ARTMATTERS: The Podcast for Artists

Welcome back to ARTMATTERS: The Podcast for Artists. Today i speak with the LA-based artist Jen Hitchings. Jen’s work investigates the tenuous relationship between humankind and nature and in recent years she has embarked on a deeply self-reflective investigation of the psyche, relationships, erotic desire, and cosmic forces. Her influences range from the rural Japanese landscape, the Hudson River...

Welcome back to ARTMATTERS: The Podcast for Artists Today's  guest, Marina Ross is a Russian Jewish artist, and her paintings draw upon her experience of acculturation, The American Dream, and the trauma inherent within it as well as traditional feminine beauty, as a form of social capital, assimilation, and protection. These notions of power and control of the feminine body and the performan...

Welcome back to ARTMATTERS: The Podcast for Artists.  Today’s guest is Thai Mainhard. Thai is an abstract painter that live and works in Los Angeles. Originally from Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, Thai draws inspiration from human experiences and tension found in daily life and her own memories of it.  In this week’s episode I sit down with Thai to discuss how she starts a painting, the magic of good tea...

Welcome back to ARTMATTERS: The Podcast for Artists.  Today is the final installment of my conversation with the artist TL Solien. In this last section, TL talks about building his dream studio, selling his dream studio, the best years of his career, dwindling interest, staying afloat, vulnerability, taking things personally, contemplating failure, building paintings in moments of fracture, learni...

Welcome back to ARTMATTERS: The Podcast for Artists.  And we're back with Part 2 of my three-part conversation with Wisconsin-based artist, TL Solien. Today we conclude the exploration of his early (or phase 1) art practice, including a fun description of the origins of his pictographic works. We talk about his early career experiences in visiting and exhibiting in New York City and living fo...

Welcome back to ARTMATTERS: The podcast for artists.  I’m particularly excited about today’s episode with the artist TL Solien. Prepare yourself for an epic conversation, recorded over two separate studio visits, and subsequently over four hours of material. In light of this, I’ve edited this conversation down into three episodes, which will come out weekly until complete, unlike the usual bi-week...

Welcome back to ARTMATTERS: The Podcast for Artists Happy New Years! On today’s episode i sit down with two terrific detroit-based artists. James Oscar Lee is a painter and textile artist, and Marcus Marcus, a multi-hyphenate, who develops music, performance art, and practical design. These two have been friends for years, and are frequent collaborators, one of the many reasons i asked them both t...

Welcome back to ARTMATTERS: The Podcast for Artists On today’s episode we have the dramatic conclusion of my conversation with the artist James English Leary. Last time, James and I spoke at length about the state of art education. Today we discuss his new watercolors, collecting art, different kinds of change, deskilling, space and depiction, 19th century French painting and how unconditional sup...

Welcome back to ARTMATTERS: The Podcast for Artists On today’s episode, I speak with the artist Jennifer Coates. In her recent paintings, ancient deities appear like ghosts in the abstracted landscape of rural Pennsylvania. Figures merge with their surroundings as weeds and trees become a site of both Pagan ritual and painterly event. The works hang together like tapestries with a variety of marks...

Welcome back to ARTMATTERS: The Podcast for Artists Today on the podcast, James English Leary and i discuss in depth our perspectives on the current state of art education, how that system has evolved over time, and what changes we hope to see from it in the future. James also shares his experience co-founding the Bruce High Quality Foundation. This is the first part of a two-part conversation wit...

Welcome back to ARTMATTERS: The Podcast for Artists Today on the podcast I speak with Jaqueline Cedar. Brooklyn-based artist, and founder of the Good Naked Gallery. On this episode we discuss permanence and impermanence, romance and practicality, drawing out ideas versus immediacy, productivity, the 'more is more' practice and editing after the fact, the function of inspiration, 'no...

Welcome back to ARTMATTERS: The Podcast for Artists My guest today is Brooklyn-based artist Mark Zubrovich.  Mark and I talk about his recent stint on the Liquitex Artist Residency,  the first book he self-published "Stuff Bruce Likes to Sniff" as well as his drawing practice, love of surface, Marks thoughts about democratizing art, anxiety, effort, confidence, limitations, making proble...

Welcome back to ARTMATTERS: The Podcast for Artists Today's guest is Brooklyn artist, Nat Meade. Together we discuss Nat's practice and technique in depth. His painting surface, medium,  composition and scale; his small studies, drawings and casein sketches. Later in the episode, Nat and I talk about before and after he came a full-time artist, his early career and what it means to find...

Welcome back to ARTMATTERS: The Podcast for Artists Today's conversation is with LA-based artist, Liv Aanrud. Liv is a texile artist . . . a  painter . . . someone who makes paintings out of textiles? Doesn't matter. They're great. And so was this converation.  I asked Liv about the speed of her practice, her single figure compositions, beauty, where her paintings start, their color...

Welcome back to ARTMATTERS: The Podcast for Artists   Today's conversation is with LA-based artist, and friend of the show, Katya Zvereva. We chat about her recent solo show “Yggdrasil” with Art Room LA,  post-solo blues, salesmanship, fashion collaboration, handmade clothing, collaborating with visual artists, developing new practices and good control vs. bad control vs. pure chaos. We also...

Welcome back to ARTMATTERS: The Podcast for Artists Today's conversation is with LA-based artist, Katie Hector. We talk residencies, her badass move to LA during Covid, her decision to leave graduate school, the artist as maker, balance, discipline, working in multiples, note-keeping, photographic reference, scale, "gesture intimacy and mystery", materials and abstraction, cold-call...

Welcome back to ARTMATTERS: The Podcast for Artists On today's episode I speak with LA-based and Pierogi-represented artist, Andrew Ohanesian. We discuss hating a good idea, the beautiful bad idea, desperation, panic and 'that magic moment,' life reflecting the studio practice, communicating with an audience, experiencing art, memory, parring down narratives, the making of Mandies,...

Welcome back to ARTMATTERS: The Podcast for Artists On this episode I sit down with LA  artist and Hunter Alum, Christian Rogers. We talk about his combined process of drawing, photography and painting, his cozy home studio, distractions vs flow-state, breaking rules, and rules that don't help, forcing a painting, painting variations (aka bad printmaking) overcoming challenges, joyful paintin...

Welcome to the  triumphant return of ARTMATTERS: The Podcast for Artists! Kicking off season 2, we have the first episode of ARTMATTERS: L.A. Edition, featuring Los Angelos-based artist Hannah Knight Leighton. Hannah and I sat down in her beautiful studio and discussed the following . .  . . . . Drawing with Procreate, joy & labor in the studio, children's books, abstraction/representatio...

Welcome back to ARTMATTERS: the podcast for artists! The long awaited episode 9 has finally arrived! This time I'm joined by london-based, multi-displinary artist Rosie McGinn. We discuss her early career experience, the origins of her current studio practice, her recent collab with Balenciaga, artist residencies, Sassy the Sasquatch and studio meditating. And a couple of other things i'...

Welcome back to ARTMATTERS the podcast for artists! Today I’m joined by New York-based artist Tom Prinsell. Tom and I discuss his early career, commissioned art, mood boards, Blender and why he decided not to go to graduate school. And lots more. This week in Studio Notes, Tom shares his renewed focus on his color palette and i talk about my deep-dive into paint markers. This one was a real hoot....

Joining me this week on ARTMATTERS is New Zealand-based artist, Michael Greaves. I met Michael early on in my career, really when i was just starting out. Michael has been exhibiting professionally since 2001, which is just one of the many reasons i was so excited to talk with him today. To hear him discuss the ups and downs of his career, the changing art world, becoming a father, and the shiftin...

Today on ARTMATTERS, I sit down with Brooklyn-based artist Andrea Emmerich.. Andrea and I discuss her approach to composition and image-making, "The Shift" (drastic changes in subject matter or practice),  definitions of success, and feelings of jealousy in artists. This was a great conversation and  it served to remind me just how many 'unique' challenges in an artist's l...

Ever want to know what it's like to be in a  relationship with an artist? How about two artists in a relationship together? Artist Aaron Zulpo and i discuss, and explore these and other topics such as the value of gallery representation, the contemporary influences of 20th illustration, and dramatic shifts in an artist's work. This episode is packed with thoughtful insights and cool idea...

Mike Picos is a Queens-based artist who’s coming off a two-person show at NYC artist-run gallery, The Catskills. Mike got his BFA at Cornell University and currently has one foot out the door — as he’ll be attending Yale University for his MFA this fall. Congrats Mike! Together Mike and I discuss his decision to apply to graduate school, leaving New York, his definition of success, his ongoing pro...