In Episode #31 Marx has a conversation with Canadian artist David Elliott David Elliott is a staple of the Canadian community of painters, he has been associated with the late seventies and early eighties return to figuration. David was born in Niagara on the Lake and grew up in several towns in Ontario. In this interview he shares the story that he calls the “Eureka moment”, when he discovered a painting in the London (Ontario) library and everything happened in the arts after that. David moved...
Jun 15, 2021•1 hr 17 min•Ep. 31
In Episode #30 Yam Lau talks to Marx about his views on what is to be an artist. He also shared the incredible story of getting to meet his biological father during his 40s, this story involves a very enthusiastic group of young artists in china and the secret Chinese police! Yam Lau is a Toronto based artist, professor and community organizer. He was born in Hong Kong and moved to Canada when he was 15 years old. He completed his MFA at the university of Alberta in 1997 and then moved to Toront...
May 30, 2021•1 hr 24 min•Ep. 30
In Episode #29 artist Nicolas Fleming talks about his development as an artist and his continuous cross-pollination between his work as an artist and art installer. Nicolas Fleming is an artist who works and lives in Kingston, Ontario, Canada. He received his BFA in Studio Arts from Concordia University in Montreal, Canada and his Masters in Visual Arts from the University of Quebec in Montreal also in Montreal, Canada. Nicolas’s work relies on construction materials and building techniques deve...
May 10, 2021•1 hr 56 min•Ep. 29
In Episode #28 Brian Alfred shares with Marx his thoughts on being an artist, podcaster, curator and professor. Brian Alfred is originally from Pittsburgh PA, he grew up painting the buildings he could see from his porch and he is currently based in Brooklyn, NY. In this conversation, Brian shares his experiences in the art world as well as his many other interests and projects such as podcasting, teaching and making music. Brian Alfred has been showing his work for over 20 years. He graduated w...
Apr 27, 2021•1 hr 40 min•Ep. 28
In Episode #27 Rebecca Davison-Mora shares with Marx her non-traditional path to arts management. Rebecca is an Arts Manager and emerging researcher with a focus on cultural relations and de colonial institutional practice. Interested in hybridity and crossing of boundaries/borders, her work originates from her interrogation of the self and position as a mixed researcher and arts worker. She holds a BA from York University and is currently completing her MA in Arts and Cultural Management at Kin...
Apr 12, 2021•1 hr 9 min•Ep. 27
In Episode #26 Marx has a conversation with Carla Rojas. Carla Rojas is a Marketing and Communications professional specialized in developing strategies to promote Art & Entertainment. She has worked in multiple capacities for various films, festivals, live concerts and T.V. shows in Mexico and Canada, such as Canada's Walk of Fame, Banff World Media Festival, and the Canadian National Exhibition, alongside industry leaders and top talent from companies such as Netflix, NBC Universal, Bell M...
Mar 24, 2021•1 hr 10 min•Ep. 26
In Episode #25 New York based artist David Kramer shares stories from New York City in the late 80’s and 90’s where he developed his career. David Kramer’s work draws from all-things America to create pieces influenced by the meme-era combining painting and hook-rug techniques to create aesthetics that seem suspended in the late 70’s or 80’s. His work has always been a conduit for sharing his take on contemporary culture. David Kramer lives and work in New York City, he has a BFA from George Was...
Feb 02, 2021•1 hr 55 min•Ep. 25
In Episode #24 Marx has a conversation with abstract painting Trevor Kiernander. After about a one and a half years hiatus, IntoThis is back with a conversation with Trevor about his development as an artist from the time when he used to draw comics in high school to his masters in fine arts training at Goldsmiths University of London. We met in a cold night at the garage in Montreal where TAP Art Space used to be hosted to have this great personal conversation. In this conversation there is a l...
Dec 19, 2020•1 hr 9 min•Ep. 24
In Episode 23 Marx has a conversation with artists Pier-Anne Mercier and David Bellemare about their latest exhibition at TAP Art Space in Montreal, Canada. Reflecting on their current state as post-BFA artists, Pier-Anne and David pose a question that delicately balances hopeful thoughts with realistic perspectives, where do we go from here? As a drafted response, they create an engaging painting-installation. Honouring his long-time held painting style, David Bellemare uses a single-large canv...
Jul 15, 2019•50 min•Ep. 23
In Episode 22 Marx has a conversation with BOSNY . He is a Montreal based graffiti artist and student of print media at Concordia University. In this conversation BOSNY talks about how he started in the graffiti community, the influence his parents had in his creativity explorations, the importance of getting an arts degree and a lot more. Graffiti is one of the artistic expressions that most people consume sometimes willingly and most of the time as part of the landscape. In Episode 22 , BOSNY ...
Feb 17, 2019•1 hr 25 min•Ep. 22
For our first episode of 2019 and overall Episode 21 Marx has a conversation with Roxanne Arsenault. She is the co-general and artistic coordinator, responsible for programming at the artist run center Clark, she also leads a music project called Donzelle and she is involved in many other cultural and artistic projects in the city of Montreal such as Pop Montreal. Roxanne was very generous and forthcoming with her answers not only about her personal development and her path to arrive where she i...
Jan 09, 2019•1 hr 24 min•Ep. 21
In Episode 20, Marx has a conversation with painter Erik Nieminen. Erik grew up in Ottawa as a member of a family in which being an artist was encouraged. In 2007 he obtained his BFA from the University of Ottawa and his MFA from Concordia University in 2010. After that he moved to Berlin where he worked for over 4 years, he returned to live and work to Montreal in 2016. His paintings walk on the intersection of abstraction and commonly known forms. In this interview he points out that in his wo...
Nov 27, 2018•1 hr 45 min•Ep. 20
In Episode 19, Marx talks to artists Guillaume Adjutor Provost and Shanie Tomassini about their collaborative show at TAP Art Space called A Witch is Born Out of the True Hungers of Her Time. This show will be the last show of 2018 at the current TAP Art Space location and it will be in view until October 19th of 2018, the programming will be back at the garage at the end of April of 2019. Keep your eyes and ears open for some upcoming exciting news.
Sep 21, 2018•1 hr 16 min•Ep. 19
In Episode 18 of IntoThis Podcast , Marx has a conversation with recently arrived Brooklyn-based painter Benjamin Klein. In this episode Ben shares his non-traditional trajectory to the visual arts, he was a martial artists for many years until he gave in to his strong desire to create paintings. After completing a BA in English Literature at Concordia University it was evident that he needed to change paths, he then made his way to arts school finishing his BFA at Concordia University in 2005, ...
Aug 24, 2018•1 hr 36 min•Ep. 18
In Episode 17 of IntoThis Podcast, Marx has a conversation with Montreal-based visual artist Jeanie Riddle and Montreal-based blogger and instagrammer Dimitri Velasquez. The conversation is centered on the ocassion of the opening of the show Single Family Home For Sale at TAP Art Space in which they collaborated.
Aug 03, 2018•39 min•Ep. 17
In Episode 16 of IntoThis Podcast, Marx has a very fun and interesting conversation with artists-couple-collective David and Jorden Doody. They are a British Columbia- based collective working mainly in sculpture and textiles. They are interested in the conversations between image and materiality, as they mentioned in this conversation they draw inspiration from a classic approach to sculpture yet being conscious of the screen-culture that social media and the internet era has delivered. They ha...
Jul 13, 2018•1 hr 40 min•Ep. 16
This is a special edition of IntoThis Podcast, in episode #15 Marx has a conversation with Colombian-Canadian artist Laura Acosta and Mexican architect David Jaime about their collaboration in the show called Ser/Viniendo-Be/Coming-De/Venir presented TAP Art Space in view until July 21st of 2018. In this conversation they share many keys to access the show composed by a virtual reality piece and a performance-activated textile-based sculpture.
Jun 22, 2018•1 hr 5 min•Ep. 15
As Janet shares in this conversation, her work revolves around the idea of human figures. Even though her work is very close to what is usually described as a portrait, the characters in her paintings are usually invented and stem out of abstraction. In this conversation she shares where those portraits are most likely coming from and what does she think of them. A large part of Janet’s time is dedicated to teaching, she also shared with Marx the good, the bad and the okay of being a professor.
Jun 01, 2018•1 hr 31 min•Ep. 14
Informed by Neo-Marxist theories, this exhibition analyzes in a personal rather than cumulative manner the drastic changes in the concept of work observed in the past decade. Through a series of paintings based on the aesthetics of different massive communication systems and schematic representation of information, the artists scrutinize the effects on the creative work, knowledge-based economy as well as the constantly increasing gig economy. Even though the considerations proposed in this show...
May 11, 2018•1 hr 28 min•Ep. 13
We hope to see you at TAP in it's inauguration show.
May 04, 2018•2 min
Apr 20, 2018•1 hr 35 min•Ep. 11
In conversation with Marx, Julie and Joanie share the framework on which Projet Pangée is based. As an artists run gallery, Project Pangée was design to be different than a commercial gallery and also different than an artist run center, which are the most prevalent spaces for art showing in the province of Quebec. In this interview they also share their opinions on where artists should be showing their work, what drives them to work so hard to promote contemporary arts and a lot more. This is o...
Mar 30, 2018•1 hr 35 min•Ep. 11
In a very interesting take, Mark Dudiak defines a professional contemporary artist as the person who has the "antennas up" and that is always bringing to the table ideas and concepts to discuss about. This and much more in this conversation.
Mar 09, 2018•1 hr 30 min•Ep. 9
Megan Bradley is the director of Parisian Laundry gallery in Montreal Canada. At a young age she opened her own commercial gallery which helped her not only to learn but experiencing the realities -and hardships- of the art market. After that, she was offered to work for Parisian Laundry, where she has had the chance to perform different tasks arriving recently to the position as director of the gallery. In this conversation she shares her motivations to be part of the art world, what are the re...
Feb 16, 2018•1 hr 30 min•Ep. 9
Visual artist and musician Jackson Darby lives and works in Hamilton, Ontario. In his Montreal days He attended Concordia University and was part of an art collective called MAW.
Jan 26, 2018•1 hr 16 min•Ep. 8
In the last episode of 2017 we have a conversation with writer and curator Loreta Lamargese, she lives and works in New York city at ArsenalContemporary. She came over to the tiny studio in January of 2017, when she was still working at Division gallery in Montreal. We spend a couple of hours talking about everything from social media self-gratification to the exclusivity of the art world. But mainly we talked about some of the socio-political-economic issues that most of the times are ignored e...
Dec 08, 2017
Visual artist Jerome Nadeau holds a BFA and MFA from Concordia University, he is the co-director of publishing house and art space soon.tw alongside artists Nicolas Lachance and Jean Francois Lauda. They work and live in Montreal, Canada.
Nov 17, 2017•50 min•Ep. 6
With an impressive display of talent, Nicolas Grenier lays down a path for self-scrutiny paved with paintings, architectural installations, videos, texts, etc. His works both, seduce and confront the viewer with formalist elements and objective imagery. We hope you enjoy our conversation with Nicolas.
Oct 27, 2017•59 min
Multitalented artist and curator Stephanie Creaghan in conversation with Marx about her artistic practice and being part of a new wave of young cultural entrepreneurs in Montreal.
Dec 16, 2016•41 min
David Bellemare is an Artist Magician, he shares the way he approaches art making with Marx
Nov 26, 2016•43 min
