ARTMATTERS: The Podcast for Artists

Welcome back to ARTMATTERS: The Podcast for Artists . This week, we’re joined by Julie Harrison, a New York-based artist whose decades-long career has spanned drawing, photography, video, painting, and performance. In this episode we discuss Julie’s transition from grayscale to color and back again, her interest in scientific imagery, archiving and selecting reference materials, drawing techniques...

Welcome back to ARTMATTERS: The Podcast for Artists. On this week’s episode we are once again joined by the iconic painter Eric Fischl. Eric Fischl is an internationally acclaimed American artist known for his profound influence on figurative art. Born in 1948 in New York City, Fischl’s work captures the uneasy undercurrents of American life. His journey through art education took him from Phoenix...

Welcome back to ARTMATTERS: The Podcast for Artists. Happy New Year! I’m thrilled to kick off 2025 with a milestone celebration of our 50th episode. I am also extremely excited to say this special episode features a great conversation with the iconic artist Eric Fischl. Eric Fischl is an internationally acclaimed American artist known for his profound influence on figurative art. Born in 1948 in N...

🎉 Special Bonus Episode! 🎉 Welcome to episode 49.5 of ARTMATTERS: The Podcast for Artists —a special teaser leading up to our milestone 50th episode! We’ve got an incredible guest lined up for Episode 50, someone whose impact on contemporary art is legendary. I can’t wait for you to hear our conversation. Stick around until the end for a sneak peek—you might recognize the voice! Episode Highligh...

Welcome back to ARTMATTERS: The Podcast for Artists: Today we conclude our 3-part conversation with the artist Jeff Way. Jeff has lived and worked in New York’s Tribeca neighborhood since 1969. Featured in the 1973 Whitney Biennial and a subsequent solo exhibition, Way’s work has been shown at institutions like the New Museum, the Contemporary Arts Museum in Houston, and the ICA Philadelphia. His...

Today on the podcast we continue our conversation with Jeff Way, an artist who has lived and worked in New York’s Tribeca neighborhood since 1969. Featured in the 1973 Whitney Biennial and a subsequent solo exhibition there, Way’s work has been shown at institutions like the New Museum, the Contemporary Arts Museum in Houston, and the ICA Philadelphia. His innovative Chalk Line Paintings, begun in...

Happy Thanksgiving and welcome back to another episode of ARTMATTERS! Today on the podcast we start our conversation with Jeff Way, an artist who has lived and worked in New York’s Tribeca neighborhood since 1969. Featured in the 1973 Whitney Biennial and a subsequent solo exhibition there, Way’s work has been shown at institutions like the New Museum, the Contemporary Arts Museum in Houston, and...

Welcome back to ARTMATTERS: The Podcast for Artists.  On today’s episode we talk with artist Mark Joshua Epstein, whose work has been widely exhibited in the U.S. and internationally. A graduate of the Slade School of Fine Arts, Epstein has held residencies at prestigious institutions like the British School at Rome. His work has appeared in publications such as the New York Times and Hyperallergi...

Welcome back to ARTMATTERS: The Podcast for Artists.  On today’s episode I speak with artist Mark Joshua Epstein, whose work has been widely exhibited in the U.S. and internationally. A graduate of the Slade School of Fine Arts, Epstein has held residencies at prestigious institutions like the British School at Rome. His work has appeared in publications such as the New York Times and Hyperallergi...

Welcome back to ARTMATTERS: The Podcast for Artists.  My guest back again today is Helen Frederick, an artist whose career has spanned decades of innovation in printmaking, paper-making, and interdisciplinary collaboration. Helen earned both her BFA and MFA from the Rhode Island School of Design, and went on to found Pyramid Atlantic, a hub for contemporary printmaking, hand paper-making, and book...

Welcome back to ARTMATTERS: The Podcast for Artists.  My guest today is Helen Frederick, an artist whose career has spanned decades of innovation in printmaking, paper-making, and interdisciplinary collaboration. Helen earned both her BFA and MFA from the Rhode Island School of Design, and went on to found Pyramid Atlantic, a hub for contemporary printmaking, hand paper-making, and book arts.  Her...

Welcome back to ARTMATTERS: The Podcast for Artists.  On today’s episode we speak with visual artist, Gerardo Camargo. I joined Gerardo in his studio where we discussed his drawings and assemblages, and the choreography of home-construction. We also speak about limitation, scarcity, uncertainty and the ways Gerardo’s studio practice and perspectives shifted after he emigrated to the United States....

Welcome back to ARTMATTERS: The Podcast for Artists.  On today’s episode we continue our wonderful conversation with the artist Cianne Fragione.  Today, we discuss the use of non-traditional materials, hear stories from her early career and education, some early opportunities and career reflections from her time in the Bay area. We talk about recipes, patinas and dance, finding good alternatives t...

Welcome back to ARTMATTERS: The Podcast for Artists.  On today’s episode I get a whirlwind tour of the techniques, recipes and studio practices, of the spectacular Cianne Fragione.  This conversation will be a two-parter, and will be concluded next episode. Today, in part one, we discuss making your own paints, why lead white is such a fantastic color, chaos vs organization, Cianne’s warm-up books...

Welcome back to ARTMATTERS: The Podcast for Artists.  Today I speak with the Washington DC-based artist Tom Bunnell. Tom received his BA and BFA in Art and Art History from the University of Oregon in 1995 and his MFA in Painting from American University in 1998. Tom has exhibited nationally and internationally and he currently teaches art at St Stephen’s & St Agnes School and American Univers...

Welcome back to ARTMATTERS: The Podcast for Artists.  My guest today is Ebtisam Abdulaziz. Ebtisam is a multidisciplinary artist and writer. She explores issues of identity and culture through installation, performance, mixed-media, painting and works on paper. She has exhibited extensively and internationally including the 53rd Venice Biennale as part of the United Arab Emirates and Abu Dhabi Pav...

Welcome back to ARTMATTERS: The Podcast for Artists.  Today begins my Washington DC Artists Edition, a six-part series I could not be more excited to release.  Starting today with my guest, the wonderful Cheryl D. Edwards . Edwards is an African American artist who was born in 1954. She began studying art in 1987 in New York City in a class at the Art Student League taught by Ernest Crichlow.  Edw...

Welcome back to ARTMATTERS: The Podcast for Artists.  On today’s episode I speak with Joe Hollier. Joe is a multi-disciplinary artist from Brooklyn. He is also the co-founder of The Light Phone. Joe and I met back in the day, participating in group shows around Brooklyn. Back then i knew him as a collage artist, who was also hard at work on a mysterious plastic gadget. That gadget turned out to be...

Welcome back to ARTMATTERS: The Podcast for Artists! Today on ARTMATTERS, Brooklyn-based artist Dik Liu and I finish up last week’s conversation. On today’s episode Dik talks about living in New York since the 80s, teaching, being a loner, his museum habits, painting when he doesn’t know the outcome, spending decades painting light and Leonard Bernstein. He also gave me some personal advice on my...

Welcome back to ARTMATTERS: The Podcast for Artists.  On today’s episode I speak with the artist Dik Liu. I studied with Dik back in the day and was thrilled when he accepted my invitation to join me for this episode.  Dik F. Liu  received his MFA from Yale University. He is widely represented in exhibitions throughout the U.S. As a teacher,   Liu has taught at Cooper Union, Hofstra University, an...

Welcome back to ARTMATTERS: The Podcast for Artists On today’s episode I speak with NYC-based artist, Langdon Graves! Together we sit down in her Bushwick studio and speak about building objects, combining mediums, Trompe-l'oil, different kinds of drawing, efficiency, the lead-up to an exhibition, different kinds of flow-states, preciousness, physical fatigue after long studio sessions, teach...

Welcome back to ARTMATTERS: The Podcast for Artists! I’m recording this intro from Washington DC where I’m rounding up a couple last interviews of the tour. It’s been a great trip so far and I’m very excited to share these conversations with you later this summer. On today’s episode i speak to LA-based artist Georgina Clapham. I met Georgina on the PLOP artist residency in London back in 2018 and...

Welcome back to ARTMATTERS: The Podcast for Artists! My guest today is Catherine Howe. Catherine is a New York-based artist who has exhibited throughout the United States and Europe for over thirty years, including exhibitions at the Corcoran Gallery of Art in Washington, DC, MoMA PS 1 in New York, and the Albright-Knox Art Gallery in Buffalo.  Her work has been reviewed by Art in America, Artforu...

Welcome back to ARTMATTERS: The Podcast for Artists! Back today is my guest Anne Harris. She is a painter, a curator, a writer, and professor at the Art Institute of Chicago. In today's conversation Anne speaks about Paul’s pisco sour, the artist spouse, therapy, loneliness, momentum, the Zone, music in the art studio and why painting is a vocation, not a career. Lot’s more too. Check it out!...

Welcome back to ARTMATTERS: The Podcast for Artists.  My guest today is Anne Harris. She is a painter, a curator, a writer, and professor at the Art Institute of Chicago. She has exhibited at venues ranging from Alexandre Gallery and DC Moore Gallery in New York to the National Portrait Gallery at the Smithsonian Institute and many more besides.  She is also the originator of The Mind’s I, a drawi...