Cerebral Women Art Talks Podcast
Episodes
Shannon T. Lewis
31 May 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Ep.155 features Shannon T. Lewis (b. 1981 in Toronto, Canada; lives and works in Berlin, Germany). She is an artist of Caribbean descent who reconfi...
Eto Otitigbe
24 May 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Ep. 154 features Eto Otitigbe. He recovers buried narratives and gives form to the unseen. He is a polymedia artist whose interdisciplinary practice i...
Sadaf Padder
17 May 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Ep.153 features Sadaf Padder, a Brooklyn-based independent curator and creative coach. After 8 years in the public school system as a teacher and admi...
Maia Cruz Palileo
09 May 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Maia Cruz Palileo by Phyllis Hollis
Layo Bright
03 May 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Ep.151 features Layo Bright. Mining personal archives and collective experiences, her sculptural practice interrogates how materials shape perception,...
Melissa Joseph
26 Apr 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Ep.150 features Melissa Joseph (b. 1980, Saint Marys PA), a New York based artist and independent curator. Her work addresses themes of memory, family...
Grimanesa Amorós
19 Apr 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Ep.149 features Grimanesa Amorós. Throughout her career, Peruvian-born American artist Grimanesa Amorós has harnessed the medium of light to create ...
Celeste Rapone
12 Apr 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Ep.148 features Celeste Rapone (b. 1985, New Jersey). She is known for her narrative paintings that blur the boundaries between figuration and abstrac...
Titus Kaphar
05 Apr 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Ep.147 features Titus Kaphar, an artist whose paintings, sculptures, and installations examine the history of representation by transforming its style...
Hannah Traore
29 Mar 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Ep.146 features Hannah Traore, born and raised in Toronto, she developed an affinity for art and an appreciation for diverse perspectives from a young...
RoseLee Goldberg
22 Mar 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Ep.145 features RoseLee Goldberg, world-renowned art historian, critic and curator and Founding Director and Chief Curator of Performa. Launched in 20...
Dr. Tiffany E. Barber
15 Mar 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Ep.144 features Dr. Tiffany E. Barber is a prize-winning, internationally-recognized scholar, curator, and critic whose writing and expert commentary ...
Mary Rozell
08 Mar 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Ep.143 features Mary Rozell. She is the Global Head of the UBS Art Collection. She is responsible for the strategic direction and management of UBS’...
Evita Tezeno
01 Mar 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Ep.142 features Evita Tezeno. A Port Arthur, Texas native and graduate of Lamar University, she lives and works in Dallas. Tezeno's collage paintings ...
Jahkori Dopwell Hall
22 Feb 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Ep.141 features Jahkori Dopwell Hall, an African American Visual Artist, Illustrator, Poet, Entrepreneur and Teacher whose artwork highlights black li...
Elliot Perry
15 Feb 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Ep.140 features Elliot Perry. He is a native Memphian... graduate of Treadwell HighSchool (1987) and the University of Memphis (1991) where he also pl...
Storm Ascher
08 Feb 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Ep.139 features Storm Ascher, an artist, curator, writer and founder of Superposition Gallery. Ascher has a BFA in Visual & Critical Studies from the...
Jerrell Gibbs
01 Feb 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Ep.138 features Jerrell Gibbs. His work is often sourced from albums he finds of Black American families in the 70’s-90’s that capture moments of ...
Hayv Kahmaran
25 Jan 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Ep.137 features Hayv Kahraman. She was born in Baghdad, Iraq in 1981 and lives and works in Los Angeles. Recent solo exhibitions include Gut Feelings,...
ISIMEME "EASY" OTABOR
18 Jan 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Ep.136 features Isimeme "Easy" Otabor. Born and raised in Chicago, IL, Easy is a multi-hyphenate creative + entrepreneur. A self-taught art collector ...
Suchitra Mattai
11 Jan 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Ep. 135 features Suchitra Mattai (b.1973 Georgetown, Guyana) , a multi-disciplinary artist of Indo-Caribbean descent. Her work explores how collective...
Kimberli Gant
04 Jan 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Ep.134 features Kimberli Gant, the Curator of Modern & Contemporary Art at the Brooklyn Museum of Art. She was previously the McKinnon Curator of Mode...
Kevin Claiborne
21 Dec 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Ep.133 features Kevin Claiborne, a multidisciplinary conceptual artist whose work examines intersections of identity, social environment, & mental hea...
Rico Gatson
14 Dec 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Ep.132 features Rico Gatson, a multimedia visual artist whose work explores themes of history, identity, popular culture and spirituality, through scu...
Clotilde Jiménez
07 Dec 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Ep.131 features Clotilde Jiménez, (b. Honolulu, Hawaii, 1990). He is a visual artist based in Mexico City. Jiménez received his BFA from the Clevela...
Devin B Johnson
30 Nov 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Ep.130 features Devin B. Johnson (b. 1992,Los Angeles). He obtained his BA in Fine Arts from the California State University of Channel Islands (2015...
Myrtis Bedolla
23 Nov 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Ep.129 features Myrtis Bedolla. She is the owner and founding director of Galerie Myrtis, an emerging blue-chip gallery and art advisory specializing ...
Arcmanoro Niles
16 Nov 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Ep.128 features Arcmanoro Niles (b. 1989, Washington, D.C.; lives and works in New York, NY). He makes vivid, brightly hued paintings that expand our...
Miles Greenberg
09 Nov 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Ep. 127 features Miles Greenberg (b. 1997 in Montreal, Canada). He is a New York-based performance artist and sculptor. His work consists of large-sca...
Shuli Sadé
02 Nov 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Ep.126 features Shuli Sadé. Her cross-disciplinary artwork blends theory and practice with a focus on memory, space, and urbanism. work creates maps...
Danielle McKinney
26 Oct 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Ep.125 features Danielle Mckinney. Born 1981 in Montgomery, Alabama, she completed her BFA at Atlanta College of Arts in 2005 and her MFA at Parsons S...
Larissa De Jesus Negron
19 Oct 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Ep. 124 features Larissa De Jesús Negrón. She is a multidisciplinary artist who yearns for introspection and finds self evaluation through her intim...
Raphaël Barontini
12 Oct 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Ep.123 features Raphaël Barontini(born in France in 1984, and currently lives and works in Saint-Denis, France. He has developed a singular and bol...
Tschabalala Self
05 Oct 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Ep.122 features Tschabalala Self (b.1990 Harlem, USA) lives and works in the New York Tri-State. Self builds a singular style from the syncretic use o...
Sylvia Maier
28 Sep 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Ep.121 features Sylvia Maier, a Brooklyn-based painter known for her portraiture. Much of her work focuses on depicting residents of the Flatbush area...
Tammy Nguyen
21 Sep 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Ep.120 features Tammy Nguyen, a multimedia artist whose work spans painting, drawing, printmaking and book making. Intersecting geopolitical realities...
Sarah Arison
14 Sep 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Ep.119 features Sarah Arison. Born and raised in Miami, Arison is President of the Arison Arts Foundation, a private grant-making organization that su...
Alteronce Gumby
13 Sep 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Alteronce Gumby by Phyllis Hollis
Gio Swaby
27 Jul 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Episode 117 features Gio Swaby, a Bahamian visual artist whose practice is an exploratory celebration of Blackness and womanhood. Her work centres on ...
Ludovic Nkoth
20 Jul 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Ep.116 features Cameroon-born artist Ludovic Nkoth. For him, displacement and deferral occupy a familiar place at the margins of the stories he tells....
Beverly Semmes
12 Jul 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Ep.115 features Beverly Semmes. She is a sculptor whose work incorporates painting, drawing, film, photography, and performance. These complementary e...
Dawn Williams Boyd
06 Jul 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Ep.114 features Dawn Williams Boyd, She was born in 1952 in Neptune, New Jersey. She earned her BFA at Stephens College in Columbia, MO in 1974. The a...
Chris Watts
29 Jun 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Ep.113 features Chris Watts, an interdisciplinary artist working primarily in painting and installation. Within his work, he seeks to revise, interrog...
BETHANY COLLINS
22 Jun 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Ep.112 features BETHANY COLLINS (b. 1984 Montgomery, AL). She lives and works in Chicago, IL. Collins is a multidisciplinary artist whose conceptually...
Darryl Westly
15 Jun 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Ep.111 features Darryl Westly. He received his BFA from the Cooper Union in 2014. Upon graduation Westly began an apprenticeship at the Jeff Koons stu...
Alisa Sikelianos - Carter
08 Jun 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Ep.110 features Alisa Sikelianos-Carter. She earned her BA and MA in Painting and Drawing from SUNY Albany. She is a recent NXTHVN Fellow, a 2022 Head...
YASHUA KLOS
01 Jun 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Ep.109 features Yashua Klos, a visual artist who employs a unique process of collaging his own woodblock printed textures to engage ideas about Blackn...
Nanette Carter
25 May 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Ep.108 features Nanette Carter was born in Columbus, Ohio, and grew up in Montclair, New Jersey. She majored in art history and studio art at Oberlin ...
Marisol Teresa Martinez
18 May 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Ep.107 features Marisol Teresa Martinez. Uncommon as her expression, her story begs telling. After cutting her media teeth on the moving picture, the ...
Bony Ramirez
11 May 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Episode 106 features Bony Ramirez (b. 1996, Tenares, Salcedo, Dominican Republic). He is a New Jersey-based artist whose work draws inspiration from C...
Frank Wimberley
04 May 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Ep.105 features Frank Wimberley. His abstract painting is a continuous adventure. Born in 1926 in New Jersey, Wimberley currently divides his time bet...
Lavar Munroe
27 Apr 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Episode 104 features painter Lavar Munroe (b. 1982, Nassau, Bahamas). He earned his BFA from Savannah College of Art and Design in 2007 and his MFA fr...
Rakeb Sile
20 Apr 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Episode 103 features Rakeb Sile. In 2016, she co-founded Addis Fine Art with Mesai Haileleul, creating the first white-cube gallery space for modern a...
Jamel Robinson
13 Apr 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Episode 102 Jamel Robinson is a self-taught multidisciplinary artist working in the mediums of abstract expressionist painting, sculpture, writing, an...
Stephen Towns
06 Apr 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Ep. 101 features Stephen Towns. Based in Baltimore, MD, he is a painter and fiber artist whose work explores how American history influences contempor...
Eugenie Tsai
30 Mar 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Episode 100!!! Proudly features Dr. Eugenie Tsai. She is the John and Barbara Vogelstein Senior Curator, Contemporary Art, at the Brooklyn Museum. In ...
Nicola Vassell
23 Mar 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Episode 99 features NICOLA VASSELL. She is the founder of Nicola Vassell Gallery, a contemporary art gallery committed to discourse that widens the le...
Dr. Nicole Fleetwood
16 Mar 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Ep.98 features Dr. Nicole Fleetwood. She is an art historian and curator exploring how the art of incarcerated people is essential to our understandin...
Claire Oliver
09 Mar 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Ep. 97 features Claire Oliver. She founded her first gallery thirty years ago in Florida before moving to Philadelphia and then in 2000, moving to the...
Barbara Earl Thomas
02 Mar 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Ep.96 features Barbara Earl Thomas. She is a visual artist with numerous national exhibits to her credit. She is a maker who builds tension-filled nar...
Kent Kelley
23 Feb 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Episode 95 features Kent Kelley. His interest in the arts was formed from fond memories observing his mother, an artist who died when he was 14. A de...
Delita Martin
16 Feb 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Ep.94 features Delita Martin, an artist currently based in Huffman, Texas. She received a BFA in drawing from Texas Southern University and a MFA in p...
Willie Cole
09 Feb 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Ep.93 features Sculptor, Printer, Conceptual and Visual Artist Willie Cole. He lives and works in New Jersey. ...
vanessa german
02 Feb 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Episode 92 features vanessa german. vanessa was born in Milwaukee, WI and currently lives and works in Pittsburgh, PA. She is a self-taught citizen ar...
Ivy Jones
26 Jan 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Ep.91 features Ivy N. Jones. She founded the Welancora Gallery, based in Brooklyn, New York in 2002. Ivy holds a B.A. in political science from Hampto...
Kenny Schachter
19 Jan 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Ep.90 features Writer, curator, lecturer, artist, NFT evangelist Kenny Schachter. He has been curating contemporary art exhibits in museums and galler...
Antwaun Sargent
12 Jan 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Episode 89 features Antwaun Sargent. He is a writer, curator, art critic and director at Gagosian Gallery in New York City. He is the author of “Th...
Kate Fowle
05 Jan 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Episode 88 features Kate Fowle, the Director of MoMA PS1. From 2013-2019 she was the inaugural chief curator at Garage Museum of Contemporary Art in M...
Allana Clarke
22 Dec 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Episode 87 features Allana Clarke (b. 1987) is a Trinidadian-American artist whose practice is built upon a foundation of uncertainty, curiosity, a wi...
Coady Brown
15 Dec 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Episode 86 features Coady Brown. She is a painter from Baltimore, MD. She received her BFA from Tyler School of Art, Temple University in 2012 and her...
Pat Phillips
08 Dec 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Episode 85 features Pat Phillips. He was born in Lakenheath, England in 1987. His work was featured in the 2019 Whitney Biennial at the Whitney Museum...
Leonardo Benzant
01 Dec 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Episode 84 features sculptor and painter Leonardo Benzant, a Dominican-American artist with Haitian heritage born and raised in Brooklyn. His practice...
Lilian Garcia-Roig
24 Nov 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Ep.83 features Lilian Garcia-Roig, a Cuba born, Texas raised artist living in Tallahassee, Florida whose works landscape-themed works have always expl...
Khalif Tahir Thompson
17 Nov 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Episode 82 features Khalif Tahir Thompson. He is best recognized for his powerful work concentrated in portraiture and figuration. Incorporating paint...
Delphine Desane
10 Nov 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Episode 81 features Delphine Desane. She is a Brooklyn-based artist born and raised in Paris, France by Haitian parents. She began her career as a sty...
Suzanne McFayden
03 Nov 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Episode 80 features Suzanne McFayden. Born and raised in Kingston, Jamaica, she is a writer, and leading collector of contemporary art. Ms. McFayden h...
Ronald Jackson
27 Oct 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Episode 79 features painter Ronald Jackson. Growing up in the rural South of the Arkansas Delta, Jackson was the youngest of eleven kids born to a far...
Alina Zamanova
20 Oct 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Episode 78 features Alina Zamanova Her paintings are centered around the representation of modern reality, where women’s bodies are embraced in all ...
Adrienne Elise Tarver
13 Oct 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Episode 77 features Adrienne Elise Tarver, an interdisciplinary artist, educator, and administrator with a practice that spans painting, sculpture, in...
David Shrobe
03 Oct 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Episode 76 features New York based David Shrobe. He creates multi-layered portraits and assemblage paintings made in part from everyday materials that...
Wardel Milan
28 Sep 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Episode 75 features New York-based artist Wardell Milan. He works in mixed media, combining elements of photography, drawing, painting, and collage. M...
Dr. Ashley James
21 Sep 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Episode 74 features Ashley James, Ph.D., Associate Curator, Contemporary Art at the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum. She is the curator of Off the Record...
Rebecca Brodskis
07 Jul 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Episode 73 features painter Rebecca Brodskis (b. 1988 in France) lives and works in Paris. She spent most of her childhood travelling and living betwe...
Isolde Brielmaier
30 Jun 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Episode 72 features scholar and curator Isolde Brielmaier, an Assistant Professor in the Department of Photography, Imaging and Emerging Media at New ...
Che Lovelace
23 Jun 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Episode 71 features painter Che Lovelace. Based in Port of Spain, Trinidad, Che’s art originates primarily from his experience of living and working...
Maria Guzman Capron
16 Jun 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Ep.70 features Maria Guzman Capron. Born in Milan, Italy to Colombian and Peruvian parents, she lives and works in Oakland, CA. She received an MFA fr...
Alvin Armstrong
09 Jun 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Ep.69 features Alvin Armstrong, a painter whose work explores the social and political landscape of Black American culture. His paintings are often fi...
Alanna Fields
02 Jun 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Episode 68 features artist and archivist Alanna Fields (b. 1990, Upper Marlboro, MD) is a lens-based mixed media artist and archivist whose work inves...
Mosie Romney
26 May 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Episode 67 features Mosie Romney (b. 1994, New York) They live and work in Ridgewood, Queens, New York. A Jamaican-American artist, they received thei...
Khari Turner
19 May 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Ep.66 features Khari Turner, an emerging painter from Milwaukee, Wisconsin, and a current MFA graduate student at Columbia University. He is in multip...
Doron Langberg
12 May 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Episode 65 features Doron Langberg. Born in 1985 in Yokneam Moshava, Israel, he currently lives and works in New York City. He received his MFA from Y...
Chaz Guest
05 May 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Episode 64 features Chaz Guest. From his initial start in 1986, in a very creative NYC, he forged his Artistic life. He specializes in painting with a...
Jade Alexis Thacker
28 Apr 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Episode 63 features Jade Alexis Thacker. She is originally from Boston Massachusetts, currently living in Brooklyn, New York. She received her BFA in ...
William Villalongo
21 Apr 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Ep.62 features William Villalongo. He received his B.F.A. from The Cooper Union School of Art, NYC and his M.F.A. from the Tyler School of Art at Temp...
Franklin Sirmans
14 Apr 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Episode 61 features Franklin Sirmans. He has been the director of the Pérez Art Museum Miami (PAMM) since fall 2015. Since coming to PAMM, he has ove...
Candida Alvarez
07 Apr 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Episode 60 features Candida Alvarez. She is the 2021 recipient of the FCA Helen Frankenthaler award for painting and visual arts. Her works include dr...
Hiba Schahbaz
31 Mar 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Episode 59 features Hiba Schahbaz. Born in Karachi, Pakistan she is a Brooklyn-based figurative painter who works primarily with paper, black-tea, and...
Lava Thomas
24 Mar 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Episode 58, the fourth during Women’s History Month, features Lava Thomas, an American artist and arts advocate who tackles issues of race, gender a...
Cheryl Finley
17 Mar 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Episode 57 features Cheryl Finley. She is Director of the Atlanta University Center Art History + Curatorial Studies Collective and Distinguished Visi...
Ana Benaroya
10 Mar 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Episode 56 features painter/sculptor Ana Benaroya. She is an artist born in New York City, raised in New Jersey. Ana graduated with her MFA in Paintin...