Location 1980 Podcast

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From musical theater spotlights to sculpture studios, and behind the camera lens - nothing is off limits to Alicia. In this conversation, we explore how a life steeped in art, design, and performance fuels her boundless energy and ever-expanding body of work. Alicia's Links Insta: AliciaLongPhotography   https://www.location1980gallery.com Insta: location1980   Fortune co-founded Locatio...

Tonight the guys sit down with Nick Stiles, a longtime enthusiast and participant at the studio. Nick is an immensely skilled painter who works strongly in the domains of fantasy, darkness, and imagination. Especially notable is his talent with the figure, long understood as the pinnacle of practice in art: training to render the human form trains one to render anything. He also has several large,...

Tonight's guest Dr. Bridget R. Cooks is the most well-read person we've had on the show. With a Ph. D. in Art History, Visual and Cultural Studies, she is a published author, has written in dozens of exhibition catalogues and academic journals, and has curated numerous exhibitions around the country. But these are only a few of the credentials, stories, and accomplishments in her name: to list eve...

Tonight the duo hosts Ed Dutcher, a screenwriter with numerous irons in the fire - something they learn is necessary if you're going to make it as an unknown in Hollywood. The glamour is real, and so is the uphill battle atop moving ground. With experience amongst the many disciplines of cinema, including producing, Ed is focused on screenwriting and tells us the skills - many internal attitude ch...

Tonight's guest, Scott Ludwig, has been in the game for some thirty years. To simply address his works as "abstract" would be to miss the deeper layers of process that go on. Beyond depicting designed scenes, Scott's work experiments with the very medium itself: he has an intimate understanding of viscosities, transparencies, and intermixabilities of various pigments and carriers. What's more, he...

The guys sit down with Daniel Felchner, multidisciplinarian, muralist, liquid light practitioner, and outdoorsman, and discuss the shifting, emergent path that artists find themselves traveling. As always, our journey is truly the destination. Introducing some new segments, get ready with the first interview of the 2025 season. Dan insta: https://www.instagram.com/dosaega.creative   https://w...

The guys do the annual Year in Review episode, looking at the triumphs and tribulations of last year while also what's exciting in 2025. It's been a year of great change at the gallery, especially in the last few months. But if there's any consistent theme at Location 1980, it's adaptability & rising to challenges. Pop some champagne and tune in! https://www.location1980gallery.com Insta: loca...

After doing time as an employee, Natasha realized no path to success lay there: the only option is to take the reins in your own hands and chart a novel course. She produced flow art for a while that was a pleasing initial step into creative endeavours, and she experienced marketability, but felt undifferentiated from the hordes of other artists doing the same thing. Inspiration would be found on...

Get ready for a banger: Rishi is a broadly talented artist with a litany of tales to share, and we only touch a segment of his life story on today's episode. From a childhood in Queens, NY, back and forth to ports in America and beyond, ultimately to So. Cal. he specializes in the motion picture arts, all things disc jockey, though above all he is an artist of human interconnection. Join us to hea...

Today we sit down with Reign Maka, who months away from his thirtieth birthday is already traveling the world for shows and events. Closer to his SoCal home, he is helping to launch a new desert event - The Chronic of Gnarnia. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Katya began practicing art later in life, first modeling for figure drawing sessions and then attending as well. Eventually pursuing a full studio practice, she elevated to a level of fantastically expressive work in a very short time. Much of her work focuses on figures and bodies that are highly distorted and exaggerated, often portraying dark, anxious, and uncomfortable themes such as isolation...

Maneuvering multiple styles and media, Stephanie is a versatile creative both in and out of the studio.  In our last four episodes we interviewed various artists from our F.eminine U.ndertones show; now meet its gallerist & curator (who is herself hanging in the show as well).  Making artwork is only one part of the game - exhibition is another, as is managing the rest of life along...

Amy Kells is one of 1980's longest running artists and an unfiltered, wide-open-throttle creative to her core. Believing that all people possess an artistic drive from birth, she never saw herself going that direction as a child. But a combination of skill, fortunate intervention, and having tested alternative waters eventually led her to pivot halfway through school from academia to a fine arts d...

Nancy Anderson and Ruth Geller have been longtime friends of the studio, and have the types of art careers we love to feature: they have both practiced art consistently for decades, evolving through styles and media as mastery of one led to the search for new challenges. Having participated in exhibitions, won awards, and moved around the country, neither seeks the art "scene" so talked about by l...

Having lived all throughout the USA's west coast and a span in Oz, she has traversed the highs of sold out exhibitions and the lows of residing in garages clandestinely. The art world is one that will by turns exalt you and kick you in the chin, and few embody the will to take a lickin' and keep on tickin' with the same humor and aplomb as Jackie Danger. https://www.jackiedanger.com insta: ja...

Hailing from New York, cutting her teeth in San Francisco, and making SoCal her home, Tracey’s art practice includes large scale murals, traditional fine art painting, and gallery operation. After schooling in graphic design, she decided to go into art production for herself and never stepped foot in an ad agency. She continues to this day, with an approach to life that focuses on simple...

Corey swooped in, hosted a solo show less than a year later, then moved out of 1980 for the beautiful vastness of Joshua Tree, where he exchanged his paints for glass. A successful solo operator, he consistently drives himself to up his game by working with other artists and taking classes from innovators in the cutting edge world of glass. Hear about collaborations, invention, and generating an a...

Today the guys chat with an old friend of Location 1980, Bert Esenherz. He was doing out-of-the-box feats that cannot be classified as performance art, comedy, or improv alone, decades before broadband and social media made this kind of thing commonplace. Many of his events are truly art for art's sake, and evidence mastery of the art of living: that is to say, demonstrating (and testing...

Victori Violet traverses many worlds with a sly grin, doing expressive performance on a professional level along the way. From Austin, Texas to the Southland she literally learned to dance by playing with fire, has strong ties in the clown community, interprets words & music for deaf people, and has elevated art modeling to an educational profession. The guys chat with Victori, longtime 1980 f...

In this episode the guys chat with Jim Trolinger whose résumé read longer than a CVS receipt. He has made artwork since childhood, and pursued a degree in engineering physics, ascending to doctorate level at a prime time to be amongst the nascent holographers of the world. He eventually founded his own holography company, Metrolaser, and along the way has never stopped making art. He calls it a wa...

The guys are back after a a major hiatus, and the first order of business is where they've been all year. The answer? Numerous gallery events, expansion of the studio, and another trip to That Thing in the Desert - just to name a few. A trip to the top is always a spiral route, and this year set us at Location 1980 up for an explosive 2024. Jesse Fortune @fortuneartist www.jessefortune.com Erik Ri...

In this episode the guys sit down with Lauren Kilb, longtime Location 1980 artist whose specialty is interactive art: pieces that once built, are only truly complete when the audience participates in what the piece has set up. In this way, the piece is not a static thing but a context for a conversation to take place between participants and artist, or participants and each other. Those who engage...

Hosts Jesse Fortune and Erik Ringman introduce the world to Location 1980, an art collective with a decade plus history hidden in the center of Orange County, California. "The last four letters of artwork, aren't play," says Fortune, weaving together a rigorous, get-it-done discipline and a flowing, felt creativity. They illuminate a thin slice of the enormous history here, where countless events...