This week Amy Reidel returns to the podcast to talk about her recent mixed media and installation based works that combine abstract and figurative elements to explore the relationship between being a caregiver during a period of global turmoil.
Read MoreThis 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.
Read MoreThis week Noah Kashiani joins the podcast to discuss his studio practice that explores mixed media painting and sculptural forms. In the episode Noah breaks down his recent works that use found objects and various processes/materials to create mixed media works that examine consumer culture and late state capitalism.
Noah has a solo exhibition “Built Similarly” that opens on Saturday September 9th from 5-8 PM at Studio Break Gallery in West Chicago.
Read MoreThis week Jake Wells joins the podcast to talk about his background as well as his work, which is heavily influenced by his experiences in nature. His studio practice includes landscape paintings as well as mixed media sculptures created through explore traditional painting as well as peeled paint, and reclaimed objects found in nature.
Read MoreBill Conger joins the podcast to talk about his sculptural works that incorporate a wide range of found materials that are repurposed and configured to give them new life. In the episode we talk in depth about his new solo exhibition entitled “Gold” that opens at Studio Break Gallery in West Chicago on Saturday October 15th, from 5-8 PM.
Read MoreThis week Todd Jones joins the podcast to talk about his recent work that explores ideas of consumer and material waste through discarded paint. His studio practice utilizes a variety of materials and processes to crate painting, sculpture, and installation based work.
Read MoreLea Anderson joins the podcast to discuss her studio practice, that uses a wide range of materials and processes to create variety of 2D, 3D, and installation based works.
Read MoreMaia Stern joins the podcast to discuss her work, which is influenced by fairy tales and folklore through a variety of glass and mixed media based sculptures and installations.
Read MoreCarin Mincemoyer joins the podcast to discuss her multimedia sculpture, installation, and public works that explore the relationship between humans and the natural environment.
Read MoreAnastasia Sitnikova joins the podcast to talk about her conceptually driven mixed media and installation works that explore the relationship between technology, psychology, and human nature.
Read MoreSean Caufield joins the podcast this week to discuss his abstracted environmental landscapes that explore the boundaries of the biological and mechanical.
Read MoreThis week Rebecca Casement joins the podcast to discuss her beautiful mixed media work that distill personal and emotional experiences into abstracted sculptures and installations.
Read MoreThis week Kate Kaminski, Ben Cohan, John Reddington, & David Linneweh reflect on their lives since graduating from Southern Illinois University nearly 15 years ago.
Read MoreSam 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.”
Read MoreRy Mccullough joins the podcast to share a range of work that include collage, sculpture, and installation through a variety of materials and processes that include creative writing, language, and intuition to explore what he describes as the “know and unknown.”
Read MoreThis week Kate Kaminski visits the podcast to discuss some of her sculptural work that explores narrative and mythology as well as her more recent works, which largely focus on ceramic production and sculpture.
Read MoreThis week Donovan Widmer joins the podcast once again to share his recent series of works that investigate and catalog a variety of skin conditions as a way to discuss the cultural stigmas that surround them.
Read MoreScott Aigner joins the podcast to discuss his current work which explores nostalgia and pop culture through a variety of interdisciplinary approaches from tedious process based works, performance, and installation.
Read MoreKari Woolsey joins us to discuss her ceramic works that explore domesticity and objects of the everyday in her vessel work, compositions, and installations. Kari’s is one of Studio Break’s 2018 Student Competition winners, which was juried by Brian Frink of RACA Gallery.
Read MoreDyani White Hawk joins the podcast to discuss her paintings and mixed media works which explore her Native American heritage through use of Sicangu Lakota art forms and combining them with her love of modernist abstract painting.
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