October 18, 2024
This week Ava Starnes joins the podcast to discuss her self portrait works that are created from video still images in compositions that stretch and contort the figure.
Ava’s work was selected by artist/curator Mia Risberg from our 2023 Studio Break Student Competition.
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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.
Read MoreAugust 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.
Read MoreDecember 8th, 2023
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 MoreDecember 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.
Read MoreThis week Mia Risberg returns to the podcast to talk about her studio practice and recent series of drawings that began during the pandemic quarantine. The solo exhibition“Quiet Contemplation” runs from May 12th- June 16th at Studio Break Gallery in West Chicago with an opening reception on May 12th from 5-8PM.
Read MoreThis 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”.
Read MoreThis week Hannah Lindo joins the podcast to discuss her studio practice and recent abstract paintings that explore ideas of growth & decay in flesh-like landscapes reminiscent of the human body.
Read MoreThis week Eva Gabriella Flynn joins the podcast to talk about her work that explores the idea of dual identity and boundaries through her painting and installation works. She’s currently in a group exhibition entitled: Warmth at Stay Home Gallery in Paris (TN) through 3/6.
Read MoreThis week Shahrbanoo Hamzeh joins the podcast to talk about her abstract paintings that explore traumas created by dilemmas related to boarders and boundaries.
Read MoreDavid Kassan joins the podcast this week to discuss his studio practice, he’s currently working on a series of portraits of Holocaust survivors.
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 MoreMeredith Matthews joins the podcast to discuss her work which has investigated a range of figurative, animal, and landscape elements in rich and vivid detail.
Read MoreThis week Berenice Chavez shares her work which explores themes of family, love, separation, and belonging through a series of photographs of her family.
Read MoreThis week Josie Del Castillo joins Studio Break to discuss her colorful paintings which focus on appreciation of Mexican American culture through a series of portraits and self-portraits.
Read MoreTannon 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.
Read MoreDominic Lippillo joins the podcast to discuss his photo based works which explore landscape, domesticity, and identity.
Read MoreJohn Dorsey joins the podcast from the Osage Arts Community Art Center in Belle (MO) to discuss his diverse experience as a writer.
Read MoreThis week Leah Sandler discusses her studio practice, which explores institutional critique and archiving the body through a variety of interdisciplinary approaches.
Read MoreBen Cohan is our guest this week and as always there’s a lot discuss about his painting practice, which has explored both representation and abstraction.
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