Studio Break

Melissa Wilkinson is our first featured artist of the year!  Her exquisite watercolor paintings are based off digital collages from a wide variety of archived photos that question the “image” and explore the boundaries  between abstraction and representation.

This week Steve Adair joins the podcast to talk about his recent paintings, his work was selected as one of Studio Break’s 2013 BFA Competition Winner’s by Jan Brandt of Jan Brandt Gallery .

This week Mark Harold Ponder joins the podcast to discuss Box 13 Artspace , a multifunctional contemporary art space  in Houston that hosts a variety of exhibitions with a diverse art membership.

Pam Winegard joins us the podcast to discuss her studio practice and mixed media works including a recent series started last May at Vermont Studio Center.

Kay Healy joins the podcast this week to discuss her recent works exploring the idea of home through a wide variety of media including screen printing, books, fiber, installation, and new media.

This week Travis Medford joins us to discuss his college work which combines formal exploration and abstraction through a wide variety of printed and sourced materials.

Nathan Meltz  joins the podcast to discuss his animation and collage works which explore how technology effects our day to day life and global world through politics, agriculture, etc…

This week Grace Sheese joins the podcast to talk about her studio practice and her most recent series of ceramic works that are full of subtle detail.

This week Jason Karolak joins the podcast to talk about his studio practice and how his drawing process informs his recent small and large scale paintings.

This week Melissa Vandenberg joins the podcast to discuss her multi media based works which explore themes of landscape and identity.

This week Dadara joins the podcast to discuss his multimedia works, performances and much more. Some of his previous projects include Exchanghibition Bank and Like 4 Real which has been featured at Burning Man.

This week Jason Karolak , Thomas Vance , Michael Wille , and Arjan Zazueta join the podcast to discuss their experience as artist residents at Soaring Gardens in Pennsylvania.

This week Liz Miller joins the podcast from Mankato (MN) to talk about her recent mixed media installations. In the discussion Liz shed’s light on her process as well as the wide variety of materials she uses to create her work.

This week Kate Sweeney joins the podcast to talk about her studio practice that is informed by her background in science and career as a medical illustrator. Her recent work utilizes printmaking, painting, collage, and a variety of digital techniques  and often works on paper.

This week Brian Frink makes his way back to the podcast to discusses his trip to France in search of the Black Madonnas and how it impacted his studio work.

Jeff Robinson & Stephen Linksvayer join the podcast to discuss Jeff’s solo exhibition entitled “Stacks” at the former gallery in Bloomington (IL) called Heavy Brow .

Sage Dawson joins the podcast from St. Lous (MO) to talk about her multimedia works, and her new exhibition called: On Streets Like Ours, In Rooms, Up Collapsing Stairs.

This week Peter Shear returns to the podcast to discuss his Solo Exhibition entitled “Sausage” at the Peoria Art Guild .  The show features nearly 100 small paintings which explore shape, color, and surface coupled with diverse exploration.

Jason Ruhl joins the podcast to talk about some of his latest projects, including  his collage work that utilizes a variety of 2-D approaches. 

This week Morgan Price joins the podcast to talk about his recent work, which explore ideas of identity through a variety of printmaking techniques.

Liz Tran joins the podcast from Seattle (WA) to discuss her studio practice which explores a variety of mixed media including painting, ceramics, video, and installation.

John Reddington returns to the podcast to discuss his recent painting and drawing works, which piece together a variety of personal narratives, stories, observations, life experience… even the “Predator Machine.”

This week Schuyler Maehl joins the podcast to discuss his early work and his time living in Iceland. He’s a regular collaborator with performance groups MoMS and Gelitin while maintaining his studio practice that explores painting, drawing, sculpture, music, video, and installation.

Martin Brief joins the podcast to discuss his  drawing’s based off definitions, newspapers, art forum and a variety of sources to explore his interest in how we create meaning and communicate through language.

This week Cory Peeke joins the podcast to discuss his massive series of collage works, which reuse a variety of found and printed materials to explore themes of ideas of sexuality, identity and history.