8 min•Season 1Ep. 117
I had Jared Chavez on the podcast a silversmith I carry and a person that I really respect as an artist. His father San Felipe silversmith Richard Chavez who I started buying his work 20 years ago whose work graces numerous museum collections. Father and son have done collaborative work but their styles are different and very unique. Jared experienced an interesting upbringing in that he's a San Felipe kid that ends up going to Georgetown for his undergraduate BFA, later working in San Francisco...
Sep 02, 2020•1 hr 40 min•Season 1Ep. 116
Had a wonderful discussion with the contemporary pueblo potter Russell Sanchez of San Ildefonso pueblo. I've known Russell Sanchez for at least 30 years and we had a nice talk about what it means to be a potter and how pottery became his chosen field, including his tutelage from the famed pueblo potters Rose Gonzales and Tony and Anita Da who influenced him. It was interesting to get the sense of what it takes to be a Pueblo potter as a profession and how he's approached being one of the best in...
Aug 26, 2020•56 min•Season 1Ep. 115
Kathleen Wall is a vibrant individual and well known Jemez potter who creates her figurine pots at Jemez New Mexico. She does wonderful figurines and masks, some of them being very large pieces. Kathleen explains her journey as a potter and how she got to where she is today and what it took to get there. It's a long hard road to be a potter especially when you're trying to do things that are unique and less traditional pueblo pottery, but Kathleen has triumphed. In fact, Kathleen was recently aw...
Aug 19, 2020•1 hr 14 min•Season 1Ep. 114
I had the pleasure of interviewing the contemporary artist Marla Allison today on Art Dealer Diaries. Marla is full of energy, creativity, smart, and was a very interesting guest. We discuss growing up in New Mexico at the historic Laguna Pueblo, and what it's like being Laguna, Hopi, Jemez, and Anglo, and what those cultural elements provide to your art and perspective. Laguna is a small community and she goes from a small pueblo community to being IAIA trained and a School for Advanced Researc...
Aug 12, 2020•1 hr 11 min•Season 1Ep. 113
