https://www.patreon.com/artistdecoded About Young Pueblo: The inward movement can be summarized as follows: we observe ourselves, we accept what we find without judgment, we let it go, and the actual release causes our transformation. We are already always changing, but when we focus on healing we can change in the direction of our choosing; these are moments when we intentionally reclaim our power. Every moment we take to know ourselves, we return as someone new.- Yung Pueblo Diego Perez is a m...
May 03, 2020•53 min
https://www.patreon.com/artistdecoded About Daan: Daan Noppen (1977), born in Arnhem (The Netherlands) is an international artist mainly working in drawing and painting. He is best known for his realistic larger than life drawings of portraits and bodies. Physics and it’s relation to our being, our emotions, plays a big part in his work. The artist plays with notions of reality by projecting time as a physical dimension. Rather than becoming something ‘scientific’ this opens up a visual world of...
Apr 28, 2020•55 min
https://www.patreon.com/artistdecoded About Yore: Equal parts emotive and angelic, Yore’s voice is one of those rare wonders that can make the hairs on your arms stand to attention. Quietly arriving on the scene this year with his hypnotic single “Knew Better,” the LA-based artist is bringing a conceptual approach to modern soul music, blending electronic and classical influences with meticulously layered vocals. It has been a long time coming – having previously held down a career in music unde...
Apr 13, 2020•6 min
https://www.patreon.com/artistdecoded About Cory: “Create space in your heart and mind. Live in the present moment. There are many styles of meditation, approaches to mindfulness, and paths to living a more present life. However, each of those schools are confined to their own strict guidelines. This course is not. I believe that every person is different and needs a unique style of meditation that works for them. I have studied meditation and mindfulness for 20 years. Throughout that time, I to...
Apr 10, 2020•33 min
https://www.patreon.com/artistdecoded About Allie X: Somewhere amidst the outer reaches of iconoclastic pop darling Allie X’s mind, you’ll find the limits of a surreal hamlet inspired by the East Coast’s infamous playground of the pedigreed, Cape Cod. That said, it doesn’t take long for all the overbearing, Americana-worshipping idyll to melt into a gloomy, grandiose fantasy world of Allie’s creation. A distinct departure from her previous effort — the irreverent, observational Super Sunset — th...
Apr 09, 2020•51 min
https://www.patreon.com/artistdecoded About Ron: Ron Hicks was born in Columbus, Ohio but spent most of his childhood growing up in the modest and friendly neighborhood of Park Hill in Denver, Colorado. Ron always knew he would be an artist. Ron's family later relocated back to Ohio where during high school he was awarded several awards, and honors for various art shows and competitions. His talent became obvious and noted throughout his high school career, and Ron was awarded a full scholarship...
Apr 04, 2020•57 min
https://www.patreon.com/artistdecoded About Ibarionex: Ibarionex Perello is a photographer, writer and educator. Since 2006, he has also served as the host, and producer of The Candid Frame photography podcast, which has featured hundreds of conversations with the world’s best and established photographers. Guests have included Sam Abell, Maggie Steber, Eli Reed, Jay Maisel, Elliot Erwitt, Ruddy Roye, Dan Winters, Keith Carter and many more. Ibarionex has written hundreds of magazine articles on...
Apr 01, 2020•56 min
https://www.patreon.com/artistdecoded About Denna: Denna Thomsen grew up in Omaha Nebraska, later receiving a Bachelor of Arts from Colorado State University. She moved to California in 2007 to pursue a professional dance career and gained a spot with Hysterica Dance Company, founded by Kitty McNamee. In 2012, Alma Ha’rel gave Denna her first break acting and dancing alongside Shia Labeouf, in Fjogur Piano by Sigur Ros. She soon became infatuated with the commercial side and later danced beside ...
Mar 29, 2020•1 hr 12 min
https://www.patreon.com/artistdecoded About Michael: Michael Phillip is a writer, seeker, and wonder-dipping host of the Third Eye Drops podcast. In it, he melds minds with some of the planet’s most interesting artists, scientists, philosophers, and consciousness explorers. Topics Discussed In This Episode: The value of having a contemplative practice Søren Kierkegaard’s “Leaf of Faith” Michael’s first Ayahuasca experience Ancient mystery schools, and revealing the mysteries of life and death Th...
Mar 24, 2020•1 hr 13 min
https://www.patreon.com/artistdecoded About Riley: Riley Stearns (Director + Writer) grew up in Pflugerville, Texas. His short, The Cub, screened at the 2013 Sundance Film Festival. His feature debut, Faults , starring Leland Orser, and Mary Elizabeth Winstead, premiered at SXSW in 2014 and was released theatrically. The Art of Self-Defense (2019) played at numerous international film festivals including the opening night slot of Munich Film Festival and was released domestically to critical acc...
Mar 18, 2020•1 hr 28 min
https://www.patreon.com/artistdecoded About Akira: “Making pictures is one of the earliest memories I recall. Before learning to write the alphabet I was drawing from my imagination in crayons. And over all the years that followed, there has never been a period where I didn’t continue the practice. I remember for example just after graduating high school and living on my own as a dishwasher with no ambitions in life but to get drunk and high. But when the party was over I would be in the kitchen...
Mar 17, 2020•1 hr 19 min
https://www.patreon.com/artistdecoded About Jennifer: Jennifer Pochinski is an American figurative painter. Her work is characterized by gestural marks and bold color. Relationships, the male-female power dynamic, and humanity are key themes in her work. She was raised in Hawaii and received her BFA from the University of Hawaii in Painting in 1991. Much of her young adulthood was spent traveling and living on the mainland USA and Europe. Since late 2010, she has been living and working in Calif...
Mar 14, 2020•1 hr 5 min
https://www.patreon.com/artistdecoded About Kit: Kit Dale was born on January 24, 1986, in Melbourne, Australia, growing up in the area’s eastern suburbs. During his formative years Dale practiced a number of athletic activities, from karate to inline hockey, as well as Australian football (Aussie rules), a sport he competed in extensively prior to jiu-jitsu. Australian rules football is widely recognized as one of the most physical sports in the world, generally played by large individuals. Alt...
Mar 06, 2020•1 hr 12 min
https://www.patreon.com/artistdecoded About Cory: Cory Allen is an author, podcast host, meditation teacher, composer, and audio engineer. On his podcast The Astral Hustle, he finds ways for us to live with more wonder and less suffering by speaking with leading experts in mindfulness, neuroscience, music, and philosophy. The Astral Hustle has been downloaded millions of times and was featured by the New York Times. Cory has taught thousands of people how to meditate with clear and concise metho...
Feb 29, 2020•1 hr 16 min
https://www.patreon.com/artistdecoded About Adam: Recurring themes in the work of Adam Lee are the act of pilgrimage, shelter and an itinerant, nomadic sense of home. Transmitted through a community of hermits, shawl-shod women and regalia-laden gentlefolk traversing deserts, forests and valleys or reposing in tabernacles or dreamed abodes, Lee’s practice ties together narratives of memory, imagination and transcendence. Through his works on linen and paper, Lee builds worlds where allegory and ...
Feb 21, 2020•1 hr 17 min
https://www.patreon.com/artistdecoded About Alex: Alex Kanevsky was born in Russia in 1963. He studied mathematics at Vilnius University in Lithuania before coming to the United States. After his arrival to Philadelphia in 1983 he worked as Russian translator, illustrator at the Psychiatric Nursing Magazine and drew pictures for the telephone book advertisements. After attending PAFA (1989-93) and winning a Pew Fellowship (1997) he devoted himself to painting full time. Alex Kanevsky lives and w...
Feb 19, 2020•1 hr 26 min
https://www.patreon.com/artistdecoded About Joe: Joe Goddard is a British musician, songwriter, and DJ. He is best known as a member in the English synth-pop band Hot Chip, which he co-founded with Alexis Taylor. In 2007, he co-founded record label Greco-Roman, which has produced albums by artists such as Totally Enormous Extinct Dinosaurs and Disclosure. Goddard is also a member of electronica group The 2 Bears, and produced two solo albums, Harvest Festival (2009) and Electric Lines (2017). ww...
Feb 12, 2020•55 min
https://www.patreon.com/artistdecoded About Alexis: Alexis Marshall is the singer of the band Daughters . Topics Discussed In This Episode: The making of Daughters’ “Less Sex” music video How their newest album, “You Won’t Get What You Want”, came together Catharsis and visceral connections to performing on stage for Alexis Alexis’s writing process Approaching life with gratitude and appreciation www.artistdecoded.com www.daughtersofficial.com...
Jan 28, 2020•53 min
https://www.patreon.com/artistdecoded About David Kassan: Raw, poignant and profoundly honest, David Jon Kassan’s work aesthetically captures humanity in its true form. As an artist, Kassan acts as an empathetic intermediary between the subject he portrays and the viewer. More than simply replicating his subjects Kassan seeks to understand them. He seeks to capture the essence of those he paints, imbuing them with their own voice. They communicate with the viewer interpersonally and we see them ...
Jan 24, 2020•1 hr 5 min
https://www.patreon.com/artistdecoded About Antrese: Antrese Wood is an artist and the host of the Savvy Painter Podcast. The Savvy Painter features interviews with top artists who talk about their mindset, process, and gives tips and techniques to aspiring painters. Antrese paints and teaches online workshops from her home in Argentina. A painter herself, Antrese left her job art directing video games at the Walt Disney Company to focus exclusively on her art. She lived in Argentina for six yea...
Jan 08, 2020•1 hr 29 min
https://www.patreon.com/artistdecoded About Hollis: Hollis Heichemer was born in Binghamton, New York and now currently lives and works in New Hampshire. Heichemer’s work has been the subject of solo exhibitions at Hollis Taggart Galleries and J. Cacciola Gallery in New York, and Gross McCleaf Gallery and Rosenfeld Gallery in Philadelphia . Hollis has participated in a wide range of group exhibitions, including most recently at Stanek Gallery in Philadelphia and Dolby Chadwick Gallery in San Fra...
Dec 28, 2019•57 min
https://www.patreon.com/artistdecoded About Maja: Maja Ruznic , a prolific and active artist, is primarily a painter, a storyteller who conjures form and narrative from ground up mineral, smeared oil, and stained canvas. Born in Bosnia and Hercegovina in 1983, Ruznic immigrated to the United States with her family in 1995, settling on the West Coast where she eventually went on to study at the University of California, Berkeley, later receiving an MFA from the California College of Arts. Ruznic’...
Dec 12, 2019•59 min
https://www.patreon.com/artistdecoded About Josh: Josh Peck is an American actor, voice actor, comedian, and YouTube personality. Peck began his career as a child actor in the late 90s and early 2000s, and had an early role on The Amanda Show from 2000 to 2002. Peck rose to prominence for the role of Josh Nichols alongside Drake Bell's character in the Nickelodeon sitcom Drake & Josh from 2004 to 2007, and in its two television films in 2006 and 2008. He then acted in films such as Mean Cree...
Dec 03, 2019•1 hr 18 min
https://www.patreon.com/artistdecoded About Josh: Joshua Hagler lived and worked in San Francisco and then Los Angeles for fifteen years before moving to rural New Mexico in late 2017 as a grant recipient of the year-long Roswell Artist in Residence Program. He was born at Mountain Home Air Force Base in Idaho in 1979 and is a first-generation college graduate with a visual communications degree from the University of Arizona in Tucson. Having not attended an art school or received an MFA, Hagle...
Nov 30, 2019•1 hr 7 min
https://www.patreon.com/artistdecoded About Daniel: Daniel Martin (1982) lives and works in Leiden, the Netherlands. In his current work he searches for the transmutational properties of matter. The portraits and sculptures do not have a definite form and posses different realities on how they can be perceived. In order to come to new forms Daniel cuts up paintings, finds things on the street and uses creations made by others. The loose elements from these endeavors are used as disjointed brushs...
Nov 24, 2019•54 min
https://www.patreon.com/artistdecoded About Mia: Mia Bergeron is a contemporary female oil painter focused on the dualism of everyday scenes. Rooted in her upbringing in New York City with continuous exposure to modern art at a young age, her paintings also reveal her choice to study classical painting in Florence, Italy. Throughout her work, influences of both contemporary and historical ideas can be seen, whether rooted by her choice of subjects or the exploratory nature of the tools she emplo...
Nov 22, 2019•1 hr 13 min
https://www.patreon.com/artistdecoded About Christian: Christian Rex van Minnen was born in Providence, RI in 1980 and received his BA from Regis University, Denver in 2002. He has exhibited throughout the US and internationally and was recently awarded an Artist-in-Residence at Anderson Ranch Arts Center in Aspen, CO (Fall, 2017). Recent exhibitions include con-figuration, a group exhibit at Postmasters, NY, Juxtapoz x Superflat, co-curated by Takashi Murakami & Evan Pricco at the Vancouver...
Nov 04, 2019•1 hr 25 min
https://www.patreon.com/artistdecoded About Johan: Born in 1959, Johan Van Mullem lives and works in Belgium. Topics Discussed In This Episode: His beginnings in discovering his art practice His background studying architecture in university How various day jobs in and outside architecture impacted his art practice His approach to painting and creative process His interpretation of the balance between happiness and struggle The nuances of developing ones self through physical activities Painting...
Oct 25, 2019•1 hr 8 min
https://www.patreon.com/artistdecoded About Zoey: Zoey Frank (b. 1987, Boulder, CO) received her MFA in painting from Laguna College of Art and Design in Laguna Beach, California after studying for four years with Juliette Aristides in the Classical Atelier at Gage Academy of Art in Seattle, Washington. She is represented by Danese/Corey Gallery in New York City, and Galerie Mokum in Amsterdam. She has received numerous honors and awards, including three Elizabeth Greenshields grants, the Avigdo...
Oct 17, 2019•43 min
https://www.patreon.com/artistdecoded AD Non-Weekly Round Up #6 with Yoshino and AD co-host Saman Kesh . Topics Discussed: ADHD, creativity, and distraction. Media ingestion for education vs. media ingestion for enjoyment Art vs. commerce Experiencing the loss of a loved one www.artistdecoded.com
Oct 11, 2019•33 min
