Women at the Helm

Victoria Cantons is a contemporary painter and photographer. In my exploration and conversation with the artist, we explore her expressive works, figural paintings, motifs of flowers and photographs of friends. Canton engages us through the visual expression her lived experiences as a LGBTQ artist. . Resources for this episode are listed on my website: www.beyondthepaint.net Please follow Victoria...

Celebrating the reopening of the M. David & Co. Gallery in Brooklyn, NY and the exhibition "Once in the Lifetime." . Visit (show is open until October 3, 2021) * https://www.mdavidandco.com/ * IG @mdavidco . Artists highlighted in this episode include: * Kathryn Hart: IG @kathrynhartart * Judy Pfaff: IG @judy.pfaff * Deborah Dancy: IG @deborahdancyart . Image Credit: "Untitled," Judy Pfaff (M. Dav...

Visual artist Deborah Wasserman merges the female figure with the landscape in her paintings, collage and performative works. This episode includes a conversation with the artist--an engaging deep dive into her works, practice and personal history of migration. . Resources: "Wander, Woman" exhibition catalog (2018) Visit Wasserman: www.deborahwasserman.com IG: @deborahwassermanart Image Credit: "B...

Through "process" and industrial materials, American sculptor Eva Hesse responds to the rigidity of Minimalism with a radical, visual language imbued with emotion, personal history and unique beauty. . Image Credit: "Hang Up" (Art Institute of Chicago) Title Credit: New York Times Special thanks to sculptor Elly Buckley for inspiring this episode. Follow her on IG: elly_buckley_sculptor Resources...

Join me in an engaging conversation with the sculptor Melanie Cooper Pennington. Her evocative large scaled multi-media biomorphic sculptures express the feminine experience through themes of birth and empowerment. . Visit www.melaniepennington.com to view the objects discussed. Follow Melanie @melaniecooperpennington on IG Image Credit: "Wailing," 2014 (wood, ceramic, plaster)

Dive into the highly-stylized, sensuous portraits of women by the 20th century painter Tamara de Lempika. . Resources and works highlighted in this episode are listed on my website: www.beyondthepaint.net Follow me on IG for more engaging content celebrating female artists: @beyondthepaintwbernadine Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/beyondthepaintwithbernadine . Image: "Self-Portrait in the Green B...

Ruth Bolluck is a portrait and figural painter whose works, her celebratory portrayals of people, illuminate the dignity and grace of her sitters. Bullock’s works and practice, what she sometimes refers to as “projects,” includes bodies that are not always represented by art galleries. . Visit and follow Ruth Bullock on IG @ruthejonesart Resources for this episode are listed on my website: beyondt...

Enjoy a "best of" episode with sculptor Gina Lee Robbins. Her sculptural work, using clay and found or repurposed materials, incorporate her personal experiences as a mother and draw from both the feminine divine and abstraction. . Beyond the Paint is thrilled to partner with Women of Culture/NYC in an art talk and tour, "Alice Neel: People Come First," at the Metropolitan Museum of Art on Sunday,...

A revisit to episode #108 and the gestural paintings of female artist Alex Bigatti. Her boundless joy for nature is splashed in vivid colors and sweeping brushstrokes onto the canvas. You will especially enjoy our conversation--her energy and enthusiasm for art is infectious! . Visit Alex at her website: www.alexbigattiart.com Follow her on Instagram: @alexbigatti_art and @alexgestural . Beyond th...

Beyond the Paint invites you to join me on an audio tour highlighting four representations of the female figure from the perspective of women artists through the collection of the New Britain Museum of American Art. Experience the female body through the feminine experience! . Resources and images are listed at my website www.beyondthepaint.net . This episode is dedicated to Priscilla, Victoria an...

Beyond the Paint podcast is shaking up our format for this episode! Please join me for a conversation with the writer and historian John Launius. Our talk encompasses his writings (he wrote a book about the philanthropist and art collector Charles Parsons), but also our shared interest and enthusiasm for women, female artists like Harriet Hosmer, featured in his book, and other women who break thr...

Discover the abstract, monumental sculptures of artist Barbara Chase-Riboud. Her works incorporate bronze, paint, and the textile component, wool. Her dynamic bronze, figural works are "flexible as silk." --their raw beauty is contained yet flowing. . Resources for this episode are listed at my website: www.beyondthepaint.net In this episode I mention artist Alice Neel and my celebration of her pa...

Experience the ways women artists employ "allegory" and portraiture to demand their place in art history. . Resources for this podcast episode are listed on my website at www.beyondthepaint.net Image credit: New Britain Museum of American Art Support me on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/beyondthepaintwithbernadine

Figurative artist Amy Chaiklin is a "storyteller." Her female imagery, ranging from witches, goddesses, superwomen and the women who have supported and inspired Chaiklin, reveals a wide range of women's experiences. . This episode includes a conversation with Amy and includes the "true" story behind her 1983 mural "Beauties on the Bowery" in the context as a working, woman artist. . Resources for...

Painter Agnes Martin derived her "restrained yet evocative" paintings from inspiration. Her large non-representational works transport the viewer from the familiar in nature, like a tree or sky, into a new state of awareness. . Resources and the images highlighted in this episode are listed on my website: www.beyondthepaint.net Image credit: "Night Sea" SFMOMA Follow me on Instagram @beyondthepain...

Journey with me through the portraits of women, pregnant, nude women through the lens of figurative painter Alice Neel. She captures theri bodies at their most extremes--her images are riveting! . Amy Chaiklin website: https://www.amychaiklin.com/ IG handle: @amychaiklin Resources and images discussed for this episode are listed at my website: beyondthepaint.net

Beyond the Paint with Bernadine is on a short sabbatical this week--going to chase the sublime with hikes and exploring you the exhibition "Alice Neel: People Come First" at the Met Museum--I will share more about my visit and Neel in an upcoming episode. . For now, enjoy one of my favorite episodes celebrating the painter Laurence de Valmy #Storiesinart. This episode include an engaging conversat...

Nanu Berks is a trailblazer and female pioneer in the Crypto Art market--Journey with me through her "channeled" paintings that are transformed into an original digital asset. . Nanu joins me on the show for a lively conversation. She shares the ways her nomadic life informs her work, how the crypto art market eliminates the gallery system, and how an NFT (non-fugible token) is a mode of being vis...

Each month I dedicate one episode of an excerpt of a book I am writing. Writing is the vehicle I want to use; to bring into my reader the ways art has transported me and shaped me into the woman I want to be, and into the life I want to live. My hope is for you to be open to the ways art can shape and bring meaning to your life. . The excerpt I highlight is from the chapter "Louise Nevelson: Head...

Artist Peter Bustin loves to "paint humans." He sees beauty in all people and he encapsulates that love and admiration through layers of paint like a sculptor forming a figure in clay. . I came to know Peter and his work through this show. Join me and learn why I broke with my show's tradition of celebrating women artists, to celebrate a male one. :) . This episode includes a conversation with Pet...

This episode is a celebration of the founder of the Art Center at the Red Barn, Janice Juliano and resident painter, Katie Fogg--woven through is the power and presence of the Divine Feminine! . Learn more about the Art Center and its offerings at www.artattheredbarn.com Follow the work of emerging painter Katie Fogg at www.katiefogg.com and @katiefogg on Instagram. Image Credit: Mary Edelson: God...

Contemporary, figurative painter Christiane Lyons distorts a singula viewpoint of the women portraits she paints by creating more than one view of her face and limbs in the same image. She forms her figures through "found images in her searches through social media and fashion photography." . Visit ww.beyondthepaint.net to see the images discussed and resources used for this episode. Follow and le...

Check out the Virtual exhibition, "Feminist Connect," celebrating 42 women artists across diverse disciplines. . Linke to the exhibition and upcoming Virtual Art Discussion: https://www.les-femmes-folles-feminist-connect.com/ Follow the co-curators Sally Brown @sallery_art and Leslie C. Sotomayor @art_by_lcs on Instagram

The prolific contemporary artist Christine Sloan Stoddard "makes books, films, murals and other imaginings," that speak to her deep interest for the marginalized, people, animals struggling to find their power." . Explore with me a series of murals she created for a residential community in South Brooklyn. Become immersed into her fantastical landscapes of graphic images and vivid colors. . Resour...