Sound and Vision

Episode 473 / Sarah Martin-Nuss (b. 1992, Corpus Christi, Texas) is an interdisciplinary artist working across painting, drawing, performance, and sound. Her work draws from biological systems, philosophical post-humanist thought, and the intricate web of ecological relationships, exploring themes of interconnectivity, transformation, and time. 

Martin-Nuss received her MFA in Painting and Drawing from Pratt Institute in 2024 and her BA in Fine Art and English Literature from Austin College in 2014. Martin-Nuss also studied visual arts at the Collège International de Cannes in Cannes, France and performance, sound, and video art at the School of Visual Arts in New York. In ad...

Episode 472 / Cameron Martin

Cameron Martin is an artist based in Brooklyn. He received his BA from Brown University and continued his studies at the Whitney Independent Study Program. He has exhibited at venues including the Whitney Museum, Saint Louis Art Museum, Columbus Museum of Art, City Gallery (Wellington, New Zealand), and Tel Aviv Museum. His work is included in the public collections of the Buffalo AKG Art Museum, Buffalo, NY; The Minneapolis Institute of Art, Minneapolis, MN; the Saint Louis Art Museum, St. Louis, MO; and The Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY, among others...

Episode 471 / Lee Moriarty

Lee Moriarty is an artist and a professional wrestler. Lee was born and raised in Pittsburgh, PA and studied graphic design at CCAC. He is self-taught in the area of painting and his presentation at NADA Miami last year in collaboration with Orange Crush marks his public debut as an artist.

Lee’s work often depicts wrestlers in repose, including intimate portraits of luchador icons like El Santo and Blue Demon. His art reflects an often underexplored duality within the lives of pro wrestlers, resonating with his own explorations in sports and ar...

Episode 470 / Lucio Pozzi

Lucio Pozzi was born in 1935 in Milan, Italy. After living a few years in Rome, where he studied architecture, he came to the United States in 1962, as a guest of the Harvard International Summer Seminar. He then settled in New York and took the US citizenship. A pioneer in working concurrently across different media, Pozzi has presented videotapeworks at the Museum of Modern Art in New York and watercolor landscapes at the John Weber Gallery in New York, regarded in its day as the “temple of Conceptualism.” He has shown work in Documenta 6 (1977) and at t...

Episode 469 /  Amy Bravo is an artist who lives and works in New York. After completing a bachelor’s degree in Illustration at Pratt Institute, New York, she obtained a Master of Fine Arts in Painting at Hunter College, New York in 2022. Recent exhibitions include group shows with Rachel Uffner Gallery, Workplace, and The FLAG Foundation, as well as a solo show at Nada Miami with Swivel Gallery and a duo show at Swivel Gallery, New York, in 2022. She was also a resident at the Fountainhead Residency in Miami in 2022. 

Amy Bravo is jointly represented by Swivel Gallery (Broo...

Episode 468 / Sarah Awad (b. 1981, Pasadena, CA) has recently exhibited at Night Gallery, Los Angeles; Metropolitan Museum of Manila, Manila, Philippines; The Third Line, Dubai, United Arab Emirates; L.A. Louver, Venice, CA; V1 Gallery, Copenhagen, Denmark; Long Beach City College Art Gallery, Long Beach, CA; and Galerie Ernst Hilger, Vienna, Austria, among others. Her work has been featured in Artillery, Modern Painters, Art in America, Artsy Editorial, ArtScene, and New American Paintings, among others. Her work is included in the collection of the Dallas Museum of Art, Dallas, TX, and the Sharjah Art Museum, Sharjah, United Arab Emirates, among ot...

Episode 467 / Julian Lennon is an English musician, photographer, author, and philanthropist. Julian started a music career in 1984 with his debut album and has since released six more albums. He has held exhibitions of his photography and has written several children's books. In 2006, he produced the environmental documentary film Whaledreamers, which won eight international awards. In 2007, he founded The White Feather Foundation, whose stated mission goal is to address "environmental and humanitarian issues".

In 2020, Julian was executive producer of the Netflix documentary Kiss the Ground about regenerative agriculture and the follow-up film Common Ground. In 2022, Julian was executive...

Episode 466 / Marcus Troy

Marcus Troy is a multidisciplinary artist whose work explores identity, heritage, and cultural storytelling. Deeply influenced by his Caribbean roots, his art reflects the folklore, traditions, and spirituality that shaped his upbringing in a Trinidadian household as a first-generation Canadian. A recent trip to the Caribbean provided further insight into his intuitive practice, unveiling the profound connection between his subconscious and his heritage.

Beyond his roots, Marcus’s artistic vision is shaped by his global travels, experience in fashion and textiles, and deep curiosity about the world. His work merges traditional techniques wi...

Episode 465/ Zoe Hawk

Zoe Hawk (b. 1982, St. Louis) is an American artist living in Columbia, Missouri. Zoe's paintings deal with the simultaneously joyful and fraught experience of girlhood, exploring issues of feminine identity and belonging. Her work has been published in New American Paintings, Plastik Magazine, and and online in features by Artsy, Hi-Fructose, The Jealous Curator, and BOOOOOOOM. Exhibitions include From Pangs To Pangolins, curated by Trenton Doyle Hancock (Shulamit Nazarian, Los Angeles); SPRING/BREAK Art Show and FREIZE LA exhibits curated by Michael Slenske (Los Angeles); Wayward Girls (Spectrum Fine Art, Seattle); and forthcoming group...

Episode 464 / Esteban Jefferson

Esteban Jefferson was born in New York City in 1989. He received his BA and MFA from Columbia University. He’s had solo shows at 303 Gallery, Tanya Leighton in Berlin and Goldsmiths in London. He’s had group shows at Hangar Y in Paris, Uncle Brother in Hancock, NY, Herald St in London, the ICA in Miama and more. His work has been featured in Art Monthly, The New York Times, ArtReview, The Brooklyn Rail, Frieze, Art In America, the New Yorker, Artforum and more. 

Episode 463 / Rose Nestler (b. 1983, Spokane, WA) is a mixed media sculptor who lives and works in Brooklyn, NY. She holds an MFA from Brooklyn College and BA in Art History from Mount Holyoke College. Recent solo and two-person exhibitions include Public, London, UK (2024), Pangeè, Montreal, QC (2023); Mrs., New York, NY (2022); and Carvalho Park, New York, NY (2022) Selected group exhibitions include Asya Geisberg, New York, NY (2025), Plains Art Museum, Fargo ND (2024); Chart, New York, NY (2024), (The University of Leeds’ Stanley & Audrey Burton Gallery, Leeds, UK (2023); Boston University, Boston, MA (2023); Rugby Art Gallery and Museum, Rugby, UK (2022); Perrotin, New York, NY (2022); Hes...

Episode 462 / Doug Aitken

Doug Aitken is an artist whose work explores every medium; from sculpture, film and installations to architectural interventions. His films often explore the modern condition, and his installations create immersive cinematic experiences. Notable artworks include electric earth (1999), sleepwalkers (2007), SONG 1 (2012), Station to Station (2013), Mirage (2017-ongoing), NEW ERA (2018), New Horizon (2019), Flags and Debris (2021), and HOWL (2023). He has collaborated with numerous artists and musicians and his artwork has been exhibited widely. Aitken's latest artwork, Lightscape (2024), was produced by Aitken as a collaboration between the LA Phil and LA Master Chorale and premiered at the Walt Disney Concert Hall in Los Angeles.

This week we are rereleasing this conversation from August 2018 with painter and art critic Walter Robinson. Walter passed this past Sunday and we have lost a singular voice in the world of art. Walter’s impact on all of us who have met him or read his words was huge. I immediately thought of our conversation in his Queens studio when I heard the news. He was a joy to speak with and I hope this revisiting of our talk brings some relief to those missing him and for those who didnt know Walter, I think this is a go...

Episode 460 / Greg Ito

Greg Ito (b. 1987, Los Angeles, CA) earned his BFA from San Francisco Art Institute. His work has been exhibited widely in solo and group exhibitions including at Institute of Contemporary Art, San Diego, CA; Long Beach Museum of Art, Long Beach, CA; Maki Gallery, Tokyo, Japan; Anat Ebgi, Los Angeles, CA; SPURS Gallery, Beijing, China; Lyles and King, New York, NY; Jeffrey Deitch, New York; NY and Yerba Buena Center for the Arts (YBCA), San Francisco, CA. Ito’s work is included in the permanent collections of public institutions including the Hammer Museum, Los An...

Episode 459 / Will St. John is a painter born in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania in 1983. Trained in the techniques of classical realism during his formative years in Italy, Will has since ventured into new territories under the influence of the contemporary New York art scene. His masterful renditions of Drag Queens and Trans models, intertwined with antique porcelain figurines, extend beyond traditional painting. Some portraits find their way into porcelain statues, snuff boxes, and lockets, freezing moments of beauty and authenticity in time. Will has exhibited in the US and abroad at locations such as Cealum Gallery, Spring Break, Arcadia Contemporary and...

Episode 459 / Dana Piazza

Dana Piazza is a visual artist who creates abstract drawings and paintings on paper, panel, and canvas through a process of open-ended experimentation, repeating simple marks with brushes, markers, pens, and nibs. The meticulous forms that Piazza conjures on his flat surfaces depict the illusion of depth and movement; they seem voluminous, carrying significant visual weight. He approaches each work as though it were both a puzzle and an experiment, and lets the materials and tools determine the process.

Dana lives and works in Lenox, Massachusetts. He looks forward to f...

Episode 458 / Emily Wise

Emily Wise (born 1988, Baltimore, MD) received her BFA from the Pacific Northwest College of Art in Portland, OR, where she currently lives and works. Exploring themes related to femininity, intimacy, and the mysteries of the natural world, her paintings have been featured in national publications such as Juxtapoz and Artsy. She has exhibited across Portland, LA and NYC with Chefas Projects and DTLA based gallery Simard Bilodeau Contemporary.

As fires rage in LA and it's effect is shaking the creative communities there, I spoke to Emma Webster, painter and artist who lives and works there about the current situation and some ways to support our fellow artists.

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Episode 457 / Emily Noelle Lambert received her MFA in Painting from Hunter College in NYC and her BA in Visual Art from Antioch College in Yellow Springs, Ohio. Lambert has shown nationally and internationally including solo exhibitions at Freight+Volume Gallery (NYC), Denny Gallery (NYC), Lu Magnus Gallery (NYC) Art in Buildings (NYC), now defunct Thomas Robertello Gallery (IL), Gravity Gallery (MA) and IMART in South Korea.  Her work has been included in numerous group exhibitions including at the Ringling Museum of Art (FL), The University of Michigan in Kalamazoo (MI), Torrance Art Museum(CA), Asya Geisberg (NY), Underdonk (NY) K...

Episode 456

Brian Boucher is an art writer, journalist and critic living in New York, with bylines at publications including the New York Times, New York Magazine, Artnet News, ARTnews, and many others. He previously served as a staff writer and editor at Art in America and a staff writer at Artnet News. He writes about crazy artists' projects (such as when Darren Bader offered his practice for sale), reports on the art market, covers developments in the art education field, and often reports on places where the art world and the wider world intersect, such as the...

Episode 455 / Mark Thomas Gibson

Mark Thomas Gibson (b. 1980, Miami, FL) received his BFA from The Cooper Union in 2002 and his MFA from Yale School of Art in 2013. He was most recently named a recipient of the 2022 Louis Comfort Tiffany Foundation Grant and was awarded a 2022 Guggenheim Fellowship. He was also a 2021-22 Hodder Fellow at Princeton University and received a Pew Fellowship from the Pew Center for Arts and Heritage in 2021. He was awarded residencies at Yaddo, Saratoga Springs, NY, and the Elizabeth Murray Artist Residency by Collarworks, Troy, NY, in 2021; he was also a resident at...

Episode 454 / Xander

Xander is a Boston-based multi-genre music producer and artist. His sound has been greatly influenced by electronic music. To make his compositions stand out in a multiplicity of genres, Xander continues to incorporate a variety of experimental electronic sounds, striving to push the boundaries of any genre he enters. He has produced with and for musicians such as David Guetta, Riton, Kevin Garrett, Meek Mill and other artists. Xander’s work remains driven by experimentation and overcoming limitations of genre and sound.

Episode 453 / Ray Hwang

Ray Hwang is an artist from LA, living and working out of Ridgewood, NY. His work consists primarily of acrylic painting and drawing, in which he abstracts and layers imagery from his personal history to explore themes of family, home and inter-cultural contradiction. He received his BFA from the School of Visual Arts in 2016 and has since exhibited throughout New York City and internationally. He has been featured in Art Maze Magazine, Vast Magazine, and has been a recipient of the Keyholder Residency at the Lower East Side Printshop (New York, NY), the Plum...

Episode 452 / Liv Aanrud earned her B.F.A in painting from the University of Wisconsin—Eau Claire(2001) and her M.F.A from Mason Gross School of Art, Rutgers University(2011). She has taught at ARTworks Charter School, Santa Barbara City College, the Armory Center for the Arts, and has designed and led textile workshops in the U.S and Canada.

Aanrud’s work has been the subject of one-person exhibitions at Kravets Wehby Gallery in New York City, and  BozoMag, New Image Art, Arvia, 1700 Naud and TSA-LA in Los Angeles. Solo shows also include Finlandia University in Hancoc...

Episode 451 / Jason Jägel

Jason Jägel born in 1971, Boston, MA is a 2023-24 Pollock-Krasner recipient. A monograph of his work entitled, Seventy-Three Funshine was published in 2008 by Electric Works, San Francisco. His work is featured in the collections of the Museum of Modern Art, New York, the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, the UCLA Hammer Museum, among others. His 2018 public commission, The Author & Her Story, is a 13x34-foot ceramic tile mosaic at San Francisco International Airport. Landscape, his 2024 solo exhibition, was presented by Michael Benevento Gallery, Los Angeles.

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Episode 450 / Bob Linder

Bob Linder received his MFA from Stanford University, his BFA from the San Francisco Art Institute and attended the Skowhegan School of Painting & Sculpture. He lives and works in Los Angeles, California.  Bob is currently the Program Director for gallery Michael Benevento, Los Angeles. Consistent among exhibiting artists is a willingness to take risks, a total commitment to unique practices, and the precise and thoughtful execution of ideas. He is also a co-founder of the art-damaged, post punk, noise project, Total Shutdown. 

Bob previously served as Head Curator at Th...

Episode 449 / Fred Tomaselli

(born 1956, Santa Monica, CA) Fred has been the subject of solo exhibitions at institutions including the Joslyn Art Museum, Omaha, NE (2019); Oceanside Museum of Art, Oceanside, CA (2018); Toledo Museum of Art, Toledo, OH (2016);  Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth (2014) and the University of Michigan Museum of Art (2014); a survey exhibition at Aspen Art Museum (2009) that toured to Tang Museum in Saratoga, NY and the Brooklyn Museum, Brooklyn NY (2010); The Fruitmarket Gallery, Edinburgh (2004) toured to four venues in Europe and the US; Albright-Knox Gallery of Art (2003); Site Santa Fe (2001); Palm Beach ICA (2001), and Whitney Museum o...

Episode 448 / Akari Uragami is a Japanese multi-disciplinary artist whose work delves into the essence of human existence as a living organism. Her artistic expression, primarily through oil paintings and soft sculptures crafted from natural materials and textiles, offers a profound exploration of what human is.

Akari earned her bachelor's degree in textiles from Musashino Art University, where she immersed herself in the art of traditional Japanese dyeing techniques. Her dedication earned her the Outstanding Graduate Award, and this deep connection to tradition subtly informs her practice.

Her work has been showcased in exhibitions and projects...

Episode 447 /

Aaron Glasson (b Auckland, 1983) is a New Zealand born multi-disciplinary artist based in Mexico, City. Since completing a Bachelor's degree in Art and Design at the Auckland University of Technology in 2005 he has been exhibiting and creating public art works internationally. His diverse portfolio consists of participatory installations, paintings, drawings, sculpture, architecture, assemblage, murals and film.

Though working in a diverse array of mediums Aaron has developed an abstract visual language that unifies his practice as a whole. His paintings rooted in geometry but inspired by time spent in the...

Episode 446 / Christopher Daharsh is an artist who was born in 1990 in Omaha, Nebraska. He received a BFA in Painting and Art History from the Kansas City Art Institute in 2012. Christopher has attended a number of residencies since then, including two yearlong residencies from the Charlotte Street Foundation (Kansas City, Missouri), Art Farm (Marquette, Nebraska), the Factatory (Lyon, France), Hayama Residency (Hayama, Japan) and Goldey House (Huletts Landing, NY). 

Recently Christopher has shown work at Haw Contemporary (Kansas City), the Nerman Museum of Contemporary Art (Overland Park, Kansas), Mother (Beacon, NY), Capsule Bikini (Lyon, France), Les Limbes (St. Eti...

Episode 445 / Henry Ward is an artist, writer, and educator living in London.

He works primarily as a painter, but also makes drawings and small sculptures. He is interested in exploring the language of paint by investigating the threshold between abstraction and representation. 

He was shortlisted for the Trinity Buoy Wharf Drawing Prize in 2018, 2019 and 2022, and longlisted for the Contemporary British Painting Prize 2021. He was included in the inaugural “The Football Art Prize” in 2022. His work has been included in numerous exhibitions. The first substantial publication about his work, “Shed Paintings – Henry Ward”, was published in February 20...

Episode 444 / Larry Madrigal is a Mexican-American painter based in Phoenix, Arizona. Originally from Los Angeles, where his parents stayed after migrating from Mexico, Madrigal spent many of his early summers in Colima where his extended family lives. In 1998, during his elementary years, his family left California and moved to Phoenix where they remain to this day. Madrigal studied at Arizona state University and received his BFA in 2017. During this time, he developed a skill for traditional figurative and portrait painting through his close relationship with emeritus professor, Jerry Schutte, and his wife Anne Schutte. Jerry’s strong knowledge of fi...

Episode 443 / ANDREW SIM (b. 1987, Glasgow) lives and works in New York. They work across drawing and painting, often utilising their favoured medium of pastel in large-scale figurative pieces. Sim’s practice borrows from their everyday experience to inflect various motifs – werewolves, sunflowers, horses, and trees, amongst other items – with elements of autobiography, anthropomorphizing natural subjects and creating new characters to convey their relationship to Queerness, culture and identity. Andrew has shown at The Modern Institute, Karma, NY, Margot Samel, Summerhall in Edinburgh, Anton Kern and other venues. Andrew’s work has been covered in The Scotsman, The New York Times, A...

Episode 442 /

Elizabeth Englander (b.1988, Boston, MA) lives and works in New York, NY. She received her BFA from The Rhode Island School of Design in 2011 and her MFA from Hunter College in 2019. Recent solo exhibitions include: House of Gaga, Guadalajara (2023), Liste Art Fair Basel, solo presentation with Theta (2023); Theta, New York (2022); Smart Objects, Los Angeles (2021); From the Desk of Lucy Bull, Los Angeles (2019). Group exhibitions have been held at: White Columns, New York (2023); Lomex, New York, (2022); What Pipeline, Detroit (2022); Theta, New York (2021); Smart Objects, Los Angeles (2021); Night Gallery, Los Angeles (2021); Safe Gallery, Brooklyn (2019); and Muzeum Ikon, Warsaw, PL (2018...

Episode 441 / Colleen Barry is an artist and painter who grew up in NYC whose studio is based out of Brooklyn, NY. She studied art at the National Academy of Design in NYC and has had shows at venues such as Fredericks and Freiser (2023), The Sotheby’s Institute (2023), Nathalie Karg Gallery (2023), The Library Street Collective (2024), James Fuentes Gallery (2024), and 81 Leonard Gallery (2024). She had a solo booth in Spring Break Art Show in 2022. Also in 2022 she had a duo NYC DEBUT exhibition with artist Will St. John entitled RIDE THE TIGER hosted by Joanne Tucker and Adam Driver at CAELUM GALLERY in...

Episode 440 / Jess Valice is a Los Angeles-based artist born in 1996 in Los Angeles, California, who studied art in grade school but went on to pursue an education in neuroscience at Santa Barbara City College (SBCC). After three years into her education, she decided to end her path in science to pursue painting. Self-taught, Jess Valice now showcases her work with various galleries including Carl Kostyal Gallery (London, Milan, Sweden) and Stems Gallery (Paris, Brussels). 

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 e...

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.

Episode 437 / Yoora Lee (b.1990) was born in South Korea and currently lives and works in Los Angeles. She graduated with her M.F.A in Painting and Drawing from school of the Art institute of Chicago in 2020. Her paintings are filled with analogous color relationships and wavering horizontal marks that imagine an impressionism derived from video tape distortion. Lee’s brush strokes blur the picture like an analog TV glitch, undulating the image as though from an obsolete technology. The unreal color provokes a sense of fantasy, reminding people of brief moments when life felt like a movie or dr...

Episode 436 / Yowshien Kuo is an artist who was born and works out of St. Louis, MO. He earned an MFA ND BFA from Fontbonne University. He has had solo shows at Luce Gallery in Turin, Italy, CAM Contemporary Art Museum in St. Louis, Praise Shadows in Boston, The Bermuda Project in Ferguson, MO and others. He’s been included in group shows at the Bates Museum of Art in Maine, COL Gallery in San Francisco, the Dallas Museum of Art, Tang Contemporary Art in Hong Kong, LVL3 in Chicago, the Tuscon Museum of Art and many others.