We Eat Art

Latest Episodes:

We Eat Mike Giant Jan 25, 2018

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Mike Giant talks to us about Americana, graffiti, and running from the police, and advises us all to do drugs, meditate, and shoot guns.

We Eat Peter Shire Jan 17, 2018

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Peter Shire is an artist and designer whose public projects and furniture defined the look of the modern west coast. We visit Peter's funhouse studio to talk about being an artist and a businessman, cliche art interview questions, primary colors, how many assistants you can have before one is a disaster, the Bauhaus, deco, collaboration and giving to the customer any size they want.

We Eat Melissa Brown (apologies for the abnormal sound quality) Jan 10, 2018

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We talk to Melissa Brown about abstraction, beauty, chaos, Vegas, chance, printmaking vs painting, preserving moments in time, color choices and rear view mirrors.

We Eat James Jean Jan 04, 2018

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In our longest episode to date we talk to James Jean about assimilation, the paintings nobody buys, how Zak and James both painted Sasha Grey, death awareness, social media, legitimacy and competitiveness, illustration vs fine art and the crossover of the two, illustrating nothing, NGOs hiring you to make sex rabbits, comics, vintage illustrators, Kuniyoshi, and never doing the decisive moment, plus we ask James which of his art friends is crazier: Takashi Murakami or David Choe?

We Eat Jonathan Ehrenberg Dec 28, 2017

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John Ehrenberg creates otherworldly videos with a side of deadpan humor. We talk about how that sensibility formed, how the work gets made, and how it relates to John's old day job in animation.

We Eat Robyn O'Neil Dec 21, 2017

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We visit Robyn's studio to talk about death, artists as represented in 1980s sitcoms, Romanticism, ugliness, making art in Hollywood, Howard Stern, being Werner Herzog's student, poetry, and everything else.

We Eat Patrons Dec 10, 2017

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We make the case for going full stop. WEA would like to take you with us, but we need your help. We've launched a Patreon account with rewards at: https://www.patreon.com/weeatart Thank you for any way you can help!

We Eat Rona Pondick Nov 15, 2017

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We talked to Rona Pondick about Egyptian art, having ideas and not having ideas, how people are just animals, how long it takes Rona to make a sculpture, death, process and scary teeth.

We Eat Jen Ray Jul 18, 2017

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Jen Ray puts together stylishly feminist drawings and performance pieces of amazon women using fantastic imagery drawn from rock's trippy and fantastic side. We talk about drawing, music, politics and the seedy side of childhood.

We Eat Al Jaffee May 15, 2017

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Al Jaffee has quite literally been making cartoons longer than any artist in history. Unfortunately for everyone involved, he works at Mad Magazine.