Dr. Lisa Gives a Sh*t

I don't usually talk about my own work that much, but I besides hosting this spectacular radio show I also have a visual art career! I have been showing my text painting series, The Thoughts in My Head for the past few years at a terrific gallery, VSOP Projects. The gallery owner/director is one of the best—Jonathan Weiskopf. The exhibition at the gallery currently is 4 solo shows, each in individ...

Kalup Linzy Is a genuine famous artist with his work in the collections of MoMA, The Whitney, Met, Studio Museum of Harlem, a teaching gig at Harvard as well as a Kalup's’ personal dream come true: his guest appearance on General Hospital, arranged by an admirer his admirer, collaborator, and fellow actor on the show, James Franco. I had the good fortune of meeting Kalup at the recent Satellite Ar...

David Kramer and I have been friends for a long time - and he's been on the show more times than anyone - so we had a super fun time deconstructing the inspiration for David along with the levels of irony his hook rugs, currently in his solo exhibition at Freight + Volume Gallery titled Mar-A-Lago Sunsets. It's a great study of how an artist prevails under any/all circumstances. We also discuss hi...

I wandered into one of my favorite Brooklyn places, The Brick Theater and they were having a great art exhibition by some of their most hilarious, creative performers who also make art. The artists are - Fareeha Khan, Felipe Di Poi, Lorelei Ramirez, Marissa Goldman, Tawanda Gona, Tim Platt, Whitley Watson I knew Lorelei Ramirez a bit and always loved her work so I asked her and an animator, Felipe...

GOODW.Y.N’s human force is palpable, even when you’re not in the same room as her. She is a warrior in every sense of the word. Equality is her mission and you can’t ignore her. She was born in 1980 in Bedford Stuyvesant to a mother on welfare. Always a writer, she was a good kid that eventually enlisted in the army to get out of her house and move on with her life. Her depth of experience, her ac...

Steele is an extremely talented, charming and handsome musician. He is a founder as well as the drummer for The Britneys, but during lockdown he is upstate focusing on his solo project which he thankfully started pre-lockdown. Steele shares some of his fantastic new singles in the beginning and end of this show. In my position as a comfortably old enough to be his mother self-proclaimed psychother...

I knew who Anthony Haden Guest was a long time before I actually got to meet him. He has written seminal books on Studio 54, The Last Party the art world, True Colors, and has written so much more in more books and major publications. Over the past few years, I have had the pleasure of getting to know him and even having the opportunity to "psychoanalyze" him for a project I did for BAM. I was thr...

Sherry Amatenstein, LCSW is a NYC-based therapist and author of The Q&A Dating Book, Love Lessons From Bad Breakups and The Complete Marriage Counselor (www.marriedfaq.com). She edited the anthology, How Does That Make You Feel: True Confessions From Both Sides of the Therapy Couch. Before becoming a therapist she spent two years volunteering at a suicide hotline. She was also an interviewer for S...

I've been a huge David B. Frye fan since I first laid eyes on his work at Christopher Stout Projects. From a press release by curator Mary Gagler, "Frye presents the unbridled exploitation of colonial power and the unchecked passions of founding fathers and contrasts these with ideals of free love and individual agency. While other bodies of work more directly approach his own family’s history as...

I saw Michele Balan perform a comedy set recently and I was blown away. It made me wonder about what a career path for someone in my age group with comedy chops/success, like Michele, would have been like to travel on. To be a successful women in comedy clubs in 90's must have been... well I just can't imagine. Therefore, I was thrilled when she agreed to be on Dr. Lisa Gives A Shit. In doing rese...

Howard Halle is one of the least pretentious people I personally have interacted with in the name of art. He is honest, charming and has a specific insider view of the rise and future of the art world. He gave pulitzer prize winning art critic, Jerry Saltz his first staff job as a critic. One of Howards skills is identifying talent and managing a great department of art writers. As this is his las...

Fariaz's Facebook post hit a nerve with many and drew me in to request a therapy session with actor and comedian Fariaz Rabbani. This session with him helped me understand the emotional trauma of being an undocumented immigrant. It also made me realize how there are people around me that i know that can be in this situation and I might not even realize it. FARIAZ RABBANI writes: Being undocumented...

Kay Hosts a great show, What would Kay Say? on Radio Free Brooklyn, every Sunday, 8am. She takes the word of God and uses it as way to guide you through everyday life. Kay does a weekly show just through her own thoughtful speaking, combined with a bit of music. Her combined talent of public speaking and original way of imparting the word of God transcends tradition religious messaging and makes i...

In the 1990's I was addicted to listening to Bill Popp and the Tapes—the music was the background to my frantic art-making. I went to see him play live-the whole 9 yards! So when he agreed to come on my show-I was a bit star-struck. I could not have imagined a more down to earth, dedicated and continually active musician fronting a band. We talk a lot about his background; the influence his parent...

Artist Jenny Carpenter takes us with her on her journey from being a chic New York art director, originally from Nebraska, to a life with a wonderful husband and two amazing and inspriting twin boys living in Cold Springs with a big, quiet art studio all to herself. To begin with, living in a five-floor walkup in the West Viallage was now out of the question. Jenny talks honestly and openly the ef...

Well, I'm not a music expert, but I am a fan of Sean Spada. Sean currently plays keys in NO ICE and CHERCH, and is also performing and recording a new set of songs as a solo artist. Other projects of his have included Deathrow Tull, the Nuclears, The Bottom Dollars and Michael T & the Vanities. In this session, we examine Sean's thinking behind his music/writing, which is, I have to say, fairly ph...

Tom is the architect and main man behind Radio Free Brooklyn-he pretty much knows all 100+ of us. He is loved, respected and occasionally feared. This session was a great opportunity to look back on the past 5 years to dig into how Radio Free Brooklyn has changed his life (and many people's lives, including his co-director and RFB Board President, Rob Pritchard). I know Tom pretty well, but there...

I've been a fan of writer/journalist/cartoonist/artist, Anthony Haden-Guest, since I read his book True Colors , the definitive behind-the-scenes book about the art world, when it came out in 1998. I have psychoanalyzed Anthony on several other occasions, so it was have him talk and answer questions about this new book of cartoons and verse as well, published by the Orange Art Foundation. He even...

NOTE: If you haven't heard my session with Claudi and his bandmate Bear from May 2017, I highly recommend it! It was only 2 years after he moved from Puerto Rico to NYC. I connected with him when he was playing in the Delancy Street Station. ENJOY! https://traffic.megaphone.fm/RADIO7173962960.mp3 I feel like I should have paid Claudi Love for this session. Her positive vibe transcends our Zoom and...

We talked about what being a comedian is like right now during the pandemic vs the role of live audiences for a comedian in creative development for a comedian. Myq was polyamorous for a long time. He is now in a 4 years-long committed relationship. Myq describes the journey of where he began: married young, divorced, then polyamorous for years and how he transitioned to a monogamous relationship...

I was thrilled to have M Charlene Stevens, founder and Editor-in Chief of Arcade Project as my guest/patient. I've know Charlene for years, introduced originally to her by artist, curator, Christopher Stout. Charlene, if you don't know her is a presence in any room, gallery or museum. She is a meticulously fashionable, gorgeous, tall, woman with a generous and gregarious personality.  In this sess...

This is the first DLG episode at the start of the pandemic. Emily Gallagher is running for state assembly against an old white dude who's been in the job unchallenged since 1973! WHA??? The election is June 23 and there are tons of ways that you can help her get elected without leaving your home! LOOK RIGHT HERE and DONATE HERE Emily is so inspiring because she is making a huge difference in our w...

Theresa Buckeheister is one of those people who has so much innate creative capacity that she would be making a mark if she had grown up in Siberia, let alone a small town in Kansas—she would have found her way to NYC! She's from a family that she loves, but is not like her. This was an easy session as Theresa really drew me in, was self-aware and open speaking about how she came to be who she is...

Well this is a strange session—but on so many levels. First of all, Meryl Meisler was Dylan’s digital art teacher when he was in 7th Grade. They haven’t seen each other in ten years-since school really-and meet up IRL in the studio. Loved seeing them together and hearing in their reflections how they affected each other. Meryl got Dylan into her first film festival as a kid! The other part of this...