Artist & Place

Episode 29! This week we are interviewing the Western-Mass based artist, Ashley Eliza Williams. Ashley is an incredible artist born in the Blue Ridge Mountains in SW Virginia, and making work about interspecies communication and non-human language. Ashley has exhibited widely including at Museum of Contemporary Art, Denver (CO), Hersbruck Museum (Germany), The National Center for Atmospheric Resea...

Episode 28 with Boston-based artist Adam O’Day.  Adam paints across genres and scales up to building sized murals all across the region! He shows his work widely and in 2014 his painting was chosen for the “portrait of a city” competition in Boston! We recorded this episode from his studio in an old shoe factory in Abington, Massachusetts, and we cover its potential haunting, his move from naval e...

This week we've got a bonus episode for you! This was a really fun conversation moderated by artist & curator of this exhibition, Adria Arch! This panel discussion was in connection with the Reshaping Abstraction exhibition on view at Concord Art in Concord, MA April/May 2024.  Artists featured in this panel are Lisa Barthelson, Donnabelle Casis, Olivia Baldwin, Steven Cabral & your h...

Episode 27 with Rhode Island-based multi-disciplinary artist, Kelsey Miller! We traverse arctic terrain, Rhode Island coasts and a printmaker's search for vastness in an expansive conversation. I sat down with Kelsey at the Kniznick Gallery on the campus of Brandeis University to talk about an exhibition that she created a large-scale wall drawing for. This group exhibition is called A Trick...

Episode 26 with Rhode Island based painter, Kirstin Lamb. We talk with Kirstin about her WOODS series in which we explore the layers of retranslation, interconnection and visual research to begin to know a place and capture the fleetingness of place. Kirstin studied painting at the Rhode Island School of Design, graduating with an MFA in 2005, and she received her AB in Visual Art and Literatures...

Episode 25 with NYC based painter, Nate Ethier. Ethier has exhibited in galleries such as David Richard Gallery in NYC, Auxier/Kline, Danese/Corey, LMAK Gallery, Minus Space, Geoffrey Found Gallery, Nancy Margolis Gallery, Morgan Lehman, and at institutes including the Susquehanna Art Museum, Boston University, and Georgia Southern University. Nate is also a recipient of a Sharpe-Walentas Studio P...

Episode 24 explores the work & trajectory of NYC-based artist, Gwyneth Leech. For almost a full decade, Gwyneth has been fascinated with painting the building and construction of massive skyscrapers in NYC. Find out what prompted this new subject matter and where it led! We talk about Gwyneth's creative path, the places imprinted upon her, choral singing, and the possibility of architectu...

Episode 23 with Western Mass-based artist, Gina Siepel! This is a live, on-site conversation at the foot of a 100 year old Red Oak tree exploring the beginnings and thinking around their current project called: To Understand a Tree. We talk about  Thoreau, myths of self reliance, creative transitions, and a deep connection and exploration to place. Gina Siepel is an interdisciplinary artist, desig...

Artist & Place takes a brief interlude while our host, Kim Carlino, is traveling internationally for an Art Festival in the UAE! She will be gathering interviews while abroad! Stay tuned for the return of Artist & Place at the end of February with a great line up of interviews! Thanks for listening & sharing these episodes! Have a great start to the year. Please Subscribe to the show,...

Episode 22 of Artist & Place with Western Mass-based, Terry Jenoure! Terry is a celebrated experimental violinist, vocalist, composer, textile artist, painter, writer, educator and the former director of the August Savage Gallery at UMass Amherst. Terry is a recent Creative Capital Grant Winner and we talk about her project Secret to Life . This interview takes place in the Easthampton, ECA Ga...

Episode 21 with Western Mass-based, Scottish Artist, Shona Macdonald! Shona Macdonald is an artist exploring themes of landscape, memory and place in her paintings and drawings. Macdonald has exhibited widely across the US, Canada, UK and Australia including exhibitions at the Roswell Art Museum, Zillman Art Museum, Proof Gallery and Reeves Contemporary to name just a few. Her work has been review...

Episode 20 of Artist & Place with Boston-based artist, Michael Zachary! Michael Zachary is workin in drawing and picture making. His work utilized the slow building up of cross hatched lines using 4 colors - CMYK. Themes explored in his work are landscape, nature,  and perception. This is a great conversation celebrating a love of the slow & tactile quality of drawing through a digital and...

Episode 19 with Boston-based artist, Adria Arch! Adria is a mixed media artist that creates immersive experiences in sculpture and paint. Adria has shown work both nationally & internationally and has work in numerous collections from the DeCordova Sculpture Park and Museum, the Federal Reserve Bank of Boston, the Library of Congress Collection of Prints, Simmons University & Google to nam...

This is Episode 18 with Sara Smith a transdisciplinary choreographer and librarian. Sara creates speculative-documentary performances and other works that explore interconnection and the poetics and politics of embodied and archival research. Their working process is rooted in physical practices of micro-attention and transformation. Their work has been seen and heard at venues throughout the US....

Welcome to Episode 17 with Western Mass- based artist, Mark Guglielmo! Mark Guglielmo is an artist working in photography, painting and collage. This is a great conversation traversing his path from hip hop to art across the landscape of his childhood in Queens and back through his trek to Italy to find the town his great-grandparents came from. We cover so many things in this conversation includi...

Welcome to Episode 18 for the launch of Season 2! We are back! This conversation is with Boston-based artist & animator, Maya Erdelyi about her many life travels and many layers of inspiration growing up in Queens, New York. Her experience growing up with the graffiti of the 80s on the subway, Pee Wee's Playhouse, Saturday morning cartoons, the immersion of color and being drawn to power...

Season 2! Artist & Place is back with a great line up of artists across a spectrum of disciplines! First episode of Season 2 comes out on September 26th, 2023.  Please Subscribe to the show, leave a review and share this episode on social media or with friends! Check out our website for more information and follow us on @artist_and_place Steam Clock. Theme music by @GraceImago Podcast graphic...

This is episode 15 with Western Mass, Fillipina-American artist, Donnabelle Casis! Donnabelle is a painter, radio show host for the ArtBeat Report on the Bill Newman Show, co-curator for the ArtSalon, arts community organizer and much more! Donnabelle received her MFA in Painting from the University of Washington in Seattle.  She has exhibited in museums and galleries across the US and abroad.  Sh...

Episode 14 with Boston-based painter & muralist, Cyrille Conan. Cyrille Conan was born in 1973 and grew up in Queens, NY to French immigrants. He is first generation American and is bilingual. He has dual-citizenship and identifies both as French and American. This duality is apparent in his artwork. The graphic nature and grit of the work derives from growing up in NYC in the 70s & 80s an...

Episode 13 with Philadelphia artist, Arden Bendler Browning!  Arden is a painter creating large scale paintings and small works on paper, virtual reality environments and public art. Arden’s work has been exhibited and collected internationally. Her works are included in several public collections including the West Collection, the Microsoft Art Collection, Toyota and the Frost Tower Collection to...

Episode 12 with Brooklyn Artist, Audrey Stone. Audrey is a painter that works with line, color and subtle color gradients. She observes the shifting color and light innate and describes it as an ecstatic experience. Audrey received her MFA from Hunter College and her BFA from Pratt Institute focusing on painting. She has exhibited widely across the United States as well as in Austria, Bulgaria, th...

Episode 11 of Artist & Place with Sabato Visconti, an Italian-Brazilian new media artist based n Western Massachusetts. He was born in São Paulo, Brazil, and raised in Miami, He went on to earn a B.A. in Political Science from Amherst College. Sabato’s work seeks to reconfigure traditional understanding of photography and digital media, by interrogating how hegemonic structures distort and inf...

Episode 10 is out! So excited to share this conversation I had last month @ Crane Arts with visual artist Tim McFarlane! Philadelphia   Artist working in painting, murals, drawing, and installations! This was a great conversation meandering through so many topics! It’s a conversation about making the work YOU want to be making and about how art is life & life is art! It’s a conversation about...

Episode 9 with Michelle Dickson! Michelle is a Baltimore-based mixed media artist working in sculpture, printmaking, drawing and painting. She has exhibited across the US including in Baltimore, Chicago, Boston, Detroit, Providence, and New York City. She was selected in 2014 by Mere Rubell for inclusion in the Baltimore Artists and WPA exhibition at Marianne Bosky Gallery in NYC. She has done sev...

Episode 8 of Artist & Place with State College, Pennsylvania-based, Ann Tarantino! Ann is an artist working in drawing, painting and site specific public art. She explores site, place and landscape through the complicated and beautiful intersection between the built environment and the natural world uncovering the hidden stories of these landscapes.  She has exhibited nationally and internatio...