Concerning The Spiritual In Art – Details, episodes & analysis

In this episode, I have a profound conversation with visual artist Kelly Joy Ladd, diving deep into her transformative journey of healing and creativity. We explore her traumatic head injury and how it catalyzed a significant shift in her life and art practice, leading her to embrace her spirituality and authenticity fully.

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Ladd‘s work responds to themes of cosmic and creative mysteries, exploring inner and outer space, spiritually, the connection of all things and understanding the universe and our roles and purpose in it.

Ladd’s Liberal Studies degree from the University of Central Florida allowed her to opportunity to explore the subjects that peaked her curiosity like astronomy, physics and creative writing. During this time, she also discovered eastern philosophies and meditation, which has been a staple and major influence in her life and art practice.

Before becoming a full-time artist in 2019, she worked as a Disney World parade performer, music writer for HardRock.com, an editor and prop stylist for Parenting magazine and a freelance craft designer and blogger. All the while, she was developing her own style and unique techniques using paper as her main medium, due to her husband’s adverse health reactions to chemicals and paint.

In March 2020, Ladd experienced a significant head injury, which greatly affected her vision. Since then, she has been retraining her brain and eyes to refocus and track again. During her recovery when she wasn’t able to read, watch TV, or look at phones and computers, Ladd used this time, without outside distractions or influences, to devote her full attention to her art and meditation practices.

Her 3-D paper and mixed media work has been exhibited in the Mennello Museum of American Art and the Cummer Museum Art and Gardens.

Ladd’s intuitive artistic approach aligns her with her influences transcendental artists Hilma af Klint, Agnes Pelton and Emma Kunz.

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In this episode, I have an enriching conversation with visual artist Emily Weiner. We delve into her captivating work, exploring themes like the archetypes of the collective unconscious, Carl Jung, and Joseph Campbell. We discuss the relationship between universal archetypal spaces and painting, highlighting how art serves as a medium to express symbolic ideas that are often challenging to articulate.

Emily shares her creative process, from the initial stages of her paintings to the intricate creation of her ceramic frames. Our discussion spans various topics, including the intersection of spiritual identity and artistic identity, and the profound connections between personal experiences and universal truths. We also touch upon the influence of Jungian psychology and mythology on her work, and how these elements provide a structured framework for symbolism.

Weiner's journey is fascinating, from her academic background to her role as a curator at Vanderbilt University, where she curated a show that explored symbols and archetypes. This experience further validated her approach to art, blending scholarly insights with intuitive creativity. We also explore the impact of family and personal life on her artistic practice, and how her experiences as a parent have shaped her perspective and work.

Emily's work is a beautiful balance of objective and subjective components of the unconscious reality we all inhabit. Her use of symbols, color palettes, and compositions invites viewers to connect with deeper layers of meaning and universal truths. This conversation is a deep dive into the spiritual and creative processes that drive her art, offering listeners a glimpse into the mind of a truly insightful artist.

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www.emilyweiner.com

 @emilyweiner

Emily Weiner (b. 1981 in Brooklyn, New York) is an American painter living and working in Nashville, TN. She received a BA from Barnard College, Columbia University, and her MFA from The School of Visual Arts in New York City.
Select solo and group exhibitions include KÖNIG GALERIE, Berlin, Germany (2024); Red Arrow Gallery, Nashville, USA (2024); Entrée, Bergen, Norway (2023); Kunsthall Grenland, Porsgrunn, Norway (2023); Huxley-Parlour, London, UK (2023); Andrea Festa Fine Art, Rome, Italy (2023); Whitespace Gallery, Atlanta, USA (2023); Pentimenti, Philadelphia, USA (2023); Wespace, Shanghai, China (2022), Gerdarsafn Museum, Kopavogur, Iceland (2017); and Soloway Gallery, Brooklyn, NY (2016). She has been a Visiting Artist/Scholar at the American Academy in Rome; Artist Resident at The Cooper Union, New York, NY; and Artist-in-Residence at The Banff Centre, Canada. She was a winner of the Hopper Prize (2022), an awardee of the Current Art Fund through The Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts (2021), and a nominee for the Joan Mitchell Fellowship (2022 and 2023). Her paintings are included in the permanent collections of the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts, Philadelphia, USA, and Kunsthall Grenland in Porsgrunn, Norway.

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Last Episode of 2023! 

In this episode, Kelsey and I discuss the origins of his art , stemming from his time working as a scientist, and how his interests and passions for art took him on a winding unexpected journey to where he is today. We discuss the intersection of science and art, sacred geometry, and the mystery of consciousness. We talk about his approach to his work and its relationship with meditation, along with the importance of gratitude and the experience of awe in everyday life.  It was such a fun and rich discussion that you all are going to love!

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KELSEY BROOKES is a former scientist who uses his background in biological and empirical methodology to develop a new genre of art. In his practice, Brookes adopts ideas found in logic and natural systems, such as molecular and atomic structures or number sequences, to build compositions that blur boundaries between the analytic and the creative. This approach drives the foundation of lively and colorful work that is both meticulously crafted and conceptually rigorous. His intricate paintings and sculptures find a unique balance within the juxtaposition of subjectivity and objectivity, as well as theory and aesthetic. Brookes dives into the discoveries of physicians, mathematicians, and chemists as only a scientist is capable, and, through the use of color and form, expresses this knowledge to the world in an abstract and luminous manner as only an artist is capable. Embodying an experimental nature that is mutual of science and art, Brookes is constantly growing his practice, whether it be through the exploration of unfamiliar media, or the employment of a new technique to further his study and anomalous presentation of biochemical substances.
Brookes has had solo exhibitions in La Jolla, Los Angeles, New York, Detroit, London and Berlin. His work was featured as the cover art for the Red Hot Chili Peppers’ 2012 “I’m With You” record and The Flaming Lips’ 2013 “Stone Roses” LP. KELSEY BROOKES: Psychedelic Space is the artist’s first monograph and examines three years of work and four solo exhibitions. His work belongs in esteemed private collections, as well as the public permanent collections of the Museum of Contemporary Art, San Diego, the Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art, and the Frederick R. Weisman Foundation.
Links:
Website: https://www.kelseybrookes.com
IG: @kelseybrookes

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In this episode I am joined by visual artist Dan Huston.  During this episode Dan and I had an incredible conversation around his highly disciplined and prolific drawing practice. We talked about his origins with art and why drawing seems to speak to him so inimitably compared to any other medium. We discuss our shared interests in the magic of the natural world along with the mirroring of forms in both the micro and macro cosmic scales.  We also touch upon his playful and organic approach to his work, and the motivations that drive his commitment to his art practice.

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Dan Huston (b. 1992) currently lives and works in Brooklyn, New York. He received a BA in environmental studies and studio art from Bates College in 2014. He makes intuitive drawings and works exclusively in colored pencil.

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I am super excited to share this episode with visual artist, Laura Payne.  Laura and I have an exciting discussion around ideas of multiple dimensions and how to express the feeling of these other dimensional spaces on a 2-D surface. We talk about her process and how important it is to just show up and get to work in the studio.  Laura touches upon how her way of understanding her work has changed a lot recently, especially in the wake of reading the book “The Creative Act: A Way Of Being” by Rick Rubin.  Laura and I also talk about the power of intuition and how hard it can be to embrace but how ultimately crucial it is.  

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Laura Payne (b. 1987, Ottawa) is a visual artist based in Okotoks, Alberta, Canada. She received her BFA from the University of Western Ontario in 2010, and her MFA from the Maryland Institute College of Art. Her paintings and electronic media works have been exhibited at public galleries, commercial galleries, artist-run centres, festivals, and art fairs across North America -- in Toronto, Montreal, Los Angeles, San Francisco, New York, Baltimore, and Washington DC. Payne has received support from the Saskatchewan Arts Board, Ontario Arts Council, Calgary Arts Development, and Canada Council for the Arts. She was a finalist for the RBC Canadian Painting Competition in 2017, culminating in a finalist exhibition at the National Gallery of Canada. Payne is represented commercially by Galerie Robertson Ares (Montreal) and Slate Fine Art Gallery (Regina).INSTAGRAMhttps://www.instagram.com/alaurapayne/WEBSITE
https://www.laurapayne.net/UPCOMING:-- November 2023
"moments," group exhibition at Soft Times Gallery, San Francisco-- December 2023
"Saturnalia", group exhibition at Slate Fine Art Gallery, Regina-- January-February 2024
Artist in Residence program at the Residence Inn by Marriott, Calgary
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Solo exhibition at Galerie Robertson Ares, Montreal

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In this episode I have Danish artist, Rebekka Borum on the podcast.  Rebekka and I had an incredible dialogue around her work and her journey as an artist, going from studying technology and design, to working purely analog as a painter. We talked about her evolution as an artist, exploring differing kinds of substrates as well as the evolution in her understanding of her relationship to her creative process.  We dove deep into a discussion around abstraction, math, geometry, and how this kind of visual language can be a gateway to powerful emotional experiences.  Rebekah has such a disciplined and inspiring art practice and I know you all are going to love this episode and love her seeing her work!

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Rebekka Borum (b. 1992) is a visual artist from Denmark with a BA in Art and Technology from Aalborg University. In her artistic exploration she has developed an abstract, geometric, visual language inspired by mathematical formulas, yet expressed through the analogue medium; paint on canvas. This exploration has evolved throughout the years to be progressively more organic, both in appearance and medium. Drawing inspiration from the microscopic and macroscopic, she is delving into the very meaning of life through her vivid gradients painted on canvas and wooden sculptural objects. Borum's works have been shown in galleries and art institutions several places in Denmark for the last six years, as well as at Knew Conscious Gallery and Ryan Joseph Gallery in Denver, US. In her recent career, she has also created art installations for a hospital and a day care institution.

Links: 

Website: www.rebekka-borum.com

Instagram: www.instagram.com/rebekka_borum

Documentary: https://vimeo.com/631244343

Interview: https://www.liftedlab.com/blog/2022/7/29/interview-rebekka-borum-and-erika

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For this episode I am joined by visual artist Stephanie Gonzalez. Together we have a deep and vulnerable discussion around spiritual seeking, healing, and a new movement in art.  Stephanie shares about her background, growing up in Mexico and how her art practiced transformed when she learned to let go of her anger and find stillness within.  We talked about the power and importance of mediation and how those experience can inform art making.  Stephanie shares a lot about her own evolution and her amazing perspective on being an artist during these challenging and confusing times.  

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Born in Monterrey, Mexico, in 1988, Stephanie Gonzalez's art journey is a fusion of Mexican and American influences. Inspired by her grandfather's admiration for Bob Ross, she began creating at 14. Stephanie's work evolved from landscapes to powerful abstractions, where she embraced intuition over technique.

 Stephanie draws from her experiences as a lesbian Mexican woman, channeling her emotions into mixed media works using vintage magazines and discarded materials. After earning a Bachelor's in Interior Design from the Art Institute of Houston, she pursued a Master's in Fine Art, broadening her scope to sculpture and conceptual art. Stephanie's art now graces international collections, including prestigious venues like Starwood Hotels and the CICA Museum in South Korea. Stephanie's work has been shown in museums such as The Masur Museum of Art in Louisiana and the Holocaust Museum in Houston, and she shows her work in various galleries around the U.S. She has received awards from the Glassell School of Art, Brownsville Museum of Fine Art, and Rising Eyes of Texas.

 Her recent work explores geometric landscapes, delving into the spiritual and the interconnected. Stephanie Gonzalez's art continues to captivate and evolve, leaving an indelible mark on contemporary art.

website: https://www.stephaniegonzalez.net/

instagram: @me_gusta_pintar_si

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In this episode with visual artist, art historian, and writer Alessandro Keegan, we have magical dialogue around esoterica, alchemy, and spiritual practices in relation to visual art. We learn about Alessandro’s thought process and approach to his magical paintings.  We talk about the emergence of this genre of artwork into the mainstream and what that could mean about the deeply transformative times we are living in.  

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Alessandro Keegan (b. 1980) is a visual artist, writer and art history professor with an MFA in painting and drawing from The School of the Art Institute of Chicago and a MA in art history from Brooklyn College. Keegan, who has training as a gemologist, worked at the Gemological Institute of America in New York until 2012, while completing his education. He currently lives and works in the Hudson Valley town of Walden, New York.

Keegan’s paintings have been exhibited in New York, Chicago, London, Barcelona, Hong Kong, Macau, The Hague, and many other cities around the world. His art can be found in the permanent collection of the College of Psychic Studies, in London, alongside historical artists of the occult. In 2023, Keegan had his first solo exhibition in New York City at Waterhouse and Dodd Gallery. His most recent exhibition was at the Macau Museum of Art, as part of the Macau International Art Biennale, on view from July 28th-October 29th, 2023.

Writings about his work have appeared in Artsy, ArtMaze Magazine, Artforum, Cultured Magazine, Elephant Magazine, and Masthead Magazine as well as journals such as Helvete (Punctum Books, Brooklyn) and J’ai Froid (Castillo/ Corrales, Paris). Keegan’s art practice and ideas are the subject of a short documentary film called “The Matter of Mind”, released in 2020 by Full Moon Films. Keegan is also a writer, and will have a forthcoming essay in "Enchanted Pedagogies: Archetypes, Magic, and Knowledge", an anthology edited by Kari Adelaide Razdow, published by Brill publishers.

website: https://www.alessandrokeegan.com/

Substack: https://alessandrokeegan.substack.com/

Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/alessandro_keegan/

Gallery: https://www.waterhousedodd.com/

Matter of Mind (documentary): https://vimeo.com/482193743

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In this episode with visual artist, Kristin Farr, we dive deep into a discussion around folk art and folk magic. We talk about these influences in Kristin’s work, how they came to be, and how she utilizes them within her dynamic practice making paintings and murals. 

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Kristin’s paintings are directed by color and influenced by folk art practices, synesthesia and ideas about magic. Her large-scale murals can be found in California and internationally, and she has exhibited her work in galleries around the US. Recently, she has been experimenting with ceramic sculpture. Kristin is also Deputy Editor of Juxtapoz Magazine and has produced many curatorial programs and documentary film projects about contemporary art. 

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This week I have Allie Lyon on the podcast.  She is an visual artist, photographer, and yoga/ meditation teacher. This episode is deep dive into spiritual practice and how it can relate to and inform our creative practice.  There are so many amazing nuggets of wisdom in this one that I think anyone can take away with them.  It was an inspired conversation that I am super excited to share with all of you!

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Allie is an abstract artist and meditation, yoga nidra, yoga guide originally from New York, currently living in Portland, Oregon. Her artwork is inspired by living most of her life with chronic aura migraines. The debilitating & blinding pain that comes along & blurs her vision, leaving her immobile in a dark room with no light or sound becomes a pathway to deep self inquiry, clarity & inspiration. Immersed in darkness, light and colors would emerge and dissolve behind her eyes, shapeshifting into different worlds that could only be illuminated by the darkness.

Allie’s pain became a portal into beauty.The imprints left in her mind created by the visceral pain of migraines are reflected in her artwork. Glimpses of colors & shapes dance together to create meditative landscapes, a reprieve from something so painful. Allie continues to be inspired by the questions:How can I show something that’s invisible? She discovered her process from a college assignment: take a photograph of nothing. 

Allie was so inspired by this idea of what nothing can mean:darkness, emptiness & invisible space. She was instantly reminded how migraines & meditation offer this same inquiry. The vision of our internal world was so much more inspiring than what we can see with our eyes. Allie describes her work as pushing the medium of photography to offer a vision beyond what is visible and instead, transform the invisible into a visible experience. She focuses on making photographs rather than taking photographs by collaborating with the lens and light to create a view of our internal landscape.

Allie’s dad gave her a film camera when she was 10 years old & she became fascinated with being in the dark room in high school and college, seeing images appear when submerged in the quiet darkness. This became a theme: how darkness is a space for light to exist in. Allie is  inspired by the inward experience that meditation and migraines have illuminated. She views her process of art-making as a collaboration between herself and the medium: showing up with intention and simultaneously letting go to allow the medium of photography, paint or ink to also participate in the outcome. This process also reflects yogic and meditation philosophies on the importance of arrival and letting go. This is the foundation from which Allie creates.

 Art is a shared experience:creating and letting yourself be seen by others becomes a mirror for people to be curious about their own inner worlds. Allie’s passion and purpose is to explore the integration between art and meditation.  We can use these tools to illuminate the world within: inviting more clarity, compassion and understanding to ourselves and the world.

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https://www.instagram.com/allielyonart/

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