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Stephen Westfall Mar 07, 2019

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Stephen Westfall is an artist, writer and educator born in Schenectady, New York who received his MFA in 1978 from the University of California, Santa Barbara. His first solo exhibition in 1984 at Tracey Garet in New York’s East Village earned reviews in Art in America and Artnews. Exhibitions followed during the 1980s and into the 1990s at Daniel Newburg Gallery in New York, Galerie Paal in Munich, Germany and Galerie Wilma Lock in St. Gallen, Switzerland. An exhibition of paintings took place at Andre Emmerich Gallery in New York in 1995, followed by several exhibitions at Galerie Zurcher in Paris. Westfall has been represented in New York by Lennon, Weinberg since 1997. Recent work has been exhibited at KunstgalerieBonn in Germany and David Richard Gallery in Santa Fe. Stephen has been included in several important survey exhibitions of abstract painting including a show at the Musée d’art moderne in Saint-Etienne, France in 1997 and in both exhibitions titled Conceptual Abstraction, first at Sidney Janis Gallery in 1991 and in the exhibition that revisited that show which took place at the Hunter College Art Gallery in 2012. His works are in the collections of the Whitney Museum of American Art in New York, the Kemper Museum in Kansas City, the Louisiana Museum in Humlebaek, Denmark, the Munson Williams Proctor Museum in Utica, New York, the Baltimore Museum of Art and the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston. He has received grants and awards from the National Endowment for the Arts, the American Academy of Arts and Letters, the Nancy Graves Foundation, and the Guggenheim Foundation. He received a Rome Prize Fellowship and spent a year at the American Academy in Rome during 2009 and 2010. He is a professor at the Mason Gross School of the Arts at Rutgers University and in the graduate program at Bard University. He is a Contributing Editor at Art in America. This is the first of two conversations Brian had with Stephen. This one was in his Industry City studio in Brooklyn. Stephen tells his story growing up, making art, writing, and much more.

Angela Heisch Feb 28, 2019

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Angela Heisch is an artist living and working in Brooklyn, New York. She received her MFA from SUNY Albany in 2014 the same year she was awarded the Dedalus Foundation Fellowship. She was a resident at Saltonstall Foundation for the Arts, the Virginia Center for the Creative Arts, and Guttenberg Arts. She has had recent solo shows with Davidson Gallery, Gallery 106 Green, One River School and No Place Gallery. Some recent group shows include Transmitter Gallery, Crush Curatorial, Pt.2 Gallery, Angell Gallery, Barney Savage, Mother Gallery, George Gallery, Ortega y Gasset, Park Place Gallery, Geoffrey Young Gallery, Harpy Gallery, and Taymour Grahne Gallery. Her work has been featured in Art Forum, Art in America, The Brooklyn Rail, AEQAI, ArtSFBlog, Maake Magazine: Issue 02, Young Space, and Open House Blog. Angela just opened a solo show at Davidson Gallery here in New York City and Brian stopped by her Bed Stuy studio for a talk about her time from New Zealand to Buffalo, not being fussy, playing the flute, Jethro Tull and more.

Mimi Jung Feb 21, 2019

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MIMI JUNG is an artist born in Seoul, South Korea who Lives and works in Los Angeles, CA. Mimi got her BFA in Fine Art from The Cooper Union for the Advancement of Science and Art In 2003 and did Postgraduate Study in Communication Design at the Hochschule for Gestaltung and Kunst in Basel, Switzerland, in 2004 and Postgraduate Study in Fine Art in Frankfurt, Germany in 2005. She’s had exhibitions at the National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne, Australia, Fisher Parrish Gallery in New York, Piazza San Sepolcro 2 in Milan, Italy, Chamber Gallery in New York, Les Gens Heureux Gallery in Copenhagen, Denmark and more including her current show at Carvalho Park Gallery, in Brooklyn called History Lessons: Delphine Hennelly + Mimi Jung from February 8 to March 17, 2019. Her work has been featured in Architectural Digest, Surface, Wallpaper, Dezeen, Interior Design, Creator Vice, Boooooom, the Wall Street Journal, Dwell, Elle Decor, The Los Angeles Times and many many more.

Doron Langberg Feb 14, 2019

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Doron Langberg is a painter born in Israel who lives and works in New York City. He attended the Yale Summer School of Music and Art and the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts. He holds a BFA from Penn and an MFA from Yale. He’s had solo and two person shows at 1969 Gallery, Danese/Corey and an upcoming solo at Yossi Milo Gallery. He’s been in group shows at DC Moore, BGSQD, Alfred University, NTFA Gallery Greenpoint Terminal Gallery, Montclair University and more, including work in the upcoming National Academy of Arts and Letters Exhibition. He’s been a resident of the Sharpe-Walentas Studio Program and Yaddo. His work has been covered in ArtPulse, ArtCritical, The Brooklyn Rail, Hyperallergic, New American Paintings and many others. He has taught at the Anderson Ranch, Montclair University, PAFA and the 92nd St Y. Sound & Vision is sponsored by Golden Artists Colors. Golden is made in upstate NY by an employee owned company that is committed to making the best materials artists can use. They not only make acrylic paints, but Williamsburg Oils and QoR Watercolors along with a spectrum of artist mediums. Check out Golden’s full line of artist material along with some pretty great learning resources at goldenpaints.com

Suzanne Song Feb 07, 2019

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Suzanne Song is an artist born in Grand Rapids, MI who lives and works in New York. She received her B.F.A. from Clemson University in Clemson and an M.F.A. from Yale. She has had solo exhibitions at Gallery Baton in Seoul, Korea; Doosan Gallery, Michael Steinberg Gallery, and Caren Golden in New York. She has participated in group exhibitions at Debuck Gallery, Foley Gallery, Mixed Greens, The Drawing Center, Smack Mellon Gallery. Her work has recently been acquired by the RISD Museum. She is a recipient of the Smack Mellon Fellowship and the NYFA fellowship. Currently, Song is a member of the Elizabeth Foundation of the Arts Studio Program. Sound & Vision is sponsored by Golden Artist Colors. Golden is made in Upstate NY by an employee owned company. You can find their artist supplies in almost every art store and on goldenpaints.com.

Heather Day Jan 31, 2019

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Heather Day is an artist who lives and works in San Francisco, California. Heather received a BFA from The Maryland Institute College of Art (MICA) on the Presidential Scholarship in Baltimore. Her work has been shown at the Urban Institute of Contemporary Art, The Massachusetts Museum of Contemporary Art. Her work can be found in the collections of Facebook, JCREW, The Ritz- Carlton, AirBNB, Snapchat, Dropbox, Warner Brothers, YouTube and The Chicago Philharmonic Orchestra. Heather’s work has been covered in Juxtapoz, 7x7, Dwell, The Atlantic, CNet, Create, The Washington Post and more. Brian met up with Heather at the site of her show at Joshua Liner Gallery for a talk about her many travels growing up, synesthesia, music, process and more.

Kadar Brock Jan 24, 2019

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Kadar Brock is an artist born in New York and who currently lives and works in Brooklyn. He received his BFA from the Cooper Unioin School in 2002. His work has been featured in shows at NY(G) in Brooklyn, Black Ball Projects in Brooklyn, PATRON in Chicago, Vigo Gallery in London, Praz Delavallade in Paris, Almine Rech in Brussels, The Hole in NYC, the Flag Foundation in NY, Galerist in Istanbul, Bleeker Street Arts Club in NYC, and Detroit MOCA amongst many others. HE’S ALSO GOT AN UPCOMING SOLO SHOW WITH PATRON IN THE LOWER EAST SIDE IN SEPTEMBER.

Matthew Kirk Jan 17, 2019

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Matthew Kirk is an artist born in 1978 in Arizona, who was raised in Wisconsin and lives and works in Queens. His recent solo shows include How the Rest was Won in 2016 at Louis B. James Gallery in NYC, in 2012, Push Came to Shove also at Louis B. James in 2006 He also had a solo show this past October at Makasiini Contemporary in Finland called The Good Land. He’s had group exhibitions including 2010’s Hell No! at Convent of Saint Cecilia in Brooklyn, NY, in 2008 The Wall at Exit Art in NYC and in 2006 Strays at Art Chicago amongst many others. His work has been published in The New York Observer, Modern Painters, and The Wall Street Journal, among other publications. He also was nominated for a 2019 Eiteljorg museum fellowship. His show opens there in November.

Heidi Hahn Jan 10, 2019

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Heidi Hahn is a painter who grew up in Los Angeles and lives and works in Brooklyn. Heidi received her BFA from Cooper Union in 2006, and her MFA from Yale University in 2014. She has been awarded residencies at the Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture, the Fine Arts Work Center in Provincetown and the Headlands Center for the Arts, among others. Solo exhibitions include The Future is Elsewhere (If it Breaks Your Heart) at Jack Hanley Gallery, Bent Idle at Jack Hanley Gallery and Shadows from Other Places at Premier Regard, Paris. The artist has also participated in several group exhibitions, including Engender at Kohn Gallery, Los Angeles, 30th Anniversary Exhibition, Part Deaux, at Jack Hanley Gallery, The Edge of Doom at H I L D E, Los Angeles, Human Condition at John Wolf, Los Angeles, American Optimism at Able Baker Contemporary, Portland, Fathoms at Radical Abacus, Sante Fe, On Painting at Kent Fine Art, New York, Friend of the Devil at Jack Hanley Gallery, Immediate Female at Judith Charles Gallery, A Thing of Beauty at Geoffrey Young Gallery in Great Barrington and New Paintings By at Jack Hanley Gallery. She has two upcoming shows: WHY MUST WE, two person show with Vera Illatova opening at Monya Rowe Jan 10th BURN OUT IN SHREDDED HEAVEN, OPENING April 6th at Kohn gallery in LA

Artists On Music 1 Jan 03, 2019

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Highlights of artists speaking about music including Chris Martin. Tracy Thomason, Ellen Berkenblit, Diana Al-Hadid and Geoff McFetridge. From Zepplin to Drake to Miles Davis, an eclectic sampling of the music artists talk about on the podcast.

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