Dan Gratz

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Inspiring podcast featuring interviews with artists, meditators and pioneers of culture. Hosted by Brooklyn, NY based artist Dan Gratz.

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Dan Gratz

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Arts

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Jul 7, 2026

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Esteban Cabeza de Baca 06.01.2026

Esteban Cabeza de Baca is a painter of Mexican and Native American heritage who lives and works between New York and the borderlands of the Southwest United States. Cabeza de Baca’s work entwines layers of graffiti, landscape, and pre-Columbian pictographs in ways that confound Cartesian single-point perspective. Cabeza de Baca’s works are in the permanent collections of Harvard University, North...

Cordy Ryman 30.12.2025

Cordy Ryman is an abstract artist who fuses painting and sculpture using humble materials, most often acrylic paint and wood. He’s known for large-scale, site-specific installations that can be broken down into smaller components and stand-alone pieces. Ryman’s works are often responsive, reacting to their environments, their own layered histories and to one another.  He maintains a prolific resou...

Kevin Umaña 23.12.2025

Kevin Umaña (b. 1989, Los Angeles, CA) is an artist who lives and works in Brooklyn, NY.  Spending his early years between Los Angeles and El Salvador, Umaña’s personal history has profoundly shaped his visual language. In El Salvador, he was immersed in a rural environment rich with natural textures, vibrant flora, and traditional crafts. While in Los Angeles, he confronted the intensity of city...

Emily Noelle Lambert 16.12.2025

Emily Noelle Lambert creates large-scale paintings and sculptures that navigate the space between abstraction and figuration. She holds an MFA in Painting from Hunter College (NY) and a BA in Visual Art from Antioch College (OH). Lambert has had solo exhibitions at  Freight+Volume Gallery (NYC). Additional solo exhibitions include Freight + Volume Gallery (NYC), Denny Dimin Gallery (NYC), Lu Magnu...

Lydia McCarthy 09.12.2025

Lydia McCarthy is a Brooklyn-based artist and therapist. Her photographs and videos have been exhibited at 106 Green, Essex Flowers, Sardine and the Scandinavia House in New York, Hidrante in San Juan, Sports Hall Window in Helsinki and A-DASH in Athens. She has been reviewed and published in The Washington Post, The New Yorker, Art F City, The Wall Street Journal, Dossier and the Huffington Post....

Mathew Cerletty 02.12.2025

Mathew Cerletty (b. 1980, Wauwatosa, Wisconsin) paints hyperreal depictions of signage, commercial tableaux, and everyday items with a precision that veers into the uncanny. At first glance, his paintings appear seamless, almost digital, but closer inspection reveals traces of the artist's hand that attest to his dedication to traditional craft. His recent solo exhibitions include Karma, New York...

Nicholas Moenich 25.11.2025

Nicholas Moenich was born in Cleveland, Ohio and received a BFA from the Cleveland Institute of Art and a MFA from Hunter College. He currently lives and works in Brooklyn, NY. He is a 2023 Pollock-Krasner Foundation Grantee, a 2021 Fellow in Painting from The New York Foundation for the Arts, and a 2019-2020 recipient of the Sharpe-Walentas Studio Program Award. His current solo exhibition Drawin...

Tony Mascatello 18.11.2025

Tony Mascatello is a New York based painter of narrative images who began this process as a performance artist in SOHO long ago. Working on a small scale, he creates intimate spaces that invite the viewer to enter into an imagined experience.  

Clare Grill 11.11.2025

Clare Grill (born 1979, lives and works in Queens, NY) received her MFA from the Pratt Institute in 2005 and attended the Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture in 2011. Recent solo exhibitions include Parlance, Derek Eller Gallery, New York, NY; Cutwork, Galería Marta Cervera, Madrid, Spain; and Wich Language and Oyster, M+B, Los Angeles, CA. Her work has been reviewed in Artforum, ArtNews, H...

Dylan Vandenhoeck 01.11.2025

Dylan Vandenhoeck, born in New York City in 1990, is a painter and musician. His meandering and embodied perspective approach to observational painting questions what it means to paint from life today. He received his BFA from The Cooper Union in 2012 and MFA in Visual Art from Columbia University in 2017. His most recent solo shows include “Right Under The Nose” at Jack Barrett Gallery (2024), “I...

Matthew Tully Dugan 24.10.2025

Matthew Tully Dugan (b. 1986) is a New York born and based multidisciplinary artist. The artist’s interests span renaissance art, celebrity, psychology, occult practices, pop iconography, privacy, and fanaticism. Dugan often employs promotional, social, and found imagery as well as divinatory visions in a practice motivated by ritualistic impulse and alchemical processes that investigate media’s p...

Kai Altair 18.10.2025

Kai Altair is a musician and guide exploring the meeting place of music, ritual, and consciousness.  Rooted in animist, earth-based traditions, she creates spaces for remembrance and ecstatic renewal. Through sound, compassionate support, and lineage holding, her work invites connection to benevolent realms walking in partnership with the deeply human.  

Lauren Clay 11.10.2025

Lauren Clay is a visual artist from Atlanta, Georgia. She holds a BFA in Painting from Savannah College of Art and Design, and MFA in Painting from Virginia Commonwealth University. She is best known for her wall-based relief sculptures and elaborate wallpaper installations. She currently lives and works in New York city. 

Julie Curtiss 04.10.2025

Julie Curtiss was born in 1982 in Paris, France and lives and works in Brooklyn, New York. She studied at the École Nationale Supérieure des Beaux-arts, Paris and graduated in 2006 with a BA and MFA. Recent solo exhibitions include Gagosian Gallery Paris (2025), White Cube HongKong (2023) White Cube Mason’s Yard, London (2021); Anton Kern Gallery, New York (2019); Various Small Fires, Los Angeles...

Ethan Greenbaum 27.09.2025

Ethan Greenbaum is a New York based artist. His multimedia artworks merge photography, painting, and sculpture in low-relief wall works that read like urban archaeology—fragments of city life preserved and reimagined. Ethan has exhibited his artwork nationally and internationally. Selected exhibition venues include Derek Eller Gallery, New York; Hauser and Wirth, New York; Marlborough Chelsea, New...

Zuriel Waters 20.09.2025

Zuriel Waters was born in 1984 in Philadelphia, PA, and lives and works in Brooklyn, NY. Received an MFA in Painting from the Rhode Island School of Design in 2010 with a fellowship from the Jacques and Natasha Gelman Foundation and a BA in Interdisciplinary Studies from San Diego State University in 2007. Has shown work in group exhibitions throughout New York City at galleries such as Underdonk,...

Richard Tinkler 13.09.2025

Richard Tinkler was born in Westminster MD in 1975 and went to college at the University of North Texas and graduate school at Hunter College. He lives and works in Brooklyn, NY and shows at 56 Henry in NYC.  

Brigitte Mulholland 06.09.2025

Brigitte Mulholland opened her eponymous gallery in Paris in April 2024. She was previously a Senior Director at Anton Kern in New York, as well as an independent curator of numerous shows.   

Robert Feintuch 30.08.2025

Robert Feintuch (b. 1953, Jersey City) lives and works in New York City. Since 1983 his paintings and drawings have been shown in solo and group exhibitions internationally at galleries and museums including Thomas Brambilla Gallery, Bergamo, Sonnabend Gallery, New York, Akira Ikeda Gallery, Berlin, CRG Gallery, New York, Daniel Newburg Gallery New York, Moskowitz/Bayse, Los Angeles, Howard Yezers...

Ben Pederson 15.08.2025

Ben Pederson was raised by a poet and a sculptor who taught him to value intuition and curiosity above all else. He makes sculptures and paintings that are born from dreams, books, and all of the people he has ever known and loved. Most summer evenings Ben can be found drinking a beer on his rooftop garden that he tends with his studio mate and great friend Dan. His Gods are Art, Love, and Hacky S...

Clinton King 09.08.2025

Born in Coshocton, Ohio 1976, Clinton King holds a BFA in painting from Columbus College of Art and Design and an MFA in sculpture from The School of the Art Institute of Chicago. King’s artistic approach is defined by his emphasis on the material and sensory qualities of painting and his minimalist approach, which often creates elaborate maximalist effects. King’s recent solo exhibitions include ...

Robin Kang 02.08.2025

Texas-born artist Robin Kang creates woven artworks that merge ancestral textile traditions, shamanic healing, and digital innovation.  Using a digitally operated Jacquard loom, she creates textiles that blend botanical motifs with circuit-like patterns, exploring the dualities of past and future, nature and technology, and mysticism and computation.  A 2017 NYFA Fellow, Kang has exhibited interna...

Jonathan Herrera Soto 26.07.2025

Jonathan Herrera Soto (b. 1994) holds a BFA from the Minneapolis College of Art and Design and an MFA in Painting/Printmaking from the Yale School of Art. He is a recipient of the Jerome Hill Artist Fellowship, Paul and Daisy Soros Fellowship, Yale Prison Education Initiative Fellowship, and the Koopman Distinguished Chair in the Visual Arts at the Hartford Art School. Herrera Soto is a printmaker...

Katya Varlamova 19.07.2025

Katya Varlamova is a clinical herbalist with a private practice in New York City, Hudson Valley and online. She is also founder of the organic herbal wellness line  Warmicita Herbals . Katya teaches herbal workshops to private and corporate clients, as well as hosts plant walks, women's circles, and plant medicine retreats in the Amazon and the Peruvian Andes.

Trampas Thompson 05.07.2025

Trampas Thompson is a Hollywood Stuntman and Stunt Coordinator with over 150 credits in film an television, including Pirates of the Caribbean, Birdman, and Spider-Man: Homecoming. In 2014, he encountered Ayahuasca for the first time, and, after working with the plant medicine for some years, moved to Peru full time in 2020. He now lives in the Sacred Valley of Cusco, with his dog Blueberry.  

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