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Evan Marien Dec 05, 2019

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Evan Marien is a composer/producer/multi-instrumentalist born and raised in Decatur, Illinois who now lives in Brooklyn, NY. Although Evan grew up playing trombone, piano, guitar, and drums, he is primarily known for his performances and recordings on the electric bass. Most recently he has been playing bass, keys and singing background vocals for electronic songwriter Elliot Moss, playing bass with Thundercat drummer Justin Brown's NYEUSI, and the last bassist to play in guitar legend Allan Holdsworth's band. Evan attended MacArthur High School, where he played in the Downbeat award-winning MacArthur Jazz Band. This band brought him many awards and opportunities, winning Best Soloist at multiple competitions, a full scholarship to study at Birch Creek in Wisconsin's beautiful Door County, sharing the stage with Maria Schneider's Orchestra/Big Band and Maynard Ferguson's band. Evan was also a part of the MacArthur Jazz Combo, which in his junior year won Best High School Combo in the nation by Downbeat Magazine. Evan attended the Berklee College of Music in Boston, Massachusetts. During his time at Berklee, Marien studied under Matthew Garrison, David "Fuze" Fiuczynski, Joe Lovano, Kenwood Dennard and Lincoln Goines to name a few. In 2009, Marien graduated Cum Laude from Berklee College of Music and the same year was voted in the Bass Player Magazine Reader’s Choice Awards, one of the top three "Most Exciting New Players". Besides leading his project with drummer Dana Hawkins, He has recorded or performed with Virgil Donati, Wayne Krantz, Cory Wong (Vulfpeck), Zach Danziger, Nate Wood, Louis Cole, Fredrik Thordendal (Meshuggah), Mark Guiliana, Victor Wooten, Ian Chang (Son Lux), Mike Slott, Mitski, A$AP Ferg producer Frankie P and many other incredible music makers and instrumentalists. Evan is a bass faculty member at The Collective and The New School in NYC, teaching modern music to all instrumentalists. Evan stopped by with Brian to talk growing up with music, jazz to funk, Herbie Hancock to video game soundtracks and a lot more.

Laura Splan Nov 28, 2019

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Laura Splan is a Brooklyn-based artist whose work mines the materiality of science to reveal poetic subjectivities. Her mixed media projects destabilize notions of the presence and absence of bodies evoking the mutability of categories that delineate their status. Splan’s work compels an intimate engagement with detail calling into question how things are made and what they are made of. She reconsiders perceptions and representations of the corporeal with a range of traditional and new media techniques. She often combines the quotidian with the unfamiliar to interrogate cultural constructions of order and disorder, function and dysfunction. Her frequent combinations of textiles with technology challenge values of "the hand" in creative production and question notions of agency and chance in aesthetics. Her recent Embodied Objects series uses biosensors (electromyography, electroencephalography) to create data-driven forms and patterns for digitally fabricated sculptures, weavings and works on paper as well as for movement in performances with sensor-actuated apparatus. Her current solo exhibition, Conformations, combines biotech imagery, networked devices, and artifacts with sculptures made from the hand-spun fiber of laboratory animals. Splan's work has been exhibited at the Museum of Arts & Design and Beall Center for Art + Technology. International audiences for her work have included Iceland, South Korea, England, Germany, Sweden, Austria, and Canada. Her work is included in the collections of the Thoma Art Foundation, the NYU Langone Art Collection, and the Science Center. Her biomedical themed artworks have been commissioned by the Centers for Disease Control Foundation, the Gen Art New Media Art Exhibition and Davidson College. She has received research funding from The Jerome Foundation and her residencies have been supported by the Knight Foundation, the Institute for Electronic Arts, Harvestworks, and the Pollock-Krasner Foundation. She has been a visiting lecturer at Stanford University teaching interdisciplinary courses including “Embodied Interfaces”, “Data as Material” and “Art & Biology”. She is currently a Creative Experiments track member at NEW INC, the New Museum’s cultural incubator. Sound & Vision is sponsored by Golden Paints.

Claudia Bitran Nov 21, 2019

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Claudia Bitran is an artist who works primarily painting and video. She was born in Boston, spent most of her life in Santiago, Chile, and currently lives in Brooklyn. She holds an MFA in Painting from Rhode Island School of Design and a BFA from the Catholic University of Chile. She has exhibited individually at Muhlenberg College (2018-2019), Practice Gallery in Philadelphia (2018), at the Brooklyn Bridge Park in NY (2018), at Roswell Museum and Art Center in New Mexico (2017), and at Museo de Artes Visuales in Santiago Chile (2016). She has participated in Group Exhibitions and Screenings at Smack Mellon Gallery in NY (2019), Cindy Rucker Gallery in NY (2019), Echo Park Film Center LA (2019), Experimental Video Art Film Festival at Tribeca Film Center in NY (2018), Galería Nemesio Antunez Chile (2018), LeRoy Neiman Gallery at Columbia University (2018), Anytime Dept Ohio (2017), Saha Hadid IMAX Theater New York (2017), Taipei Contemporary Art Center Taiwan (2017), The Parlour Bushwick Brooklyn (2016), Project 722 Brooklyn (2015), Museum of Contemporary Arts Quinta Normal Santiago (2011), at Matucana 100 Art space Santiago (2011), among others. She has held residencies at the Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture in Maine (2014), the Bemis Center for Contemporary Arts in Nebraska (2014), the Roswell Artist-in-Residence Program in New Mexico (2016), Smack Mellon Studio Program in New York (2017), and at Outpost Projects in New York (2018). Grants and Awards include: The New York Trust Van Lier Fellowship, Hammersley Grant, Emergency Grant for Artists Foundation for Contemporary Arts, Jerome Foundation Grant for Emerging Filmmakers, 1st Prize Britney Spears Dance Challenge, 1st Prize UFO McDonald’s Painting Competition, 1st honorable mention at Bienal de Artes Mediales, Museo de Bellas Artes, Santiago, Chile. Claudia currently teaches in the Painting Departments at Pratt Institute and Rhode Island School of Design, and is an instructor at New York City Crit Club.

Salman Toor Nov 14, 2019

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Salman talks to Brian about his paintings, life from Pakistan to NYC and much more. Sponsored by Golden Paints.

Alan Resnick Nov 07, 2019

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Alan Resnick is an artist, director and filmmaker based out of LA. He is part of the What City collective and has made video art that lives from YouTube to Adult Swim. He's directed videos for Dan Deacon and others and was recently featured in the Post Analog show at Hole Gallery.

Corydon Cowansage Oct 31, 2019

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Corydon Cowansage is a painter who lives and works in New York. She received an MFA in painting from RISD and a BA in art from Vassar College. She has had solo shows at 17Essex in New York, Reynolds Gallery in Richmond, and Koki Arts in Tokyo, and a two-person show at Deli Projects in Basel, Switzerland. Her work has been included in group shows at Skylab, 17Essex, Ortega y Gasset Projects, and the Bronx Museum of the arts, among others. She also co-runs an online gallery called Drawer.

Aliza Nisenbaum Oct 24, 2019

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Aliza Nisenbaum was born in Mexico City, and is currently based in New York. She received her BFA and her MFA from the Art Institute of Chicago. She is represented by Anton Kern gallery and is an Assistant Professor of Visual Arts at Columbia University School of the Arts. She has had recent shows at the Phillips Collection, Boston ICA, LA MOCA, The Minneapolis Institute of Art, the Whitney Biennial 2017; The Flag Art Foundation; The ICA at MECA; Biennial of the Americas, MCA, Denver; the Rufino Tamayo Painting Biennial, Museo Rufino Tamayo, Mexico City; She has a forthcoming exhibition at Anton Kern gallery 2019; and at Tate Liverpool in 2021. Her work has been covered by Artnet, The Brooklyn Rail, Artforum, Frieze, Vogue. ArtReview, The New Yorker and to name a few. Brian met up with Aliza at Anton Kern Gallery at the site of her solo show ‘Coreografias’ which is on view through November 2nd.

Morgan Blair Oct 17, 2019

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Morgan Blair (Re-release) on the occasion of her incredible show up now at Hole Gallery.

Vanessa German Oct 10, 2019

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Vanessa German is a visual and performance artist based in the Pittsburgh neighborhood of Homewood. She is the founder of Love Front Porch and the ARThouse, a community arts initiative for the children of Homewood. Her work is in private and public collections including Everson Museum of Art, Figge Art Museum, Flint Institute of Arts, Spelman College Museum of Fine Art, Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art, David C. Driskell Center, Snite Museum of Art, Wadsworth Atheneum Museum of Art and Wellin Museum of Art at Hamilton College. German’s fine art work has been exhibited widely, most recently at the Figge Art Museum, The Union for Contemporary Art, The Fralin Museum of Art at the University of Virginia, Flint Institute of Arts, Mattress Factory, Everson Museum of Art, Spelman College Museum of Fine Art, Wadsworth Atheneum Museum of Art, Studio Museum, Ringling Museum of Art and Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art. Her work has been featured on CBS Sunday Morning, NPR’sAll Things Considered and in The Huffington Post, O Magazine and Essence Magazine. She is the recipient of the 2015 Louis Comfort Tiffany Foundation Grant, the 2017 Jacob Lawrence Award from the American Academy of Arts and Letters, the 2018 United States Artist Grant and most recently the 2018 Don Tyson Prize from Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art.

Meghan Brady Oct 03, 2019

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Meghan Brady is a painter who lives and works in midcoast Maine. Using painting, printmaking, drawing, and ceramics, Brady explores the possibilities of an open process, including elements of the human form and abstraction. Brady shows with Mrs Gallery in NYC. She was featured by Mrs at NADA House on Govenors Island this past summer. She has been included in exhibitions at the Portland Museum of Art and recently had a solo exhibition at the University of Maine Museum of Art. She has been a resident at the MacDowell Colony, Hewnoaks, the Ellis-Beauregard Foundation and Tiger Strikes Asteroid in Brooklyn, NY. Brady is a graduate of Smith College and Boston University’s MFA program in Painting. Sound & Vision is sponsored by the fine folks at Golden Artist Colors.

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