Deep Color
Episodes
Christopher Robin Duncan - Episode 85
12 Nov 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Christopher Robin Duncan makes sculpture, ambient sound-based work, and exposure paintings that rely on factory dyed fabrics faded by the power of the...
Deep Color at Halsey McKay Gallery - Episode 84
18 Jun 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Deep Color (the exhibition) opened at Halsey McKay Gallery on May 24 and will be on view through June 30th, 2025. The exhibit features drawing, painti...
Tony Lewis - Episode 83
04 Jun 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Tony Lewis makes drawings using a range of materials and methods that are centered around mark-making and language. Tony talks about athletics, psycho...
Sean Sullivan - Episode 82
20 May 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Sean Sullivan makes paintings and drawings that hum and weave through abstraction, representation, and systems of visual organization. He is also the ...
Sara Maria Salamone - Episode 81
13 May 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Sara Maria Salamone is a photographer and co-founder of Mrs. Gallery--a contemporary art gallery located in Maspeth, Queens. Sara talks about the gall...
Jordan Nassar - Episode 80
06 May 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Jordan Nassar makes elaborate and intricate embroideries alongside impressive wood-inlay works, tile mosaics, and expansive installations, all inspire...
Samuel Levi Jones - Episode 79
07 Oct 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Samuel Levi Jones is a multidisciplinary artist that utilizes law books, history books, medical books, and sometimes flags, as materials to create abs...
Daniel Gibson - Episode 78
10 Sep 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Daniel Gibson makes oil paintings that depict desert landscapes full of flowers and butterflies, plant life, and big open skies. Some works also inclu...
Kennedy Yanko - Episode 77
30 Jul 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Kennedy Yanko makes abstract three-dimensional work that combines large twisted and crunched metal forms scavenged from scrap yards and thick sheets o...
Jesse Wine - Episode 76
12 Mar 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Jesse Wine makes ceramic sculptures that combine body parts like arms, legs, hands, and feet, along with abstract shapes that are deflated, pulled, an...
Celia Pym - Episode 75
07 Dec 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Celia Pym makes textile-based artwork by repairing items like tattered sweaters, worn out socks, or torn paper pastry bags. Celia talks about the exch...
Alvaro Barrington - Episode 74
15 Nov 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Alvaro Barrington makes mixed-media paintings that underscore a reverence for art history and hip-hop culture, craft and handwork, and how and where h...
Matt Rich - Episode 73
08 Nov 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Matt Rich makes paintings, drawings, sculpture, and installations that center themselves around form and shape, color relationships, and different sys...
Andrew Schoultz - Episode 72
01 Nov 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Andrew Schoultz makes drawings, paintings, prints, installations, and large-scale murals that reference how history and turmoil follow patterns, and h...
Ashley Bickerton - Episode 71
21 Jun 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Ashley Bickerton makes sculpture, assemblages and painting-like objects that reference the grotesqueness of commodification and consumerism. Ashley ta...
Spencer Lewis - Episode 70
16 Feb 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Spencer Lewis makes abstract paintings that are an explosion of mark-making, smears, caked up textures, and tangles of color. Spencer talks about usin...
Leslie Diuguid - Episode 69
31 Jan 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Leslie Diuguid is a printmaker and the founder, owner and operator of DuGood Press—the first and only Black Female owned fine-art screen printing bu...
Jim Drain - Episode 68
22 Nov 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Jim Drain is a multi-disciplinary artist that makes other-worldly sculpture, furniture, and installation-based works. He is also one of the original f...
Rodrigo Valenzuela - Episode 67
18 Oct 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Rodrigo Valenzuela makes photographs, video and installation-based works that consider the value of labor, the language of modernist architecture, and...
Phil Sanders - Episode 66
23 Sep 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Phil Sanders is a master printer, educator, author and artist, and is the founder and director of PS Marlow—a fine art publisher and creative servic...
Nikita Gale - Episode 65
30 Apr 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Nikita Gale makes sculpture and installation-based work that explores the exchanges and barriers between audience and performer. Nikita talks about ho...
Curtis Talwst Santiago - Episode 64
13 May 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Curtis Talwst Santiago is a multi-disciplinary artist that makes sculpture, drawings and paintings, performance and video. Curtis talks about pivoting...
Susan Bee - Episode 63
21 Apr 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Susan Bee makes energetic oil paintings that feature a mix of female figures in fantastical landscapes, art historical references, geometric abstracti...
Libby Rothfeld - Episode 62
11 Feb 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Libby Rothfeld makes conceptually driven sculpture that combines found objects, photography and drawing, and built wood structures t...
Graham Collins - Episode 61
15 Jan 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Graham Collins makes sculpture and paintings that often combine complex structures, minimalism and material exploration. Graham talks about his approa...
Joshua Abelow - Episode 60
17 Dec 2019
Contributed by Lukas
Joshua Abelow makes abstract paintings that feature a mix of geometric patterns, angular bursts, and stick figures that awkwardly vibrate up and throu...
Erin M. Riley - Episode 59
06 Nov 2019
Contributed by Lukas
Erin M. Riley is a fiber-based artist that makes large scale, hand woven tapestries that depict still lives of forlorn objects, scenes of intimacy and...
Jennie Jieun Lee - Episode 58
28 Oct 2019
Contributed by Lukas
Jennie Jieun Lee makes ceramic sculpture covered with luscious layers of glaze, and wall works that combine assemblage, drawing and painting. Jennie t...
Eric White - Episode 57
20 Oct 2019
Contributed by Lukas
Eric White makes representational oil paintings that often depict cinematic scenes and unsettling but graceful interactions between people and objects...
Hilary Pecis - Episode 56
14 Oct 2019
Contributed by Lukas
Hilary Pecis makes vibrant acrylic paintings that depict still lives, landscapes and domestic interior spaces. Hilary talks about the benefits and cha...
Sophie Stone - Episode 55
01 Aug 2019
Contributed by Lukas
Sophie Stone makes work that shifts between painting, sculpture, and domestic floor rugs. Sophie talks about the state of ambiguity in her work, allow...
Sarah Zapata - Episode 54
24 Jun 2019
Contributed by Lukas
Sarah Zapata makes textile-based installations and sculpture. Sarah talks about research, reading and writing as important parts of her process, her s...
Heather Hubbs - Episode 53
24 Jun 2019
Contributed by Lukas
Heather Hubbs is the Executive Director of The New Art Dealers Alliance (NADA), a non-profit membership organization for art galleries and alternative...
Fabienne Lasserre - Episode 52
13 Jun 2019
Contributed by Lukas
Fabienne Lasserre makes three-dimensional work that oscillates between sculpture and painting. Fabienne talks about using materials that allow her to ...
Megan Dickerson - Episode 51
03 Jun 2019
Contributed by Lukas
Megan Dickerson is the Senior Exhibitions Manager at The New Children’s Museum in San Diego. Megan talks about identifying as a “play worker,” w...
Sean Kelly - Episode 50
10 Mar 2019
Contributed by Lukas
Sean Kelly has been a contemporary art dealer for over three decades, establishing a reputation for presenting diverse, intellectually driven and unco...
Sally Tallant - Episode 49
10 Mar 2019
Contributed by Lukas
Sally Tallant is the incoming Director of the Queens Museum in New York and curated the Platform section of the 2019 Armory Show. Sally talks about th...
Christian Nagel - Episode 48
09 Mar 2019
Contributed by Lukas
Christian Nagel is been a contemporary art dealer for over three decades. He is currently operating as Galerie Nagel Draxler, located in Berlin. Chris...
Eric Shiner - Episode 47
07 Mar 2019
Contributed by Lukas
Eric Shiner is the artistic director at White Cube in New York. He was previously senior vice president of contemporary art at Sotheby’s and directo...
Mark Dion - Episode 46
07 Mar 2019
Contributed by Lukas
Mark Dion is an American artist whose work examines the ways in which dominant ideologies and public institutions shape our understanding of history, ...
Rachelle Dang - Episode 45
24 Feb 2019
Contributed by Lukas
Rachelle Dang makes installation-based work and sculpture that considers the exchanges between colonial legacies, botanical sciences and personal hist...
Adam Helms - Episode 44
03 Feb 2019
Contributed by Lukas
Adam Helms makes drawings and paintings that often depict masked faces, opposition groups, portraits of women, or scenes from comic books and film. Ad...
Brian Chippendale - Episode 43 (part 2)
20 Jan 2019
Contributed by Lukas
Brian Chippendale is a visual artist, drummer and singer in Lightning Bolt and Black Pus, and a founding member of the seminal work-live-performance v...
Brian Chippendale - Episode 43 (part 1)
13 Jan 2019
Contributed by Lukas
Brian Chippendale is a visual artist, drummer and singer in Lightning Bolt and Black Pus, and a founding member of the seminal work-live-performance v...
Monona Rossol - Episode 42
07 Jan 2019
Contributed by Lukas
Monona Rossol is a chemist, sculptor, singer and an industrial hygienist that specializes in visual and performing arts health hazards. Monona talks a...
Ryan Travis Christian - Episode 41
03 Dec 2018
Contributed by Lukas
Ryan Travis Christian makes graphite drawings on paper that often depict invented cartoon characters immersed in a world of provocative activity and g...
Butt Johnson - Episode 40
18 Nov 2018
Contributed by Lukas
Butt Johnson makes highly rendered and labor intensive drawings. Butt talks about using a pseudonym as part of his artistic identity, his technical ...
Tau Lewis - Episode 39
08 Nov 2018
Contributed by Lukas
Tau Lewis makes sculptural work that often utilizes fabrics, industrial debris, plaster and found objects. Tau talks about her admiration for Souls Gr...
Maia Ruth Lee - Episode 38
11 Oct 2018
Contributed by Lukas
Maia Ruth Lee makes paintings, sculpture, jewelry and video-based works. Maia talks about growing up in Nepal, being patient and flexible with her ide...
Ellie Rines - Episode 37
12 Aug 2018
Contributed by Lukas
Ellie Rines is the founder and director of 56 Henry and co-director at Ceysson Bénétière’s New York location. Ellie talks about paintings as memo...
Sun You - Episode 36
11 Jul 2018
Contributed by Lukas
Sun You makes sculpture, installations and wall works that operate like paintings. Sun talks about carrying the language of painting into her three di...
Sean J. Patrick Carney - Episode 35
05 Jul 2018
Contributed by Lukas
Sean J. Patrick Carney is a visual and performance artist, writer, comedian and art educator. Sean talks about the similarities between comedians and ...
Jason McLean - Episode 34
27 Jun 2018
Contributed by Lukas
Jason Mclean is a multi-disciplinary artist but is primarily known for his elaborate and surreal drawings. Jason talks about his personal experience a...
Kari Cholnoky - Episode 33
21 Feb 2018
Contributed by Lukas
Kari Cholnoky makes multidimensional paintings and sculpture that collide assemblage, craft and readymade objects. Kari talks about the containment, c...
Ian Cooper - Episode 32
03 Feb 2018
Contributed by Lukas
Ian Cooper makes sculpture that ranges from minimal and quiet to elaborate and heavy. Ian talks about reconciling materiality in his work, being a fet...
Elisabeth Kley - Episode 31
21 Jan 2018
Contributed by Lukas
Elisabeth Kley makes ceramic sculpture that often takes on the form of a vessel, ornate peacocks or elaborate birdcages. Elisabeth talks about using h...
Alex Dodge - Episode 30
16 Jan 2018
Contributed by Lukas
Alex Dodge makes vibrant oil paintings that rely on technology and printmaking techniques. Alex talks about his multi-layered process, building his ow...
Emily Mae Smith - Episode 29
09 Jan 2018
Contributed by Lukas
Emily Mae Smith makes representational paintings that weave in and out of illusionistic rendering and graphic flatness. Emily talks about the process ...
Glen Baldridge - Episode 28
14 Nov 2017
Contributed by Lukas
Glen Baldridge is an inter-disciplinary artist that shifts in and out of printmaking, sculpture and painting. Glen talks about the thru-lines in his v...
Yevgeniya Baras - Episode 27
13 Nov 2017
Contributed by Lukas
Yevgeniya Baras makes abstract paintings on burlap that feature colorful geometric forms and serpentine lines painted over and around found objects th...
Ethan Greenbaum - Episode 26
18 Oct 2017
Contributed by Lukas
Ethan Greenbaum makes sculptural photographs that often feature carefully cropped images of sidewalk and street markings, construction sites and windo...
Lauren Luloff - Episode 25
07 Oct 2017
Contributed by Lukas
Lauren Luloff makes dynamic paintings that incorporate collaged layers of dyed and cut fabric, and skillful bleach drawings of decorative patterns, fl...
Andrew Kuo - Episode 24
16 Aug 2017
Contributed by Lukas
Andrew Kuo makes colorful geometric paintings that visually quantify personal experiences, philosophies and emotions. Andrew talks about the developme...
Rachel Eulena Williams - Episode 23
19 Jul 2017
Contributed by Lukas
Rachel Eulena Williams makes abstract paintings that feature painted cut canvas shapes and lengths of clothesline rope. Rachel talks about finding con...
Dave Hardy - Episode 22
18 Jun 2017
Contributed by Lukas
Dave Hardy makes three-dimensional works that often incorporate cement infused cushion foam, panels of tempered glass, found materials and food items....
Pali Kashi - Episode 21
15 Jun 2017
Contributed by Lukas
Pali Kashi makes representational and abstract paintings, and is the founder and director of Safe Gallery, which is located in Brooklyn, New York. Pal...
Sam Moyer - Episode 20
30 May 2017
Contributed by Lukas
Sam Moyer makes sculptural work that often incorporates readymade slabs of marble, fabric covered MDF, glass, cast bronze and wielded metal armatures....
David Kennedy Cutler - Episode 19
16 May 2017
Contributed by Lukas
David Kennedy Cutler makes sculptural works that often feature scanned images of clothing, body parts, tools and food, printed onto aluminum sheet met...
Sara Greenberger Rafferty - Episode 18
27 Apr 2017
Contributed by Lukas
Sara Greenberger Rafferty makes multi-media based works that incorporate painting, photography, sculpture, installation and performance. Sara talks ab...
Ernesto Burgos - Episode 17
11 Apr 2017
Contributed by Lukas
Ernesto Burgos makes sculptural works that utilize cardboard, fiberglass, resin and paint among other materials. Ernesto discusses his responsive and ...
Elias Hansen - Episode 16
04 Apr 2017
Contributed by Lukas
Elias Hansen makes sculpture and installation-based works that incorporate hand blown glass, wood and metal support structures, tinted light bulbs and...
Patrick Brennan - Episode 15
28 Feb 2017
Contributed by Lukas
Patrick Brennan makes abstract, mixed media paintings that are full of compositional vibration, technical and formal curiosity, and painterly truthful...
Matt Kenny - Episode 14
01 Feb 2017
Contributed by Lukas
Matt Kenny makes paintings that are influenced by thoughtful observation, surveillance, his research into domestic and foreign conflicts, and a revere...
Katherine Bradford - Episode 13
01 Feb 2017
Contributed by Lukas
Katherine Bradford makes paintings that often feature groups of people congregating around an impressive element, such as a massive bonfire, or scenes...
Matt Leines - Episode 12
01 Feb 2017
Contributed by Lukas
Matt Leines makes precision detailed drawings and paintings that burst with allegorical narratives and technical control. Matt discusses the labor-int...
Gina Beavers - Episode 11
27 Dec 2016
Contributed by Lukas
Gina Beavers makes sculptural paintings that are influenced by social media imagery and often depict step-by-step instructions on how to apply make-up...
Brie Ruais - Episode 10
16 Dec 2016
Contributed by Lukas
Brie Ruais makes ceramic sculptures that are informed by her own physicality and touch, terrain from the natural landscape, and the idea of the “cen...
Adrianne Rubenstein - Episode 9
30 Nov 2016
Contributed by Lukas
Adrianne Rubenstein makes paintings that shift between natural representation and abstraction, and feature a beautifully deceptive balance of seriousn...
Zak Prekop - Episode 8
30 Nov 2016
Contributed by Lukas
Zak Prekop makes powerful and sharp paintings that are full of visual harmony, bold movement and technical prowess. Zak talks about the process and te...
An Hoang - Episode 7
30 Nov 2016
Contributed by Lukas
An Hoang makes atmospheric and evocative abstract paintings that are influenced by observation and memory, and highlight an interest in how color can ...
Nicholas Noe - Episode 6
30 Nov 2016
Contributed by Lukas
Nicholas Noe is a co-founder of Mideastwire.com, and a contributor to the BBC, Al-Jazeera International, The New York Times and The Guardian, among ot...
Walter Price - Episode 5
03 Nov 2016
Contributed by Lukas
Walter Price makes sincere and compelling paintings that incorporate personal symbolism and exploration, landscape, and the suggestion of interior spa...
Eddie Martinez - Episode 4
26 Oct 2016
Contributed by Lukas
Eddie Martinez makes large-scale oil paintings that are full of movement, curiosity and joyful color. Eddie discusses his early days as a Boston-area ...
Kevin Hooyman - Episode 3
26 Oct 2016
Contributed by Lukas
Kevin Hooyman makes intrictate pen and ink drawings and self-publishes a monthly comic book called "Conditions On The Ground". Kevin discusses relaxin...
Elise Ferguson - Episode 2
26 Oct 2016
Contributed by Lukas
Elise Ferguson makes sculpture and wall works that collide pattern, geometry, and a dedicated sense of craftsmanship. She talks about the multi-layere...
Ryan Wallace - Episode 1
26 Oct 2016
Contributed by Lukas
Painter and gallerist Ryan Wallace discusses how to stay loose in the studio, how he balances a rigorous studio practice alongside running a commercia...