Pep Talks for Artists

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Ep 25: Book Talks: "How to Work a Room" (or an Opening) w/ Mandy Wilson Rosen May 16, 2022

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Mandy Wilson Rosen is back to co-host another Book Talks for Artists! Welcome back, Mandy! This week we are discussing "How to Work a Room" by Susan RoAne to see if it jusssttt might have some helpful tips inside for artists. Spoiler alert: It does. It's chock full of helpful tips for surviving an opening and we can't wait to talk about it. I even found some cocktail party lounge music for the ep. Join us!

Link to the book: Amazon or Thriftbooks
Hoban Press business cards: https://hobanpress.com/ (PS: Amy uses "the Stoic" calling card-so thicc!)

Mandy's website: https://mandolynwilsonrosen.com/home.html

Amy's website: https://www.amytalluto.com/

Pep Talks Instagram: @peptalksforartists

Thank you to Geraldine Merola Barton for recommending the book to me way back when!

Donate to the Peps: https://anchor.fm/peptalksforartistspod/support

Thank you for listening, rating, reviewing and donating!

All music is licensed from Soundstripe.

Ep 24: Slow Work & Agnes Pelton's Silver Baby May 05, 2022

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This episode I look at the plusses of slowing down and taking our own sweet time in the studio. Artist slow-poke examples include Giorgio Morandi (read by Frank Bango), Jay Defeo, Charles Burchfield's "reconstructions" like "Sun and Rocks," Michelangelo, Cy Twombly, and, last but not least: Agnes Pelton and her silver baby. I didn't hold back on the crazy effects on this one, guys...it's a full vibe.

Agnes Pelton readings were from:

"Agnes Pelton: Desert Transcendentalist" ed. by Gilbert Vicario

Thanks for listening!

Connect with Peps on Instagram and see more images illustrating this episode: @peptalksforartists

Amy's website: https://www.amytalluto.com/

Many thanks to Frank Bango at Sincere Recording Studio for his help in producing and mixing this episode!

Ep 23: Interview w/ Artist, Portia Munson Apr 26, 2022

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Installation artist, painter and photographer, Portia Munson, joined me on the podcast to talk about her work with cast-off objects, cultural waste, and girl kitsch. Tune in to hear our conversation about her work's feminist and ecological themes. We also spoke about how the objectification of women persists...in objects. And how endless inspiration can be found simply by roaming around an antiques mall or a swap-shop.

Portia has a few shows happening this Summer (2022) if you'd like to catch her work in person:

Find Portia Munson on Instagram: @portiamunson
PPOW Gallery: "Bound Angel" July 8-Aug 19 in NYC
Art Omi: June 25-Sept 25 in Ghent, NY
Pamela Salisbury Gallery: June 11-July 10 in Hudson, NY
Lyndhurst Mansion: "Women's Work" May 27-Sept 26 in Tarrytown, NY
"The Garden" at 21C Museum Hotel in Louisville, KY

ARCHIVE: Bad Girls exhibition at The New Museum: https://archive.newmuseum.org/exhibitions/235

Artist shoutouts: Jared Handelsman, Vito Acconci, Barbara Krueger, Martha Rosler, Hans Haacke, Jennifer Coates, Shari Mendelson, Kiki Smith and Valerie Hammond

Thanks to Shima Star and Andrea Champlin for their great questions!

Apply for Cape Cod Dune Shack residencies: Fine Arts Work Center | Provincetown Community Compact | Peaked Hill Trust

Amy's fave thrifter Youtuber: Jeffrey of Real Nifty Vintage

This talk was recorded live on the Clubhouse app April 12, 2022. The full, unedited audio is available on the Pep Talks for Artists club page on Clubhouse.

Thanks so much for listening, rating, reviewing and supporting the Peps! Please find the podcast on Instagram @peptalksforartists to see images that go with this episode.

Amy's website: amytalluto.com

All licensed music is by Soundstripe

Ep 22: Art Made in Kitchens Apr 15, 2022

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Think you can't make work unless you have a big palatial studio? Think again! Great art can also be made in kitchens!

Here's proof:

Ida Appelbroog: Art 21 episode "Power" & Jo Applin essay

Martha Rosler: "Semiotics of the Kitchen"

Mimi Smith at White Columns in "Gloria" 2002 and at her website: https://mimismith.com/1970.html

Betye Saar's "Black Girl's Window"

Joseph Cornell's works & The Guardian article

Carrie Mae Weems: "Kitchen Table Series" 1990 & National Gallery of Art Lecture

Robert Rauschenberg: Combine w/ spoon "Trophy II (for Teeny and Marcel Duchamp)" 1960 & The Guardian article

Alice Neel: "Thanksgiving" 1965

Alexander Calder: Cutlery

Ann Ryan: Collages

I made this ep back all the way back in December 2021 after reading that great Betye Saar quote in the Question of Balance Book...so happy to get a chance to release it finally!

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Amy's website: https://www.amytalluto.com/

All licensed music is by Soundstripe

Bonus: What's After Art School w/ Catherine Haggarty of NYC Crit Club Apr 11, 2022

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Catherine Haggarty, a friend of the show, painter and Executive Director of NYC Crit Club stopped by this week for a Bonus Episode to tell me a bit about her upcoming summer courses online and in person. She's got some great faculty lined up too, including Claire Grill, Clarity Haynes, Erika Ranee, Paul Gagner and Jared Linge. We also got talking about how it was for each of us starting out and how much we could have used a mentor or peer network at crucial moments. This experience helped her develop this alternative program for artists post-BFA or post-MFA which is a "radical alternative program offering community, connection, and critique."

Class registration for the summer opens up Monday, April 11, 2022, so check out NYC Crit Club online soon to see the full range of courses before they fill up:

Web: https://www.nyccritclub.com/

Instagram: @nyccritclub

If you're an artist looking for a summer class or critique group, check out NYC Crit Club!

Please also visit Pep Talks on Instagram @peptalksforartists where I always post an image carousel to go with each episode and love hearing from you!

All licensed music is by Soundstripe

Ep 21: Expressive Figuration w/ Keisha Prioleau Martin & Emilia Olsen Apr 06, 2022

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Painters, Keisha Prioleau Martin and Emilia Olsen joined me this week to talk about their work. Both painter's painters, they work primarily with the figure and use vibrant luscious color to add to the content of their work. Listen in to hear about why the "bather" is still a rich subject to paint (especially by women or female-identifying artists), why the city's character and quirks can inspire endless imagery and also what advice they would each give their younger selves.

See more of their work:

Keisha: https://keishaprioleaumartin.cargo.site/and on IG at@keishaprioleaumartin

Emilia: https://www.emiliawolsen.com/and on IG at @emiliaolsen.biz

Upcoming shows:

Keisha: Solo ceramic show "Small Gestures" at ArtShack 1131 Bedford Ave (Bed-Stuy) Brooklyn, NY thru May 19, 2022 / Solo painting show at Olympia 41 Orchard St. NYC opens May 26, 2022 / Look for Keisha during Upstate Weekend too in Fall 2022

Emilia: Two-person show at Kates-Ferri Projects561 Grand Street, NYC (w/ C.J. Chueca)

Texts recommended by my guests: "Joy is a Human Madness" by Zadie Smith, "The Book of Delights: Essays" by Ross Gay, "The Trauma of Everyday Life" by Mark Epstein, "The Last Thing" by Ada Limón, "How to Be a Good Girl" by Jamie Hood (Fun fact: Emilia's work is on the cover and the book is seen on the nightstand in a scene from the Sex and the City reboot "And Just Like That"), Frank O'Hara, "The Whale" by Philip Hoare

BrushTalk™: Keisha loves a round, a synthetic sable and a Hashimoto large flat. Emilia loves a filbert and also "mural" brushes. Shout out to radiant red and the quinacridone violets!

Please check out the Pep Talks Instagram at @peptalksforartists to see images of the works mentioned on this episode in a special story highlight.

Thanks so much to my guests and also thank you for listening!

Licensed music is by Soundstripe

Bonus: Using Instagram as a Fine Artist w/ Paddy Johnson of VVrkshop.art Mar 30, 2022

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Friend of the show, Paddy Johnson, is back on Peps! Welcome back, Paddy! She gave me tons of Instagram tips for artists (that old enigma wrapped in a riddle) and she also told me a bit more about "Netvvrk," her business network providing training for professional working fine artists. You may remember that she came on as part of a panel for "Episode 3: Alternative Art Programs" back in 2021, and this time we did more of a deep dive. Her program's membership opens quarterly and is currently opening up April 6-10, 2022. She's also offering a free masterclass scheduled for April 6 at 12pm ET titled "3 Steps to Getting More Shows" that artists can check out.

More info:

Register in advance for the free webinar "3 Steps to Getting More Shows" airing April 6 at 12pm ET: https://vvrkshop.lpages.co/three-steps-to-getting-more-shows-live/

VVrkshop website (Membership sign-ups open April 6-10): https://www.vvrkshop.art/

VVrkshop on IG: @vvrkshop.art

Pep Talks listeners who choose to sign up for Netvvrk get $20 off their first month with code: PepTalks20

Thanks for listening, following, rating and reviewing! Please connect with Peps on Instagram@peptalksforartists

All licensed music is by Soundstripe

Ep 20: Collage and Landscape w/ Todd Bartel Mar 24, 2022

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Where did the phrase "That gave me the willies" come from and how did it kick off the American Sublime? And what was the first landscape on Earth? Find out in this week's episode as my guest, collage artist, Todd Bartel joins me to talk about our favorite subjects: Collage and Landscape.

Click here to see images of Todd's work: https://www.toddbartel.com/

Click here to read Todd's writings on collage: https://issuu.com/toddbartel

Todd Bartel's music (used in this episode): "Several Big Changes" 2009 (intro, musical stings and outro)&"Retinalmade and Readymade" 2020 (musical stings and end music). Listen to these and more here: https://necto.bandcamp.com/

Recommended texts:
Leo Marx "The Machine in the Garden: Technology and the Pastoral Ideal in America"
Man of Commerce Map, 1889 (LINK)
Simon Schama "Landscape and Memory"
Kenneth Clark "Landscape Into Art"
Kari Jormakka"Theoretical Landscapes—On the Interface Between Architectural Theory and Landscape Architecture"
William Shakespeare "Hamlet"
Nathaniel Hawthorne "The Scarlet Letter" & "The Ambitious Guest" (a short story inspired by the Willey family tragedy)
Amy's segment: Johann Wolfgang von Goethe "Faust" (esp the part about his Faust-y homunculus)

More about the Crawford Notch/Willey Family tragedy https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Willey_House_(New_Hampshire)
Artists mentioned: Hardu Keck, Andre Breton, Max Ernst, Comte de Lautreamont’s famous image from Les Chants de Maldoror, Alfred DeCredico, Michael Oatman, Joseph Mallord William Turner, Thomas Cole, Charlie Nevad, Zdeněk Michael František Burian, Rene Magritte's "The Treachery of Images", Burgess Collins aka Jess' "Xrysxrossanthemums" 1978, Amy's segment: Rene Magritte's "The Apparition" and Andre Masson's "Gradiva"

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Amy's website: https://www.amytalluto.com/
Thank you Todd! Thank you listeners! See you next time.

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Other music used was licensed from Soundstripe.

Ep 19: The Proof is in the Punctum Mar 17, 2022

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This weeks on Pep Talks, I am taking a quick dive into Roland Barthe's concept of the "Punctum" from his book "Camera Lucida," to explain why some artworks and films stick in your mind and others don't. Find out why Stanley Kubrick's choice of music for scoring "2001: A Space Odyssey" & Ingrid Bergman's turn as a boxing nun made both of these films punctum-y and stick in my brain. Also, come hear about Barthe's personal quest to find a photo of his mother that contained her true essence, and how we as artists can try and infuse our own work with punctum-like staying properties.

Works mentioned:
"Camera Lucida" (1980) book by Roland Barthes
"The Bells of St. Mary's" (1945) film directed by Leo McCarey and starring Ingrid Bergman
"2001: A Space Odyssey" (1968) film by Stanley Kubrick

Songs mentioned:
"The Blue Danube" by Johann Strauss II used in "2001: A Space Odyssey"
"Also Sprach Zarathustra" by Richard Strauss used in "2001: A Space Odyssey"
"Gesänge der Frühe" or "Songs of the Morning" (1853) by Robert Schumann, mentioned by Roland Barthes
Special thanks to P Elaine Sharpe for their contributions to this episode!

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"Also Sprach Zarathustra - Sonnenaufgang" by Richard Strauss (2010 version by Kevin MacLeod), used by permission of Creative Commons license
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Ep 18: A Meditation on Artist Residencies, The Twilight Zone & A Provincetown Dune Shack Mar 07, 2022

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Come along this week to find out why I think an episode of the Twilight Zone is the perfect analogy for going on an artist residency ...AND also hear a little radio play I made about going to a Provincetown/Truro dune shack for a week as an Artist in Residence and all about my neighbors: 1,000 gray seals and a single white-footed dune mouse. It will be "Ever so much fun."

Further reading/watching/links:

"The Twilight Zone" ep "The After Hours" (S1, Ep34, w/ Anne Francis as "Marsha")

"Wired to Create" by Carolyn Gregoire & Scott Barry Kaufman

Searchable Artist Residencies: Artistcommunities.org

Our artist-crowd-sourced list of Artist Residency recommendations from Clubhouse: (LINK)

Apply for a Dune Shack here: https://www.nps.gov/caco/learn/historyculture/residency-programs-dune-shacks-of-the-peaked-hill-bars-historic-district.htm

*NEW* Artists of Color Dune Shack Residency: https://thecompact.org/dune-shacks

Photos from my week at Ray Wells shack (or search #raywellsduneshack on IG): (LINK)

Dune shack music is "Haïti" by Joséphine Baker from the birdcage scene of her film Zouzou 1934 (LINK)

More about Ray Wells Shack history (Thanks to Tony Lagarto for his research and post on FB): "The long-time shack of Ray Martan Wells, the artist wife of real estate developer and restaurateur Nicholas Wells, founder of The Mews. Coast Guardsman Ellis built the original (central) portion of the shack in 1935 or 1936 with a side gable roof. This part of the building is located on its original site and retains its 1930s orientation, dimensions, and the majority of the structural system. The Wellses added the extant front porch in 1937... According to Gail Cohen, Nicholas and Ray Wells purchased the deed from Eugene O’Neill’s wife, Carlotta Monteray...Ray Wells lived to 103 and she inhabited her dune shack up until shortly before her death." --TL (LINK)

Artists and writers who worked in Provincetown: Eugene O'Neill, Tennessee Williams, Norman Mailer, Mark Rothko, Robert Motherwell, Helen Frankenthaler, Franz Kline, and Hans Hofmann (LINK)

My website: http://www.amytalluto.com

Peps on Instagram: @peptalksforartists

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