Artist Decoded by Yoshino

  https://www.patreon.com/artistdecoded About Aja: Aja Daashuur is a Los Angeles based Certified Intuitive & Transformational Life Coach (LPI), Spirit Guide Medium, Clairvoyant, Akashic Records Reader, Sound Bath Practitioner, Altar Consultant and founder of Spirit House Collective, an all women-identifying community group. Topics Discussed In This Episode: Growing up encountering spirits Depressi...

https://www.patreon.com/artistdecoded Alexandre Souêtre , originally from Paris, is a LA-based creative director & visual artist. Jesse Draxler is a multidisciplinary artist. Topics Discussed In This Episode: Souêtre Growing up in Paris Souêtre's beginnings in film which lead him to creative direction, design, and photography Souêtre moving to America for college How Draxler and Souêtre met and be...

https://www.patreon.com/artistdecoded About VOWWS: VOWWS is an Australian Death-Pop duo based out of Los Angeles. Topics Discussed In This Episode: Creating and attaining goals Financial burdens of going to college Education in Australia Pitfalls of the American educational system Old school video games The story of how they met in college Celebrating death and western culture's view on death Deat...

In this podcast, we interview actor Martin Starr from the hit tv HBO comedy Silicon Valley. We take a deep dive into topics such as: being recognized at hipster parties, seasonal depression, being a child of an actress, the future of pornography, bitcoin and human connection. This episode was produced and co-hosted by Saman Kesh. www.artistdecoded.com

https://www.patreon.com/artistdecoded About Ania: Ania Catherine is an artist and choreographer based in Los Angeles. Her work merges movement, film, and performance art and has been shown internationally at the British Film Institute, Art Basel Hong Kong, Peacock Theatre (London), LA Center for Digital Art, Agora Collective (Berlin), Forum des images (Paris), Dansmuseet (Stockholm), International...

https://www.patreon.com/artistdecoded About Mary: "How do we understand, connect with and react to traces of the metaphysical? My work is about becoming, a process that encompasses both doing and undoing; energy goes into my materials and then there is a natural or simulated process of destruction. Transformation is central to my practice: a metamorphosis that reveals the ruin and beauty of both t...

https://www.patreon.com/artistdecoded About Elly: Originally from Ottawa, Elly Smallwood graduated from OCAD University in 2011 and now works as an artist in Toronto. Her paintings are intensely personal, a visual exploration of her mind and body, and those of the people around her. Topics Discussed In This Episode: Her workflow The business of art Getting paid as an artist "The Killing of a Sacre...

https://www.patreon.com/artistdecoded About Nicole: Nicole Miglis is the singer / songwriter of the band Hundred Waters. Topics Discussed In This Episode: The origin story of Hundred Waters OWSLA The power of introverts and listening Language The feeling behind captivating artworks Their new album "Communicating" Nicole's journey as a musician Choosing art as a career Turning your weaknesses into...

https://www.patreon.com/artistdecoded About Dado: Dado Valentic is the CTO of Acute Art, based in London and Los Angeles. Alongside Acute Art's co-founder, Jacob De Geer, Dado worked on the launch of the 'VR Museum,' an app that exhibits subscription-based, interactive, multiuser fine-art artworks. The "VR Museum" is now available on the HTC Vive from the Acute Art website  and  HTC Vive store Dad...

https://www.patreon.com/artistdecoded About Norberto: Born + raised in Miami by Cuban immigrants, Norberto Rodriguez began his career at 18 as a multi-disciplinary conceptual artist known for his continuously disruptive + innovative practice. He works in all media + genre including installation, performance, photography, sculpture, digital, music, film, text + tenderness. Currently, Rodriguez is d...

https://www.patreon.com/artistdecoded About Gavin: It's impossible not to become infatuated with soulful pop princess Gavin Turek. The LA Native is always clad in a hand-made 70s fringe dress (designed herself in every color) and armed with the best dance moves you've ever seen. It's easy to draw comparisons anywhere from Tina Turner to Beyoncé but really, Gavin is her own force to be reckoned wit...

"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...

Steve Kim is an artist and illustrator. Born in Seoul, Korea, he immigrated to the states at the age of two and currently resides in Oxford, Mississippi. He received his undergraduate degree from Art Center College of Design in 2006 and his masters from Claremont Graduate University in 2010. He has shown in Korea, Italy, London, Amsterdam, Krakow and throughout the United States and clients includ...

Colin Chillag, born in 1971, is a painter based out of Phoenix, AZ. Topics Discussed In This Episode: Personal approaches to creating artwork Meditation The challenges of commercialization Realism Painting from found photographs Colin's "girlfriend" series Black Mirror Ray Kurzweil Museum of Jurassic Technology Psychedelics The realities of being an artist www.artistdecoded.com www.nohwave.bigcart...

Casey Gleghorn grew up in Williamsport, Pennsylvania. He is the Director @ Booth Gallery and Last Rites Gallery in New York City. He has been a gallery owner/director for over 9 years, has curated international museum exhibitions, and currently works with various international established and emerging artists.  Topics Discussed In This Episode: How he became the director of Booth Gallery Jesse Dra...

Ian Daniel is a filmmaker, producer, writer, and curator. He is the Co-host and Executive Producer of the Emmy-nominated television show GAYCATION on VICELAND, where he and actress Ellen Page explore LGBTQ culture around the world. He is currently in post-production on a feature-length documentary film he directed and is developing other documentary, television, and art projects. Daniel is also th...

Dave Elitch first garnered attention with his band Daughters of Mara's debut album "I am Destroyer" in 2007, but his time touring with the American progressive rock band The Mars Volta in 2009-2010 is what really put him on the map. He has since worked with Miley Cyrus, Justin Timberlake, M83, The 1975, Juliette Lewis, Big Black Delta, as well as many others. He is a regular in the LA session scen...

With iconic photography of young iconoclasts, musicians, and bands like the Red Hot Chili Peppers, Tom Waits, Nick Cave, The Circle Jerks, Ice Cube, and Bad Religion, as well as hundreds of other early punk and hip hop bands, Edward Colver was an insider to the turbulent and burgeoning underground music scene of early-eighties Los Angeles. Since active in photography for more than forty years, he...

Winning the Archibald Prize as Guy Maestri did in 2009 would be a defining moment in most artist's careers, but he is quick to cite physical immersion in the landscape as revolutionary to his painting practice. It's easy to gloss over the history of plein-air as a European tradition, born of gentle grasses and mild sunlight. Practiced in Australia, away from the slip of green coastline, plein-air...

Virginie Picot – originally from Paris – has devoted the last 17 years of her career to talent management and visual creations, specializing in the fashion and music industries. Currently living in NYC, she is an agent and Executive Producer for Iconoclast Image and leads the print department. She represents emerging photographers such as Olivia Bee, David Uzochukwu, and Mathieu Cesar, as well as...

Brad Kunkle was raised in rural Pennsylvania and graduated from Kutztown University with a BFA in painting in 2001. Rather than continue his artistic pursuits in an academic environment, he became a house painter. That dubious, professional beginning however, taught him valuable lessons that became crucial to his later success. Having taught himself how to gild with precious metals for some of tho...

"What I want is to open up. I want to know what's inside me. I want everybody to open up. I'm like an imbecile with a can opener in his hand, wondering where to begin—to open up the earth. I know that underneath the mess everything is marvelous. I'm sure of it." - Henry Miller Digging beneath the mess of the world to find the beauty underneath is perhaps the most consistent theme in Chelsea Wolfe'...

​​​​​​​Nika Roza Danilova has been recording and performing as Zola Jesus for more than a decade. As a classically trained opera singer with a penchant for noisy, avant-garde sounds, she launched her career with a series of lo-fi releases that pitted her soaring vocals against harsh industrial clatter and jittery synths. The signature Zola Jesus sound became more hi-fi as she began to explore her...

"Jesse Draxler is an artist best known for his collage and mixed media works, though with his new exhibition "Tire Fire" we find him returning to the medium that sparked his love of image making, drawing. As a child growing up in rural Wisconsin Draxler drew incessantly. Being that his father was a mechanic he would spend hours upon hours drawing cars, trucks, and engine parts. Later in adolescenc...

"Photographer John Kilar's site will tell you, simply, that he is a nomad. Portraits and landscapes by Kilar will show you that too, with a raw presentation of untamed characters and equally wild and beautiful locations. Variety does not shake the colorful, documentary aesthetic that is true to his photos, which show a curious admiration for each subject. John Kilar's images can be found in Oyster...