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Episode 439 / This week we are reissuing a conversation with artist and musician Hisham Akira Bharoocha. Hisham will be performing live music this Saturday at 2pm at the opening of my survey show “You Could Feel the Sky” at the Williamsburg Biannual at 333 Kent Avenue in Williamsburg Brooklyn. Come join us for live music, Grimm Ales and work that I have made over the last 25 years. I will be screening animations that have never been shown before icluding music videos for Poolside, Fourtet, Flying Lotus and more. It will also be the first time I am exhibiting graphite drawings in my entire career. It’s free, open to the public and a fun 1-5pm daytime opening on Armory weekend. Hope you can make it there. Here’s a coversation from a few years back of Hisham and I talking about art, music and more. 

Episode 438 / Sarah Boyts Yoder is a painter based in Charlottesville, VA. She received an MFA in painting from James Madison University in 2006. Her work has been featured in numerous publications, exhibitions, and corporate and private collections throughout the United States and abroad, including the Virginia Museum of Contemporary Art.

Sarah has been the recipient of a professional fellowship in painting from the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts and has been a fellow multiple times at the Virginia Center for the Creative Arts and 100W Corsicana in Corsicana, TX.

Martine Johanna is an artist who lives and works in Zetten in the Netherlands. She has had exhibitions at Massey Klein Gallery in NYC, Massey Lyuben Gallery in NYC, Spoke Art in San Francisco, Bright Side in Amsterdam, Hashimoto Gallery in San Francisco and many more. Her work has been covered in Metal Magazine, Booooooom, Interlocutor, Justapoz, Contemporary Art Curator Magazine, Create Zine, Beautiful Bizarre to just name a few. She also records music under the name Ghostmother.

David Scanavino (b. 1978, Denver, Colorado) lives and works in Providence, Rhode Island.  A graduate of the Rhode Island School of Design (BFA Painting 2001) and the Yale University School of the Arts (MFA Painting 2003), Scanavino has shown widely in the past 15 years in New York, across the country, and internationally.  He has had solo museum exhibitions including "Imperial Texture" at the Aldrich Museum of Contemporary Art, Ridgefield CT (2014), "Candy Crush" at the Pulitzer Foundation of Art in St. Louis, MO (2014), and “Repeater” at the Moody Center for the Arts at Rice University in Houston, TX (2017).  He has permanent public commissions installed in the Columbus Metropolitan Public Library in Columbus, Ohio and the King Fahd University of Petroleum and Minerals, Dhahran, Saudi Arabia.  Scanavino has had multiple solo gallery exhibitions with Klaus von Nichtssagend Gallery in New York, as well as solo and group exhibitions at Michael Benevento, Los Angeles; Marlborough Gallery Broome Street, New York; Team Gallery, New York; Bureau Gallery, New York; Marianne Boesky, New York; and Derek Eller Gallery, New York. His work has been reviewed in Art in America, ArtReview, The New York Times, and the New York Observer, along with numerous other publications, and is held in public collections including the RISD Museum, The Cleveland Clinic, The Progressive Art Collection, the The Pizzuti Collection and the Rice University Art Collection.  Scanavino is a faculty member of the Rhode Island School of Design.

Sue de Beer's work spans the diverse disciplines of film and installation, sculpture and photography. She received her BFA from Parsons and her MFA from Columbia University. Solo exhibitions include the Kunst Werke, Berlin, the Whitney Museum of American Art at Altria, The Park Avenue Armory, and the High Line, New York, as well as Marianne Boesky Gallery in New York, where she is represented. Her work has been included in group exhibitions in such venues as the New Museum, the Whitney Museum, PS1/MOMA, the Brooklyn Museum, the Reina Sofia in Madrid, a, the Deste Foundation in Greece, the Museum of Modern Art, Busan,in South Korea amongst others. Sue’s work is included in the permanent collections of the Museum of Modern Art, the Whitney Museum of American Art, the New Museum for Contemporary Art, the Brooklyn Museum, the Deste Foundation, the Goetz Collection, and others. She is a recipient of an American Academy in Berlin Fellowship (2002), a John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Fellowship (2016), and a Pollock-Krasner Foundation Grant (2019).

Michelle Blade is an artist born in Los Angeles who makes paintings and drawings documenting time, closely examining the stillness, strength, and persistence of the natural world and our relationship to it.   Recent exhibitions include her solo show "The Blue Horse" at Loyal, Stockholm (2022), and “Into the Forest” at Wilding Cran Gallery, Los Angeles (2020). Some recent group exhibitions include When The Sun Loses It’s Light at Blum & Poe, Los Angeles(2022); High Voltage 3 at The Nassima-Landau Project, Tel Aviv, Israel (2022); Machines of Desire at Simon Lee, London (2022);  “If you Forget My Name I will go Astray) at Anat Ebgi, Los Angeles (2022), and “My Secret Garden” at Asia Art Center curated by Emilia Yin and Melanie Ouyang Lum (Taipei). She has also exhibited at Anat Ebgi (LA), La Loma Gallery, (LA); The Pit (LA), WOAW Gallery (Hong Kong), Make Room (Los Angeles), F2T Gallery, (Milan); The Center for Contemporary Arts (Santa Fe), The Bonnefanten Museum (Netherlands), Jack Hanley, Roberts & Tilton (Los Angeles), and The Torrance Art Museum (Los Angeles). Blade’s work has been featured in The New York Times Magazine, The Los Angeles Times, The Paris Review, Juxtapoz, The California Sunday Magazine, and Art Maze. Michelle Michelle has a BA from Loyola Marymount and an MFA from the California College of the Arts, in San Francisco.

Raffi Kalenderian is an artist who studied painting at the University of California, in Los Angeles. Subsequently, he did artist residency at Idyllwild Arts Academy, California, and at Medium, St. Barthélemy. Raffi uses oil paint, watercolors, graphite, and colored pencils, sometimes combined with a collage of photocopied material. His portraits show people surrounded by domestic environments; patterns of clothing and furniture build elaborate abstractions. In his work, The artist reflects on leisure and portrays a young society that seems to be always waiting for something.  Raffi has held solo shows at the Buchmann Galerie, Berlin; Galerie Peter Kilchmann, Zurich; Brand New Gallery, Milan; Susanne Vielmetter Gallery, and Black Dragon Society gallery, both in Los Angeles. His participation in group shows was notably at Setareh Gallery, Dusserdolf; Saatchi Gallery, London, and Taymour Grahne Gallery, New York. His work is in the collections of the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles, CA Minneapolis Institute of Art, Minneapolis, MN and the Santa Barbara Museum of Art, Santa Barbara, CA.

Delphine Hennelly received her BFA from Cooper Union in 2002 and her MFA from Mason Gross School of the Visual Arts at Rutgers University in New Jersey in 2017. A painter, drawer and occasional printmaker, Hennelly explores figuration primarily using the female form. She is a three-time recipient of the Elizabeth Greenshields Foundation Award. Recent presentations include “What A Day!” a group exhibition at EveryDay Mooonday (Seoul, Korea); “Fluuuuudio,” a group exhibition curated by Edoardo Monti presented at Cassina Projects (Milano, Italy); a participation in David Zwirner’s Platform; and the solo “Beguiling Tedious Hours” at Pangée (Montreal, Canada). In November 2022, she will have a solo at Carvalho Park (New York, New York). She recently completed a residency at Palazzo Monti (Brescia, Italy). She lives and works in Montreal and is represented by Pangée. Get the Sound & Vision podcast book, WHY I MAKE ART here: https://www.amazon.com/dp/1733622098/ref=cm_sw_em_r_mt_dp_PK38BAC5AR28BWG8ADHR

Iliodora Margellos is an artist born in Minneapolis who lives and works in Athens, Greece. She graduated from Yale University in 2006 with a BA in Art, and later worked at the studio of Peter Halley. She expanded her artistic practice with studies in photography and printmaking at the Columbia School of Arts and drawing at the Salzburg Academy of Fine Arts in Austria. Selected solo exhibitions include: ‘Bedroom Situation (Up in the Air)’ at Enter, Dio Horia Gallery, Copenhagen; ‘One Sun For All’ at Dio Horia Gallery, Mykonos; ‘Francesca Gabbiani | Iliodora Margellos‘ at Baert Gallery, Los Angeles. Selected group exhibitions include: ‘(Home) Situation Afloat‘ at Frieze LA, Baert Gallery, Los Angeles; ‘Tyranny: A Modern Intimacy’, 61st Thessaloniki International Film Festival at The Project Gallery, Athens; ‘Summer Group Exhibition’ at Baert Gallery, Los Angeles; ‘Notions of Female Leadership’ at Dio Horia Gallery & Art Virtual Online, Athens; Future Fair, Dio Horia Gallery, Online edition, Artsy; ‘Omega to Alpha’, at the Museum of Modern Greek Culture, Athens. Her work has been featured in the FT ‘How To Spend It’ issue in September 2020. In 2021, she won the Ruya Maps finalist prize for the Spirit Issue of Creative Cities Project open call, Athens.A note, we talk a bit about blankets in the beginning of the pod. For reference“Securities”, or security blankets, are her ongoing series of thread-on-iron-mesh embroideries. She reimagines these symbols of childhood vulnerability and post-partum co-dependency as rigidly metallic - yet malleable - wire mesh screens decoratively penetrated by brightly-hued islands of delicate thread.

Jose Lerma was born in Spain and grew up in Puerto Rico. He earned an MFA from the University of Wisconsin Madison and BA from Tulane University, and attended the CORE Residency Program, Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, TX, and Skowhegan School of Painting & Sculpture, ME. He lives and works in Chicago and San Juan, Puerto Rico. His work has been in solo exhibitions at the Kemper Museum of Art in Kansas City, the Museum of Contemporary Art in Chicago and the Museo de Arte Contemporáneo de San Juan, Puerto Rico, among others; as well as in group exhibitions at the Milwaukee Art Museum, WI; Institute Valecia d’art Modern, Spain; Museo de Arte de Ponce, Puerto Rico; Centro Atlantico de Arte Moderno, Las Palmas de Gran Canaria, Spain; DESTE Foundation for Contemporary Art, Athens, Greece; Museo del Barrio, New York, NY; and Museum of Fine Arts Houston, TX, and others. His work has been written about extensively in the press, including in The New Yorker, The New York Times, and Artforum.