The Amy Beecher Show

Artist Rose Nestler stopped by my apartment before getting honored at the American Academy of Arts and Letters. Her self-described break down on the way to a job in Staten Island was the impetus for heading back to school after a decade of living and working as an artist in New York. We talk about how that turned out in this episode. Spoiler alert: turned out great.  Show Notes:  Rose Nestler Sony...

5 years later, we re-release Episode 7 with artist Reuben Lorch-Miller. Reuben! The great! We talk house plants, creative constraints, magic tricks, and marriage. All timely topics! Amy's house plants are thriving and she's getting hitched this week. Get ready for a blast from the past.

Tanya Goel records an episode with me on the last day of her exhibition of paintings and frescos at Nature Morte. Artist and gallery owner Peter Nagy mocks us in the background. 

Since her first appearance on the show (episode 11), Virginia Lee Montgomery has been making videos out of hotel rooms. With insects. On a $200 budget. She is a Material Research Artist-in-Residence at the University of Texas at Austin Center for Dynamic and Controlled Materials and her solo show, The Pony Hotel, opened at Museum Folkwang in Essen on May 9th. Did I mention the insects? Lots of tha...

We talk botox, life in Istanbul, and how a traumatic encounter surfing the dark web prompted her to turn away from figurative and digital work to abstract painting. ⁣

Singer-songwriter Cassandra Jenkins lives in the Upper West Side studio apartment her touring musician parents raised her in. We talk about how a Cat Stevens cover she recorded at home led to a studio album.

Everyone thinks Tracy Molis was a Goth teenager. Not true, but she'll take it. Her show at Kai Matsumiya closes January 13th.

Sophia Cleary is so many things: comedian, artist, drummer, doula, private investigator, gay. Yes, we cover them all.    www.sophiacleary.com penistheband.com https://twitter.com/_sophia_cleary?lang=en

Seung Min Lee grew up in Maspeth, Queens. Now she's in the Hamptons (occasionally), unsurprised. Topics include coddling, negging, and zombie modern dancing. 

I almost went to UCLA for college. Lia Lowenthal makes me regret that I didn't. John Baldessari pours himself a weird nightcap. Listener, listen on. Lia Lowenthal  http://www.lialowenthal.com   Documentation of Lia's Performances https://vimeo.com/user31691511   LL LLC https://lia-lowenthal.squarespace.com     Images:  Under Tylass, 2016  Creaned Gap, 2016  Installation view of GETHENS at Richard...

David Roesing and I have so much fun talking about his show at Page NYC we put ourselves in timeout. Twice. 

Vanessa Guilly Santiago is drawing up a storm. We talk about her new work, riot girl, traveling around LA, and feeling like an outsider. Also, remember to donate to RAICES and help migrant parents reunite with their children. 

The first ever podcast recorded in my new Recess in Brooklyn, NY! Bobo is Phil Cote, Drew Gillepsie, and Nick Payne. Bobo's work is elaborate, goofy, and controversial. We have a lovey-dovey conversation about it. Nick's not there.  

The only way out is through the hole, says artist Colleen Asper. This episode is a deep dive into Sum/Body, Colleen Asper's latest exhibition at Stellar Projects. We're talking holes. And by that I mean we're talking vaginas. And clitorises. Mostly the later.

Immersion Therapy with Karen Azoulay

The trashiest episode of The Amy Beecher Show yet. In her Greenpoint apartment, Al turns the podcast around and bullies me about my relationship and past drug use. Yes, eventually, we talk about her recent NY-Times reviewed show at 56 Henry. Sure. But it's a complete trash fire otherwise. Also, Al is taking over the Instagram. Check that out.

Em Rooney has a show coming up at the Museum of Modern Art soon. What else would we want to talk about? Marriage, Vermont, and gardening in the studio. That's what.

Amy talks music, DIY culture, and White Whales with Stephen Lacy of Academy Records. Maximum Rock and Roll http://www.maximumrocknroll.com   Stephen Lacy http://www.academyrecords.org   Wolfman jack https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wolfman_Jack   Fact Sheet Five https://www.amazon.com/Factsheet-Five-Zine-Reader-Underground/dp/0609800019

Artist Virginia Lee Montgomery grew up in the Bayou and now has a pretty weird day gig that takes her all over the country. (No spoilers, though). Recent work includes a collaboration with the Dark Matter lab at Yale, an installation of what she calls subversive currency at Sculpture Center, and a solo exhibition at Meyohas Gallery (both in New York). More topics: Rodeo, Michael Smith, horse wigs....

Amy Beecher talks to painter and performer Jennifer Sullivan about drugs, stripping, loss, women's pictures, amateur porn attempts, and coins the phrase "art piece." Jennifer Sullivan http://www.jennifersullivan.org/videos.html   Women's pictures: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Woman%27s_film   Emma Gray (Jen's LA Gallerist): http://emmagrayhq.com/   Andre J: http://www.nytimes.com/2007/11/25/fas...

  In 2015 Amy talked  to the legendary Bert Crenca, founder of AS220. Hear about how recovering from addiction and finding himself as an artist led shaped Crenca's vision for AS220. This is an inspiring one. Hold onto your hats. Bert Crenca- Ted Talk https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tD-T4LIddtE   Pregones Theater http://pregonesprtt.org   AS220 https://as220.org   Edgar Cayce https://www.edgarcayce...

Leeza Meksin -what a delight! This conversation took place around a month ago in my mother's psychotherapy office. Leeza and I talk "shop" about Spandex, mind over matter, figure skating, and her new gig at Columbia. Trigger warning: this episode is heavy on the grad school talk. Alexis Michelle Elizabeth Gross Wayne  Kostenbaum Wayne Kostenbaum and Leeza Meskin's Pink Trance Notebooks  Gowanus, O...

Reuben Lorch-Miller and I talk about magic tricks, grieving, marriage, rule-based art, and being "a part of a moment." Also, "I'm back." Intro recorded at my new empty apartment in Providence. Sounds a little different in there, no? That's what affordable spaces sound like. SAMBAND ÍSLENSKRA MYNDLISTARMANNA (THE ASSOCIATION OF ICELANDIC VISUAL ARTISTS) Shandaken Project Reuben's work at  Dose Proj...

Nancy Lupo explains Lizard Syndrome, getting up at 5AM, and choosing materials that she can carry. Her work is up right now at PS1  through May 25th.  Soloway Richard Artschwager Drawings Foam Guerilla Glue- add water! Other people's narratives Public art Who are 4x8 materials made for anyway? And also this ...to this ....to this ....to this . Winnicot Playing and Reality Lee Lozano's Drawings Pat...

Whats the classiest way to take out your trash?  What do my dreams mean? Who is Nate Heiges? Nate and I sit in my apartment and chip away at those glaciers. Nate Heiges Abject...? According to Julia Kristeva Linda Arredondo Sarah Lucas Huh, wow Jessica Stockholder Isa Gensken Golden Girls