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| Ep 100: Paul Klee's Pluralism (Plus Magritte) | 28 sept. 2026 | 00:42:03 | |
Paul Klee loved working in a wide variety of styles at once in his paintings: abstract, representational, runic or symbolic. His oeuvre literally contains multitudes. I recently saw a show of his late works in New York at the Jewish Museum and was amazed at how many mediums and approaches to painting were on display. This episode honors him and his radical reconsideration of Painting with a side detour on Magritte. Come along for a wild ride! Klee works mentioned: Around the Fish 1926, Suffering Fruit 1934, Struck from the List 1933, This Star Teaches Bending 1940, Angel, Still Female 1939, Drinking Companion 1931 Magritte works mentioned: Le Stropiat (version 1 and 2-both 1948), Jean-Marie 1948, A Stroke of Luck 1948, Seasickness 1948, The Famine 1948, The Pictorial Content 1948 Host note: “The Famine” cheekily referenced the characters in a popular French comic series of the day called Adventures of the Pieds Nickelés (nickel plated feet)* created by Louis Forton and told the story of 3 bumbling and good for nothing criminals who constantly fail at their mission. *a French term for lazy slackers See more: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Les_Pieds_Nickel%C3%A9s Artists mentioned: Paul Klee, Hilma af Klint, Agnes Martin, Giorgio Morandi, Hannah Wilke, René Magritte, Pablo Picasso, Emil Nolde, Wassily Kandinsky, Henri Rousseau, Ludwig Meidner, Richard Seewald, Oskar Kokoschka, Henri Matisse, Giorgio de Chirico, Gerhard Richter, Pierre-Auguste Renoir, André Breton, Diego Velázquez (Las Meninas 1656) Writers mentioned: Ralph Waldo Emerson, Sarah Gottesman, Charles W. Haxthausen, Wilhelm Hausenstein, Louis Scutenaire, George Kubler, Michael Foucault Links: Paul Klee: Other Possible Worlds exhibit at the Jewish Museum 2026 https://thejewishmuseum.org/exhibitions/paul-klee-other-possible-worlds/ Paul Klee’s Bauhaus Assignments: https://www.artsy.net/article/artsy-editorial-how-to-be-an-artist-according-to-paul-klee Picasso’s Return to Order Period: Magritte's Vache Period: https://www.artsy.net/article/artsy-editorial-9-times-historys-greatest-artists-made-bad-artworks https://www.moma.org/artists/3692-rene-magritte Hannah Wilke's Flower Series: https://www.marcselwynfineart.com/exhibitions/hannah-wilke2#tab:thumbnails;tab-1:slideshow Foucault's essay "The Order of Things" (Les Mots et les Choses) on Velázquez and Klee: https://monoskop.org/images/a/a2/Foucault_Michel_The_Order_of_Things_1994.pdf More on Charles W. "Mark" Haxthausen's paper: Paul Klee, Wilhelm Hausenstein, and the “Problem of Style” (2014) Watch: https://www.ias.edu/ideas/2014/haxthausen-klee-video Read: https://www.academia.edu/6541479/Paul_Klee_Wilhelm_Hausenstein_and_the_Problem_of_Style_publication_ Paul Klee books: Paul Klee: Other Possible Worlds by Mason Klein, Senior Curator at The Jewish Museum Paul Klee: Life and Work by Michael Baumgartner, Christine Hopfengart, Fabienne Eggelhöfer, Osama Okuda Amy's Solo exhibition in Los Angeles (Atwater Village) "The Weight of Colors" at The Middle Room 3229 Glendale Blvd, Los Angeles, CA Oct 24-Nov 22, 2026 Reception, Sat Oct 24 6-8 and Artist Talk, Sun Oct 25 1-3 Come on out, y'all! https://www.themiddleroomgallery.com/exhibitions Thank you, Peps Listeners! All music by Soundstripe ---------------------------- Pep Talks on IG: @peptalksforartists Pep Talks Website: https://www.peptalksforartists.com/ Amy, your beloved host, on IG: @talluts Amy's website: https://www.amytalluto.com/ Pep Talks on Art Spiel as written essays: https://tinyurl.com/7k82vd8s BuyMeACoffee Donations always appreciated! | |||
| Ep 99: Collage, Lee Krasner and Jess w/ Jennifer Coates | 20 août 2026 | 01:49:32 | |
We're talking collage! Jennifer Coates joins me in a quest to get to the heart of why collage is such a powerful generator in the studio. We also take a look at 2 artists who used collage in different ways: Lee Krasner and Jess. Krasner used collage at certain key moments to bridge bodies of work, and Jess used collage as his main ecstatic medium spanning more than 4 decades of his output. As Krasner teaches us: "Knife or scissors...no tear! " Works by Lee Krasner mentioned: Seated Figure 1938-9; Milkweed, Stretched Yellow, Desert Moon, Bird Talk, Blue Level (all 1955); Imperfect Indicative 1976 (Visit Kasmin Gallery for images) Works by Jess mentioned: Blasted Beauty 1954, The Translations series, Paste-Ups series, Assemblies series, Necrofacts series, Salvages series, Narkissos series 1976-1991, The Unentitled Graces 1978, Dyslecstasy 1991 (See all of his works at https://jesscollins.org/) Glue Tawk™: Jennifer prefers Matte Medium and Amy agrees but suggests using UHU stick for thin papers Links to watch/listen: James Kalm Report on the Outsider Art Fair Recording Artists: Radical Women Podcast: "Deal With It" on Lee Krasner Inside New York's Art World 1978 interview by Barbara Lee Diamondstein Spielvogel with Lee Krasner Proto-collage and assemblage objects & installations: Opificio delle Pietre Dure - Florence, Limoges Casket/Reliquary 13th c, Musée des Beaux-Arts de Lille, Capuchin Crypt under Santa Maria della Concezione dei Cappuccini, Rome, Shell Grotto, Margate, Kent, Paper lace valentines of the Victorian era, Wishing Trees of Cornwall Artists mentioned: Hannah Hoch, Lee Krasner, Jess, Artists of the DADA movement, Georges Braque, Pablo Picasso, Wangechi Mutu, Mark Bradford, Chris Martin, Thomas Lanigan-Schmidt, Henri Matisse, Hans Hoffman, Piet Mondrian, Illuminators of the Book of Kells, Anne Ryan, Paul Klee, Amy Sillman, Lari Pittman, Marcel Duchamp, Clyfford Still, Hieronymus Bosch, Joseph Cornell, Andrea Burgay, Max-o-matic, Richard Diebenkorn, Robert Motherwell, Henri Matisse, Max Ernst, Kurt Schwitters, Grete Stern Writers mentioned: Art Reporter and Critic: Stuart Preston; Poets: Robert Duncan and John Ashbery; Gail Levin; Charles Baudelaire; Edgar Allen Poe Our Book Nook (incl Collage Resources): Kolaj Magazine and online collage artist directory The Weird Show online survey of contemporary collage "Waste Not Want Not: An Inquiry into What Women Saved and Assembled—FEMMAGE" Essay by Miriam Schapiro and Melissa Meyer Lee Krasner: A Biography by Gail Levin Jess: To and From the Printed Page by Jess Fragmentary Forms: A New History of Collage by Freya Gowrley Collage by Women: 50 Essential Contemporary Artists by Rebeka Elizegi and Blanca Ortiga Cutting Edges: Contemporary Collage published by Gestalten Collage: Assembling Contemporary Art edited by Anthony Downey Robert Motherwell: Early Collages by Robert Motherwell, Susan Davidson, Megan Fontanella, Brandon Taylor, Jeffrey Warda Find my guest, Jennifer Coates, online: See her recent exhibition "Aniline Sky" at 1053 Gallery Her instagram: @jennifercoates666 Thank you, Jennifer! Thank you, Peps Listeners! All music by Soundstripe ---------------------------- Pep Talks on IG: @peptalksforartists Pep Talks Website: https://www.peptalksforartists.com/ Amy, your beloved host, on IG: @talluts Amy's website: https://www.amytalluto.com/ Pep Talks on Art Spiel as written essays: https://tinyurl.com/7k82vd8s BuyMeACoffee Donations always appreciated! | |||
| Ep 98: Book Talks: Drawings & Observations by Louise Bourgeois / Lawrence Rinder w/ Mandolyn Wilson Rosen | 05 juil. 2026 | 01:15:59 | |
Louise Bourgeois Part 2! Mandolyn Wilson Rosen is back in her Book Talks seat to help me dissect a new delicious art book: Drawings & Observations by Louise Bourgeois with Lawrence Rinder. Bourgeois referred to these sketches as her "thought feathers" and revealed her thinking behind the reproduced works in recordings transcribed by curator Lawrence Rinder. It was so cool to get these direct insights into her imagery. This episode is a sequel to the recording right before this one (about our trip to view Louise Bourgeois' NYC home). Check out Part 1 if you missed it! The Book/Monograph: Louise Bourgeois: Drawings and Observations, by Louise Bourgeois with Lawrence Rinder, pub 1995 The Exhibition that the monograph accompanied: "Louise Bourgeois: Drawings" University of California, Berkeley's University Art Museum (UAM) from January 24 to March 24, 1996 Works mentioned: View all here: https://www.amytalluto.com/lbpod Page 20 "Self Portrait" 1938 Pencil on paper Page 26-7 "Untitled" 1940 Page 38 "Le Rebus" 1943 Page 44-5 "Femme Maison" 1947 ink on paper Page 68-9 "Untitled" 1949 red ink and charcoal on paper Page 76-7 "Untitled" 1947 crayon, pen & ink and pencil Page 104-5 "Untitled" 1950 charcoal Page 114-5 "Untitled" 1950 ink on paper Page 126-7 "Untitled" 1967 ink and gouache on paper Page 156-7 "Untitled" 1988 Watercolor and Pencil on paper Artists mentioned: Jen Schwarting, Jean Michel Basquiat, Paul Klee, Joan Miro, Robert Gober, Nina Bovasso, Vicki Sher, Jack Whitten, Meret Oppenheim, Peter Halley Other books mentioned: Peter Halley: Recent Essays 1990-1996 Edgewise Press, Inside the Studio: Two Decades of Talks with Artists in New York by Independent Curators International, New York, Jack Whitten: Notes from the Woodshed Hauser & Wirth Thank you to my guest Mandolyn Wilson Rosen! Find her online at: MandolynWilsonRosen.com and IG @mandolyn_rosen Thank you, Peps Listeners! All music by Soundstripe ---------------------------- Pep Talks on IG: @peptalksforartists Pep Talks Website: https://www.peptalksforartists.com/ Amy, your beloved host, on IG: @talluts Amy's website: https://www.amytalluto.com/ Pep Talks on Art Spiel as written essays: https://tinyurl.com/7k82vd8s BuyMeACoffee Donations always appreciated! | |||
| Ep 97: Visiting the Louise Bourgeois House w Beka Goedde and Mandolyn Wilson Rosen | 25 mai 2026 | 01:02:52 | |
Beka Goedde and Mandolyn Wilson Rosen join me this episode to unpack our experience visiting renowned artist, Louise Bourgeois' home in NYC. We entered her historic brownstone and were immediately transported to another world and time. Louise lived a full life but was very much an artistic homebody. She made her home her studio in every sense of the word, stuffing each room full of materials to be on hand whenever inspiration struck. She found a way to balance family life with making her work and rode out long career lulls with grace and determination. Come along with us as we discuss our peek inside her sanctuary. More about Louise Bourgeois: https://www.moma.org/artists/710-louise-bourgeois https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/gallery/2013/oct/18/bourgeois https://hicarquitectura.com/2022/12/louise-bourgeoise-femme-maison/ Great film about Louise Bourgeois: Louise Bourgeois: The Spider, the Mistress, and the Tangerine 2008 Bourgeois works mentioned: "Arched Figure" 1993, "Maman" 1999 Bourgeois exhibitions mentioned: The Women at Peggy Guggenheim's Art of This Century gallery NYC 1945, Eccentric Abstraction, curated by Lucy Lippard at The Fischbach Gallery NYC 1966 Artists / Writers mentioned: Joyce Kosloff, Faith Ringgold, Sylvia Sleigh, Lucy Lippard, Linda Nochlin, Joan Snyder, Nancy Spero, Howardena Pindell, Delacroix, Matisse, Suzanne Valadon Beka mentioned Felix Harlan, master printmaker and co-founder of Harlan & Weaver, a fine art print publishing studio who made so many Bourgeois prints. 1973 Feminists' letter to William Rubin at MoMA: https://brooklynrail.org/2017/11/verbatim/Louise-Bourgeois-Breaking-the-Mold/ Further reading: Louise Bourgeois: Drawings and Observations, Ed. Lawrence Rinder; Runaway Girl: The Artist Louise Bourgeois , a YA book by Jan Greenberg (with Sandra Jordan); "New York Real Estate and the Ruin of American Art" by Josh Kline / October Thank you to my guests, Beka Goedde and Mandolyn Wilson Rosen! Find them online at: BekaGoedde.com and @bekagoedde MandolynWilsonRosen.com and @mandolyn_rosen Thank you to the wonderful guides and archivists at the Louise Bourgeois home who made this episode possible. Thank you, Peps Listeners! All music by Soundstripe ---------------------------- Pep Talks on IG: @peptalksforartists Pep Talks Website: https://www.peptalksforartists.com/ Amy, your beloved host, on IG: @talluts Amy's website: https://www.amytalluto.com/ Pep Talks on Art Spiel as written essays: https://tinyurl.com/7k82vd8s BuyMeACoffee Donations always appreciated! | |||
| Ep 96: Book Talks: Notes from the Woodshed by Jack Whitten w/ Mandolyn Wilson Rosen | 12 mars 2026 | 01:35:11 | |
In this new Book Talks episode, Mandolyn Wilson Rosen is back to help me review a new art book: Jack Whitten: Notes From the Woodshed, Edited by Katy Siegel for Hauser & Wirth. Equal parts profound, strident and hilarious, Jack Whitten's (1939-2018) 50 year studio log packs a wallop. And it's meaty at 581 pages, so we had lots to discuss! Stick around to hear some sage advice, inspiring tales of studio experimentation and even some positive affirmations from this incredible painter and sculptor. Links to shows, videos, articles mentioned:" Jack Whitten: The Messenger" Exhibition at MOMA 2025 "Jack Whitten: Ready-nows" Two Coats of Paint Blog Xerox PARC Artist-in-Residence (PAIR) program Jack Whitten – ‘The Political is in the Work’ by TateShots Jack Whitten: An Artist's Life | Art21 "Extended Play" Uncovering Jack Whitten’s mysterious abstractions | HOW TO SEE (MOMA) Artists mentioned: Willlem DeKooning, Robert Blackburn, Romare Bearden, Jacob Lawrence, Norman Lewis, Barnett Newman, Franz Kline, Gerhard Richter, Richard Serra, Ron Gorchov, Sol Lewitt, Frank Stella, Caravaggio, Berrisford Boothe, Kerry Downey, Amy Sillman, Jake Berthot Whitten works mentioned: "The Messenger: For Art Blakey," "Homecoming: For Miles," "Black Monolith 2: Homage to Ralph Ellison, The Invisible Man," "Head IV Lynching," Homage to Malcolm," "King's Wish (Martin Luther's Dream)," "King's Garden," The Slab Paintings, "Asa's Palace," Gray Paintings, Greek Alphabet Paintings, "Dead Reckoning I," "9-11-01," "Apps for Obama," "Nine Fire CDS: For the Fire Spitter (Jane Cortez)," "Zeitgeist Traps (For Michael Goldberg)," "Quantum Wall VIII for Arshile Gorky (My First Love in Painting)," "Crystal Palace: For Jeanne Siegel" Philosophers Jack loved: Immanuel Kant, Martin Heidegger, Edmund Husserl, Taha Hussein (Egyptian, Arab Renaissance), Friedrich Nietzsche, Slavoj Žižek Other artist logs: Day Book by Anne Truitt The Andy Warhol Diaries Edited by Pat Hackett Philip Guston: Collected Writings, Lectures and Conversations Edited by Clark Coolidge Agnes Martin: Painting, Writings, Remembrances Edited by Arne Glimcher Where to get the book: Hauser & Wirth , Abe Books, Thrift Books, Ebay, Amazon Please find Mandolyn Wilson Rosen online here: mandolynwilsonrosen.com and IG @mandolyn_rosen Thank you, Mandy! Thank you, Peps Listeners! All music by Soundstripe ---------------------------- Pep Talks on IG: @peptalksforartists Pep Talks Website: https://www.peptalksforartists.com/ Amy, your beloved host, on IG: @talluts Amy's website: https://www.amytalluto.com/ Pep Talks on Art Spiel as written essays: https://tinyurl.com/7k82vd8s BuyMeACoffee Donations always appreciated! | |||
| Ep 95: About Dawn Clements w/ Judy Glantzman | 26 janv. 2026 | 01:03:07 | |
Artist, Judy Glantzman, is back on the pod this week to discuss her friend and incredible artist, Dawn Clements (1958-2018). Come along with me as I hear more about this brave, innovative artist who celebrated the idea of the ungovernable doodle. Her ink and gouache drawings span walls and rooms, yet she often made them folded up on trains and while lying in bed. It was wonderful to hear Judy's recollections of this artist I have long-admired. Exhibitions mentioned: James Barron Art "Dawn Clements: Paper Flowers" 2025 Pierogi "Dawn Clements at the Boiler" 2010 MANA Contemporary, Jersey City, NJ "Dawn Clements, Living Large: A Survey, " 2021 Bates College Museum of Art, Lewiston, ME "Back and Forth" Dawn Clements and Marc Leuthold 2008 Museum of Modern Art "High and Low: Modern Art and Popular Culture" 1990-91 ...and keep an eye out for Dawn's upcoming show at the RISD Museum! Dawn Clements works discussed: "Mrs. Jessica Drummond's Bedroom (My Reputation, 1946)" 2010, "Kitchen and Bathroom" 2003, "Tabletop (Black and White)" 2010, "The Boiler" 2010, "Triptych (Yaddo)" 2017, "Maele Luster" 2011, "Grass" 2017, "Oval" 1995-2000, Collaboration with Marc Leuthold 2008 PLUS find more images at Pierogi Residencies mentioned: Sint Trudo Abdij (Maele, Belgium), MacDowell, Yaddo, Civitella Ranieri Foundation Other artists mentioned: Janet Fish, Fra Angelico ("Noli me tangere", 1440–42. Fresco from the convent of San Marco, Florence), Jane Freilicher, Catherine Murphy, Morandi, David Wojnarowicz, Vija Celmins, George Condo, Gina Ruggeri, Charles Burchfield, Charles Garabedian, Mary Temple Book mentioned: "Looking at the Overlooked" by Norman Bryson Links to online talks: Brooklyn Rail Panel: "Living Large: Dawn Clements" Dawn's favorite art materials: PAPER • Fabriano Accademia roll paper, 80-lb., and Strathmore 400 drawing roll paper, 100-lb. INKS AND PENCILS • Sumi ink (both black and vermilion)• ballpoint pen (Bic Crystal or PaperMate medium point black)• No. 2 pencils WATERCOLOR • Sennelier GOUACHE: • Winsor & Newton BRUSHES • soft round watercolor ----- Thank you to my guest, Judy Glantzman! Don't miss her upcoming solo show: Judy Glantzman at Feb 6 - March 14, 2026 390 Broadway, 2nd Floor (2nd location) Also, find Judy on IG: @judyglantzman Thank you for listening! ---------------------------- Pep Talks on IG: @peptalksforartists Pep Talks Website: https://www.peptalksforartists.com/ Amy, your beloved host, on IG: @talluts Amy's website: https://www.amytalluto.com/ Pep Talks on Art Spiel as written essays: https://tinyurl.com/7k82vd8s BuyMeACoffee Donations always appreciated! | |||
| Ep 94: Women Mystics in Art w/ Jennifer Coates (Part 2) | 06 déc. 2025 | 00:59:42 | |
We're back for Part 2! Artist, Jennifer Coates joins me again to discuss 2 modern-day women mystic artists: Cornish Visionary, Ithell Colquhoun and Desert Transcendentalist, Agnes Pelton. Ithell Colquhoun links and mentions: "Papers of Ithell Colquhoun (1906-1988)" archive at Tate Modern The Living Stones: Cornwall book by Ithell Colquhoun "The Mantic Stain" 1949 essay by Ithell Colquhoun "Dance of the Nine Opals" 1942 painting by Ithell Colquhoun "Scylla" 1938 painting by Ithell Colquhoun "Alcove" 1946 painting by Ithell Colquhoun Elliott Green, artist Ithell Colquhoun: Between Worlds ed Katy Norris "Taro of Color": Ithell Colquhoun's Tarot Deck 1977 Agnes Pelton links and mentions: Transcendental Painting Group, incl Raymond Johnson Hilma Af Klint Helena Blavatsky & Theosophy Alchemy 1937-9 Mother of Silence 1933 Photo of Agnes Pelton in Cathedral City 1932 Mystical Book Nook The Living Stones: Cornwall book by Ithell Colquhoun Ithell Colquhoun: Between Worlds ed Katy Norris Practical Mysticism by Evelyn Underhill On Mysticism by Simon Critchley Holy Feast and Holy Fast: The Religious Significance of Food to Medieval Women by Caroline Walker Bynum Ithell Colquhoun: Genius of The Fern Loved Gully by Amy Hale Weird Studies Podcast: Amy Hale episode Medieval Women: the Curators' Lunchtime Lecture on You Tube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yUgweMmuhyI Medieval Women: Voices and Visions (British Library) ed Julian Harrison & Eleanor Jackson Agnes Pelton: Desert Transcendentalist (Phoenix Art Museum) ed Gilbert Vicario The Spiritual in Art: Abstract Painting from 1890 to 1985 ed Maurice Tuchman Thanks so much to my guest cohost, Jennifer Coates! Find her online: web and IG Thanks to you for listening! ~~~ Visit Glögg Glǒgg, a pop up art faire, Dec 12-14, 2025 in Woodstock NY! More info: https://gloggglogg.my.canva.site/ or on IG at @glogg_glogg ~~~ All music by Soundstripe ---------------------------- Pep Talks on IG: @peptalksforartists Pep Talks Website: https://www.peptalksforartists.com/ Amy, your beloved host, on IG: @talluts Amy's website: https://www.amytalluto.com/ Pep Talks on Art Spiel as written essays: https://tinyurl.com/7k82vd8s BuyMeACoffee Donations always appreciated! | |||
| Ep 93: Women Mystics in Art w/ Jennifer Coates (Part 1) | 14 nov. 2025 | 01:15:00 | |
In this episode, Jennifer Coates returns to help me explore the spookily wonderful topic of Women Mystics and their connection to art and artists. In Part 1, we cover mystics from the Pythia of Ancient Greece to ecstatic visionaries like Hildegard von Bingen of the late Medieval era. P.S.: Keep an eye out for Part 2 where we dip into our fave 20th-century mystical artists. Ancient Mystics mentioned: The Pythia, priestesses of Apollo and the women behind the Oracle at Delphi (Greek) and the process of Dream Incubation by the Dream Oracles (Greek) Pythia/Oracle of Delphi deep dive (thanks, Gary!): 1. https://tinyurl.com/y8798eap 2. https://tinyurl.com/4vxkcsnu 3. https://tinyurl.com/mtz3rn24 Medieval Mystics mentioned: Joan of Arc, Christine Carpenter (Anchoress), Julian of Norwich (Anchoress), Margery Kempe, Birgitta of Sweden, Teresa of Avila, Hildegard of Bingen and her artworks "Scivias 2.1: The Redeemer," "Scivias 1.6: The Choirs of Angels," "Book of Divine Works, Part 2, Vision 1: The Parts of the Earth: Living, Dying, and Purgatory" 1150-1230 and song "O Viridissima Virga" /“O branch of freshest green” Medieval Illuminator mentioned: Sibylla von Bondorf and her painting, "St Clare and a Group of Nuns Mourning St Francis of Assisi" 1478 Films mentioned: "Anchoress" 1993, "Vision: From the Life of Hildegard von Bingen" 2009 starring Barbara Sukowa, dir by Margarethe von Trotta Book mentioned: "Medieval Women: Voices & Visions," ed by Eleanor Jackson and Julian Harrison Potpourri: Jennifer's morbidanatomy.org class "Sensing the Supernatural Dead" taught by Jamie L. Brummitt Thanks so much to my guest cohost, Jennifer Coates! Find her online: web and IG Thanks to you for listening! ~~~ Visit Glögg Glǒgg, a pop up art faire, Dec 12-14 in Woodstock NY! More info: https://gloggglogg.my.canva.site/ or on IG at @glogg_glogg ~~~ All music by Soundstripe ---------------------------- Pep Talks on IG: @peptalksforartists Pep Talks Website: https://www.peptalksforartists.com/ Amy, your beloved host, on IG: @talluts Amy's website: https://www.amytalluto.com/ Pep Talks on Art Spiel as written essays: https://tinyurl.com/7k82vd8s BuyMeACoffee Donations always appreciated! | |||
| Ep 92: Some Thoughts on Drawing (Part 3) | 20 oct. 2025 | 01:30:33 | |
Artists, Jennifer Coates, David Humphrey and Catherine Haggarty and are back for Part 3 of our series on Drawing. This time we switched things up and each artist brought both an artwork from art history and a related work of their own to discuss. Get ready to hear some vivid "ekphrasis" on our drawing picks (new vocab word unlocked-thanks, David!). Jennifer brought “The Castle with the Angel” 1863 by Victor Hugo and her own mixed media on yupo drawing “Heads in the Brambles” 2025 David brought Odilon Redon's "Self Portrait" 1880 and his own painted drawing "Before the Couch” 2023 Catherine brought Catherine Murphy's “Rose's Coloring Book” 2011 and her own wax crayon work "Bus Drawing" 2024 Amy brought Paul Klee's "Ugly Angel" 1939 and her own graphite drawing "Reversal (Ingres)" 2024 Other artworks mentioned: The Sketchbooks of John Constable, Eugene Delacroix and JMW Turner, Catherine Murphy "In the Grass" 2011, Kerry James Marshall "Untitled" 2009, Paul Klee "Untitled (Last Still Life)" 1940, "Still Ugly Angel" 1940, "Vigilant Angel" 1939, "Bell Angel" 1939, "Doubting Angel" 1939, "Angel in a Crisis II" 1939 , "Mis- Angel " 1939, "Angelus Novus" 1920, "Angel of Care on a Steep Road" 1931 Books mentioned: "Hunchback of Notre Dame" and "Les Miserables" by Victor Hugo, "The Angels of Paul Klee" by Boris Friedewald, "Exploring Masterpieces : a Fact-Filled Coloring Book" 1990 Artists mentioned: Victor Hugo, Odilon Redon, Catherine Murphy, Paul Klee, John Constable, Eugene Delacroix, JMW Turner, Kerry James Marshall, Josephine Halvorson, Jasper Johns (his Mind/Mirror retrospective at Whitney Museum), Judy Glantzman, Franz Marc, Jean Auguste Dominique Ingres, Jane Fine, James Esber, Erica Svec, Zachary Wollard More about the speakers: Jennifer Coates: web and IG David Humprhrey: web and IG Catherine Haggarty: web and IG Upcoming exhibitions: Jennifer and David have work at 1Gap Gallery in "2>1" Curated by Michael Holden thru Jan 5, 2026 (Brooklyn) Amy has work in: "Eyes in the Sky" (solo) at theNextWaveGallery at SHOWROOM at Guerra Paint & Pigments curated by Nicole Castaldo thru Oct 31, 2025 (Maspeth-Queens) "Often I am Permitted to Return to a Meadow" at Active Space curated by Patrick Bower and Robert Zurer of Immaterial Projects Nov 7 - Nov 22, 2025 (Bushwick-Brooklyn) "A Gnawing Thought " at Utopia Gallery curated by Mandolyn Wilson Rosen Dec 6 -Jan 24, 2026 (Kingston, NY) "Relic" at Platform Project Space curated by Alyssa Fanning, Michael Lee and Patrick Neal Jan 30-Feb 5, 2026 (Dumbo-Brooklyn) Congrats to Catherine and Andrew Prayzner on their beautiful baby girl, Juliette Margaret! Thank you for listening! All music by Soundstripe ---------------------------- Pep Talks on IG: @peptalksforartists Pep Talks Website: https://www.peptalksforartists.com/ Amy, your beloved host, on IG: @talluts Amy's website: https://www.amytalluto.com/ Pep Talks on Art Spiel as written essays: https://tinyurl.com/7k82vd8s BuyMeACoffee Donations always appreciated! | |||
| Ep 91: Dare to Be Stupid in the Studio | 16 sept. 2025 | 00:17:30 | |
This is an episode about how acting on dumb ideas in the studio can be just the thing to get you out of artist's block or help you make a big change. Get ready for some choice bon mots from the likes of Weird Al Yankovic, Laurie Anderson, William Kentridge and others on the sage subject of being open to studio stupidity. Mentions: Weird Al Yankovic, Laurie Anderson, William Kentridge, Jack Whitten, Epictetus, Susan Sontag, Mister T, Twyla Tharp Writings mentioned: https://brooklynrail.org/2022/06/art/Laurie-Anderson-with-Paul-D-Miller/ https://www.nytimes.com/2021/10/06/magazine/laurie-anderson.html https://www.nytimes.com/2021/10/17/podcasts/the-daily/laurie-anderson.html https://screencrush.com/weird-al-yankovic-interview/ https://www.theparisreview.org/blog/2014/08/13/his-own-wavelength/ The Creative Habit: Learn It and Use It for Life by Twyla Tharp Thanks for listening! All music by Soundstripe ---------------------------- Pep Talks on IG: @peptalksforartists Amy, your beloved host, on IG: @talluts Pep Talks on Art Spiel as written essays: https://tinyurl.com/7k82vd8s BuyMeACoffee Donations always appreciated! | |||
| Ep 90: How to Survive a Residency Rejection (*explicit) | 28 juil. 2025 | 00:08:51 | |
*Disclaimer: This episode is meant to be funny and Amy would love to attend any of the aforementioned residencies. Please accept her if you find yourself on a panel. End disclaimer.* Just got rejected from an artists' residency? Well, this is the mini-episode for you because I am going to let you in on a little technique I use to feel better. There's a curse word abundantly used throughout, so listen far away from small ears, Dear Listener! (Unless the small ears are pets-pets don't have language centers in their brains so it's safe.) I was a bit harsh on St Martin in the ep, and he did do a bit more than I gave him credit for: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Martin_de_Porres ... but he's still a deep cut. Did I tell you that my confirmation name was "Melania"? Didn't age well! Thank you! All music by Soundstripe ---------------------------- Pep Talks on IG: @peptalksforartists Amy, your beloved host, on IG: @talluts Pep Talks on Art Spiel as written essays: https://tinyurl.com/7k82vd8s BuyMeACoffee Donations always appreciated! | |||
| Ep 89: El Greco and the Whale | 23 juin 2025 | 00:20:06 | |
This is a little episode about how I think a one-of-a-kind whale is kind of like the 16th -17th century Mannerist artist El Greco, and also like us. It sounds a little far fetched but admit it, you like me when I’m weird, you weirdo’s El Greco: Artworks mentioned: “The Vision of St John” 1608-14 and "View of Toledo" 1599-1600 (El Greco), “Les Desmoiselles D’Avignon" 1907 (Picasso), "Rocks at Fontainbleu" 1890's (Cézanne) Artists mentioned: Vincent Van Gogh, Paul Cézanne, Hilma Af Klint, Pablo Picasso, Eugène De la Croix, Salvador Dali, Michelangelo, Caravaggio, Diego Velázquez, Titian, Tintoretto, Ignacio Zuloaga Writers mentioned: Emily Dickinson, Franz Kafka, Roger Fry Learn more about El Greco's figurine models with a fascinating lecture by Xavier Bray for the Frick Collection: https://youtu.be/_8xYkflNbU0?si=eCIL_P-tFdtPbDmOThe Whale: Watch the documentary: https://www.kanopy.com/en/product/loneliest-whale?frontend=kui Articles: https://www.iflscience.com/fact-check-has-the-world-s-loneliest-whale-finally-found-a-friend-65797 https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2021/jul/13 Thanks for listening! Greek music "Greek Bouzouki Sentimental 13" by Omegamusic / Marios Georgiades / Nicosia, Cyprus Whale songs courtesy of PMEL Pacific Marine Environmental Laboratory All other music and sound effects by Soundstripe ---------------------------- Pep Talks on IG: @peptalksforartists Pep Talks website: https://www.peptalksforartists.com/ Amy, your beloved host, on IG: @talluts Pep Talks on Art Spiel as written essays: https://tinyurl.com/7k82vd8s BuyMeACoffee Donations always appreciated! | |||
| Ep 88: Resilience Through Research (Pt5) w/ Jennifer Coates | 26 mai 2025 | 01:40:43 | |
::CW: during the Kathe Kollwitz section, we discuss a print dealing with sexual assault:: Jennifer and I are back with our bushel baskets of researched artists of the past to soothe our shattered nerves. Tune in to hear about 6 artists that made exceptional work under strained circumstances: Käthe Kollwitz, John of Arderne - medieval surgeon and margin doodler, Gustav Metzger, William Gropper, David Hammons and Joan Miró. Käthe Kollwitz notes: "Käthe Kollwitz" exhibtion at MOMA May-June 2024 Emile Zola's novel "Germinal" 1885 "Scene from 'Germinal" 1893 "A Weavers' Revolt" series 1893-1897 Gerhart Hauptmann's play "The Weavers" 1892 "The Mothers" 1918 "Never Again" 1924 "R-ped" 1907 Francisco de Goya's "Disasters of War" series Otto Dix "Der Krieg" 1924 John of Arderne notes: Medical Treatises England: c.1376, re-copied and 1475-1500Sp Coll MS Hunter 251 (U.4.9) (see more here and here) Misericord seatrest carvings in English medieval churches Gustave Metzger notes: The Viennese Actionists Artist, David Bomberg "Auto-destructive Art" 1961 London performance "Flailing Trees" 2009 "Remember Nature" 2015 "Table" c.1957-8 The Fluxus movement Documentary "Lifeline: Clyfford Still" William Gropper notes: "America: It's Folklore" 1946 Francisco de Goya's "Los Caprichos" series 1798 French political artist, Honoré Daumier "Blacklist" and "Environment" from Gropper's Capriccios series 1953–57 David Hammons notes: "The Melt Goes on Forever: The Art & Times of David Hammons" Documentary 2022 Artist, Charles White Artist, Betye Saar "Bliz-aard Ball Sale" Performance New York, NY 1983 "Body Prints" 1968–1979 "Hair and Wire, Venice Beach" 1977 "Untitled" circa 1980s "Higher Goals" 1983; 1986 "Untitled (Night Train)" 1989 Artist, Rachel Whiteread Joan Miró notes: Ballet Russes Artist, Henri Matisse "Mori el Merma" (Death to Merma) Theatrical collaboration with the Barcelona puppet troupe, La Claca, headed by Joan Baixas 1978 (watch here) "Ubu Roi" by Alfred Jarry 1896 Artist, Meg Lipke Current studio daemons: olm, volcano snail, and a rare algae of Blick Mead called Hildenbrandia Thank you, Jennifer! Jennifer' website: https://www.jenniferlcoates.com/ Jennifer on IG: https://www.instagram.com/jennifercoates666/ All music by Soundstripe ---------------------------- Pep Talks on IG: @peptalksforartists Pep Talks website: https://www.peptalksforartists.com/ Amy, your beloved host, on IG: @talluts Pep Talks on Art Spiel as written essays: https://tinyurl.com/7k82vd8s BuyMeACoffee Donations always appreciated! | |||
| Ep 87: CounterPointe Report w/ Elisabeth Condon & Jennifer Coates | 18 avr. 2025 | 01:23:20 | |
Today's episode is a special conversation and recap of Elisabeth Condon and my experiences collaborating as visual artists in the ballet project CounterPointe (now in its 12th year) produced by Norte Maar and staged at the Mark O'Donnell Theater (Brooklyn) in March 2025. Jennifer Coates kindly came on to ask us questions about making props and what it was like for 2 newbies to enter the world of dance. Thanks, Jennifer! Special thanks also to Norte Maar and its co-directors, Julia K. Gleich and Jason Andrew for their support of artists and creative collaboration. More information about Elisabeth and Amy's work: Elisabeth: https://www.elisabethcondon.com/ | @elisabethcondon Amy: https://www.amytalluto.com/ | @talluts More information about Julia Gleich and Jason Andrew's NorteMaar & CounterPointe12: https://www.nortemaar.org/projects/counterpointe12 Julia K. Gleich's website: https://www.gleichdances.org/ Julia Gleich interview on this podcast: Episode 49 The dances we discussed: "Vermillion | 10" by Ava Desiderio and Elisabeth Condon Dancers: Minami Ando, Lucia Betelu Support structures: Elise Wunderlich Music by Zero Eklipse and William Pilarte Lighting: Evan Spigelman Mark O'Donnell Theater, Brooklyn, March 2025 "And So It Begins" by Margaret Wiss and Amy Talluto Dancers: Maya Tsuruki Holden and Jaclyn Kriewall Music by Margaret Wiss Lighting: Evan Spigelman Mark O'Donnell Theater, Brooklyn, March 2025 "46 Gordon" by Julia K. Gleich and Nicole Cherubini Dancers: Michelle Buckley, Kara Chan, Annie Freeman, Amber Neff, Ethan Schweitzer-Gaslin Lighting: Evan Spigelman Mark O'Donnell Theater, Brooklyn, March 2025 Special thanks to Jennifer Coates for interviewing us! Jennifer's website: https://www.jenniferlcoates.com/ Jennifer on IG: @jennifercoates666 Artists mentioned: Henri Matisse, William Kentridge, Florine Stettheimer, Keisha Prioleau Martin, Meg Lipke, Elana Herzog, Nicole Cherubini, Alvin Ailey, Judith Jamison (Dancer), Julia K. Gleich (Choreographer), Jason Andrew Dances mentioned: "Afternoon of a Faun" by the Ballet Russes, “Minutiae” (1954) Robert Rauschenberg and Merce Cunningham, "Cry" Alvin Ailey Video mentioned: "How to Make Theater Props" by Eric Bucklein (not actually old but young) https://youtu.be/JSl5Vc8mej0?si=KWGdOxnijBiEEGZc Book mentioned: Inigo Philbrick "All That Glitters: A Story of Friendship, Fraud, and Fine Art" Exhibition mentioned: "Edges of Ailey" at the Whitney All music by Soundstripe ---------------------------- Pep Talks on IG: @peptalksforartists Pep Talks website: https://www.peptalksforartists.com/ Amy, your beloved host, on IG: @talluts Pep Talks on Art Spiel as written essays: https://tinyurl.com/7k82vd8s BuyMeACoffee Donations always appreciated! | |||
| Ep 86: The Source Channeler & The Market Child | 25 mars 2025 | 00:25:39 | |
In this audio essay, I roam from post-war France to the abstract expressionists to the artists of the East Village and even to outer space to consider times in art history when art was forced to bloom in the dark. These under-the-radar moments yielded deeply experimental work, and I wonder how we might channel some of that spirit in our own time. Artists mentioned: Laurie Anderson, Joan Miro, Jean Dubuffet, Marcel Duchamp, David Wojnarowicz, and Judy Glantzman Scientists mentioned: Robert H Dicke, Jim Peebles Jim Peebles interviewed by Alan Lightman for the American Institute of Physics January 19, 1988 Princeton, NJ: https://www.aip.org/history-programs/niels-bohr-library/oral-histories/33957 All music by Soundstripe ---------------------------- Pep Talks on IG: @peptalksforartists Pep Talks website: https://www.peptalksforartists.com/ Amy, your beloved host, on IG: @talluts Pep Talks on Art Spiel as written essays: https://tinyurl.com/7k82vd8s BuyMeACoffee Donations always appreciated! | |||
| Ep 85: Meret Oppenheim's Titles | 27 févr. 2025 | 00:11:25 | |
I'm offering for you here a new mini ep about what I've been thinking about lately: the wackiness of Meret Oppenheim's titles - and how they expand the mystery of her images rather than explain them. I recently snagged the catalog from the Moma retrospective show from last year and highly recommend it if you don't have it yet. It's full of lovely color plates: https://store.moma.org/products/meret-oppenheim-my-exhibition-hardcover But I think cheaper ones are on Amazon? Here are some images from the exhibition online too: https://www.moma.org/calendar/exhibitions/5368 Some art news: Tickets for CounterPointe12, a collaborative art ballet in Brooklyn March 8-9, 2025! Check out "Mythology/Matriarchy" at the Middle Room Gallery in Los Angeles (Glendale) March 14 - April 27, 2025 All music by Soundstripe ---------------------------- Pep Talks on IG: @peptalksforartists Amy, your beloved host, on IG: @talluts Pep Talks on Art Spiel as written essays: https://tinyurl.com/7k82vd8s BuyMeACoffee Donations always appreciated! | |||
| Ep 84: "Lifeline: Clifford Still" Film Review (Part 2) w/ Mandolyn Wilson Rosen | 31 janv. 2025 | 01:15:10 | |
This is Part 2 of Mandolyn Wilson Rosen and my review of "Lifeline: Clyfford Still" 2019 directed by Dennis Scholl. It's a juicy art bio tell-all with a crusty curmudgeon as its talented but embittered subject. Don't forget to listen to Part 1 too! Find the film on Amazon ($2.99 SD) or for free on Kanopy Find Mandolyn online at: https://mandolynwilsonrosen.com and on IG at @mandolyn_rosen Artists mentioned: Philip Guston, Barnett Newman, Jackson Pollock, Willem DeKooning, Frank Stella, Donald Judd, Paul Cezanne, Ad Reinhardt, Mark Rothko, Thomas Hart Benton, Thank you, Mandy! Thank you, Listeners! Visit RuthAnn, a new artist-run gallery in Catskill, NY at @ruthanngallery and ruthanngallery.com All music by Soundstripe ---------------------------- Pep Talks on IG: @peptalksforartists Pep Talks website: peptalksforartists.com Amy, your beloved host, on IG: @talluts Amy's website: amytalluto.com Pep Talks on Art Spiel as written essays: https://tinyurl.com/7k82vd8s BuyMeACoffee Donations always appreciated! | |||
| Ep 83: "Lifeline: Clyfford Still" Film Review (Part 1) w/ Mandolyn Wilson Rosen | 23 janv. 2025 | 01:03:58 | |
Mandolyn Wilson Rosen is back on the podcast! This time, instead of a book we are talking about an artist documentary. The film is called "Lifeline: Clyfford Still" 2019 directed by Dennis Scholl. It's a juicy art bio tell-all with a crusty curmudgeon as its talented but embittered subject. Come along with us as we enter a turbulently Still world. Find the film on Amazon ($2.99 SD) or for free on Kanopy Find Mandolyn online at: https://mandolynwilsonrosen.com and on IG at @mandolyn_rosen Links to the writings we mentioned: Clyfford Still's "An Open Letter to an Art Critic" on Artforum https://www.artforum.com/features/an-open-letter-to-an-art-critic-212151/ David Levi Strauss for Brooklyn Rail "From Metaphysics to Invective" Seph Rodney for Hyperallergic "Hoping is Not Enough" https://hyperallergic.com/983414/hoping-is-not-enough/ Artists mentioned: Matthew Barney, Jackson Pollock, Mark Rothko, Barnett Newman, Lois Dodd, Julian Schnabel, Mark Bradford, Julie Mehretu, Frank Stella, Ellsworth Kelly, Michelle Grabner Writers mentioned: Seph Rodney, Paul Valéry, John Ruskin, Guillaume Apollinaire, John Ruskin, David Levi Strauss, Dore Ashton, Jerry Saltz, Ken Johnson, Clement Greenberg, Emily Dickinson's "'Hope' is the thing with feathers" Thank you, Mandy! Thank you, Listeners! Visit RuthAnn, a new artist-run gallery in Catskill, NY at @ruthanngallery and ruthanngallery.com All music by Soundstripe ---------------------------- Pep Talks on IG: @peptalksforartists Pep Talks website: peptalksforartists.com Amy, your beloved host, on IG: @talluts Amy's website: amytalluto.com Pep Talks on Art Spiel as written essays: https://tinyurl.com/7k82vd8s BuyMeACoffee Donations always appreciated! | |||
| Ep 82: Resilience Through Research (Pt 4) w/ Jennifer Coates | 10 janv. 2025 | 01:29:07 | |
Jennifer Coates is back with me this week to cohost Part 4 of our series about researching our way to feeling better as artists. This time we go all the way back to 1306 to the Mongol empire and then zoom forward to the 1970's in the USSR and with a few more stops in between. We studied hard (and maybe got C minuses) but we ended up feeling inspired and hope you will too. The artists we spoke about: Zheng Sixiao of Southern China's Song Dynasty, "Ink Orchid" 1306, during Mongol Empire (Yuan Dynasty) under Kublai Kasimir Malevich of Russia/USSR, "Black Square" 1915, "Girls in a Field" 1928-30, "Female Worker" 1933, Russian icon paintings The Bulldozer Exhibition, 15 September 1974 and Oskar Rabin "Lamp and Shawl" 1974 & Lidya Masterkova "Untitled" 1974 of the Leonozovo Group, Photographs by Mikhail Abrosimov/ The Calvert Journal Read more: https://www.edelman.com/insights/bulldozer-exhibition-my-eyewitness-account-russian-repression-6-am Claude Cahun of Jersey (Channel Islands/France), Partner/Collaborator, Marcel Moore, "I am in training, don't kiss me" 1927, "What do you want from me?" 1929, "Self Portrait" 1939 The Nahua People of the Aztec Empire and the Florentine Codex: https://florentinecodex.getty.edu/ - facilitated by Franciscan Monk, Bernardino de Sahagún, Deep dive into the Codex with Dr. Diana Magaloni Kerpel, Deputy Director, Program Director, and Dr. Virginia Fields Curator of the Art of the Ancient Americas at the LA County Museum of Art (LACMA): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zUfg_WQwvMg Gee's Bend Quilters of Alabama and their organization Souls Grown Deep: https://www.soulsgrowndeep.org/ Other artists mentioned: Elisabeth Condon, Piet Mondrian **Disclaimer: As we are not historians by trade, some factual errors may have slipped through. Apologies if so ** Jennifer Coates online: web and IG Amy Talluto online: web and IG Thank you, Jennifer! Thank you, Listeners! All music by Soundstripe ---------------------------- Pep Talks on IG: @peptalksforartists Pep Talks website: peptalksforartists.com Amy, your beloved host, on IG: @talluts Amy's website: amytalluto.com Pep Talks on Art Spiel as written essays: https://tinyurl.com/7k82vd8s BuyMeACoffee Donations always appreciated! | |||
| Ep 81: Elisabeth Condon Describes a Christina Ramberg Retrospective | 24 déc. 2024 | 01:24:59 | |
Welcome back, Elisabeth! This time I am very excited to be speaking to Artist, Elisabeth Condon, about one of my favorite Chicago Imagists: Christina Ramberg. The Art Institute of Chicago recently mounted a retrospective of Ramberg's work and Elisabeth travelled to see the show this past summer. She spent time telling me about her favorite works, but also offered insight into Ramberg's personality and teaching style - as Elisabeth was her student in graduate school at SAIC in the late 80's. Ramberg is known for her small but tightly-wound acrylic paintings of disembodied women: truncated torsos, legless high heels shoes, floating suits, and body-less corsets, but also produced quilts and a series of satellite paintings shortly before she died at 49 of Pick's disease. See more images from the Art Institute retrospective here: https://www.artic.edu/exhibitions/9723/christina-ramberg-a-retrospective Barry Schwabsky's review in The Nation: https://www.thenation.com/article/culture/christina-rambergs-public-secrets/ Riva Lehrer AIC Lecture on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0afNYv3mfqo&t=2812s Thea Liberty Nichols AIC Lecture on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C0ps_oQnrvs Julia Fish, Rebecca Shore and Judith Russi Kirshner AIC Panel on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mQzpGJGot-k Find Artist, Elisabeth Condon online here: https://www.elisabethcondon.com/ and https://www.instagram.com/elisabethcondon/ Ramberg's artworks mentioned: "Untitled" 1980, Satellite Paintings "Untitled 122" 1986, "Istrian River Lady" 1974, "Probed Cinch" 1971, "Troubled Sleeve" 1974, "Bound Hand" 1973, "Untitled Hand" 1975, "Corset/Urns" 1970, "Lola La Lure" 1969, "Cabbage Head" 1968, "Belle Rêve" 1969, Quilt works, and "Satellite" series of the late 80's, Playboy Commission 1972 "Untitled", "Shadow Panel" 1972 Artists mentioned: Paula Modersohn-Becker, Utamaro "Two Girls with a Cricket Box," Jimmy Wright, Phillip Hanson, Jeff Koons, Ed Paschke, Mike Kelly, Erling Sjovold, Jackie Kazarian, Christopher Williams, Maureen P. Sherlock, Lori Gunn (Wirsum), Karl Wirsum, Roger Brown, William Eckhardt Kohler, Karl Kelly, Jackie Saccoccio, Jackie Cheng, Helen O'Leary, Helen O'Toole, Barbara Rossi, Ray Yoshida, Judith Russi Kirshner, Julia Fish, Riva Lehrer, Rebecca Shore Others noted: Muriel Newman (Collector), Kanye West, Edith Wharton, Corbett VS Dempsey Gallery, Rozsika Parker and Griselda Pollock's "Old Mistresses: Women, Art and Ideology" All music by Soundstripe ---------------------------- Pep Talks on IG: @peptalksforartists Pep Talks website: peptalksforartists.com Amy, your beloved host, on IG: @talluts Amy's website: amytalluto.com Pep Talks on Art Spiel as written essays: https://tinyurl.com/7k82vd8s BuyMeACoffee Donations always appreciated! | |||
| Ep 80: Resilience Through Research (Pt 3) w/ Jennifer Coates | 04 déc. 2024 | 00:52:12 | |
Artist, Jennifer Coates is back for Part 3 in our series about finding artistic resilience through research! This time we look at these artists and how they adapted to their own gloomy times of foreboding: Kay Sage: Found a way to paint even though she was a victim of domestic violence and ignored by the art world, and used her money to help Surrealist artists flee Germany and France before WWII Grete Stern: Sneakily slipped in feminist art into a fluffy women's magazine under the Peronist regime Jacob Lawrence: Illustrated injustices and acts of racism not covered by the history books Frederic Edwin Church: Painted an emblem that many thought symbolized the coming Civil War Works mentioned: Kay Sage works: "This Morning" 1939, "China Eggs" Autobiography, "I Saw Three Cities" 1944, "A Bird in the Room" 1955, "Destiny" a poem Grete Stern works: "Los Sueños: Muñecos (Dreams: The Doll)" 1949 for Idilio Magazine (Argentina) Jacob Lawrence works: "The Life of Toussaint Louverture," "Migration" and "Struggle" Series Frederic Edwin Church works: "Meteor" 1860, with writers/poets: Herman Melville's "The Portent" 1859, Walt Whitman's "Year of Meteors" 1860 and "Crossing Brooklyn Ferry" 1856 (both "Leaves of Grass") Special thanks to art historian and Senior Curator at the Smithsonian, Eleanor Harvey, for her presentation on the Civil War - from which I got most of my information on the meteor and its effects on the culture then: https://www.youtube.com/live/3r1_xWV1ICU?si=QtC2xKeHq7oHzNfQ Other artists mentioned: André Breton, Fra Angelico, Piero della Francesca **Disclaimer: As we are not historians by trade, some factual errors may have slipped through. Apologies if so ** Jennifer Coates online: web and IG Amy Talluto online: web and IG Thank you, Jennifer! Thank you, Listeners! All music by Soundstripe ---------------------------- Pep Talks on IG: @peptalksforartists Pep Talks website: peptalksforartists.com Amy, your beloved host, on IG: @talluts Amy's website: amytalluto.com Pep Talks on Art Spiel as written essays: https://tinyurl.com/7k82vd8s BuyMeACoffee Donations always appreciated! | |||
| Ep 79: Resilience through Research (Pt 2) w/ Jennifer Coates | 04 déc. 2024 | 01:01:47 | |
Visit glögg glögg, a POP up ART sale, Dec 13-14 in Woodstock NY: website or IG --------------- What can an artist do during times of political unrest and instability? In this episode (Part 2 of our series), we aim to find out. Jennifer Coates joins me again to share some stories from the past of how artists coped throughout history, because somehow research is very reassuring right now! We looked at the ways these specific artists reflected and reacted to their time: Goya: Made his most honest work in secret Dave Drake: Created signed pottery and poetry and used them to comment on his life and times, even though enslaved Otto Dix: Painted the horrors of the past in order to warn society against repeating them Mario Mafai: Documented destruction of housing under Fascism Felix Nussbaum: Painted even while hiding from the Gestapo Piet Mondrian: Built a controlled world of harmony and equilibrium to escape to George Grosz: Openly lampooned everyone in power & the media Francisco de Goya works: "Goya's Graphic Imagination" exhibition at the Met 2021, "Disasters of War" Etchings 1810-20, "Still Life of a Lambs Head and Flanks" 1812, "The Black Paintings" incl "Saturn Devouring His Son" 1823, "The Dog" 1823, and "Witches Sabbath" 1823 Dave Drake: all examples of stoneware jugs and vessels Otto Dix works: "The Trench" 1923, "War Cripples" 1920, "The Skull" 1924, "Mealtime in the Trenches" 1924 Mario Mafai works: "Demolition" 1936, "Destruction of the Neighborhoods" 1939 Felix Nussbaum works: "Self-Portrait with Jewish Identity Card" 1943, "Death Triumphant" 1944 Piet Mondrian work: "Tableau 1, Lozenge with Four Lines and Gray" 1926 George Grosz work: "Pillars of Society" 1926 Other artists/movements mentioned: DeStijl Movement, Futurist Movement, Dada Movement, Yves Tanguay Part 3 is out now! **Disclaimer: As we are not historians by trade, some factual errors may have slipped through. Apologies if so ** Jennifer Coates online: web and IG Amy Talluto online: web and IG Thank you, Jennifer! Thank you, Listeners! All music by Soundstripe ---------------------------- Pep Talks on IG: @peptalksforartists Pep Talks website: peptalksforartists.com Amy, your beloved host, on IG: @talluts Amy's website: amytalluto.com Pep Talks on Art Spiel as written essays: https://tinyurl.com/7k82vd8s BuyMeACoffee Donations always appreciated! | |||
| Ep 78: Resilience through Research (Pt 1) w/ Jennifer Coates | 26 nov. 2024 | 01:03:57 | |
Jennifer Coates, friend of the pod, is back to help me consider a new way forward (artwise) after the destabilizing event of the US election. She, herself, is finding comfort in the long history of rocks, geology and the cosmos, while I find myself turning to a book about how Matisse and his daughter, Marguerite, both reacted to the trauma of WWII in opposite yet valid ways. It's a bit of a potpourri, but we promise some great galvanizing art historical quotes and an inspiring double pep talk for the ages. Alternative title of ep: Rock Paper Scissors! Come hang out with us! Media mentions: The Weekly Show w Jon Stewart (ep with Heather Cox Richardson), Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez on IG/Tiktok Rock mentions: The Makapansgat pebble, Paleo "Venuses," Venus de Willendorf, baetyl stones, "The Living Stones" by Ithell Colquhoun, Paul Cezanne's drawings of Fontainbleu Quarry/MOMA show , John Elderfield and Terry Winters discuss Cezanne's Rock and Quarry Paintings for the Brooklyn Rail , "Turning to Stone: Discovering the Subtle Wisdom of Rocks" by Marcia Bjornerud, new minerals elalite and elkinstantonite discovered in 2022 in Somalia from a meteorite Art mentions: Cat Balco, Adie Russell, Elisabeth Condon, Pierre Bonnard, Edvard Munch & "White Night" 1900, Dada Movement, Hannah Hoch & “Cut with the Kitchen Knife," Man Ray, "Matisse the Master" by Hilary Spurling, "The Unknown Matisse" by Hilary Spurling, Henri Matisse ”Bathers by a River" 1917 and "The Chapelle du Rosaire de Vence" 1947-51, "Verve Magazine" Issue No 8 Vol 2 (1940), "Les Fleurs de Mal" Baudelaire/Matisse poetry book, Marguerite Matisse, Max Beckmann Jennifer's website and IG: https://www.jenniferlcoates.com/ @jennifercoates666 Thank you, Jennifer! Thank you, Listeners! All music by Soundstripe ---------------------------- Pep Talks on IG: @peptalksforartists Pep Talks website: peptalksforartists.com Amy, your beloved host, on IG: @talluts Amy's website: amytalluto.com Pep Talks on Art Spiel as written essays: https://tinyurl.com/7k82vd8s BuyMeACoffee Donations always appreciated! | |||
| Bonus Ep: The Canopy Program with Catherine Haggarty | 25 nov. 2024 | 00:35:53 | |
This bonus episode is a promotion for NYC Crit Club's "The Canopy Program" 2025, a year-long mentorship community for artists. Founder and artist, Catherine Haggarty, stopped by the pod to tell me more about what the program offers, who it's for, and which artists she has on deck to lead the cohorts next year. Applications for The Canopy Program are open Monday, December 9th - January 12, 2025 Quick Links: RSVP for Zoom Info Sessions (Dec 3, 10, 12 and Jan 3, 6) The Canopy Program is a year-long intimate mentorship program, providing artists access to work exclusively with a Faculty Mentor and a Cohort of 10 artists for three consecutive semesters (Spring, Summer + Fall 2025). Together, as a Cohort, artists will meet regularly for critiques, discussions, artist talks, and resource-building in professional practices, workshops, and lectures! Each Cohort features an esteemed roster of invited Guest Speakers + Visiting Artists/Critics/Gallerists. 2025 Mentors Rose Nestler @rose.nestler (virtual) Matt Phillips @themattphillips (virtual) Erika Ranee @erikaranee (virtual) Adrienne Elise Tarver @adrienne__elise (virtual) Amy Lincoln @amyplincoln (in person) Sara Jimenez @saraegj (in person) Virtual Cohorts are hosted via Zoom and are open to artists around the globe! In-Person Cohorts are hosted in Chelsea (New York City) and are open to NYC-area Visit nyccritclub.com to learn more & apply! All music by Soundstripe ---------------------------- Pep Talks on IG: @peptalksforartists Pep Talks website: peptalksforartists.com Amy, your beloved host, on IG: @talluts Amy's website: amytalluto.com Pep Talks on Art Spiel as written essays: https://tinyurl.com/7k82vd8s BuyMeACoffee Donations always appreciated! | |||
| Ep 77: Interview w/ Artist, Kristen Mills | 04 nov. 2024 | 01:37:25 | |
I'm back in the interview seat with Kristen Mills, an artist working in video, sculpture and installation. We discussed her latest show at Turley Gallery where she covered an entire room with cardboard and made it into a spaceship cockpit. Her video work features clones of herself, multiplied, and combines humor and old school editing techniques to create surreal worlds of play and exploration. The digital elements are then ensconced in laboriously-made, intricate cardboard constructions. There's also Glue Tawk and a MacDowell Corner! Tune in! Find Kristen's work online: Web: https://millskristen.com/ Sharpe-Walentas Studio Program on IG: @swstudioprogram (Open Studios in late April 2025) Previous Exhibitions: Turley Gallery: https://www.turley.gallery/kristen-mills-seats-for-everyone Glenlily Grounds: https://www.glenlilygrounds.com/glenlily-grounds-2024 Ortega y Gasset: https://www.oygprojects.com/believability Kristen's videos mentioned: Audience for an Audience, Waiting Room, I Can Reach In, Seats for Everyone, Space Race (featuring artwork by Melissa Dadourian), The Portal with the Cord, Tap Sap, Rock Collecting, Animal Sanctuary Project, Sister Spaceship Live at the Sinkhole w/ Angie Melchin Comedians mentioned: Maria Bamford, Atsuko Okatsuka, Ali Wong, Paula Poundstone, Chris Fleming Movies/TV Mentioned: Strangers with Candy, Pee-wee's Playhouse, Beetlejuice Artist Residencies/Schools Mentioned: Skohegan School of Painting & Sculpture, Vermont Studio Center (VSC), MacDowell and Firth Studio, Amy's secret MacDowell vlog, Columbo's Dog: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC_sKO_QcKc1eIVTRXyDHryw Glue Tawk™: Kristen uses "Sure Bond" corded hot glue gun and sticks (rumor has it also comes in roll form like a too-long fingernail or ram's horn) “An artist discovers his genius the day he dares not to please.” — André Malraux Thank you, Kristen! Thank you, Listeners! All music by Soundstripe ---------------------------- Pep Talks on IG: @peptalksforartists Pep Talks website: peptalksforartists.com Amy, your beloved host, on IG: @talluts Amy's website: amytalluto.com Pep Talks on Art Spiel as written essays: https://tinyurl.com/7k82vd8s BuyMeACoffee Donations always appreciated! | |||
| Ep 76: Feeling Witchy | 31 oct. 2024 | 00:06:16 | |
Dear Listeners, it's spooky season. In that spirit, I offer you this mini episode about taking a mini break from the career grind. Why not instead light a spell candle while getting clear on what we really want? Shelve the "should's" for a bit and get witchy with me. The ending "Goodbye!" (with cacophonous lighting zaps) is Bette Midler from the movie, Hocus Pocus - Iconic Icon. Thank you for listening. All music by Soundstripe ---------------------------- Pep Talks on IG: @peptalksforartists Amy, your beloved host, on IG: @talluts Pep Talks on Art Spiel as written essays: https://tinyurl.com/7k82vd8s BuyMeACoffee Donations always appreciated! | |||
| Ep 75: Burchfield's Constant Leaf | 08 oct. 2024 | 00:07:51 | |
Charles Burchfield (Chas to his friends) once noted how an oak leaf had fluttered down and stuck upright in the snow in his neighbors yard, like a flag, for the entire winter. It weathered many Buffalo "gales" and storms and thereafter Burchfield used it as a personal symbol of steadfastness. In fact its alternate title is "Steadfast Leaf." The painting he made of it is attached here "Constant Leaf, also known as Steadfast Leaf" 1960, watercolor and graphite on paper. And, speaking of leaves, I indulge in a short meditation on how the forest floor leaf litter reminds me of the mutual beneficence of a group of artist friends. Hope you enjoy! | |||
| Ep 74: William Shatner in Space (The Overview Effect) | 06 sept. 2024 | 00:24:47 | |
Today I'm taking us on a space, art and space-art journey. Because, I've been thinking about how when William Shatner recently went up to space in Bezos' rocket, he saw in real life what he had always pretended to see on TV: space and the final frontier. But to his shock and horror, he...sort of hated it: At least he hated the outer space view. He quaked in the face of all that vast emptiness and ended up with a new appreciation for our warm "Mother" Earth. I.e. "Beam me down, Scotty." And in this way, I think an artist could adopt a William Shatner in Space ideology: and try to appreciate the gifts we each have right now (time, space, adequate health, and freedom to create), versus caving into the dark matter horrors of compare & despair, and worry over not achieving the right career benchmarks. Artists/Works mentioned: "The Creation of the World and the Expulsion from Paradise" by Giovanni di Paolo (1445), "Galaxy (Hydra)" Vija Celmins (1974), "The Moon Museum" Robert Rauschenberg, David Novros, John Chamberlain, Claes Oldenburg, Forrest Myers and Andy Warhol (Possibly sent on the Apollo 12 Moon Mission-1969), "The Wave" by Astronaut, Nicole Stott (2009) William Shatner's book: "Boldly Go: Reflections on a Life of Awe and Wonder" Frank White's book: "The Overview Effect" More about Astronaut, Nicole Stott's first-ever painting in space: http://www.collectspace.com/news/news-070816b-astronaut-artist-nicole-stott.html More about The Moon Museum: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moon_Museum Thank you for listening! All music by Soundstripe ---------------------------- Pep Talks on IG: @peptalksforartists Amy, your beloved host, on IG: @talluts Pep Talks on Art Spiel as written essays: https://tinyurl.com/7k82vd8s BuyMeACoffee Donations always appreciated! | |||
| Ep 73: Some Thoughts on Drawing (Part 2) | 16 août 2024 | 00:55:31 | |
We're back! This is the second part of our deep dive on drawing. I asked my artist-guests: Jennifer Coates, David Humphrey and Catherine Haggarty to bring along a fave drawing from art history to share and describe what "drew" them to it (please forgive the pun). It was so fun to see what they selected. See images of all of the works on IG @peptalksforartists The drawings discussed were: 1) "The Grotto of Neptune in Tivoli" ca 1640 by Claude Lorrain 2) Rocks near the caves above Château Noir (Rochers à Bibémus) 1895/00 by Paul Cézanne, Watercolor on paper 18¼ by 12 in. 3) "Moon and Clouds" 1945 by George Ault 4) Ledger Drawing ca. 1875-78 attributed to William Cohoe, Cheyenne, Central Plains, Inscribed "Cheyenne Soldiers" Find my guests online here: David Humprhrey: web and IG Jennifer Coates: web and IG Catherine Haggarty: web and IG See more Ledger Drawings at DonaldEllisGallery.com: https://www.donaldellisgallery.com/offerings/plains-indian-drawings
Artists also mentioned: Georges Seurat ("Monkey"), Alexander Cozens, Caspar David Friedrich, Julia Gleich (choreographer) Books mentioned: "Lake Superior" by Lorine Niedecker, "Keeping Time: Plains Indian Ledger Drawings 1865-1900" (pub by Donald Ellis Gallery) Catherine's show "Just Drawing" online at Geary Contemporary: https://geary.nyc/exhibition/just-drawing-catherine-haggarty/ You can watch the original IG Live video of my guests' panel talk at Geary here: https://www.instagram.com/reel/C9qMilKRs-f/?utm_source=ig_web_copy_link&igsh=MzRlODBiNWFlZA== Thank you for listening! All music by Soundstripe ---------------------------- Pep Talks on IG: @peptalksforartists Pep Talks Website: https://www.peptalksforartists.com/ Amy, your beloved host, on IG: @talluts Amy's website: https://www.amytalluto.com/ Pep Talks on Art Spiel as written essays: https://tinyurl.com/7k82vd8s BuyMeACoffee Donations always appreciated! | |||
| Ep 72: Some Thoughts on Drawing (Part 1) | 16 août 2024 | 01:05:25 | |
Join me and my guests: Jennifer Coates, David Humphrey and Catherine Haggarty as we discuss the topic of Drawing this week. This discussion was broken up into 2 parts, so keep an eye out for Part 2 coming soon. In Part 1, we discuss the drawing state of mind, drawing as a form of safety, as a tie to our primitive origins, and as a way to express the multitudes of self. We also dissect painter, Amy Sillman's analogy that Draw-ers are beavers and Painters are birds. Find my guests online here: Catherine Haggarty: web and IG Catherine's show "Just Drawing" online at Geary Contemporary: https://geary.nyc/exhibition/just-drawing-catherine-haggarty/ Amy Sillman's lecture "Drawing in the Continuous Present" at the Menil Collection can be watched here on youtube: https://youtu.be/BLOgc466nRk?si=RfJ8B0lSD5Sz1OF6 You can watch the original IG Live video of my guests' panel talk at Geary here: https://www.instagram.com/reel/C9qMilKRs-f/?utm_source=ig_web_copy_link&igsh=MzRlODBiNWFlZA== Artists mentioned: Amy Sillman, Sun You, Gary Stephan, The paleo artists of Peche Merle Cave in France, Thomas Nozkowski, Amanda Nedham, Miranda July (interview) Thank you for listening! All music by Soundstripe ---------------------------- Pep Talks on IG: @peptalksforartists Pep Talks Website: https://www.peptalksforartists.com/ Amy, your beloved host, on IG: @talluts Amy's website: https://www.amytalluto.com/ Pep Talks on Art Spiel as written essays: https://tinyurl.com/7k82vd8s BuyMeACoffee Donations always appreciated! | |||
| Ep 71: How Often Do You Think About the Fall of the Roman Empire? | 02 août 2024 | 00:07:43 | |
...or the future of our own cultural output? Dear Listener, please enjoy this space-y, star-filled Mini Pep about the infinite freedom that comes from making digital doodles. My Threads App artists doodle harvest can be found here: https://www.threads.net/@talluts/post/CucE58OLSwU/?igshid=MzRlODBiNWFlZA== Artists mentioned: Sharon Butler (see all of her digital drawings by searching the hashtag #sbgoodmorningdrawings on IG), Paul Dagostino, Joe Haley, John Avelluto, Keisha Prioleau Martin All music by Soundstripe ---------------------------- Pep Talks on IG: @peptalksforartists Amy, your beloved host, on IG: @talluts Pep Talks on Art Spiel as written essays: https://tinyurl.com/7k82vd8s BuyMeACoffee Donations always appreciated! | |||
| Ep 70: When in Doubt - Delulu is the Solulu | 03 juil. 2024 | 00:11:02 | |
This episode is based on an internet slang mantra which translates to "Delusion is the Solution." Find out why healthy artists rely heavily on healthy self-delusion to self-motivate. Like Comedian, Nina Oyama, says, one must create a "self deception turducken" to persevere in a creative pursuit. I also threw in Lady Gaga, David Shrigley and even Salvador Dali who all had excellent quotes. Signed, Amy Reading/Watch Links: Thank you! All music by Soundstripe ---------------------------- Pep Talks on IG: @peptalksforartists Amy, your beloved host, on IG: @talluts Pep Talks on Art Spiel as written essays: https://tinyurl.com/7k82vd8s BuyMeACoffee Donations always appreciated! | |||
| Ep 69: Eva Hesse, Sylvia Mangold & The Home Depot | 03 juin 2024 | 00:07:15 | |
This is my hot take on the seven-year-old (it's new to me!) Eva Hesse doc and the scandalous revelations contained within. Also, I receive further evidence for why we still stan our queen, Sylvia Mangold, as she asks: Is the Home Depot the new Canal Street? The #cerebral, #inspiring and #wondrous documentary, Eva Hesse (2016) directed by Marcie Begleiter, is available to rent/stream on Amazon. All music by Soundstripe ---------------------------- Pep Talks on IG: @peptalksforartists Amy, your beloved host, on IG: @talluts Pep Talks on Art Spiel as written essays: https://tinyurl.com/7k82vd8s BuyMeACoffee Donations always appreciated! | |||
| Bonus: State of the Peps Union | 01 juin 2024 | 00:08:57 | |
Some ch-ch-changes are coming to Pep Talks! I am going to be taking a break from interviews for a while to focus on studio work, but will still be releasing monthly solo episodes while I'm away. I'd like to take this opportunity to thank you! Thank you to all of the wonderful artists who have allowed me to interview them thus far: you've enriched me! Thank you to my terrificly terrific cohost trio: Jennifer Coates, Mandolyn Wilson Rosen and Elisabeth Condon. You are, all three, shining lightbulbs of brilliance and wit. Thank you also to the ride-or-die Patreon Peerage monthly podcast supporters: appreciate Y'all. And a hearty thanks to all that have reviewed the pod, bought me a coffee or simply listened! You are cherished. For those about to art, I salute you. I'm off for a bit. Hope you enjoy the scheduled solo episodes to come! In the meantime, you can catch up with me here: Amy, your beloved host, on IG: @talluts Amy's website: https://www.amytalluto.com/ Amy xo ---------------------------- All music by Soundstripe Pep Talks on IG: @peptalksforartists | |||
| Ep 68: Interview w/ Artist, Frederick Hayes | 15 mai 2024 | 01:02:54 | |
So excited to welcome Artist, Frederick Hayes, to the podcast this week. Fred makes graphite drawings and paintings of faces, and he also creates found-material assemblage sculptures that portray the psychological interior of his subjects. Half made up and half based on the street photos that he takes, his portraits conjure up a community of people. These heads function as general archetypes but also as familiar faces that Fred might see in his community, remember from his past, or have seen in the media as victims of racial injustice. Fred Hayes is also an artist who studiously avoids being pigeonholed, and I loved hearing about how he prioritizes freedom in his varied studio practice. Find Frederick Hayes online: IG: https://www.instagram.com/fhay_00/ WEB: https://www.fredhayesstudio.com/ 2023 Lillian Orlowsky and William Freed Grant-Winners Exhibition at PAAM (thru 6/16/24, Provincetown): https://paam.org/the-2023-artist-grant-recipients/ This episode is kindly sponsored by the New York Studio School. Check out their June-July 2024 Summer Marathon courses here: nyss.org Artists mentioned: Henri Matisse, Emil Nolde, Cartier Bresson, Robert Rauschenberg, Margaret Kilgallen, Terry Hoff & Chris Johanson of the Mission School / Luggage Store Gallery, Max Beckmann Frederick Hayes has exhibited work at Triple Candie, the Studio Museum, Hallwalls Contemporary, New Museum, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Jose Museum, San Diego Museum of Contemporary Art, Addison Gallery of American Art, DeSaisset Museum, Boston University, Number 35, and the Luggage Store and Patricia Sweetow Gallery in San Francisco, CA. Hayes has held residencies at MacDowell, VCCA, LMCC and The Headlands Center for the Art. He is the recipient of a 2020 NYFA-NYSCA Fellowship in Printmaking/Drawing/Book Arts, a 2012 & 2001 Pollack-Krasner Grant, a 2010 Robert Blackburn Workshop Studio Immersion Program Fellowship, a 2000 San Francisco Art Commission Individual Artist Grantand his work is in the collection of the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, the New Museum of Contemporary Art, the Studio Museum in Harlem, the Addison Gallery of American Art, and UC Berkeley Art Museum Thank you, Fred! Thank you Patrons and Listeners! Appreciate everyone! Check the pod out on IG! And why not review Peps on Apple Podcasts? Yay! Find me, your beloved host, online at: amytalluto.com and @talluts All music by Soundstripe ---------------------------- Pep Talks Website: peptalksforartists.com Pep Talks on IG: @peptalksforartists Amy, your beloved host's website: amytalluto.com Amy, your beloved host, on IG: @talluts Pep Talks on Art Spiel as written essays: https://tinyurl.com/7k82vd8s BuyMeACoffee Donations always appreciated! | |||
| Ep 67: Interview w/ "How to Work a Room" Author, Susan Roane | 02 mai 2024 | 01:26:51 | |
O M G. Hold onto your hats (and brooches)! The author of "How to Work a Room" is on the podcast! Susan RoAne, best-selling author and keynote speaker, joined Mandolyn Wilson Rosen and me to talk mingling and networking in the art world. Down-to-earth, hilarious, and a true mensch, Susan continues to bring it as the "Mingling Maven." This is one episode you won't want to miss! We had so much fun! Find Susan online: Web: SusanRoAne.com IG: @susanroane FB: Susan RoAne Twitter: @susanroane Email: susan @ susanroane .com Get Susan's books: "Face to Face: How to Reclaim the Personal Touch in a Digital World" "The Secrets of Savvy Networking" Mentions: Judith Briles (Author), Zoltan Korda (Hungarian screenwriter and director), Dr Deborah Tannen (Author), Dr Adele Scheele (Author & Speaker), Merl Ross (Artist), Seth Godin (Author), Christine Hannah (Author), Steph(en) Curry (Adorable), and Alex Edelman (Comedian) Also mentioned: The Philadelphia Eagles and their delightfully cheeky "Tush Push" More about Susan RoAne: Named as one of Forbes.com Top 25 Networking Experts to Follow, Susan RoAne is known as "The Mingling Maven®". Susan leads a double life as a bestselling author and a sought-after entertaining keynote speaker who gives multi-generational audiences the required tools, practical techniques and strategies they need to connect and communicate in today’s global business world. A former public school teacher, Susan RoAne is a Chicago born and bred fan of Deep Dish Pizza who now resides in the San Francisco Bay Area. Her groundbreaking best-seller, How to Work a Room® —with over a million sold worldwide— launched an industry. She also wrote The Secrets of Savvy Networking & Face To Face: How To Reclaim The Personal Touch in A Digital World. Clients include: Kraft, LinkedIn, Apple, Bank of America, Hershey Foods, US Air Force, the NFL, American Bar Assn, Deloitte Touch, National Fire Chiefs Assn. A former public school teacher Susan also guest lectures at major universities including: University of Pennsylvania, Wharton School, Stanford University, University of Maryland, University of Chicago-Booth School, University of Texas Law School, University of Illinois MBA program, NYU’s Summer Publishing Institute and Emerson College. Find Mandolyn Wilson Rosen online at: mandolynwilsonrosen.com and @mandolyn_rosen Find me, your beloved host, online at: amytalluto.com and @talluts Thank you, Susan! Thank you, Mandy! Thank you Patrons and Listeners! Appreciate everyone! Check us out on IG! Review us too on Apple Podcasts! All music by Soundstripe ---------------------------- Pep Talks Website: peptalksforartists.com Pep Talks on IG: @peptalksforartists Amy, your beloved host's website: amytalluto.com Amy, your beloved host, on IG: @talluts Pep Talks on Art Spiel as written essays: https://tinyurl.com/7k82vd8s BuyMeACoffee Donations always appreciated! | |||
| Ep 66: Interview w/ Artist, Philemona Williamson | 28 mars 2024 | 01:25:55 | |
So excited to share this fantastic interview with artist, Philemona Williamson! Find out more about Philemona's vibrant paintings that show twisting, gender-bending adolescents "up to stuff," and her fascinating ambiguous poetic sense of narrative (and also why I have appointed her an Honorary New Orleanian!). Philemona also grew up in a famous Art Deco building in NYC, and her childhood stories are not to be missed. Works mentioned: "Branching Eyes" 2023, "The Gathering" 2021, "Verbena Street 2" 2022, "Snow Interrupted" 2021 More info about Philemona Williamson: Philemona's website: https://www.philemonawilliamson.com/ Philemona on IG: https://www.instagram.com/philemona8/ Her MTA Fused Glass Panels at Livonia Ave, Queens (L train): https://www.nycsubway.org/perl/artwork_show?206 Current/Upcoming Exhibitions: June Kelly Gallery, NYC, Apr 18 - June 4, 2024: https://www.junekellygallery.com/williamson/index.html Passerelle, Centre d'art contemporain d'intérêt national, Brest, France, June-Aug 2024: https://www.cac-passerelle.com/expositions/en-cours/ In "Century: 100 Years of Black Art at MAM" Montclair Art Museum, NJ, Through July 7, 2024: https://www.montclairartmuseum.org/exhibition/century-100-years-black-art-mam Philemona Williamson has exhibited her work for over 25 years at the June Kelly Gallery in NYC and recently, at her mid-career retrospective at the Montclair Art Museum in NJ. She is the recipient of numerous awards and residencies including the Joan Mitchell Foundation, Pollock Krasner, National Endowment For The Arts, New York Foundation For The Arts and Millay Colony as well as serving on the advisory board of the Getty Center for Education. Her work has been shown in many solo and group exhibitions such as The Queens Museum of Art, Wisconsin’s Kohler Art Center, The Sheldon Museum in Nebraska, The Bass Museum in Miami, The Mint Museum in North Carolina, The Forum of Contemporary Art in St. Louis, The International Bienal of Painting in Cuenca, Ecuador and most recently at the Anna Zorina Gallery in NYC. She is represented in numerous private and public collections, including The Montclair Art Museum; The Kalamazoo Art Institute; The Mint Museum of Art; Smith College Museum of Art; Hampton University Museum; Sheldon Art Museum; Mott-Warsh Art Collection, and AT&T. Her public works includes fusedglass murals created for the MTA Arts in Transit Program at the Livonia Avenue Subway Station in Brooklyn, a poster for the MTA Poetry In Motion and — for the NYC School Authority — a mosaic mural in the Glenwood Campus School. She currently teaches painting at Pratt Institute and Hunter College in NYC. All music by Soundstripe ---------------------------- Pep Talks on IG: @peptalksforartists Amy, your beloved host, on IG: @talluts Pep Talks on Art Spiel as written essays: https://tinyurl.com/7k82vd8s BuyMeACoffee Donations always appreciated! | |||
| Ep 65: Monsters and Beautiful Things | 26 févr. 2024 | 00:17:46 | |
What do a comment made on the Great British Bake-Off, a 1970's television interview with southern author, Eudora Welty, and a Michigan Mer-man have in common? Glad you asked! They all explore ideas of monstrousness, the topic of this episode -- specifically channeling our inner monstrous creative selves to create work that is rich, bold, memorable and unique. [Evil laugh of Nosferatu] Come along with me on my search for aspirational creative monstrosity. Television programs mentioned: "Great British Bakeoff:" Season 11, Episode 3, Rowan Claughton with Paul Hollywood "Firing Line" with William F. Buckley: "The Southern Imagination in Literature" 1972 with Eudora Welty and Walker Percy Artists mentioned: Francisco José de Goya, Jean Dubuffet, James Ensor, Francis Bacon, The Monster Roster group (Chicago), Brenda Goodman ("Self-Portrait 2” 1994), Steve DiBenedetto ("Rosemary's Baby's Baby" 2021), Whit Harris ("Maiden" 2023) and Louise Bourgeois ("Femme" 2006) Publications mentioned: "Where Is the Voice Coming From" a short story by Eudora Welty, "Art Monsters: Unruly Bodies in Feminist Art" book by Lauren Elkin, "Monsters of the Midwest: True Tales of Bigfoot, Werewolves & Other Legendary Creatures" book by Jessica Freeburg and Natalie Fowler All music by Soundstripe ---------------------------- Peps has a Patreon! https://www.patreon.com/PepTalksforArtists! Join the Peps fam on Patreon and become a part of the Pep Talks Peerage today. Pep Talks on IG: @peptalksforartists Amy, your beloved host, on IG: @talluts Pep Talks on Art Spiel as written essays: https://tinyurl.com/7k82vd8s BuyMeACoffee Donations always appreciated! | |||
| Ep 64: Interview w/ Jesse Bransford | 07 févr. 2024 | 01:38:45 | |
This week, painter and installation artist, Jesse Bransford, joins me to discuss his magic and occult-inspired work. We discussed the meanings behind the sigils and circles he embeds in his work, his fascination with the magician Surrealist, Kurt Seligmann, and his thoughts on the role of the artist as a practitioner of vision, generosity and belief. Find Jesse Bransford online at: web: https://www.jessebransford.com/ ig: @jessebransford get his book: UK: https://fulgur.co.uk/books/fourthandfifthpyramids/?v=7516fd43adaa / US: https://namepublications.org/item/2023/jesse-bransford-the-fourth-and-fifth-pyramids/ octagon house: https://www.chronogram.com/home/a-wayward-spirit-finds-home-16469398 Hyperallergic article by Allison Meier about "Language of the Birds: Occult and Art," New York University’s 80WSE Gallery: https://hyperallergic.com/270566/recreating-the-magic-circle-of-a-surrealist-seriously-into-the-occult/ Kurt Seligmann's Magical Evening: https://rmc.library.cornell.edu/surrealismandmagic/exhibition/images/200pxw/SAM_528.jpg Kurt Seligmann's Book: "Mirror of Magic" Maurice Tuchman's Book: "The Spiritual in Art: Abstract Painting 1890-1985" (find on ebay or amazon) More about Jesse: Jesse Bransford is a New York-based artist whose work is exhibited internationally at venues including The Carnegie Museum of Art, the UCLA Hammer Museum, PS 1 Contemporary Art Center and the CCA Wattis Museum among others. He holds degrees from the New School for Social Research (BA), Parsons School of Design (BFA) and Columbia University (MFA). A professor of art at New York University, Bransford's work has been involved with belief and the visual systems it creates since the 1990s. Work has been presented in books from Fulgur Press, “A Book of Staves (Galdrastafabók),” and most recently “The Fourth and Fifth Pyramids.” He lectures widely on his work and the topics surrounding his work. He is the co-organizer of the biennial Occult Humanities Conference and an editorial member of the Black Mirror Network. Thank you, Jesse! Thank you, Pep Talks Patrons! Thank you to my sponsor The Pack Art School: https://thepack.art/artistrebirthcycle All music by Soundstripe ---------------------------- Peps has a Patreon! https://www.patreon.com/PepTalksforArtists! Join the Peps fam on Patreon and become a part of the Pep Talks Peerage today. Pep Talks on IG: @peptalksforartists Amy, your beloved host, on IG: @talluts Pep Talks on Art Spiel as written essays: https://tinyurl.com/7k82vd8s BuyMeACoffee Donations always appreciated! | |||
| Ep 63: Book Talks: The Artists Way by Julia Cameron (Part 2) w/ Mandolyn Wilson Rosen | 18 janv. 2024 | 01:25:26 | |
We're back with Part 2 of our review of "The Artists Way" by Julia Cameron! In this half of our deep dive into the book, Mandolyn Wilson Rosen and I finish recounting our experiences following the program of this famous creativity self-help juggernaut. Today in Part 2, we discuss: 1. Sychronicity & Carl Jung 2. Our personal artist dates 3. What writing the Morning Pages felt like 4. Things in The Artist's Way that we disliked 5. “Clusters” & those who charge to run AW groups 6. Amy's "The Artist's Way Cringe Corner™" 7. And more insights from Julia Cameron's autobiography: "Floor Sample." Mandy's mentions: American Masters: "Everybody Knows … Elizabeth Murray" (PBS) Alan Watts Being in the Way Podcast: https://open.spotify.com/show/3RZiM62g8XYE4PuEF2EleN?si=5a58f0c5df8d4c1f Alison Bechdel Graphic Novels: https://dykestowatchoutfor.com/ Critical blogs that we referenced: Kore Sage Blog: https://koresageart.com/blog/reading-deprivation-week-the-artists-way/ From Jenn Blog: https://www.fromjenn.com/blog/why-i-dont-write-morning-pages-and-what-i-do-instead Please find Mandolyn Wilson Rosen online here: mandolynwilsonrosen.com and IG @mandolyn_rosen Thank you, Mandy! Thank you Patrons! Thank you Peps Listeners! All music by Soundstripe ---------------------------- Peps has a Patreon! https://www.patreon.com/PepTalksforArtists! Join the Peps fam on Patreon and become a part of the Pep Talks Peerage today. Pep Talks on IG: @peptalksforartists Amy, your beloved host, on IG: @talluts Pep Talks on Art Spiel as written essays: https://tinyurl.com/7k82vd8s BuyMeACoffee Donations always appreciated! | |||
| Ep 62: Book Talks: The Artists Way by Julia Cameron (Part 1) w/ Mandolyn Wilson Rosen | 18 janv. 2024 | 01:14:04 | |
Book Talks is back! And so is artist, Mandolyn Wilson Rosen, to help me tackle the OG creativity self help book: "The Artist's Way" by Julia Cameron. We gave ourselves over body and soul to The Way for 12 weeks and lived to tell the tale...in two parts. Please join us as we share our experiences with the book (and some sprinkled-in context gleaned from Cameron's autobiography "Floor Sample"). Today in Part 1, we discuss: 1. Each of our favorite sections/quotes 2. The most challenging parts of doing the book (morning pages, tasks, artist's dates, the chapter readings 3. How “good” were we at doing all TAW parts? 4. The God Question. Is there too much God talk in there? 5. Personal revelations about our work or ourselves that came from doing the book And don't miss the second part of our convo (Part 2-Ep 63) out now! Please find Mandolyn Wilson Rosen online here: mandolynwilsonrosen.com and IG @mandolyn_rosen Thank you, Mandy! Thank you Patrons! Thank you Peps Listeners! All music by Soundstripe ---------------------------- Peps has a Patreon! https://www.patreon.com/PepTalksforArtists! Join the Peps fam on Patreon and become a part of the Pep Talks Peerage today. Pep Talks on IG: @peptalksforartists Amy, your beloved host, on IG: @talluts Pep Talks on Art Spiel as written essays: https://tinyurl.com/7k82vd8s BuyMeACoffee Donations always appreciated! | |||
| Ep 61: Some Thoughts on "Portrait Artist of the Year" the British TV Show | 13 janv. 2024 | 00:13:54 | |
This episode is all about a fascinating British TV art reality show that I once gleefully watched completely pirated, through the kindness of Cherzo, a modern day Robin Reddit-Hood. You can check out the show: "Portrait Artist of the Year" on Amazon, if you are so intrigued! Artists mentioned: Alice Neel, Frederick Hayes, and Tai Shan Schierenberg (Judge for the show). Thank you, Listeners! Thank you, Pep Talks Patrons! All music by Soundstripe ---------------------------- Peps has a Patreon! https://www.patreon.com/PepTalksforArtists! Join the Peps fam on Patreon and become a part of the Pep Talks Peerage today. Pep Talks on IG: @peptalksforartists Amy, your beloved host, on IG: @talluts Pep Talks on Art Spiel as written essays: https://tinyurl.com/7k82vd8s BuyMeACoffee Donations always appreciated! | |||
| Ep 52: Book Talks: "Lives of the Artists" by Giorgio Vasari (Part 1) w/ Mandy Wilson Rosen | 11 janv. 2024 | 01:24:35 | |
Artist, Mandolyn Wilson Rosen, is back with me for another Book Talks episode! In this episode, we are reading Giorgio Vasari's "Lives of the Artists," published 1550/1568 which profiles famous High Renaissance, mostly Florentine artists such as Michelangelo, Raphael, Boticcelli, and a few lesser-knowns. We were so excited about the book that we ran deliciously long and decided to cut it up and make it a two-parter. In Part 1, we cover Vasari's takes on Giotto, Masaccio, Piero Della Francesca, Paolo Uccello, Fra Filippo Lippi, and Madonna Properzia de Rossi (the only woman in the book, and who was even left out of Mandy's earlier English translation!) Part 2 is coming right up - please keep an eye out. Shout out to artist and writer, Elisabeth Nicula, who we quoted in the episode, and to the books that helped form Vasari's masterwork: "The Decameron" by Giovanni Boccaccio and "The Life of Brunelleschi." Also, a tip of the cap to the Virgin's Holy Girdle of Prato, shown to the public only 4 times a year: https://irenebrination.typepad.com/irenebrination_notes_on_a/2017/07/girdle-cintola-prato.html (Really, no one can out-weird the Catholics) The book is available widely, both used and new! We recommend a skim, not a binge. Find Mandolyn Wilson Rosen online at: https://mandolynwilsonrosen.com/ Thank you to artist, Amy McCormac, for your kind Buy Me A Coffee donation this month! ---------------------------- Pep Talks on IG: @peptalksforartists Pep Talks on Art Spiel as written essays: https://tinyurl.com/7k82vd8s Amy's website: https://www.amytalluto.com/ Amy on IG: @talluts BuyMeACoffee Donations appreciated! | |||
| Ep 53: Book Talks "Lives of the Artists" by Giorgio Vasari (Part 2) w/ Mandy Wilson Rosen | 11 janv. 2024 | 01:36:43 | |
We're baaacckk! Mandolyn Wilson Rosen and I have returned for Part 2 to finish our report on Giorgio Vasari's "Lives of the Artists," a combo-bio of Florentine High Renaissance artists from the 1580's. Pull up a carved high-backed chair, grab yourself a goblet of watered-down wine and join us for the continuation of our journey back to this fabled time in Italian art. In Part 2, we cover Sandro Botticelli, Leonardo da Vinci, Raphael, Jacopo da Pontormo, Michelangelo, and Titian (with some discussion of Albrecht Durer as well). In the Boticelli section, Mandy references this article by Alexxa Gotthardt on Artsy: https://www.artsy.net/article/artsy-editorial-botticellis-birth-venus-challenged-depictions-nude-art Please visit our sponsor, The New York Studio School, to enroll for their wonderful Marathon courses (by Sept 8) or for over a dozen different 11 week Evening & Weekend Courses (by Sept 18) at NYSS.org Find your own copy of "Lives of the Artists" by Giorgio Vasari at your public library or at most online bookstores. The 1991 English Translation by Julia and Peter Bondanella includes the lone woman artist in Vasari: Sculptor Madonna Properzia de Rossi. Earlier translations often exclude her, so keep an eye out if buying used! Mandolyn Wilson Rosen is online here: website: https://mandolynwilsonrosen.com/home.html and IG: https://www.instagram.com/mandolyn_rosen/ Amy Talluto is online here: website: https://www.amytalluto.com/ and IG: https://www.instagram.com/talluts/ Thanks for listening! ---------------------------- Pep Talks on IG: @peptalksforartists Pep Talks on Art Spiel as written essays: https://tinyurl.com/7k82vd8s Amy's Interview on Two Coats of Paint: https://tinyurl.com/2v2ywnb3 Amy's website: https://www.amytalluto.com/ Amy on IG: @talluts BuyMeACoffee Donations appreciated! | |||
| Ep 60: The Peppiest of the Peps (Plus an AI Play) | 22 déc. 2023 | 00:44:00 | |
Happy Holidays! It's the Peppiest of the Peps! Please enjoy this collection of plummy sugar plum quotes by the some of the guests of Pep Talks Past. Some cherished encouraging words have been said over the years, and I have gathered them for us here. Also, listen to the end to hear a 3 minute Shakespearean radio play I made with ChatGPT based on the podcast tagline: "to all those shuffling along the artists' road." Find out what a computer thinks will inspire us. Thank you to all of the artists who were kind enough to let me interview them and also to those who have allowed me to pluck their bon-mots for this peppy parade of clips: Artists and intreviews referenced in this episode: Ep 11: Jennifer Coates Ep 12: Sharon Butler Ep 21: Emilia Olsen and Keisha Prioleau Martin Ep 23: Portia Munson Ep 26: Shari Mendelson Ep 29: Ever Baldwin Bonus Ep: How to Host a Studio Visit w/ Catherine Haggarty & NYC Crit Club Bonus Ep: The Longevity of an Art Practice w Sarah Grass & The Pack Art School Ep 35: Elizabeth Weiss Ep 37: Paula Wilson Ep 40: Natalie Beall Ep 48: Catherine Haggarty Ep 49: Julia Gleich Ep 54: Judy Glantzman ** Ep 59: Elisabeth Condon **To inquire about working with Judy Glantzman, please reach out via email: JudyGlantzman at gmail dot com or DM on IG @judyglantzman A link to the ChatGPT play "Artists' Journey Unveiled" as written text: https://chat.openai.com/share/8a69d9a6-d7d6-4d2c-ad31-cb0f14b499c2 Music / FX: "The Britons" © K MacLeod 2022 / Pixabay Characters made with Voice Morphing/TTS: Altered AI All other music and sound effects by Soundstripe Thank you, Listeners! Thank you, Pep Talks Patrons! ---------------------------- Peps has a Patreon! If you are a Peps fan and would love more pep talks in your life, please consider supporting the podcast financially on Patreon at https://www.patreon.com/PepTalksforArtists! For $5 a month, patrons receive exclusive mini Pep-isodes monthly or bimonthly, delivered directly to their email inbox with a clickable link. No tech savviness required! Also, patrons receive early access to not-yet-released full episodes, fresh out the oven. Join the Peps fam on Patreon and become a part of the Pep Talks Peerage today. Find out more here: https://www.patreon.com/PepTalksforArtists Pep Talks on IG: @peptalksforartists Amy, your beloved host, on IG: @talluts Pep Talks on Art Spiel as written essays: https://tinyurl.com/7k82vd8s BuyMeACoffee Donations always appreciated! | |||
| Ep 59: Interview w/ Elisabeth Condon | 01 déc. 2023 | 01:31:46 | |
So happy to have painter (and sculptor!), Elisabeth Condon, back on the podcast on the eve of her solo show opening in Miami! A huge fan of her work, I was excited to learn more about her process and influences. Catch her new work in person at: "Tempus Fugit" Emerson Dorsch Gallery : Dec 3, 2023 - Feb 3, 2024 Untitled Fair / Emerson Dorsch / Booth A23: Dec 6-10, 2023 Elisabeth's works that we mentioned in this episode were: "Lupine" 2023, "Post-Epistemic Flower" 2023, "Forest" 2023, "Transporters" (Chairs) 2023, and "Dusk" 2023 Visit Elisabeth Condon online at: Elisabethcondon.com or @elisabethcondon on IG Visit Emerson Dorsch Gallery online at: Emersondorsch.com/ or @emersondorsch on IG Thank you, Elisabeth! Thank you, Listeners! And thank you so much, Patreon supporters and Buy Me a Coffee supporters! ---------------------------- Pep Talks on IG: @peptalksforartists Peps has a Patreon! If you are a Peps fan and would love more pep talks in your life, please consider supporting the podcast financially on Patreon at https://www.patreon.com/PepTalksforArtists! For $5 a month, patrons receive exclusive mini Pep-isodes monthly or bimonthly, delivered directly to their email inbox with a clickable link. No tech savviness required! Also, patrons receive early access to not-yet-released full episodes, fresh out the oven. Join the Peps fam on Patreon and become a part of the Pep Talks Peerage today. Find out more here: https://www.patreon.com/PepTalksforArtists Pep Talks on Art Spiel as written essays: https://tinyurl.com/7k82vd8s BuyMeACoffee Donations appreciated! All music and effects are by Soundstripe | |||
| Ep 58: Interview w/ Amy Talluto (Your Host Speaks) | 21 nov. 2023 | 01:35:55 | |
Today, it's a brand new installment of the "Interview the Interviewer" series and I'm excited to reveal that this episode's Interviewee is ... me! Thank you so much to artist, Catherine Haggarty, for generously suggesting this collaboration and for asking such wonderful questions about my work. More info about Amy (your beloved host's) work online: amytalluto.com and @talluts Works mentioned (AT unless noted): "The Princesse de Broglie" (Ingres), "Bending Figure & Ingres Eye" 2023, "Rain Cloud" 2022, "Cloud (After Ingres) 1-3" 2023 Catherine Haggarty online: catherinehaggarty.com and @catherine_haggarty Artists mentioned: Jennifer Coates, Phyllis Plattner, Louise Mouton Johnson, Frank Gross & Jean Pichotta Gross of NOCCA, Rita MacDonald, Ever Baldwin, Geoffrey Young, Dee Shapiro, Elisabeth Condon, Dona Nelson, Philip Guston, Judy Glantzman, Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres, Agnes Martin, Vija Celmins, Julia Gleich, Shari Mendelson, Courtney Puckett, Matisse, Betty Woodman, Charles Burchfield, Edvard Munch, Robert Rauschenberg, Kathe Bradford Amy's fave podcast: Las Culturistas Amy's fiery crucible of self help: Pep Talks for Writers, Wired to Create, Steal Like an Artist, On Art and Mindfulness, The War of Art, Art & Fear, The Artist's Journey: Bold Strokes to Spark Creativity, Make Art Not Content (Podcast), Big Magic Thank you, Catherine! Thank you, Listeners! And thank you so much, Patreon supporters! ---------------------------- Pep Talks on IG: @peptalksforartists Peps has a Patreon! If you are a Peps fan and would love more pep talks in your life, please consider supporting the podcast financially on Patreon at https://www.patreon.com/PepTalksforArtists! For $5 a month, patrons receive exclusive mini Pep-isodes monthly or bimonthly, delivered directly to their email inbox with a clickable link. No tech savviness required! Also, patrons receive early access to not-yet-released full episodes, fresh out the oven. Join the Peps fam on Patreon and become a part of the Pep Talks Peerage today. Find out more here: https://www.patreon.com/PepTalksforArtists Pep Talks on Art Spiel as written essays: https://tinyurl.com/7k82vd8s BuyMeACoffee Donations appreciated! All music and effects are by Soundstripe | |||
| Ep 57: What We Can Learn from Comedians | 10 nov. 2023 | 00:27:31 | |
Today I make the case that artists have a lot in common with stand-up comedians. Comics give excellent pep talks and advice to each other about staying the creative course and weathering career setbacks and I think we can benefit from eavesdropping on some of their road-honed wisdom. Thank you to this episode's sponsor, The New York Studio School, for their support. Please check out their Fall MFA and Certificate Programs at nyss.org Comedians quoted in the episode: Justine Marino, Caitlin Peluffo, Dan Bubitz/Art of Bombing Podcast, Janeane Garofalo, Maria Bamford, Todd Barry, Emma Tattenbaum-Fine, Paul F. Tompkins, Kyle Kinane, Beth Lapides, Joel Byars/Hot Breath Podcast, Johnny Carson, Amy's fave comedians: Maria Bamford, Paul F Tompkins, Catherine Cohen, Todd Barry, Tig Notaro, Mae Martin, Jes Tom, Calvin Cato, Eman El-Husseini, Oscar Aydin, Hayden Johnson, Jaboukie Young-White More info about Amy Talluto (your beloved host): website: amytalluto.com instagram: @talluts Peps has a Patreon! If you are a Peps fan and would love more pep talks in your life, please consider supporting the podcast financially on Patreon at https://www.patreon.com/PepTalksforArtists! For $5 a month, patrons receive exclusive mini Pep-isodes monthly or bimonthly, delivered directly to their email inbox with a clickable link. No tech savviness required! Also, patrons receive early access to not-yet-released full episodes, fresh out the oven. Join the Peps fam on Patreon and become a part of the Pep Talks Peerage today. Find out more here: https://www.patreon.com/PepTalksforArtists Thank you for listening! ---------------------------- Pep Talks on IG: @peptalksforartists Pep Talks on Art Spiel as written essays: https://tinyurl.com/7k82vd8s Amy's website: https://www.amytalluto.com/ Amy on IG: @talluts BuyMeACoffee Donations appreciated! All music and effects are by Soundstripe | |||
| Ep 56: The Munch Bunch | 26 oct. 2023 | 01:44:04 | |
The band's back together! And this time, Elisabeth Condon, Jennifer Coates and I discuss "Edvard Munch: Trembling Earth," a recent Munch survey exhibition at the Clark Institute. We each chose a single painting/print to discuss within the context of Munch's Monistic melancholy, love of clumps, and repetitious reveries. Thank you to The New York Studio School for sponsoring this episode. Deadlines for MFA/Certificate are approaching Jan 15. Elisabeth spoke about: "White Night" oil on canvas 1901 Jennifer spoke about: "The Magic Forest" oil on canvas 1919-25 Amy spoke about "Towards the Forest II" color woodcut 1915 More info about the show at the Clark: https://www.clarkart.edu/exhibition/detail/edvard-munch-trembling-earth Texts mentioned: "Munch: An Inner Life" by Oystein Ustvedt, "Edvard Munch: Trembling Earth" Clark Catalog, "The Private Journals of Edvard Munch: We Are Flames That Pour Out of the Earth" ed J. Gill Holland, Søren Kierkegaard's works: "Fear and Trembling" and "The Sickness Unto Death," "The Spiritual in Art: Abstract Painting 1890-1985" ed Maurice Tuchman Artists/Writers mentioned: August Strindberg, Swedish playwright and novelist, Piet Mondrian, Martha Diamond, Sam Francis Fiddle Factoid: Jennifer mentioned the Norwegian Hardanger fiddle (hardingfele) and its "troll tuning" Online articles mentioned: "The Art of Repetition" by Martin Gayford for The Spectator & "The Soul Laid Bare" by Sue Prideaux for the Tate Museum online Other Munch works mentioned: "The Scream" 1893, "The Sick Child" 1907, "Love and Pain" aka The Vampire 1895, "Death in the Sick Room" 1893, "Death Struggle" 1915, "Kiorsterud Garden of Asgaardstrand" 1905, "The Storm" 1893, "Girls on the Bridge" 1902 More info about Elisabeth Condon: website: elisabethcondon.com | instagram: @elisabethcondon Solo exhibition at Emerson Dorsch in Miami Dec 3 More info about Jennifer Coates: website: jenniferlcoates.com instagram: @jennifercoates666 Solo exhibition at High Noon in NYC May 2024 More info about Amy Talluto (your beloved host): website: amytalluto.com instagram: @talluts Peps has a Patreon! If you are a Peps fan and would love more pep talks in your life, please consider supporting the podcast financially on Patreon at https://www.patreon.com/PepTalksforArtists! For $5 a month, patrons receive exclusive mini Pep-isodes monthly or bimonthly, delivered directly to their email inbox with a clickable link. No tech savviness required! Also, patrons receive early access to not-yet-released full episodes, fresh out the oven. Join the Peps fam on Patreon and become a part of the Pep Talks Peerage today. Find out more here: https://www.patreon.com/PepTalksforArtists Thank you for listening! ---------------------------- Pep Talks on IG: @peptalksforartists Pep Talks on Art Spiel as written essays: https://tinyurl.com/7k82vd8s Amy's website: https://www.amytalluto.com/ Amy on IG: @talluts BuyMeACoffee Donations appreciated! All music and effects are by Soundstripe | |||
| Ep 55: Let's Keep Thinking About Pollyanna | 06 oct. 2023 | 00:26:14 | |
From Richard Diebenkorn's "Notes to Myself On Beginning a Painting," it's a special mystery-whodunnit pepisode where your host, Amy, tries to decipher the meaning of #8 on Diebenkorn's note. Learn more about Diebenkorn and his work, including photos of him and his studio, at The Richard Diebenkorn Foundation: https://diebenkorn.org/ The novel, "Pollyanna," by Eleanor H. Porter is available at most bookstores and libraries and has also been made into at least 2 feature films. The article "One Scuzzy Moment" by Robert Indiana for the New York Magazine 2004 can be found here: https://nymag.com/nymetro/arts/features/10557/ If you are a Peps fan and would love more pep talks in your life, please consider supporting the podcast financially on Patreon at https://www.patreon.com/PepTalksforArtists! For $5 a month, patrons receive exclusive mini Pep-isodes monthly or bimonthly, delivered directly to their email inbox with a clickable link. No tech savviness required! Also, patrons receive early access to not-yet-released full episodes, fresh out the oven. Join the Peps fam on Patreon and become a part of the Pep Talks Peerage today. Find out more here: https://www.patreon.com/PepTalksforArtists Thank you! Your beloved host Amy's in a group show "In the Middle with You" at The Middle Room 2930 Hyperion Ave, Los Angeles, California thru Oct 20, 2023 ---------------------------- Pep Talks on IG: @peptalksforartists Pep Talks on Art Spiel as written essays: https://tinyurl.com/7k82vd8s Amy's website: https://www.amytalluto.com/ Amy on IG: @talluts BuyMeACoffee Donations appreciated! All music and effects are by Soundstripe | |||