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Sound and Vision

Brian Alfred sits down with artists and musicians in galleries and their studios to discuss their process and inspiration in their creative life.
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Tammy Nguyen

Tammy Nguyen was born and raised in San Francisco, and received a B.F.A. from Cooper Union in 2007, and an M.F.A. from Yale in 2013. Her recent solo exhibitions include the Institute of Contemporary Art, Boston, MA (2023); Lehmann Maupin, Seoul, South Korea (2023); Brooklyn Public Library, Brooklyn, NY (2022); Nichido Contemporary Art, Tokyo, Japan (2022); François Ghebaly, Los Angeles, CA (2022); Tropical Futures Institute, SEA Focus, Singapore (2022); Smack Mellon, Brooklyn, NY (2021) among ot...

Oct 26, 20231 hr 9 min

Jeremy Sorese

Jeremy Sorese is an artist based in Brooklyn, New York. After graduating from the Savannah College of Art and Design in 2010, he was accepted to La Maison des Auteurs, a residency program in Angoulême, France, where he worked from 2012 through 2013. His first book Curveball, published with Nobrow in 2015, was nominated for a Lambda Literary Award. A sequel, The Short While, was published with Archaia in November 2021. He’s been teaching art for 11 years with stints at the Maryland Institute Coll...

Oct 19, 20231 hr 5 min

Inka Essenhigh

A reissue of a classic episode with Inka from 2016.

Oct 12, 20231 hr 13 min

Erin Armstrong

Erin Armstrong is a contemporary figurative artist working and living in Toronto, CA. Her work has been exhibited extensively across North America and Europe, with recent shows at Hashimoto Gallery LA, BEERS London, and Duran Mashaal in Montreal. Her next solo exhibition will open Oct 31st in Milan, Italy at Alessandro Albanese Gallery, closing out the year with a group show in Seoul, South Korea at Every Moooonday Gallery this December.

Oct 05, 20231 hr 4 min

Tracy Thomason

On the occasion of The Pollinator, Tracy Thomason’s fourth exhibition with Marinaro gallery, inhabiting both of their gallery spaces, we are reissuing this conversation with Tracy from over six years ago. Tracy Thomason is an artist born in Maryland who received an MFA from Cranbrook Academy of Art in Michigan and a BFA from the Maryland Institute College of Art in Baltimore. Exhibitions include a solo shows at Marinaro in 2022, 2020, 2017 and the current one. NADA Projects with Cuevas Tilleard ...

Sep 28, 202348 min

Samuel Dunson

Sam Dunson is an artist born in Dayton, Ohio who is a professor in art at Tennessee State Univeristy. He recieved his BS in studio art there before getting his MFA at the Savannah College of Art and Design. He has received several awards including 100 under 100: The New Superstars of Southern Art Selected By Peers of Oxford American Magazine, the Outstanding Achievement Award Recipient (Graduate Painting) from the Savannah College of Art and Design, the Artlink International Young Artist Auction...

Sep 21, 20231 hr 55 min

Hiejin Yoo

Hiejin Yoo is a German born, Korean artist currently living and working in Los Angeles Her work has been shown at The High Museum of Art in Atlanta, Half Gallery, Frederic Snitzer, Blum & Poe, Almine Rech, Konig Gallery, Loyal Gallery, Stems Gallery, The Pit, Spurs Gallery in Beijing and many others. Her work has been covered in Galerie Magazine, Juxtapoz, Hypebeast, Whitewall, ArtForum, It’s Nice That, Elle Indonasia, New American Paintings, the LA Times and many more.

Sep 14, 20231 hr 24 min

Shuling Guo

SHULING GUO is an artist born in Guangdong Province, China who graduated from the Oil Painting Department of Central Academy of Fine Arts in Beijing with a BFA in 2010. She immigrated to the United States in 2019, and now lives in Philadelphia and aboard the Sailing Vessel Selkie. In 2012, she had her first solo exhibition Secret Fragrance in Beyond Art Space in Beijing. Since then, her work has been widely exhibited in Beijing, Los Angeles, Philadelphia and among other places. Her works have be...

Sep 07, 20231 hr 24 min

Janina Myronova

Janina Myronova is a Ukranian ceramic sculptor who creates narrative through figurative forms and composed backdrops. Utilizing a specific and distorted representation of the body, each composition shows a different personality and personal story to collectively reference a graphic novel and arcing story. Imparting her own emotion through linework, Janina’s works are strategically charged with color to saturate and amplify their individual stories. Janina received her MFA at the Lviv National Ac...

Aug 31, 202356 min

Tahnee Lonsdale

Tahnee Lonsdale is an artist rendering emotional divinity through the use of layered oil paints and ethereal, intuitive compositions. Born in 1982 and raised in Sussex, UK, Tahnee attended the University of the Arts in London where she primarily studied painting, graduating with a BFA in 2007. After moving to LA in 2015, her practice evolved to embrace large-scale painting, soft sculpture, and works on paper. This September, Tahnee is debuting a solo booth of new work with Cob Gallery at the Arm...

Aug 24, 20231 hr 11 min

Jodi Hays

Jodi Hays is a painter who has had recent solo shows at Night Gallery (Los Angeles) and two-person shows at Susan Inglett Gallery (New York City) and Devening Projects (Chicago). Brooks Museum, Fisk University, and Devening Projects, among others. She was a 2019 Finalist for the Hopper Prize and the recipient of grants from the Rauschenberg Foundation, Foundation for Contemporary Art, Sustainable Arts Foundation and the Elizabeth Firestone Graham Foundation. Residencies include Oxbow School of A...

Aug 17, 20231 hr 13 min

Robin F. Williams

This week we are releasing a classic episode. This is one of the first podcasts we released from 2016. Robin is an amazing artist who shares her process and insights.

Aug 10, 20231 hr 25 min

Karen Seapker

Karen Seapker lives and works in Nashville, TN. She has an MFA in Painting from Hunter College in New York City and a BA in Studio Art and Art History from Muhlenberg College in Allentown, Pennsylvania. She has exhibited her work nationally and internationally— in New York, Miami, Pittsburgh, London, and Shanghai. She is a member of the curatorial collective, COOP in Nashville, TN and has curated and co-curated several exhibitions— in Nashville, Pittsburgh, and Brooklyn. She is represented by Ze...

Aug 03, 20231 hr 28 min

Sebastian Blanck

Sebastian has a solo opening tonight at Miles McEnery Gallery called "She's My Best Friend." On the occasion, we are rereleasing this classic episode from our first couple months of the podcast. Go check out his show up through August.

Jul 27, 20231 hr 23 min

Ella Hohnen-Ford

Ella Hohnen-Ford is a singer and songwriter from North London, England. She studied Jazz Voice at the Royal Academy of music. Ella garnered much attention from her live streams during lockdown and has recently released her debut EP “Infinity” on Young Poet. Links: https://hohnenford.com https://www.instagram.com/hohnenford/ https://open.spotify.com/user/bettinahohnen?si=6b145a07ab324afa https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCwUyq19J8IxlS-RcYo1E9pQ

Jul 20, 20231 hr 12 min

Jim Isermann

Jim Isermann (b. 1955, Kenosha, WI) received his Master of Fine Arts from the California Institute of the Arts and his Bachelor of Fine Arts from the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee. Jim’s work has been the subject of solo exhibitions at Camden Arts Center, London, United Kingdom; Hammer Museum, Los Angeles, CA; Institute of Contemporary Art, Philadelphia, PA; Le Magasin - Centre National d’Art Contemporain, Grenoble, France; Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago, Chicago, IL; Palm Springs Art Mu...

Jul 13, 20231 hr 35 min

Natalie Frank

Natalie Frank was born in Austin, TX and received her Master of Fine Arts in 2006 from Columbia University, New York, NY and her Bachelor of Arts in 2002 from Yale University, New Haven, CT. In 2004, Frank was awarded a Fulbright Scholarship to the National Academy of Fine Art, Oslo, Norway. Natalie has been the subject of recent solo exhibitions at Miles McEnery Gallery, New York, NY; the Kemper Museum of Contemporary Art, Kansas City, MO; Brattleboro Museum & Art Center, Brattleboro, VT; M...

Jul 06, 20231 hr 17 min

Simphiwe Mbunyuza

Simphiwe Mbunyuza was born in Butterworth, Eastern Cape, South Africa, and lives and works in Norman, OK. He has been the subject of exhibitions in the United States and internationally, including recent presentations with Dyman Gallery, Stellenbosch, South Africa; South Willard, Los Angeles, CA; and Gallery 1957, London and Accra, Ghana; and is the recipient of awards and residencies including the Red Clay Faction Award and Oscar Jacobson Award from The University of Oklahoma, Fred Jones Museum...

Jun 29, 20231 hr 19 min

Markus Linnenbrink

Markus Linnenbrink is an artist from Dortmund, Germany who studied at the Academy of Fine Arts, Berlin, Germany and the Gesamthochschule Kassel, Germany. His recent solo exhibitions include Galería Max Estrella in Madrid, the Fundación DIDAC, in Spain, the Museum of New Art in Portsmouth, NH, Miles McEnery Gallery in New York, Taubert Contemporary in Berlin, Patricia Sweetow Gallery in San Francisco, and Maurizio Caldiorola Gallery, Monza, Italy. Markus has been included in group exhibitions at ...

Jun 22, 20231 hr 15 min

Leo Park

Leo Park is a painter who works and lives in Stockholm. He holds an MFA from Konstfack University of Arts, Craft and Design. Park has his roots in both art history and pop culture, collecting motifs and stylistic influences from past to present. Since his solo debut at Gallery Steinsland Berliner in Stockholm 2021, he has participated in various international shows in Berlin, Cologne, London, New York, Los Angeles, Paris, Shanghai, Mexico City and Taipei. He has shown in art fairs such as the Ar...

Jun 15, 20231 hr 6 min

Kyle Dunn

Kyle Dunn lives and works in Brooklyn, NY and received his BFA in Interdisciplinary Sculpture from the Maryland Institute College of Art, Baltimore, MD. His work has been included in exhibitions at P·P·O·W, New York, NY; Marlborough Gallery, London, UK; GRIMM, Amsterdam, the Netherlands; and Maria Bernheim, Zurich, Switzerland; among others. He is the recipient of grants from The Elizabeth Greenshields Foundation and The Pollock-Krasner Foundation, and his work is in the collections of the Fonda...

Jun 08, 20231 hr 16 min

Emily Weiner

Emily Weiner is a painter living and working in Nashville, TN. She received her BA from Barnard College, Columbia University (2003) and her MFA in Fine Arts at the School of Visual Arts in New York City (2011). She is represented by Red Arrow Gallery in Nashville, TN and has exhibited work at Whitespace Gallery (Atlanta, GA); Kunsthall Grenland (Porsgrunn, Norway); Wespace (Shanghai, China); David Lusk Gallery (Nashville, TN); Gerdarsafn Museum (Kopavogur, Iceland); LeRoy Neiman Gallery, Columbi...

Jun 01, 20231 hr 30 min

Carol Montealegre

Visual artist, filmmaker social researcher. Carol Montealegre studied Anthropology at the Universidad de los Andes with an emphasis on Art. In her degree practice she inserted tools from Augusto Boal’s “Theater of the Oppressed” in two rural schools of the Colombian Caribbean where she worked with children ranging in age from 6 to 15 years old for a period of year. She received a Master's degree in Visual Arts from the National Autonomous University of Mexico, UNAM. While there, she wrote her th...

May 25, 20231 hr 26 min

Alexandra Grant

Alexandra Grant is a Los Angeles-based artist who through an exploration of the use of text and language in various media—painting, drawing, sculpture, film, and photography—probes ideas of translation, identity, dis/location, and social responsibility. Grant frequently collaborates with other artists, writers, and philosophers, often going so far as to have specific texts written as the impetus to her intricate paintings and sculptures. She has collaborated with author Michael Joyce, actor Kean...

May 18, 20231 hr 34 min

Gwen O'Neil

Gwen O’Neil was born in New York, NY and lives and works in Los Angeles. She received her BFA from Savannah College of Art and Design. Her solo exhibition, Wild Mountain Thyme opens May 13th at Anat Egbi follows recent presentations of her work by the gallery in group contexts including KIAF (Korea International Art Fair), Seoul, Korea; The Armory Show, New York NY; Felix Art Fair, Los Angeles, CA; and If you forget my name, You will go astray—at the gallery’s new Fountain Avenue location. Gwen’...

May 11, 20231 hr 20 min

Tracey Rose

Tracey Rose, born in South Africa, is best-known for her revolutionary performative practice which often translates to and is accompanied by photography, video, installation, and digital prints. Often described as absurd, anarchic, slapdash and carnivalesque, Rose’s work explores themes around post-coloniality, gender and sexuality, race and repatriation. Tracey was born in Durban, South Africa. In 1990 she joined the Johannesburg Art Foundation before obtaining a B.A. in Fine Art from the Unive...

May 04, 20231 hr 24 min

Sky Glabush

Sky Glabush is a painter born in Alert Bay, British Columbia in 1970 and received his BFA from the University of Saskatchewan, Saskatoon, Saskatchewan, and his MA from the University of Alberta, Edmonton, Alberta. He’s had solo exhibitions at Philip Martin Gallery, Los Angeles, California; Clint Roenisch, Toronto, Ontario; Projet Pangée, Montreal, Québec and Prosjektrom Normanns, Stavanger, Norway. In 2020 his work was exhibited at National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa, Ontario. He is an Associate ...

Apr 27, 20231 hr 35 min

Lynne Flemons

Lynne Flemons is an Australian artist currently based in Canberra. She has a BA (Visual) from the Australian National University (ANU), a Postgrad Bachelor of Teaching, Western Sydney University, and a Master of Philosophy (Visual Art) ANU. She has exhibited her work widely through her involvement in residencies, solo and group exhibitions at both regional and commercial galleries in Australia and abroard. Her work is held in public and private collections in Australia and internationally includ...

Apr 20, 202349 min

Hayley Barker

Hayley Barker (b. 1973, Oregon) has had solo exhibitions at Night Gallery, and BozoMag Los Angeles; SHRINE, New York; and Charles A. Hartman Fine Art, Portland. She has participated in group shows at Night Gallery, Los Angeles; Harper’s, East Hampton; Acquavella, New York; Nicodim, Los Angeles; and SHRINE, New York, among others. Barker has been featured in several publications, including W, Artforum, Forbes, Hyperallergic, BOMB Magazine, LA Weekly, and the Los Angeles Times. Her work belongs in...

Apr 13, 20231 hr 5 min

Dan Lam

Dan Lam is a Dallas, Texas based sculptor who received her BFA from the University of North Texas and later completed a Masters of Fine Arts degree at Arizona State University. She’s had solo and two person exhibits ar Hashimoto Contemporary. Anya Tish, the ICA Boston, The Hole Gallery, Black Book in Denver amongst others. Her work has been covered in Juxtapoz, Beautiful Bizarre, Colossal, Texas Monthly, the Dallas Observer, Booooooom, Hi-Fructose and many more.

Apr 06, 20231 hr 11 min
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