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Episode 453 / Ray Hwang Ray Hwang is an artist from LA, living and working out of Ridgewood, NY. His work consists primarily of acrylic painting and drawing, in which he abstracts and layers imagery from his personal history to explore themes of family, home and inter-cultural contradiction. He received his BFA from the School of Visual Arts in 2016 and has since exhibited throughout New York City...

Episode 452 / Liv Aanrud earned her B.F.A in painting from the University of Wisconsin—Eau Claire(2001) and her M.F.A from Mason Gross School of Art, Rutgers University(2011). She has taught at ARTworks Charter School, Santa Barbara City College, the Armory Center for the Arts, and has designed and led textile workshops in the U.S and Canada. Aanrud’s work has been the subject of one-person exhibi...

Episode 451 / Jason Jägel Jason Jägel born in 1971, Boston, MA is a 2023-24 Pollock-Krasner recipient. A monograph of his work entitled, Seventy-Three Funshine was published in 2008 by Electric Works, San Francisco. His work is featured in the collections of the Museum of Modern Art, New York, the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, the UCLA Hammer Museum, among others. His 2018 public commission,...

Episode 450 / Bob Linder Bob Linder received his MFA from Stanford University, his BFA from the San Francisco Art Institute and attended the Skowhegan School of Painting & Sculpture. He lives and works in Los Angeles, California.  Bob is currently the Program Director for gallery Michael Benevento, Los Angeles. Consistent among exhibiting artists is a willingness to take risks, a total commitm...

Episode 449 / Fred Tomaselli (born 1956, Santa Monica, CA) Fred has been the subject of solo exhibitions at institutions including the Joslyn Art Museum, Omaha, NE (2019); Oceanside Museum of Art, Oceanside, CA (2018); Toledo Museum of Art, Toledo, OH (2016);  Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth (2014) and the University of Michigan Museum of Art (2014); a survey exhibition at Aspen Art Museum (2009)...

Episode 448 / Akari Uragami is a Japanese multi-disciplinary artist whose work delves into the essence of human existence as a living organism. Her artistic expression, primarily through oil paintings and soft sculptures crafted from natural materials and textiles, offers a profound exploration of what human is. Akari earned her bachelor's degree in textiles from Musashino Art University, where sh...

Episode 447 / Aaron Glasson (b Auckland, 1983) is a New Zealand born multi-disciplinary artist based in Mexico, City. Since completing a Bachelor's degree in Art and Design at the Auckland University of Technology in 2005 he has been exhibiting and creating public art works internationally. His diverse portfolio consists of participatory installations, paintings, drawings, sculpture, architecture,...

Episode 446 / Christopher Daharsh is an artist who was born in 1990 in Omaha, Nebraska. He received a BFA in Painting and Art History from the Kansas City Art Institute in 2012. Christopher has attended a number of residencies since then, including two yearlong residencies from the Charlotte Street Foundation (Kansas City, Missouri), Art Farm (Marquette, Nebraska), the Factatory (Lyon, France), Ha...

Episode 445 / Henry Ward is an artist, writer, and educator living in London. He works primarily as a painter, but also makes drawings and small sculptures. He is interested in exploring the language of paint by investigating the threshold between abstraction and representation.  He was shortlisted for the Trinity Buoy Wharf Drawing Prize in 2018, 2019 and 2022, and longlisted for the Contemporary...

Episode 444 / Larry Madrigal is a Mexican-American painter based in Phoenix, Arizona. Originally from Los Angeles, where his parents stayed after migrating from Mexico, Madrigal spent many of his early summers in Colima where his extended family lives. In 1998, during his elementary years, his family left California and moved to Phoenix where they remain to this day. Madrigal studied at Arizona st...

Episode 443 / ANDREW SIM (b. 1987, Glasgow) lives and works in New York. They work across drawing and painting, often utilising their favoured medium of pastel in large-scale figurative pieces. Sim’s practice borrows from their everyday experience to inflect various motifs – werewolves, sunflowers, horses, and trees, amongst other items – with elements of autobiography, anthropomorphizing natural...

Episode 442 / Elizabeth Englander (b.1988, Boston, MA) lives and works in New York, NY. She received her BFA from The Rhode Island School of Design in 2011 and her MFA from Hunter College in 2019. Recent solo exhibitions include: House of Gaga, Guadalajara (2023), Liste Art Fair Basel, solo presentation with Theta (2023); Theta, New York (2022); Smart Objects, Los Angeles (2021); From the Desk of...

Episode 441 / Colleen Barry is an artist and painter who grew up in NYC whose studio is based out of Brooklyn, NY. She studied art at the National Academy of Design in NYC and has had shows at venues such as Fredericks and Freiser (2023), The Sotheby’s Institute (2023), Nathalie Karg Gallery (2023), The Library Street Collective (2024), James Fuentes Gallery (2024), and 81 Leonard Gallery (2024)....

Episode 440 / Jess Valice is a Los Angeles-based artist born in 1996 in Los Angeles, California, who studied art in grade school but went on to pursue an education in neuroscience at Santa Barbara City College (SBCC). After three years into her education, she decided to end her path in science to pursue painting. Self-taught, Jess Valice now showcases her work with various galleries including Carl...

Episode 439 / This week we are reissuing a conversation with artist and musician Hisham Akira Bharoocha. Hisham will be performing live music this Saturday at 2pm at the opening of my survey show “You Could Feel the Sky” at the Williamsburg Biannual at 333 Kent Avenue in Williamsburg Brooklyn. Come join us for live music, Grimm Ales and work that I have made over the last 25 years. I will be scree...

Episode 438 / Sarah Boyts Yoder is a painter based in Charlottesville, VA. She received an MFA in painting from James Madison University in 2006. Her work has been featured in numerous publications, exhibitions, and corporate and private collections throughout the United States and abroad, including the Virginia Museum of Contemporary Art. Sarah has been the recipient of a professional fellowship...

Episode 437 / Yoora Lee (b.1990) was born in South Korea and currently lives and works in Los Angeles. She graduated with her M.F.A in Painting and Drawing from school of the Art institute of Chicago in 2020. Her paintings are filled with analogous color relationships and wavering horizontal marks that imagine an impressionism derived from video tape distortion. Lee’s brush strokes blur the pictur...

Episode 436 / Yowshien Kuo is an artist who was born and works out of St. Louis, MO. He earned an MFA ND BFA from Fontbonne University. He has had solo shows at Luce Gallery in Turin, Italy, CAM Contemporary Art Museum in St. Louis, Praise Shadows in Boston, The Bermuda Project in Ferguson, MO and others. He’s been included in group shows at the Bates Museum of Art in Maine, COL Gallery in San Fra...

Episode 435 / Jacqueline Surdell was born and raised in Chicago, IL. She reimagines the woven canvas as a space of undulation and growth. As the expanded histories of painting materialize in her work as content, simultaneously, swollen tendrils and textures of bound rope deny illusions of the classically painted picture plane. The works actively work to bridge the division between painting and scu...

Episode 434 / Dabin Ahn  (b. 1988, Seoul, Korea) received a BFA (2017) and an MFA (2020) from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. Ahn’s recent solo exhibitions include Silent Whisper, 1969 Gallery, New York, NY (2024); Staged, Ochi Gallery, Los Angeles, CA (2023); 1st Dibs, Artruss, Chicago, IL (2023); ONE-OFF, Shatto Gallery, Los Angeles, CA (2022); Liminal Fictions, Selenas Mountain, Rid...

Ep. 433 / Daniel Savage is an artist and animator based in Los Angeles. His background in percussion and design has helped to develop a look that can best be described as visual rhythm. His work has been commissioned by clients such as Hermès, The New Yorker, and Adult Swim, and recognized by the ADC Young Guns, Webby Awards, and Society of Illustrators. In addition to his commercial work he has t...

Episode 432 Emily Pettigrew was born in Maine in 1991. She received a BFA from Pratt Institute in Brooklyn, New York who lives and works in Delhi, New York. Pettigrew’s recent solo and group exhibitions include "The Inside Out" at the Kunstmuseum Schloss Derneburg in Derneburg, Germany (2024); "Pablo’s Cabinet" at Pablo’s Birthday in Verbier, Switzerland (2024); "A Room Wi...

Ghada Amer was born in Cairo, Egypt in 1963 and moved to Nice, France when she was eleven years old. She remained in France to further her education and completed both of her undergraduate requirements and MFA at Villa Arson École Nationale Supérieure in Nice (1989), during which she also studied abroad at the School of the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston, Massachusetts in 1987. In 1991 she moved to...

Jamie Luoto (b. 1987) lives and works in the San Francisco North Bay. Her work has been featured in publications such as Booooooom, Art Maze Mag, and New American Paintings; appeared on platforms such as Juxtapoz and Hyperallergic; and is in international private and public collections including the Green Family Art Foundation (Dallas, USA). Selected recent exhibitions include: (Upcoming) Reflecti...

Martine Johanna is an artist who lives and works in Zetten in the Netherlands. She has had exhibitions at Massey Klein Gallery in NYC, Massey Lyuben Gallery in NYC, Spoke Art in San Francisco, Bright Side in Amsterdam, Hashimoto Gallery in San Francisco and many more. Her work has been covered in Metal Magazine, Booooooom, Interlocutor, Justapoz, Contemporary Art Curator Magazine, Create Zine, Bea...