ERIC ANTHONY BERDIS

June 27, 2025

This week Eric Anthony Berdis joins the podcast to talk about his work, which utilizes found fabric to create soft sculpture and installation works that explore queer history, identity, and activism.

Eric currently has a two person exhibition titled “Entity Cramming” with Soso Capaldi entitled “Entity Cramming” at Grizzly Grizzly in Philadelphia on view through July 27th.

Studio Break is pleased to have Eric’s work selected as part of our 2023 Studio Break Professional Competition by Jeff Stevenson, Artist & Gallery Director at Governors State University.

ELLIOT BOWERS

August 23, 2024

This week Elliot Bowers sat down with Dave & Johnny Disco to discuss Elliot’s new exhibition “Displacement” at Purple Window Gallery, at Mana Contemporary in Chicago.

LILY MADDEN

August 2, 2024

This week Lily Madden joins the podcast to talk their work and solo exhibition “Coffins for Cicadas” opening at Haw Contemporary August 9th from 5-8PM in Kansas City.

Lily’s work was selected by artist/curator Mia Risberg from our 2023 Studio Break Student Competition.

JEFF STEVENSON

December 1, 2023

December 1st, 2023

This week Jeff Stevenson joins us to talk about his work that explores ideas of masculinity and the self through a variety of media that includes painting, sculpture, and installation.

Jeff also talks about his the exhibition “Cross-Section: the many faces of Jeff Stevenson” that opens at Studio Break Gallery with receptions on Sunday Dec 3rd from 2-5 PM and Sat Dec 9th from 4-8 PM.

JONATHAN VIRGINIA GREEN

April 10, 2022

This week Jonathan Virginia Green joins the podcast to discuss his recent paintings that combine a variety of materials to “explore mechanisms of desire, pleasure, and transformation that are oriented within his experience as a queer transgender male”.

SAM MACK

November 21, 2020

Sam Mack joins the podcast to discuss their work and writes: “the installations of my work form a grammar of materials that utilizes institutional signs of caution and control punctuated by trans and queer-signaling. interwoven references point toward a slippage of both material and language that exists between physical, academized, and a theoretical corporeal existence.”

LORING TAOKA

August 8, 2020

Loring Taoka joins the podcast to talk about his recent abstract works, which utilize a wide variety of processes that include hand painting, airbrush, stencils, and vinyl cutters on panel and plexiglass.

TANNON RECKLING

October 12, 2018

Tannon Reckling joins the podcast to discuss his studio practice which is informed through experiencing art via the internet. His work questions traditional modes of art/academia and is influenced by growing up as a queer youth in rural Nebraska.