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Episode 524 / Diane Briones Williams  Diane Briones Williams is an artist born in the Philippines who is based in Los Angeles whose work explores fragmented histories, cultural memory, and diasporic identity shaped by colonization. Her work has been featured in select publications and radio interviews including Artforum, Hyperallergic, Los Angeles Magazine, CBS News, KPCC, Laist, LA Weekly, Artill...

Episode 523 / Claudia Doring Baez Claudia Doring Baez is and artist born and raised in Mexico City who is based in New York City. She received her B.A. from Columbia University, New York, NY (1982) and her M.F.A. in Fine Art from the New York Studio School, New York, NY (2012). Claudia’s paintings are animated by a reverence for art history and literature and is steeped with references that range...

Episode 523 / Chenlu Hou & Chiara No Born in Shandong, China in 1989, Chenlu Hou is currently based in Providence, RI. She earned her MFA in Ceramics from the Rhode Island School of Design in 2019. Since then, she has completed residencies at Museum of Arts and Design in New York, Penland School of Craft, Houston Center for Contemporary Craft, and Archie Bray Foundation. Her works have been in...

Episode 522 / Kayla Witt Kayla Witt is an artist born in Calgary, Canada and based in LA. She received her BFA from Ontario College of Art and Design University, Toronto, ON and her MFA from the University of Waterloo, Waterloo, ON. She has had solo exhibitions at Night Gallery, Los Angeles, CA; Sow & Tailor, Los Angeles, CA; and the University of Waterloo Art Gallery, Waterloo, ON. She has pa...

Episode 521 / Nat Meade Nat Meade received his BFA from the University of Oregon and his MFA from Pratt Institute. His work has shown in numerous group and solo exhibitions nationally and internationally, and has been reviewed in publications such as Artforum, Juxtapoz, The Boston Globe, and Hyperallergic. He attended the Skowhegan School for Painting and Sculpture 2009, the Sharpe-Walentas Studio...

Episode 520 / Elizabeth Hazan Elizabeth Hazan is a New York based visual artist born and raised in New York City and attended Bryn Mawr College and the New York Studio School where she was awarded a fellowship to the Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture.  She has twice been a resident of Yaddo, and received a grant from the Peter S. Reed Foundation. Her recent solo shows include Double Fanta...

Episode 519 / Cyrilla Mozenter Cyrilla Mozenter is known for her gouache-painted, pencil-drawn works on paper and hand stitched industrial wool felt pieces that include the transplantation of cutout letters, letter-derived and pictogram-like shapes. Her solo exhibitions include Problems of Art and Present Participle, 57W57 Arts, NY; See Why and the failed utopian , Lesley Heller Gallery, NY; the f...

Episode 518 / Charline Tyberghein Charline Tyberghein makes surrealist paintings by way of symbols and trompe l’ceil. Inspired by the Belgian Surrealist tradition, but also folk art, internet imagery, and other cultural influences, focussing on a high-low dichotomy. She mainly works with oil on canvas, occasionally branching out to other materials like wood to work in a more sculptural fashion. Ty...

Episode 517 / Andy Woll Andy Woll was born in Los Angeles, California and received a BFA from Otis College of Art and Design. His solo exhibitions include, The First Turn of the Screw at Night Gallery in Los Angeles, California (2021); Strange Animal at Denny Dimin Gallery in New York City (2020); Passage at Night Gallery in Los Angeles, California (2018); and Western Wear at Denny Gallery in New...

Episode 516 / Hilary Harnischfeger Hilary Harnischfeger (b. 1972, Melbourne, Australia) earned her MFA from Columbia University, New York (2003) and her BFA from the University of Houston, Houston, TX (2001). The artist has had work included in institutional exhibitions at the Fairfield University Art Museum, Fairfield, CT (2023); Nerman Museum of Contemporary Art, Overland Park, KS (2016); State...

Episode 515 / Mika Obayashi   Mika Obayashi (b.1995) is a fiber and sculpture artist from Michigan. She earned her BA from Amherst College in 2019 and her MFA from Tyler School of Art and Architecture in 2025. She has exhibited her work in the US and Japan with recent solo shows at Carvalho in Brooklyn and 5U Space in Philadelphia. She has been generously supported by grants from the American Craf...

Episode 514 / Michael Brennan Michael Brennan (b. 1965, Pine Island, FL; lives Brooklyn, NY) has exhibited his paintings and works on paper nationally and internationally for the past three decades, including in the United States, Mexico, Belgium, France, Germany, Italy, China, Australia, and New Zealand.   Here at the gallery, he previously mounted four very well-received solo exhibitions – Float...

Episode 513 / Langdon Graves Langdon Graves is a Virginia-born, New York City-based artist who holds a BFA from Virginia Commonwealth University in Painting & Printmaking and an MFA from Parsons School of Design. She is adjunct faculty at Parsons and Assistant Professor in the Graduate Fine Arts program at Pratt Institute. Langdon has shown her work throughout the United States, Canada, Europe...

Episode 512 / Jasper Hagenaar  Jasper Hagenaar is a painter who lives and works in the Netherlands. Evoking the ambience of vintage lifestyle magazines or art book photography there is so much ambience captured in Jasper’s carefully framed imagery. Often times portraying still life compositions built from other existing artworks, his paintings feel both contemporary and classic, all while appearin...

Episode 511 / Kwamé Azure Gomez Kwame Azure Gomez is an artist born in Akron, Ohio who lives and works in New Haven, CT. Kwame has exhibited throughout the US and Europe in venues such as James Cohan Gallery, New Image Art Gallery, SoLA Contemporary, Stony Island Arts Bank, Anthony Gallery, Dada Gallery and others. Kwame recently completed the NXTHVN artist residency in New Haven and received her...

Episode 510 / Nadia Waheed Nadia is on with an epic conversation where she talks passionately about painting, being an artist, impending motherhood as so much more. This episode contains an impressive amount of STRONG LANGUAGE so be aware of that. A fun and vibrant chat about art and life. Nadia Waheed (b. 1992, Saudi Arabia) lives and works in Austin, TX. She graduated with a BFA in Painting &amp...

Episode 509 / Terra Keck Terra Keck is a Brooklyn based artist and performer. She received her MFA in Printmaking from the University of Hawai'i at Mānoa in 2018, and her BFA in Drawing from Ball State University in 2013. She moved to Brooklyn in the summer of 2018 and works in East Williamsburg.  Terra’s work featured in publications such as Hyperallergic, The Art Newspaper, and Oxford Americ...

Ep. 508 / Our annual Year In Review with Brian Boucher Senior Market Reporter, ARTnews Brian Boucher is an art writer based in New York. His byline has appeared in the New York Times, New York, Garage, Frieze, Sotheby’s Magazine, and CNN. Boucher was formerly senior writer for Artnet News and website editor at Art in America. We sat down for our annual recap on shows, film and music that struck a...

Episode 507 / James Walsh  James Walsh is an artist who received his BFA from Rutgers in 1976 and his MFA from Syracuse in 1980. He’s had solo shows at Berry Campbell, Galeria Joan Prats, Baker Sponder, the Mendel Art Gallery, Long Fine art, the Edmonton Art Gallery amongst others and group exhibitions at KinoSaito, Helm Contemporary, Flowers Gallery, Sideshow Gallery, Gallery 2 and many others. H...

Episode 506 / Ragnar Kjartansson Ragnar Kjartansson is an artist who lives and works in Reykjavik. He engages multiple artistic mediums in his performative practice. The history of film, music, theatre, visual culture and literature find their way into his video installations, durational performances, drawing and painting. Pretending and staging are key tools in Kjartansson’s efforts to convey sin...

Episode 505 / Sarah Ann Weber Sarah Ann Weber (b. 1988, Chicago, IL) received her MFA from the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts and her BFA from the School of the Art Institute, Chicago. Sarah has exhibited her work in solo exhibitions at Anat Ebgi, 12.26, Club Pro, The Franklin, and SOCO Gallery. Her group exhibitions include Stems, MAUVE, Greenpoint Terminal Gallery, Hunter Shaw Fine Art, G...

Episode 504 / Elmer Guevara Elmer Guevara is an artist born and raised in Los Angeles. He received a BFA in Drawing and Painting from Cal State University Long Beach and an MFA in Studio Art from Hunter College in New York City. Elmer’s work has been exhibited domestically and internationally at M&B Gallery, F2T Gallery, Residency Art Gallery, Lyles and King, and Barbati Gallery among others....

Episode 503 / Ruby Sky Stiler Ruby Sky Stiler is an artist born in Maine and based in Brooklyn. She has been the subject multiple solo presentations, including New Patterns, The Frances Young Tang Teaching Museum and Art Gallery at Skidmore College, Saratoga Springs, NY (2022); Group Relief, Fairfield University Art Museum, CT (2020); Fresco, Saint-Gaudens Memorial Park, Cornish, NH (2019); Ghost...

Episode 502 / Yung Jake Yung Jake is an artist & rapper who received his BFA from Cal Arts in 2012. He has had 13 solo exhibitions in Los Angeles and New York, and over 25 group exhibitions in the U.S., China, Finland, Germany, Belgium, and the Netherlands, respectively. Yung Jake is also a musician and directed music videos for Rae Sremmurd and Pusha T. His work has been featured at venues in...

Episode 501 / Christian Rex van Minnen Christian Rex van Minnen was born in Providence, RI in 1980 and received his BA from Regis University, Denver in 2002. He has exhibited throughout the US and internationally, and is represented by Nanzuka Underground, Tokyo, VETA Galeria, Madrid, Ross+Kramer Gallery, NYC, and Richard Heller Gallery, LA.