Artist & Place

Ashley Eliza Williams - The Hope of Imagining

Tue, 21 May 2024 07:00:00 -0400

Episode 29! This week we are interviewing the Western-Mass based artist, Ashley Eliza Williams. Ashley is an incredible artist born in the Blue Ridge Mountains in SW Virginia, and making work about interspecies communication and non-human language. Ashley has exhibited widely including at Museum of Contemporary Art, Denver (CO), Hersbruck Museum (Germany), The National Center for Atmospheric Research in Boulder (CO), Bronx Museum Project Space (NY), The New York Hall of Science (NY), and Wasserman Projects in Detroit (MI). Ashley’s work has been featured in many publications including New American Paintings, Hyperallergic, and The Washington Post. Recent residencies include: Sitka Center for Art and Ecology, Vermont Studio Center, Shoals Marine Laboratory, The Studios at Mass MoCA, and Shangyuan Art Museum, China. In 2023 Ashley was a Lucille Walton Fellow and resident artist at the University of Virginia Mountain Lake Biological Station. This is a great conversation filled with bird song out the window as we talk about communication attempts, creating imaginary worlds, shifts in perspective scales, the impoverishment of imagination from the ongoing extinction of beings, night walks and so much more. Please give Ashley a follow on instagram. Go check out her website and stay tuned for their next upcoming shows and projects.

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Adam O’Day - Looking Outward & Looking Inward

Tue, 07 May 2024 05:00:00 -0400

Episode 28 with Boston-based artist Adam O’Day. Adam paints across genres and scales up to building sized murals all across the region! He shows his work widely and in 2014 his painting was chosen for the “portrait of a city” competition in Boston! We recorded this episode from his studio in an old shoe factory in Abington, Massachusetts, and we cover its potential haunting, his move from naval engineer to full time artist, the role of collaboration, where his interest in shanty vernacular comes from as well as talk about the relationship between his painting and music. We talk about Metal Aesthetic, the weird and inclusive family of metal heads and his band MOLLUSK… a doom/sludge metal band. We reminisce about both spending our formative years growing up in Michigan and local midwestern nostalgia as well as the practice of what it takes to turn a representational view into a real place and a finished painting. Loved this conversation and can’t wait for you to hear! As always, please go give Adam O’Day a follow on Instagram, find out when his next concert will be and check out the show notes for a ton of links.

Adam O’Day Website & Instagram

MOLLUSK

Things discussed:

Jennifer Brilli
Jessica Hess
MERK
Felipe Ortiz
Brandalizm
Connie Snipes
FAYGO
Black Sabbath
Scott Low - Appalachian Blues
Saturday Night Dance Party
OM
Calvin and Hobbes
Hayao Miyazaki - Studio Ghibli

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BONUS EPISODE: Why Abstraction Now Artist Panel

Thu, 25 Apr 2024 05:00:00 -0400

This week we've got a bonus episode for you! This was a really fun conversation moderated by artist & curator of this exhibition, Adria Arch! This panel discussion was in connection with the Reshaping Abstraction exhibition on view at Concord Art in Concord, MA April/May 2024. Artists featured in this panel are Lisa Barthelson, Donnabelle Casis, Olivia Baldwin, Steven Cabral & your host, Kim Carlino.

More information below:

Concord Art
Reshaping Abstraction Curated by Adria Arch
Lisa Barthelson
Donnabelle Casis
Olivia Baldwin
Steven Cabral
Kim Carlino

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Kelsey Miller - Seeking Vastness

Tue, 23 Apr 2024 05:00:00 -0400

Episode 27 with Rhode Island-based multi-disciplinary artist, Kelsey Miller! We traverse arctic terrain, Rhode Island coasts and a printmaker's search for vastness in an expansive conversation. I sat down with Kelsey at the Kniznick Gallery on the campus of Brandeis University to talk about an exhibition that she created a large-scale wall drawing for. This group exhibition is called A Trick of Light of Distance and is curated by Olivia Baldwin. Miller has participated in artists residencies with the Arctic Circle Residency in the International Territory of Svalbard and Proyecto 'Ace in Buenos Aires, Argentina. her work has been exhibited in venues in Italy, Argentina, and throughout the United States in solo, juried, and small group shows. Miller is a 2019 recipient of the MacColl Johnson Fellowship from the Rhode Island Foundation.

Kelsey Miller Website & Instagram

Kniznick Gallery
Arctic Circle Residency
Tristan Duke - Ice Lenses
Pancake Ice
Claudia Widdiss
Newport Art Museum
Hiroshi Sujimoto

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Kirstin Lamb - Retranslation, Getting Lost & Finding the Way

Tue, 09 Apr 2024 06:00:00 -0400

Episode 26 with Rhode Island based painter, Kirstin Lamb. We talk with Kirstin about her WOODS series in which we explore the layers of retranslation, interconnection and visual research to begin to know a place and capture the fleetingness of place. Kirstin studied painting at the Rhode Island School of Design, graduating with an MFA in 2005, and she received her AB in Visual Art and Literatures in English from Brown University in 2001. Kirstin’s work has been shown in venues across the country, recently showing with Gallery Naga in Boston, MA, Geary in Millerton, NY, Jennifer Terzian Gallery in Litchfield, CT, Cade Tompkins Projects in Providence, RI, the Spring Break Art Fair in NY, the Wassaic Project in Amenia, NY, the Fruitlands Museum in Harvard, MA and Providence College Galleries in Providence, RI, among others. She has attended numerous residencies such as the Wassaic Project, and the Sam and Adele Golden Foundation. To name just a few! She is also represented by Gallery Naga in Boston, MA.

This conversation had so many great nuggets to book mark and go back to! We talk about the hierarchy of genres, genre bending, painting as ecstatic 80s dance party, salon walls, hex signs, falling in love with kunstkamer, thinking in multiples, ghost forests, and the love of quirky taxonomies. Follow Kirstin Lamb on social media for more information about her upcoming solo show at the Jennifer Terzian Gallery in Litchfield Connecticut opening April 27th!

Kirstin Lamb Website & Instagram

Jennifer Terzian Gallery
Gallery Naga
Cezanne’s Doubt essay
This Old Tree Podcast
Suzanne Simard
Hex Signs
Kunstkammer

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Nate Ethier - Perceptual Abstraction

Tue, 26 Mar 2024 05:00:00 -0400

Episode 25 with NYC based painter, Nate Ethier. Ethier has exhibited in galleries such as David Richard Gallery in NYC, Auxier/Kline, Danese/Corey, LMAK Gallery, Minus Space, Geoffrey Found Gallery, Nancy Margolis Gallery, Morgan Lehman, and at institutes including the Susquehanna Art Museum, Boston University, and Georgia Southern University. Nate is also a recipient of a Sharpe-Walentas Studio Program Award and was a nominee for the Remainder Hort Mann Foundation Emerging Artist Grant. His work has been reviewed in such publications as the Brooklyn Rail, Hyperallergic, the Boston Globe and the Providence Journal. He is currently represented by David Richard Glallery in NYC and has a solo exhibition of new works opening May 29th, 2024. Please give Nate a follow to learn more about his work. This is a conversation about influences, interconnection, color magic, sophisticated color logic, pride in the craft of painting and much more.

Nate Ethier Website & Instagram

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Gwyneth Leech - A Topography of Shifting Views

Tue, 12 Mar 2024 06:00:00 -0400

Episode 24 explores the work & trajectory of NYC-based artist, Gwyneth Leech. For almost a full decade, Gwyneth has been fascinated with painting the building and construction of massive skyscrapers in NYC. Find out what prompted this new subject matter and where it led! We talk about Gwyneth's creative path, the places imprinted upon her, choral singing, and the possibility of architecture to address the challenges of the current climate crisis. Gwyneth's artwork has been featured in solo and group shows throughout the United States and Great Britain and is the subject of a multi-award winning documentary, The Monolith. Her paintings are held in private and construction-industry corporate collections in the USA, Great Britain, Italy and Australia, including the New York Historical Society Museum. She holds a BA from the University of Pennsylvania and a BFA and Postgraduate Diploma from Edinburgh College of Art in Scotland. Please check out links to her work below including 2 current exhibitions!

Gwyneth Leech Website & Instagram
The Monolith, documentary
Modern Steel Construction Interview

Skyscraper Museum
Garment District Alliance
John Marin watercolors discussed

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Gina Siepel - Coming Into Relationship

Tue, 27 Feb 2024 05:00:00 -0500

Episode 23 with Western Mass-based artist, Gina Siepel! This is a live, on-site conversation at the foot of a 100 year old Red Oak tree exploring the beginnings and thinking around their current project called: To Understand a Tree. We talk about Thoreau, myths of self reliance, creative transitions, and a deep connection and exploration to place.

Gina Siepel is an interdisciplinary artist, designer, and woodworker whose artistic practice reflects an engagement with place, history, queer experience, and ecology and their work integrates conceptual concerns and craftsmanship with a focus on wood as a natural and a cultural material. Gina has shown their work in museums and galleries nationally. They have been a Fellow or Artist in Residence at numerous prestigious organizations as well as the recipient of many awards.

The upcoming, Gina Siepel: To Understand a Tree exhibition is opening March 1st, 2024 and running through July 21st 2024 at the Museum of Art in Wood in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Please find out more here.

Gina Siepel's website & instagram. The Recursion Series discussed.

Some links to things discussed:

Boy Mechanic Series
Henry David Thoreau
Radio Lab: Susan Simard
Sara Smith: Building Capacities for Presence & Networks for the Future Now
Robin Wall Kimmerer: Braiding Sweetgrass
Paco Calvo: Plant Intelligence
Mathew Hall: Plants as Persons

Enjoy & Thank you for listening!

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Interlude: Hello 2024!

Tue, 02 Jan 2024 06:00:00 -0500

Artist & Place takes a brief interlude while our host, Kim Carlino, is traveling internationally for an Art Festival in the UAE! She will be gathering interviews while abroad! Stay tuned for the return of Artist & Place at the end of February with a great line up of interviews! Thanks for listening & sharing these episodes! Have a great start to the year.

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Terry Jenoure - Extended Imagination

Tue, 19 Dec 2023 06:00:00 -0500

Episode 22 of Artist & Place with Western Mass-based, Terry Jenoure! Terry is a celebrated experimental violinist, vocalist, composer, textile artist, painter, writer, educator and the former director of the August Savage Gallery at UMass Amherst. Terry is a recent Creative Capital Grant Winner and we talk about her project Secret to Life. This interview takes place in the Easthampton, ECA Gallery amidst her exhibition at the time called This Long Arc in which she's talking about themes of freedom from old patterns. This is a conversation about getting out of your area of expertise and playing. It's a conversation about releasing yourself from rules, seeing anew through new perspectives, storytelling and letting the work unfold as it needs to. Please go check out her work! Give her a follow on Instagram to keep up with her projects & performances!

This is the final episode of 2023 and the one year anniversary of Artist & Place! Thank you so much for listening this past year, for sharing these episodes and all the wonderful notes you've sent in! See you in the new year!

Terry Jenoure's website & Instagram.

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Shona Macdonald - A Philosophical Abundance of the Mundane

Tue, 05 Dec 2023 05:00:00 -0500

Episode 21 with Western Mass-based, Scottish Artist, Shona Macdonald! Shona Macdonald is an artist exploring themes of landscape, memory and place in her paintings and drawings. Macdonald has exhibited widely across the US, Canada, UK and Australia including exhibitions at the Roswell Art Museum, Zillman Art Museum, Proof Gallery and Reeves Contemporary to name just a few. Her work has been reviewed extensively and she has been a visiting artist at over 50 institutions. Macdonald is a Pollock-Krasner grant recipient, selected for numerous awards, and has work in numerous public and private institutions. This is a conversation about the slowness of making art and having a depth of inquiry to sustain you as an artist. Its a conversation about the studio as a place and our shared love of Yi Fu Tuan while defining what place is. We talk about books we love, the philosophical capability of a reflection in a puddle and the process of locating yourself through creating your work. It's a great exploration of the tension between a place that is longed for and a place that is lived. Please give Shona a follow and let her know your thoughts on this conversation!

Shona Macdonald Website & Instagram

Shona's professor Julia Fish

Louise Erdrich
Ruth Ozeki The Face: A Time Code
Marilynne Robinson Housekeeping

Yi Fu Tuan Space & Place
13 Ways of a Looking at a Blackbird by Wallace Stevens
John Hull Notes on Blindness
Joe Shute Forecast: A Diary of the Lost Seasons
Robert Macfarlane Landmarks

Enjoy!

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Michael Zachary - Ambiguity as Honesty

Tue, 21 Nov 2023 05:00:00 -0500

Episode 20 of Artist & Place with Boston-based artist, Michael Zachary! Michael Zachary is workin in drawing and picture making. His work utilized the slow building up of cross hatched lines using 4 colors - CMYK. Themes explored in his work are landscape, nature, and perception. This is a great conversation celebrating a love of the slow & tactile quality of drawing through a digital and modular approach. It's a conversation about creating speed bumps in the work to slow the viewer down, and about how landscape, according to Thoreau, can be a psychic self portrait. It's a conversation about the need for a specificity of color and achieving that through his laborious and focused process. It's a conversation about seeing as improvisational and how he came to that discovery and how in many ways he's been seeking to find that feeling of a place or a moment within his work.

Michael Zachary has shown his work widely through the Northeast as well as nationally and internationally. He has received the support from the Joseph and Annie Albers Foundation, the Berkshire Taconic Foundation Artist Resource Trust, the MCC Cultural Council, the Boston University Blanche Coleman Trust, and Mass MoCAs Assets for Artists Grant to name a few.

Michael Zachary Website & Instagram

Some things discussed:
Annie Dillard Pilgrim at Tinker Creek
The Secret Miracle by Jorge Luis Borges
Sol LeWitt Wall Drawings
Charles Gaines
Janne Höltermann
Juan Jose Barbosa
Richard Long A Line Made By Walking
New Museum Unmonumental
Burren College of Art
Josef & Annie Albers Foundation

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Adria Arch - An Art of Delight & Playful Discovery

Tue, 07 Nov 2023 04:00:00 -0500

Episode 19 with Boston-based artist, Adria Arch! Adria is a mixed media artist that creates immersive experiences in sculpture and paint. Adria has shown work both nationally & internationally and has work in numerous collections from the DeCordova Sculpture Park and Museum, the Federal Reserve Bank of Boston, the Library of Congress Collection of Prints, Simmons University & Google to name a few. This is a great conversation about the specificity of color, time, and understanding where one's color palette comes from. Can we have a primal color palette imprinted from our childhood? It's a conversation about the landscapes of our youth, about abstraction and the influence of our everyday surroundings. It's also a conversation about the influence of dance, theatricality, moving from 2D to 3D and the inspiration of MeowWolf & the direction that experiencing that took Adria! Most of all, this is a conversation about the permission to make the things that YOU want to make!

Adria Arch Website
Instagram
Chicago Imagists
Installation Video of Adria's work

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Sara Smith - Building Capacities for Presence & Networks for the Future Now

Tue, 24 Oct 2023 05:00:00 -0400

This is Episode 18 with Sara Smith a transdisciplinary choreographer and librarian. Sara creates speculative-documentary performances and other works that explore interconnection and the poetics and politics of embodied and archival research. Their working process is rooted in physical practices of micro-attention and transformation. Their work has been seen and heard at venues throughout the US. They are the recipient of a Mass Cultural Council Fellowship in Choreography and support from numerous other prestigious institutions as well as residency fellowship from McDowell, Yaddo and more. This is a conversation about building a spiritual cosmology, spiritual activism and the writing and influence of Gloria Anzalduá. This is a conversation about being aware of the limitations of our internal systems and how they impact the way in which we view the world. It's a conversation about their project In Network Time, Octopuses, and world building for the future, but also for NOW as we think about the future and how to live more embodied and interconnected.

Sara Smith Projects
Instagram
Soundscores for Living Scenery
Gloria Anzalduá
Gloria Anzalduá A Light in the Dark
Other Minds: The Octopus, The Sea & The Deep Origins of Consciousness
Ursula Le Guin Carrier Bag Theory of Fiction
Andreas Weber Enlivenment
David Abrams
Florence Rice Hitchcock & The Theory of the Soft Earth

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Mark Guglielmo - From Hip Hop to Collage

Tue, 10 Oct 2023 05:00:00 -0400

Welcome to Episode 17 with Western Mass- based artist, Mark Guglielmo! Mark Guglielmo is an artist working in photography, painting and collage. This is a great conversation traversing his path from hip hop to art across the landscape of his childhood in Queens and back through his trek to Italy to find the town his great-grandparents came from. We cover so many things in this conversation including what it takes to keep going, asking the right questions of yourself to stay on your path and this question I return to.. What are you willing to do to make YOUR art? Among so much more! I hope you enjoy!

Give Mark Guglielmo a follow on Instagram and check out more of his work.

Website
Instagram

Some things discussed:
The Anonymous
Ralph Fasanella

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Maya Erdelyi - Exploration & Experimentation for WayFinding

Tue, 26 Sep 2023 05:00:00 -0400

Welcome to Episode 18 for the launch of Season 2! We are back! This conversation is with Boston-based artist & animator, Maya Erdelyi about her many life travels and many layers of inspiration growing up in Queens, New York. Her experience growing up with the graffiti of the 80s on the subway, Pee Wee's Playhouse, Saturday morning cartoons, the immersion of color and being drawn to power places. Maya is a Professor of Animation at the School Museum of Fine Arts at Tufts University in Boston. Her work has been been shown in national and international film festivals, galleries, museums and DIY venues. She was a 2020 City of Boston Artist Fellow, the recipient of a 2019 Yaddo Residency, a 2017 Mass Cultural Council Fellowship in Film recipient and many more. Please follow her on Instagram to learn more about her upcoming Fundraising event for her recent animated documentary film about her grandmother called Anyuka.

Website
Instagram

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Season 2 Trailer!

Tue, 12 Sep 2023 06:00:00 -0400

Season 2! Artist & Place is back with a great line up of artists across a spectrum of disciplines! First episode of Season 2 comes out on September 26th, 2023.

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Donnabelle Casis - Play, Awe & Questions for Looking Inward

Tue, 18 Jul 2023 05:00:00 -0400

This is episode 15 with Western Mass, Fillipina-American artist, Donnabelle Casis! Donnabelle is a painter, radio show host for the ArtBeat Report on the Bill Newman Show, co-curator for the ArtSalon, arts community organizer and much more! Donnabelle received her MFA in Painting from the University of Washington in Seattle. She has exhibited in museums and galleries across the US and abroad. She has received numerous awards and grants including the Neddy Artist Fellowship for Painting. This is a conversation about finding your center to find your sense of place, about asking questions, about those moments where you question your identity as an artist and how that can be a fertile place of beginning. It's a conversation of about releasing yourself from pressure and finding joy through play and trusting the process. It's also a conversation about the spiritual realm and how we are all interconnected and the role this plays in her new work. This conversation has so much wisdom in it! Please enjoy!

Links to things discussed:

Donnabelle Casis Website & Instagram

Apo Whang-Od/Wiki & Vogue
NatGeo: Tattoo Hunter: Lars Krutak
BBC

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Cyrille Conan - Abstraction, Nature & Living Your Dharma

Tue, 20 Jun 2023 04:00:00 -0400

Episode 14 with Boston-based painter & muralist, Cyrille Conan. Cyrille Conan was born in 1973 and grew up in Queens, NY to French immigrants. He is first generation American and is bilingual. He has dual-citizenship and identifies both as French and American. This duality is apparent in his artwork. The graphic nature and grit of the work derives from growing up in NYC in the 70s & 80s and the love of nature and natural forms distilled in him from Celtic/Breton culture have transformed into a minimal, organic, geometrical abstraction. Cyrille graduated with a BFA in Painting from the Hartford Art School before planting his roots in Boston in 1998. While his primary practice is still painting, he works in a variety of mediums and scales. He’s produced site-specific installations and murals in numerous states as well as local galleries and public spaces in Boston, including The Cyclorama, The Museum of Fine Arts, Boston and Boston City Hall. In this conversation, we explore the intersection between studio painting and murals, the inspiration behind his work and what it's like inhabiting the felt in-between space of being first generation French American. This is a conversation about nature, Breton culture, symbolism and moving on from Act 1 in life via a meandering path to living in his dharma now.

Give Cyrille a follow on Instagram and check out his work here.

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Arden Bendler Browning - Painting As A Moving Entity

Tue, 06 Jun 2023 07:00:00 -0400

Episode 13 with Philadelphia artist, Arden Bendler Browning! Arden is a painter creating large scale paintings and small works on paper, virtual reality environments and public art. Arden’s work has been exhibited and collected internationally. Her works are included in several public collections including the West Collection, the Microsoft Art Collection, Toyota and the Frost Tower Collection to name just a few. Her work is represented by Bridgette Mayer Gallery in Philadelphia, Galeri Urbane in Dallas and Tinney Contemporary in Nashville. She has done several public art commissions including works for the Philadelphia International Airport and a project with Mural Arts in Philadelphia. This is a great conversation about wanderlust, capturing the imperfect view, epic road trips and trying to continually find the sense of awe and history of a place. We talk about the experience of capturing landscape while moving through an environment, portals to limitless space, trying to capture the full experience of a place and paintings becoming records of a place, a memory and captured time. This is a great meander as all good road trips are! Please give Arden a follow and stay tuned for her upcoming projects!

Arden Bendler Browning's Website
Instagram: @arden2bees

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Audrey Stone - Marking Time, Color & Transcendence

Tue, 23 May 2023 05:00:00 -0400

Episode 12 with Brooklyn Artist, Audrey Stone. Audrey is a painter that works with line, color and subtle color gradients. She observes the shifting color and light innate and describes it as an ecstatic experience. Audrey received her MFA from Hunter College and her BFA from Pratt Institute focusing on painting. She has exhibited widely across the United States as well as in Austria, Bulgaria, the Czech Republic, England, France and Japan. Audrey has shown with Morgan Lehman Gallery, McKenzie Fine Art, the Andy Warhol Museum, the Arkansas Art Center, the Columbus Museum, Geoffrey Young Gallery, Kentler International Drawing Space, Kenise Barnes Fine Art, ODETTA Gallery, and Yerba Buena Center for the Arts. Her work is in many public collections including the Cleveland clinic, Credit Suisse, Fidelity Investments, New York Presbyterian Hospital and many more. In this conversation we talk about line, about moving through various stages of work , about the constants of a place and the markers of what is left in a place. It's about imperfect perfection, soft edge painting, moments o excitement and calm. We talked about creating paintings about unimaginable places as a way to understand the unknowable and the stories that are lost. We talk about color, showing the work and so much more!

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Sabato Visconti - New Media Art & the Post Photography Landscape

Tue, 09 May 2023 05:00:00 -0400

Episode 11 of Artist & Place with Sabato Visconti, an Italian-Brazilian new media artist based n Western Massachusetts. He was born in São Paulo, Brazil, and raised in Miami, He went on to earn a B.A. in Political Science from Amherst College. Sabato’s work seeks to reconfigure traditional understanding of photography and digital media, by interrogating how hegemonic structures distort and influence individual subjects. Sabato began experimenting with glitch processes in 2011. Since then, his work with glitch and digital media has been exhibited throughout the world, including spaces like Tate Britain, ICA Boston, The SPRING/BREAK Art Show, LACDA, and the FILE Festival. His work has also appeared in Vogue, TIME, WIRED, The New York Times, AI-AP’s “Latin American Fotografia 4” Anthology, and in Photographer’s Forum annual “Best of Photography” books for eight straight years. This is a conversation about post photography processes, new media art and the democratizing of access to making and sharing art. It’s a conversation about a digital community sharing ideas and tools to propel what is possible in photography even further. It is a conversation about mining the roots of digital creation to exploit nostalgic technologies to produce art. It’s a conversation about returning to the basics to answer fundamental questions about making art and the future and hybridity of mediums. It’s a conversation about our collective future with these new technologies and thinking through the role that they could play in the creative practice. Loved this conversation and I hope you do too! Lots of food for thought.

Links:
Sabato’s work on the Tezos blockchain

Sabato’s work at Sothebys!
(Full exhibition)

Sabato’s Website & here.

Other things discussed:

Dawnia Darkstone
Sky Goodman
Antonio Roberts
Nicolas Sassoon
3D Scanner App
Fubar Glitch Art Festival
NFT NYC
Refraction Festival
Amiga Forever
Hauntology by Mark Fisher

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Tim McFarlane - Time & The Cracks Between Things

Tue, 25 Apr 2023 07:00:00 -0400

Episode 10 is out! So excited to share this conversation I had last month @ Crane Arts with visual artist Tim McFarlane! Philadelphia Artist working in painting, murals, drawing, and installations! This was a great conversation meandering through so many topics! It’s a conversation about making the work YOU want to be making and about how art is life & life is art! It’s a conversation about ideas reemerging to find their right time. It’s about the residue of things, in-betweenness and a multitude of influences including growing up in Philly, comics, graffiti and design. It’s a conversation about being a full time artist, making that pivot and how being a full time artist is about mindset! Check out the show notes for links to things discussed. Tim has work in SUBMERGED: A Changing Global Climate, an exhibition that just opened on Earth Day and runs through July 29th, 2023.

Tim's Website & Blog
Tiny Room For Elephants
Ray Gun & David Carson
Jack Whitten: Notes from the Woodshed
Bridgette Mayer Gallery

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Michelle Dickson - Process, Uncertainty & Experimentation in the Studio

Mon, 10 Apr 2023 17:00:00 -0400

Episode 9 with Michelle Dickson! Michelle is a Baltimore-based mixed media artist working in sculpture, printmaking, drawing and painting. She has exhibited across the US including in Baltimore, Chicago, Boston, Detroit, Providence, and New York City. She was selected in 2014 by Mere Rubell for inclusion in the Baltimore Artists and WPA exhibition at Marianne Bosky Gallery in NYC. She has done several residences including at the Teton Art Lab in Jackson, WY, Pyramid Atlantic Art Center in Silver Spring MD and a 5 year term as a resident artist at School 33 Art Center in Baltimore, Maryland. This conversation is filled with so many nuggets of wisdom about experimentation, uncertainty in the studio, and a practice based on process and inquiry. It's a conversation about humans as nature and not separate from it, and whether nature will ultimately win out among so much more. Pleas check out Michelle's work and stay tuned for the release of a photo book she'll be putting out this fall about the Neither Mine Nor Yours series. Give her a follow and stay up to date!

Things discussed:
Follow Michelle Dickson here and on instagram.
Robin Wall Kimmerer & Braiding Sweetgrass.
Make to Know Book
The Last of Us
Open Works Maker Space in Baltimore
Bittersweet by Susan Cain
Parable of the Sower by Octavia E. Butler
Emily St. John Mandel, author of Station Eleven

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Ann Tarantino - Public Art & The Imprint of Place

Tue, 28 Mar 2023 06:00:00 -0400

Episode 8 of Artist & Place with State College, Pennsylvania-based, Ann Tarantino! Ann is an artist working in drawing, painting and site specific public art. She explores site, place and landscape through the complicated and beautiful intersection between the built environment and the natural world uncovering the hidden stories of these landscapes. She has exhibited nationally and internationally, received a Fulbright Core Scholar Award to go to Sao Paulo, Brazil, a Faculty Research Grant and a Japan Foundation Global Japan Impact Award. This is a conversation about the compression of the experience of landscape, topography of place and the merging of sea, sky, and land. It's a conversation about what goes into making public art and making pivots in creative pursuits while staying true to your vision for your work. This is a conversation about abstraction and what it can be and how we begin to define our work. It's also a conversation about the relationship of art & sport! Please give Ann Tarantino a follow on Instagram @anntarantino and check out her work here.

Things discussed!

The Great Circle. Maggie Shipstead
RISD Razzle Dazzle.
More Razzle Dazzle.
Open Water Swimming.

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Maggie Nowinski - Studio as Terrarium

Thu, 09 Mar 2023 22:00:00 -0500

Episode 7 of Artist & Place with Maggie Nowinski, Easthampton-based interdisciplinary artist, arts educator and curator. Her current body of work is rooted in drawing and printmaking, though her artworks usually take the format of installation and combine traditional and unusual media, audio, and performative processes. Her work investigates somatic response human emotion through imagined specimen drawings that appear as abject human-botanical entities or specimens. Nowinski’s practice is embodied by an awareness of the conceptual and political inevitability of art making and an adoration for repetition, daily mark-making and long walks. She currently engaged in collaboration with other visual artists, dancers, sound artists and poets within an expanded field of drawing.

This is a conversation about a connection to nature, a practice of looking, daily treks and where inspiration is drawn from. Maggie and I have been dear friends for the past 10 years and this is a personal and intimate conversation with lots of humor and connection! Please enjoy!

Make sure to Follow her on instagram & check out all her work @http://www.maggienowinski.org/

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Priya N. Green - Excavating Images to Find Containers of Meaning

Tue, 28 Feb 2023 05:00:00 -0500

Episode 6 of Artist & Place featuring a lovely conversation with Priya N. Green, a painter, muralist and educator living and working in Western Mass. Her work explores the tension between realism and abstraction through layers of paint application and monochromatic tones. Priya states "I paint to challenge the viewers perception of what is real." Priya has shown her work internationally and is a recipient of the International Elizabeth Greenshields Foundation Grant, a fellowship from the University of Massachusetts Amherst, several public art commissions and work in several private and public collections. Priya will be having a solo exhibition called Artifice: New Paintings, at the Springfield Museum of Art this coming April 15 through December 31st. This is a conversation about learning to be uncomfortable, persisting and the excavating of imagery to find containers for meaning. We talk about what it is to be an outsider and how that can help us as artists. Please enjoy!

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Rebecca Rutstein - Interconnection, Collaboration & Hidden Landscapes

Tue, 14 Feb 2023 06:00:00 -0500

Episode 5 is here! And I’m so excited to share this conversation with @RebeccaRutstein a multi-disciplinary artist and part-ocean explorer out of Philly! You’ll just have to listen to the episode to hear all the places her work has taken her and the many ways it continues to grow and cross-pollinate! This is a conversation about hidden landscapes, interconnection and collaboration. It’s a conversation about curiosity and putting your dreams out there and the determination to make them happen. We talk a lot about the intersection of art and science and transcending that to create new and fresh perspectives. It’s a call to stay curious and keep growing as an artist. I hope you enjoy! Please check out her work and give @RebeccaRutstein a follow!

Here are some links to some organizations and things we talk about in the episode. Ocean Memory Project is a collaborative network of researchers from across the fences, Arts and Humanities dedicated to exploring the intersection of Ocean and Memory. Seabed 2030 Project seeks to have 100% of the ocean floor mapped by 2030. Here's a link to Rebecca's project @ the Garden Bower. Want to learn a little bit more about her January 2023 Expedition? Check out this link. Rebecca Rutstein's website to view her work!

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Karen Snouffer - A Theater of Space at the Edge of Chaos

Tue, 31 Jan 2023 04:00:00 -0500

Welcome back for episode 4 of Artist & Place! This week we've got an interview with artist, sculptor, and public artists, Karen Snouffer from Gambier, Ohio. Karen shares ideas behind her work, how work can inhabit awkward, playful and silly moments, how work can create a sense of space that has its own narratives of relationship. Karen creates abstract mixed-media objects, collage, painting and installation, exploring tensions in movement and how contradiction has the power to expand that tension and beauty. Karen has exhibited nationally inMiami, New York, and LA to name a few. Karen has been the recipient of numerous grants and awards and has work in numbers private collections.

We talk about Robert Bilder's book: The Edge of Chaos: Where Creativity Flourishes and learn more about chaos theory here. We also talk about the work by Eric Kandel in his book Reductionism in Art and Brain Science which you can find more about here.

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Andrae Green: Inside Looking Out Looking Inside

Tue, 17 Jan 2023 06:00:00 -0500

Episode 3 with Andrae Green! Andrae is a painter, public artist and educator living in Western Mass originally from Jamaica. He is an accomplished figurative painter having studied at the New York Academy of Art as part of a sponsorship by the Jamaican Government. He has shown work internationally in the US, Jamaica, Canada, China and France and has work in collections all over the world. This is a conversation about our trajectories as artists and the way a sense of home and memory can shape the work we make at different stages in our life. It's a conversation about what grounds us to allow for the expansion of our work as well as a conversation about the space of slippage between who we think we are and who we are perceived to be. Please enjoy!

Check out Andrae Green's work here. Follow him on Instagram here. Andrae talks about time & metaphysics: learn more about Henry Bergson vs. Einstein here. A bit of history about that here.

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Sandy Litchfield: The Pastoral & Future Fiction

Tue, 03 Jan 2023 02:00:00 -0500

Episode 2 with Sandy Litchfield, a painter, public artist and Associate Professor at the University of Massachusetts Department of Architecture. Sandy has been recognized with numerous grants and commissions for public art. She has exhibited in numerous museums including the Decordova Museum and Sculpture Park, the Fitchburg Art Museum, the Portland Art Museum and the Hunterdon Museum. Her work focuses on landscape as a construct for understanding place and notions of belonging. It’s a conversation about what roots us and the places that give us a sense of belonging, and the ways in which that can inform our work and the trajectory of what we create. It’s also a conversation about creating fictional future places where we want to be, that feel in our control and expressing what we wish for in the landscapes that we inhabit. We cover lots of ground in this conversation. Please enjoy! Subscribe, rate and review us so others can find these conversations too.

Check out Sandy’s work here, follow her on Instagram and her project On Distant Keys. Learn more about Bruno Latour’s work here and research some maps at the Norman B Leventhal Map Center. Check out The New Wilderness by Diane Cook for a great post-climate novel that we talked about in this conversation.

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Malaika Ross: Art, Nature & Soil MicroBiology

Tue, 20 Dec 2022 06:00:00 -0500

Super honored to have the opportunity to interview Malaika Ross for the first episode of Artist & Place. This was such a fun conversation with Malaika that explores the legacy of our connections to land, creating spaces in our work that we want to inhabit that feel safe and like home, and the seeking of quiet in place and landscape as a way to be deeply connected. Follow Malaika Ross on Instagram @malaikaross_studio for studio process and updates about many great things coming up for her in 2023! She talks about using found photos from House of Mirth which you can find more about @houseofmirthphotos, and she also mentions her favorite author, Octavia Butler, which you can also find more information about her work @OctaviaEButler This is our FIRST episode!Thanks for listening!

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Artist & Place Trailer

Tue, 29 Nov 2022 13:00:00 -0500

Welcome to Artist & Place! A bi-weekly podcast featuring artists interviewing artists about landscape, place and environment and how it affects the work we make. You won't want to miss Episode 1 with artist, Maliaka Ross available December 20th.

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