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.

Casey Cook received her masters degree from the University of California Los Angeles. She has participated in numerous group and solo exhibitions in Los Angeles, NYC and NC at galleries and museums including Dan Bernier Gallery, Lehmann Maupin, I-20, Branch Gallery, Light Art and Design, LUMP Gallery and The Nasher Museum. Her most recent solo show, Kissing The Scarecrow, was in May of this year at Shrine in NYC. Cook works in a multitude of genres including sculpture, video, film, music and predominately painting.  She was a founding members of the art rock band Americans in France and currently fronts Sunny Slopes. She is working on a solo album of her music collaborations to be released in 2023.

Mason Kimber is a Perth-born, Sydney-based artist who makes paintings that extend into sculptural relief and installation to look at how the histories within surfaces can speak to the memory of place. Mason graduated with a Bachelor of Art (Honours) from Curtin University, Perth in 2009 and an MFA in Painting from the National Art School, Sydney, in 2013. He's currently a PhD candidate at UNSW Art + Design, Sydney. After graduating with his MFA, Mason was awarded a three-month studio residency at the British School at Rome, Italy, the following year. It was here that he studied ancient fresco painting, which led him to look closely at the various connections between painting and the built fabric of cities. Selected exhibitions include: MCA Collection: Perspectives on place at the Museum of Contemporary Art Australia, Sydney (2021); Lustre at Sophie Gannon Gallery, Melbourne; Strata at Kronenberg Mais Wright, Sydney; Prologue: Tongue on tongue / nos salives dans ton oreille at Galerie Allen, Paris (2019); Slanted Mansions at COMA, Sydney (2018); and NEW16 at the Australian Centre for Contemporary Art, Melbourne (2016). Mason has been a finalist for the Sulman Prize at the Art Gallery of New South Wales, the Churchie National Emerging Art Prize at the Institute of Modern Art, Brisbane, and the New South Wales Visual Arts Fellowship (Emerging) at Artspace, Sydney, among others. His work is held in the collections of Artbank and the Museum of Contemporary Art Australia. Mason is also a sessional Painting Lecturer at the National Art School, Sydney, and a Lecturer at UNSW Art + Design. This episode is sponsored by NYC Crit Club. NYC Crit Club is now enrolling through September 18th for their Fall 2022 Semester. NYC Crit Club offers Zoom courses that connect artists around North America and across the world, as well as in-person courses which are hosted in their 550 sq. ft studio space in Bushwick, Brooklyn. Course options range from group critique, visiting critic programs, seminars and writing as well as material-based courses. NYC Crit Club is proud to offer 17 different courses, which will be led by new & returning faculty members including the Director of Anton Kern Gallery, Brigitte Mulholland, and artists, Anna Valdez, Avery Z. Nelson, Jarrett Key, Mira Schor, Chris Bogia, Rose Nestler, among many others! NYC Crit Club is a Brooklyn based artist-run program and was founded by Catherine Haggarty & Hilary Doyle in 2017 and is currently directed by Catherine Haggarty. NYC Crit Club is proud to offer BIPOC Scholarships and financial aid for artists in need. If you would like to learn more, please visit www.nyccritclub.com or follow on Instagram at @nyccritclub.

Andrew Ross received his BFA from The Cooper Union in 2011, where he was awarded the Gelman Trust Award for Excellence in Sculpture. He attended Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture in 2011. He’s been a resident and/or fellow of programs including The Triangle Arts Association, The Drawing Center's Open Sessions, LMCC's Swing Space, The Macedonia Institute, The Bruce High Quality Foundation, and he is a current awardee of Two Trees’ Cultural Space Subsidy Program. Ross has exhibited in group exhibitions at The Hessel Museum, The Drawing Center, The Studio Museum in Harlem, Artists Space, Center for the Humanities at CUNY, White Columns, and Greene Naftali. He has staged solo exhibitions at Signal (Brooklyn, NY), American Medium (NY, NY), Clima Gallery (Milan, Italy), and False Flag (Long Island City, NY). Ross’ work has been reviewed in Artforum, Art in America, Cultured, Flash Art, Mousse, and the Brooklyn Rail. Ross is a sculptor and new media artist who creates fragmentary constructions with figurative elements and everyday objects. With attention to metaphoric associations that his imagery elicits Ross’ tableau scenes oscillate between speculative fiction and cartoonish satire. His figures are chimeric and mythical in appearance yet typically occupied with some form of work and juxtaposed with commonplace detritus. Joining traditional sculpture, assemblage and digital imaging, Ross’s works capture existential issues regarding the conundrum of representation in our age of many avatars.

Influenced by her upbringing in Japan and her current home in New York City, Shino Takedaʼs ceramics embody her sensory experience of sight, touch, taste, sound, and smell. Most of her works are hand-built using the coil method, and incorporate several different types of clay, making each piece one of a kind. Takeda uses her own memories, reflections, and appreciation for her life as inspiration for her works, celebrating the perfect imperfections inherent in handmade objects, and the unexpected alchemy when she works with wood-fired kilns. Takeda is renowned in the design world and her work has recently crossed over into the art world: her 2019 debut solo exhibition Diary was presented at JDJ The Ice House, Garrison and included her ceramics , textiles, and a furniture collaboration. Presentations with JDJ at the art fair NADA Miami in 2019 led to an artist residency at the Fabric Workshop and Museum, Philadelphia, PA, and developed into her mixed media installation for the group exhibition Hard Cover at the museum in 2021.

Galen Cheney is a painter living and working in North Adams, Massachusetts.  Galen received a BA from Mount Holyoke College and an MFA from the Maryland Institute, College of Art.  She has had solo exhibitions at David Richard Gallery in NYC, the Aidron-Duckworth Museum in Berlin, NH, the University of Maine at Augusta, The Painting Center in NYC, Da Wang Culture Highland in Shenzhen, China, Saint-Gaudens National Historic Site in Cornish, NH, and Galerie 1225 in Montreal among many others.  Her many group exhibitions include Mark Bettis Gallery in Asheville, Khawam Modern + Contemporary in West Palm Beach, Lockwood Gallery in Kingston, NY, Berkshire Art Museum in North Adams, MA, The Fleming Museum in Burlington, VT, SITE Gallery in Brooklyn, Greenville (SC) Center for the Arts, Gray Contemporary in Houston and the University of Dallas. She has received fellowships to attend residencies at the Millay Colony, Da Wang Culture Highland in China, and the Vermont Studio Center.  In 2020 she received a North Adams Project Grant and in 2019 attended the Studios at MASS MoCA. Her work has been collected widely and has been featured in many publications, including New American Paintings, Berkshire Magazine, Kolaj Magazine, Art New England, Studio Visit, Tupelo, Mud Season Review, Whitefish Review, and The Laurel of Asheville.  The many blogs that have featured her work include Art Spiel, I Like Your Work, The Weird Show, Design Milk, Artsy Forager The Periphery and Pattern Pulp.

Born in Santa Monica, California in 1974, Jean-Pierre Roy is a Brooklyn- based painter and educator. He received his MFA from the New York Academy of Art in 2002. He is currently represented by Gallery Poulsen in Denmark and Davidson Gallery in NYC. He has participated in numerous group exhibitions in the US, Europe, and Asia and has had solo museum exhibitions at the Torrence Art Museum in Los Angeles and the Virginia Museum of Contemporary Art in Virginia Beach.  His work has been written about in The New York Times, The New York Post, ArtNews, Art in America, New American Painters, The Chicago Tribune, The Huffington Post, The Seattle Stranger, The Wall Street Journal, Hi- Fructose, and Juxtapoz amongst others. His work is in collections of Jerry-Ann Cheney, Beth Rudin DeWoody, Jean Pigozzi, Leonardo DiCaprio and Bjorn Borg amongst others.

Dana Lok is a visual artist who lives and works in Brooklyn, NY. In her paintings and drawings, she aims to capture the magic and unease found in the gap between signs and the things they represent. Her recent work imagines metaphors for how we create knowledge and draw conceptual schemes together. Solo exhibitions include Part and Parse, Miguel Abreu Gallery, New York (2022) One Second Per Second at PAGE, New York (2020); Words Without Skin at Clima, Milan (2019); Mind’s Mouth at Bianca D’Allessandro, Copenhagen (2018); Soft Fact at Clima, Milan (2017); and The Set of All Sets at Chewday’s, London (2016). Group shows include Gravity, a proposal at Sikkema Jenkins & Co. (2022); Regroup Show at Miguel Abreu Gallery (2021); Fifteen Painters at Andrew Kreps Gallery (2021); PAGE (NYC) at Petzel Gallery (2021), all in New York. Dana received her MFA from Columbia University (2015) and her BFA from Carnegie Mellon University (2011), and attended the Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture (2016). In 2018, she was awarded the Rema Hort Mann Emerging Artist Grant. Lok’s work has been covered in Hyperallergic, Cura and Frieze.

Kumasi J. Barnett received his MFA from The Ohio State University, and now lives and works in Baltimore, MD. Influenced by the aesthetics and narratives of comic books, his work subverts and imbues the often timeless genre with a present day social consciousness. Barnett frequently paints directly over old copies of comic books, changing their narratives into critiques of police brutality, racial profiling, and more broadly, systemic racism.

Barnett’s works have been exhibited widely both in the United States and abroad, including exhibitions at Lowell Ryan Projects, Los Angeles, CA; the SPRING/BREAK Art Show, New York, NY; City Lore, New York, NY; Con-Artist Collective, New York, NY; The Arsenal Gallery, New York, NY; Sulphur Bath Studio, Brooklyn, NY; and The Brooklyn Public Library, Brooklyn, NY. Museum exhibitions include the Zeitz Museum of Contemporary Art Africa in Cape Town, South Africa; The Boca Raton Museum of Art, Boca Raton, FL; and most recently the Verge Center for the Arts, Sacramento, CA. Barnett presented a solo booth with Lowell Ryan Projects at The Armory Show 2020, in the Focus section curated by Jamillah James. Barnett’s work has been featured in Artforum, Ammo, Vibe, Hyperallergic, Huffington Post, Autre, Artnet News, and The Guardian, among others.

Ariel Dill is a painter born in Los Angeles, California who received an MFA from Hunter College, New York, NY in 2006, and a BA from Skidmore College, Saratoga Springs NY in 1998. She lives and works in Los Angeles.   Her solo exhibitions include, Four O’clocks at Ladies’ Room in Los Angeles, Cosmic Springs at Turn Gallery, NY, Oscillations at Southfirst Gallery in Brooklyn. Group exhibitions include, TEN SENTENCES at Turn Gallery in New York, NY, Safe Gallery in Brooklyn, Loyal Gallery in Stockholm, Sweden, Edward Thorp Gallery in New York, NY, Jack Hanley Galleryin New York, NY, Halsey McKay Gallery in East Hampton, NY (2013), Nicole Klagsbrun in NY Alderman Exhibitions in Chicago, IL (2012) and Southfirst Gallery in Brooklyn. Her work has been reviewed in publications including, The New Yorker, Time Out New York, The New York Observer, and Modern Painters. She has been awarded a New York Foundation for the Arts Painting Fellowship and is included in the Alex Katz Foundation Collection. Buy the S&V Book "WHY I MAKE ART" here: https://atelier-editions.com/products/why-i-make-art

Evan Mast is a musician and visual artist based out of Brooklyn. He records his own music under the name E*vax and is one half of the band RATATAT. Youre hearing his music as we speak. After studying art at Skidmore college, Evan released a solo album as E*vax. He then went on to release five records with RATATAT. He returned with an eponimous release in 2021 in which he made videos for each track. He has produced music for many musicians including Despot, Kid Cudi, Jay Z and Kanye. He recieved a Grammy for his production on Kanye’s Donda record. Evan’s current show at Brackett Creek Exhibitions is up in NYC until July 16th. The show features two prints and a new video work based on his travels in Pakistan.

Marina Kappos received an MFA from the Yale University School of Art in 1997 and a BFA from the California Institute of the Arts in 1995. She lives and works in NYC. Her solo exhibitions include "You You You" at SHRINE in NYC (2022), “Transfigured" at Foyer/LA in Los Angeles (2020),  “Peep Show” at China Art Objects in Los Angeles (2011) and “Marina Kappos” at Tokyo Wonder Site, Institute of Contemporary Art (2007). Group exhibitions include "Resonant Frequencies" at Jonathan Levine Projects. NJ (2021), "Show Me The Signs" at Blum & Poe, CA (2020) and "Animal Crossing" at Inman Gallery, TX (2020). Catalogues were published for her 2007 exhibition at Tokyo Wonder Site, Institute for Contemporary Art, and also for her two solo exhibitions at I-20 gallery in NY in 2002 and 1998. Kappos has been reviewed in publications including artforum.com, Time Out New York, The Japan Times, and Flash Art. In the winter of 2020, she participated in the artist residency program at Lighthouse Works on Fishers Island. She also attended the Tokyo Wonder Site Creator-In-Residence program twice, first in 2007, and then again in 2013, where she spent several months painting and living in Tokyo. She also has a show titled "Sun Up Sun Down" at Lighthouse Works through July 16th and a group show at Nathalie Karg gallery opening June 28th titled "Painting As Is II" curated by Heidi Hahn and Tim Wilson. Order the S&V book: http://atelier-editions.com/store/why-i-make-art $25 full of inspiration

Spencer Tunick has been documenting the live nude figure in public, with photography and video, since 1992. Since 1994, he has organized over 100 temporary site-related installations that encompass dozens, hundreds or thousands of volunteers, and his photographs are records of these events. In his early group works, the individuals en masse, without their clothing, grouped together, metamorphose into a new shape. The bodies extend into and upon the landscape like a substance. These group masses, which do not underscore sexuality, often become abstractions that challenge or reconfigure one's views of nudity and privacy. The work also refers to the complex issue of presenting art in permanent or temporary public spaces. Spencer stages scenes in which the battle of nature against culture is played out against various backdrops, from civic center to desert sandstorm. In 2002 he started to work with standing positions for his group formations referencing traditional group portraiture. Now, for some installations, he adds objects that the participants are often holding or wearing and has included body paint. Spencer has and continues to make group installations/photographs elevating awareness of HIV/AIDS, LGBTQ rights, equality and climate change, among other issues. Near the end of installations, for the final setups, he sometimes separates the participants into smaller groups to make additional assemblages: sometimes by sex, sometimes by age, or even by hair color. However, no one is ever excluded from an installation because of the color of their skin, ethnicity, gender identity, sex, race, religion, or political affiliation. If you can make it to an installation you can participate, unless of course there are space limitations. Spencer could not make his art without the generosity of the participants. He is eternally grateful for their participation. He wishes he could credit everyone in his individual and group photographs but there are hundreds and thousands who have taken part collectively. In exchange for taking part, participants receive a limited edition print. Spencer's temporary site-specific photographic installations have been commissioned by the XXV Biennial de Sao Paulo, Brazil (2002); Institut Cultura, Barcelona (2003); The Saatchi Gallery (2003); MOCA Cleveland (2004); Vienna Kunsthalle (2008) and MAMBO Museum of Modern Art, Bogota (2016), among others.

Visual artist Alex Dodge lives and works in Brooklyn, New York and Tokyo, Japan. His studio practice has consistently explored the promise of technology as it intersects with and shapes human experience. His work is deftly located between new media and traditional fine art disciplines including painting, printmaking, and sculpture. His work is in the collections of the Museum of Modern Art, the Whitney Museum of American Art, the Metropolitan Museum of Art, and the Museum of Fine Arts Boston. He holds degrees from the Rhode Island School of Design (BFA Painting) and New York University, Interactive Telecommunication Program (MPS). I spoke to Alex about early days in his noise band, figuring out how to make paintings, working in a gallery, going back to school and much more. Why I Make Art. the book based on the Sound & Vision podcast is now available. Many thanks to all those who have preordered the book. It’s 336 pages filled with quotes by the many artists on this podcast, words of wisdom, features on 30 artists, some of the guest book artist sketches, color images of the work an introduction by Hrishikesh Hirway of the Song Exploder podcast. It’s out on Atelier Editions, distributed by Artbook DAP and available on their websites as well as Amazon, Target, Barnes & Noble and other p[laces you can get books. It’s 25 dollars and in my opinion well worth it. Order a copy today. You can find it at atelier-editions.com or artbook.com.

Laura Krifka is an artist born 1985 in Los Angeles, CA. She lives and works in San Luis Obispo, CA. Krifka received her MFA from UC Santa Barbara in 2010 and her BFA from California Polytechnic University San Luis Obispo in 2008, following earlier studies at Newbold College in England and Avondale College in Australia. Laura has exhibited her work at venues throughout Southern California including the Torrance Museum of Art, Westmont Ridley-Tree Museum of Art, LA Louver, CB1 Gallery, and Beacon Arts in Inglewood, as well as at Zroboli Gallery in Chicago, BravinLee Programs in New York, and Vast Space Projects in Las Vegas. Laura’s work has been featured in various publications including Los Angeles Times, The Huffington Post, Santa Barbara News-Press, New American Paintings, and Artillery Magazine and her work can be found in the collections of the Santa Barbara Museum of Art, Westmont Ridley-Tree Museum of Art, the Art, Design & Architecture Museum at the University of California, Santa Barbara; the Beth Rudin DeWoody Collection, Palm Beach, and the Pizzuti Collection, Columbus, OH.  Order WHY I MAKE ART the podcast book here: http://atelier-editions.com/store/why-i-make-art

Born in Oneonta, New York in 1984
Sam Friedman is an artist who lives and works in Pleasant Valley, New York. Sam has had solo exhibitions at The Mass in Tokyo, Gana Nineone in Seoul, Harper’s Chelsea in NYC, Library Street Collective in Detroit, WOAW Gallery in Hong Kong, Over The Influence in Hong Kong and many others. His work has been covered by Hype Beast, BOOOOOOM, Fed, Hype Art and more.

Eric Yahnker is an artist based out of California. After studying journalism at USC, Eric Yahnker went on to the CalArts where he received his BFA in animation. He then worked on animation for TV, including Seinfeld, South Park, and MADtv, before switching to a career in the contemporary art world. Since 2008, Yahnker has had solo exhibitions at The Hole in New York, Ambach & Rice and Zevitas Marcus in Los Angeles, Paradise Row in London, and Jeanroch Dard in Paris. Recent group exhibitions include Brand New Gallery in Milan, M+B in Los Angeles, the Torrance Art Museum in Torrance, TX and Galerie Ampersand in Cologne. His first museum solo exhibition The Long Goodbye took place at CAM Raleigh in North Carolina in 2017. His work has been covered in Juxtapoz, The New York Times, the LA Times, i-D, It’s Nice That, Hyperallergic, W and many more outlets.

Annie Lapin is an artist born in Washington, D.C. who received her MFA from the University of California, Los Angeles in 2007, her Post-Baccalaureate Certificate from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago in 2004, and her BA from Yale University in 2001. Annie lives and works in Los Angeles. Her recent solo exhibitions include Shulamit Nazarian, Los Angeles,  Miles McEnery Gallery, New York; Honor Fraser, Los Angeles; Josh Lilley, London;  Annarumma Gallery, Naples; Weatherspoon Art Museum, Greensboro, NC; Yautepec Gallery, Mexico City; and Museum of Contemporary Art, Santa Barbara.   Annie’s work is included in the permanent collections of the High Museum of Art, Atlanta; Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles; Nerman Museum of Contemporary Art, Overland Park, KS; Orange County Museum of Art, Newport Beach, CA; Rubell Family Collection, Miami; Santa Barbara Museum, Santa Barbara, CA; Weatherspoon Art Museum, Greensboro, NC; and the Zabludowicz Collection, London. https://www.artbook.com/9781733622097.html Preorder the podcast book! Why I Make Art: Contemporary Artists' Stories About Life & Work From the Sound & Vision Podcast by Brian Alfred Introduction and interviews by Brian Alfred. Foreword by Hrishikesh Hirway.

Tim Kinsella released albums & toured internationally at a steady clip for 25 years, his most well-known bands being Joan of Arc, Cap’n Jazz & Owls. He is the author of four books & the subject of the 2017 Vice / Noisey feature documentary Your War (I'm One of You). More recently, he played a lead role in the award-winning feature film Firstness (2021). Collaborating with his wife Jenny Pulse since 2018, the duo released two albums & toured as Good Fuck, making a practice of writing & recording in remote locations far from their Chicago home. The first releases to come out under their own names are the forthcoming Gimme Altamont EP & the album Giddy Skelter.

Laurie Nye is an artist born in Memphis, TN who received her BFA from the Memphis College of Art, and her MFA from the California Institute of the Arts. In December 2021, Laurie’s solo exhibition, “It Wasn’t A Dream It Was A Flood,” at Philip Martin Gallery (Los Angeles, CA) was an Artforum Best of Year 2021 feature. Nye's work is currently part of a group exhibition "Here Comes the Suns," at Bark Berlin Gallery (Berlin, Germany). In April 2021, Laurie’s artist project, “Chickasaw Moon,” at Odd Ark (Los Angeles, CA) was the subject of an Artforum Critic’s Pick. Laurie’s work has recently been the subject of solo and group exhibitions at Philip Martin Gallery (Los Angeles, CA);  Bark Berlin Gallery (Berlin, Germany); The Pit (Glendale, CA), Odd Ark (Los Angeles, CA); Big Pictures LA (Los Angeles) Blake and Vargas, (Berlin, Germany); The Dot Project, (London, UK); Day and Night Gallery (Atlanta, GA); La Loma Projects, (Pasadena, CA); and Unpaved Gallery (Yucca Valley, CA). Her work has been reviewed in such publications as Artillery, Los Angeles Times, Artforum, FAD Magazine and LA Weekly. She lives and works in Los Angeles, CA.

Matthew Stone, born in 1982 in London, is an artist that works across a number of different disciplines including painting, sculpture, photography, new media and performance. Matthew began his career as a leading influencer in a number of counter-cultural movements in London. He was instrumental in developing the South London art collective !WOWOW! as well as a central figure in the shift of sub-cultural understanding that came to re-imagine and later define areas of the East End of London during the mid 00’s. The artist has been part of a number of critically acclaimed solo and group shows both nationally and internationally. In the United Kingdom he has shown at Tate Britain, the ICA and the Royal Academy of Art, and internationally at the Marrakech Biennale, Fiorucci Foundation and Viafarini, Milan. He’s shown at The Hole, Choi & Lager in Korea, Gallery V1 in Copenhagen and many more. His work has been covered in the New York Times, Hypebeast, Hi-Fructose, Whitewall, Cultured, Dazed and Confused amoung many more outlets. Matthew Stone (@MatthewStoneart) is releasing a fine art print titled "Play". Its available now, and for the next 24 hrs only at misa.art (@misa.artmarket)  https://misa.art/collections/matthew-stone/products/stone-matthew_play_2022

Jia Sung is an artist and educator, born in Minnesota, raised in Singapore, now based in Brooklyn.
Her paintings and artist books have been exhibited across North America, including the Knockdown Center, RISD Museum, Wave Hill, EFA Project Space, Lincoln Center, Yale University, and MOMA PS1. Her work has been published in The Paris Review, Emergence Magazine, Hyperallergic, Jacobin Magazine, and Asian American Writers Workshop, and collected by the Met, SFMOMA, and the Special Collections at Yale, SAIC, and RISD. She has taught at organizations like the AC Institute, Abrons Arts Center, Children’s Museum of the Arts, and Museum of Chinese in America. She was a 2018-2019 Smack Mellon Studio Artist and Van Lier Fellow, and is currently an adjunct professor at RISD, where she received her BFA in 2015.

Kate Clark is a sculptor who lives in Brooklyn, NY. Her first solo exhibit was at Claire Oliver Gallery in New York in 2008. Since then she has exhibited in museum shows at the Aldrich Museum, Islip Art Museum, Bellevue Arts Museum, MobileMuseum, MOFA: Florida State, Cranbrook Art Museum, Frist Center for the Visual Arts, Winnepeg Art Gallery, GlenbowMuseum, Musée de la Halle Saint Pierre, Cleveland State University, Hudson Valley Center for Contemporary Art, Nevada Museum of Art, Brown University, Newcomb Museum, Hilliard Museum, Bemis Center, Biggs Museum, Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology and the J. Paul Getty Museum.    Kate’s work is collected internationally and she has collaborated with Claudia Rankine for Claudia’s book Citizen, and Kanye West and Desiigner for the video Panda. Kate attended Cornell University and Cranbrook Academy of Art, and received fellowships and grants from the Jentel Artists Residency, The Fine Arts Work Center, Marie Walsh Sharpe, The Virginia Groot Foundation and NYFA.   Clark’s sculptures have been featured in the NYTs, New York Magazine, Art21, Village Voice, PAPERmag, The Atlantic, NYArts, BBC, Time Out, ID Paris, Cool Hunting, Wallpaper, Huffington Post, and the WSJ. National Geographic did a documentary on Kate’s work in 2015.

Allison Jae Evans was born in New Haven, CT and currently lives and works in Brooklyn, NY. She received a BA from Dartmouth College in Hanover, NH and an MFA from Hunter College in NYC. Evans has exhibited her work at TSA in Brooklyn, 106 Green, Moneygramme, The Journal Gallery and Edward Thorp Gallery, among other venues. Her work has been featured in New American Paintings and Hyperallergic, Maake Magazine and has been reviewed in The New York Times. She was a 2016 Rema Hort Mann Emerging Artist Grant Nominee. The Sound & Vision Podcast book is now available for preorder. Why I Make Art features an in-depth look at 30 artists from Chris Martin to Robin Williams. There’s also thematic quote sections and images from sketches artist contributed to the S&V guestbook. It has a forward written by Hirishikesh Hirway of the Song Exploder podcast and Netflix show. Preorder here: http://atelier-editions.com/store/why-i-make-art My solo show “Escape Plan” is up now at Miles MceEnery Gallery, 511 W22nd street in Manhattan. The show will be up until April 23rd. You can check out the catalog at the Miles McEnery website. Sound & Vision is sponsored by Golden Artist Colors. You can find them in your local art store or online at goldenpaints.com Sound & Vision is also sponsored by Fulcrum coffee roasters. Based in Seattle, Fulcrum makes incredible coffee that you can have delivered to your door They have subscription services where you can have different blends delivered that you tailor to your favorite balance of coffee beans. You can save 20% on your order by entering the code alfredstudio when you order from their site. Check out their amazing coffee at fulcrumcoffee.com

Paul Natkin is widely considered Chicago’s greatest music photographer. The son of a photojournalist, Paul’s career flourished in the heyday of rock & roll as he traveled from show to show, documenting both rising stars and icons of the music industry. A true music fan, Paul’s passion and workmanlike approach to his trade has made him the photographer to the stars over a four-decade career. He was the official touring photographer for the Rolling Stones, becoming friends with Keith Richards and documenting the North America tour of the New Barbarians. He continues to attend shows and shoot portraits at his studio on Chicago’s north side. I talked to Paul about everything from the Stones to the Beatles, from Prince to Steve Albini, traveling, getting access, what makes a good photo and so much more. Here’s our conversation.. Check out Paul’s upcoming book out on Trope publishing: Trope  |  3020 W Carroll Ave  |  Chicago, IL 60612  USA Trope Publishing Co  www.trope.com  |  Trope Gallery www.wildmanbt.com   The Sound & Vision Podcast book is now available for preorder. Why I Make Art features an in-depth look at 30 artists from Chris Martin to Robin Williams. There’s also thematic quote sections and images from sketches artist contributed to the S&V guestbook. It has a forward written by Hirishikesh Hirway of the Song Exploder podcast and Netflix show. You can get your copy at the Atelier Editions website. http://atelier-editions.com/store/why-i-make-art My solo show “Escape Plan” is up now at Miles McEnery Gallery, 511 W22nd street in Manhattan. The show will be up until April 23rd. You can check out the catalog at the Miles McEnery website. https://www.milesmcenery.com/

Anna Conway was born in 1973 in Durango, Colorado. She received her BFA from the Cooper Union for the Advancement of Science and Art and later received her MFA from Columbia University School of the Arts. Conway is the recipient of two awards from the Pollock-Krasner Foundation (2005 and 2011), the William Metcalf Award from the American Academy of Arts and Letters (2008), and the John Simon Guggenheim Fellowship (2014). Recent solo exhibitions include Anna Conway, Fergus McCaffrey, New York; Anna Conway: Purpose, Collezione Maramotti, Reggio Emilia, Italy; Anna Conway, American Contemporary, New York; and Anna Conway, Guild & Greyshkul, New York. Recent group exhibitions include In My Room, Fralin Museum of Art, Virginia; The Last Brucennial, Bruce High Quality Foundation, New York; Uncharted, University Art Museum, State University of New York, Albany; Invitational Exhibition of Visual Arts, American Academy of Arts and Letters, New York; and Greater New York, P.S. 1 Contemporary Art Center, Long Island City. She lives and works in New York.

Jansson Stegner (b. 1972, Denver, CO, US; lives and works in Santa Barbara, CA, US) received his MFA from the University of Albany, New York. Stegner has been the subject of numerous solo exhibitions with Sorry We’re Closed, Brussels; Bellwether Gallery, New York; Mike Weiss Gallery, New York, and most recently, Almine Rech Gallery, New York. He was the recipient of the 2010 Art Brussels: Collectors’ Choice Award and was the 2015 Deutsche Bank NYFA Fellow. Stegner is represented by Nino Mier Gallery, Los Angeles and Sorry We’re Closed, Brussels.

Anne Wu (b. 1991) is an artist from Queens, New York. She received a BFA from Cornell University and an MFA in Sculpture from Yale University. She has exhibited at Real Art Ways, The Shed, NARS Foundation, Shaker Museum | Mount Lebanon, and the New York Public Library, among others. Her work has been featured in Art in America, The New York Times, Curbed, and Artnet News. In 2020, she was an artist-in-residence at the NARS Foundation Satellite Residency on Governors Island, and she is currently a 2021-22 Studio Artist at Smack Mellon in Brooklyn, NY.

Andrew Schoultz (1975, Milwaukee, WI) lives and works in Los Angeles, California. He received his BFA in Illustration from the Academy of Arts University in San Francisco, CA. Schoultz has participated in several international solo and group exhibitions, including Joshua Liner Gallery NY, Galerie Droste, Wuppertal, GER or Galerie LJ in Paris, FR. His works are represented in important collections such as the Los Angeles County Museum (LACMA), the Berkeley Art Museum or the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, CA. Schoultz utilizes a signature style of densely-packed, meticulously-rendered motifs – archaic war machines, the iconography of the American Dollar bill, and cataclysmic events, both natural and man-made – to represent the turmoil of the contemporary world. He makes historic references to antique etchings and Persian miniature painting as well as to William T. Wiley, M. C. Escher and Mission School street art. But Schoultz’s art is very much his own – an intense vision of a planet threatened by overcrowding and overconsumption and societies under siege by the governments that are there to protect them.

Benjamin Edwards is an artist born in Iowa City, Iowa and lives and works in Washington DC. He recieved a BA from UCLA, attended the San Francisco Art Institute then earned an MFA from the Rhode Island School of Design. He has had solo shows at Greenberg Van Doren in NYC, Tomio Koyama in Tokyo, Galerie Jean-Luc and Takako Richard in Paris and Kravets Wehby in NYC. He has had group exhibitions at Mucciaccia Contemporary in Rome, Neumann Wolfson in NY, Nicole Ripka in Watermill, NY, The Walker Art Center in Minneapolis, The Chelsea Art Museum in NY, the Cleveland Museum of Art and shows in Barcelona, Austria, Prague, Wolfsburg, Copenhagen and many more. His work has been covered in The New Yorker, Art in America, Tokyo Art Beat, Time Out NY, The New York Times, New York Magazine, October, Artforum and many more. His work is in the collection of the Museum of Modern Art, The Carnegie Museum of Art, The New York Public Library, The Progressive Corporation to just name a few.

Alice Tippit received both her BFA and MFA from the Art Institute of Chicago. Tippit addresses her interest in language and the drift of meaning through her paintings and drawings. Her boldly graphic imagery is familiar yet rendered strange through a series of shifts: in scale; interaction of color; from negative to positive space. Tippit’s work is currently on view in The Regional, a survey of artists from the Midwest, at the Contemporary Art Center in Cincinnati, Ohio. Her work has been written about in the New York Times, ArtForum, and Frieze, among other publications. Recent solo and group exhibitions include Nicelle Beauchene, New York, NY; PATRON, Chicago, IL; Grice Bench, Los Angeles, CA; Kimmerich Galerie, Berlin; Corbett vs Dempsey, Chicago, IL; CHART Gallery, New York, NY; Anton Kern Gallery, New York, NY. Tippit lives and works in Chicago, Illinois.

Robert Russell is a painter who lives and works in Los Angeles, CA (b. 1971, Kansas City, MO) he received his Master of Fine Arts from the California Institute of the Arts, Santa Clarita, CA and his Bachelor of Fine Arts from the Rhode Island School of Design, Providence, RI. 
Recent solo exhibitions include Anat Ebgi Gallery, Los Angeles, CA; “A Theory of Clouds,” OSMOS Station, Stamford, NY; “Book Paintings,” Anat Ebgi Gallery, Los Angeles, CA, “Tonic Immobility,” Burrard Arts Foundation,Vancouver, BC, Canada; Big Pond Artworks, Munich, Germany; “Men Who are Named Robert Russell,” OSMOS, New York, NY; “Scattershot,” Anna Helwing Gallery, Los Angeles, CA; “Pink,” Anna Helwing Gallery, Los Angeles, CA; “Robert Russell: Recent Work,” Limn Gallery, San Francisco, CA, and “Skaters,” Frumkin/Duval Gallery, Santa Monica, CA. 
Recent group exhibitions include “Mystic Truths” (curated by Brooke Wise), NeueHouse Bradbury, Los Angeles, CA; “Good Company: Pt. 1,” Anat Ebgi Gallery, “Perfect Day,” Roberts and Tilton Gallery, Los Angeles, CA; “The Art of Politics,” Pasadena Convention Center, Los Angeles, CA; “The Dorian Project,” Second Guest Projects, New York, NY; “The Los Angeles Initiative - Rema Hort Mann Foundation,” Honor Fraser Gallery, Los Angeles, CA; “Dilettantes, Dandied and Divas,” Gavlak Projects, Palm Beach, FL amongst many others.

Based in New York, Victoria Sambunaris structures her life around a photographic journey traversing the American landscape for several months per year. Equipped with a 5x7 inch field camera, film, a video camera and research material, she crosses the country alone tenting on top of her car. Her large-scale project-based photographs document the continuing transformation of the American landscape with specific attention given to expanding political, technological and industrial interventions. Sambunaris received her MFA from Yale University in 1999. Her work has been widely exhibited in museums and galleries throughout the United States and abroad. She is the recipient of numerous awards including the 2021 John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation Fellowship, the Julius Shulman Excellence in Photography Award, the Aaron Siskind Foundation Individual Photographer’s Fellowship and the Anonymous Was a Woman Award. In 2011 a twelve-year survey of her work was exhibited at the Albright-Knox Art Gallery in Buffalo, NY and travelled throughout the US. Her work is held in numerous collections including the Museum of Modern Art, the Whitney Museum of American Art, the Albright-Knox Art Gallery, the Lannan Foundation, the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art and the National Gallery of Art. In 2019, Sambunaris was commissioned by the Dia Art Foundation to photograph Robert Smithson’s Spiral Jetty for the 50th anniversary and Sun Tunnels by Nancy Holt. Radius Books Published her first monograph Taxonomy of a Landscape. She is represented by Yancey Richardson Gallery in NY.

Villareal was born in Albuquerque, New Mexico and grew up in El Paso, Texas and Juarez, Chihuahua. He attended Portsmouth Abbey School in Portsmouth, Rhode Island and received his BA in sculpture from Yale University in 1990 and his master’s degree in Interactive Telecommunications from New York University in 1994. After graduating from NYU, Villareal moved to San Francisco to work for three years at Paul Allen’s private research lab, Interval Research, in Palo Alto. Since 2004, Villareal has served on the board of Ballroom Marfa in Marfa, Texas, a dynamic, contemporary cultural arts space. In 2011, Villareal joined the board of the Burning Man Project. He currently lives in downtown Manhattan with his wife Yvonne Force Villareal and their two children.

Cheryl Donegan received her B.F.A. in Painting at the Rhode Island School of Design and an M.F.A. at Hunter College in New York. In her breakthrough videos of the 1990’s, Donegan combined time-based, gestural media of performance and video with forms such as painting, drawing, and installation. Her work has been exhibited internationally, most recently in her first career survey at Kunsthalle Zurich (summer 2017). In June 2018, Cheryl opened another survey of her works from 2009 to present at the Aspen Museum of Art, traveling to Contemporary Art Museum in Houston in 2019. Other venues include a one person exhibitions at The New Museum, New York City (2016), the 1995 Whitney Biennial, The Museum of Modern Art, and the Tang Museum of Art, New York Film and Video Festival, 1993 Venice Biennale, and the1995  Biennale d'Art Contemporain de Lyon, France, in addition to many individual and group exhibitions in Europe and America. Cheryl was a faculty member in the Fine Arts Department at the School of Visual Art, New York from 1997-2013. She has been a seminar leader and guest critic at Yale University, was a faculty member at Skowhegan School of Drawing and Painting, Summer 2011 and a visiting artist/lecturer at numerous art programs in the United States. She lives in New York and in Istria. Sound & Vision is sponsored by www.goldenpaints.com and fulcrumcoffee.com You can visit Fulcrum and get the new tin I made artwork for on their site.

Chie Fueki (b. 1973) lives and works in Beacon, NY. Fueki was born in Yokohama, Japan, and raised in São Paulo, Brazil. She earned her MFA at Yale University and her BFA at The Ringling College of Art and Design. She is an inaugural recipient of the 2021 Joan Mitchell Fellowship. Other recent solo exhibitions include: Shoshana Wayne Gallery, Los Angeles, CA (2005, 2008, 2013, 2021); Mary Boone Gallery, New York, NY (2006, 2011); Orlando Museum of Art, FL (2014); and Mother Gallery, Beacon, NY (2020). Her work was recently included in group exhibitions at Inman Gallery, Houston, TX; Miles McEnery Gallery, New York, NY; Essex Flowers, New York, NY; The ReInstitue, Millerton, NY; Fredricks Freiser Gallery, New York, NY; Geoffrey Young Gallery in Great Barrington, MA; Jeff Bailey Gallery, Hudson, NY; LABspace, Hillsdale, NY; and Greater New York at PS1 Contemporary Art Center in Long Island City, NY. She has public artwork at PS 92Q, Queens NY, and HHS Lerner Children Pavilion, New York, NY. Her work is included in permanent collections of the Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth, TX; Orlando Museum of Art, FL; San Jose Museum of Art, CA; the Hirshhorn Museum, D.C.; and the Pizzuti Collection at Columbus Museum of Art, OH. Chie has a show up now at DC Moore Gallery in NYC.

Eric Fischl was born in 1948 in New York City and grew up in the suburbs of Long Island. He began his art education in Phoenix, Arizona where his parents had moved in 1967. He attended Phoenix College and earned his B.F.A. from the California Institute for the Arts in 1972. He then spent some time in Chicago, where he worked as a guard at the Museum of Contemporary Art. In 1974, he moved to Halifax, Nova Scotia, to teach painting at the Nova Scotia College of Art and Design. Eric had his first solo show, curated by Bruce W. Ferguson, at Dalhousie Art Gallery in Nova Scotia in 1975 before relocating to New York City in 1978. Eric’s paintings, sculptures, drawings and prints have been the subject of numerous solo and major group exhibitions and his work is represented in many museums, as well as prestigious private and corporate collections, including The Metropolitan Museum of Art, The Whitney Museum of American Art, The Museum of Modem Art in New York City, The Museum of Contemporary Art in Los Angeles, St. Louis Art Museum, Louisiana Museum of Art in Denmark, MusÈe Beaubourg in Paris, The Paine Weber Collection, and many others. Fischl has collaborated with other artists and authors, including E.L. Doctorow, Allen Ginsberg, Jamaica Kincaid, Jerry Saltz and Frederic Tuten. He is also the founder, President and lead curator for America: Now and Here. This multi-disciplinary exhibition of 150 of some of Americaís most celebrated visual artists, musicians, poets, playwrights, and filmmakers is designed to spark a national conversation about American identity through the arts. The project launched on May 5th, 2011 in Kansas City before traveling to Detroit and Chicago.  Eric is a Fellow at both the American Academy of Arts and Letters and the American Academy of Arts and Science. He lives and works in Sag Harbor, NY with his wife, the painter April Gornik.

Alec Egan (b. 1984, Los Angeles, CA) completed his MFA at Otis College of Art and Design in 2013, and received a BFA in creative writing and poetry from Kenyon College. Recent solo exhibitions include Drawing Room at Brattleboro Museum and Art Center, Brattleboro, VT; Blue Setting, Charles Moffett, New York, NY; Look Out, Anat Ebgi, Los Angeles, CA; and Miro’s Corner, MAKI Gallery in Tokyo, Japan. His work has also been exhibited in group and solo exhibitions at Almine Rech, Paris, France; Dubuque Museum of Art, Dubuque, IA; California Heritage Museum, Santa Monica, CA; Torrance Art Museum, Torrance, CA; Anat Ebgi, Los Angeles / New York; Charles Moffett Gallery, New York, NY; MAKI Gallery, Tokyo, Japan. Egan lives and works in Los Angeles, CA.

Kurt Kauper was born in Indianapolis, Indiana in 1966, and raised in a suburb of Boston, Massachusetts. He received his BFA from Boston University in 1988, and his MFA from UCLA in 1995. He has lived in New York City for the past 20 years. His figure paintings of historical and imagined people tend to leave expectations unfulfilled, and elude simple categorization. In contradistinction to his clear and precise articulations of form, Kauper's content is characterized by indeterminacy, unintentionality, ambiguity, fluidity, destabilization, strangeness, amorality, uselessness, and neutrality. He’s had solo shows at ACME Gallery in Los Angeles, Deitch Projects in New York City, and Almine Rech Gallery, New York. He has been included in numerous group exhibitions both in the United States and Europe, including venues such as the Whitney Museum of American Art in New York, The Pompidou Center in Paris, the Kunsthalle Vienna, and the Stedelijk Museum in Gent. He has received numerous awards, including grants from the Elizabeth Greenshields Foundation, the Louis Comfort Tiffany Foundation, and the Pollock Krasner Foundation. His work is included in the collections of The Museum of Modern Art, New York, The Whitney Museum of American Art, The Hammer Museum, The Oakland Museum of Art, the Weatherspoon Museum, and the Yale University Art Gallery. He has taught at The School of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, Yale University, Princeton University, and the New York Academy of Art. He is currently a Professor of Art at Queens College in New York City.

Luis Gispert (b 1972 Jersey City, New Jersey) is a Cuban- American artist that creates through a wide range of media, including photography, film, painting and sculpture. Born out of research into subject matter that intersect themes of the American popular imagination, social class anxiety,  art history and his Caribbean lineage, the work ask questions about conspicuous consumption by accessorizing its relationships to psychoanalysis, the cult of authenticity and the theater of personal narrative. His art strives to bring things in our world that are marginalized or under appreciated from the edges to the center, so they can be seen in their fullness. He attended Miami Dade College, and studied film and sculpture at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago and Yale University. He has exhibited a nd screened his work internationally in museums and galleries like such as the Brooklyn Museum of Art, The Studio Museum in Harlem, Shanghai Museum of Contemporary Art,Whitney Museum of American Art, the Museum of Contemporary Art North Miami, the Contemporary Arts Museum Houston, Palazzo Brocherasio in Turin, the Royal Academy in London, the Haifa Museum in Israel, the Des Moines Art Center and the Guggenheim. His work is represented in over twenty one public collections including the Museum of Fine Art Boston, SFMOMA, Whitney Museum of American Art, Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum  Bronx Museum, The New Museum, The Harvard Fogg Art Museum, the Des Moines Art Center, The Perez Museum, and the Henry Art Gallery. He has been a visiting artist lecturer at Yale University, Columbia University, New York University and the University of Pennsylvania. 300th Episode T-shirt link https://www.customink.com/fundraising/episode300 IG : @soundandvisionpodcast

Shawn Kuruneru (b. 1984, Toronto, Ontario, Canada) centralizes drawing in his practice. Exploring both the graphic and conceptual potentials of the medium, Shawn’s works engage with Western geometric abstraction, Eastern landscape painting, and the artist’s own interest in comic books. In referencing these genres, he is interested in the narrative potentials of the mark based on context. Shawn’s self published graphic novels are BURN MAN and Fool’s Wish. Shawn received his BFA from Concordia University, Montreal. His national and international exhibitions include: Cooper Cole, Toronto (2020); KOKI ARTS, Tokyo (2019); Ribordy Contemporary, Geneva (2017); Galerie Antoine Ertaskiran, Montreal (2017); Skarstedt Gallery, New York (2016); Brand New Gallery, Milan (2015); Martos Gallery, New York (2014); and Night Gallery, Los Angeles (2014).