Artist Decoded by Yoshino

www.patreon.com/artistdecoded Densil McFarlane is the lead singer and guitarist of the Canadian rock trio, The OBGMs.  Topics Discussed In This Episode: The origin of The OBGM's Complications and stresses of the business of music Densil's honest self-reflection on why he creates music Not caring too deeply about what others think of you The new clarity and purpose found within Densil's latest albu...

www.patreon.com/artistdecoded About Adam Hall: As a visual artist, Adam Hall began working mostly with charcoals and oils. Self-taught, he attempts to mix traditional style with contemporary. Using palette knives and layering techniques he creates a true richness and depth to his work. Adam believes every painting is his next opportunity in truly expressing his vision and vibe through landscape. "...

www.patreon.com/artistdecoded Jeffrey Martin Zacks, American psychology educator, member of the American Psychological Association, American Psychological Society, and the Cognitive Science Society.  His book, Flicker: Your Brain on Movies, delves into the history of cinema and the latest research to explain what happens in your brain when you sit down in the theatre and the lights go out. Topics...

www.patreon.com/artistdecoded Self-taught, David Uzochukwu (b. 1998, Austria) creates (self-)portraits that speak of both placelessness and belonging. His work sees bodies shifting through nature, performance, and digital reconfiguration. Uzochukwu's photographs have been exhibited at Bozar, Photo Vogue Festival, and Unseen Amsterdam. He has collaborated with artists FKA twigs, Pharrell, and Iris...

https://www.patreon.com/artistdecoded Gerard Bush and Christopher Renz are both directors and writers, known for Antebellum (2020), Rapture , and 17 Seventeen (2017). Topics Discussed In This Episode: Required solitude Shifting perspective within a paradigm Truth Bush and Renz's collaboration and how that has evolved Acceptance of failures and misfortunes The process of working together within rel...

https://www.patreon.com/artistdecoded About Justin: Justin Mortimer (b.1970) is a British artist whose paintings consistently invite us to question the relationship between subject matter and content, beauty and horror, and between figuration and abstraction. While the imagery is almost exclusively pitiless, the texturing of the paint, the play between light and shade, and the passages that lead f...

https://www.patreon.com/artistdecoded About Mike: Mike Lee is a world-ranked professional boxer who has fought in some of the world's most iconic arenas like Madison Square Garden, Cowboys Stadium & The MGM Grand in front of millions of fans. In 2014 Mike was diagnosed with an autoimmune disease, ankylosing spondylitis, that almost ended his career. In and out of hospitals for over two years he be...

https://www.patreon.com/artistdecoded About Edon: Edon Guraziu specializes in Concept Design & Consultation. These various industries range from Entertainment, Industrial, Defense, Medical, Consumer Products, and more. Many years of collaboration have resulted in meaningful relationships with the following companies, some of which include: 20th Century Fox, Universal Pictures, Microsoft, Netflix,...

https://www.patreon.com/artistdecoded About Jesse: Jesse Draxler was born in rural Wisconsin, studied in Minneapolis, MN, and currently lives and works in Los Angeles, CA. A formal mixed media & inter-disciplinary artist, Draxler has exhibited extensively both domestically and internationally.  Draxler had solo exhibitions in New York at the Booth Gallery in 2017 and 2016, and has been in exhibiti...

https://www.patreon.com/artistdecoded About Yasmine: Yasmine Nasser Diaz is a multidisciplinary artist whose practice navigates overlapping tensions around religion, gender, and third-culture identity. Her recent work includes immersive installation, fiber etching, and mixed media collage using personal archives and found imagery. Diaz has exhibited and performed at spaces including the Brava Thea...

https://www.patreon.com/artistdecoded About Pádraig: Pádraig Ó Tuama is a poet and theologian from Ireland whose poetry and prose have been published widely across Ireland, the US, and the UK. He presents Poetry Unbound with On Being , a hugely successful podcast where he explores a single poem. Short and unhurried; contemplative and energizing, this podcast had more than a million downloads of it...

https://www.patreon.com/artistdecoded About Colin: Colin Frangicetto is a multidisciplinary visual artist, musician (Circa Survive & Psychic Babble), and podcaster (The Cosmic Nod). He lives and works in Portland, OR. Topics Discussed In This Episode: The genesis of Circa Survive Colin's experiences with psychedelic drugs at an early age, and how it affected his view of life in both the present an...

https://www.patreon.com/artistdecoded About Carlos: Carlos Torres has been tattooing for over 20 years and is mostly self-taught. Early in his career, Carlos worked at a couple of tattoo shops before he got his big break at So. Cal Tattoo in San Pedro, CA. It was there he learned the most and built his tattoo portfolio. Carlos specializes in black & grey realism and surrealism tattoos and loves cr...

https://www.patreon.com/artistdecoded About Sophia: Sophia Rokhlin is an author, speaker, and nonprofit organizer dedicated to supporting the conservation of indigenous wisdom and territory. Through engaged botany and ecology, she bridges the worlds of traditional ecological knowledge and Western science. She is a Program Coordinator at the Chaikuni Institute, supporting sustainable ayahuasca cult...

https://www.patreon.com/artistdecoded About William: William von Hippel, Ph. D., grew up in Alaska, got his B.A. at Yale and his PhD at the University of Michigan, and then taught for a dozen years at Ohio State University before finding his way to Australia, where he is a professor of psychology at the University of Queensland. He has published more than a hundred articles, chapters, and edited b...

https://www.patreon.com/artistdecoded About CJ: Cj Hendry (b. 1988) is a New York based artist originally from Brisbane, Australia. Globally renowned for her large-scale, photo-realistic drawings of consumer goods and immense, interactive exhibitions, she has developed a dedicated following through her unique brand of technical mastery and conceptual depth.  A self-professed "lover of products", H...

https://www.patreon.com/artistdecoded About Anna: Anna Park is a contemporary artist based in New York City, creating pieces that blur the lines between figurative and abstract work.  Creating a dazed, yet emotional experience, Anna's central content revolves around larger bodies of people within social settings while provoking a vaporous and ethereal sensation. Her most recent work takes on a new...

https://www.patreon.com/artistdecoded About Ryan: Ryan York is a Doctor of Philosophy, postdoctoral scholar within the department of neurobiology at Stanford University, and an author of over a dozen publications.  His research is focused on the evolutionary genomic basis of brain and behavior with a specific interest in the courtship behaviors of Lake Malawi cichlid fish. Having a passion for mus...

https://www.patreon.com/artistdecoded About Daniele: Bolelli reads a passage about fear from his book, "Not Afraid: On Fear, Heartbreak, Raising a Baby Girl, and Cage Fighting" Daniele Bolelli (born January 11, 1974) is an Italian-American writer, university professor, martial artist, and podcaster based in Southern California. He is the author of several books on philosophy, and martial arts, inc...

https://www.patreon.com/artistdecoded About Jerome: Acclaimed and revered painter, Jerome Lagarrigue, was born in France to a father who was an illustrator and a mother who was a writer and journalist. Being rooted within a world of creativity and culture, Jerome's life - from youth to adulthood, can be described as a type of compelling metamorphosis, including experiences both from a creative and...

https://www.patreon.com/artistdecoded About CJ: CJ Johnson is an acclaimed Speaker and Digital Marketing Consultant, servicing Fortune 50 clients worldwide and a prominent digital influencer with hundreds of thousands of online supporters. CJ is best known for creating successful influencer marketing campaigns as both an influencer and a Consultant, helping content creators and companies maximize...

https://www.patreon.com/artistdecoded About Steven: Steven Assael (born in 1957), is an award-winning American painter, credited most for his masterful artistry within his figure work and modern re-envisioning of the neo-classical, naturalist, and romantic techniques of old.  Being captivated with what the human form and image represent, ever-changing and seemingly random elements and deeply roote...

https://www.patreon.com/artistdecoded About Damian: Damian Joseph Kulash Jr. (born October 7, 1975) is an American musician, singer, songwriter, and music video director who is best known for being the lead singer and guitarist of the American rock band OK Go. Damien was born in Washington DC and spent a large amount of time studying at the Interlochen Arts Camp. He was active in bands at his time...

https://www.patreon.com/artistdecoded About Blake: Blake Mills is an American singer, songwriter, guitarist, composer, producer, and owner of "Record Collection" and a Grammy Award-winning artist based in California.  Mills has performed on over two hundred recordings, released four solo records, and worked with artists such as Lana Del Rey, Fiona Apple, and Bob Dylan. Playing as both a session gu...

https://www.patreon.com/artistdecoded About Christine: Christine Yuan is an Emmy-award winning director whose television documentaries have won Best Culture & History Documentary at the 2018 LA Area Emmy, Best Documentary at the 2018 Golden Mic Awards, and Best Feature Documentary at the 2017 National Arts & Entertainment Journalism Awards. Her narrative work has screened at the Cannes Film Festiv...