Seen

In this episode of the Seeing series, Carrie chats with Simonette Quamina, a Brooklyn-based contemporary artist. Simonette Quamina’s works are a love letter written in a Caribbean visual language. Composed of diverse collage and printmaking techniques, the artist's large-scale collage prints speak to her intersectionality and multicultural background.  From Carrie: "What sets Simonette apart is he...

In this episode of the Have You Seen? series, Carrie chats with Jade van der Mark, a Paris-based painter and sculptor. Adept at using the Impasto technique, Jade van der Mark, plays with multi layered oil painting to sculpt the pictorial material. With thick brushstrokes and a heritage which navigates between the European influences of Abstract expressionism to the CoBra art movement, she plays wi...

In the first episode of Behind the Seen, Carrie chats with Chadd Scott, a writer at the intersection of art and travel. He’s interested in the art that happens outside of major cities and making sure that we know as much about what’s happening in say, New Mexico, as we do London’s Bond Street. From Carrie: "Chadd and I both care deeply about making the art world more inclusive and accessible to ev...

In this episode of the Seeing series, Carrie chats with Rashid Johnson, a Brooklyn-based contemporary artist. With an innovative blend of multimedia techniques and a profound exploration of identity, history, and cultural memory, Johnson has redefined boundaries, glass ceilings and so much more. From his iconic "Anxious Men" series to his immersive installations exploring themes of race, belonging...

In this episode of the Have You Seen? series, Carrie chats with Storm Tharp, a Portland, Oregon based painter and sculptor. Storm builds his strange and beautiful characters by first drawing contours on the page with water. Inspired by the technique of Japanese calligraphy, the application of ink is a parallel of the mind’s movements, its unexpected focuses and elisions. As with any portrait, his...

In this episode of the Seeing series, Carrie chats with Naama Tsabar, a Brooklyn-based installation and performance artist. Naama is a boundary-pushing artist known for challenging conventions and pushing the limits of what art can be. She stands alongside icons of performance art (think Yoko Ono, Carolee Schneemann, and Marina Abramović), bringing a fresh, urgent energy to performance art. Her wo...

In the first episode of the Have You Seen? series, Carrie chats with Alexis Nunnelly, a visual artist and painted based in Queens, NYC.  Inspired by the sensualities and non-linear timelines of nature, Alexis' paintings are bold and powerful color showcases in acrylic and oil images. Each created from collages of lush landscapes and surreal worlds all cradling sensual, femme figures. Nodding to ro...

In the first episode of the Seeing series, Carrie chats with Leonardo Drew, a contemporary artist based in Brooklyn, New York.  Leonardo is known for creating reflective abstract sculptural works that play upon the dystopic tension between order and chaos. Recalling Post Minimalist sculpture that alludes to America’s industrial past, as well as the plight of African Americans throughout U.S. histo...

Welcome to Seen - where the art world meets the real world. Every two weeks, we sit down with emerging and established artists, to offer a genuine glimpse into their lives and minds. All in an authentic and totally straightforward manner. Carrie Scott is your host. With two decades of experience as a curator and art historian, she firmly believes in the transformative power of art. If it's See...